hi all

Does anyone know of a detailed account of the 4th Foot at Ceuta 1810? I have a new source who was there (Ensign Bowlby) who mentions

We found a French general in the Spanish dungeons and we requested to have the charge of him, and furnished him with an officer’s quarter and a mess dinner every day, taking his parole that he would not escape. At the expiration of a month he did attempt to escape and made arrangement with a Spanish boat to carry him off, but he was caught as he dropped from his room into an empty building and delivered up again to the Spanish authorities. Gen, D’Albemarle (our prisoner on parole at Ceuta) was a great portrait painter and amused himself thus, after his attempted escape and capture the officers used to visit him in the Spanish dungeon he had written on the walls in Spanish

‘The darkest day, the darkest hour
Wait but to-morrow ‘twill have passed away.’

I cannot find a d'Albemarle anywhere, can anyone identify this man