>From The Dumfries Weekly Journal 20th July 1824Sourced by Robert Wells and transcribed by myself. "On the 17th of June, at Pau, after a few days illness, Major G. Stewart Maxwell, C.B. of the Royal Artillery, eighth son of the late James Maxwell, Esq. of Monreith. This gallant officer was born at New Abbey near Dumfries, and entered the military service of his country early in life. He served with distinction during several campaigns in the Peninsular War; and it is not far from the scene of one of many brilliant achievements at which he had the honour to assist, the battle of Orthes, that his remains now repose. To his relations and friends he was endeared by the most amiable qualities; he was admired for his talents and esteemed for his virtues by a very extensive circle of acquaintance. His constitution having been greatly injured in the service of his country, his time since the return of peace was chiefly spent in travelling on the continent, and in literary pursuits. He is known to the literary world as the author of a poem entitled "The Battle of the Bridge, or Pisa defended," a work of high poetical power and feeling, in which its lamented author availed himself with eminent success of those materials for discriptive [sic] poetry which his travels and military life had placed at his command.