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¥igour, notwithftanding a number of forties. 
Six redoubts, or advanced works, were after- 
wards carried, but not without confiderable 
Yofs. The various parallels were at length 
finithed, the batteries were erected, and fur- 
nifhed with cannon of a large calibre; and 
after ynremittingly playing on the citadel for 
fome time, towards the end of the month, a 
breach was effeéted, The French general being 
apprehenfive of an affault, and dreading the 
vengeance of an incenfed enemy, capitulated 
on the 7th of June, It was obferved by the 
enemies of the then minifter, that this at- 
ehievement was rather brilliant than prout- 
able; and that the conqueft of Belle-Ifle was 
_ meither adequate to the expence of the expe- 
dition, nor the two thoufand Englith troops 
left in capturing it, It was at the fame 
time, however, allowed on all hands, that 
the intrepidity and perfeverance of General 
Hodgfon did him great credit, for ke had 
nothing to do with the policy of the mea- 
fure; his orders were to take the place, and 
he obeyed them literally and triumphantly. 
Since this event, the general has not been 
,€alled forth into any active fervice; and it is 
not a little furprifing that fo intrepid and fuc- 
cefstul an officer fhould have been Jaid on the 
foelf- Did he difapprove, like Lord Effingham, 
ef the American war? Or was it deemed im- 
proper to fenda veteran thither, who muft have 
taken precedence of all the young generals, 
and even fome, if not all, the commanders in 
chief? We fufpect the latter to have been 
the cafe, and that the feeming negle& pro- 
€eeded from his feniority, which, however, 
as evincing experience, ought to give an 
additional title to employment.—It now only 
remains to detail his promotions. In 176s, 
he was made a Lieutenant-general 5 in 1783, 
he was advanced to the rank of Generals and 
in 4796, to that of Field-marfhal. As a re- 
ward for his fervices at Belle-Ifle, in 176s, 
hie was appointed Governor of Forts George 
and Auguftus, in North Britain; and in 
1789, he was removed from the command 
of the sth regiment of foot, to that of the 
r1th regiment of light dragoogs, which he 
retained until his death.——-Field-marthal 

Captain Weftcott...To Correfpondents. 
[0a, 
Hodgfon was about g0 yearsofage. Inrank 
he followed the Duke of Argyle, and pre=- 
ceded the Marquis Townthend. | 
In the late engagement off the mouth of 
the Nile, Captain Weftcott, of the Majeftic 
man of war. His father was a baker in 
Honiton, Deyonthire, (where his mother and 
fitter furvive his lofs); which profefiion lead- 
ing him to a conne&ien with the millers, 
young Weiftcott ufed frequently te be feat to 
mill.. Once, when there, an accident hap- 
pened to the machine, by the breaking of a 
rope; and neither the owner nor his men 
being equal to the tafk of repairing it, Weit- 
cott offered to ufe his fkill in fplicing it, al- 
though attended with danger and difficulty, 
‘The miller complied; and the job was exe- 
cuted with fuch nicety, that he told him 
‘© he was fit for a failor, fince he could {plice 
fo well;” and, “* if he ever fhould have an 
inclination to go to fea, he’d try to get him 
a birth.” Accordingly an Cpportynity pre- 
fented itfelf, which the lad accepted of; and 
he began his naval career in no better Ca~ 
pacity. than that of a cabin-boy—-a fitua- 
tion the moft common in a fhip, and not 
much calculated to give vent to genius; but 
he contrived to exercife his abilities fo ree 
markably, that he was very shortly intro- 
duced among the midfhipmen, in which rank 
he behaved fo well as to be farther counte- 
nanced for his genius in a fhort time. Since 
which he has fo fignally made himfelf con- 
Ipicuous for his fkill and bravery, that gra- 
dually or rather haftily he continued to be 
Promoted, until he filled the honourable 
ftation in which’ he lot his life. Had he 
furvived the battle, his feniority of appoint- 
ment would have gained him’ an admiral’s 
flag; but, alas! human expeCtations end in 
the grave!—The efteem in which the inha- 
bitants of Honiton held himand his family, 
was affectiomately manifefted on the arrival 
of the account of ‘his death: an illumination 
and other marks of rejoicing for the great 
victory, were witheld by them in refpc& 
to his memory, which by his friends and 
aflociates will long be cherifhed with every 
fentiment of regard and forrow. pee Oe 

To CorresPonpENTS.—The regifter of the Royal Hofpital of Stockholm, is better fuited . 
to the purpofes of a dire€tly medical publication, 
than of ours. 
The paper on the Animal Economy is too technical for our ufe. 
The querift refpecting duties on goods imported into the United States, will probably, upon 
enquiry, find a more direét channel of information than through the Monthly Magazine. 
A enfiant Reader, who defires 
fome particular advice as to the ftudy of the claffics, had 
better apply to fome one learned friend, than offer the fubject as a queftion to the correfpon- 
dents of a periodical work 
The remarker on Dr. Parnell’s Hermit is informed that it is already perfectly well knewn 
to literary men that Parnell was not the invent 
The obfervations of Medicus on an article ina Review, 
or of the ftory. 
refpecting Pneumatic Medicine, 
would be more properly communicated to that publication than to us. 
The fubjeét of Méetronarifion, on which we have received a letter from J. R. has long fince 
been clofed in our Mifeellany. 
