Dutens was again quietly settled in his rectory at Elsdon, when Lord Mountstuart was appointed Envoy-extraordinary to his favourite Court of Turin; and, notwithstanding the many resolutions he had formed, he yielded to the invitation of the new envoy; and prepared to accompany him as his friend, but without any official situation, except (upon the emergency of Lord Mountstuart's being called to England upon private business) his again filling for a short period' the situation of Chargé des Affaires. Upon Lord Mountstuart's return, Mr. Dutens appears to have quitted Turin; and, after a residence in Lombardy, Rome, and France, to have joined his friends in England. It was in his way through France with Lord Mountstuart, that Mr. Dutens had an opportunity of collecting some anecdotes, which supply a more satisfactory explication respecting the history of the "Masque de Fer," than the industry and ingenuity of Voltaire, and of a thousand other writers, has been able to produce. From this account, indeed, it is extremely probable, that the person confined was minister to the Duke of Mantua, and employed in soliciting all the Courts of Italy to form a league against their common enemy.

Whilst stopping at Rome, Mr. Dutens "received an offer from the Duke of Northumberland of an annuity for life of 500%. if I would give him my society for the short time he had to live." The offer was tempting; but he was "not to be shaken," and refused the offer. Completely enjoying his independence, he even avoided forming any establishment, travelling in a good English post-chaise, with a desk and portable library. Thus situated, he met Lord Algernon Percy at Florence. Here he was for a time com

pletely happy. "I found," he says, so many advantages united together in Florence, by the mildness of the climate, of the government, and of the disposition of the inhabitants, that, in spite of my predilection for Paris, for London, and other cities of great resort, I should have remained there to this hour, if indispensable obligations had not compelled ne to quit it. Every thing required my presence in London. The desire of seeing again Mr. M'Kenzie and his Lady, whose esteem and affection I could flatter myself I possessed, the want of money, the necessity of repose, and that gratitude which would no longer permit me to absent myself from the country which had adopted me, altogether determined me to return nevertheless I could not resist the desire that I had to visit my brilliant acquaintances at Paris; and I arrived at that capital at the end of June 1783."

A considerable part of this summer was

passed in Paris, and at Chanteloup, with the Duke and Duchess of Choiseul; and the following winter at Tours.

In the spring of 1784, after passing six weeks at Paris, he set out, in the beginning of May, for London, where, he says, "I found Mr. M Kenzie and Lady Betty M'Kenzie the same persons I had ever known them, and I devoted myself entirely

to them. I saw also the Duke of Northum

berland, who pressed me afresh to accept the offer he had so often made me of taking an apartment in his house; but I was determined to reject his proposal: I answered him in a polite, but evasive manner, without accepting his offer. I continued, however, to cultivate his acquaintance, which I did from inclination. On this subject I shall say, in a few words, that, during the two years which the Duke lived after my return, he saw nobody oftener, or with more satisfaction, than myself. I even passed a whole summer with him at his Castle at Alnwick; and in the illness of which he died, I was the only one who visited him constantly. A few days before he died, he said to his son: My son, I think we ought to do something for Mr. Dutens.' His son assented, and no more was said on the subject."

One of the first visits paid after his arrival was to Lord Bute, at his new seat. in Hampshire, where he was entrusted by that Nobleman with all that he himself knew of the affairs of the kingdom during nearly 40 years.

After for some time leading a quiet life, Mr. Dutens was in 1786 strongly invited by Lord Walsingham, then appointed ambassador to Spam, to accompany him as secretary; an offer which staggered his resolution of remaining quiet, but which he wished to evade by raising difficulties. "I asked an increase of my pension, an annuity from his Lordship, and a promise of another favour from Government, which it is unnecessary to name. Lord Walşingham left me immediately to go to the minister, and returned in an hour to tell me that he had obtained the two articles which depended upon Government; and, as for that which depended on himself, the annuity, I should be in possession of the deeds the following day. I could no longer hesitate; I accepted the situation. We were preparing for our departure, when Lord Walsingham came to inform me, that Mr. Pitt had proposed to him the place of Post-master General, if he would give up the embassy to Spain, whither they had a design to send Lord Auckland. He was undecided whether to accept it or not. I represented to him, that if he had passed some years at Madrid, they probably would not offer him a more agreeable retribution. This recompense

was

Was offered him before his services; he Could not do better than avail himself of the opportunity. He accepted it. I was delighted; I gave him up his annuity, and resigned with pleasure the hope of the conditional favour obtained for me from

Government. There only remained for me the increase of my pension. I was satisfied; but Lord Walsingham was not so ou my account. He lamented that his interest with the ministers was not sufficient to procure me the recompense of the pains I had taken for him. He often said, that he was ashamed of having done nothing to convince me of his gratitude; and 1 am sure that he thought so. I assured him, that I expected nothing; that I desired nothing but the continuation of his goodwill towards me; in short I made him easy."

