Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

VIENNA, June 1.
BEAULIEU.

This most deserving of Netherlanders was born in the small town of Jodoigne, in the Duchy of Brabant.

He commenced his career by serving in the German regiment of infantry, Bavaria, which was stationed for a long time in the Netherlands, and chiefly at Luxembourg.

When in the year 1757, during the Prussian war, the grand staff of the army was established in favor of Field Marshal Count Daun, Beaulieu, as an engineer of acknowledged merit, was admitted; and his signal services in that quality procured him the cross of the military order of Theresa. The peace of Hubertburg being concluded in 1763, he attended the Field Marshal to Vienna in quality of aid-de-camp, and made at this time those fine improvements the garden and canal for the castle of Luxembourg. Some years after this he was, on account of infirmity, permitted to repose, and was appointed Commandant of the city of Mechlin, in Brabant, with the rank of a Colonel.—

The disturbances in Belgium having broken out, he instantly offered his services again; when he was appointed Quarter-Master General of the small army then in those parts. In this capacity the eminent services he rendered are well known, as also those since against the French.

Beaulieu now upwards of 70 years of age, is well made, thin, and of a very brown complexion, with piercing looks, which are heightened by his black hair. He is a widower, and has had two children only. An only and promising son, a captain in the corps of chasseurs, was shot by the Belgium malcontents. This loss almost bereft the old man of his reason. His daughter he gave in marriage to the Baron de Maelcamp, one of an Imperial major-general, and a netherlander, on condition of his adopting the name of Beaulieu. He is now a captain in his Walloon regiment, and his second aid-de-camp.