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BIOGRAPHT OF MARSHAL DAVOUST. 0110b1 A GASMAN isrre.) The high commendations bestowed on Marshal •Dtvoust, by the Emperor Napoleon, in the Fifth Bulletin, containing the account of the battle of J:na, have called a greater portion of the public at tention to a General, whose early life is but 'little known, and whose merit has rapidly raised him to the most elevated military stations. Louis Nicolas llsvoust was l•orn May the 10th, 3770, at Avaux, in the canton or Avalon, in the department of L'Yonne, and was educated with Bonaparte, in the Erute Msl,taire. In 1785, he was Sob-Lieutenant in the regiment of Royal Champagne Cavalry. On the breaking out of the lievolution, most of his comrades emigrated : Da voust entertained different sentiments, and remained in France, notwithstanding all the insult and abuse lavished on such Officers as declared in favour of the Revolution. In 1790, volunteer battalions were every where formed. Davoast resigned his Lieutenantcy in the Royal Champagne Cavalry, and was appointed Chief of the 9d Battalion of the Yonne. This bat talion served with distimlion in the Army of the North ; and Davoust, in particular, manifested a charaderistic valour and intrepidity. Some days p-evious to the battle of lemappe, he repeatedly atticked the enemy's posts, near Condi, and in the irons of that town carried nn a very dangerous petty warfare, from which he very adroitly extricated himself. At this period it was easy to foresee c hat he would once shine among the ablest Officers of the Frencn army. He was in all the ;gns of Dumourics ; and in the retreat of General, his battalion rendered, on various sions, the most important services. en Lumourirs, after losing the battle of erwinden, began to doubt his ability to prescribe the Convention, he resolved to open a Negn with the enemy, and to &liver to them his and the strong places which it defended. His intention was discovered, and excited the incl;gna of all the true republicans. Davoust displayed, occasion, an example of the most magnani- devotion. With a few other officers. he con. . the bcld design of seizing the person iif Du mouriez ; and in this enterprise he nearly succeed- Damouriez with difficulty escaped the impend danger. by a precipitate flight to the Austrian When we consider the boldness of Davoust project, and compare it wish the insignificant he possessed to carry it into declaims, we ale obliged to admit that such an Attempt pre-sispposes undaunted intrepidity, inferior in no respea to the which is required in the Geld of battle. This cir:umstatice excited at the time considerable atten and Davoust's battalion obtained deserved com waendations. one of those events, to which a revolution a is susceptible, Davoust, whose patriotism and rlity could no loisier be equivocal, was obliged resign his commission, because he belonged to lass of the Noblesse. He had just at the same in June, 1793, been raised to the rank of Ge- The 9th Tiles-mi.:for called him again into ; he joined the army of the Moselle, and employed at Luxemburg. Here he unfolded, large s: de, the military talents he had already exhibited ; with a force of 4000 men, he obtained advantages in several aairms over the Austrian gar ., from 14 to 16,000 strong, One of his exploits, during the blockade of Lit. ember& is particularly worthy of notice. Being informed, th it the destruti:on of a mill on the road , Li lc ,. wcald greatly distress the inhabitants and garrison, he resolved to set it on fire. The mill situated within the fortifications, and before the s; but this was 00 obstacle to Davuust. Taking him one night the grenadier company of the battalion of the Vosges, he scaled the palisades, overpowered several Austrian posts in the covered r• ached the mill, ent in pieces a piquet of ev, set it on use, and returned with the loss of • • ..adier. An alarm was immediately beaten t. mess, and the garrison kept up an units. kn'i!ifil foe of musketry till day-break. At le3get, the ap,lrebet..inn of a 'vim and gave place to t N speaacle of a post dearoyed be- Sc e the very gates of the (el. To prev , nt this at* of negotiation from shake; the confidence of the F rripon. Old Eight Magahal Bender made a wank an the following day. Ile wag obliged to retreat with the loss of 1200 bound:al g dad the French Rave him no m.dtglatina in (.navey;ng them back M the tariff**. that henget mi,.,'lt accelerate the arri. al et the mn.r.ent when it imolai Le under the nc sesaasy of capitulating. Demist Tutted the theatre of Luzeinbarg. to