Of the King's illness in 1788, Mr. Dutens published an account, by which he Jost the favour of the Prince of Wales, by whom he had before been honoured with very particular attention.

In 1789 he went to Spa, in company with a gentleman whom he describes under the name of Astacus; and passed two months there in the house of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. On his return, he took up his residence at Petersham, near Richmond. "I found there," he says, "Madame de Boufflers, the Duchess of Biron, the Countess of Grammont, Madame de Chalais, the Baron de Breteuil, and several others, who had taken houses at Richmond, where they passed much of their time-thanks to the hospitality of Mr. M'Kenzie, who gave them the best welcome, and kept an open table for them. I passed about

But

ten years in this delightful society; part of the year with Mr. M Kenzie and his wife Lady Betty at Petersham, and the remainder in town. the years 1799 and 1800 produced events which gave a new complexion to my affairs. Lady Betty M'Kenzie died. During the six weeks of her illness I never quitted her, and I shewed her all the attention that I could have bestowed upon a mother. Mr. M'Kenzie was inconsolable at her loss; he had known her from her earliest infancy; they were cousins-german, and had been married more than 30 years, living together in the greatest harmony. Old age is suspected of but little feeling; but I never saw sensibility equal to his. He repeated continually, that it was the survivor who died. In short, notwithstanding an excellent constitution, his grief was so excessive, that he sunk under it gradually, and died within eight months after his wife, at the age of eightyone years. This was the most melancholy time I had passed in my life; I did not quit him a single day. He had heaped

so many benefits on me in his life, that I had not the smallest idea that he would take notice of me in his will. Of course, I was very much surprized to find that he had named me his executor, and residuary legatee, with his two nephews, Lord Bute and the Primate of Ireland. His friends and relations, without excepting those with whom I partook his property, applauded the testimony, which indeed honoured and enriched me, but which has left a blank in the remainder of my life difficult to fill."-Thus much from his own memoirs; to which we shall only add, that the legacy from Mr. M'Kenzie amounted to 15000/.; and that the remainder of his life was spent in the happy enjoyment of literary retirement and social intercourse; and was honoured by the appointment of, "Historiographer to the King;" an office highly respectable, but to him of no emolument, as he never received from it a single shilling, or even applied for the stipend annexed as an antient fee to the office.-Mr. Datens published, in 1805, "Recherches sur le Tems le plus reculé de l'Usage des Voûtes chez les Anciens; or, Inquiries into the Autiquity of Vaults among the Antients." See our vol. LXXV. p. 352; and a seccond edition of the same work, with additious and corrections, ibid. p. 937. He presented to the Society of Antiquaries a genealogical table of the family of the Scipios (ibid p. 408).-Not many days before his death, he called, in a coach, on many persons of eminence with whom he had corresponded, for the sole purpose of returning the Letters he had received from them.

1811. AT Madras, in his 26th year, Νου. 11. Capt. Adam Dewman Dunscombe, 89th reg. brother to Mrs. James Massy, jun. of Stoneville, and of Mrs. Wm. Russell, of Limerick. He had served in the four quarters of the globe; went through all the active service of his regiment in India, and was wounded at the taking of Java, from the effects of which he died.

Nov. 25. At Trichinopoly, in his 46th year, Capt. Robt. Duncan, 2d batt. royals. Capt. Duncan, who was a native of Aberdeen, had for the last 12 years been much engaged in actual service. He volunteered his services for Egypt, and was in the battle in which Sir Ralph Abercromby fell. At Ferrol, he saved the life of an officer of high rank, by cutting down a Spaniard, who had presented a pistol at his head.

Nov... At Madras, John Byng, esq. judge and magistrate in the zillah of Trichinopoly, third son of the Hon. J. B. an incomparable loss to his disconsolate widow and family. He was esteemed a tender husband, good father, and affectionate friend.

1812. March 30. After lingering under mental derangement many months, aged 41, the wife of T. Chaplen, esq. of the Cape of Good Hope.

