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and perhaps the most infpiring images of our earliest days are affociated, and herself not inferior to any in that history, it is scarcely poffible, even for a stranger, not to hang over that tomb without every motion of forrow, regret, and veneration. Such fentiments may ill accord with a fri volous, and, in fome refpecs, a felfith age. Be it fo-yet this age, even under the influence of a more than iron war, and much bigotry, has not loft all its original brightnefs,' but retains much of its good old virtues undiminished. It poffeffes domeftic charity at leaft; and thote who know how to appreciate charity, will learn to venerate the memory of the countess of Moira, for in truth fhe may be faid to have been

charity itself.

She had a strong refemblance, in many respects, to her ancestors a a lofty fpirit, magnificence of difpofition, untired hofpitality-altogether he was a lady of other times; and when the mingled with fociety, more than her increased infirmities would of late years allow, few perfons ever beheld her without fomething of more heroic days paffing in indiftinct, yet fplendid array, before the imagination. In the reception of perfons of the firft diftinction at her houfe, there was an air, a dignity, will hardly be equalled, and never can be furpaffed. But the noble man ner, the impofing ceremonial of life, leave but flight veftiges for remembrance, compared to thofe intrinfic and domeftic virtues, which give to the female fex their trueft ornament. In all the private relations of life, he was, to the utinoft, valuable! Her maternal duties the fulfilled with the enlightened fpirit, and more, perhaps, than the fenfibility of a Corne

lia. They could only be equalled by

cred, and the writer forbears.-He can only add, that this imperfect tribute is the product of an hafty, anxious moment, the effufion of gratį. tude, refting indeed upon the batis of truth, but no ex delineation of lady Moira's character. The ftyle is warm, for it flows from the heart; and who that knew her could write of lady Moira in a ftyle inert and grovelling.

Ireland will long have cause to regret her-fle cultivated its best interefts-to the gentry fhe difplayed an example of attachment to the country which they might have well imitated-to the peafantry of all defcriptions the was a guardian friend— to every illiberal, party distinction, whether arifing from a falfe zeal for the ftate or religion, the was an unprejudiced enlighted opponent. From the contemplation of fuch a charac ter it is indeed not eafy to withdraw.

Elizabeth, countess of Moira, furvived her husband nearly fifteen years.--She was daughter to Theo. philus, and fifter to Francis, lafi earls of Huntingdon. Her mother was the lady Selina Shirley, daughter of earl Ferrers.

Her ladyship was in her 76th year, At the age of twenty, fhe became the third wife of the late earl of Moira, and mother to his two daughters, the late countefs of Mountcathel and lady Catherine Henry. The counters had a numerous family, of whom now furvive, Ann, countefs of Aylesbury; Francis, earl of Moira; John Theophilus; Selina, countess of Granard; and lady Charlotte Rawdon. The earl of Moira will receive a confiderable addition to his fortune by this event

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the uncealing affiduities, the foothing tenderness, the fweet, pious, and filial regards which accompanied her to her last hour-but forrow is fa- of imprisonment in irons, an untorlaß

Chapelle condemned to twenty years

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Obfervations on the Conduct of Gene

ral Whitelocke.

SO voluminous is the evidence on this trial, that, after the perufal, the mind has confiderable difficulty in diftinguifhing the leading caufes of our mifcarriage at Buenos Ayres.The latenefs of the feafon, and the confequent bad weather, engages our attention as one of the principal obftacles to fuccefs---the hoftility of the nuves is another. And, it is not till after confiderable reflection that we arrive at the true conciation, namely, that although both of thefe were ferious difficulties, our expedition was ftrong enough to overcome them, and that the grand caufe of our failure was bad generalfhip. Successful obje&s have been a pro

tunate wretch named Otten, an inha- fearching Otten's place, and the rebitant of the village of Monk, on the fult of his profecution was what has frontiers of Holland, who fupported been stated. himself in idleness by a fort of avocation which others pursued before him with fuccefs. He ufed to write to the inhabitants of the village and other neighbouring villages incendiary letters, by which he enjoined them to place in fome certain part of the foFelt, a fum of money, in failure of which request their houfes were menaced with being fet on fire, and he alfo threatened fimilar deftruction it they should communicate his requifi. tion to them. He drove this trade for upwards of twenty years The vil lages were thinly fcattered over the country, and feveral houfes food in folitude apart from any immediate neighbourhood, and the practicability of this threat was fo obvious, that thofe to whom the letters was addreffed preferred depofiting the fum Ofen required, to running the risk of being confumed in a conflagration.-minent feature in the character of Otten was fufpected, but no one the greateft commanders, as Hauniventured to accute him-he was bal, Conde, Marlborough, Suwarhowever difcovered and feized by a row, and Bonaparte. But in attempt perfon of the name of Zeygraff, who ing bold enterprifes, thofe men never.. had received one of thefe threatning forgot to adopt any precaution which letters. Refolved to facrifice fome could enfure their fuccefs. Bonaparte money to the detection of this knave- determined to fight the Ruffians a ry, he took fome crowns which he Aufteritz, but he paffed the whole had marked in a particular manner, of the foregoing night in anxious and having called together fome intel- preparation. Hannibal ventured to ligent friends he defired them to notice encounter an army twice as numeattentively the private marks, and rous as his own at Camæ, but he had having fo done he placed the money contrived a plan of battle in which at the fpot appointed. His friends the numbers of his enemy were to be and himfelf were on the 'watch to of no avail. Nelfon attacked the discover if thofe pieces were return. French on the memorable if of Aued into circulation. The very day guft, as foon as he could approach after, a daughter of Otten's brought them, but he had occupied a great one of the crowns for change; Ot part of his previous cruize in defcribten himself brought another; and ing to his captains the various ways those two crowns which had been in which he would fight them, acmarked as has been mentioned, were cording to the particular fituation in the first which was placed in the pof- which they might be found. Marlfeffion of the magiftrate preparatory borough marched into the heart of to the profecution. Several of the Germany to fight a pitched battle at incendiary letters were found upon Blenheim, againft fuperior numbers,

