of late Rev. Wm. Douglas, Canon of Salisbury.- -22. At Bath, Mostyn Jones, esq. of Lyncombe-cottage, to Frances, dau. of Mr. Atkinson, of Bath.-Henry-Robert Ferguson, Captain 9th Lancers, to sister of the present and daughter of the late Sir J. Davie, bart.-Richard-Henry Millington, esq. B. A. of St. John's College, Oxford, to Maria-Jane, dau. of late Thos. Burne, esq. of Walworth.- -26. At Edinburgh, Lord Dunsany, to Hon. Miss Kinnaird.- -John Kirk, esq. to Mary-Anne, dau. of H. Bennett, esq. Hackney.-27. James, only son of R. Patten, esq. Hatton-garden, to Mary, only child of Joseph Schofield, esq. of Pentonville.-29. Timothy Lambert, esq. to Mary, widow of late Mr. Green, of Bitton, near Bristol.- -31. At Bathwick Church, Sir William Hort, of Hortland, bart. to Louisa-Georgiana, dau. of Sir John Caldwell, of Castle Caldwell, bart.--Rev. James-Halls Sampson, to Eliza-Anne, dau. of late James Croft, esq. of Worle.--At Llanelly, Charles Nevill, esq. to CatherineCaroline, dau. of Thomas Ward, esq. Soho. April 2. At St. James's, Mr. Matthew Bridges, Solicitor, to Sarah, dau. of late Samuel Fripp, esq.-3. George Vizard, esq. of Dursley, to Charlotte-Louisa, dau. of late Rev. Thos. Biddulph, Vicar of Padstow, Cornwall.- -Rev. C. E. Smith, of Otterden, Kent, to Henrietta, dau. of late Rev. W. J. French, of Bow.- -5. M. Dipnall, esq. of the Customs-office, London, to Anne, dau. of Wm. Ward, esq. of Liverpool.7. At Hanover-square, Algernon F. Greville, esq. to Charlotte-Maria, dau. of R. H. Cox, esq.- -8. Willam-Bryan, son of Sir Geo. Cooke, of Wheatley, bart. to Isabella-CeciliaViviana, dau. of late Sir Wm. Middleton, of Belray Castle, bart.- -H. Turnley, esq. of America-square, to Mary, dau. of late C. Godfrey Hoffman, esq.- -At Exeter, Henry, son of Samuel Jellicoe, esq. of Uplands, Hants, to Mary-Tucker, dau. of late Rev. J. Radford, Rector of Lapford, Devon.-The Rev. James-Williams James, of Dinas, Pembrokeshire, to Elizabeth, dau. of late Richard Lloyd, esq. of Haverfordwest.At Llanrug, Rowland Hunt, esq. of Boreatton Park, co. Salop, to Mary, dau. of T. Lloyd, esq. -At Uppingham, Rev. Rob. Clavey Griffith, Rector of Corsley, to MaryAdderley, dau. of late Ralph Hotchkin, esq. -Rev. Henry-Francis Sidebottom, M. A. Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, to Anne, dau. of J. Freeman, esq. of Gaines, co. Hereford.-9. At Edinburgh, Jas. Robert Scott, esq. of Coud-house, Roxburghshire, and of Thurlstone-house, Cheltenham, to Harriet, youngest dau. of Thos. Gray, esq. of Cheltenham.At Hanwell, Henry, fourth son of Rev. Geo. Jepson, Prebendary of Lincoln, to Anne, only dau. of late Col. Bland, of the Hon. East India Company's service.John, son of John Keeling, esq. of Broxbourne, to Maria, dau. of Stanley Howard, esq. of Brixton.

