fortunately pierced the breast of this young hero, who fell in the arms of victory, juft as the enemy gave way. When the fatal ball took place, General Wolfe, finding himfelf unable to ftand, leaned upon the fhoulder of a lieutenant, who fat down for that purpofe. The officer, feeing the French give way, exclaimed, "They run! they run!"-Who run ?" cried the gallant Wolfe, with great eagerness; when the lieutenant replied, "The French;"" Then," faid he, " I die happy." So faying the hero expired, in the 34th year of his age: "Short was his date, but deathless his renown." A death more glorious, and attended with circumftances more picturesque and interefting, is no where to be ticle. The Scotch Highlanders, who had a greater demand for thefe fwords, and were nicer in the choice of their blades, than any other people, were accustomed to procure them from a celebrated artificer of that place of the name of Andrea di Ferrara ; and the best kind of broad-fwords are, if we are rightly informed, fill called by the Highlanders, "True Andrew Ferraras ;" wea pons which, according to their admired poet, thofe brave mountaineers are prompt in drawing in defence of their king and Country: Bring but a Scotfman frae his hill, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. BURNS. The 42d Regiment of Highlanders is complimented by their Countryman, Sir Archy M'Sarcafm, in Love à la Mode, for their gallant conduct at Quebec; and the effectual ufe of their" Andrew Ferraras." And it is worthy of notice, that the present 42d Regiment of Highlanders behaved with the greateft gallantry in the memorable battle of Alexandria. See March 21, 1801, Chron. and Biog. Exer. Mr. Belfham has given a moft mafterly and animated delineation of the ancient Highlanders, in his " Hiftory of Great-Britain, from the Revolution to the Acceffion of the House of Hanover." Ferrara, fays Dr. Meyer (Voyage en Italie), once a city highly flourishing, and the refidence of the most polished perfonages in Italy, is now a defart. + Of Whiskey. This word implies water, and is applied in the Highlands and inlands of Scotland, and alfo in Ireland, to a frong water or liquor drawn from barley by diftillation. found. The death of Epaminondas* only, to which that of Wolfe has been compared, feems to difpute the preeminence! See Question the 19th. The glorious deaths of other heroes prefs at the fame time upon the imagination-of a Bayard, a Gafton de Foix, a Sidney, a Gustavus Adolphus, a Caillemore, a Peirfon, a Desaix, an Abercrombie, a Nelfon, and a Moore. The Chevalier BAYARD was defcended from a noble family in Dauphinè, in which province he was born in 1476. So diftinguifhed was his valour, and fo eminently was he adorned with virtue, that he obtained the furname of Le bon Chevalier fans peur et fans reproche. In 1495 he accompanied Charles VIII. into Naples, where he performed incredible acts of heroifm; oppofing one time alone, upon a bridge, the united efforts of 200 cavaliers +. In 1499, he was employed by Louis XII. to fubdue the Milanefe. In 1512, he aflifted Gafton de Foix in taking the city of Brefcia; and in 1515, he fought by the fide of Francis L. at the famous battle of Marignant. Being mortally wounded in 1524 in an action with the Imperialifts in Italy, and perceiving his diffolution rapidly approaching, he recommended himself to God in fervent prayer, and then requcfted to be placed beneath a tree, with his face towards the enemy, at that time victorious, faying, "As in life I always faced the enemy, fo in death I will not turn my back upon them." See Moreri's Di&t. edit. 10, in French. GASTON DE Foix, duke of Nemours, was the nephew of Louis XII. by whom he was intrufted with the command of the French army in Italy, and in a few months performed fuch feats of military art and prowefs, as were fufficient to render illuftrious the life of the oldeft captain. His career finished with the great battle of Ravenna, which, after the moft obftinate conflict, he gained over the Spanish and Papal armies. He perished the very moment his victory was complete; and with him perished the fortune of the French forces in Italy. The battle happened on the 11th of April 1512, and the young hero was only in the 24th year of his age. See Moreri's Dict. and Hume's Hift. of EngJand, vol. iii. p. 423. edit. 1789. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY, a native of Penfhurft, in Kent, was wounded at the battle of Zutphen, and expired at Arnheim, in the United Provinces, October 16, 1586, in the 3rd year of his age. See Chron. and Biog. Exer, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, king of Sweden, was killed in 1632, in the 38th year of his age, at the battle of Lutzen, in the midst of a complete victory. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. + Cocles, a celebrated Roman, oppofed alone the whole army of Porfenna at the head of a bridge, while his companions behind were cutting off the com munication with the other fhore, When the bridge was deftroyed, Cocles, though wounded by the darts of the enemy, leapt into the Tiber, and fwam acrofs it without the lofs of his arms. A brazen ftatue was raifed to him in the temple of Vulcan, by the conful Publicola, for his eminent fervices. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. See Chron. and Biog. Exer The eminence! The death of general Wolfe happened 1,451,649,600 moments before the year 1805; how many years had he then been dead; what was the year of his death, and how long has his demife preceded the prefent year 1810? Anf. 46 years; the year of demife was 1759, and he has been flain 51 years. The brave CAILLEMORE commanded one of the Proteftant regiments at the battle of the Boyne, in 1690. After having received a mortal wound, he was carried back through the river by four foldiers; and though almost in the agonies of death, he with a cheerful countenance encouraged thole who were croffing to do their duty, exclaiming, A la gloire, mes enfans; á la gloire! To glory, my lads; to glory! See Boyne Battle, Chron. and Bog. Exer. and Smollett's Contin. of Hume, vol. i. p. 93. MAJOR PEIRSON loft his life in the moment of defeating the French forces at St. Helier, in the ifland of Jersey, Jan. 6. 