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the emperor Alexander uneafy refpefting what had be¬ 
come of Moreau. The latter gave his imperial Majefty 
an account of the pofitions of the enemy at all points.” 
And while thus employed he met his death in a manner 
that is too well known to need repetition. He expired 
on the ad of Sept. 1813. and difplayed a fortitude and 
refignation correlponding with the whole tenour of nis 
life. When his furgeon informed him of the hopeleifnefs 
of his fituation, he diftated a letter to the emperor 
Alexander, in which he fervently exprelfed his grateful 
fenfe of the kindnefs he had received from that monarch. 
But even at this awful moment the promotion of the 
caufe in which he had embarked, was uppermoH in his 
mind ; and, after communicating the hopes he entertained 
of its fuccefs, and fome remarks on its further profecu- 
tion, he expired without a groan. 
The character of Moreau, as a general, Hands very 
high indeed; and it would be difficult to find adequate 
expreffions for the admiration excited in France, and 
throughout Europe, by the fuccefs with which he ex¬ 
tricated himfelf from a fituation apparently of very im¬ 
minent danger. We fpeak of the retreat through the 
Valley of Hell in 1796. To us, however, it has always 
feemed that the merit of this retreat was confiderably 
over-rated. There was a novelty in it, becaufe French¬ 
men in the revolutionary war had been difiinguilhed 
only for offenfive operations, and had been accounted 
511 qualified for the patient and Heady conduft which 
is indifpenfable in a long retreat. French foldiers, how¬ 
ever, when well difciplined, are, from their readinefs to 
acquiefce in privations, and to believe whatever their 
officers choofe to tell them, fcarcely lefs fitted for one 
kind of fervice than the other. Moreau had the great 
merit of viewing his fituation without difmay, and of 
lofing nothing by precipitation. All his retrograde move¬ 
ments were calculated to fupport each other; and at a 
particular time, (2d of October,) when the Aufirians 
ventured to come too near him, he relumed the offenfive 
with fignal fuccefs. Here, however, it feerns fit that 
the eulogium Ihould end, becaufe his army was always 
fuperior in number to his purfuers, and retreated, not 
from any check of diminution experienced by itfelf, but 
in confequence of the overthrow of a feparate force. 
Although, therefore, we do not carry our admiration of 
that famous retreat fo far as many perfons do, our 
qualified encomium of this particular operation is not 
to be confidered in the light of a difient from the general 
opinion of the high military talents of Moreau. Nothing, 
we believe, but a courfe of years and experience was 
wanting to approximate him to our own Marlborough, 
or to the firfi name in the annals of French taftics, 
Turenne. The aftive part of Moreau’s career was con¬ 
cluded at the age of thirty-nine; an age at which thole, 
who are aware of the complicated labours of a general, 
will be difpoled to confider the mind as only beginning 
to arrive at a familiarity with the duties of a fituation 
whiclp of all others, feerns to demand the mofi iritenfe 
application of intellect. Some Details of Gen. Moreau. 
Philippart's Memoirs of Gen. Moreau. Monthly Rev. 
Oft. 1814. 
MO'RECAMBE BA'Y, a bay in the Irifli Sea, on the 
coaH of Lancalhire, at the mouths of the rivers Leven 
and Dudden. Lat. 54. 4. N. Ion. 2. 52. W. 
MO'RECOT, a village in Hamplhire, fouth-wefi of 
Romfey. 
MO'RECOT, a village in Oxfordlhire, between Bicef- 
ter and Whatley. 
MO'RECOT, a village in Rutlandfnire, on the fouth 
fide of the Lufl’enhams. An alms-houle was founded 
here in the reign of king James I. for fix poor men and 
women unmarried, who were each to have 61. a-year. 
MORE'E, a town of France, in the department of the 
Loire and Cher, on the Loire: ten miles north of Ven- 
dome, and twenty north of Blois. \ 
M O R 
MORE'E, a river of Bengal, which runs into the bay 
in lat. 21. 50. N. Ion. 91. 3. E. 
