ort of La Valetta, to intercept uccours that might be attempted thrown in during the blockade. rder more completely to ensure ss, he ordered Lord Nelson to e to windward with three sail of line, while he himself remained the flag-ship and a small squaat the mouth of the harbour. judicious arrangement produced capture of Le Genereux of 74 , carrying the flag of Rear-Ad1 Perrée, and having a number of ps on board for the relief of the e, together with a large store 1 March, Lord Keith proceeded Genoa, in order to co-operate with Austrians, who were at that time eging it. He not only bombarded city repeatedly, but carried off principal galley in the port. anuary 1, 1801, Lord Keith was moted to be Admiral of the Blue, he this year commanded in the adroyant the naval force employed inst the French on the coast of ypt; and on the surrender of the my's army there, his lordship was ated, December 5, 1801, a peer of eat Britain (by the title of Baron ith of Banheath, co. Dumbarton,) ceived the thanks of both Houses of rliament, and was presented by the y of London with a sword of 100 ineas value. His services in Egypt ere thus noticed in General (afterirds Lord) Hutchinson's dispatch : During the course of the long rvice on which we have been enged, Lord Keith has at all times ven me the most able assistance and >unsel. The labour and fatigue of e navy have been continued and exessive; it has not been of one day or f one week, but of months together." In a subsequent dispatch, the geeral recurs to the " many obliga tions" that he was under to Lord Keith. When hostilities recommenced with France in 1803, Lord Keith was appointed to the chief naval command at Plymouth. In the beginning of October of that year, his lordship made an experiment on a small scale, with a new mode of attack on the gun-vessels in Boulogne, which, to a certain degree, succeeded, and without any loss being sustained on our part. On the 9th of November, 1805, his lordship was raised to the rank of Admiral of the White; and on the 10th of January, 1808, his lordship married, secondly, Hester-Maria, eldest daugh ter and co-heir of Henry Thrale, Esq. of Streatham, co. Surrey, M.P. for Southwark, 1763 and 1775, by Mrs Piozzi, and by her had issue Georgiana-Augusta-Henrietta Elphinstone, born December 12, 1809. In 1814, he was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Keith, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. He was appointed to the command of the Channel fleet in February 1812. While in that station, it fell to his lot to superintend the embarkation of Napoleon Buonaparte for St Helena. In this most delicate service he was directed by the sure guides of good sense and right feeling, and performed it without offending the individual with whom he had to deal, and without compromising the honour of the nation whom he represented. He was about this time created a Viscount, and peace being restored, his command ceased. From that time he has lived in retirement, in the bosom of his family, and in the society of numerous friends. Latterly he has resided on his estate of Tulliallan, where he erected a mansion-house suited to his rank and fortune. There also he has expended large sums in works of permanent utility, and has united with constant acts of voluntary bounty the encouragement of industrious pursuit and useful occupation, those sure sources of comfort to a surrounding population. GENERAL DUMOURIEZ. March 14-At Turville Park, near Henley-upon-Thames, in his 85th year, Charles-François-Duperier Dumouriez, an illustrious and eminent French general. He was born January 25, 1739, of parents not affluent, although noble. They were originally from Provence, and of the highest antiquity; and renowned for its long exercise of judiciary power, and for its striking attachment to literature. His father, the translator of " Richiardetto," was a man of great virtue and understanding, and bestowed on his son a very careful and extensive education. After his classical education, in which he had been very successful, he entered the army; where, at the age of 18, he became a soldier, and 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 was covered with 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 informed of his bravery, when he 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. At the age of twenty-two he had advanced to the rank of captain; received the honour of being decorated with the cross of St Louis, and had received twenty-two wounds. On peace being made in 1763, be began his travels to study the la guages and manners of different tions. The emigrants have said that at this time he was employed as a spy by the French ministry. He travelled in Italy; and, tempted to decide the conquest between Corsica and France, after having sought to defend it against the Genoese, he returned to Paris, and afterwards went to Belgium, from whence he passed into Spain, with the intention of taking service there. He likewise visited Portugal, and publish. ed a work, entitled, "Essay on Por tugal," after which he returned to Pa ris, 1767; where he was named aid 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, was raised to the rank of colonel. In 1770, the Duke de Choiseul appointed him minister to the confede rates of Poland; and he commanded a body of men in that country during two campaigns, and conducted several very important negotiations with va rious success. As the measures of the confederates were ill-concerted, their revolution was unfortunate, and ended in the partition of Poland. He was thrown into the bastille by the Duke d'Aiguillon, on an unjust suspicion; but on the accession of Louis XVI. was completely acquitted and set at liberty. In 1778, he procured the office of commandant at Cherbourg to be revived and given to him. Being per suaded that Cherbourg was better cal culated than any other place in the Channel for a national harbour, and being aided by the zeal, activity, and influence of the Duke d'Harcourt, go vernor of the province; he obtained a decision, in favour of Cherbourg, of 1 ion that had been agitated during indred years, concerning the prece to be given to Cherbourg or logue, for the site of a naval port. that time till 1789, he was oced in superintending the works of bourg; and, during that period, as but three times at Paris. When rst arrived at Cherbourg, it cond no more than seven thousand : hundred inhabitants, and when itted that place it contained nearventy thousand inhabitants. t the breaking out of the revoluDumouriez was its decided par1; but from that moment he chose place which he has always occu, between the extreme parties of 1 and counter revolution. He was reproached with having ed the war by his counsels; but proved that the war was already itable, when he began his adminiion, and that indeed it might be to have commenced. He acknowed, however, that his opinion was dedly for the declaration of war, as also that of the king, who not approved of his memorial to the ional Assembly on that subject, ich was three days in his hands,) made corrections in it, and himself posed the discourse he