MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 71 
Baron Wimpfen, lieutenant-general in the Russian 
service, who died at Lunéville in consequence of 
wounds received at the battle of Austerlitz. 
In the review of Pallas’s history, it is impossible 
not to recognise great sagacity, and the most de- 
voted enthusiasm in his pursuits. The peace in 
which he lived with his competitors, very decidedly 
proclaims amiability, for it is difficult to attribute it 
only to prudence; and though nothing so much 
disposes to the exercise of benevolence as the expe- 
riencing it, yet it does not always happen that where 
a man is not assailed he does not attack others. 
Those who were personally acquainted with him 
commend the evenness and sprightliness of his dis- 
position. He had no objection to pleasure as a 
relaxation, but would never allow it to interfere 
with his usefulness or repose. He was all his life 
greatly engrossed with his scientific pursuits, and 
experienced in them his chief and most satisfactory 
delights. ) 
