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mand of the army of Italy, Siichet joined 

 him as General of Division and chief of 

 hisstatf; appointments which he continued 

 to liold under Moreau and Championnet, 

 after the death of Joubert. Massena, who 

 succeeded Championnet, made him second 

 in command. At the head of a feeble 

 division of not 7,000 men lie long held at 

 bay five times the number of Austrian 

 forces under Melas, contested the Genoese 

 territory inch by inch, retired unbroken 

 behind the Var, set the enemy at defiance, 

 saved the soutli of France from invasion, 

 and facilitated the operations of the army 

 of reserve, advancing from Dijon to cross 

 the Alps. When, in consequence of the 

 march of Buonaparte, the Austrians com- 

 menced their retreat, he followed in their 

 track, harassed them incessantly, took 

 13,000 prisoners, and, by compelling Melas 

 to weaken his army to oppose him, con- 

 tributed powerfully to the victory of 3Ia- 

 rengo. In the short campaign subsefpiently 

 to the armistice, lie took 4-,000 piisoners 

 at Pozzolo, and shared in all the battles 

 that were fought. In 1803, he commanded 

 a division at the camp at Boulogne. He 

 was named a member of the Legion of 

 Honour on the lllb of December 1803, 

 grand officer of that body in 1804. ; and 

 governor of the imperial j)alace at Lacken 

 in 1805. At Ulm, HoUabrun, and Aus- 

 terlitz, in 1805 — at Siuilfeld and Jena, in 

 ■1806 — at Pultusk, in 1B07 — he greatly con- 

 tributed to the success of the French arms. 

 In 1806 Buonaparte gave him the grand 

 i^ordon of the Legion of Honour, with an 

 .endowment of 20,000 francs ; and in 1808, 

 he raised him to the dignity of a count of 

 the empire. The King of Saxony also 

 nominated him a commander of the mill- 

 tary order of St. Henry. 



Suchet was now sent to Spain, and 

 placed at the head of the army of Arragon. 

 In 1809 he defeated Blake at Belcbite ; in 

 1810 he reduced Lerida, Mequincnza, Tor- 

 toza, Fort San Felipe, Montserrat, Tarra- 

 .gona, and Saguntum— routed O'Donnel at 

 Margalef, and Blake before Saguntum — 

 and formed the siege of Valencia. The 

 fall of that fortress crowned the labours of 

 this campaign, and obtained for him the 

 title of Duke of Albufera, and possession 

 of the estate of that name. He had pre- 

 viously, at the capture of Tarragona, re- 

 ceived the marshal's staff. In 1813, the 

 command of the luiited armies of Arragon 

 and Catalonia having been confided to him, 

 he compelled Sir John Murray to raise the 

 siege of Tarragona. In November, he was 

 named Colonel General of the Imperial 

 Guards, in the room of the Duke of Istria. 

 Notwithstanding the progress of Lord Wel- 

 lington in France, Suchet kept his ground 

 in Catalonia for the purpose of collecting 

 the 18,000 men who garrisoned the for- 

 tresses, and also for retarding the progress 

 of the allies. 



Receiving intelligence of the abdication 



of Buonaparte, he acknowledged Louis 

 XVIII. as his sovereign. Several ho(iour!>, 

 amongst which was that of his being named 

 one of the peers of France, were conferred 

 on him by the restored monarch. On the 

 return of Buonaparte, he accepted a com- 

 mand under his old master to repel the 

 allies. At the head of the army of the 

 Alps, consisting of only 10,0(X) men, he 

 beat the Piedmontese, and shortly after 

 the Austrians. The advance of the grand 

 Austrian army, however, 100,000 strong, 

 compelled him to fall back on Lyons ; but 

 he saved that city from plunder by capitu- 

 lation, and with it artillery stores to the 

 value of half a million sterling. On the 

 same day that the capitulation was signed, 

 he again submitted to Louis XVIII. He 

 received the Grand Cross of the Legion of 

 Honour in 1816; and, in 1819, his name 

 was replaced on tlie list of peers. 



For some time previous to his decease 

 the Duke of Albufeni had been principally 

 at Marseilles. He had been afflicted nearly 

 two years with a severe and painful disoixler. 

 In the few moments during the bust four 

 days of his life in wliich he was sensible, 

 he made his will, in full possession of his 

 faculties. In the evening of the 2d of 

 Januar)', having recovered from a state of 

 delirium, lie confessed and received tlie 

 extreme unction. The remainder of the 

 night he was calm and composed ; but, 

 after seven in the moniiiig of the 3d, he did 

 not again become sensible. The Duchess 

 left Marseilles for Paris, with her children, 

 two or three days after his decease. 



LIXDLEY SIURRAY, ESQ. 



February 16.— Mr. Murray M-as a native 

 of Pennsylvania, in North America, but 

 he resided for a great part of his life at New 

 York : his father was a distinguished mer- 

 chant in that city. He was carefully and 

 regularly educated, and made a rapid pro- 

 giess in learning. At the age of nineteen 

 he commenced the study of law : and he 

 had the pleasure of ha\nng for his fellow 

 student the celebrated Mr. Jay. At the 

 exi>iraticn of four years jMr. jlurray was 

 admitted to the bar, and received a license 

 to practise, both as counsel and attorney, 

 in all the courts of the state of New York. 

 In this profession he continued with in- 

 creasing reputation and success, till the 

 troubles in America interrupted all busi- 

 ness of this nature. He then engaged in 

 the mercantile line ; in which, by his dili- 

 gence, abilities, and respectable connexions, 

 he soon acquired a handsome competency. 



Having been afflicted with a fever which 

 left a great weakness in his limbs, and his 

 general health being much impaired, he was 

 advised, in the year 178i, to remove into a 

 more temperate climate He accordingly 

 came to this country, and received so much 

 benefit as induced him to remain. Ha set- 

 tled at Holdgate, in Yorkshire. The 

 weakness of his limbs gradually increased, 



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