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MARSHAL MORTIER, DUKE DE

TREVISO.

Marshal Mortier, Duke de Treviso, whose death is reported
to have occurred on Monday by the bursting of a machine
infernale, directed against the life of King Louis Philippe, was
born in 1768, consequently he was in his 68th year. He was
the son of a merchant, who represented the tiers-etat of Cam-
bresis at the States-General, in 1789. The marshal was ori-
ginally brought up in his father's profession, and quitted his
station as clerk in a mercantile counting-house at Dunkirk in
1791 to serve in the first battalion of Volunteers in the De-
partment of the North, in which he was at once received with
the rank of Captain. Having distinguished himself on va-
rious occasions, he was made an Adjutant-General in 1793.
His first command as a general officer was at the attack of the
fortress of St. Pierre. In 1796 he had the command of the
advance-guard of the army of the Sambret-et- Meuse, then
under the orders of General Lefevre. On the 31st of May of
the same year he attacked the Austrians, defeated them, and
drove them beyond the Archer. During the whole of the
war which was closed by the treaty of Campo-Formio, we
find General Mortier actively engaged, and invariably suc-
cessful in every enterprise with which he was intrusted by his
superiors in command. In the campaign of 1799 he had again
the command of the advance-guard. His services in that sta-
tion were in a great measure conducive to the success of- the
French arms, and to the high opinion that Napoleon con-
ceived of his military talents. It was General Mortier whom
Napoleon sent, in 1803, at the head of his first expedition to
Hanover. The whole of the military operations were, on the
part of the French army, directed by General Mortier, and
the result was the memorable Convention of Suhlingen, by
which the Electorate of Hanover was placed in the hands of
the French. On his return to Paris he was appointed to the
command of the Artillery of the Guard ; and in 1804, he was
raised, with other officers of superior merit, to the rank of a
Marshal, and decorated with the Grand Cross of the newly-
instituted order of the Legion of Honour. In the campaigns
of 1805 and 1806, General Mortier was at the head of one of
the divisions of the grand army, commanded in chief by Na-
poleon in person. The greatest feat of arms ever achieved by
any French troops fell during this war to the lot of a corps
of 4,000, commanded by Marshal Mortier. Having fallen in
with the whole of the Russian army, led by Kutusoff, and
forced to accept battle or lay down his arms, Mortier
fought with a valour and superiority of tactics which
allowed sufficient time for considerable reinforcements
to come to his aid. This affair gave great celebrity to Mor-
tices name throughout the French army and in France. His
fellow-citizens at Cambray wished to raise a public monument
in that city in memory of his action with Kutusoff, but Mor-
tier positively refused to allow it. It was Marshal Mortier
who captured Hamburgh at the close of 1806. On that oc-
casion he displayed a rancorous hostility against every thing
that was English, which greatly surprised all who had any
knowledge of his early life. In his younger days he had
lived a good deal in Scotland, and the counting-house at
Dunkirk where he received his commercial education was that
of an English merchant. His intimacy and intercourse with
natives of this country, of which he spoke the language flu-
ently, had been such, that few would believe it was in pur-
suance of orders issued from himself, that the whole of the
British residents in Hamburgh were thrown into prison, and
every particle of British property was confiscated. In 1808
he was raised to the imperial Dukedom of Treviso, receiving
at the same time a " dotation," attached to the title, of
100,000 francs (4,0001.) per annum, payable out of the
Crown domains of Hanover. It is hardly necessary to say
that he lost this income at the peace of 1814. Soon after
the opening of the Spanish war he was sent to Spain, where
he co-operated with several successive Commanders in Chief,
and fought the battle of Ocana, which he and his countrymen
have claimed as having been won by the corps under his im-
mediate command. Subsequently he accompanied Napoleon
to Russia, and it was to him that the hazardous undertaking of
blowing up the Kremlin at Moscow was intrusted. He took
an active part in the whole of this and the subsequent cam-
paigns under Napoleon, up to the peace. During the earlier
part of the reign of Louis XVIII., Marshal Mortier spent
his, time in Paris, apparently little desirous of figuring in the
military or political world. In 1816, however, he was ap-
pointed Commandant of the 15th military division, the seat of
which is Rouen, and soon after he was elected by his native
department of the north, Member of the Chamber of De-
puties, in which he sat till 1819, when he was raised to the
peerage. In 1834, on the resignation by Marshal Soult of
the Presidency of the Council of Ministry of War, the whole
ministry being then disjointed, and, much against the
wish of the King, on the eve of dissolution, Marshal Mor-
tier was solicited by the King to accept the offices which
Marshal Soult had given up, he being the only individual at
that moment with whom, and under whose presidency, the
other members of the Soult Administration were willing to
remain in office. The Marshal yielded with extreme reluc-
tance to the wishes of the King. He knew that politics were
not his element, and soon after, at the Ministerial Council
table, as well as on the Ministerial Benches in the two Legis-
lative Chambers, he felt that he was not in his proper place.
The remarks and jokes of the press about his silence in the
Chambers, and his inactivity as a Minister, however good-
naturedly expressed, at length drove the Duke de Treviso to
the positive resolution of withdrawing for ever from the Minis-
terial career. One morning in the early part of February,
therefore, he waited on the King, placed his act of resignation
in the Royal hands, and gave his Majesty to understand that
seeputa
through
forg
h
his resolution to withdraw was not to be changed. Mortier is
integrityamon igtle fete ofa t Napoleon's he
and
private w
life. Though not very popular, owing to a natural stiffness
in his manners, not more habitual among, than agreeable to,
v
the French, he was always spoken of with respect, and to the
last day of his existence he has enjoyed the undivided esteem
of his countrymen.