nounces a weekly newspaper in the Welsh language, under the title of SEREN GoMER. If conducted with political honesty, it will, we are persuaded, he read by true Britons in every part of the world.

Forty thousand trees were advertised to be sold within the principality during the past year.

The Rev. DAVID PETER, is delivering a course of Philosophical Lectures, at the Presbyterian college of Carmarthen, to large auditories.

The Bishop of ST. DAVID's is continuing his meritorious exertions for the improvement of knowledge and morals in his dioresc.

Died.] At Presteign, 80, John Piggott, esry.

At Ivy Tower, near Tenby, 78, W. Williams, esq. an eccentric character, remarkable for his researches into Welsh antiquities; of which he afforded a singular specimen in his Primitive History, or account of the world before the flood: he also published a new translation of the New Testament, and some other works indicative of great enthusiasm in his pursuits.

At Lanelly, 60, Charles Nevill, esq. At Brecon, the Rev. W. Morgan.-Walter Williams, esq.

At Swansea, 82, the Rev. Miles Bassett, 57 years vicar of St. Mary.

At Carmarthen, 60, David Thomas, esq.
At Merthyr Tydvil, Mrs. Crawshay.

SCOTLAND,

ced with the accession of his present Ma jesty, and has adorned the long course of his reign.

IRELAND,

Mr. J. MAGEE, editor and proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post, having been found guilty of publishing a libel against the Duke of Richmond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has been sentenced to pay a fine to the King of 500l. to be imprisoned 2 years in Newgate, and to find suretics for his conduct during 7 years, himself in 1000l. and two others in 5001. each. We have since been told that, by a novel application of a temporary law, Mr. Magee's paper has been suppressed, by the disallowance of further stamps! For the honour of the law, the ministry, and the constitution, we hope however that this intelligence is not true. In a free country, anti-ministerial papers must be tolerated by the minister, and ministerial papers must be borne with by the people. Their collision is the foundation of public spirit, and the details of their discussions and recriminations merit little notice from those who pull the wires behind the scenes! A minister must be very sensible of his weakness or wickedness, who cannot rely on his own papers to defend his measures; because at best, under such a system, the interests of the people are likely to be sup ported with less consistency than those of the minister; but the odds must be greatly against the people, if the minister should also avail himself of the iron hand of the law, by means of which to silence the arguments and taunts of his adversaries. Relative to public men as such, and to public things, discussion can never be too free and enlarged; while, on the other hand, in regard to private persons and private character, it can never be too much guarded and limited.

INCIDENTS AND DEATHS ABROAD.

At Smyrna news has been received of a dreadful calamity having overtaken the largest caravan of the season, on its route from Mecca to Aleppo. The caravan consisted of 2000 souls-merchants and travellers from the Red Sea and Persian Gulph, pilgrims returning from performing their devotions at Mecca, and a numerous train of attendants; the whole escorted by 400 military. The march was in three columns. On the 15th of August last, they entered the great Arabian Desert, in which they journeyed seven days, and were already approaching its edge. A few hours moie would have placed them beyond danger; but, alas! they were not permitted to return in safety. Just as they had struck their tents, and commenced their march, a wind rose from the N.E. and blew with tremendous violence. They increased the rapidity of their march, to escape the threatening danger; but the fatal Kamsiu

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The deaths, at Malta, from the commencement of the yellow fever, were as follow: April, 1; May, 110; June, 800; July, 1594; Angust, 1042; Sept. (1st to 25th), 603-Total 4150. 1634 were at Valetta.

Of this number

Died.] At Demerara, William Henry Addison, esq. late of Liverpool.

Aug. 1, having been shot through the head, at the battle of the Pyrenees, three days before, Colonel Havilland Le Mesurier, eldest son of the late Commissary-General of the same name. We do not attempt to record the afflicting waste of life connected with the army and operations of Lord Wellington, by the sword and every variety of disease. The provincial newspapers prove, however, by their records of premature deaths, that the sacrifice of our finest youth, and the hopes of our first families, are the consequence of the modern crusade, which has now lasted 20 years to satisfy certain fiends, in the shape of anonymous newspaper writers, whose love of blood is increased rather than diminished with the myriads of their victims!

In Bohemia, the celebrated French general, Moreau. He was born in the year 1761, at Morlaix, in Lower Brittany, where his father was a respectable and respected advocate in a profession which it appears had been followed by the family for generations. Young Moreau was also intended for the law, and, after the usual studies, was sent to the University of Rennes to take his degrees. In the year 1788, he was Prevot de Droit, or head of the students in law at Rennes, a body of young men at all times remarkable for their public spirit. In the squabbles, which at that period took place between the court of France and the parliament, Moreau was appointed their leader, and styled the General of the Parliament, whose cause was at that time considered as that of public liberty. On those occasions Moreau evinced an equal degree of prudence and courage, and his gentleman-like manners and graceful person, added not a little to his popularity.

