807.} Account of the late Charles M‘ Cormick, 
Major Trotter was the first man who mount- 
ed the breach 5 and followed by a few of the 
ablest men, had the honour of opening the 
gates to the rest of the army. Major Trot- 
ter’s conduct on this occasion also was men- 
tioned in the highest terms in the official 
dispatch, and the gallant and lamented Col. 
Brownrigg, his friend and companion in arms 
and in danger, his kind attention to whom 
in his last moments was no less remarkable 
than his brave adherence and co-operation in 
battle, made it a last request to his uncle, 
General Brownrigg, that he should use all 
his interest to get him oromoted to his lieu. 
tenant-colonelcy. ‘Yo this request General 
Brownrigg paid all the attention to which it 
was entitled ; and there is no doubt that if 
Major Trotter had lived, the illustrious per- 
son at the head of the army would have 
taken an early opportunity of promoting him, 
In a subsequent skirmish with a party of 
Spaniards in the vicinity of Monte Video, 
Major Trotter received a severe wound 
through the body. The close of his life, as 
described in the dispatches relative to the 
Jate attack on Buenos Ayres, was consistent 
with the eagerness with which he always 
led his followers to the pest of honour, 3 But 
in proportion as every danger that he en- 
countered and escaped exalted his fame, and 
established the character of his military ta- 
lents, his life became more dear to his 
friends, and more valuable to his country. 
Hence, though his bravery, like that of 
Nelson, rendered his death more to be ex- 
pected, it rendered it also more to be la- 
mented. To his friends his loss is irreparable. 
To his country his value had but begun to be 
known; and the military men under! whom 
and with whom he had fought, had formed 
the highest expectations of his future glory. 
In the 65th year of his age, Charles Mae 
Cormick, LL.B. He was a native of Ireland, 
and biving early evinced a love for reading 
and information, his father, who had brole Re 
up a large family ona few paternal acres, 
determined that a disposition so laudable and 
congenial to his own, should be indulged as 
far as his slender patrimony would reasoa- 
ably permit. it fortunately happened that a 
schoolmaster settled in the neighbourhood, 
who was a man of real classical learning, 
who did not bewilder his pupils with subtie 
grammatical distinctions ; and the excellence 
of the teacher, in a few years, discovered 
itself in the rapid progress of the scholar in 
Roman and Grecian literature, He had 
treasured up all that was precious in those 
languages, and could illustrate them witha 
happiness that has fallen to the lot of few 
of the commentators on those writers 3; but 
at the same time he was not unmindful of 
the poets, orators, and historians, of his own 
country. An ardent love of liberty led him 
to the perusal of those authors who had 
written onthe excellence of the British Con- 
Stitution, of which he was an enthusiastic 
admirer. At the age of iS he came to Lon- 
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don, witha view of adding to the stock ef 
knowledge he had alreacy acquired, previous 
to his entrance on the study ef some of the 
learned professions, which was the main 
object of his literary pursuits. Though a 
young man naturally of a gay disposition, 
yet he lived with becoming decency on the 
small annuity which his father and a distant 
relative allowed him, and divided his time 
in such a manner, between reading and ra- 
ticnal conversation, as to afford the highesg 
satisfaction to the narrow fircle of chose whe 
were interested in his prosperity. Having 
remained some time in the metropolis, he 
went.to Paris, in order to perfect himself in 
the French language, and to render himself 
as far master of the policy and manners of 
that nation, as a given time and limited cir- 
cumstances would Siscundle As soon as he 
had obtained these ends to a certain extent, 
he returned to England, more than ever ena- 
moured of the British Constitution.< Having 
not merely with the consent, but entire ap- 
probation of his friends, fixed on the study 
of the law, as a profession that generally re- 
paid its laborious votaries in the end, he en- 
tered his name on the books of the Middle 
Temple for that purpose, and kept all his 
terms with the greatest regularity. The 
pages of Coke, and the Year Books, were 
not, however, in the beginning, suited either 
to his taste or his genius; but the hope of 
reward sweetened the toil, and put the 
rugged road that led to josaite and emolu- 
ment. When he was on the eve of being 
called to the bar, his father dicd, and hav- 
ing a large family, he could only leave his 
son his example and a spotless name, and the 
son never lost sight of either. He passed 
much of his time in Oxford, either with men 
of congenial pursuits, or in consulting seme of 
the best and rarest authors in that invaluae 
able treasury of intellectual labour, the Bods 
leian Library. it is not exactly known when 
he commenced author, but it is. certain that 
the first effusions of his pen appeared in pe- 
riodicai publications, as they were writter 
to relax the severity of his studies, and to 
exercise his mind in composition; he did not 
put his name to any of them, though they 
were distinguished by a purity of styie and 
a depth of thought that drew some weil- 
earned compliments from the editors of those 
works. All the hopes which he had in- 
dulged of brighter days gradually faded away, 
yet the fate of those authors wao had exper 
rienced the caprice of public taste and the 
vicissitudes of learning, did not dishearten 
him; he was in the vigour of his strength 
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his memory tenacious, his mind stored with 
reading and the fruits of conversation. Thus 
prepared, he set out with pailosopnical for- 
titude in a line of life, with an industry 
that could not be subdued by fatigue or re- 
laxed by disappointment. He compiled and 
translated many works, which have beea 
well received, and of which others have 
reaped the profits and the fame; aad those 
whice 