April 3. At St. Helena, aged 76, Major Wm. Pierie. He had spent the greater part of his life in the service of his coun-" try, in Europe, America, and Asia, with advantage to it, and honour to himself. He was an affectionate husband and relative, and a sincere friend.

May 26. At Rio Janeiro, Don Pedro Carlos de Bourbon and Braganza, infant of Spain.

June... At Rio Janeiro, of an epidemic fever, which had made great ravages in that capital, the Marquis of Pombal; whose virtuous and exemplary lady died in 1808, at the same place. He was one of the most respectable personages who adorned the kingdom, the court of Portugal, and the ministry of the Prince Regent at Brazil. Besides the remarkable circumstance of his being eldest son of the great Marquis of Pombal, the celebrated Prime Minister of State to King Don Joseph I. and descended, by his mother, from the illustrious family of the Counts of Daun, in Vienna of Austria; it happened that the Marquis possessed one of the richest houses of Portugal, and which was the grand centre of union of the corps diplomatique, the focus of attraction for foreign representatives of all nations in alliance with Portugal. The Marquis married at an early age one of the sisters of the present Count de Caparica; and, before he had completed his 20th year, he was created Count de Oegras, Chamberlain to her most faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal; Preceptor to the deceased Prince of Brazil, Don Joseph, by whom he was particularly esteemed; and, about this time, he was promoted to the situation of President of the Senado da Camara of Lisbon, which situation he filled with credit for nine successive years. A short time after the death of his father, having procured leave of his Sovereign, he quitted Portugal, and came to London, whence he went over to France; and at both the courts and capitals of Great Britain and France, he received the most distinguished honours and attentions. Returning via Spain, he went back to his own country, where, at that period, the intrigues of the Court were in their full vigour, which the disgraceful occurrences of the conspiracy of the Duke D'Aveiro had stirred up against the descendants of the Minister; to whose lot fell the sorrowful and repugnant commission to cause the laws of the kingdom to be put in execution on so serious and trying an occasion. However, the Marquis succeeded, not only in resisting, but in destroying the intrigues; and in spite of the influence of his powerful

enemies, who then occupied the most im portant situations in the State, he not only maintained the employments which he already had, but was appointed to others, and successively made a Councillor of State, Great Cross of the Order of Christ, Ambassador Extraordinary to his Britan nic Majesty; and in the year 1807, this nobleman was one of those who forsook house, family, and country, to accompany his Sovereign, when his Royal Highness took the resolution completely to change his court for the city of Rio de Janeiro; where the Marquis had, among others, the distinguished favour of being promoted to the most exalted honours and employ. ments, viz. Great Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword, and President of the Supreme Tribunals of the Dezembargo do Paco and Meza da Consciencia e Orders; and died after the long period of 42 years' service, having rendered his severeign and his country services of the greatest importance, in which he consumed both health and wealth; in which he displayed his patriotism, his fidelity, love, and respect for his Sovereign, in a most exemplary manner, and beyond the power of being surpassed. The Marquis has left no legi timate children; but an illegitimate daughter survives him, who is married to one of the present Governors of Brasil, M. Povoas. His heir and successor is his bro ther, the present Count de Redinha.

July 19. Amurath, only sou of the Turk ish Suitan. The Grand Seignor, who is now the only living male of the Ottoman family, has been plunged into the deepest grief by this event.

July 22. Fell, gallantly, at the head of his brigade, at the battle of Salamanca, Major-gen. Le Marchant, a native of Guernsey. He embraced the military profession at an early period of life, and served principally in the cavalry. He was considered as an officer of great activity, and strictly attentive to all the duties connected with bis station. In the British army, officers hitherto have been seldom furnished with a sufficient field adapted to the display or perfection of their Military talents; and, in common with many offi cers of acknowledged tactical skill, the subject of this biographical sketch may be said, in the common army expression, not to have seen much service of an active kind. He appears to have served his first campaign in the continental expedition of 1793 and 1794, under bis Royal Highness the Duke of York. It was while employed on this service that he witnessed the great advantages to be derived in action from the skilful use of the cavalry sword, long practised by the Hungarian hussars; and became convinced of the decided superio rity of this skill over the awkward and unscientific mode of their using the sword by

