nst that of these accomplished
scholars, he was signally unfortunate.

In his personal character he was simple, sincere, enthusiastic, brave, and
religious. He was well entitled to the great respect in which he was held
by the church. He had been ordained for high services, and he had
accomplished them. Every duty of which he was capable was finished, and he
could have added nothing to his good reputation if his years had been
prolonged.

WILLIAM GRIMSHAW, born in Ireland in 1781, but nearly all his life a
resident of this country, where he was for many years well known as a
writer, died near Philadelphia on the 8th of January. Besides editing and
rewriting a considerable portion of Baine's _History of the Wars growing
out of the French Revolution_, he was the author of Histories of Great
Britain, France, and several other countries, which for a long time were
very generally used as text-books in schools, and he also wrote _The
American Chesterfield_, _The Ladies' Lexicon_, and numerous smaller
volumes, which were creditable to his abilities. His reading was
extensive, and his knowledge of events during his lifetime, particularly
in British affairs, was minute and accurate. His mind lost none of its
vigor with the approach of age, and in his fine countenance, and imposing
figure, there were no appearances of decay. His love of reading continued
to the last, and within a year he frequently employed his pen on such
subjects as he took an especial interest in.

NICHOLAS GRAN DE DIEU SOULT, Marshal General of France, Duke of Dalmatia,
&c., died on the 26th of December, at his chateau of Soult Berg, near the
place where he was born. We have given in another part of this magazine an
estimate of his character. The Paris _Pays_ furnishes us a brief abstract
of his history. He was born at St. Amand (Tarn), March 29, 1769. His
father, who was a notary, seeing that he had no taste for his own
profession, allowed him to enter the army. The future Marshal of France
entered the Royal Regiment of Infantry in 1785, where he was soon remarked
by his aptitude for the functions of instructor. He was made
non-commissioned officer in 1790, and then passed rapidly through the
intermediate grades, until he reached that of Adjutant-General of the
Staff, when General Lefebvre attached him to his own service with the
grade of Chief of Brigade. In that quality he went through the campaigns
of 1794 and 1795 with the army of the M