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^Silil I7:~<'^. irben he jcHned his regiment in S:i>:Lriil. wiihlbebfevelmnkof lieutenant- «-i!ijii. 1. Ill 1799 he was appointed inspect ing- <iiii:>.'T I'll' militia in Jersey, and was assistant ^art^nnBfter-general in the island during uedeleDlioa thereof the Russian armv from
- h« Teiel in 1799-1800. He retained the
Vlffim long afterwards, and conducted the se- «3et correspondence, through Jersey, n-itb the Kcaeh loyalists under Georgea, La Roche- jquelebi.and others, to the entire satisfaction «if the British p^vemment. In 181 1 Le Cou- <eur was appointed a major-general on the WaIT in Ireland, and afterwanls in Jamaica, frhem he commanded a brigade for « half years. In 1813 he was a lieutenant-governor of Curafoa and its de- pendent islands, which he found on the verge of starvation. Cura^oa was then the centre port of a larfre trade, but the war with the United Stales had prevented the arrivals of com from home, and the orders in council pmhibiting the importation of foreign grain were imperative under penalty of ' prwmu- nire." Le Couteur had the courage to set aside the orders rather than expose the popu- lation to the horrors of a famine. When the island was restored to the Dutch afttr the peace, the legislative bodies, the inhabitants, und the Spanish refugees severall; presented Le Couteur with addresses acknowledging the important services he had rendered to the colony. Le Couteur generously decliued the Duke of York's offer to put him down for a regiment, saying he did not feel entitled to ihe honour so long as a Peninsular officer remained unprovided for. Ue became a lieu- t>-nant-general in 1831, and died on 23 April 1835, aged 74.
Le Couteiir was father of Colonel John Le Oonteur, 104th and 20th foot, loug comman- dant of the royal Jersey militia, and senior militia aide^e-camp to Queen Victoria.
Le Couteur was author of ' Lettre d'un Officierdu Centieme Regiment,' Jersey, 1787, and ' Letters, chiefly from India, giving an Aceoimt of the Military Transactions on the Coast of JEolubar during tho Inte War . . . fogether with a short Description of the Re- ligion, Planners, and Customs of the In- liabitants of Kindostan,' Ijondon, 1790: ai work originally written in French, but trans- lated before publication.
[.Irmj Lists; Memoir iu Colbom's Uniteil Serv. Mrtg. July 1 835 ; Brit. Mus. Cnt. of Prinlea Books.] U. M. C.
LE DAVIS, EDWARD (1&10P-1084?), engraver, was a Welshman, bom about 1640. His family name was Davis, the French prefix being an aildilion of his own. He was ap-
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��t7 Leddra
prenticed to David I^oggan [q. v.], but re- senting his treatment by his master's wife broke nis articles and went to Paris. There he practised his art and engaged in buaineaa relations with Francois Chauvesu, whose name appears as the publisher of Le Davis's
Eints of ' St. Cecilia,' after ^'andvck, ' Ecce omo,' after A. Carracci, and '"rhe In£ukt Christ holding a cross,' the last bearing the date 1671. Sran after that year Le DaviB returned to London, where be is said to have engaged successfully in picture-dealii^. Hb also painted portraits, but is now only Known
��elude portraits of Charles II (afterwards altered to William III), Catherine of fira- gania, after J. B. Caspars (frontispiece to vol. ii. of Pitt's 'Atlas,'^lB81); James, duke of York ; the Prince and Princess of Orange, after I.*ly; the Duchess of Portsmouth, after Lely ; and Charles, duko of Richmond, after Wissing ; also George Monck, duke of Albe- marle, and Bertram Anhbumham, both en- Cved for Guillim's * Heraldiy,' 1679. Le k'is is believed to have died about 1684. rWalpola'a Anacdoles of Painting (DalUway aad Wornum), p. 941; Vertoe's Collactions in Brit. Has. Addit. MS. 23078 ; Naeler's Allge^ meincs EuQsttvr-Leiikon; AadresunsHandbnoh far SupferHtich-Sammler, 1370; Bedgrave's Diet, of Artists.] F. M. O'D.
LEDDRA, W'lLLI.AM (d. Itt61>, quaker, was a Comishman (Whitiso) who early emigrated, or was probably transported on account of his religious professions, to Bar- badoes. He was a clothier by trade (^ew England* Pertfcuton JUaultd, by Philale- thes,i.e. TuoiUB MADLE),and was a zealous minister among tho ((uakers. In March 1668 he first landed in the English colony of Rhode Island. All the New England settle- ments were opposed Co the admission of quakers. They were usually subjected to barbarous flonpingwith knotted and pitched cords on landing, and wer« promptly ban- ished. When Leddra arrived the assembly had just passed a law imposing a line of lOOi. upon any (lersou who should introduce one of the 'cursed sect' into the territory, with a further penalty of 5/. for every hour the outlaw was concealed. The quaker who re- I mained was, on his first apprehension, to have one ear cut ofl'i on the second the other ear : ' and on the third to have the tongue bored through. An order also was given empower- ing the treasurers of the counties to sell the quakers to any of the plantations < Nell, Ifuf. 1. 304), Despite these reculations Leddra passed &om Rhode Island to Cotmecticut, but there be was arrested and banished. A
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