ham, and are all my aides-de-camp well? -I have made my will, and remem bered my servants!" On the appearance of Major Colborne, his principal aide-de-camp, he spoke most kindly to him, and then turning about to another, he continued: "Remember you go to and tell him that it is my request, and that I expect he will befriend Major Colborne, he has long been with me, and I know him most worthy of it." He then asked the major, "if the French were beaten?" and, on hearing they were repulsed on every point, he said, "It was a great satisfaction in his last moments, to know he had beaten the French!" After this, he enquired if General Paget was present? and on being answered in the negative, begged "to be remembered to him." "I feel myself so strong," added he, "I fear I shall be long dying;-I ain in great pain!" He then thanked the medical men for their attention, and after speaking kindly to Captains Stanhope and Percy, he pressed to his heart the hand of the first aide-de-camp, who came to his assistance, and died in a few minutes, without so much as a struggle. Thus fell, in the prime of life, at the age of 47 years*, surrounded by his suite, mourned by his companions in arms, and at the conclusion of a critical victory, which preserved the remainder of his army from destruction, Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, a name that will be long dear to his country. His brilliant exploits have already been detailed, and it only remains to observe, that in the course of these, he received no fewer than six wounds; one in the head from a shell, at Corsica; three in Holland, before he could be prevailed upon to leave the field; a musket shot in the leg in Egypt did not interrupt his exertions; and a cannon ball in Spain bereaved his country for ever of his services! On the 25th of January, the Earl of Liverpool, as secretary of state for the home department, while moving the thanks of the house to those officers, who had gained the battle of Corunna, paid a high eulogium to the memory of the depart ed general; "whose whole life," he said, "had been devoted to the service of his country, for there was scarcely any ac tion of importance during the two last wars, in which he had not participated." In the course of the same night, Lord Castlereagh, in his official capacity, as minister at war, expressed his sorrow at the "loss of one of the ablest of our generals; possessing in an eminent degree every valuable quality that can dignify the man, and enhance the superiority of the soldier; at once in the prime of life, and the prime of professional desert; giving in the evidence of his past life the best assurance of what might be expected from his zeal, intrepidity, and talents." He concluded with the following motion: "That an humble address: be presented to his Majesty, requesting that a monument be erected in the cathedral of St. Paul, to the memory of the late Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, Knight of the Bath, who, after an honourable and meritorious life, fell by a cannon ball, in the action near Corunna, on the 16th of January, 1809, after having, by his judicious dispositions, skill, aud gallantry, repulsed an enemy of su perior force, and secured to the troops under his command a safe and unmolested embarkation." Sir John Moore was born at Glasgow, November 13, 1761. He received the honour of knighthood, and the order of the Bath, on, his return from Egypt. The commander-in-chief, also, in general orders, dated "Horse Guards, February 1, 1809," paid the following tribute to his memory: "The benefits derived to an army from the example of a distinguished commander, do not terminate at his death: his virtues. live in the recollection of his associates, and his fame remains the strongest incentive: to great and glorious actions. amidst the deep and universal regret, which "In this view, the Commander in Chief, the death of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore has occasioned, recalls to the troops the military career of that illustrious officer for their instruction and imitation. "Sir John Moore, from his youth, embraced the profession with the feelings and senti. ments of a soldier; he felt, that a perfect knowledge, and an exact performance of the humble, but important duties of a subaltern officer, are the best foundations for subsequent military fame; and his ardent mind, while it looked forward to those brilliant atchievements, for which it was formed, applied itself, with energy and exemplary assiduity, to the duties of that station. "In the school of regimental duty, he ob-, tained that correct knowledge of his profession so essential to the proper direction of the gallant spirit of the soldie; and he was enabled to establish a characteristic order, and regularity of conduct, because the troops found in their leader a striking example of the discipline, which he enforced on others. "Having “ Having risen to command, he signalized Moore, the father of the general died his name in the West Indies, in Holland, a few years since, leaving behind him, and in Egyypt. The unremitting attention a most excellent character in private life, with which he devoted himself to the duties and a ligh reputation in the republic of of every, branch of his profession, obtained letters. him the confidence of Sir Ralph Abercromby, ed with bis dying breath, still survives** His mother, whom he mentionand he became the companion in arms of that illustrious officer, who fell at the head of his her eldest son, and is not only deeply afvictorious troops, in an acıion which inain- flicted by his loss, but has to hewail tained our national superiority over the arms the deplorable situation of his brother