Jourdan the justice to state, that I never, either in Germany or France, have heard any thing to his disadvantage. The very circumstance of his having been disgraced by a Napoleon is a sufficient recommendation to him.

General Jourdan, before the revolution, kept a petty haberdasher's shop.

MARSHAL KELLERMAN,

DUC DE VALMY,

Is a German by birth, but has been in the French service these many years. It was Kellerman who defeated the Prussians near Valmy, in Champagne. I do not know what his abilities were formerly. Since I have known him, he has appeared to me a stupid man, and a láche valet of Napoleon; another Segur.

MARSHAL LEFEVRE,

DUKE OF DANTZIG.

It is impossible for me to write this article without thinking of Don Quixote and Sancho, when the latter is promised a governorship. No scene can be more ridiculous than that which is

exhibited when Lefevre and his wife are together: it reminds me of High Life below Stairs.

Lefevre was originally a private in a regiment of Alsace, of which province he is a native. When the revolution broke out, he became a violent jacobin, a great robber and swindler; but I believe his hands are clear of blood. He was made General in the time of Roberspierre, and distinguished himself at the memorable battle of Fleurus. After that he was always employed in different armies, and was very active in favour of Bonaparte's revolution of the 18th Brumaire.

He was, in consequence, made a senator; and, after the siege of Dantzig, was made a duke. Of all the vulgar brutes that ever disgraced the society of man, this is one of the most prominent. The first time I saw this barbarian was at Madame Recamier's assembly. He was inquiring of a young man the names of several ladies who were dancing, or passing by him. The inquiries, so often repeated, tired the young man's patience, who said to him, rather angrily, not knowing it was General Lefevre," D'où Diable venez vous ?" The other replied, "Je viens de la lune, où je n'ai jamais vu un J-F- de ton espèce: Je m'appele le "Général Lefevre !"

Madame Lefevre excites more risibility than any beaux esprits ever did, by her vulgar language! Madame la Duchesse was many years a washerwoman to the barracks at Strasburg. When she

married Lefevre, she became a ravaudeuse, (a mender of stockings and linen), and discontinued washing for the soldiers. When her husband first joined the army, about a year before the commencement of hostilities with Austria in the year 1792, Madame la Duchesse de Dantzig was appointed Ravaudeuse to the army!

When Lefevre became General, his wife, who went again to live at Strasburg, would not give up her old trade of washing, saying, she did not know what might happen. However, at last she came to Paris; and now, that she is so great a woman, she goes very often to court, and contributes very much to the mirth of the courtiers by her vulgar stories. To give them a place here would be to insult the delicacy of an English ear.

Lefevre is still a great robber. Some of his rooms are filled with church plate, stolen in Germany. After his elevation to the duchy of Dantzig, the inhabitants of that city voted him a present of 500,000 livres. When the Dantzig deputies who were at Paris waited upon him, to give it him, the Noble Duke refused taking it—in livres -but insisted upon it in francs, which makes a difference upon the whole sum of about 300 louis!

Such a pair of portraits were never seen, nor even imagined, but by the humorous Cervantes.

MARSHAL MASSENA,

PRINCE OF ESLING, DUKE OF RIVOLI.

THIS man's father was a wine merchant at Nice, and our hero was a serjeant in the army of the King of Sardinia. The cause of Liberty induced the Savoyard Serjeant to desert, and enrol himself in the French army. Being of an enterprising disposition, he soon found means of getting himself promoted. He was in all Bonaparte's first campaigns in Italy, and contributed very much to the success of the French army, from his knowledge of the country, &c.

Massena is very fond of money; but I never heard that he had committed any unnecessary cruelty. I know he does not like Bonaparte, and is of a very independent mind. He was very much in favour of Moreau, which caused him to be exiled from Paris. However, the tyrant cannot do without generals; therefore, when the war with Austria commenced, in 1805, Massena was recalled from banishment, and entrusted with the command of the army of Italy.

MARSHAL MORTIER,

DUKE OF TREVISE,

Is a native of Dunkirk, and was a clerk in the counting house of De Vinck and Co. merchants in that city*. He first served as a serjeant in the National Guards, and was at the battle of Jemappe. He is without any military reputation, and only became General of Division after the elevation of Bonaparte to the Consulate.

He commanded in Hanover, where he committed a great many depredations.

The Duchess of Trevise is an innkeeper's daughter of Coblentz.

MARSHAL MACDONALD

Is of Scotch extraction. Macdonald served before the revolution in one of the Irish Legions. He is a very able officer, and in every respect too good a man to belong to the Court of St. Cloud.

On Moreau's trial he took a very active part in favour of that General, for which he was exiled. Very lately he was appointed to a command, and was created a Marshal.

The same who was recently robbed of his property by Bonaparte. See page 217.