DON PEDRO CARO Y SUREDA, a Spanish general, was born at Majorca in 1761, and was trained to the profession of arms. In 1808 he was advancing the French interests in Fumien at the head of a Spanish force, when the intelligence reached him that the crown of his native kingdom had been given to Joseph Bonaparte. He immediately began to take measures for saving his country. With the utmost secrecy his troops were collected and embarked. Placing them under the command of Count San Roman, he sent them off to vindicate the rights of their lawful sovereign. He himself then repaired to London, to solicit the aid of England against the French. Nor was his task of patriotism finished when he had gained the object of his mission, and had returned to Spain. As commander-in-chief of the provinces of Biscay, Galicia, and Asturias, he assisted the British both by his counsels and by his operations. So notable, indeed, were his services, that on his death in 1811, the Duke of Wellington said that "in him the Spanish army had lost its finest ornament, Spain its purest patriotism, and the world the bravest and the most zealous defender of the cause for which we combat."