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FOX RIVEIl FRACASTORIUS. 



FOX RIVER ; a river in the North-Western Ter- 

 ritory, United States, which flows easterly, passes 

 through lakes Pushaway and Winnebago, and runs 

 into the south end of Green bay, at fort Howard. It 

 is connected with the Ouisconsin by a portage of one 

 and a half miles. The portage is over a low prairie, 

 which is sometimes overflowed, and passable with 

 boats. Though there are some obstructions for 

 about twenty miles above the mouth, yet boats ascend 

 throughout to the portage, 180 miles. The river is 

 400 yards wide at its mouth. 



FOY, MAXIMILIAN SEBASTIAN, a distinguished 

 French general and orator, was born at Ham, Feb. 

 3, 1775, and was educated in the military school la 

 Fere. In 1791, he joined the volunteers who hastened 

 to defend the frontiers of their country. In 1792, 

 he served in the artillery in the army of the North, 

 under the command of Dumouriez, and afterwards 

 under Dampierre, Custine, Houchard, Jourdan, and 

 Pichegru, and was wounded in the battle of Je- 

 mappe. In 1794, the infamous Joseph Lebon, com- 

 missioner of the convention, caused him to be arrested, 

 because Foy openly censured his excesses ; the 

 9th Thermidor, however, saved his life. In the 

 campaigns of 1795, 1796, and 1797, he served in the 

 army of the Rhine and Moselle, distinguished himself 

 particularly, in 1797, at the second passage of the 

 Rhine, near Diersheim, and became the personal 

 friend of Moreau a circumstance which for some 

 time operated unfavourably on his advancement. To- 

 wards the end of 1798, he served in Switzerland, 

 under general Schauenburg, and in 1799, in the 

 army of the Danube, under Massena, where he 

 assisted materially in the passage of the Limmath. 

 In 1800, he was adjutant-general in the division of 

 Moncey, in the army of the Rhine which marched 

 through Switzerland into Italy, and commanded the 

 vanguard of the army of Italy, in the campaign of 

 1801, during which he defeated the enemy at the 

 entrance of the Tyrol. On the renewal of hostilities 

 with Britain, in 1803, he received the command of 

 the floating batteries intended for the defence of the 

 coasts of the channel. In 1805, he commanded the 

 artillery of the second division, in the Austrian 

 campaign. In 1807, Napoleon sent him to Turkey, 

 at the head of 1200 artillerists, to assist sultan Selim 

 against the Russians and British ; but, in conse- 

 quence of the insurrection, in which Selim was 

 dethroned, that corps returned to France. Colonel 

 Foy, however, remained in Constantinople, and 

 assisted, under the direction of the French ambas- 

 sador, general Sebastian!, the present (1830) minister 

 of marine, in making preparations for the defence 

 of the Turkish capital and the Dardanelles. These 



were so effective, that Duckworth, the British 

 admiral, who approached the capital, was obliged 

 to retire. From 1808 to 1812, Foy was general of 

 division of the army in Portugal. July 21, 1812, 

 after the defeat of the French at Salamanca, ho 

 succeeded Marmont, as commander-in-chief, and 

 conducted the retreat to the Duero. After Welling- 

 ton had been obliged to raise the siege of Burgos, 

 Oct. 21, 1812, general Foy advanced at the head of 

 the right wing of the army of Portugal, and effected 

 the passage of the Duero near Tordesillas, October 

 29. After the defeat of king Joseph and Jourdan at 

 Vittoria, June 21, 1813, he collected 20,000 men 

 at Bergara, beat back the left wing of the Spanish 

 army, and defended every inch of ground, so that 

 general Graham succeeded in carrying his position 

 at Tolosa only after a most sanguinary conflict. 

 General Foy, after reinforcing the garrison of 

 St Sebastian, retreated across the Bidassoa without 

 loss. In the battles at Pampeluna and Jean- 

 Pied-de-Port, he commanded the left wing; and 

 was present in all the battles in the Pyrenees, 

 until he was dangerously wounded, Feb. 27, 1814. 

 In 1814 and 1815, he was division-inspector of 

 infantry. In the campaign of 1815, he command- 

 ed a division on the field of Waterloo, where he 

 was wounded for the 15th time. In 1819, he was 

 appointed division-inspector of infantry, and the same 

 year was elected deputy by the department of the 

 Aisne. 



A soldier, educated in the field, and covered with 

 honourable scars, he now at once distinguished him- 

 self as an orator, and became the favourite of the 

 nation. He always voted with the left side (the 

 liberals), and proved himself the firm advocate of 

 constitutional liberty. The knowledge of political 

 economy, which he displayed both in regard to the 

 civil and military administration, was of a high order. 

 He distinguished himself particularly hi the debates 

 on the old laws of election, and those respecting the 

 conscription, the war against Spain in 1823, and in all 

 the debates on the guarantees of civil liberty. Gen- 

 eral Foy died Nov. 28, 1825. A subscription was 

 opened for the erection of a monument to his memory, 

 and for the support of his family, which he left 

 destitute, and within three months 900,000 francs 

 were subscribed. Madame Foy has published, from 

 her husband's papers, a History of the Peninsular 

 War, 4 vols. 8vo. (translated into English). His 

 Discours have also been published since his death. 

 (Discours du General Foy, precedes d'une Notice Bio- 

 graphique, par M. P. F. Tissot; d'vn Eloge par M. 

 Etienne, et d'un Essai sur I Eloquence Politique en 

 France, par M. Jay, Paris, 1826, 2 vols. 8vo), in 

 which the reader will find an account of the affecting 

 scenes which occurred at the funeral of general Foy. 



FRA ; an Italian prefix, derived from the word 

 /rate, brother, and used before the names of monks ; 

 for instance, Fra-Giovanni, brother John. Some 

 monks have become famous under such names, as 

 Fra-Bartolomeo the painter, and Fra-Paolo, the cele- 

 brated Venetian monk. 



FRACASTORIUS, JEROME ; an ingenious poet of 

 the sixteenth century, was born at Verona, in Italy. 

 It is said that h came into the world without a 

 mouth, having in the place of it a small aperture, 

 which was enlarged by a surgical operation. One 

 day, when his mother was carrying him in her arms, 

 and walking in a garden, she was scorched by light- 

 ning, and the child was uninjured. He was patronised 

 by cardinal Bembo, to whom he addressed the most 

 celebrated of his works, a Latin poem entitled Sy- 

 philis. In the latter part of his life, he wrote a poem 

 on the adventures of the patriarch Joseph ; but his 

 poetic fire seems then to have been exliausted, and 



