September

Sepr. 26.
Friday! — By the General Orders received this day from Bengal, I have the pleasure to find that my Nephew Hugh Maclaine has been lately Promoted by Lord Lake to a Company in the 77th. Regt. without Purchase, with back rank from the 3d. of July 1805, agreeably to my recent solicitation to His Lordship in behalf of my Nephew - there being some demur made respecting his Rank. He may now reckon himself a very fortunate Young Man - in succeeeding thus early to a Company at 22 Years of age and after only 8 Years Service in the Army! —

Source
Macquarie, Lachlan. Journal No. 6 July 1804 - 16 March 1807.
Original held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
ML Ref: A770 p.347. [Microfilm Reel CY300 Frame #415].