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5th. In Great George.strect, 
Westminster,’ Havilland Jue Mesn- 
rier, esq. younger brother, and 
surviving partner, of the late al- 
derman Le M. commissary-general 
of the army, &c. He was born in 
Guernsey in 1758, and received a 
liberal education at Wiachester- 
school. He was, during some years, 
in a mercantile connexion vith his 
father and eldest brothers, the two 
fate governors of Alderney. He 
married, ii 1782, Miss Eliza Do- 
brée, of Guernsey, and soon after- 
wards removed to Havre de Grace, 
where he joined the firm of a very 
considerable, commercial house; 
thence he came to England, and 
established himself as a merchant in 
London; but, suffering under the 
commercial disasters of the fatal year, 
1793, he accepted of a commissa- 
riat commission in the army of the 
British allies in Flanders, of which 
Mr. Watson, (now sir Brook W.) 
was then commissary-general. He 
was soon raised to the ascending 
progressive ranks of assistant-com~ 
missary-general, deputy “commis. 
sary-general, and acting commissary 
general; in which capacity he at- 
tended and provided for the armies 
_ in their celebrated retreat through 
the disastrous severitics of a German 
winter, in the severe season of 
1794-5, with the peculiar approba- 
tion of generals Dondas and Wal- 
moden. Upon his return to Eng- 
Jand, when our trcops were with- 
drawn from the continent, he joined 
in partnership with his brother, the 
Fate worthy alderman; and in the 
spring of 1797, upon the expecta. 
tion of the threatened invasion, he 
was appointed commissary-general 
of the southern district ef England, 
comprehending the important home 
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counties of Surrey, Sussex, and 
Kent, upon a plan of supply by 
stationary depots of provisions, 
stores, and forage; a plan the most. 
excellent, etiective, and economical, 
ever yet devised, and which was 
brought forward and perfected un- 
der the immediate approbation of 
general sir Charles (now lord Grey), 
who commanded the district. In 
the summer of 1799, the appoint. 
meut of commissary-general of all ’ 
England was first created in favour 
of Mr. Brook Watson, which Mr. 
Le M. conceived to be placing him 
in the secondary rank, against 
which he had specifically stipulated; 
a spirited difference arose, the con. 
sequence of which was the resigna. 
tion of Mr. Le M. in June 1800, 
and the almost immediate reduction 
of all officers serving under him, as 
well as a total alteration of his plan. 
The causes, effects, and bearings, of 
this circumstance, he has given to 
the world in a most dispassionate 
and sensible pamphlet, lately pub. 
lished. He.was, however, upon a 
change of administration, in 1801, 
again appointed commissary-gene- 
ral, upon the decease of Mr. Motz 
(an alien!) in Egypt, to the army 
then preparing to return to Eng- 
land, upon the conclusion of the 
peace of Amiens: the difficulties 
which arose upon the articles of 
that peace, protraéted ‘the term of 
Mr. Le M.’s service considerably, 
and extended it to Malta, Naples, 
&c. and gave him the opportunity for 
new exertions of his talents, zeal, 
and disinterested integrity; all of 
which he again demonstrated to a 
degree almost unparalleled, He 
had published, in 1799, ** The 
British Commissary,” dedicating it 
to generals Walmoden and Dundas,, 
his 
