variably exhibited the same uprightness of conduct, singleness of purpose, and unceasing earnestness to promote the welfare of his species, to the total exclusion of all selfish and personal considerations. These qualities particularly arrested the attention of the many distinguished foreigners who came to visit him; and they were not less the cause of satisfaction and delight to his most intimate friends.

"His condescension, his kindness, his willingness to listen to every tale of distress, and the open-handed munificence with which he administered to the wants and necessities of those around him, can never be forgotten by any who have been guided and consoled by his affectionate counsel, or cherished and relieved by his unbounded charity. His sympathy for suffering worth, or genius lost in obscurity, was ever alive; and no indication of talent or ingenuity, no effort of intellect, ever met his eye without gaining his notice, and calling forth, on numberless occasions, his substantial aid and assistance.

"He was not less generous in pouring forth the treasures of his mind. A long life spent in the constant study of all the subjects of natural history, had stored it with great variety of knowledge. Hence, the originality of his views, the felicity and playfulness of his illustrations, and the acuteness of his remarks, imparted a character of genius to his commonest actions and conversations, which could not escape the most inattentive observer.

"It were a just and gratifying duty to dwell at greater length on these and other kindred qualities; but the present occasion suits not for such a purpose; and we have only now to mention the last public act of his life, which, in a manner particularly interesting, harmonizes with his previous efforts in behalf of his fellow-creatures. He attended a meeting convened on the 19th of December last, at Berkeley, for forming a Bible Society, and moved the first resolution. It was a sight singularly gratifying to behold a venerable individual, whose life had been spent in successfully devising means to extinguish a fatal and pestilential bodily disease, thus putting

his hand to the work which has been graciously designed for arresting the moral pestilence that desolates so great a portion of the earth, and for the healing of the nations."

1823.

The remains of Dr. Jenner were deposited in the chancel of the parish church of Berkeley, on the third of February. The concourse of persons was immense; the indications of respect, reverence, and regret, were unequivocally conspicuous; every eye was moistened, and every heart oppressed. The following epitaph is to be placed on the tomb:

"Within this tomb hath found a resting-place The great physician of the human race

Immortal JENNER! whose gigantic mind

Brought life and health to more than half mankind.

Let rescued infancy his worth proclaim,

And lisp out blessings on his honoured name;
And radiant beauty drop her saddest tear,

For beauty's truest, trustiest friend lies here!"

A provincial monument is about to be raised to this great man by voluntary subscriptions; but there can be no doubt that the gratitude of the nation, or rather that of the world, will be manifested by the construction of some more magnificent memorial.

Dr. Jenner has left a son, Robert Fitzharding Jenner, a Captain in the South Gloucester Militia, a Magistrate, M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, &c.; and a daughter, Catherine, wife of John Yeend Bedford, Esq. solicitor, of Birmingham ; son of Bedford, Esq., of Pershore, near Worcester.

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GENERAL DUMOURIEZ.

CHARLES-François-Duperier Dumouriez was born at Cambray, the 29th of January, 1739: his family, originally from Provence, was renowned for its antiquity, for its long exercise of judiciary power, and for its striking attachment to literature. To one of his ancestors Malherbe, the father of French poetry, addressed in 1599, one of his most beautiful odes. It was on the loss of his daughter; and begins with the line

"Ta douleur, Duperier, sera donc eternelle."

Dumouriez's father was a very distinguished man of letters, though not professionally so; and his translation of "Ricciardetto," merited the eulogium of Voltaire.

After his classical studies, in which he had been very successful, Dumouriez lived for some time with his father, who destined him for the commissariat; but, this department not being agreeable to him, he chose to enter the army. When eighteen years of age, he made his first campaign against the same Duke of Brunswick whom, in 1792, he drove from the territory of France. He distinguished himself in several attacks, and was at last taken prisoner; but not till he had received nineteen serious wounds, and had lost his horse; five men had been disabled by him, when his arms were broken to pieces in his hands, and the loss of blood alone prevented a longer defence. The Duke of Brunswick, who was told of his brave resistance, when the wounded prisoner was brought before him, strongly expressed his kind admiration, and sent him back with a flattering letter to Marshal de Broglie, the general of the French army.

We cannot follow him step by step through his military career; it is sufficient to say, that, after the peace, he was put en reforme at the age of twenty-four, with a captain's rank, and decorated with the cross of St. Louis, an extraordinary, but well merited, advancement. At this time he had received twenty-two wounds.

On peace being made in 1763, he began his travels to study the languages and manners of different nations. He visited Italy; and after having sought to defend Corsica against the Genoese, he returned to Paris, and afterwards went to Belgium, whence he passed into Spain, with the intention of taking service there. He likewise visited Portugal, and published a work, entitled "An Essay on Portugal,” after which he returned to Paris in 1767; when he was named Aide maréchal-general of the army destined to invade Corsica, which France had bought from the Genoese; and, having served with reputation in the two campaigns of 1768, and 1769, he was raised to the rank of colonel.

In 1770, the Duke de Choiseul appointed him minister to the confederates of Poland; and he commanded a body of men in that country during two campaigns, and conducted several very important negotiations with various success. As the measures of the confederates were ill concerted, their revolution was unfortunate, and ended in the participation of Poland.

In 1772 the Marquis of Monteynard, minister of war, employed him to correct and revise the military code of laws : at the end of the same year this minister, by the express order of Louis XV., entrusted him with the management of a secret negotiation relative to the revolution in Sweden; but having received his instructions on this affair immediately from the king himself, and unknown to the Duke D'Aiguillon, minister of foreign affairs, who had succeeded the Duke de Choiseul, at the change of ministry, he was arrested at Hamburgh in 1773, and conducted to the bastile by the orders of that minister. The irresolute Louis XV. yielding to the importunities of Madame du Barry, his mistress, and the Duke D'Aiguillon, disgraced the virtuous Monteynard, for

bore to inform the Duke of the authority he had given him to negotiate, and suffered him to bear the weight of a criminal prosecution, which the Duke D'Aiguillon, suspecting the truth, feared to carry to all its extremity. Dumouriez rejected offers of friendship and protection made him by this despotic minister, whom he did not esteem; and after lying six months in the bastile, he was banished to the castle of Caen for three months.

Louis XV. died soon after; and D'Aiguillon was disgraced. General Dumouriez had no inclination to take advantage of the expiration of the Lettre de Cachet, for the purpose of regaining his liberty; he was anxious to be completely justified, and therefore petitioned Louis XVI. to remove him to the bastile, and to order a revision of his trial. The king would not permit him to remain in prison, and commanded M. du Muy, M. de Vergennes, and M. de Sartine to revise the trial; and those three ministers signed a declaration that he had been unjustly prosecuted. Immediately afterwards he was sent to Lisle, in his rank of colonel, to make a report respecting the new military manoeuvres which the Baron de Pirsch had brought from Prussia. He had also a commission to examine a plan for improving the navigation of the river Lys, and another plan for forming a harbour in the channel at Ambleteuse. These employments occupied the latter end of the year 1774, and the whole of 1775.

In 1776 he was joined in a commission with the Chevalier D'Oisy, captain of a man of war, and Colonel la Rozière, one of the ablest engineers in Europe, to determine on a proper place in the channel for the construction of a naval port. He passed the year 1777 in the country, twenty leagues from Paris. At the end of that year, he was invited to Paris by M. de Montbarey, minister of war, on account of the rupture between England and her colonies, which he had long predicted.

In 1778 he procured the office of commandant of Cherbourg to be revived and given to him. Being persuaded that Cherbourg was better calculated than any other place in the