delivered to Assembly on that occasion. At the end of three months, findhimself embarrassed by the various ions, and being sincerely desirous see the king's council possessing per dignity, and his measures goned by constitutional principles, he nged the ministry, and obtained a mise that the king would sanction decrees which appeared expedient his service. The king would not nt him his permission; the ministry 3 again changed by his order, and neral Dumouriez took the war detment. But, soon perceiving that : court had deceived him, he reved not to be the instrument of their intrigues. He predicted to the unhap. py king and queen all the misfortunes in which they were involving themselves, and he gave in his resignation three days after being appointed minister of war. Louis was two days before he would accept of his resignation, and he did not suffer him to depart without expressing the deepest regret. One month had not elapsed after the departure of the minister for the army, before the king was insulted; and, at the end of the second month, he was a prisoner in the Temple! The enemy entered France; the leaders of the Revolution revenged themselves on the unfortunate Louis. Dumouriez, as a citizen and a general, had only to repulse the enemy, in the expectation that their retreat would lessen the danger which surrounded the king. There was still reason to think, that the excesses of the revolutionists might be checked. Dumouriez refused to follow Lafayette's premature example, and he succeeded him in the command of the army of the north. He marched with a small army against the Prussians, and by the most expert manoeuvres, arrested their march, took their strongest positions, and wrote to the Assembly," Verdun is taken; I wait for the Prussians. The defiles of the Argonne are the Thermopyla of France; but I shall be happier than Leonidas." In truth, in a very few days the invaders had retreated. The genius of Dumouriez changed in this campaign the destinies of France and of Europe. His prudence had obtained him the victory almost without a combat, and Dumouriez flew to oppose other ene mies, and to display a very varied talent. He was no longer the procrastinator; he was the impetuous Achilles he gave immediate battle, and on the plains of Jemappe, elevated the re publican standards, which in six weeks floated over the towers of all Belgium, -After these successful events, General Dumouriez returned to Paris, where the trial of Louis XVI. had already commenced. He did not conceal his intentions:-he had little doubt of saving Louis XVI. He had sent a certain number of his officers to Paris, to facilitate this design, and depended in a great measure, also, on the cooperation of a part of the Assembly, and on the population. All his expectations deceived him; he sought for the members of the As sembly who possessed the greatest influence, and sounded the intentions of Garat, Lebrun, and Roland, ministers of justice, of foreign affairs, and for the home department, who entered into his views; the non-execution of which was prevented by the perfidy of some officers, who divulged the secret. There was only one means left; it was attempted in the absence of the general, and it is not for us to divulge it. Louis XVI. was the only one to oppose it; he perished. The general retired to the country during these horrible days; and, soon after, found no place of safety but at the head of his army. He had now no hope of saving his country, nor of saving other illustrious victims, sacrificed by the monsters who governed France. His army, where the French honour had fixed itself, 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 failed,-the invaded provinces were exhausted, all his resources diminished,-in order to encourage insubordination, and to prepare for the overthrow of this grat general, whose renown was become alarming. These measures were publicly acknowledged, and put into exe cution with such effect, that, in spite of the most prudent precautions and most useful combinations, Dumouriz failed in a campaign, which was the last, and might have been the most im portant. General Dumouriez hastened to treat with the Prince of Coburg for the eva cuation of Belgium, and very soon af ter obliged him, by a new treaty, to respect the French territory; whilst he himself determined to lead his sol diers 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 compelled 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 some treacherous generals, and by a faithlessness viler than even their own guilt. They summon. ed the general to their bar, and sent police-officers 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 bee massacred when the news of his march should arrive. One victim was at least saved. A train of events followed, which obliged him to seek safety within the lines of the Austrian army. His enemies reproached him with treachery: while his friends consider him as fully istified in using every effort to save rance from the atrocious faction which omineered over it. The court of Viina offered him a command. "No," plied he; "no, it was not that you romised me: I am going away.” #And whither ?" asked the prince; you are in safety here; while they ave offered, by a decree, 300,000 rancs to whoever shall bring your head o the convention."-" What care I or that? I go !" : He found an asylum in Switzerland, and there published a volume of his Memoirs," which soon obtained him many friends; but Switzerland was too ear to France, and was about to yield to the latter. The general was obliged to fly he went to Hamburg. The Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Cassel, father-in-law of the King of Denmark, bought an estate 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 Napoleon 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, and the restored acted not as it was their duty to do. He proclaimed this; and the self-love of an eminent personage, wounded by the recollection of a miserable pamphlet, printed long before, did not allow Dumouriez to take that position in France which was marked out for him. He remained in England. The Neapolitans betrayed his confidence; but the Greeks, the noble Greeks, whose resurrection charmed his latest days, are carrying into effect, at this moment, the counsels he gave them eighteen months ago, in two memoirs, where 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." Such is Dumouriez's life, shortly and imperfectly sketched. An illness of a few days, unaccompanied by pain, -a rapid physical decline, which did not intrude on his fine understanding, nor his generous spirit,-bore him away, in the midst of religious consolations, from the cares of his friends, already become his children. On the day of his death 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. He was short in stature, but well formed; his countenance was agreeable; his eyes sparkling 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 his 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 died three years ago, and not a day since had he failed to weep for him,-he spoke of Edward continually. He was |