Obituary.

" ei . 'tg on the spot , took 900 prisoners , a ! t hough . Wurmser renewed the . attack . He had three horses shot under him in that affair . Frederick , after the action , declared , ' It was the first campaign cf my nephew : I always thought him a courageous man , but now he has shewn himself a judicious general , and-has

acquired more glory from the character of the great genera ! who opposed him . ' In 1788 , Wurmser commanded a separate corps in the Bamrat , where he displayed his talents in opposing and stopping , skilful marches and countermarches , united with bold attacks of light cavalrythe progress of the whole

, force of the Turkish empire , headed by the Grand Vizir . In 1789 , he covered the whole of the Austrian army in the unfortunate retreat from the Bannat , and , with his own and Barco's regiment , prevented more than 20 , 000 Turks from seizing the military chest and baggage . In 1790 , he left that army , when

Laudohn took the command , with whom he was not on terms of friendship . In 1793 , he was appointed to the command of the army intended to act against the French in Alsace . On the 13 th of October , he made a grand attack upon the lines of Lauter , and forced them , after little resistance from the enemy , who lost almost the whole of their artillery . Weissembcurg fell soon after , and fie pursued the French , first to Haguenau ,

and then to Wanzenau , near Strasburg . On the 27 th , he was , in this placs > , at--facked by the French ; but he compelled them to retreat with the loss of 3000 . men . The famous Fort Louis , in Vauban , fell into his hands , on the 14 th November . Here his successes terminated , -and his genius was compelled to yield

to the enthusiasm of ' the republicans , under tlie command of Pichegru and Hoche . On the Sch of December , his army was driven from Haguenau , with immense loss ; on the 26 th , from Weissembourg , and finally across the Rhine . The last service in which Marshal Wurmser was employed , was to attempt

the relief of Mantua , when besieged by Buonaparte . This event is so recent , that it is unnecessary to repeat the details in this place . The tactics of Wurmser proved of little avail against that phaenomenon of military genius , Buonaparte ; and , after several days of hard fighting , he was ' compelled to "throw himself and the wreck of his army into Mantua . The brave defence which

he made in that city , renders its siege one of the most important in modem history—the victor Buonaparte paid a tribute to his military character , such as few men have received or deserved from an enemy . Lately , at Paris , Jean Baptiste Louvet , celebrated as a representative of the

people iu the late National Convention , and as the editor of the most extensively circulated newspaper in Europe . As a man of letters , Louver , for many years , lived by the exercise of his pen , which produced romances , plays , and some political tracts . Reconducted aiiewspaper of considerable celebrity , but his Sentinel obtained him the

greatest renown . He offered a comedy to M . d'Orfeui ) , full of a republican spirit , so early as 1790 ; but was told by that theatrical manager , that it would require the protection of cannon to perform it . He was chosen a deputy to the National Convention for the department of the Loiret , been before admitted

having a Jacobin , when that society conferred , as it were , on ils members a diploma of talent and civism . Louvet attached himself to the party of the Gironde , and was the only one out of seven of that class who survived to return to the Convention , having been forced to fly , after the insurrection of the 31 st of May , or go to prison . He particularly drew upon himself the hatred of Robespierre , by an

exposition of his ambitious designs , and or . that account , the tyrant obtained his expulsion from the Jacobins . Louvet supported file motion of Salles , for an appeal to the people on the judgment of Louis XVI ; and this measure served to involve him in the decree of proscription . The na ' rrative of the dangers and hardshi

ps to which he was exposed in his flight and concealment , as written by himself , and translated into English , is an affecting picture of human calamity and hair-breadth escapes . He is now dead , and therefore his friends and his enemies may say the best and the worst of him ; his career is finished , and his character is

confirmed . It is honourable to his memory , to see that he has always been of one opinion with regard to the revolution , and that the opinion of the public , when undeceived , appeared to be the sarne with his : He was esteemed an amiable man in private life . He remained in the legislature after the dissolution of the Convention , and distinguished himself in the latter— . 15