First Consul, with a detachment of soldiers, entered this neutral territory, surrounded Ettenheim and Offenbourg, seized the Duke in his bed, and, hurrying him across the Rhine, conveyed him to Paris; where he was brought to a mock trial before a military commission of eight officers, by whom, without being suffered to make any defence, or to examine or hear any evidence, he was, as might be expected, condemned to death. Of the charges brought against him, the greater part applied to his conduct previous to the peace of Amiens, and to his having taken up arms against Robespierre, as well as against the present government of France. Buonaparte does right in revenging a predecessor whom he so much resembles. In the morning, before day-light, on the 22d, General Murat arrived at Vincennes, escorted by fifty Mamelukes, and accompanied with four aides-de-camp, one of whom was Louis Buonaparte. Each Mameluke held a flambeau; and two hundred gens d'armes, and three hundred men of the Italian troops, surrounded the castle and prevented the approach of every one to that part of the wood fixed on for the place of execution, or rather murder.

The Duke being told that his sentence was to be executed immediately, said calmly, "I am ready and resigned." When he heard, upon enquiry, that the grenadiers who were to shoot him were Italians of

Buonaparte's body-guard, he said: "Thank God they are not Frenchmen! I am condemned by a foreigner, and God be praised that my executioners are foreigners too. It will be a stain less upon my countrymen."

At the place of execution he lifted up his hands towards Heaven, and said, "May GOD PRESERVE MY KING, AND DELIVER MY COUNTRY FROM ITS FOREIGN YOKE."

Two gens d'armes then proposed to tie an handkerchief over his eyes, but he said, "A loyal soldier, who has so often been exposed to fire and sword, can see the approach of death with naked eyes, and without fear." His hat was then taken off; but in looking at the grenadiers, who had already pointed their fusils at him, he said in Italian, "Grenadiers, lower your arms, otherwise you will miss me, or only wound me." Of the nine who fired, seven bullets pierced his body.

The arrest and condemnation of this amiable nobleman occasioned a lively sensation of regret even at Paris; and many applications were made to the sanguinary usurper in his favour, but in vain. Even Fouché himself, the senator, ventured at the assembly of Madame Buonaparte on the 21st, to remonstrate with the consul on the impolicy of this act. The monster replied, loud enough to be heard by many present, "You, citizen senator, speak of your affection to me, and yet desire me to spare a BOURBON. No; had all the BOURBONS only one neck neither one hundred ships of the line should save them in London, nor four hundred thousand Russians at St. Petersburgh!"

When the Neapolitan ambassador, the Marquis de Gallo, heard this Nero-like expression, he was observed to withdraw immediately.

At Taunton, the Rev. Simon Richards, Rector of Chipstable.

At Ilfracombe, the Rev. Emanuel May, Rector of Baverstock, Wilts. The living is in the gift of Exeter College, Oxford.

At Harpswell, near Gainsborough, the Rev. T. Dawson, Perpetual Curate of that place.

The Rev. Mr. Brodie, Rector of Winterslow, Wilts.

23. At Pulham Market, the Rev. Robert Etheridge, Rector of Clenchwarton.

The Rev. Thomas Wilson, Vicar of Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire.

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25. The Rev. James Cottingham, Vicar General of the Diocese of Kilmore, in Ireland.

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- 27. At Cottishall, in the 58th year of his age, the Rev. Robert Ficklin, Rector of Crostwick, near Norwich,

-30. At the Rectory-house, at Holywell, in Huntingdonshire, the Rev. B. Hutchinson, F. R. S. Chaplain to the Duke of Manchester.

APRIL 6. In the prison of the Temple, at Paris, the celebrated General Charles Pichegru.

He was found dead in his bed, strangled, according to the French report, by himself with a black silk handkerchief. But the circumstances are too dark and suspicious, and too much connected with the inhuman murder of the Duke d'Enghien, as well as with the notorious character of the present despot of France, to induce any other belief than that the General was another sacrifice to Corsican barbarity and treachery.

