ter, and to her his heart
turned when, in the midst of his domestic afflictions, it sought for
refuge in song. Those tender, beautiful verses, "Though the day of my
destiny's over," were his parting tribute to her, and were followed by a
poem in the Spenserian stanza, of equal beauty, beginning--

"My sister, my sweet sister! If a name
Dearer and purer were, it should be thine."

His will evinces in another way his affection for his sister. Nor was
Augusta forgetful of her brother. She remembered him with that tender
warmth of affection which women only feel, and publicly evinced her
regard for him, by the monument which she erected over his remains in
the little church of Hucknall. She bore, it may be added, no personal
resemblance to her illustrious kinsman.

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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL COUNT JEAN GABRIEL MARCHANT, grand Cross of the
Legion of Honor, Chevalier of St. Louis, &c., &c., was born at Solbene,
in the department of the Isere, in 1764, and in 1789 became an advocate
at Grenoble. In 1791, he entered the army as commander of a company in
the fourth battalion of his district, and in the long and illustrious
period of the wars of the empire he served with eminent distinction. He
was made a colonel on the 14th June, 1797, general of brigade in 1804,
and general of division on the 31st December, 1805, after a series of
brilliant services under Marshal Ney. He was in the battles of Jena,
Magdeburg, Friedland, &c., and after the latter received the title of
Count, and a dotation of 80,000f. He won new honors in Russia and Spain,
but after the overthrow of his master, so commended himself to Louis
XVIII., as to be confirmed by him in the command of the 7th military
division. After abandoning Grenoble to Napoleon, he was tried by a
council of war for unfaithfulness to the royal authority, but acquitted,
and from 1816 he lived principally in retirement at his chateau of St.
Ismier, near Grenoble, where he died the 12th of November, in the 86th
year of his age.

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MATTHIAS ATTWOOD, long well known in Parliament, died at his house, in
Dulwich-park, on the 11th of November. He was in his seventy-second
year, and had for some time been in feeble health, which induced him to
retire from Parliament at the last general election, but he still
occasionally attended to business in London till within a short period
of his decease. Mr. Attwood e