1781. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. art. Peirfon and Boydell; and Queft. 618. The intrepid French general DESAIX, whofe critical arrival, with his troops on a full gallop, turned the fortune of the day, and decided the victory in favour of Bonaparte, at the dreadful battle of Marengo, received a mortal wound in the inftant of victory. His death is pathetically lamented by Petit in his " Marengo;" to which work is annexed a memoir by Foudras, on the death and character of General Defaix; which, as a compliment to a brave man, will not be unacceptable to the British nation, who know how to refpect talents and virtue in an enemy as well as in a friend. Marengo is a village adjacent to Aleffandria, in Italy, in about 45 deg. of N. lat. and nearly 9 deg. of E. long. The battle was fought on the 14th of June 1800. See Chron. and Bing. Exer. SAR RALPH ABERCROMBIE received his death-wound in the moment of achieving a great victory over the French at Alexandria in Egypt, March 21, 1801. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. The peerless naval hero, LORD NELSON, terminated his brilliant career in the inftant of obtaining a fplendid conqueft over the combined fects of France and Spain on the 21st of October 1805, near Cape Trafalgar in Andalufia, Spain. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. Sir JOHN MOORE was mortally wounded whilft defeating the French at the battle of Corunna in Gallicia, Spain, on the 16th of Jan. 1809. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. 4th edit. * The brave French general, Joubert, who fell crowned with glory at the battle of Novi, in the moment of diffolution cried aloud to his fellow-foldiers, "Marchez, marchez, mes enfans; je meure pour ma patrie." The brave Serjeant Graham, who, at the forming of Seringapatam, first planted the British enfign on its walls, had fcarcely emitted the word "Huzza" before he was shot dead by the enemy. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. No. 503. 66 THE PATRIOT OF THE WORLD.". This glorious epithet has been applied with peculiar propriety to that celebrated philanthropist Mr. HowARD, whofe activity, unchecked by danger, carried him half over the globe, to relieve the miseries of mankind. Regardless of his health, his repofe, and his fafety, he traverfed inhofpitable tracts, to mingle with barbarous multitudes; to plunge into the midst of contagion! thither his noble fervor urged him-unterrified by the arrow that flieth by day, or the peftilence that walketh in darknefs"-to vifit thofe who had no comforter! to heal the broken-hearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prifon to them that are bound. He, touch'd with human woe, redreffive fearch'd Unpitied, and unheard, where mifery moans, THOMSON. To enter the dwellings of the wretched, to examine debts, and wants, and difeafes; to endure loathfome fights and fmells, within the fphere of infection; to give time, and thought, and hands, and money-this, obferves an ingenious writer, is the fubflance, not the shadow of VIRTUE. This friend to every clime" fell a victim to his indefatigable humanity, January 20, 1790, in the 65th year of his age, at CHERSON, the capital of NewRuffia, fituated on the river Nieper, about 50 miles E. of Oczakow. He was a native of Hackney, a village in Middlefex +. How many moments have elapfed from the time of Mr. Howard's death to the fame period in the prefent year 1810? Anf. 631,152,000 moments. No. 504. DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.-This confummate feaman was a native of Marton, a village in the It has been excellently remarked by a celebrated author, that if mifery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be infulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment, adequate to the crime by. which it was produced. + See Quelt. 33, p. 73. and Chron. and Biog. Ever. art. Hackney. North North riding of Yorkshire, where he was born October 27, 1728. His nautical talents are allowed to have been unequalled. Not his own country only, but all Europe, has borne teftimony to his merit. Such was the ardour of his zeal, that he thrice circumnavigated the globe, explored the utmoft navigable limits of the ocean, and cheerfully fuftained the tropical heat and the polar cold: His dauntless breaft did brave The fcorch'd equator, and th' antarctic wave ; Mifs SEWARD. This illuftrious navigator at length fell a facrifice to the momentary fury of an obfcure favage, "Far from his friends, and from his native shore." * But his name will be held in honour, and recited with applaufe, fo long as the records of human events fhall continue in the earth; nor is it poffible, as Dr. Kippis obferves, to fay, what may be the influence and rewards which, in other worlds, fhall be found to attend upon eminent examples of wifdom and of virtue. The death of Captain Cook happened at OwHYHEE, one of the Sandwich-Iflands, 978,285,600 moments ago this prefent year 1810, how many years have elapfed fince this melancholy catastrophe took place, and what was the year of his decease? Anf. 31 years; and 1779 the year of his demife. N. B. Captain Cook was killed on Sunday, the 14th of February, at eight o'clock in the morning. See Chron. and Biog. Exer. No. 505. PEACE.-Peace, as Erafmus remarks, is at once the mother and the nurse of all that is good for man; it fhines upon human affairs like the vernal fun. The people, fays an ingenious writer, have neither intereft nor pleasure in the horrors of military execution See Chron. and Biog. Exer. P4 Peace |