but

but he revolved in his mind, during a the facility with which the armed long march, the measures which inhabitants could defend themselves. were likely to enfure fuccefs. Now, All the witneffes agree, that the the difference between these com- 8000 men with which Whitelocke manders and general Whitelocke con- fet out from Monte Video were fully fifts in this that he attempted a dif- adequate to the conqueft of Buenos ficult enterprise without taking al- Ayres, and nobody blames the troops. most any precaution whatever. It The attempt failed therefore through was natural to conclude that the mifmanagement in the general. The troops would find no provifions dreff- badnefs of the feafon, and the inveed on their march, yet no camp ket- teracy of the natives, were ferious tles were taken with them. It was obftacles, but both were to be over. to be feared that the march would be come with the means which he poftedious and fatiguing, and that the feffed. Inftead of this, the troops ground would be wet, yet we find are placed in a firft moft aukward the troops directed to throw away ftate on account of the badness of the their blankets in the middle of their weather, and, to get them out of this march. The total abandonment of fcrape, they are next expofed to all the country habitations afforded a the hoftility of the natives. It is clear proof of the hoftile mind of the fingular that none of the generals inhabitants, yet an affault is deter- fhould have expreffed their disappromined on, which was the very mode bation of the plan of attack at the in which that hoftility was likely to time it was exhibited to them. They be moft pernicious to us. The ge- plead that their opinion was not afkneral appears to have taken no advice: ed, and that they did not confider he fummoned his officers together, themselves juftified in volunteering not to counfel him, but to receive them. Now this may do very well orders. The only inftance, indeed, for an ordinary queftion, but it is in which he appears to have followed advice was in the unlucky adoption of general Gower's plan of attack. In this point thefe two officers feem to be at iffue. General Whitelocke writes to mr. Windham, that his own plan was to encamp to the westward of the town of Buenos Ayres, and to bombard it with the aid of the fhipping, but that he was induced to adopt the plan of affault fuggefted by general Gower. Now, the latter officer, on the other hand, ftates, that general Whitelocke's plan was nearly fimilar to his own, the idea of affault having occurred to them both. Whoever may be right as to this matter, it would appear that Whitelocke had been of a different opinion, for we find him, when at Monte Video, averfe to the plan of affault, and pointing out to general Crauford the formidable parapets on the tops of the Spanish houfes, and

fcarcely a proper apology in fo momentous a point- The lives of their troops, and the fuccefs of the expedition were at ftake-all etiquette fhould have given way before thefe vital confiderations.

With a fimilar want of precaution it was omitted to apprife the generals commanding the columns of attack of the fpot where the commander-inchief was to be found during the day. The confequence was, that scarcely any communication took place, and that general Crauford afcribes his furrender to this unfortunate circumftance. Now, it was no doubt ftrange on the part of the general in chief to omit to mention where he was to be found, but it was no less odd that it never occurred to any of the officers to ask him. If the truth were told, it is likely we should find that the plan of affault was generally approved of. It is a mode of

warfare

warfare particularly adapted to the fpirit of our troops, and this fituation was fo deftitute, that they were naturally partial to get out of it by the fpeedieft means in their power. Hence it would feem that they reforted to the alternative of an affault, without a due confideration of its danger.

cies of cunning people in the ftreets: divination of lottery-booths by the Turkish emperor, or fome other puppet; the glafs wheel of fortune; the golden chain of fate, and necroman→ cy practifed under various fhapes, are confidered as wonderful attainments of the human mind, and, by fome perfons, even as the refult of fu pernatural infpiration. Next to thofe curiofities may be likewife added the ludicrious exhibition on the Boulevards of a flea drawing an elephant, or conducting a carriage and fix horfes, having ladies and gentlemen in it, a duel between two flies with the fmall fword; and fingular miraculous entertaining fights.