sent trader Piehera nn rba Kt it He was left by heal, with the Geroge 419 Ducar* and Caere's% at Meediatio. seder the (noseband of General Mon. take. Dossing the campaigia. many errors dr. swti the metier of the soldier-. su,l bad ifs eve egJibaagai d Merivett. Devesis wee eeA• • wg.:. -~ soncr of war, but being exchanged in a few months, was again appointed to a Command in the Krill of the Rhine, and assisted in conduging it across that river. Ile commanded one of the three corps which were to make the real attack under I)uhesmc. As the troops reached the right bank, I) ivonst formed them into columns, which advanced against the village of Diersheim, that was most obstinately defended. Davoust took the place, and maintained himself these after a bloody conflia, which was re- newed the following day. After this success, the General•in-chief, Moreau, endeavoured to break the Austrian army, against whose centre he, with this view, direCted his utimist efforts. The Austrians, unable to withstand these new attacks, resolved to retreat. The campaign WAS opened with these favourable omens fer the French, when peace, the result of the victories of the Army of Italy, suddenly checked the progress of that of the Rhine. I)avoust now joked the Con. queror of Italy. to whom his enthu►iasm closely at. tAched him. He was likewise chosen to accompany the expedition that was then equipping in the p•,tt of 'Coulon• The fleet set sail, and after touching at Malta, proceeded to Alexandria. The Marnelukes were soon driven out of Egypt. Bonaparte gave to Davoust, together with D.-ssaix, the command over Upper Egypt. How ably he condatled himself is that station, how he overcame Murad Bey, after numberless Awns, and waged war with whole hordes of Arabs, cannot be related within the limits to which we are confioed. He was on the point at pursuing the Arabs, w:rou he received intelligence that Cair. and all Upper Egypt were in a state 04 insurrehno. Davoust felt the necessity of pre serving the most important point in Egypt. Tie hastened to Cairo, sc ured the country, dispersed the malcontents, and went back to Cairo, where he awaited General Bonaparte, who was then ictur [king from Syria. Some days after his arrival at Cairo, 13.000 Turks landed at Aboukir, and took the fort and the works Bonaparte left Cairo. A week afterwards he gained, with his advanced guard, commanded by Murat and Lasnes, a signal vianry over the Turks, in w the divisions of Kleber and Regnier, that were a day's march dist int, had no share. The surviving Turks took refuge in the village and fort of Abnukir. Many men were !nu in the attacks made for seve- ral days upon V em, and General Lasnes was wnund_d. Here Davnust obtained the praise of hi, Commander-in-chi-f ; he attacked the village, de feat. d the Turks, dr ye thous inch of them into the sea. ar.tl the others i,,tti the cask, which, in forty- `eight hours, was obliged to capitulate. With this achievement, terminated the operations of General DATOllat, El Egypt. On the conclusion of the Coo vetrion of El Atisch, he embarked, with Dessaix, at Alexandri I, for France. Both were anxious to return to their country, but a thousand obstacles impeded the accemplishmtnt of their wishes. After a tempestuous passage of thirty days, during which they were nearly lost in a harbour of Sicily, they came in sight of the Merles Islands. They already resigned themselves to the .pleasing prosped of again beholding their native land ; when, in the midst of a thick fog, they unexpededly fell in with an English frigate, which carried them to Leghorn, to Admiral Keith. By him they were put under quarantine ; and he informed them, that he could cot set them at liberty, till he had received the resolutions of his Court, with respire to the Convention of El Arisch. At length they regained their liberty, and, in five days, landed at Toulon. No sooner was Bona. pane made acquainted with the arrival of General Davoust, than he ordered him to repair to Paris. He received him with aftedion, appointed him Ge neral of Division. and gave him the command of the Cavalry of the Italian Army. After the battle of Nlarengo, General Benne had the chief command irk. Italy. On the renewal of the war, he was Je,iraus to Teal Iv* the theatre of it to the other side of the Adige, and with this view resolved on the passage If the Maim, which took place at Proteolo. The obstinacy with which the possession of that village wee contested, has reader ed it celebratid ; thriee wee it taken, and as otten recovered. Geaeral UMPOITTI• the compan.rie in arms, and faithfel friend of the brave Dessais, greatly contributed, with some regiments of drai goons, to the sis.:cess of the French arms. He re. puked the theigarivi gresadiers, and snatched the keg doeteful vidory. At the passage of the Adige, ar.sl of the Brenta. and its various other engage ments,io Italy. he likewise performed important ser vices, till the armistice of Treviso was succeeded by the peace of Luneville. Boesapsrte, thee Fast Consul, did n-t fail to re weed the gallantry sad seal of Genital Devout/I. rho had raised his reeves is Lftypt. He called Nm to the bead of tits corps. Midi. at the Mode of tri stereges. writwitini the appolislios of „rho rahw er aid *primed him Chief el ~ - - I . • held this commend with the title of when Napoleon Bonaparte assumed the Impe rhil Crown, and environed himself with a still more brilliant and numerous guard. Davoust was im mediate)/ raised to the dignity of Marshal of the Empire and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. soon after he was appointed to the chief eommami of a camp on the toast, which, for a time, seemed to threaten England with the ssri.vis intention of in vasion. This camp was afterwarfs Lroicen up, anf divided into seven corps, which, ucder the condu6t of Bonaparte, penetrate.) inm ths heart cf the Aits• man monarchy. Marshal Davoust led one of these corps to Ulm, and at the bittle of Austerlitz ; and after the conclusion of peace, remained with it in Germany. The war between France anl Prussia, which brnkt out last (f - .l.)her, hurried Davoust's corps into Saxony, and to the ever.tn-rnnrahle plain of Jena, where, according to the french ohicial statement, it performed prodigies. It is asserted, that a principality in the now totally dissolved Em pire of Germany, has he.m decreed by Napoleon, as the reward of its intrepid leader, who was the hero of the day. in r ranee • lavished the Revo In 179 1.1 formed. Royal C Chief of talion se North charade p-eviou , attacked eavironi kind of citric a to foresee t Officers campai t that Ge occasion Nerwint , laws to R citation army at intentioi tion of at on this( mous di certed t tiT mourie2 ed. Dt ing (lan army. in this means! . obliged ,i 1 an undi valour cir:urni tte ' don, ab mendat By co alone is fidelity to resig the clat time, it aeral. adivity WAS CM VI/ en a la mdsibiti advant rison, f One ▪ ember] Inform to Lief the gat 64' W.II sit I . 1 gates; et. with I • first hi 1 r orrery • v , is, letigtl gave a lc • t net of rris val thi at with t ▪ s gavel i"i+ lib. • MANSION-NOV.IZ. JAR SPneritott, who was taken into custody won. days since, charged with d..frauding the Pa triotic Fund of Sol. yesord iy underwent it final ex% iMination, and was fully committed for trial. It appeared, that the Prisoner had applied to the Pa triotic Pond, at their office, at Lloyd's coffee•hon-e, on the 18th of June, and produced his Greenwich pension ticket, which stated him to have been wounded on the 21st nt Osioher. MS, at the battle of Trafalgar, when he r.ceived ; hut, on the. Prisoner afterwards applying to Capt. Bayotun, to certify his havi. g been OA board His Majesty's ship Leviathan. with a view to obtain pries money, it was discovered, that the Prisn. er, M•Dersnott, was in Gibraltar Hospital, on the 2lst of aSober, and obtained a paisage to England in the Leviathan. Captai , , B. communicated the ban to Greenwich Hospital, by which this fraud opors the Fund *as discovered. The parties were bound over to pr::. secute at the next Old bailey Sessions. • MARLsogoom4TRIET._ Yesterday jvho Perry was ehirged with obtain- ing money, and-r false pretences, from various fa mibes. It ad in evidence, that the Pruner had been ve. y nosy, duri.:g the lest week, in coliraing money, by way of Ch:istmas-boxes, in the vicinity of Russell and Blonmslvury-squares, by representirg himself as a deliverer of two-penny post latters. 1. was asked at several houses. by what authority he,' who was not the regvder postman, aAted for Chri,t ma...boxes ? lie answered, that there were three of them who cnilefted the annual donations, and he officiated in that ditric' for the regular postman, svh.s was calling in the adjacent streets. This state ment procured him a round sum before the regular postman deted , cl the hand. The Prisoner was remanded, until it rhnvild he as certained to what extent three, and similar frauds, had been carried on. SINGULAR CUICIDI. A middle aged man, of re penability, who resided in Orange-s!teet. Leicester-square, put a period to his existence, a few days since. under circumstances which rendered the adt truly eitraordinary. He had, for a length of time, paid his addresses to a female, of very respeAable enrineitinns, and the wedding-day was fixed. Ile had been with the in. tended bride the night preceding the Jay appointed for the marriage ceremony, and every preparation was made for it. The intended bride renamed to St. Martin's church, with her friends, at the hour appointed ; and after waiting for the bridegroom until the time aiiproached svh;iit the ceremony cool.' not be pert rmed, the lady, with her friends. repaired to the house of her lover ; where she was informed, he had rot been seen that diy.