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ambition that the Vendeans attribute their firft 
difafters ; it was in compliance with the di¢tates 
“ef his ambition that he feparated his corps from 
the grand Catholic army, commanded by Delbee 
and Beauchamp, of whofe talents he was jealous, 
and whofe fuperiority he dreaded. This fepa- 
ration, the want of concert, that was the effect 
of it, procured for the republicans the bloody 
and glorious day of St. Symphorien, the capture 
of Chatillon, on the roth of Odtober, 1793, the 
decifive victory of Cholet, onthe £7th, and drove 
the immenfe wreck of the great army to the 
right bank of the Loire, - In this army there was 
2 corps of r0,000 Bretons, commanded by the 
moft fkilful of the chiefs whom that horrible 
war has deftroyed, Beauchamp. That man, whofe 
great talents were fo fatal to the country, re- 
fumed the idea conceived fome months before 
by Cathelineau, of making Bretany on the 
right bank revolt ; and for that purpofe, of pafl- 
ing the Loire viel 10,000 Bretons, always vic- 
torious when he commanded them, always de- 
feated when he ceafed to command them. The 
great army was te remain upon the left bank. 
The plan was executed by the 10,000 Bretons, 
“whe forced the paffes ; but the great army having 
been defeated at Cholet, preffed by the repub- 
licans, by the immortal garrifon of Meatz ; 
having loft its two chiefs (Delbee being griev- 
oufly, and Beauchamp mortally wounded) fnd- 
ing the road prepared by the 10,000 Bretons, 
crofed the Loire with them. Charette had 
been a lieutenant in the navy. He was, at the 
commencement of Ze war, “of a brutal and os 
wage ferocity: to threaten a prifoner with fending 
him to Charette, was to fend him to the fez fold. 
This ferocious and fanguinary character had be- 
come more mild in the fu icceeding campaigns, 
but in the lait year, it refumed all its former 
cruelty : he caufed to be affaffinated, a he 
afiafinated in cool blood, and on the { 
‘fufpicion, both friend afd foe. And ee ap- 
pears moit extraordinary is, tha at this man pof- 
teifed, in a fupreme2 degree, the ait of attaching 
to him thofe who ferved under him, both of- 
ficers and privates. Charette’s bravery was 
equal to any thing. In the midft of the greatedt 
dangers he - preferved a rare prefence of mind; 
and usaiterabie tranquillity Ente erpHfings in- 
defatigable, and aétive: he feldem flept ina 
bed ; the fleep that he tock was always difturb- 
eu; pad interrupted by a frarts, and 
frequently by Joud cries. He maintained a 
winter campaign againft 30, co.men, having 
under him only 4 er seo adventurers. He 
vaverfed with this feeble ba: nd, the wreck of the 
great army that had not panied the Loire, or that 
were able to return to La \ vendee, after the -de- 
feat at Savena By dint of active operations, 
he at length was i ceapied to increafe his corps to 
fifteen or twenty thoufand men. Charette was 
the laft and only rfource of the Vendeans. The 
chiefs that remami have litue Knowledge, and no 
importance. 
At the Hague, at an advanced. age, 
long illneis, the comteffe de Walgerca 
Marriages and Deaths in London. 
f Aprif. 
to Lord Howard and Mrs. Parker) wife of 
Comte de Weldereny who was many years mi- 
ge hy from Holland in this country. 
Lately, at Berne in Switzerland, 2eér 
lingering illvieks of many years, the Right Hon. 
Spencer Compton, Ear} of Northampton, Lord 
Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotuforum of the 
county of Northampton, Recorder of that Cor- 
poration, and Prefident of the General Hofpital 
and Prefervative Society of that county. 
Marriages in Loudox. 
Married.} Fhe Right Hon. Earl Temple 
to eee Ann Elizabeth Brydges. ~The young 
coupie fet out immediately for the Marquis of 
Buckingham’ s feat, at Stowe, in Buckingham- 
fhire. 
The Rev. Charles Holden, of Baker-ftrect, 
Portman-fquare, to Mifs Rofamond Amelia 
Deane, of Lanidown-place, Bath. 
Mr. Mallefon, of Hackney, to Mifs Withy, 
of Fulham. 
Whaley Armitage, efq. of Lincoln’s Inn, 
to Mits Haiftwell, of Richmond, Surrey, eldeit 
daughter of the fe Edward Ha aeyelle efq. 
At St. Dunftan’s, Fleet-fireet, Mr. Johs 
White, merchant, of Edinburgh, to Mifs Ann 
Lambe, fecond denphier of Mr. Lambe, of 
Fetter-lane. 
By fpecial licence, Mr. Skill, of the Strand, 
to Mifs Anna Brefley. 
At Marybone church, Dr. R. W. Darwin te 
Milfs Wedgewood, daughter of ‘the late Jofiah 
Wedgewoed, efq. of Etruria, Staffordthire. 
Mr. S. Auftin, of Edgeware-road, Mary- 
bone, to Mifs Louifa Green, only daughter of 
the lare Brook Parry Green, efq. of Hatheld. 
George Nathaniel Beft, efq. of the Middie 
Temple, to Mifs E. Wood. 
The Rev. Mr. Ripley, vicar of Kelvedon, 
to Mifs Mary Marter, of Fulham. : 
Mr. Daniell, of Paddingtcn, to Mifs Maria 
Weft. 
Sunday, at St. Anne’s, Soho, the Rey. Mr. 
Bloxham, reéter of Brinklow, te Mifs A. 
Lawrence. 
By fpec‘al licence, at Lady Ann Simpfon’s, ~ 
Upper Harley -ftreet, Sir Thomas Liddell, 
bart. to Mifs Maria Simpfon. 
At Marybone. church, John Coleman, efq- 
of the Royal ‘Lancathire regiment of militia, 
to Mifs Douglas, of St. Thomas’s Hill, near 
Canterbury. 
Frederick Prefcott, efq. to Mifs Sarah Grote, 
of Upper Grofvenor-itreet. 
George Jennings, efq. of Acton, to Mis 
Caroline Heworth, late of King-ftreet, Stu 
jJameés’s. ' 
At Chunar Gur, in the Eaft Indies, William: 
Pretton, efq. to Mifs Charlotte Harvey, of 
Golden-{quare, London. 
Mr. Dalton, of Lincoln’s Inn, 
Parkin, 
te Milfs, 
Deaths in London. i f 
Died.] Mrs. Hooke, of Chapel-ftreet, Bed- 
ford-rove, 
At 
