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ask) frequent them ? Two or three other items in this account, strike us as 

 open to the same sort of objection : but our author is resolute in his aver- 

 sions, we suspect, as well as his friendships ; for he not only stands out 

 fiercely against all the system of making money that was organized by 

 General Wirion, but actually concludes to damn his foes to " everlasting 

 fame" by publishing a list of all the French commandants who have 

 been hanged, committed suicide, or been dismissed from the army, within 

 his knowledge! "in hope/' as he expresses it, "that their fate may prove 

 a warning to future commandants, and a safeguard to the unfortunate !" 

 We make a final extract, to give this document: 



WIRION A general, and inspector-general of the Imperial gendarmerie, officer of 

 the legion of honour, and commander-in-chief of the prisoners of war; 

 shot himself. 



COURQELLES Colonel and commandant of Verdun, and of the department of the 

 Meuse, officer of the legion of honour ; dismissed from the army. 



DEMANGET Lieutenant of gendarmerie, member of the legion of honour; dis- 

 missed from the army. 



MASSIN Lieutenant of gendarmerie, member of the legion of honour: shot 

 kirns elf. 



BOUILLE Maiechal de logis of gendarmerie, paymaster, and member of the legion 

 of honour ; reduced to the ranks. 



NAME FORGOTTEN Lieutenant of gendarmerie at Sarre Louis ; shot himself. 



NAME UNKNOWN A colonel at Montmedy, member of the legion of honour ; 

 condemned to the gallies. 



MUNDEVELLARS Captain in the army, aide-de-camp to General Wirion, member 

 of the legion of honour; dismissed the army. 



NAME FORGOTTEN Aide de-camp to General Wirion, member of the legion of 



honour; dismissed the army. 

 Besides these honourable members so disgraced, many others narrowly escaped, 



and a long list of insignificant delinquents, might be added, whose rogueries are 



not comprised in the foregoing calculations. 



With the exception of a few sallies, however, like this which, after 

 all, are by no means the ultra extent of prejudice; for one gentleman 

 at Verdun, a Lieutenant Mackenzie, had such a horror and detestation of 

 every thing French, that he even refused to learn the language there is 

 nothing to find fault with in the temper of Mr. Boyg's book, and a great 

 deal to amuse in the details of it. The fate of the parties who made 

 such vigorous exertions to recover their liberties (as related in the last 

 pages of the book), has a little tendency to excite feelings of melancholy. 

 " Mr. Hunter/' says Mr. Boys, " was promoted in J8il." Whitehurst 

 was sent to the Halifax station, where he had not been long before he 

 was again made prisoner, and detained in France during the remainder 

 of the war. Mansell, a short time after, died at sea. Two or three little 

 engravings are added to the work, which serve to render particular points 

 in the narrative, intelligible, which it might have been difficult to com- 

 prehend without such assistance. 



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