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152 Account of the late Lieut.-General Sir John Moore. [March Ip 
the ducal pupil of his father, with whom 
he lived for many years, amidst all those 
early. and endearing scenes, which knit 
the hearts of young men to each other. 
On their return in 1778, they sepa- 
rated for a while, the one to pursue the 
delusive career, falsely denominated 
pleasure, which carried him to the grave : 
the other to serve his country, as an 
officer in the army. His first commis- 
sion, we believe, was in the 15th regi- 
ment of foot, and he was afterwards pro- 
moted a lieutenant in thesame. After 
passing through all the iiftermediate gra- 
dations in due order, he becaine Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of the 40th; he after- 
wards obtained a colonelcy, and rose to 
the rank of major-general, in 1798. 
On most of these occasions, he was 
doubtless assisted by the powerful re- 
commendations of the Duke of Hamilton, 
for his military talents had not as yet 
been elicited ; and but for the opportuni- 
ties that afterwards occurred, he might 
have been lost or forgotten, amidst the 
crowd of officers, who swell the army list, 
and his name never heard of, but in a 
return, or a muster roll, 
It was in the Mediterranean that 
Mr. Moore, while a lieutenant-colonel, 
had first the means of distinguishing him- 
self. After having served at Toulon, he 
was selected by Admiral Lord Hood, to 
accompany Major Koehler, on a secret 
and confidential mission to Corsica. 
That commander, who had obtained 
possession of one of the two grand ar- 
senals of France, finding it no longer 
tenable against the republican armies, 
determined, if possible, to annex this 
island to the crown. of England ; but as 
it was first necessary to ascertain the 
practicability of the scheme, these two 
officers were chosen, to confer with the 
celebrated Pasquale Pacli, who had left 
England, where he resided for many 
years on a pension; and after making 
great professions of his unalterabie love 
of liberty, at the bar of the National As- 
sembly, had been permitted to retire to 
his native country. On his return, he 
~ was once more elected Generalissimo, by 
a public Consulta, expressly convoked 
-for that purpose, and apparently aimed 
to obtain the sovereignty of the island. 
On this, he was first denounced, and to- 
gether with his godson, Napoleon Buo- 
naparte, who declared in his favour, ex- 
pressly proscribed’ by a decree, in which 
they were treated as rebels. To frustrate 
the attempt on his life, he immediately 
engaged in a correspondence with Lord 
Hood ; and having proved to the agents 
dispatched by that commander, to en- 
quire into his power, and resources, that 
neither had been exaggerated, an expe- 
dition was immediately determined upon. 
A fleet accordingly sailed from the 
Hieres islands, on the 24th of January, 
1795, and a body of land forces was dis- 
embarked soon after, in Corsica, under 
Lieutenant-General Dundas. Jn the 
course of a few days, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Moore was dispatched to seize on the’ 
town of Fornelli; but notwithstanding 
his movement was sudden, and although 
hig men had dragged a howitzer anda six- 
pounder through a mountainous country, 
where artillery had never before travelled, 
yet the place was found too strong to be 
carried by a coup-de-main. Nothing 
dismayed by this, by means of a body of 
a seamen from the navy, he was enabled 
to carry four eighteen pounders, one 
large howitzer, and a tem-inch mortar, 
to aneminence seven hundred feet above 
the level of the sea. This Herculean 
Jabour being achieved, he was soon ina 
condition to enfilade the batteries, and 
render all the works, raised by the French, - 
untenable. Finding, however, the officer 
who commanded, obstinately bent on re- 
taining the place, he made an assault on 
the redoubts, which he carried during the 
evening of February tbe 17th; and as he 
advanced at the head of the columa, cut 
down a French grenadier, who opposed 
him, with his dwn hand. 
His conduct at Calvi was no less gal- 
lant, for he marched against one of the 
strongest of the forts, that covered this 
city, with a body of trooys with unloaded 
muskets, &c. stormed, and took posses 
sion of the ramparts, under a severe dis- 
charge of musquetry, and grape-shot, 
equally regardless of the fire of small 
arms, the roaring of cannon, and the 
bursting of shells. Although severely 
wounded in the head, he entered the 
enemy's works, in company with the 
brave grenadiers, whom he had led, and 
was embraced at the close of his victo~ 
rious career, by General Stuart, the 
conqueror of Minorca, who was an ade- 
quate judge of that gallantry, for which 
he himseli was distinguished. 
Dr. Moore, lived long enough, to wit- 
ness and to celebrate the gallant achieve- 
ments, and growing fame of his son. Ac- 
cordingly, in bis ‘‘ Mordaunt, or Sketches - 
of Life and Manners, in various Coun- 
tries,” published in 1800, he pes 
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