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MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
ACCOUNT OF THE LATE LIEUTW“GENERAL 
SIR JOHN MOORE, K, B. 
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N consequence “of the important 
changes produced throughout Eu- 
rope, by the events arising out of the 
French Revolution, a new direttion has 
been given to the manners and pursuits 
of her inhabitants. No portion of this 
interesting quarter of the globe has, 
however, experienced a greater change, 
than our own country. 
Admirably situated for commerce, and 
formed by habit for manufactures, a nu- 
merous and powerful fleet was tormerly 
the chief object of our policy: but the 
genius of the people has been altered, 
and it has been deemed necessary, to 
render us a military as well as a maritime 
nation. The game of war, however, is 
played on so grand a s¢ale on the cons 
tinent, that it is dificult to establish a 
school of generals, calculated for the 
times in which we lives or, perhaps, even 
for those extensive Operations, required 
against an enemy, that can bring a cou- 
ple of hundred thousand fighting men 
into the field. Materials are, indeed, 
wanting te form the line of battle, and so 
extensive is the apparatus demanded for 
aland campaign with France, that it un- 
happily requires the complete and effec- 
tive‘ union of several great powers, to 
face her with any prospect of success in 
the field. 
Perhaps, on this, as on other occasions, 
nature has proportioned our means to 
our wants; and our armies, although not 
sufficiently numerous for 2 contest with 
the whole undivided power of the enemy, 
are acknowledged, when headed by gal- 
lant and experienced generals, to be 
amply sufficient for what 1s obviously the 
first object of our policy :—the defence, 
security, and preservation of the em- 
pire! 
General Sir John Moore, was 2 native 
of Scotland, a country, which, since the 
days of Fletcher of Saltoun, has been 
more famous for producing military men 
of eminence, than patriot citizens: he, 
however lays claims to the gratitude of 
his fellow subjects, in both of these cha- 
racters, having been at once a distin- 
guished commander and an ardent friend 
tecivil liberty. His grand-father, Charles 
Moore, was a minister, or in other words, 
one of the two clergymen of the esta- 
blished church, who ofticiated in Stirling s 
his father, Dr, John Moore, was bred a 
physician, but he was chiefly known to 
the world, as a man of letters. 
Of the latter, it may be necessary to 
Say something in this place. He was 
educated at the University of Glasgow, 
and afterwards attended the medical lec- 
tures of the celebrated Dr. Cullen, wha 
was his relation. We next find him 
serving as an army surgeon, in Flanders, 
and having, on his return, settled at 
Glasgow, he obtained the degree of M.D. 
from his Alma Mater. 
It was there that the subject of the 
present memoir first saw the light of 
heaven, and received the rudiments of 
an education, that was matured and per- 
fected under the eye of a father who early 
instilled into his mind those generous and 
heruic principles, as well as that ardent 
love of freedom, which warmed his own 
bosom, and was never extinguished, or 
even debased, by his constant residence, 
and habitual correspondence with the 
great. 
An accident occurred, but a few years 
after he had settled in Scotland, that ef. 
fected a great change, in respect te the 
family of Di, Moore, as well as himself, 
The late Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of 
Hamilton, born in 1756, like his elder 
brother, James-George, being of a sickly 
habit of body, although extremely hand- 
some, and even apparently athletic in 
respect to person, it was determined by 
his mother, the Duchess of Argyle, that 
he should travel under the direction of 
some skilful medical man, capable, at 
once, of enlightening his mind, and taking 
care of his constitution. The physiciante 
whom we have so recently alluded, was 
accordingly selected for this purpose; and 
whatever might have occurred at a fu- 
ture period of life, it must be allowed by 
all who knew him, that the choice was 
happy. 
They accordingly set out in 1773, and 
spent no less than five years abroad; dur- 
ing which period, it would appear that 
the seeds of those Bacchanalian attach- 
ments, which are supposed to have short- 
ened his Grace’slife, either did not appear, 
or if they did appear, were carefully de- 
pressed, and kept under. Young Moore 
was their companion during some portion 
of this tour, and was much respected by | 
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