1828.] 
the close of the year 1827, his valuable life 
terminated at Chelsea. To lament his loss, 
Mr. Scott left a widow, one son, and eight 
or nine daughters, all arrived at the age of 
maturity. 
THE DUKE DE RIVIERE. 
The Duke de Riviére, governor of the 
young Duke of Bordeaux, and one of the 
most devoted servants of the Bourbons, was 
the descendant of a noble family of the pro- 
vince of Berri. He was born in the year 
1763; and, in 1780, he entered the army. 
He emigrated with the French princes in 
1789; and, after having served in the army 
of Condé, he became first aid-de-camp to the 
present King of France, then Count d’ Artois, 
by whom he was employed.on various mis- 
sions to the royalists of the west. He en- 
tered France seven times in disguise, to cor- 
respond with the friends of the royal cause ; 
but, unfortunately, in 1804, having been 
sent to Paris, with the generals George and 
Pichegru, he was arrested with those officers, 
tried, and sentenced to death. On his trial 
he evinced the most dignified courage. 
Through the intercession of Buonaparte’s 
wife, Madame Josephine, his life was spared, 
and his punishment was mitigated into an 
imprisonment of four years. 
When Louis XVIII. was restored, Mons. 
de Riviére was appointed a mareschal de 
camp, made a commander of the order of 
St. Louis, and nominated ambassador to the 
Ottoman Porte. He was waiting at Mar- 
seilles for a favourable wind, when Buona- 
parte landed from Elba; and, having ex- 
erted himself to the utmost in raising the 
south of France against the usurper, he 
sailed to Barcelona, and joined the Duke 
.d’Angouleme. 
In July, Monsieur de Riviére returned 
to Marseilles, on board of the British squa- 
dron, as governor of the eighth division, 
and was received with acclamations by the 
inhabitants. On the re-establishment of the 
Bourbons, he, for his services, in prevailing 
on Marshal Brune to relinquish the com- 
mand of the army of the Var, and retire 
from Toulon, to prevent the Austrians and 
English from acting hostilely in Provence, 
was eleyated to the peerage. 
The Duke de Riviére was then sent, as 
governor, to Corsica. That island was in a 
very disturbed state ; but, by a happy com- 
Dination of intrepidity and amenity of man- 
ners, he had the satisfaction of speedily wit- 
Nessing a restoration of tranquillity. His 
object having been accomplished at Cor- 
ica, he proceeded on his mission to Con- 
Stantinople, where he, for a considerable 
time held the office of ambassador. 
After his return to France, the Duke de 
Riviere had the honour of | eing appointed 
governor of the Duke of Bordeaux. He died 
at Paris, in the exercise of that high trust, 
on the 21st of April. It is not a little re- 
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markable, that the Duke de Riviére was the 
third governor of whom the Duke of Bor- 
deaux has been deprived by death. 
ST. GEORGE TUCKER, ESQ. 
Mr. St. George Tucker, who, by way of 
honorary distinction, has been known in the 
United States, for the last thirty-five years, 
as the American Blackstone, died at Nor- 
folk, in Virginia, in March last. In the 
struggle for American independence, he 
employed both his sword and his pen. 
While in the command of one of the revo- 
lutionary regiments, he was severely wounded 
in a charge of infantry: a soldier's bayonet 
was driven through his knee-pan, and, as a 
consequence of the wound, he hada stiff- 
ness in the knee ever after. His brother, 
Thomas Tudor Tucker, Esq., the present 
treasurer of the United States, and the friend 
and favourite of General Washington, has 
often been heard to declare, that Mr. St. 
George Tucker’s poem on Liberty was equal 
to a reinforcement of ten thousand disci- 
plined troops. 
Mr. Tucker was the father-in-law of the 
American patriot and orator, Thomas Ran- 
dolph, Esq.; and uncle of his namesake; 
the East-India director. He has left con- 
siderable American property to his nearest 
relations. 
M. HOFFMANN. 
M. Hoffmann, one of the most distin. 
guished /iterati of France, was born at 
Nanci, in the year 1745. His entire life 
has been devoted to literature. His first 
publication was a volume of poems. He 
next attempted the drama; in which, hav- 
ing written twenty pieces, or more, he has 
been almost invariably successful. His Eu- 
phrosyne, The Young Sage and the Old 
Madman, The Jockey, The Secret, The 
Castle of Montenero, and Stratonice, are re- 
garded as some of the best pieces belonging 
to the comic opera of France. In the year 
1799, his lyric tragedy of Adrian was de- 
nounced, as anti-republican, in the Council 
of Five Hundred, and its representation was 
suspended. 
M. Hoffmann attacked, with great seve- 
rity, The Martyrs of M. de Chateaubriand, 
on account of the injury it might do to 
youth, in placing the mysteries of the 
Christian religion on the same footing with 
the fables of paganism. He has had many 
contests in the journals, where his works 
have been severely criticised and ably de- 
fended. His remarks and criticisms were 
distinguished by ease, taste, and pleasantry, 
Possessing a truly independent spirit, M. 
Hoffmann was considered to be the best 
writer in the French journals. The Journal 
des Débats, in particular, will suffer from 
his loss. He died at Paris, in the month of 
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