Before the revolution Pichegru was a private in the French army, but distinguished by the exemplariness of his conduct and bravery. He rose rapidly to command after the flight of Dumourier; was commander in chief of the army of the north when the Duke of York, the Prince of Cobourg, and the Hereditary Prince of Orange were forced to evacuate the Netherlands. Moreau was then the second in command; and Holland was conquered. The singular humanity of Pichegru to the French emigrants, while it gained him universal esteem every where else, was particularly offensive to his employers.

After this he fell into disrepute : and not having enriched himself by plunder like the other revolutionary Generals, he lived in obscurity and even penury. When Carnot and Barthelemy sunk under the power of their colleagues, Pichegru was arrested, and, together with Bar

thelemy, transported to Cayenne, from whence he escaped; and, af ter enduring uncommon hardships, reached this country. He soon after went to Germany, but returned hither again. How he came to be at Paris, when he was arrested, remains a mystery; but there can be no doubt, that if aught criminal had been found against him, he would have been brought to a public trial and open execution, and not butchered in the dead of night in a solitary dungeon.

At Vicar's Hill, Hampshire, in the 80th year of his age, the Rev. WILLIAM GILPIN, A. M. Prebendary of Salisbury, and Vicar of Boldre in the New Forest.

This very ingenious and worthy divine was descended from the pious Bernard Gilpin, in the reign of Mary and Elizabeth, called the apostle of the north, and whose life he published. Mr. Gilpin was a native of Westmoreland, and received his academical education at Queen's College, Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts. As a di vine, he distinguished himself by several valuable productions, particularly an Exposition on the New Testament, adapted for common capacities, 4to and 8vo; Sermons to plain Congregations, 3 vols. 8vo; Lectures on the Catechism and other practical Works. As a biographer, besides the book first mentioned, he is advantageously known by a Life of Archbishop Cranmer, 1 vol. 8vo, and the Lives of Wickliffe, Huss, and other reformers, also in 8vo. Mr. Gilpin was no less remarkable for his exquisite taste in the fine arts, of which his Essay on Prints, his Picturesque Views on the River Wye, his Tour to the Lakes, and his Remarks on Forest Scenery, are lasting testimonies. He drew and etched with equal judg ment, accuracy, and elegance. The copy-right of the last-mentioned performances, and the whole of the drawings and plates, he some time

he served diligently some years. In 1794, Dr. Craven, the present master of St. John's College, resigned the professorship of Arabic, and Mr. Carlyle was elected in his room. The year following he was collated to the chancellorship of Carlisle, vacated by Dr, Paley. In 1796 appeared "the Specimens of Arabian Poetry," the work by which he will long be known to the admirers of eastern learning. It came from the University press, and is printed in an unusual style of elegance. To each piece in this admired selection is prefixed a short biographical and critical preface.

In 1799, Mr. Carlyle accompanied Lord Elgin, the English ambassador, to the Ottoman court. While at Constantinople, he had free access to the libraries, and made catalogues of what treasures they contain. After a residence of some months there, he made an expedition with a small party through various parts of Asia Minor, and surveyed with accuracy the scite which has been generally supposed to have been the ancient Troy,

After a long and perilous journey, he took shipping, and sailed to Alexandria, touching by the way at many of the Grecian islands. At Alexandria he found Sir Sydney Smith, with whom he spent six weeks. From Egypt he proceeded

into Syria, and spent some time at Jerusalem, and other remarkable places in the Holy Land. From thence he returned to Constantinople, where he continued to reside some time, taking occasional excursions into Greece. The twenty-two libraries, which are contained in the monasteries of Mount Athos, employed much of his attention, and of these he made catalogues. From thence, among other acquisitions, he brought a MS. of one of the plays of Eschylus. Before his return to England he visited a great part of Italy; and travelling through the Tyrol and Germany, landed in September, 1801, after an absence of two years.

Not long afterwards he was presented by the Bishop of Carlisle, to the valuable living of Newcastle; but the shock his health had received by the changes of climate and the fatigues he had gone through, undermined his constitution, and terminated a valuable life in its meridian.

The Rev. Henry Still, Rector of North Wraxall, Wilts, and of Clapton, Somersetshire.

At Wickham, near Bootle, Cumberland, in the 59th year of his age, the Rev. Robert Scott, M.A. Rector of Wickham, and formerly Master of the Free Grammar School at St. Bees: