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aftonifhing, and this is in a great meafure to be 
attributed to the enthufiafm of the legiflators 
deputed to fuperintend its actions, who kindled 
a congenial fpirit around them, and acquired a 
popularity highly beneficial. Among other in- 
ftances, it is fufficient only to obferve, that they 
were acceffible to all, lived in public, and 
atually placed the following infcription, in let- 
ters of gold, on the front of the hotel which 
they inhabitcd : 
‘NOUS VOUDRONS 
s© QUE LA MAISON DES REPRESEN- 
“TANS DU PEUPLE, 
fOFUT DE VERRE, 70" 5 
“POUR QUE LE PEUPLE PUT ETRE 
« TEMOIN 
« DE TOUTES LEURS ACTIONS.” 
On the difmiffion of Pichegru, an event highly 
éetrimental to the interefts of France, Marceaa 
ferved under Jourdan, aflifted at the brilliast 
and rapid pafiage of the Rhine, which, in the 
age of Louis XIV, had been celebrated by 
gneans of poems and medals, and then penetrated 
with the army of the Sambre and Meufe into 
the heart of Germany. During the memorable 
and fatal retreat that fucceeded, he was entrufed 
swith the rear guard, which on fuch occafions, 
3s confidered as the poft of honour. In this 
fituation, while covering the army in its retro- 
gade motion through the dangerous defiles of 
Altenkerchin, and a€ting at once the part of a 
Soldier and a general, he expefed himfelf to the 
too certain aim of a Tyrolefe markfman; and 
like our Hambden, during the civil wars, was 
Pierced by an obfcure hand, in the field of 
battle, and fell lamented even by the enemy.— 
dt is here neceflary to do juftice to the generous 
pity of the Germans, and particularly of Gene- 
vals Haddick and Kray; the fir of whom, or- 
dered him to be conveyed, according to his own 
requeft, to a neighbouring village, while the 
tter thed tears over a gallant rival, whom he 
had fo often combated. The Archduke, Charles, 
himfelf, fent his furgeon_to attend him; but on 
the &fth complimentary day, the fymptoms be- 
tokened an approaching diflolution, aad he ex- 
pired at fix o’clock, The regiments of Barco 
and Blankenflein, contended for the honour of 
paying him the laf duties. The French Of- 
ficers infifted on his being buried within the ter- 
ritory occupied by the Republic; and the Em- 
peror’s brother confented, annexing however, 
the generous condition that the Auftrians thould 
be apprized of the time when the ceremony 
commenced, that they might join in the military 
- Konours paid to him. Thus, two hoftile ar- 
mies, with mumled drums, arms reverfed, and 
joint difcharges of artillery, celebrated the in- 
terment of Marceau, in the entrenched camp at 
Coblentz, and paid a glorious teftimony to a 
man, whofe memory like that of his,country- 
man, the Chevalier Bayard, wil! ever be dear to 
Frenchmen, and who, like him, will be deemed 
a feldier, 
“ Sanz peur, and fans refrocke,” 
Without fear, and without fain, 
Biezraphical Notices.~Gen. Marceau, &c. 
¢. 
foe: 
On the roth of O&tober, 1796, at her palace 
near Copenhagen, Juliana Maria, Queen Dowager 
of Denmark, in the 68th year of her age, having 
been born on the 4th of September, 1729. Her 
Majefty was the daughter of the late Duke 
Ferdinand Albert, of Brunfwic Wolfenbottle, and 
confort to Frederic V, King of Denmark, whora 
fhe furvived nearly twenty years. ‘The life of 
this Princefs forms an epoch in the hiftory of 
her adopted country. She carried with her to 
the court of Frederic, a fpirit of intrigue, im- 
bibed in the petty German States, that gave her 
birth ; and lighted up a flame in the Hyperbo- 
rean Regions, that will make her name long 
remembered. On the marriage of her fon-in- 
law, Chriftian VII, to Carolina-~Matilda, daugh~ 
ter of a former Prince of Wales, and fifter to 
George if], the took an aétive part againft the 
young Queen; who, by her masked partiality 
towards the celebrated and unfortunate Count 
Struenfee, afforded but too fair an opportunity 
for the arts of an ambitious and intriguing rival. 
The event juftified the hopes of the Dowager, 
for the Englith party, as it was then termed, 
was deprived of all its influence, fome of the 
chiefs executed, and Carolina-Matilda herfelf, 
kept a clofe prifoner in the caftie of Cronenberg, 
during eighteen weeks, whence fhe was removed 
to Zell, where the foon after died. It is afferted, 
and that too, with great probability, that the 
would have fhared the fate of her /uppofed para- 
mour, and fuffered an ignominious death on a 
public {caffold, had it not been for the fpirited 
intervention of Sir R. Murray Keith, our minifter 
at Copenhagen. In confequence of this revo- 
lution, the King, if a man reduced to a deplor- 
able fate of mental imbecility, may be fo 
termed, became the prey of the prevailing fac~ 
tion, and iffued their orders in his own name.— 
In the mean time, the prefent Prince Royal of 
Denmark (born Jan. 28th, 1768) began to in- 
dicate a promife of future talents; and being - 
inftigated, partly by the hopes of reverging his 
mother’s caufe, and partly fpurred on, by 
thofe in his interefl, he determined to feize 
on the reins of government. Accordingly, in 
March, 1784, when only in the feventeenth 
year of his age, he found means to fupplant the 
old antagonilt of his family; and by a new re- 
volution, aétually placed himfelf at the head of 
adminiftration, and has ever fince reigned, under 
the name of Chriftian VII. This event mut 
be allowed to have been highly beneficial to 
Denmark; for, excepting a fhort, and not fer ious 
conteft with Sweden, produced by the intrigues 
of Ruflia) that country has ever fince enjoyed 
a profound peace, acquired a great accefhion of 
wealth, by a wife neutrality during the Ameri- 
can and prefent contefts ; and has juft opened the* 
fine harbour of Copenhagen, as a free port, for 
the reception of the Eaft-India commodities, of 
all the powers at war. During the laft twelve 
years, the Queen Dowager, happy in an unex- 
pected impunity, has lived in retirenient; not, 
however, it may be fuppofed, without expe- 
riencing fome of thofe ienfations which a 
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