MOREE'N, f. A kind of HuH’ ufed for curtains and 
bed-hangings. 
MORE'IRA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira: thirty-two miles fouth-ealt of Lamego. 
MOREL', [mori/le, Fr. from Gr. black.] A 
kind of mufhroom ; the Phallus efeuientus. 
Spungy morels in Hrong ragouHs are found, 
And in the foup the flimy fnail is drown’d. Gafs Trivia. 
A kind of cherry.— Morel is a black cherry, fit for the 
confervatory before it be thorough ripe, but it is bitter 
eaten raw. Mortimer. 
MOREL' (William), a native of Normandy, profefTor 
royal of Greek, fucceeded Turnebusin 1 555 as diredtor 
of the royal prefs, and gave good editions of feveral 
Greek authors. He wrote, 1. A Commentary on Cicero 
de Finibus, i545,'4to. 2. A Table of the Sefts of Phi- 
lofophers. 3. A Diftionary in Greek, Latin, and French. 
He died in 1564; and is mentioned by feveral authors 
with applaufe. Moreri. 
There have been feveral eminent French printers of 
this name. 
Frederic Morel the Elder, a native of Champagne, 
was king’s printer at Paris, and his interpreter for the 
Greek and Latin languages, in which he was greatly 
(killed. He married the daughter of the celebrated 
printer Vafcofan, and was his heir. He compofed feveral 
works; and died at Paris in 1583, at the age of about 
fixty. 
Frederic Morel the Younger, the moH celebrated 
of the name, was fon of the preceding, and fucceeded 
his father in 1581 as king’s printer in Hebrew, Greek, 
Latin, and French. He tranflated from the Greek, and 
publifhed from the manuferipts in the king’s library, 
a great number of authors, among which were feveral 
treatifes of St. Bafil, Theodoret, Synelius, St. Cyril, 
Galen, Philo-Judaeus, and the works of Libanius, with 
annotations of his own. Fie was fo devoted to itudy, 
that, being informed that his wife was expiring, he 
would not quit his pen till he had finifiied a fentence; 
and when, before it was concluded, he was told that 
Hie was dead, he coolly replied, “ I am very forry for it 
—ihe was a good woman.” He died in 1638, at the age 
of feventy-eight. One of his fons, Nicholas, was the 
king’s interpreter for the learned languages, and wrote 
feveral poems. 
Claude Morel, brother to the preceding, was nomi¬ 
nated king’s printer in 1602. He gave valuable editions 
of feveral Greek fathers and other authors, to which he 
added prefaces of his own compofition. He died in 1626, 
wdiilH he was engaged in an edition of St. Athanafius 
and Libanius, which were completed by his fon Claude , 
his fucceffor in office. 
Charles, another fon of Frederic, exercifed the fame 
office with credit, which he refigned in 1630 to his bro¬ 
ther Giles. The latter printed an edition of AriHotle, 
Gr. Lat. in 4 vols. folio; and the great Bibliotheca Pa- 
trum, in 17 vols. folio, 1643. Moreri. 
MOREL' (Andrew), an eminent antiquary, was a 
native of Berne, and of the reformed religion. He came 
at an early age to Paris, where he diHinguilhed himfelf 
by his erudition, efpecially in the aflemblies of learned 
men held at the'houfe of the duke d’Aumont, who were 
engaged upon a plan of elucidating the Roman hifiory 
by medals. Morel had from his youth been addifted 
to the Hudy of medals, of which he had collected and 
drawn a great number. His learned friends exhorted 
him to form a defeription of all the medals colleftively 
which had been already made public, or were contained 
in his own cabinet. He complied with their folicita- 
tions, and in 1683 gave a profpeftus of his intended 
labour, in a publication intitled “ Specimen univerfie 
