The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-30 00:00:00

MEMOIR OF MARSHAL CLAUZEL

Clauzel was born at Mirepoix, in the department of the
Arriege, in the year 1773. He entered the army in 1791, and
soon obtained a sub-Lieutenancy in the army of General
Lafayette. In 1792, he became a cavalry Captain of Chasseurs,
in the legion of the Pyrenees, a newly-created body, in which
he made the campaign of 1793 in the Eastern Pyrenees. When
the enemy blockaded Perpignan, Gauze! was taken prisoner.
During night, however, he dashed through the Spanish posts,
and rejoined his regiment. For his bravery, on subsequent
days, he was created a Staff-Major of General Perignon's di-
vision, which formed the advanced guard of the army in Spain.
During the last-mentioned year Clauzel was engaged in no less
than five battles, and more than sixty combats or partial en-
gagements. In 1794 he distinguished himself in the victories
between La Jonquiere and Figiuerss, and shortly after he was
charged by Perignon to carry home and lay before the Govern•.
ment sixteen of the enemy's colours. Honoured at length with
an Adjutant-Generalship, he was successively employed under
the orders of General Grouchy, in the armies of Mayence and
Italy.
In 1797 he was commissioned to manage the affairs which
were then in agitation with the King of Sardinia, and it was
into. his hands'that the King finally delivered his abdication.
The gentlemanly and urbane conduct of General Clauzel on
this occasion se gratified the King that, on Clauzel's refusing
to accept of other recompenses, he forced on him the acceptance
of a very splendid picture in his gallery, " The Dropsical
Woman of Gerard Dow," for which Catherine 11. and Paul I.
had offered an enormous sum, and which Clauzel finally placed
in the Louvre.
At the battle of Novi, General Clauzel commanded the in-
fantry of reser7e of the left w,ng.
At the period of the peace he made part of the expedition to
St. Domingo, where his own guard in the first instance
amounted to 50 Poles and 600 reserve, while the black Gene-
rals at the Cape were at the head of 30,000 armed negroes.
During the interval occasioned by the death of General Leclerc,
and the anticipated arrival of Rochambeau, General Clauzel
assumed the whole of the command. At a subsequent period,
he discomfited the black insurgents, and made himself master
ofall the plain of the North.
On his return from St. Domingo, he was employed in Ilol-
land, under Louis Bonaparte, and in 1806 sent into Italy under
the Prince Viceroy. In the following year, he was ordered
by Napoleon with a division of the army of Italy to Ragusa,
and commanded in that country till 1809. After the battle of
Wagram heltook the command of the second corps, and in the
absence of the Duke of Ragusa, took command, by the Em-
peror's order, of the army occupying the Illyrian provinces,
ceded by the treaty of Presburg.
He was next dispatched to Spain, where he commanded
under the Duke d'Abrantcs, General Junot, three brigades of
infantry and two of cavalry. With this force he blockaded
Astorga, and besieged Ciudad Rodrigo. He made the cam-
paign of Portugal under INlassena's orders, during which he was
severely wounded. On the return of the Emperor from Mos-
cow, Clauzel was made General-in-Chief of the army of the
north of Spain, and moved in counter operations to the Duke
of Wellington. Fouche, on one occasion, had the hardihood to
denounce him to the Emperor. Clauzel answered imperiously
and indignantly. Napoleon approved of the General's answer,
and the denunciation was without effect.

After the battle of Waterloo Claim.' was comprised in the
first list of the ordonnance of the 24th July, 1815, but quitted
his command at the end of the same month, to undertake the
command of the army of the Loire ; he afterwards embarked in
the November of the same year, for the United States, where he
took refuge, owing to the state of parties in the kingdom.
For some time, in quietude and retirement, he established
himself on the bay of Mobile, and, in 1817, formed a planta-
tion there, where be resided as a cultivator till 1820. He then
returned to Europe, to provoke the judgment which he had so-
licited. He travelled back in the July of that. year into France,
when he was acquitted of all charges brought against him by
the Government.

The scene of his next labours was Africa, where he was sent
agains` Abd-el-Kader, with :12,0i'0 men under his command.
He destroyed the Emir's capital. of Mascara, and shortly after
returned to France. Having again resumed the command in
Africa, he attacked another enemy of the French, Achmet Bey,
who had garrisoned himself in the city of Constantine, which at
the present day is remarkable for the ruins of many ancient
Roman buildings. This citadel with its scarp and counter_
scarp of perpendicular rock, equally inaccessible by miring and
bombardment, was besieged, but the French finally were com-
pelled to make a disastrous retreat, and Marshal Clauzel re-
turned to Bona, where he dictated a dispatch beginning with these
words—" The expedition
against Constantine has not had cum-
plete success."
Count Clauzel was a Lieutenant-General of the French
army, wearing the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. and
a Chevalier of St. Louis. A writer, who was well acquainted
with him, draws up his character by adducing the testimony of
the two greatest Generals of the age to his merits as a man and
a commander. 6, The grand master of our wars," says he,
Clause! as one of the first
leaders Naple
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enemy can have equal weight, the English commander Wel-
lighton, declared during the wars in Spain, that he had always
regarded General Clauzel as his most redoubtable adversary."
History will justify these two opinions.

BATII.—On Sunday last, quite unobserved by any
one, 100/. in Bank notes, were left in the vestry of All Saints'
Chapel, city, after divine service, and have been applied
tocontemplated by the charitable and Christian
dohrtiaohpel
re purposes.—,ißnotthhis Gazette.—[The same paper adds, that the donor
was a lady labouring under mental excitement, and that the
Rector repaid the money.
VIENNA, APRIL 19.—1 t is said that General Count
Paskewitsch (brother to the Governor of the kingdom of
Poland), who is ndtit here, is going from Vienna on a mission
to Bockara, Persia, and the Indies.