— On going into his apartments, the wretched man was discovered quite dead, with his throat cu' ; the wird woe having been completely severed. An Inquisiiinn has been taken on the body, before A. Gate, Esq. and the Jury returded a Verdi. 'of Least It has not beta ascertained what was the C 11611141 of the fatal deed. He had always been na good terms with the female who was to have hien his wife. Considerable doubt is et tertaited of the French being in possession of *nom, as stat-d in the last intelligence from Berlin. We have seen letters of the 9th inst. fmm Danttie, at which time the en-my lied n t approached thit city ; acid Ir 3 suction is made of the capture of Thrifts Poisons interested in the presenting of private pe titions, or in the patting of private hills, art in formed. that the H. , use et Lords have resolved. that the ',motor receiving petitions shall he Limit-d to the 47th of February nest; an ibe reports of the Ju.ires, on private hills to the last day of meeting. sishievent to the Laster recess. 'rho 76C , Regiment of Foot, whets has Leen sta tioned at Nottingham for these last three ition•iis, marched, or Friday last. cis their route for l,incola. The gentlemanly condsB of the OiVers. and the orderly behaviour of the N , n-cimmissioned Offi cers and privates, were held in such high estimation by dur inhabitants, that their d-paratti is a Wird of regret. In coinequmee of the intewase Orders for Tickets sad times, vi , '-eh daily active, by /.we. from all puts of the United h , ..piew. et the Odket et Homes*, and s.:is 4* well at the Wu dierriald is room, thirty ?vises that the i llcbitur ada Z unmet elite ape,- vs.! of 1 thereby,. Oahe, lechers. end individual Pritchett's. who with to have a fletee other of the Thirty Ilteeedettle. Twisty Theeterml, Tee Theetwole. F4ve Theemedi, eite to get led to buy the titlthe SO MOS SO peedble. at Nouns., sad C 0.% II& Cweied. N. Giensit. tee-% and St. hlterreewtoWS, deemeght. • it , 3 1.0+70. MO et era/. PAWS Si r SIAM. wee mil wit .:_ PRIV . /ITS CORR FSPOVDENCE. CA•A IlttC 29, tgr-7. This day the Special Coninfssi-ri In, the Tri 41 ftE 1' The Thredrr4." was openrd here by Chief Ittlticit Down is and Baron Grace; when tht follneeing Gentlemen were swnrn nn t).e Grand Jury, vir„:.- N+thanial Sue: M ► Vnwrn Tlinmaa Ne.hnt, I .1.1. an Henry ei.,mant.=, 0...)!v Yount, Arthur Flamm& Chriatophe, Chade- Like Magratt, Charier emote. John Bakes. Jan).- teltrilis, inhe Alois; . leases Sanderson, H-nry L.s.saerei Tbnmu tturrowee, John 'faun's', Oliver alue•nst, Cushy Ned, t. Senate If Boyle, 1 Ralph I W 4141. Samuel Mums, 1 Richard Griffith The Cular-JusTter, in addressing the Gra•..d. Jury, explained the nature and °lra of the pre-mat Commission; that h imposed •t he same duty rid thews as that which they had to disci a-go at the ordinary Assizes that peculiar circurnstanctls had called for their attendance at this inclemeet aj4nn tv-Asal season of the year. gut, t'inneh the peace was much di.turlsed in some caber counties, that from the aaiwity of the Magistrates in tnppress ing these disturbances, and the character an 1 ap pearance of the priconers, they had as yet made !ant small urogress in this. He then nyntinaesi. that the law had made the strongest possible pr rations against offences which the preeanr Commission sought to instuire into The progress of this Conr• mission had air ady 'hewn the sufficiency of the law; to put down these disturbanais ; for that. wherever the Magistrates had exercised - their anent.. city. these cor.spirators had fled hefure them. There had i.ern an inua ce where their rift tis had n been effeetual This confederacy, bia Lordship sai.i. subsisted rally amongst the lowest of the people, who had forsaken their industry for those tumultti ary assemblies; not a single man of distinftion had appeared amlngsr them. Their avowed nhjyA was .the destruainn of ihe Tithes of the ',Esiahlished Church ; and