James-Lewis Fenoulhet, esq. of Hattongarden, solicitor, to Elizabeth-Anne, dau. of James Ensor, esq. of Totteridge Lodge.10. Rev. Edw. Tew Richards, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to Laura, dau. of W. Page, esq. of Fitzroy-sq.-At Cheltenham, George Nangle, esq. son of Walter Nangle, esq. of Kildalkey, co. Meath, to Lucy-Mary, only dau. of late and sister of the present Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, bart. of Tichborne House, Hants.-ThomasGeorge Wake, esq. of Buckingham-house, to Miss, Newman, of St. John's, Westminster. -By special licence, at St. Leonard's Lodge, Horsham, Francis-Fletcher Vane, eldest son of Sir Frederick Vane, bart. to Diana, dau. of Chas. Beauclerk, esq.———At Dunbar House, John, only brother of Right Hon. Sir G. Warrender, bart. to Lady Julian, youngest dau. of Earl of Lauderdale.At Hanover-sq. Capt. R. B. Edwards, 13th Dragoons, of Bradfield, Suffolk, to ElizaMary, dau. of J. Murries, esq. of Ardely Bury House, Herts.-12. Stephen Vieusseux, esq. of Charlotte-street, Bedford-sq. to Miss Mercier, of Bedford-place.St. Marylebone, John Browning, esq. to Harriet-Augusta-Ernst, eldest dau. of late Dr. S. H. Jackson, of Hanover-street, Hanover-sq.- -At St. James's, Capt. Archibald Crawfurd, of the Hon. Company's Artillery, to Octavia, dau. of late James Phelps, esq. of Coston House, Leicestershire.Mr. R. Laskey, to Miss Hedgeland, only dau. of late Mr. P. Hedgeland, Bookseller, of Devon.- At St. Lawrence, co. Pembroke, Owen Phillips, esq. Lieutenant in the E. I. C.'s Forces, and son of late Geo. Phillips, esq. M.D. of Haverfordwest, to Charlotte-Anne, dau. of Thomas Bowen, esq. of Storehall.— -14. At St. George's, Hanoversquare, James-Edmund, eldest son of James Leslie, esq. of Leslie Hall, co. Antrim, to Sarah, dau. of Bp. Sandford, of Edinburgh.

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-T. Day, esq. of Maidstone, son of late Dr. Day, to Martha, dau. of J. Brinchley, esq. of Milton, next Gravesend.—Lieut. W. S. Robins, R. N. to Anne, relict of late Capt. Thos. Linthorne, R. N. of Poole.At Dublin, Captain William Paton, Royal Lancers, to Caroline, daughter of Captain Wilkinson, of Spettisbury Cottage, Dorsetshire.-16. John Sims, M. D. to Lydia, dau. of Wm. Dillwyn, of Walthamstow, Rev. John Randall, B. A. to Elizabeth, dau, of late Mr. Wm. Beunett, of Salisbury,17. Wm. Barwell Carter, M. D. 8th Hussars, to Margaret, dau. of R. Downie, esq. of Appin, M. P.- -At Burnham, Josias, son of Josias Nottidge, esq. of Rose-hill, Wixoe, to Matilda, dau. of Wm. Langton, esq. of Cippenham-house.

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GENERAL DUMOURIEZ.

March 14. At Turville Park, near Henley-upon-Thames, in bis 85th year, Charles-François - Duperier Dumouriez, an illustrious and eminent French General. He was born Jan. 25, 1739, of parents not affluent, although noble. They were originally from Provence, and of the highest antiquity; and renowned for its long exercise of judiciary power, and for its striking attachment to literature. His father, the translator of "Richiardetto," was a man of great virtue and understanding, and bestowed on his son a very careful and extensive education. After his classical education, in which he had been very successful, he entered the army: where at the age of 18, he became a soldier, and made his first campaign against the same Duke of Brunswick, whom, in 1792, he drove from the territory of France. He distinguished himself in several attacks, and was at last taken prisoner; but not till he was covered with nineteen serious wounds, and had lost his horse ;-five men had been disabled by him, when his arms were broken to pieces in his hands, and the loss of blood alone prevented a longer defence. The Duke of Brunswick, who was informed of his bravery, when he was brought before him, strongly expressed his kind admiration, and sent him back with a flattering letter to Marshal de Broglie, the general of the French army.

At the age of twenty-two he had advanced to the rank of Captain; received the honour of being decorated with the cross of St. Louis, and had received twenty-two wounds.

On peace being made in 1763, he began his travels to study the languages and manners of different nations. The emigrants have said that at this time he was employed as a spy by the French ministry. He travelled in Italy; and, tempted to decide the conquest between Corsica and France, after having sought to defend it against the Genoese, he returned to Paris, and afterwards went to Belgium, from whence he passed into Spain, with the intention of taking service there. He likewise visited Portugal, and published a work, entitled, "Essay on Portugal," after which he returned to Paris 1767; where he was named Aide-maréchal-general of the army destined to invade Corsica, which France had bought from the Genoese,

and having served with reputation in the two campaigns of 1768, and 1769, was raised to the rank of Colonel.

