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LATORC'ZA, a river of Hungary, which rifes near 
the Carpathian Mountains, and runs into the Theyfs 
near Tokay. 
LATOU'CHE’s I'SLAND, an ifland in the North Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, at the entrance of Prince William’s Sound, 
thirteen miles long, and three broad. Lat. 60. N. Ion. 
2ia. 39. E. 
LATOVFCI, in ancient geography, a people of Upper 
Pannonia. 
LATOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Au- 
rungabad: twenty-five miles weft of Aurungabad. 
LATOU'R d’AUVER'GNE, equally celebrated as a 
foldier and a man of learning, was of a noble family in 
France, and a lineal defendant of the famous Turenne: 
he was born at Pontivy, in Brittany, and from his 
early years was engaged in military ftudies and purfuits. 
He was forty-five years in the army, and thirty-three in 
aCtive fervice. Few men carried the fpirit of frugality 
fo far. He lived upon milk and fruits; the national uni¬ 
form was his drefs; and he lived at Pafly for feveral years 
without a fervant, and in one fmall apartment, the foie 
decoration of which was his books and his arms. Latour 
d’Auvergne manifefted the moft decifive attachment to li¬ 
berty from the commencement of the revolution. Pie 
ferved during the whole war. In the army of the Weft- 
ern Pyrenees, he commanded all the companies of gre¬ 
nadiers which formed the advanced guard; and that ter¬ 
rible column, called la colonne inftrnale, had almoft always 
gained the victory by the time the main body of the army 
arrived on the field of battle. In the camp, in his tent, 
this illuftrious captain lived in the midft of the grenadiers, 
whom he called his children, and by whom he was called 
father. His leifure hours were all devoted to ftudy ; and 
in barracks, or at the advanced pofts, he had always fome 
books near his fword. Twenty times had his hat, and 
his cloak, which he always kept upon his left arm in fight¬ 
ing, been pierced with bullets ; yet Latour was never 
wounded. “Our captain,” laid the grenadiers, “has the 
gift of charming bullets.” Of the many extraordinary 
traits which rendered him famous in that army, two are 
very remarkable. The Spaniards had entrenched them- 
felves in front of Bedafioa, in a ftone houfe, from which 
they harrafled the advanced pofts, and prevented the 
French from taking the famous pofition of the Mountain 
of Louis XIV. It was neceflary to drive them from the 
fortrefs, and Latour undertook the enterprife. He ar¬ 
rived at the head of his grenadiers, and amidft the fire of 
the enemy, before the (tone houfe. He advanced to the 
gate, and, ordering the grenadiers to place their mulkets 
in the apertures made for the garrifon to fire from, he 
knocked at the gate, and fummoned the garrifon to fur- 
render, threatening to fet fire to the houfe if they did 
not. The Spaniards confented ; and the place, which 
was nearly impregnable, was given up. After the taking 
of the famous redoubts of Irun and Fontaraba, the French 
advanced guard arrived before St. Sebaftian, a fortrefs 
fituated upon a rock in the fea. Latour d’Auvergne 
threw himfelf into a (kilf, and fummoned the command¬ 
ant to furrender. The French were only able to convey 
an eight-pounder into the midft of thefe mountains. La¬ 
tour ifAuvergne, feigning that he had all the artillery 
before the place, threatened to batter it down ; the com¬ 
mandant, intimidated with recent victories, and by the 
tone of intrepidity adopted by Latour, began to liften to 
the demand ; but, captain, (laid he,) you have not fired 
a fingle gun at my citadel : do me at leaft the honour to 
falute it; for, without that, you mull be convinced that I 
cannot furrender.” Latour d’Auvergne was too well ac¬ 
quainted with the laws of honour and war, not to accede 
to fuch a demand ; he returned to the camp, ordered the 
eight-pounder to play upon the fort, which replied by a 
fhower of grape-fnot. Latour then returned to the for¬ 
trefs, and the keys were delivered to him. He was al¬ 
ways fummoned to councils of war. In the Pyrennees 
lie performed ihe duties of a general, but would never ac- 
