1825.] 
the increasing infirmity of his mind had 
rendered it necessary to employ a medical 
person to have the care of him, and a 
doctor was appointed to whom the deceased 
was well known. - He was to have removed 
next week, when death instantly removed 
him from this world. On Sunday he ap- 
peared more hearty than usual, and said 
to an old acquaintance, who came to 
dine with him, “ I am glad you are.come, 
for I suppose I shall not see you so often 
after to-day, as I remove to Dr. on 
Tuesday or Wednesday.” He sat down 
apparently in the best health and spirits, 
and ate heartily, till he suddenly fell back 
in his chair; a rattling was heard in his 
throat, he attempted to grasp a jug of 
water, water was instantly given him, his 
neckcloth loosened, &c., but the jaw fell 
and he wasnomore. The nearest surgeon 
was instantly sent for, under an idea that 
he had choaked himself, but it proved not 
to be the case: it is supposed to have been 
an apoplectic fit. He had been a remarka- 
bly abstemious man, and never had any 
illness but the gout during his life. An 
express was instantly sent off to his son, 
who resides in Hercules Buildings, but 
ere he arrived he was a corpse. 
GENERAL SIR A. CAMPBELL. 
This highly distinguished officer entered 
the British army as early as the year 1776. 
He was appointed an ensign in the Royals, 
and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant 
in the same corps, 25th Dec. 1778. In 
tle month of April 1780, he obtained a 
company in the 97th regiment of foot, and 
served in that corps at the celebrated siege 
of Gibraltar, in the year 1782... He was 
soon afterwards placed upon half-pay ; but 
in December 1787 he was attached to the 
74th regiment. _He became major by bre- 
- yet in 1794, and obtained a majority in the 
before-named regiment in the succeeding 
year. Soon after he had risen to the rank 
of lieut.-col (4th Dec. 1795), he accom- 
panied the 74th to India, and rendered him- 
_self very conspicuous in the Mysore war, 
and at the capture of Seringapatam in the 
year 1799. One exploit which he per- 
formed upon this. occasion, and which 
created great confusion in the Sultan’s 
army, was an attack upon a circular work, 
from which he dislodged the enemy with 
great gallantry, pursuing them across the 
bridge of communication, and entering the 
island with the fugitives. He came upon 
the right of the. Sultan’s entrenched camp, 
where he bayoneted some of the enemy in 
their tents, and spiked several guns. 
He attained the rank of colonel in the 
army in the month of September 1803; 
and when the present Duke of Wellington 
commenced his campaigns in Spain, Col. 
Campbell served in his army with the rank 
of brigadier-genera), and greatly distin- 
guished himself. 
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573 
In Dee. 1809, Col. Campbell obtained 
the ‘coloneley of the York Light Infantry 
Volunteers ; and in July 1810, he was ad- 
vanced to the rank of Major-General. 
In 181] he was made com. in chief of the 
forces at the Mauritius, and in June 1814 
made lieut.-general. At the end of the 
year 1820 he was made com. in chief at 
Fort St. George, with the rank of full, 
general. 
In the month of November Jast, General 
Campbell suffered an attack of apoplexy ; 
he partially recovered, and great hopes 
were entertained that he would be enabled 
to overcome the effects of it; but a further 
attack terminated the life of this distinguish- 
ed and highly esteemed individual, on the 
llth December, in the sixty-fifth year of 
his age. 
MADAME DU FRESNOY. 
French literature and society have expe- 
rienced a seyere loss in the death of this dis- 
tinguished literary lady, who combined all 
the graces of good breeding, and an amenity 
of disposition, with superior talent. The 
author of a great number of works, she 
never lost sight of the principle so often 
forgotten by our neighbours, that morality 
ought to form the basis of all education. 
Her compositions were chiefly for the rising 
generation; and if she does not rise to the 
dignity of Miss Edgeworth, she may be 
cited favourably after her. Her poem on 
the Death of Bayard was crowned by the 
Institute on the 5th of April, 1815. Her 
volume of Elegiesare in the library of every 
person of taste and sentiment : they breathe 
all that delicious sweetness of melancholy 
which reminds us of the best models of anti- 
quity. She was the author of the Abbé 
Sicard’s affecting narrative of his sufferings 
during the massacres of September. The 
Abbé, it is said, disavowed the work, yet 
this did not lessen the friendship that sub- 
sisted between tuem. The author of this 
notice dined in company with them both, 
at the house of a common friend, a few 
years since, when there appeared to be a 
filial affection in Mad. D. for the virtuous 
teacher of the deaf and dumb. 
It would be too long to cite all her pro- 
ductions here—they have all run through 
several editions. We may particularize— 
La petite Menagére ou Education Ma- 
ternelle, 4 vols., 18mo,; Etrennes a ma 
Fille, 2 vols. in 12mo.; Biographie des 
Jeunes Demoiselles, as having become 
very popular. Her Jast work, and which 
was completed only a few months before 
her death, was the Beauties of the History 
of Spain, a performance replete with in- 
teresting anecdote, in which the history of 
Spain abounds more than any other nation. 
She appeared to possess a strong constitu- 
tion; and promised a much longer career, 
when a disorder of the chest suddenly car- 
ried her off, on the 7th of last month. 
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