1798. ] 
Reader! 
Soon fhalt thou die alfo ; 
and as a Candidate for Immortality 
ftrike thy breaft and fay: 
Let me live the life of the Righteous, 
that my laft end may be like his. 
Trifling are the dates of Time, 
where the fubject is Eternity. 
Erected 
by their Son, B. Kennicott, D. D. 
Canon of Chrift-Church Oxford. 
It is faid that when Dr. K. had taken 
erders, he came to officiate in his clerical 
. capacity in his native town: when his 
father as clerk-proceeded to place the fur- 
plice on his fhoulders, a ttruggle enfued 
between the modeity of the fon and the 
honeit pride of the parent, who infiited 
on paying that refpeét to his fon, which 
he had been accuftomed to fhew to other 
clergymen: to this filial obedience was 
obliged to fubmit. A circumftance is 
added that his mcther had often declared 
fhe fhould never be able to fupport the 
joy of hearing her fon preach ; and that 
on her attendance at the church for the 
firft time, fhe was {o overcome as to be 
taken out ina ftate of temporary infen- 
fibility. 
GENERAL HOCHE. 
Much mifreprefentation has taken plaee 
relative to the country, the birth, and the 
education of this celebrated man: in fhort, 
notwithitanding the brilliant part acted 
by him on the revolutionary theatre, the 
particulars of his life, and of his death, 
are in this country at leaft, alike unknown. 
Lazard Heche was born June 24th, 
1768, and if either the place of his nativi- 
ty*, or the ftation of his father} be confi- 
dered, it muft be allowed, no man ever 
came into the world with a greater likeli- 
hood of being a royali/ tor the paternal 
cottage was within fight of the fuperb pa- 
lace of Verfailles, and his father was 
keeper of the dog-kennel to the laft prince 
but one of the houfe of Bourbon. 
It is thus pretty evident, that the fon 
eculd neither boaft of the wealth nor the 
dignity of his immediate anceftore; but 
it may not be amifs to obferve here, that 
RES SES id ae lee 
* Montreuil. — 
+ Garde du Chenil de Louis KV. M. Rouffe- 
jin expreffes himfelf thus, relative to the 
father: ‘fai vu ce wieillard refpeftable. On 
groirsit que c’eft pour le peindre d'une parfaite re~ 
femblance, qu? Euryzide aurait dit. grofiier au- 
dehors, fans nul ornement, mais homme de 
; bien ay fouveraia degre.” 
Life of General Hoche. 
359 
fuch were the prevailing prejudices, at 
the time of his birth, that however me- 
nial the fituation, fill it was fomething 
to be in the fervice of the court, even if 
the office confifted in feeding the dogs of 
the Grazd Mouarque ! 
Notwithftanding this, fuch was the fit- 
uation of the elder Heche, that he was 
unable to beftow any education on his fon, 
and his mother having died in the very act 
of bringing him into the world,his fituation 
was truly diftreffing. One of his aunts, who 
kept a little green ftall at Veriailles, luckily 
manifefted much tendernefs tor the boy ; 
fhe watched over his, infancy, did every 
thing within her power to aflif him, andac- 
tually furnifhed the means of fending him 
to a day fchool. There, he was always 
the firft in his own clafs, and alfo the moit 
forward in all little broils and difputes 
among his playfellows. At length the 
rector of St. Germaine-en-Laye, perceiv- 
ing his talents, took a liking to, and made 
him one of the chorifters. Whilea boy, 
he is faid to have been perpetually afking 
queftions, and procuring information 
from perfons older than himfelf; but as 
he verged toward manhood, he {poke but 
little, and thought much. : 
Although tenderly beloved by his kind 
aunt, who was anxious to anticipate all 
his little wants, yet as he advanced 
years, his maintenance became too great 
an expence for her little earnings to fup~. 
port. He himfelf, was one of the firit to 
perceive this, and thinking no fituation 
mean that would eafe her, and procure 
for himfelf bread, he got a place at Ver- 
failles, and where he was actually employ- 
ed as a fuperuumerary flable boy. 
But the ardent character of Hochey 
unfitted him for fo degrading a fervitude. 
Some of the works of J. J. Rouffeau, 
having fallen accidentally into his hands, 
a f{pirit of independance began to awaken 
in his mind, and fome romances, which 
he had alfo perufed, infpired him with 
a tatte for travelling. He and three of 
his companions accordingly agreed to fet 
out for the Eaft Indies; but, inftead of 
arriving at the place of their deftination, 
they found they had been tricked by an 
arttul fellow, who actually enlifted them 
in the French guards. He was in the 
fixteenth year of his age, when he was 
fent to join his regiment at Paris, and on_ 
his arrival there, his whole fortune con- 
fitted of no more than *125 livres, arifing 
ein etree 
* £1 145. 2d. Englith. 
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