of France. Charles, who has been recently deprived “ Thus Sir John Moore, at an early pe. of his faculties. riod obtained, with general approbation, that Mr. James Moore, a surgeon of great conspicuous station, in which he gloriously promise, in 1789, obtained a prize medal terminated his useful and honourable life. from the Lyceum Medicum Londinense; “ In a military character, obtained amidst Captain Graham Moore fought a gallant the dangers of climate, the privations inci. action in the Melampus, and took the dent to service, and the sufferings of repeated Ambuscade of forty guns. He acted as wounds, it is difficult to select any one point commodore of the fleet that conveyed as a preferable subject for praise ; it exhibits, the Prince Regent, and royal family of however, one feature so particularly characteristic of the man, and so important to the Portugal to the Brazils; while Mr. Franbest interest of the service, that the com cis Moore, after being some time primander in chief is pleased to mark it with his vate secretary to the Duke of Leeds, is peculiar approbation. now deputy secretary to the War Of “ The life of Sir John Moore was spent fice. among the troops. On the 8th of February, 1809, a sub“ During the season of repose, his time scription was opened in Glasgow, for was devoted to the care and instruction of the erecting a monument to the memory of officer and soldier; in war, he courted service the late General Sir John Moore, K.B. in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of when 1500l. was immediately raised for personal considerations, be esteemed that that purpose, and next day, being a nato which lis country called him, the post of tional fast, his fellow-citizens attended honour, and by his undaunted spirit, and un divine service in mourning. conquerable perseverance, he pointed the way to victory. * Mrs. Moore resides at Cooliam, in Sur. " His country, the object of his latest solicitude, will rear a monument to his la rey. She was a daughter of the late Dr. Simmented memory, and the commander in chief son, professor of divinity in the University feels he is paying the best tribute to his fame of Glasgow, and a near relation of Professor by thus holding him forth as an example to Robert Simson, the restorer of ancient geothe army." metry. Mrs. Porteus, an aunt of the general, is still alive at Glasgow, and another, Mrs. We shall now conclude with some ob- Mackintosh, lately died in that neighbourservations relative to to liis family. Dr. hood. HOGAKTI. Extracts from the Port-folio of 1 Nan of Letters. at court, his lordship, by way of banter, UPON PON setting up his carriage he paid thus accosted him: “ Doctor, I am yours a visit to the Lord Mayor, and to my shoe tie.” Barrow, seeing his aim, Javing protracted his stay till a heavy returned his salute obsequiously, with shower came on, he was led out by a dif- “My lord, I am yours to the ground." ferent door from that which he entered, Rochester, improving his blow, quickly and, unmindful of his carriage, he set off returned it with " Doctor, I am yours on foot, and got home dripping wet. to the centre,” which was as smartly When Mrs. Hogarth asked him where followed by Barrow, with “My lord, I he had left his carriage? “He said, he am yours to the antipodes.” Upon which, bad forgot it.” Rochester, scorning to be foiled by a BARROW. musty old piece of divinity, as he used to Barrow meeting Lord Rochester call him, 'exclaimed, "Doctor, I am yours A German jesuit, who accompanied the Arch-duchess Maria to Spain, when she married Philip the Fourth. That monarch made him his confidant and minister, which occasioned many disputes between the jesuit and his rival the duke of Lerma, to whoin Nidhard once said: "It is you that ought to respect me, as I have every day your God in my hand, and your Queen at my feet." He was a miserable minister, and brought the affairs of the nation to a very poor condition. NEWTON. Sir Isaac had a great abhorrence of infidelity, and never failed to reprove those who made free with Revelation in his presence, of which the following is an instance. Dr. Halley was sceptically in clined, and sometimes took the liberty of sporting with the Scriptures. On such an occasion Sir Isac said to him "Dr. Halley, I ain always glad to hear you when you speak about astronomy, or other parts of mathematics, because that is a subject which you have studied, and well understand; but you should not tattle of christianity, for you have not studied it; I have, and know you know nothing of the matter." BONIFACE VIII. Is said to have frightened his predecessor Celestine into a resignation, by denouncing to him at midnight eternal slamnation if he did not quit the pontifi cal chair. The credulous pope, thinking it was a supernatural voice, obeyed the command next day, and the crafty cardinal was elected. This happened in 1294. He commenced his pontificate by imprisoning his predecessor, and laying Denmark under an interdict. CASSINI JOHN D. He had such a turn for Latin poetry, that some of his compositions were printed when he was only eleven years old. In 1652, he determined the apogee and eccentricity of a planet from its true and mean place, a problem which Kepler had pronounced impossible. In 1653, he corrected and settled a meridian line on the great church of Bologna, on which occasion a medal was struck. In 1666, he printed at Rome a theory of Jupiter's satellites. Cassini was the first professor of the royal observatory in France. He made numerous observations, and in 1684, he discovered the four satellites of Saturn; 1695 he went to Italy to examine the meridian line he had settled in 1653; and in 1700, he continued that through France which Picard had begun. ANDREW MASSIUS. In his comment upon Joshua, he says, that Noah kept the bones of Adam very sacredly in a coffin, and after the world had become dry, divided these bones with the world, among his three sons: and that Shem being his pet, he gave him the scull, with Judæa. JOSEPH ACOSTA. In his Lib. i. de Nutur. Nov. Orb. c. 16. gravely decides that no second ark of Noah lauded in America, nor any angel conveyed the ancestors of the Indians through the air. ARNALD DE VILLA NOVA-JUL. CAMILLUS-THO. GARZONI. These writers maintained that a real man could be made by alchemistry, they absolutely made the experiment, humano semine vase cum quibusdum simplicibus medicamentis incluso! Fo Univ. Garzon, disc. 41. This is a flight of alcheny, to add to the philosopher's stone, &c.