trumpet of war soon interrupted his fond pursuit ; and in 1745, he formed part of the succour, destined to aid Prince Charles Edward, in his chivalrous but ill-fated expedition of that year, when, captured on his passage to Scotland, D'Arcy owed his life, forfeited, of course, as a natural born British subject, to the humanity of the Court, which admitted his plea of foreign birth and allegiance, though fully aware of its fallacy. After a short service in Condé's regiment, he rose to the rank of Brevet Colonel in Berwick's brigade, and finally reached that of Major-General, (Général de Brigade.) His leisure hours, meanwhile, were sedulously devoted to scientific studies; and in 1749, he was elected member of the Academy of Sciences, to whose transactions he contributed several valuable papers, on mechanics, the precession of the equinoxes, &c. He also prosecuted a series of experiments on electricity, and on gunpowder, of which the particulars and results are lucidly unfolded in his professional "Essai sur l'Artillerie," published in 1760; but his "Mémoire sur la durée des sensations de la vue,” in 1765, is considered his ablest production. He married in 1777, his niece, or rather the daughter of his cousin-german, usually so called; and died in 1779. Condorcet, as Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, pronounced, as customary, his Eloge, and, though the object of D'Arcy's personal aversion, did him full justice. The fact is, that Condorcet's prominent part in Voltaire's antichristian confederacy, excited D'Arcy's intense indignation, and unrepressed reproof.

With few exceptions, the officers emigrated in 1791, or the following year, as did most of the French

nobility, and were subsequently formed into distinct regiments, in the pay of England, but disbanded after a short service. Of those whose concurrence in the principles of the Revolution induced them to remain in France, the two Dillons, Theobald and Arthur, fell victims, the former to the fury of his own soldiers, the 28th April, 1792, and the latter to Robespierre's sanguinary rule, the 24th of April, 1794, when, as related elsewhere, from an accidental association of circumstances, we had a providential escape from the same doom. His daughter married General Bertrand, whom she accompanied to St. Helena in attendance on Napoleon.

The Duke of Feltre (Henry James William Clarke,) who filled various high positions under the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, and Restoration, chiefly as Minister of War, was born at Landrecies (Départment du Nord,) the 17th Oct., 1765, of Irish, but not immediate descent. The interest of his uncle Colonel Shee, grandfather of the present Count D'Alton-Shee, peer of France, procured him an ensigncy in the regiment of Berwick; and the protection of the Duke of Orleans, (Egalité,) rapidly advanced his successive promotions, which Carnot continued to facilitate. But on attaining the rank of General of Division, (which is equivalent to our Lieutenant-General,) at the close of 1795, he embraced the diplomatic career, in which his course is traced by history. Although his parents were rather in obscure condition, his pretensions to the noblest ancestry were complacently cherished. The name of Clarke, he said, derived maternally, (his real patronymic being Woodchurch,) was adopted by choice, though both, in his repre

sentation, ascended high-the latter beyond, the former to, the Conquest. He even claimed a Plantagenet consanguinity, which made Napoleon in derision address him, "Vous ne m'aviez pas parlé de vos droits au trône d'Angleterre; il faut les révendiquer, et nous lier d'alliance." But, apart from this weakness, he possessed considerable talents, and unimpeached integrity, of which the very moderate inheritance he left his children is sufficient evidence.

The Colonel Shee (Henry) above named, son of a Brigade officer, native of Kilkenny, was born at Landrecies in 1739. When sixteen, in 1755, he entered Clarke's regiment, and, during the Seven Years' War, distinguished himself on various occasions, more especially at Maubourg, in 1762. With the rank of Colonel, as forementioned, he obtained the military cross of St. Louis, which required five and twenty years' service; but an active campaign, or a year's service in the West Indies reckoned as two, and in the East, as three years. Having adopted the revolutionary cause, he was made General of Brigade, (or Major-General,) in which capacity he accompanied Hoche in the abortive invasion of Ireland, in December, 1796; but he then relinquished the military for the civil department, and was successively made Prefect of Mont-Tonnèrre, and the Lower Rhine. It was while in the latter administration that the ill-fated Duc d'Enghien was seized on neutral ground, and barbarously murdered at Vincennes; the victim of the foulest crime, and an indelible stain on Bonaparte's memory. Nor has Shee been held wholly blameless in the execrable proceeding; for it was through a communication from him that the prince's

residence in the Baden territory became known to his murderer. Such, at least, has been the general belief, which, however, the subsequent favor of the Royal Family, apparently discountenances. On the Restoration, he unhesitatingly reverted to his original allegiance, and was created a Count and Peer of France, with succession to his grandson, D'Alton Shee, by his only child, a daughter, married to James Wulfran, an Alsacian baron with the title of D'Alton. Count Shee died in 1820. The grandson is considered a man of some talent; but, except in name, he disclaims all alliance with Ireland, which, from various traits of character and conduct, is not to be regretted.

Nor must we here overlook, as we proceed, another officer of the Brigade, and a distinguished one, General Isidore Lynch, whom we had the pleasure of knowing. Born of Irish parents, in London, where his father, bearing the same name, had a commercial establishment, in which an uncle of the writer had an ostensible share, the 7th of June, 1753, he was sent for the benefit of education, refused him in England, because a Catholic, to Paris, and placed at the college of Louis-le-Grand; but in 1770, having obtained a commission in Clare's regiment, of which his uncle was Colonel, he served under that officer in India until 1773, when the regiment returned to France. During the war of American independence, he was for a while under the orders of the Comte d'Estaing, when he particularly distinguished himself at the siege of Savannah, as may be seen in the Comte de Ségur's Mémoires, (tome i., p. 460, edit. 1827.) He continued in America under Rochambeau, until the independence of the United States was recognised,

and after a campaign in Mexico, in 1783, he returned to France, when he was named Colonel of Walsh's (formerly Clare's) regiment. Not having emigrated with his brother officers, he soon obtained the rank of Lieutenant-General, corresponding to our General in full, and as such was eminently distinguished at the battle of Valmy, the 20th September 1792, under Dumouriez, but on the anniversary of that day, he was imprisoned, at Dijon, until the overthrow of Robespierre. Appointed by the Directory to a command in the Vendée, he declined it, not wishing to fight against the royal insurgents, and retired into private life, until named a Military Inspector by Bonaparte, on whose defeat in 1815, he again retired into privacy, chiefly at Tours, where, as well as occasionally at Paris, he passed the remaining years of his life, until 1841, when, on the 4th of August he died, after having received all the rites of his church. With him expired the name of Lynch in France, where several of the family had been conspicuous in various honorable professions, and among them, the two brothers, whom we had also the pleasure of personally knowing, the Comte and Chevalier de Lynch. The former was long the Mayor of Bordeaux, of which he opened the gates for Wellington in 1814, which gained for him subsequently a peerage; but though the latter was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies, he made no public appearance, and yet was of considerable talents to our knowledge.

Of Mac Donald (Stephen James Joseph,) though not of Irish parentage, the Brigade is also entitled to boast. Born at Sedan-the birth-place, too, of Turenne-the 17th of November, 1765, after a short