In 1770 the Duke de Choiseul appointed him minister to the confederates of Poland; and he commanded a body of men in that country during two campaigns, and conducted several very important negotiations with various suc cess. As the measures of the confederates were ill-concerted, their revolution was unfortunate, and ended in the parti cipation of Poland.

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In 1772 the Marquis of Monteynard, Minister of War, employed him to correct and revise the military code of laws at the end of the same year this minister, by the express order of Louis XV. entrusted him with the management of a secret negociation relative to the revolution in Sweden; but having received his instructions on this affair immediately from the King himself, and unknown to the Duke D'Aiguillon, minister of Foreign affairs, who had succeeded the Duke de Choiseul, at the change of ministry, he was arrested at Hamburgh in 1773, and conducted to the bastille by the orders of that minister. The irresolute Louis XV. yielding to the importunities of Madame du Barry his mistress, and the Duke D'Aiguillon, disgraced the virtuous Monteynard, forbore to inform the Duke of the authority he had given him to negociate, and suffered him to bear the weight of a criminal prosecution, which the Duke D'Aiguillon, suspecting the truth, feared to carry to all its extremity. He rejected offers of friendship and protection made him by this despotic minister, whom he did not esteem; and after lying six months in the Bastille, he was banished to the Castle of Caen for three months.

Louis XV. died soon after; and D'Aiguillon was disgraced. General Dumouriez had no inclination to take advantage of the expiration of the Lettre de Cachet, for the purpose of regaining his liberty; he was anxious to be completely justified, and therefore petitioned Louis XVI. to remove him to the bastille, and to order a revision of his trial. The King would not permit him to remain in prison, and commanded M. du Muy, M. de Vergennes, and M. de Sartine to revise the trial, and those three ministers signed a declaration that he had been unjustly prosecuted. Imme

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diately afterward he was sent to Lisle, in his rank of Colonel, to make a report respecting the new military manœuvres which the Baron de Pirsch had brought from Prussia. He had also a commission to examine a plan for improving the navigation of the river Lys, and another plan of forming a harbour in the channel at Ambleteuse. And these employments occupied the latter end of the year 1774, and the whole of 1775.

In 1776 he was joined in a commission with the Chevalier D'Oisy, captain of a man of war, and Colonel la Rozière, one of the ablest engineers in Europe, to determine on a proper place in the channel for the construction of a naval port. He passed the year 1777, in the country twenty leagues from Paris. At the end of that year, he was invited to Paris, by M. de Montbarey, minister of war, on account of the rupture between England and her colonies, which he had long predicted.

In 1778 he procured the office of commandant of Cherbourg to be revived and given to him. Being persuaded that Cherbourg was better calculated than any other place in the channel for a national harbour, and being aided by the zeal, activity, and influence of the Duke d'Harcourt, governor of the province; he obtained a decision, in favour of Cherbourg of a question that had been agitated during an hundred years, concerning the preference to be given to Cherbourg or La Hogue, for the site of a naval port. From that time till 1789, he was occupied in superintending the works of Cherbourg; and, during that period, he was but three times at Paris. When he first arrived at Cherbourg, it contained no more than seven thousand three hundred inhabitants, and when he quitted that place it contained nearly twenty thousand inbabitants.

At the commencement of the Revolution he deprived its character of much of its evil, in the place where he commanded. At Cherbourg the excesses of the populace were punished by him with death; but still he could not be accused of being inimicable to the liberty of the people. Those who were placed in such situations, would have rendered an inestimable service to their country, if they had exerted the same firmness with the same discernment.

The military governments of towns in France being suppressed, he went to Paris, where, during two years, he studied the influence and character of the Revolution. The flight of the Princes of France was an irreparable injury done

to the cause of the King. He foresaw that the exercise of the Veto would not produce the end that was proposed by it, and would occasion the ruin of the Monarch's cause, and he opposed it by all the means that were in his power.

In 1791 he was appointed to the com mand of the country from Nantes to Bourdeaux. At that period a religious war raged in La Vendée, and the people laid waste the castles and lands of the nobility. He had the good fortune to calm the minds of the people, and to preserve tranquillity in that country tilk the month of February 1792, when he was recalled to Paris, was raised to the rank of Lieutenant-general, and appointed minister of Foreign affairs.