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cept the rank. After the peace with Spain, he embarked 
on-board a French fliip to proceed to Brittany, and was 
taken by the Englilh, and carried into Bodmin in Corn¬ 
wall. When he was exchanged, he returned to France, 
and for fome time lived in retirement at Paris. In the 
year 1799, he joined the army in Swifierland, where he 
ferved the whole of the campaign under Maflena, who 
prefented him with a fword of honour, the moft valuable 
gift a republican foldier could receive; for it fltould be 
obferved, that Latour always confidered himfelf as a pri¬ 
vate foldier, refuting to accept of any commiftion : Bo¬ 
naparte therefore conferred on him the title of “ firft gre¬ 
nadier of the French republic.” At length he met his 
death, where he fo long had fought it, in the field of 
glory : he was killed in the engagement of the 28th of 
June, 1800, between the armies of Moreau and Kray, on 
the heights of Neuburg in Bavaria. In this battle the 
Aultrians appear to have been worfted, as they retreated 
to Ingollladt. The lofs of the French was confiderable, 
but none was more feverely felt than that of Latour 
d’Auvergne. The French army was overwhelmed with 
grief, and, as a mark of their refpeCt, the drums were or¬ 
dered to be covered for three days with black crape ; his 
name was kept on the roll of his company, his place was 
not to be filled up ; and, at the roll-call, a foldier was 
appointed, at the mention of his name, to anfwer, “Dead, 
in fighting for the liberties of his country.” A monu¬ 
ment was erected to his memory on the fpot where he fell. 
Latour was the author of a work, entitled Gallic Origins, 
in which the greateft erudition is united with the foundeft 
criticifm, and the moft animated ftyle. 
LATO'WIC, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: eighteen 
miles eaft of Czerlk. 
LATO'US, a name given to Apollo as fon of Latona. 
LA'TRANT, adj. \_latrans , Lat.] Barking: 
Thy care be firft the various gifts to trace. 
The minds and genius of the latrant race. Tickell. 
LATR AP'PE, a monaftic order of French origin, and one 
of the moft auftere and felf-denying of all the inftitutions 
of this nature. The founder of this order is faid to have 
been a French nobleman, whofe name was Bouthillier de 
Ranee, a man of pleafure and difiipation, which were 
fuddenly converted into the deepeft devotion and me¬ 
lancholy by the following circumftance : His affairs had 
obliged him to abfent himfelf for fome time from a lady 
with whom he had lived in the moft intimate and tender 
connections. On his return to Paris, he contrived a plan 
in order to furprife her agreeably, and to fatisfy his im¬ 
patient defire of feeing her, by going without ceremony 
or previous notice to her apartment. She lay ftretched 
out an inanimate corpfe, disfigured beyond conception by 
the fmall-pox ; and the l'urgeon was about to feparate the 
head from the body, becaule the coffin had been made too 
fhort! He was a few minutes motionlefs with horror ; 
and then retired abruptly from the world to a convent, id 
which he pafied the remainder of his days in the greateft 
felf-mortification and devotion. 
The following account of the economy of the abbey or 
monaftery of Latrappe, on the borders of Percheand Nor¬ 
mandy, founded in the year 1140, is extracted from the 
third volume of Mad. Genlis’s Leftons of a Governefs. 
It contains fome information refpeCting the order which 
is not commonly known. 
“This morning at a quarter before ten we entered once 
more into the inner compartment of the abbey. After 
having heard mafs, we were admitted into the refeCtory 
to fee the fathers dine. There was no cloth upon the ta¬ 
ble, but each monk had a napkin; their plates were of 
pewter, and their fpoons of wood; each monk received a 
porringer of foup, a plate of herbs, two or three apples, 
a large llice of bread, a little mug of water, and another 
of beer. One of the fociety afeended a fort of pulpit 
made for that purpofe, and preached them a fermon dur¬ 
ing their repaft. Each monk preaches this fermon in his 
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