Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Foreign Article.

LONDON, OCT. 23

Of the Death of Moreau.

Extract of a letter from Toplitz, Sept. 4

"POOR MOREAU died yesterday in the act of giving some opinion on military matters, while passing with the Emperor of Russia behind a Prussian battery, on which two French batteries were thundering, one in front and the other in flank, and Lord Cathcart and Sir R. Wilson were listening to him, when a cannon ball struck his thigh and almost carried his leg off, passed through his horse, and shattered his other leg to pieces. He gave a deep groan at first, but immediately after the first agony of pain was over, he called for a surgeon. They bore him off the field on a litter made of Cossack's pikes and carried him to a cottage at a short distance, which, however, was so much exposed to the fire, that they were obliged after just binding up his wounds, to remove him farther off to the Emperor's quarters, where one leg was amputated, he smoking the whole time. When the surgeon informed him that he must be deprived of his other, he observed, without showing any pain or peevishness, but in the calmest manner, that had he known that before his other was cut off, he should have preferred dying. The litter on which they had hitherto conveyed him was covered with nothing but wet straw, and a chaise wet through with rain, which continued torrents the whole day--They now placed more cloaks over him, and laid him more comfortably on a good litter, in which he was carried to Dippoldeswalde; but long before his arrival there. he was soaked through and through. He was brought however safely to Laub, where he seemed to be going on well. but a long conference, which took place between him and three or four of the oldest Generals, by which he was completely exhausted. Soon after this he became extremely sick, and hourly grew worse. Through the whole of his sufferings he bore his fate with heroism and grandeur of mind not to be surpassed, and appealed to those with whom he conversed a witness but his pain, from his extreme composure and firmness. He died at 8 o'clock yesterday morning."