The conclufion which a reflecting mind will draw from this unfortunate expedition is not only that the commander in chief fhould be punished, but that the whole conftitution of our army is in need of reform. Can there be a fronger evidence of an efficient head than the election of an unfit officer for a momentous enterprife. Would Bonaparte have acted But the Incombuftible Spaniard thus? Let us reflect then that we have to contend with a moft fkilful enemy that our army is, next to our navy, our pillar of fafety, and let us feriously undertake the correction of thofe abufes which impair its energy.

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the metropolis; who was feared by
the police; whom the faculty tor
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cutting and blows as it was to the
action of fire. This man had long
been in the habit of drinking boiling

The Incombuflible Spaniard. (From
Dr. Davies' Work, intitled, oil or water in the prefence of nume
More Subjects than One,')

rons spectators, who affembled to witnefs the aflonithing fact; and by AS I have endeavoured, in various way of refrething his mouth, hold parts of my work, to introduce fuch ing one of thefe liquids in it while fubjects as were in my opinion cal- he wafhed his hands, arms, and face, culated to entertain my reader, I in melted lead. Do not fuppofe, fhall conclude by introducing one to reader, that thefe feats gave him any him that will aftonifh him, and even, pain; or that he had the leaft occafiperhaps, ftagger his confidence in on to repent of his temerity; on the the hiftorian; I truft, however, that contrary, having thus revived his the anecdote, though myfterious and fight and guftatory nerves, he would, incredible, prima facie, will be no though I was not a witnefs of this longer doubted, when, to my own statement, and to fubftantiate the facts I am going to mention, I adduce the concurring evidence of a highly accurate and refpectable travel

ler.

fact, complete his toilet by rubbing on his fkin a cofmetic lotion com pofed of aqua-fortis.

I have been affured that he would alfo occafionally revert to the latter, by way of a cordial. And, with reNumerous publications have ac- gard to pedestrian exercifes, not any quainted the world with the ingeni- thing is fo agreeable to him to tread ous devices and hows inftituted in upon, barefooted, when he would Paris for the purpofe of amuling the indulge himself with a walk, as red community, and providing the inven- hot bars of iron; nor does he heltors with a livlihood. The prophie- tate to take up in his hand the burn

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ing metal, and wipe his naked arm produce the fame impreffion to his with it.

This unfeeling Spaniard has, by order of his torturer, been faluted with one or two fmart baftinadoes; but to a repetition of this operation he long fince put in his veto, though he confents to have incifions made in the calves of his legs, and to allow a gold pin to be paffed from one fide of his wrift to the other. Pain was once or twice the refult of fome deep incifions in his legs; but he expreffes not much uneafinefs during the pin's hort journey from one tide of his writ to the other.

M. Kotzebue writes thus of him: 'Do you fee the jar of oil bubbling and boiling over a coal fire? The young man who takes it off drinks a hearty draught of its burning contents without diftorting a feature, rinses his mouth for fome time with it as if it were water, and spits it out fill boiling, he then, with the remainder of the oil in the pot, washes his hands, arms; face, and even eyes, which, however, he huts. Having been purified by the fire, like the asbestos, he takes a walk by way of a change, with his naked feet on a piece of red hot iron; and to refreth himself he even licks the glowing metal with his tongue. If this poor youth be equally infenfible to the flames of love, he is undoubtedly to be pitied. All this is no impofture, but really happens as I have now related but whether, as fome affert, he causes a kind of falamander ointment to be rubbed into the skin, which is not to be perceived, I fhall leave undetermined.'

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touch; but although incombuftible he is not infenfible to the cold. He is in good health, and married; but has no children, or they might prove a valuable acquifition to our fire in furance offices.

He had engaged at Verdun, and I know not for what reafon it was declined, to spend a fhort time in a heated oven, and to retire when the joint that he propofed taking with him thould be properly cooked. He might probably have had fome fear of being baked himself, or why not, falamander like, have placed himself in the burning medium?

Such a being would of courfe en. grofs a fire to the exclufion of every other perfon, and not perhaps be fatisfied without fitting down upon it; in which cafe, however, he would meet with no competitor.

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It has been faid that this phenomenon employed a preparation to guarantee his body from the action of fire; again, that the fluids he took were not of a boiling heat; and the vulgar infift that he carried Beelzebub in his entrails. Certain it is that he was fhunned for fear he thould poffefs others with the devil.—But is he not an impoftor after all?

Rules for Obfervation, and the Ac

quifition of Knowledge.

1. 'LET the enlargement of your knowledge be one conftant view and defign in life; fince there is no time or place, no tranfactions, occurrences, or engagements, which exclude us from this method of improving This man is of a middle ftature, the mind. When we are alone, even thin, and of a coarse and dark com in darkness and filence, we may conplexion; but his fkin prefents no verfe with our hearts, obferve the particularities, at least, not to the workings of our own fpirits, and renaked eye of the obferver. He is flect on the inward motions of our turned of thirty, and is exceedingly paffions, in fome of the latest ocactive. He can scarcely diftinguith currences in life; we may acquaint by his tafte one aliment from the ourselves with the powers and proother; fmooth and rough bodies perties, the tendencies and inclinati

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