Glasgow Courier. — 1848-11-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THE LATE COUNT  LATOUR.  A journal of Berlin contains the following notes relative to the unfortunate victim of popular Vandalism and barbarity, whose atrocious murder has cast an additional blemish on the name of liberty in Germany :  " Lientensnt-General Count Theodore Latour has been distinguished through a long series of years as one of the most eminent officers in the Austrian service. He was born on 15. h June, 1780, at Vienna, and was only son to the Imperial Master-General of the Ordnance and President of the Council of War, Count Maximilian Baillet de Latour, who died in 1808. Educated at the Imperial Engineers' School, Theodore de Latour there received all that instruction and acquired that solid knowledge which was matured in after years, and which, at his first commencing his military career, canned him to be appointed on the Quarterinaater-General's Staff, In which duties he was enabled to render valuable service. During the period that the Austrian army was engaged in a constant succession of campaigns, Labour remained constantly on active service, and by his zeal, merit, and courage, obtained rapid promotion, no that, at the commencement of the war of liberating, he had already obtained the rank of Colonel. In Jan., 1814. he was appointed chief of the Staff to the Bth army corps of the Confederation, then under the command of the Crown Prince, now King of Wurtemborg. The able dispositions adopted by Count Latour at the sanguinary affairs of Epinay, Brienne, Sens, Montereau, and La Ferre, were publicly acknowledged at the time, and obtained for him the repeated thanks of the Prince commanding and the Allied Sovereigns. The rank of General and many orders of knighthood were amongst his recompenses and honourable testimonies.  " During the long peace that succeeded the cimpalgns of 1813, 1814, and 1815, Count Latour was continually called upon to take part in most important deliberatious, wherein he showed his aptitude for administration, and, by hie cool and clear judgment, was enabled to render great services to the Austrian Government. During many years he filled the office of Commissioner and President of the Military Board of the Germanic Confederation, with great credit to himself and advantage to that body. Upon the abolition of the Aulie Council of War at Vienna, Latour, who had long attained the rank of Lieutenant-General, was appointed Minister of War and Chief of the War Department by the present Emperor. In this most difficult and perilous situation he was enabled, by patience, firmness, and long experience, to temper the storm by which he was surrounded, and to accomplish what many considered to be impracticable. His combinations with Radetaky led to the fortunate issue of the late campaigns in Lombardy, for he united to the talent of conception that of carrying into effect, and this with a wonderful faculty of economising and producing resources. A koslilillteal with courage, indefatigable MON Imeslis_sey utZ dlitenitiet, and readiness for extracting greet results fiver means, would have yielded to the pressure of events and the embarrassments by which he was surrounded. Upright, noffincMgg, and devoted, he stood up to encounter, and for a long time mastered, the tempest. He could have retired a hundred times from an office which he never coveted, but was withheld from no doing by his devotion to the Emperor, by his disinterestedness, and by that generous, rational patriotism which caused him to stand to his post until death—a horrible, foul, and bloody death—terminated bin generous services, his long and honourable career. A nobler head never fell beneath murderer's hands--a more accursed crime never sullied the name of a civilised people, or drew forth the tears and execrations of all generous minds. Count Theodore Latour has left a widow, daughter of Count Bernier, and 'a daughter, a lady of great beauty and accomplishments, married to General Count Draskowich, and a son, an Alter of promise, and captain In a regiment of infantry, and who served as Aide-de-Camp to Radetsky during the recent campaigns.* So far the biographer. Let us add to this (says the Morning Chronicle), that Latour was as amiable, unpresuming, and kind of heart, in domestic and social life, as he was talented and meritorious as • soldier and public man. He has been accused of wanting decision and promptitude, and of being unequal to the exigency of the times. His failing, if he had one, however, was humanity, for he abhorred the idea of shedding civic blood; and as a proof of this, the ink. was scarcely dry upon the order to cease the street combat when the murderer's axe fell upon his veteran and generous head.