to take from the Roman Catholic Clergy, the spiritual tisis which they are accustom: s 1 to re ceive for advice. That this confederacy was levelled at the existence of religion, aoJ all order and public transoill'ry, to he chanters! for anat. chy and confusion, did rot admit of a doubt. I hey assembled in numbers, and disturbed their peacealile neighbours, assuming a name. which, added to their badges, was calculated to strike terror. they de. strayed the property of, and infl aod cruel tortures on, those who were unwilling to j them ; and, n Mr instawe, had consummated th-ir wicked :less by murder ; they a Iministered unlawful oaths, saber,. sive of every moral duty. Those evils, however great, were uithin the reach of the law ; there are Ads stiil in force, which give power to Magistrates for suppressi - g tumultuous risings and assemisiagee and those issem_sidges, in taking nom s, and wean' badges. are high and pu iishAble off,oces, evon though they do nothing more ; procu.ing t m horses. arms, or ammunition, &-. a, d j mining t. tta even by t.reats, is it and adnimi tering '. . lawful oaths, aid .uhrtsittiog t 7 those assemblages, is punishable with death ; even though a peraan Sr compelle I, he is not free from the punishment of the Law. suit. is he give in:at:nation to the next Magis trate. iinmecliately after, an .1 give such ev...leoce as shall dernansrrate the ftft of his compulsion. Kee gistrates are empowered to call nn all suhjeas, and also the military, to op t iose such unlawful nab *ld are indemnified if they but. hire law also aindso rises them to summ n before them those whom they have reasonable gr itt •cl ti SUSPea j and if tlaty , refuse to answer upon oath, they have a right to commit them to pr.son, by the W:iiie-Baly Acts As to the particular 'aces)* Gra nd Jurors, die Chief. Justice said he had nut a .y piths - tlas uhj is to put their emeriti .n to; but tho.agh he had the %/ rest opinion of their aaivity, lie called upon them t., tlCe tfCift their duty as Ntigiatrates wit* enemy, maid tut doubt but their pains would he eitwardsd by the tram quillity nt the country. Franrit Donohoe, ildift.ll, for that he, on the Ith day of November, 1806, at Mod:lough. in :he ceuity Cavan, did. feloniou•Ly, wiltuLe , arid contemptu. ously, ad.nitiister an oath to one 'Ocoee. that he, the said G. '!',somas, would no: take t.:s tithe M. m a pr •aor ; nor discover, our gee evi dence a certain association or brothel isees..t. called Theethires, or ut a irotb,r Ineeeber"—Yllode4 islet Geral . v. l'he Arronetsv.(lt 44444 then addressed the Court and the d.•ry. in as nergetis speech, dad said. lit iii wit feel it his slats, very much at length to state the grounds on whirl, the Prisoner Olts arr.ignect; it this Comnaisnon had, for the let heen opened to eappeess twist tumuitaniss meetings, he would feel it a sectary to go unto thern mach more at large. H • said. south was nets/bars". for the purpose .0. giving confidence to the thill.artea -0.1; 'ouch, to gives rotes' to tie I yai part rat the community; much. to confirm the downfall. and give env gy to bring home ponish.ne it to the fri:ry. He had the Istildaaton to say. the laws had ....nt.3l their own (licit; ; aid the ealtigtatnc..l and dig. paged persons who (.resided, bad male the la es will unJeritood in every pat of the tputa ty t:. y came through. Judges ite,-.1 rs-rt s o us.° a par o. lif detail in all parts of the e u try & the pes. r le were await of the soli:woe! of the 'am. aftd thrdt wig vim Laine.itab* as St s, he to be head by every one. that, in the pr.oir.is of the Usaamiswoo. 13" persons have answard. with t .eir lives. fur the.; stuns; and eine were Aossmo I to ea. dm Iron duly eAtiire I,uJ. talaaer Milts to rota: that ensairy they have dispated by th it ai.k. 3 eta a ria Lie thett megatieoeS :he stillui-ncy t.c lava Plrtra the Moment sod puma; the wicks..; that tarty Iwo aisle to assert r.esns Iv • ; and aellitins ism dame trot under their sand ; that perms hookOrea tae oat, that tbe betel el Fogless el aseedeliess alibis bled. h. thy 1 0-sees " 01- wow •• the roneating. in an lanocinst emery. se, the eau ort• stress rpm. cite teal alth with,l,ll...n4theJ • and gasider lacuna. that be Privao• attired in. iaeJ tar bog of as a ntie•ssrl called &edam sees a (*Oa: tries. s, called t'*o•Sh Wag coattail to the kre of Gal aaJ ot..t 6 gr , lay fa,; .11 th-or toe Oat Wed • early todielot ; awl that et es Bedew boos amid Was his tweatiesee bound by mesh as ash He save. it was asten-disatt. 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