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deserts of Africa. He returned here to 
rest after his many perils and enterprizes— 
he now rests in his silent grave. This day 
the same hands bore the pall of his coffin 
which a little month ago grasped his in 
congratulation and joy. In the freshness 
of his fame, and in the vigour of his man- 
hood, even he succumbs to the destiny 
which awaits all who have the temerity to 
intrude upon this awful spot, where death 
sits high enthroned. He was interred with 
all the military honours of a soldier, and 
with the still more precious honours of tears 
and of sorrow poured over his grave.” 
: DR. O'CONNOR. 
The Rev. Charles O’Connor, D.D., was 
a Roman Catholic clergyman, librarian to 
his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, at 
Stow, and confessor to the late Marchioness. 
He had acquired considerable eminence in 
the literary world. By the violent mem- 
bers of the Romish faith, he had the mis- 
fortune to be reproached as an apostate; but, 
in truth, he appears to have been a mode- 
rate and sensible man. He declared against 
papal influence, and the lofty pretensions of 
the Irish prelates ; and he contended that 
a veto ought to be allowed to the govern- 
ment, in return for any concessions which 
it might make. 
Dr. O’Connor was the author of Colum- 
banus’s Letters, with an Historical Address 
on the Calamities occasioned by Foreign 
Influence in the Nomination of Bishops to 
Trish Sees, in two volumes 8yo., published 
in the years 1810-13; and, in 1812, of a 
Narrative of the most Interesting Events in 
Modern Irish History, in one volume. Some 
years since, he announced for publication a 
work to be entitled Rerum Hibernicorum 
Scriptores Veteres, which was to comprise, in 
four 4to volumes, the Irish annals, and a 
variety of documents connected with them ; 
but+ the volumes have never appeared, 
though they are understood to be in the 
library of the Duke of Buckingham. 
Dr. O’Connor died on the 29th of July, 
at Belinagar, the seat of his brother, Mr. 
O’Connor Don. 
GENERAL Mack. 
General Mack, the scion of a poor family, 
was born in Franconia, in the year 1752. 
Having received an excellent education, he 
entered the army asa soldiey. During the 
war with the Turks, he was placed upon the 
staff, and obtained a captaincy from Mar- 
shal Lascy. Laudhon, the successor of 
Lascy, disliked, and grossly insulted Cap- 
tain Mack, as acreature of Lascy’s. Mack 
replied, ‘‘ Sir, I have ‘the honour to tell 
you, that here I serve neither M. de Lascy,, 
nor you, but the emperor, to whom my life 
is deyoted.”” Two days after this unplea- 
sant rencontre, Laudohn having hesitated to 
attack Lissa, under the idea that it was 
defended by a garrison of 30,000 Turks, 
Mack swam across the Danube, in the 
night, accompanied by a single hulan, pene- 
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trated into the suburb of Lissa, between 
twenty and thirty miles from his own camp, 
seized, and carried off a Turkish officer, 
and, early on the ensuing morning, in- 
formed his general, that the town was gar- 
risoned by only six thousand, instead of 
thirty thousand men. This bold action 
won the esteem of Laudohn, who made 
him his aid-de-camp, and on his death- 
bed recommended him to the emperor. 
In 1793, Mack, as quarter-master-gene- 
ral in the army of the Prince of Saxe 
Cobourg, directed the operations of the 
campaign. Early in 1794, he was sent to 
England te confer with ministers ; and on 
his return to the Netherlands, he drew up a 
plan for a general attack on the republican 
forces, which, however, proved unsuccessful. 
Not being: upon good terms with the Prince 
of Saxe Cobourg, he obtained his recall. In 
1797, he was employed in the army of the 
Rhine ; and, on the renewal of the war be- 
tween France and Naples, in 1798, he was 
appointed to the command of the Neapoli- 
tan army. Having sustained a succession 
of defeats, he was suspected of treachery, 
and, to avoid the fury of the Neapolitans, 
compelled to throw himself upon the mercy 
of the French. Treated as a prisoner of 
war, he remained in captivity till 1800, 
when he effected his escape. In 1804, he 
was appointed to the command of the 
Austrian forces in the Tyrol, Dalmatia, and 
Italy. He then drew up a scheme, exeeuted 
by the Arch-Duke Charles, for organizing 
the troops. In 1805, he commanded the 
Austrian army in Bavaria. Whether he 
were bribed, or out-manceuvred by Bona- 
parte, was a point much contested at the 
time. Certain itis, that he was shut up in 
the fortress of Ulm, upon the Danube, 
where, though forty-thousand men were 
under his orders, he surrendered his troops 
as prisoners of war without an effort for 
their relief. 
On his return to Austria, General Mack 
was arrested, and sent to the citadel of 
Brunn, in Moravia, whence he was trans- 
ferred to the fortress of Josephstadt, in 
Bohemia. He was tried by a military com- 
mission, and condemned to death; but the 
emperor was pleased to mitigate the sen- 
tence, and his actual punishment was the 
loss of rank, and two years’ imprisonment. 
Candour and probability now favour the 
idea, that his judgment, rather than his 
loyalty and honour, had failed him. EH by 
no means followed that, because he had 
been an able tactician, and had distinguish- 
ed himself in various minor commands, that 
his talents—his mind—should be such as to 
qualify him for a first-rate station. How- 
ever, he published a memoir in justification 
of his conduct. 
Subsequently to his release, General Mack 
lived in retirement, on a small estate in 
Bohemia, and, we believe, with a pension 
from the Austrian court. More recently, 
his residence was at Vienna, where he died, 
on the twenty-second of October last. 
