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- adverfary; the adherents of Talmon, Stof- 
filet Decils, Charrette, and Cormatin 
melted away ; the war was fpeedily ex- 
tinguifhed, and peace and fertility reftored 
to a diftraéted, and ravaged diftrict*. 
His conduét againft the emigrants at the 
affair of Quiberon, laid the republic 
under frefh obligations to him, and the 
circumftance of the victor fhedding tears 
over fuch of his brave but unhappy 
countrymen, as the chance of war had 
thrown into his power, entitled him to 
the efteem of all the friends of humanity. 
After this he was fucceffively advanced 
to the command of the army of the Sam- 
bre and Meufe, that of the Rhine and 
Mofelie, and that dettined for the expedi- 
tion againft Ireland, which was always 
one of his favourite plans. In purfuance 
of this defign, he fuperintended an equip- 
‘ment at Breft, which however failed, in 
confequence of a ftorm that feparated the 
general from the bulk of the {guadron, and 
difperfed the reft of the fleet; but the pro- 
ject was never relinquifhed by him even 
to the day of his death. He had a cen- 
ference at Francfort with fome of the mal- 
contents; and was admirably calculated 
both by nature and education for fuch an 
undertaking +. 
A\fter this, he was appointed fecretary 
at war, and took an ative part in the 
Fruéiidorian revolution. He happened to 
be ill, when he heard of the arreft of the 


* One of the grand principles brought by 
him into a@tion, was tolcration : ** Hoche re- 
commandait a fes camarades de laiffer bien 
éranquilles tous les difeurs de meffes d’y aller méme 
én cas de bejoin.”” 
+ It would feem, from the report of the 
Comiittee of the Houfe of Commons of Ire- 
land, that an agent was fent over to treat 
with the General, ‘¢ this agent” it is added, 
*“ appears to your Committee from various 
channels of information, to have been the 
late Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who, accompa- 
nied by Mr. Arthur O’Connor, proceeded by 
Bamburgh to Switzerland, and had an inter- 
view near the French frontier with General 
Hoche.” 
Extracts from the Port Folio of a Man of Letters, 
[Nov. | 
two directors, the members of the two 
councils, &c. fuppofed to be attached to 
royalty ; but he had no fooner read the 
letter from Barras, containiig this 
news, than happening to fee his phyfician 
coming up ftairs, he exclaimed: ‘* Doc- 
tor, Iam quite cured, and have no fur- 
ther occafion for you! His diforder, the 
feat of which was his cheft, whereby his 
lungs were greatly affected, notwith- 
ftanding this, got worfe daily, and per- . 
ceiving death approaching, he met the 
grim tyrant, on the 30th Fruétidor 1797, 
with the moft determined conflancy. His 
lait moments were occupied in beftowin 
prefents on his friends, and his laft words 
uttered by him were im behalf of °his 
country. 
On his body being opened, fufpiciens 
arofe concerning the occafion of his de- 
mife, and although the furgeons did not _ 
“countenance the report, it was, and is 
fill generally believed that he fell by 
poifon. The funeral ceremony at which 
his own army and even the Auftrians af- 
fhifted, was magnificent, and he was buried 
in the fame grave with General Marceau, 
at Peterfberg near Coblentz. Six ftand- 
ards, furmounted by crowns of oak and 
laurel, accompanied the coffin, and ex- 
hibited his various exploits, in the fol- 
lowing terms : 
1. General enchef,a24 Ans. - An. I. de la 
Republic. 
2. Il debloqua Landau - - <= An. I. 
3. Ul pacifia la Vendee - - + An. III, IV. 
4. Il vainquit a Neuwied, - - An. V. 
5. Jl chaffa les fripons de l’ar- 
mée, An. V. 
6. Il dechoua les confpirateurs, An. V. 
Generals LEFEVRE, CHAMPIONNET, 
and GRENIER delivered orations over his 
grave, and a grenadier, ftarting from the 
ranks, and extending his arm, dropped a 
crown of laurel on the bier, exclaiming at 
the fame time: 
_ §© Hoche! I prefent you this, in the name > 
of the army which you taught to conquer |” 

Extracts from the Port Folio of a Man of Letters. 
LOVERS OF ANCIENT STATUES,’ 
AM defirous of conveying in this ar- 
i ticle fome faint idea of the effe& of 
ANCIENT STATUES, on the imagination 
ef a perfon of great fenfibility, and an 
enlightened eye of tafte, practifed in the 
rennements of ART. WINKELMAN’S 
woik on the ‘‘ &2/fory of Ari,” is one of 
thofe rare performances, where the divi- 
nity of enthufiafm burns in every page ; 
and nourifhed by homeric images, and 
homeric powers, he feems an ancient 
Greek, who pours out his fenfations at the 
feet of the divinities he worfhips. Frigid 
connoifieurs turn over this work for faéts 
and dates, but it may be faid, that their 
bofoms have the refemblance of marble in 
its block fiate, and are much more inte 
ible 