He was reproached with having caused the war by his counsels; but he proved that the war was already inevitable, when he began his administration, and that indeed it might be said to have commenced. He acknowledged, however, that his opinion was decidedly for the declaration of war, as was also that of the King, who not only approved of his memorial to the National Assembly on that subject (which was three days in his hands) but made corrections in it, and bimself composed the discourse be. delivered to the Assembly on that occasion.

At the end of three months, finding himself embarrassed by the various fac-.. tions, and being sincerely desirous to see the King's Council possessing proper dignity, and his measures governed by constitutional principles, he changed the ministry, and obtained a promise that the King would sanction two decrees which appeared expedient to his service. The King would not grant him his permission; the ministry was again changed by his order, and General Doumouriez took the war department. But, soon perceiving that the Court had deceived him, he resolved not to be the instrument of their intrigues. He predicted to the unhappy King and Queen all the misfortunes in which they were involving themselves, and he gave in his resignation three days after being appointed minister of war.

Louis was two days before he would accept of his resignation, and he did not suffer him to depart without expressing the deepest regret,

One month had not elapsed after the departure of the minister for the army, before the King was insulted; and, at the end of the second month, he was a prisoner in the Temple!

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on the unfortunate Louis. Dumouriez, as a citizen and a general, had only to repulse the enemy, in the expectation that their retreat would lessen the danger which surrounded the King. There was still reason to think, that the excesses of the revolutionists might be checked. Dumouriez refused to follow Lafayette's premature example, and he succeeded him in the command of the army of the North. He marched with a few soldiers against the Prussian army, of almost 100,000 men strong, and by the most expert manœuvres, arrested their march, took their strongest positions, and wrote to the Assembly, "Verdun is taken. I wait for the Prussians. The defiles of the Argonne are the Thermopylæ of France; but I shall be happier than Leonidas." In truth, in a very few days the invaders had fled.

The genius of Dumouriez changed in this campaign the destinies of France and of Europe.

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His prudence had obtained him the victory almost without a combat, and Dumouriez flew to oppose other enemies, and to display a very varied talent. was no longer the procrastinator; he was the impetuous Achilles: he gave immediate battle, and on the plains of Jemappes, sanctified the standards of liberty, which in six weeks floated over the towers of all Belgium, which they freed.

After these successful events, General Dumouriez returned to Paris, where the trial of Louis XVI. had already commenced. He did not conceal his intentions:-he had little doubt of saving Louis XVI. He had sent a certain number of his officers to Paris, to facilitate this design, and depended in a great measure, also, on the co-operation of a part of the Assembly, and on the population.

All his expectations deceived him : he sought for the members of the Assembly who possessed the greatest influence, and sounded the intentions of Garat, Lebrun, and Roland, ministers of justice, of foreign affairs, and for the home department, who entered into his views: the non-execution of which was prevented by the perfidy of some officers, who divulged the secret. There was only one means left; it was attempted in the absence of the general, and it is not for us to divulge it. Louis XVI. was the only one to oppose it: he perished.

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other illustrious, victims, sacrificed by the monsters who governed France. His army, where the French honour had fixed itself, was alone capable of bringing back the revolution to its properlimits. But the Convention had ascertained the intentions of General Dumouriez, and dared neither to dismiss him, nor to accept of his resignation, which he offered again and again; for his soldiers would have followed him, and have revenged any of his wrongs. They en deavoured to destroy the love his troops bore to him, as well as the confidence they put in him. The Commissariat supplies failed,-the invaded provinces were exhausted,-all his resources diminished,-in order to encourage insubordination, and to prepare for the overthrow of this great general, whose renown was become so alarming. These measures were publicly acknowledged, and put into execution with such effect, that, in spite of the most prudent precautions and most useful combinations, Dumouriez failed in a campaign, which was the last, and might have been the most important.

General Dumouriez hastened to treat with the Prince of Coburg for the evacuation of Belgium, and very soon after obliged him, by a new treaty, to respect the French territory; whilst he himself determined to lead his soldiers to the capital, to disperse these tyrannical legislators, to save the family of the unfortunate monarch, and to re-establish the Constitution of 1791. The anarchy of the government was to be reformed by Frenchmen alone; and it was only in case of Dumouriez's want of sufficient forces, that, at his demand, the Prince of Coburg was compelled to furnish what he should require, while the remainder of the army of the enemy should remain on the frontiers.

The Convention was instantly informed of all by some treacherous generals, and by a faithlessness viler than even their own guilt. They summoned the General to their bar, and sent policeofficers to arrest him. He determined upon arresting the police officers himself, and delivered them up to the Prince of Coburg, as hostages and guarantees for the safety of the Royal Family, who might have been massacred when the news of his march should arrive. One victim was at least saved.