the

the cavalry, whether as a weapon of offence or defance. On his return from the Continent, he employed himself with great assiduity and perseverance in improving, and reducing into a system, all that his own experience had taught him on this useful and important point, as well as what additional information he was enabled to derive from other sources. In accomplishing this great object, he is said to have received no inconsiderable assistance from the Adjutant of the 16th Light Dragoons, who, we believe, was the officer first selected for initiation into the Austrian sword exercise, with a view to its future introduction into the British service. Major Le Marchant had, however, the honour of first perfecting and digesting that system which was published at the War-Office in 1796, by his Majesty's command, and has since been adopted by the British cavalry. 1 The public spirit and perseverance of Lieut. col. Le Marchant were next conspicuous in the share which he had in the framing and institution of the Royal Military College-a public seminary, founded on a plan similar to that of the Academy at Woolwich, but more extensively applicable to the education of every rank and description of Army officers. is well known that a Military School had long existed in France, which, no doubt, gave origin to the idea of an establishment of a somewhat similar Academy in England: but regulations adapted to the genius of the French were inapplicable to Britain; and therefore peculiar laws become necessary. this great undertaking he is supposed to have availed himself of the friendly observations and experience of officers capable of affording useful information on a point of so much importance. As a reward for his zeal and exertions, manifested in the foundation of this great national Academy, he was raised to be its Lieut.-governor, a situation of considerable honour and emolument.

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In

The direct military services of Lieut. col. Le Marchant may now be said to have ceased for a period of many years, bis attention being entirely devoted to the duties of his new appointment. In October 1805, he was promoted to the rank of a Colonel, and in 1811, to that of a Majorgeneral. This last promotion, in consequence of an existing regulation, rendered it incompatible for him to retain the situation of Lieut.-governor of the Royal Military College. In return for this loss, however, he was appointed to a command no less honourable, namely, to that of a brigade of cavalry, when on the eve of embarking for service in Portugal, for which country he immediately set out. In a field so extensive, and at a period unexampled in British history, the services of such an officer could not be long unappropriated. Major-gon. Le Marchant was soon dis

tinguished as an active and enterprizing officer; and on several occasions, besides that on which he so gallantly fell, he received the public approbation of the Marquis Wellington, commanding that army. He had been but a short time in Portugal when he received the afflictive and most unexpected news of the death of Mrs. Le Marchant, whom the General had been obliged to leave far advanced in pregnancy. His grief, at so deplorable an event, was now only to be soothed by the bustle and activity of a fatiguing and protracted Campaign, involving the most important consequences to European politicks; and fortunately he was not long in obtaining opportunities to distinguish himself, no less honourable to himself than useful to the service in which he was engaged.-A handsome provision has been made by Government, for the family of this gallant officer, (see page 286.)

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July 26. At Kingston, Jamaica, aged, 130, Esmina Diamond, a free black woman. July By a coup de soleil, when on duty near Ciudad Rodrigo, Ensign John Vavasour Carter, of the 30th regt. foot. A young man, who for amiable, engaging manners, goodness of heart, and general correctness of conduct, had but few equals. He was educated at Lincoln school, where, for many years, he distinguished himself in the annual recitations delivered there. His style was the pathetic; in which, from the sweetness of his voice, and the genuine feelings of nature with which he touched all his parts, he particularly exceiled, melting the audience into tears as often as he appeared before them. his leaving the school, his departure was deplored in the following lines, forming part of the next Introductory Address, afterwards published in the Lincoln Chro nicle:

On

"One youth, who oft, in true patheticstrain, [drain, The streaming tears of Pity's fount would Each tender feeling of the heart control, And wake to sympathy the melting soul, No more shall cause your tears to flow, [hopeless love.

nor move

For he has join'd the academic throng, The deep-drawn sighs breath'd out for Where Isis pours his learned stream along." In April, 1808, he was admited of Lincoln College, Oxford, where he remained twa years. These were spent with the strictest attention to his studies, and a laudable desire to reap every advantage which the time and the place could confer. During his residence at the University, his acquaintance was select and respectable: and to these, and to the members of his own college, he endeared himself by the frankness of his disposition, and his upright, manly spirit. His destination was

