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Teft the academy, ere thofe of his ‘friends who 
“had ‘not ob/iquely viewed his condu€i, had, un- 
known to him, fubfribed one hundred guineas, 
which tum, it was propofed, thould be paid to 
him ahnualty ; and. thar his talen's might not 
be unempicyed, they propofed that 
annually deliver a courfe of tweive leftures, on 
‘the Evidences of Chrifiani:y. Foar of them 
were delivered at Dr, Hunter’s Meeting in Lon- 
don Wall; they were preached extempore to 
very crowded aud.tories; and a great number of 
fubferibers pretied forward to fupport the defign. 
Mr. Fell’s anxiety, however, to pleafe and edify 
his hearers, with the grief at the ftigma which 
had been attempted upon his chara€ter, preyed 
upon his fpirits. It is not, then, to be wondered, 
that, haying turned his grand climaéteric, his 
powers became debilitated; hedtic, indigeftion, 
flatulence, and cardialgic complaints, were. fuc- 
ceeded by cachexy and dropfy, which baffled 
the fkill of three phyfScians, who gratuitoufly 
attended. At length, without a figh, he de- 
parted this life, and his remains were interred at 
- Bunhill-fieids, on Friday, the 22d of Sep:ember, 
_ followed by fourteen coaches, containing many 
ef thofe woithy perfons, who, fo much to their 
honour, had flepped iorward to fuccour perfe- 
utec merit. fs 
CHARITY, 
Thrice hallow'd grace! Thou keep*ft thy pow’r, 
When faith and hope are known no more. 
On Sunday evening, the 24th, Dr. Hunter, 
whofe pulpit performances are fo juftly admired, 
preached a funeral fermon to as numerous a Con 
gregation as the large Meeting in the Old Jewry 
could contain. This excellent difcourfe will, 
we learn, be printed. Pb. 
Deaths Abroad. 
Lately, at Vienna, in the 73d year of his age, 
the celebrated Marfhal DacopertT S1EGMUND 
DE WuRMSER. He was born at Strafburg, in 
1724; and entered, at the age of fifleen, into 
the French fervice, as cadet of artillery, which 
corps he feon abandoned for that of the cavalry; 
and, In 1740, was appointed coxnet in the regi- 
ment of light-horfe raifed by the celeb:ated 
Marfhal Saxe. He foon attracted notice as a 
bold sider, and for his peculiar manner in the 
condué of the light cavalry. In the fame year, 
he was advanced to the rank of major in the 
regiment, in confequence of his brave conduét 
at ihe taking of Prague, and of the judicious 
manner in which he covered the retreat of the 
French from Bohemia, under Niarfhal de Bel- 
Jifles. He was afterwards oppefed to the cele- 
brated Pandour, commander Trenck, who laid 
watte Eavaria; Wurmier, however, foon ftopped 
his progrefs. In 1745, he exchanged the 
French fervice for the Auftrian, and-was made 
colonel of the fame regiment of huflars which 
he commanced afterwards as general. During 
the war cf 1745 and 1756, betwixt Auftria and 
Frederick of Pruffia, he had always commands 
in the line of battle, always diftinguifhing him- 
felf for his bravery and judicious mancuvres. 
He never bad an opportunity to fignalize him- 
fer as a general, tull the new Pruffian war in 

Deaths Abroad —Marfpal WVurmfer. 
he fhouid 
[ Sept: 
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1779, when he was entrufted with a feparate 
command: * The maiterly manner in which he 
planned the attack: of the Pruffian rear, in the 
retreat from. Bohemia in that year, and the at- 
tempts which he made to intercept the whole 
train of artillery, procured him the hicheft ap- 
plaufe among military men, and even Frederick 
himfelf acknowledged it to be a firft-rate piece 
of generalfhip. lt was the Prince Koyal of 
Proffia, now Freccrick Yilliam H, who defeat~ 
ed thofe {chernes of Wurmter. The Prince had 
his own regiment, the 2d regiment of foot- 
guards, ‘Vunas’s battalion of grenadiers, and 
Appenburg’s dragoons, to cover a file of artillery 
and wagzgons, of more than tweive Enelith miles 
inlength. His cavalry was In the laft divifion, 
t 


‘more than five miles backward, when Wurmfer, 
by a forced march, whereby he efcaped the vi- 
gilance of the king himfelf, who commanded the 
covering column, appeared, at three o'clock in 
the afternoon, with 80co Hungarian cavalry, 
in front and flank of the Pruifians, and in pof- 
feffion of the heights and hollow grounds of 
Burkerfdorf, where the train was to pats. The 
Prince perceiving that every thing was loft if he 
waited for Wurmfer’s attack, and his own ca- 
valry being too far behind to be brought into the 
action, took the bold refolution to charge the 
Aufirians. Accordingly, he put himfelf at the 
head of the foot-guaids, and, fupported by 
Tunas’s grenadiezs, and a heayy cannonade, at; 
tacked the Auftrian cavalry with the bayonet, 
threw them into confufion, and gave time to the 
king to come up, who foon being on the fpot, 
took goo prifoners, although Wurmfer renewed 
the attack. He had three horfes fiot under 
him in that affair. Frederick, after the action, 
declared, *6 It quas the Sif! campaign of my 
nephew; I always thucht hm a couragious man 
but now he has frown himflf a judicicus general, 
and has acquired more glory from the charaéter 5 
the great general who eppofed him. In 1788, 
Wurmfer commanded a feparate corps in the 
Bannat, where he difplayed his talents in op. 
pofing and ftopping, by fkiliul marches and 
countesmarches, united with bold attacks of 
light-cavalry, the progrefs of the whole force 
of the ‘furkifa empire, headed by the Grand 
Vizir. In 1789, he covered the whole of the 
Auttrian army in the unfortunate retreat from 
the Bannat, and with his own and Barco’s re- 
giment, prevented more than 20,0c0 Turks 
from feizing the military cheft and bageace In 
1790, he lett that army when Laadohn took the 
command, with whom he was not on térms of 
friendihip. In 1793, he was appointed to the 
command of the army intended to a@& againft 
the French in Alface. On the 13th of OGo- 
ber, he made a grand attack upon the Hines of 
Lauter, and forced them, after little ‘refifiance, 
from the enemy, who leit almoft the whole of 
their artillery. Weiflembourg fell foon after, 
and he pur.ued the French, firfl to Haguenau, 
and then to Wanzenau, near Strafburg. On the 
a7th, he was, in this place, attacked by the 
French ; but he compelled them to retreat with 
the lofs of 3000 men, The famous Fort Louis, 
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