country, nor of saving other illustrious victims, sacrificed by the monsters who governed France. His army was alone capable of bringing back the Revolution to its proper limits. But the Convention had ascertained the intentions of General Dumouriez, and dared neither to dismiss him, nor to accept of his resignation, which he offered again and again: for his soldiers would have followed him, and have revenged any of his wrongs. They endeavoured to destroy the love his troops bore to him, as well as the confidence they put in him. The commissariat supplies were withheld, the invaded provinces were exhausted, all his resources were diminished, in order to encourage insubordination, and to prepare for the overthrow of this great general, whose renown was become so alarming. These measures were publicly acknowledged, and put into execution with such effect, that, in spite of the most prudent precautions, and most useful combinations, Dumouriez failed in a campaign, which might have been most importantly beneficial to France.

General Dumouriez hastened to treat with the Prince of Coburg, for the evacuation of Belgium, and very soon after obliged him, by a new treaty, to respect the French territory; whilst he himself determined to lead his soldiers to the capital, to disperse these tyrannical legislators, to save the family of the unfortunate monarch, and to re-establish the constitution of 1791. The anarchy of the government was to be reformed by Frenchmen alone; and it was only in case of Dumouriez's want of sufficient forces, that, at his demand, the Prince of Coburg was to furnish what he should require, while the remainder of the army of the enemy should remain on the frontiers.

The Convention was instantly informed of all by treachery. They summoned the general to their bar; and sent policeofficers to arrest him. He determined upon arresting the police-officers himself, and delivered them up to the Prince of Coburg, as hostages and guarantees for the safety of the royal family, who might have been massacred when the

news of his march should arrive. At least one victim was saved.

General Dumouriez issued his orders; but many of his Generals neglected to execute them, and some even refused. The army, to which the Convention had sent its spies, became disobedient to him; the brave General was obliged to leave them, and to take refuge at the head-quarters of the enemy. The Prince of Coburg, full of loyalty, wished to be faithful to his engagements: his court of Vienna interfered, and ordered him to pursue his operations; they even raised Dumouriez, and gave him command. “No, (replied he to the

Prince,) no- it was not that you promised me: I am going away."-"And whither? (asked the Prince.) You are in safety here; while they have offered, by a decree, 300,000 francs to whoever shall bring your head to the Convention."-" What care I for that? I go!"

Dumouriez found an asylum in Switzerland, and there published a volume of his "Memoirs," which soon obtained him. many friends; but Switzerland was too near France, and was about to yield to the latter. The General was obliged to fly : he went to Hamburg. The Landgrave Charles of HesseCassel, father-in-law of the King of Denmark, bought a mansion in Holstein, of which he was the governor; furnished it, placed horses and a carriage in the stables, and went in search of his friend, whom he conducted to this retreat. "This is yours (said he): I am sorry it is not in my power to offer you more than a pension of 400 louis!"

When Buonaparte menaced England with invasion, Dumouriez was summoned hither. The English government received him with generous hospitality, and asked his counsel : he arranged a plan of defence for every part of Great Britain, as well as for the different countries of Europe where the soldiers of the French emperor had raised their standards. and Spain, with which he was well acquainted, owes to him a portion of her liberty.

The Restoration was not effected as he would have desired; nor did he think that the restored acted as it was their

duty to do. He proclaimed this; and the consequence was, that he was not allowed to take that position in France which justly belonged to him. He remained therefore in England.

The Neapolitans betrayed his confidence; but the Greeks have been endeavouring to carry into effect the counsels he gave them eighteen months before his death, in two Memoirs, in which all the energy of youth is united to all the prudence of age. And for Spain, whose invasion he condemned and abhorred, he wrote a general system of organization and defence; but when, some days before his death, a friend asked a supplement for the offensive part, he replied, "No: pass not the Pyrenees; my country is beyond them."

An illness of a few days, unaccompanied by pain,-a rapid physical decline, which did not impair his fine understand`ing,-bore him away, in the midst of religious consolations, from the arms of his friends. On the 14th of March, 1823, he rose at eight o'clock; as usual, he lay down at twelve, at the desire of his medical attendant; and breathed his last at twenty-five minutes past two, aged eighty-four years, and above a quarter.

General Dumouriez was short in stature, but well formed; his countenance was agreeable; his eyes sparkled with brilliancy, even to the last: he was full of kindness and gaiety; and his mind was enriched with varied and extensive knowledge; he understood and spoke several languages: his spirit was most generous so generous as often to cause embarrassment; and his sensibility often found vent in tears, when calamity was reported to him, and when he was severed from a friend. He had many friends: one of the dearest, who died three years before him, and of whom he frequently spoke with tenderness, was H.R.H. the Duke of Kent.

This extraordinary man stood at one period of his life on the very pinnacle of triumphant glory. His feats as a warrior fill some of the most splendid pages of modern history; his name was a charm which gathered round it the enthusiasm of millions; and he died in exile, as if to contrast the clamorous noise of popularity, which accompanied his early

career, with the calm stillness of solitude which surrounded his bed of death.

General Dumouriez's remains were interred at Henley-onThames; in the church of which place a handsome monument has been erected to his memory, with the following inscription:

Hic jacet

Tardam expectans patriæ justitiam,
CAROLUS FRANCISCUS DUMOURIEZ,

Qui Cameraco natus Januarii xxix. die A.D. 1739,
Ingenio, doctrinâ, et virtute præclarus,

Ad summum militare imperium,
Fortitudine et prudentiâ pervenit,
Ludovici XVI., consiliit præfuit;
Regem et Leges in rostris eloquentiâ,
In castris gladio, patriam et libertatem
Defendit.

Nefandis in temporibus,

Bis Galliam a depopulatione et servitute servavit ;
Sed ad ipsâ eam servare conans
Proscriptus est.

Asylum exuli Germania primum,
Nobilem postea hospitalitatem obtulit
Britannia.

Gratus obiit Turville

Die Martis xiv. A.D. 1823.

No. XII.

RIGHT HON. JOHN EARL OF ST. VINCENT,

VISCOUNT ST. VINCENT, AND BARON JERVIS; SECOND ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET; GENERAL OF THE ROYAL MARINES; A PRIVY COUNSELLOR IN GREAT BRITAIN; ONE OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE FOR THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL; KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE MOST HONOURABLE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH; AND OF THE PORTUGUESE ORDER OF THE TOWER AND SWORD; A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY; AND ONE OF THE ELDER BRETHREN OF THE TRINITY HOUSE.

Motlo - THUS.

Ir it is well known, that the naval services of this venerable officer raised him to the peerage, and to the elevated station of an Admiral of the Fleet. He was descended from James Jervis, of Chathill, in the county of Stafford, who lived in the time of Henry VIII., and whose second son William, having settled at Ollerton, in Shropshire, was the ancestor of Swynfen Jervis, Esq. of Meaford, in the county of Stafford, barrister at law, for some time counsel to the Board of Admiralty, and Auditor of Greenwich Hospital, who married Elizabeth, daughter of George Parker, of Park-Hall, in the same county, Esq., and sister of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Parker, Knt., Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by whom he had two sons: viz. William, a gentleman usher of the Privy Chamber to his late Majesty, who died in 1813; and John, the subject of his memoir, who was born at Meaford, Jan. 9. 1734, O. S.

He imbibed the rudiments of his education at the grammar-school of Burton upon Trent, and was originally intended for the law; but evincing a decided predilection for the sea-service, at ten years of age he entered the navy, a