Obituary.

spread themselves very extensively . He took a decided part with Allen and Warner , not only in the field , but in council , in the opposition to the arbitrary proceedings against the people inhabiting this territory . He represented the town where he lived in assemblies and conventions , and held the

office of justice of the peace for Rutland county , until in his advanced age he removed out of it . As a poet , Mr . Thomas Rowley was possessed of a happy genius , and distinguished himself in many popular American publications . On the 21 st of September last , in the

27 th year of his age , of his wounds , at Alterkirchen , i ; . Germany , Lieutenant-Gen . Marceau , in the service of the French Republic . Among the innumerable calamities incident to warfare , one , and that too not the least lamentable , is the premature death of many of those illustrious men who smooth

the rugged surface of that state ; and , in some measure , recompense human nature for the multiplied miseries to which she is unnaturally subjected . General Marceau was born in 1769 , and was , consequently , but twenty years old , at the commencement of the Revolution . At that period he entered

into the army , and made his first campaign in Brabant . Soon after the breaking out of the war oi' La Vendee , Marceau was sent thither , with the rank

of General of brigade . I here lie had to contend , not against discipline , such as he afterwards encountered during two campaigns on the Rhine , but something infinitely more terrible—it was enthusiasm . Against such enemies , it was almost impossible to succeed in an offensive war ; and , indeed , they

were nevercompletely overthrown , until other means were employed fortheir subjugation . Yet , notwithstanding this , such was the reputation of young Marceau , that he was appointed , in the 2 5 th year of his age , as ' general in chief , ad interim , of the army employed against the insurgents in La Vendee ; and

Tunvau , whom he superseded , bears ample testimony to his merit , in his ' Memoires , ' although a misunderstanding actually subsisted between them . At the period we are now treating of , there were no less than three commanders in chief , and three intermediate ones , nominated within the space

of three months , some of w-hom exchanged the baton for the axe , and were dragged from their own head-quarters to the scaffold . Marceau was more fortunate . On the appointment of a superior officer , he was invited to repair to the army of the North , which happened , at that critical period , to be

earning laurels on the frozen waters of the Rhine , the Waal , and the Polders , and canals of Holland , under the famous Pichegru . It is not a little memorable , that the joint ages of these youthful commanders did not at that time exceed fifty-seven , a time of life , which before this eventful period

scarcely entitled a soldier to become a hero . On the dismission of Pichegru , an event highly detrimental to the interests of France , Marceau served under Jourdan , assisted at the brilliant and rapid passage of the Rhine , which , in the age of Louis XIV . had been celebrated by means of poems and medals , and

then penetrated with the army of the Sarnbre and the Meuse into the heart of Germany . During the memorable and fatal retreat that succeeded , he was entrusted with the rear guard , which , on such occasions , is considered as the post of honour . In this situation , while covering the army in its retrogade

motion through the dangerous defiles of Altenkirchen , and acting at once the part of a soldier and a general , he exposed himself to the too certain aim of

a Tyrolese marksman . It is here necessary to do justice to the generous pity of the Germans , and particularly of Generals Haddick and Kray ; the first of whom ordered him to be conveyed , according to his own request , to a neighbouring village , while the latter shed tears over a gallant rival ,

whom he had so often combated . The Archduke Charles , himself , sent his surgeons to attend him ; but on the next day the symptoms betokened an approaching dissolution , and he expired at six o ' clock . The regiments of Barco and Blankenstein contended for the honour of paying him lhe last

duties . The French Officers insisted on his being buried within the territory occupied by the Republic ; and the Emperor's brother consented , annexing , however , the generous condition that the Austrians should be apprized of the time when the ceremony commenced , that they might join hi the . mili-