originally for the Church; but his mind had long been bent upon more enterprizing and active employment, and his friends were at length prevailed upon to accede to his wishes, in procuring for him a commission in the Army. In the April of last year, he joined the depôt of his regiment then at Wakefield; and shortly after, a detachment from it being ordered to Portugal, he volunteered to accompany it. His voyage to Lisbon was peculiarly adverse and unpleasant; and from the time of his reaching Portugal, to the day of his death, his life was little else than a series of marches and countermarches, across defiles and over mountains, attended with hardships and privations, in every respect the reverse of College ease and indulgence. These he endured not only without a murmur, detailing them with much pleasantry to his friends, but with an ardent zeal to become useful and eminent in his profession. How highly his character and services were estimated in the military line, will be best seen by extracts from the letters, which conveyed the melancholy intelligence to his parents-the former from a friend, the latter from the commanding officer of his own regiment.- -" I conceive it to be my duty, from the friendship that subsisted between me and your son, to acquaint you, that he is no more. Poor fellow ! a better young man I never knew; and I had an opportunity of knowing him well; for we lived together some months at Valada and Abrantes. He was as sterling and as pure, as any British lad I know."-"Being a father myself, I well know the distress that this unfortunate event will cause to yourself and family; but, perhaps, it may be, in a slight degree, alleviated by knowing, that, since your lamented son entered the regiment, his conduct has at all times been truly exemplary and honourable; and I am well persuaded, if it had pleased God to have spared his life, he would have been an ornament to his profession. And I assure you, as he lived beloved, so he died regretted by all his brother officers." -Ensign J. V. C. was eldest son of the Rev. J. C. of Lincoln, and grandson of Mr. C. of Brompton-on-Swale, whose death we recorded in our last, p. 195.

Aug. 12. At Paris, a daughter of the celebrated Rousseau; a shocking victim to the degraded course of life which she pursued.

Aug. 18. In Spain, of a gun-shot wound, Lieutenant Lindsell, of the 11th dragoons. Aug. 21. At Cuellar, Spain, of fever, Major Molyneaux Smith, 36th regiment.

Aug. 29. In the Bay of Rosas, after an illness of five days, of a constipation of the bowels, in his 61st year, Capt. Kent, of H. M. ship Union. He was a very good officer; and during the several voy.

ages he made to New South Wales, in the Buffalo, the affairs of that colony were much benefited by his zealous and able suggestions. He was nephew to the late Governor Hunter.

On board the Montague packet, on his passage from the West Indies, Zachary Hume Edwards, esq. only son of the late Bryan Edwards, esq.

Aug. In Quebec, Major George Thesiger, Deputy Barrack Master General of Canada.

Sept. 1. At the Palace of Escurial, near Madrid, of a typhus fever, Major-general Wheatley, 1st guards, of Lesne - house, Kent; a most zealous, brave, and meritorious officer, universally beloved and respected. He had served with the guards twenty-two years, and had shared in nearly every action in which the 1st regiment had been engaged during that period.

Sept. 2. In her 75th year, Mrs. Blunt, of Friars-place, near Ac on.

At her son's, Uxbridge, in her 65th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Hodder.

At Sunning-hill, aged 22, Frederick, third son of S. Round, esq. of Windsor, Berks.

Sept. 3. At Mr. Hadley's, Craven-street, Strand, aged 16, G. Richardson, son of the late Capt. W. Richardson, R. N.

At the village of Cannonmills, near Edinburgh, in his 94th year, Mr. George Anderson, who long kept a public garden at Easter Wariston. He was a private in Lord Lewis Gordon's corps in 1745-6; and it was the boast of his life, that he had been near the person of Prince Charles Edward, from the day of the battle of Culleden, till his departure from Sky, in the disguise of a female."

Sept. 4. Mr. James Fox, of Dartmouthstreet, Westminster.

At Brighton, Mrs. Begg, widow of the the late Mr. G. B. formerly of Dublin. At Exeter, aged 82, Mrs. Anne Granger, mother of E. G. esq.

Mr. George Routh, printer, Bristol. At Bristol, aged 11, Evan Hugh, eldest son of Col. Hugh Baillie.

Sept. 5. Mr. Taylor, of Newington-green. At Exeter, in his 16th year, T. Maquay, son of George M. esq. of Dublin.

Of a decline, aged 20, Anue, daughter of Mr. Brockliss, of Osney-mill, near Oxford. She was in perfect health, when her eldest sister died of the same complaint, about four months ago.

At Barcheston, co. Warwick, aged 97, Mrs. Utrecia Gibbons, daughter of the late Rev. Baptist Hickes, rector of Stratton-upon-Foss, co. Warwick, and mother of Mr. R. H. G. of Oxford.

Sept. 6. At Greenwich, Mrs. Walter, relict of the late Capt. Walter, R. N.

In his 92d year, Alexander, fourth son of Robert Barclay, esq. of Bury-hill, Surrey.

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