General Dumouriez issued his orders; but many of his Generals neglected to execute them, and some even refused. The army, to which the Convention had sent its spies, was carried away; the brave General was obliged to leave them, and to take refuge at the head

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quarters of the enemy. The Prince of Cobourg, full of loyalty, wished to be faithful to his engagements: his court of Vienna opposed, and ordered him to pursue his operations; and they even raised Dumouriez, and gave him command. "No: (replied he to the Prince) no,-it was not that you promised me: I am going away." "And whither? (asked the Prince :) you are in safety here; while they have offered, by a deeree, 300,000 francs to whoever shall bring your head to the Convention." "What care I for that? I go!"

He found an asylum in Switzerland, and there published a volume of his "Memoirs," which soon obtained him *many friends: but Switzerland was too near to France, and was about to yield to the latter. The general was obliged to fly he went to Hamburg. The Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Cassel, father-in-law of the King of Denmark, bought an estate in Holstein, of which he was the governor; furnished it, placed horses and a carriage in the stables, and went in search of his friend; whom he conducted to this retreat. "This is your's (said he), I am sorry it is not in my power to offer you more than a pension of 400 louis!"

When Napoleon menaced England with invasion, Dumouriez was summoned hither. The English Government received him with generous hospitality, and asked his counsel: he arranged a plan of defence for every part of Great Britain, as well as for the different countries of Europe where the soldiers of the French emperor had raised their standards; and Spain, with which he was well acquainted, owes to him a portion of her liberty.

The Restoration was not effected as he would have desired, and the Restored acted not as it was their duty to do. He "proclaimed this; and the self-love of an eminent personage, wounded by the recollection of a miserable pamphlet, printed long before, did not allow Dumouriez to take that position in France which was marked out for him. mained in England.

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The Neapolitans betrayed his confidence; but the Greeks, -the noble Greeks, whose resurrection charmed his latest days, are carrying into effect, at this moment, the counsels he gave them eighteen months ago in two Memoirs, where all the energy of youth is united to all the prudence of age. And for Spain, whose invasion he condemned and abhorred, he wrote a general system of organization and defence; but when, 'some days before his death, a friend asked a supplement for the offensive

part, he replied, "No: pass not the Pyrenees; my country is beyond them." Such is Dumouriez's life, shortly and imperfectly sketched. An illness of a few days, unaccompanied by pain,-a rapid physical decline, which did not intrude on his fine understanding, nor bis generous spirit,-bore him away, in the midst of religious consolations, from the cares of his friends, already become his children. On the day of his death he rose at eight o'clock, as usual he lay down at twelve, at the desire of his medical attendant; and breathed his last at twenty-five minutes past two.

He was short in stature, but wellformed; his countenance was agreeable; his eyes sparkling with brilliancy even to the last he was full of kindness and gaiety, and his mind was enriched with varied and extensive knowledge; he understood and spoke several languages; his spirit was most generous, so generous as often to cause his embarrassment; and his sensibility often found vent in tears when calamity was reported to him, and when he was severed from a friend. He had many friends: one of the dearest died three years ago, and not a day since had he failed to weep for him, he spoke of Edward continually. He was the Duke of Kent; and now they are re-united!

This most extraordinary man stood at one period of his life on the very pinnacle of triumphant glory. His feats as a warrior make up the most splendid pages of modern history; his name was a charm which gathered round it all the enthusiasm of millions; and he died in exile, as if to contrast the clamourous noise of popularity which accompanied his early career, with the calm stillness of solitude which surrounded his bed of death. His temper was singularly frank and generous; his affections warm and cordial; his conversation full of strength and spirit, diversified with a variety of knowledge, and remarkable discrimination of character.

MR. JAMES CONDER.

March 22. After an illness of only 12 hours, occasioned by the bursting of an internal abscess, and in his 61st year, Mr. James Conder, Haberdasher, of Ipswich. This worthy and respectable man was the youngest son of the Rev. John Conder, D. D. pastor of the Congregational Meeting of Protestant Dissenters, on the Pavement, Moorfields, London, and Divinity Tutor in the Dissenting Academy at Homerton, by Miss Flindell, of Ipswich. He was born at Mile-end, and educated at an eminent Dissenting School at Ware, in Hertfordshire, then

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