In January, 1790, he acted as president of the confederation of the Youth

of Brittany, assembled at Pontivy; and on the formation of the National Guards, was named Commandant of one of the battalions of that province. Moreau had then for the first time an opportunity of embracing permanently a profession congenial to his feelings; and his labours in his new career were incessant. Ac cording to the biographer of his youth, he devoured in four months the best military works, treatises, and memoirs, that had been composed in four centuries, and went, in three months, through more military manoeuvres and, evolutions, than many officers in thirty years. He continued in this situation until 1793, when his battalion was the last to accept the Constitution of that The Convention, however, were year. in want of good officers, and in July, 1793, Moreau was promoted to the rank of General of Brigade, by the Committee, of Public Safety. His first action, as a commander, was on the 14th of September, when, with a division of the army of the Moselle, he attacked the Prussian army commanded by the Duke of Brunswick. He was defeated; but the Duke of Brunswick praised the conduct of the young general, in his report. In the autumn of 1793, Moreau made the acquaintance of Pichegru, who having discovered in him those precious germs of military talents which only required the fostering hand of an experienced. friend to be matured into excellence," obtained for him the command of a di vision in the army of the Rhine, to which he had been appointed. Under that able master, Moreau took Ypres, and ip a variety of enterprizes acquired that military experience, and those comprehensive views, of which he so successfully availed himself afterwards. It was on the very day Ypres surrendered, that the Jacobins of Morlaix sent to the guillotine his aged parent, who had long been considered as the father of the poor.

The first resolution of Moreau, at hear ing the fatal intelligence, was to leave the service of these persons and join the emigrants. He accordingly tendered his resignation, but Pichegru was of a different opinion, and would not accept it.

He afterwards becane commander ia chief of the armies of the Rhine, and thrice he saved the French armies from impending destruction. When an order of the Directory for superseding him was received, a French colonel, now a pri soner in England, exclaimed, "General! will you obey so.&sulting a mandate ?”

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"Yes," answered Moreau, " as a general, an officer, or a soldier, Moreau is always ready to serve France." He has often been heard to declare, that he never would lead foreign troops into France; that he was the personal enemy of no man, but the determined enemy of all men, either princes or sans-culottes, who should attempt to tyrannise over his countrymen, There never existed any doubt of his concern with Pichegru, Georges, and others, to restore the Bourbons. He thought it for the good of France; but he had done too much for French liberty, and was too much beloved, to be put to death as a criminal; and was therefore allowed by his rival to depart for America, where he settled in great comfort at Morris Ville, below the fall of Delaware.

The Russian messenger, an officer, who was deputed to invite him into the Russian service, found the greatest difficulty in moving him from his retirement, though he was authorised to offer him any terms. In fact, he presented him with a carte blanche from Alexander. For sixteen months did this gentleman remain in America with peremptory orders to accomplish the object of his mission. At length the fatal moment arrived. The general thought he saw an opportunity of being useful; determined to lend his aid to the allied powers; and left his abode of quiet and security.

On the 2nd of August, he landed at Stralsund, where he was received by the Crown Prince of Sweden, and passed two days in concerting the plan of the campaign. On the 16th of August, he arrived at Prague, and the next morning was visited by the Emperor Alexander, who, on the 18th, introduced him to the Emperor of Austria, and King of Prussia. At this moment he was the first man in Europe, consulted and ciosetted daily with these sovereigns, and nothing seemed too high for his ambition; but it was said to be his intention, if he had lived to succeed against Napoleon, to retire again into private life.

On the 25th, and following days, he accompanied the Emperor Alexander, and the King of Prussia, in reconnoitring and directing the attacks on Dresden, and his zeal led him much to expose himself. On the 27th, towards noon, he was communicating some observations to Alexander, when a bail from one of the French batteries, which was aiming to dismount a Russian battery, behind

which they were, shattered to pieces the right knee of Moreau, and passing through his horse, carried away the calf of his other leg. Alexander burst into tears, and hastened to succour and con sole him; and Moreau exclaimed to his aid-de-camp, “I am lost my dear Rapatel! but it is delightful to die in so good a cause, and in the presence of so great a prince."

He was conveyed from the spot on a litter, to a house in the vicinity, where M. Welly, the emperor's surgeon, amputated both his legs, an operation to which he submitted with heroic forti tude. On the retreat of the army he was removed to Passendorf, thence to Dippoldswalden, and afterwards to Duks, near Toplitz. Here every assistance that wealth, power, and friendship could command, was afforded him, but in vain; for, on the morning of the 2d of Sep. tember, he quietly breathed his last, being only the day month after he had landed so triumphantly, and with such flattering hopes, at Stralsund.

The Emperor directed his body to be embalmed, and conveyed for interment to Petersburgh; and then, with generous feeling, caused the following letter to be addressed to Madame Moreau, at London.

"MADAM,-When the dreadful misfor tune, which befel General Moreau, close at my side, deprived me of the talents and ex perience of that great man, I indulged the hope that, by care, we might still be able to preserve him to his family and my friendship. Providence has ordered it otherwise. ie died as he lived, in the full vigour of a strong and steady mind. There is but one remedy for the great miseries of life, that of seeing them participated. In Russia, Madam, you will find these sentiments every where; and if it suit you to fix your residence there, I will do all in my.power to embellish the existence of a personage of whom I make it my sacred duty to be the consoler and the support. I intreat you, Madam, to rely upon it irrevocably, never to let me be in ignorance of any circumstances in which I can be of any use to you, and to write directly to me always. To prevent your wishes will be a pleasure to me. The fiendship I vowed to your husband exists beyond the grave, and I have no other means of shewing it, at least in part, towards him, tha by doing every thing in my power to ensure the welfare of his family. In these sad and cruel circumstances, accept, Madam, these marks of friendship, and the assurance of all my senALEXANDER.” timents.

Toplitz, Sept. 8, 1813.