--What a feast for Spallanzani, had he lived in their age. the duration of the state of innocence, the animals some how or other, (quodammodo) understood Hebrew, and then relates a fable of the Greeks, from Philo de confusione Linguazum, who thought that they talked at that time, and that this was the reason, why Eve was not frightened, when the serpent spoke to her. JOHN LERIUS, BURGUNDUs. In his Hist. Navigat. in Brasiliam says, that after Joshua had routed the Canaanites, that it is probable from their terror, that they took shipping and became the ancestors, of the Americans. Maiolus in his Dies Canicul. i. Com. Colloq. 23. p. 520. et seq. et colloq. 18. p. 404. & seg. et p. 422. and Aloys. Cada must. Navigat. 55. say, that there are mountains of loadstone, which draw the nails out of ships, as in the story of Sinbad. PENEDA LEIRNUS LEMNIUS GEROPIUS BECANUS JOHN BAPTISTA PIUSCELIUS CALGAGNINUS AND STEPHENS. All these writers maintain that in the Mercator of Plautus, the versoria in the compass need not be confuted. KIPPINGIUS. In his Antiq. Romun. 1. 4. c. 4. p. 732. upon the following line of Horace; "Seu malis vetita legibus alea-says, Alea, id est chartulis pictis! ludere. Thus, in a treatise upon Roman antiquities, niaking the Romans acquainted with playing cards! JAMES THE FIRST. In his Reg. Donum lib. 3. persuades his son, Henry Prince of Wales not to play at thess, because it required close attention, which was opposite to the principle of play, which ought to be relaxation, but to indulge in cards where chance prevailed, and there was no art or diligence requisite. An excellent piece of advice in education! MALVENDA. In his tract de Antich. iii. c. 15.maintains that, the whole sea is not only navigable, but has been navigated. CRANZIUS. He says that in the north beyond Greenland, the sea becomes innavigable in a day's voyage, because "the ends of the world becoming dark before them, immane abyssi barathrum reperitur." JUSTUS LIPSIUS-BASIL. PONTIUS. Say, that two-headed eagles exactly like those of the Romans, were effigiated in many houses and gates at Chili in Peru. They were idols. BAPTIST. FULGORIUS-PETER MEXIA. Say, that ships almost rotten with damp, have been found upon the tops of very high mountains, far inland. Fulgor. Rer. Memor. c. 6. Mexia in Sylva var. Lect. p. 2. c. 13. See also Alex. lib. 5. Gen. c. 9. Maiol. Colloq. v. 1. p. 6. & 18. COLUMBUS. Pet. Martyr. Dec. Nov. Orb. l. i. says, that he had often heard Columbus say, that, when he landed at Hispaniola, he had found Ophir. GREGOR. LOPEZ. He writes, that the people of Sophala, a place in the extremity of Africa, at the Ethiopian sea, abounding in gold mines, have books written in the Indian tongue, which say, that Solomon every third year fetched gold from thence: and that they have mines still called by his name. PHALLUS. ON THE ORIGINAL POETRY. DEATH OF GENERAL MOORE. MORN broke the parting clouds of night, To fame by gallant Moore! By daring valour bore; The warrior dies, but Fame shall tell, From France he laurels tore; G. W. For the Monthly Magazine. [The poetry of John Oldham, once so popular that his collective works went through six editions, is now almost forgotten. Taste and morality will not sigh deeply for the loss. Yet, among the satires, there are lines which may deserve transplanting and, among the Pindarics, there is one, which carries the manner of Cowley to higher perfection than any other production of that pedantic school, and which may be thought to have served as a model for the Threnodia Augustalis of Dryden.-This poem, pruned into readable limits, is herewith recommended for your insertion, and thus deserves to be gathered into an Anthology of British Odes. It describes a character of a scarce, not of an unreal class. The extravagance may diminish the credibility but not the ingenuity of the praise. If this smells of the lamp, it is of Aladdin's, which dispatched a genius on its owner's errands beyond the boundaries of nature.-The Ode is inscribed to the memory of Mr. Charles Morwent.] BEST friend! could my unbounded grief but rate, With due proportion thy too cruel fate; He saw thy blooming ripeness Time prevent, The learned sisters all transform'd should be, tomb: To sing thy well-tun'd praise; Wither in penance for their forward haste; We should thy full ripe virtues wrong, Fate, when thy forward gifts she told, Scorn'd in the bud to be confin'd, Nature was proud when she contriv'd thy In thee she labour'd for a name; All the perfections scrawl'd on human kind; So stars contracted in a diamond shine, Draw nature's larger self within a span. mind, The Muse and Grace were so combin'd, A genius did thy whole comportment act, Such a soft air thy well-tun'd sweetness As told thy soul of harmony was made. Thou still wouldst make them vocal with thy That mar or disunite society, lays. MONTHLY MAG. No. 182, Were foreigners to thee: Y Love |