BIRTHS. June 26. At Kirkee, near Poonah, the lady of Sir Keith A. Jackson, Bart. 4th light dragoons, a dau. Nov. 2. At Courteenhall, co. Northampton, the wife of Henry Newcome, esq. a dau. 11. At Stonehouse, the wife of Capt. Sir Henry Blackwood, R.N. a son.-15. At Durrow Abbey, King's Co. Lady Helen Stewart, a son and heir.-16. At Exeter, Lady Charlotte Martin, a dau.-At Easton-lodge, Essex, the Hon. Mrs. Capel, a dau.-18. At Rome, the wife of Jas. Lockhart, jun. esq. of Sherfield English, Hants, a son.-19. At Kenton House, the wife of the Hon. J. A. Lysaght, a son and heir.-23. At Edinburgh, Lady Agnew, a dau.- -At Wreckleford House, Dors. the Hon. Mrs. H. Ashley, a dau.- -24. At Newbiggin House, near Newcastle, the wife of Francis Baring Atkinson, esq. a son.-In Devonshire-place, the wife of W. S. Lowndes, jun. esq. of Winslow, Bucks, a son.-25. In Bedford-pl. the wife of H. P. Gipps, esq. a dau. 28. At Bradfield House, Bucks, Lady Sophia Tower, a dau.-30. At Wormsley, the wife of the Rev. Fred. Fane, a dau.-At Mertoun-house, the Hon. Mrs. Scott, a son. Lately. At Normanby, Lady Sheffield, a son. At the Abbey, Glastonbury, the wife of T. P. Porch, esq. a son.-At Frampton House, Dorset, the wife of R. B. Sheridan, esq. a son and heir.At Kirby Bedon, Norfolk, the wife of H. Stracey, esq. a son and heir. -The wife of Theodore Fred. Clarke, esq. a son and heir, thus continuing the lineal heritors of the unfortunate Theodore, last King of Corsica. Dec. 1. At Belvoir-park, co. Down, the lady of Sir B. B. M'Mahon, Bart. a dau.-At Groton-hall, Suffolk, the wife of the Rev. G. A. Dawson, a dau.-2. At Beaufort Castle, Lady Lovat, a son. 5. At Ashfield-lodge, Suffolk, Lady Thurlow, a son.-8. At Hatley Park, Camb. the wife of Thos. St. Quintin, jun. esq. a dau.-12. At Linton Springs, Yorkshire, the wife of the Hon. Lieut.-Col. Douglas, a dau.-13. At Wimpole, the Countess of Hardwicke, a dau.-14. At Abbots Ann rectory, Hants, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best, a son. MARRIAGES. May 11. At Simla, Captain Michel, nephew and aide-de-camp to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, and eldest son of General Michel, of Dewlish, Dorset, to Louisa Anne, only dau. of Major-Gen. Churchill, Quarter-Master of H.M. Forces in India. June 29. At Sydney, H. H. Browne, esq. to Ellen Teale, eldest dau. of Major G. Barney, Commanding Royal Engineers. July. At Bangalore, J. H. Bourdieu, esq. Madras Art. only son of the late John Bourdieu, esq. to Harriot Charlotte, dau. of the Rev. G. W. Huet. Sept. 3. At Secunderabad, the Rev. John Conroy F. M'Evoy, M.A. Chaplain to the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force, to Susannah-Harris, widow of Lieut. William Hope, 55th Reg. and dau. of W. Tucker, esq. of Regent-street. Oct. 15. Rev. J. W. Watson, vicar of Ellerburn, Yorkshire, to Frances Jane, eldest dau. of the Rev. William Plues, M.A. Head Master of Ripon Grammar School. At Trinity church, Marylebone, John Irvine Glennie, esq. of Pall Mall, to Anne, eldest dau. of Wm. Hobson, jun. esq. of Harley-st.-At St. Peter's, Tiverton, Timothy Featherstonehaugh, esq. eldest son of C. Featherstonehaugh, esq. of Kirkoswald, Cumberland, to Eliza Were, fourth dau. of J. W. Clarke, esq. 16. At Boscastle, Pascoe Hoskyn, esq. of Tintagel, to Elizabeth, second dau. of the late John Panter, esq.--At the Catholic chapel, Manchester-sq. the Hon. Wm. Stourton, second son of Lord Stourton, to Catharine Alicia, dau. of Edmund Scully, esq. of Bloomfield-house, co. Tipperary.- At Carruth, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Caroline, youngest dau. of the late D. H. Macdowall, esq. of Castlesemple, to the Rev. R. W. Bosanquet, Rector of Bolingbroke, Linc.-At Llanfrynach, near Brecon, Major Barlow, 14th Inf. to Charlotte, dau. of C. C. Clifton, esq. of Ty-mawr, Brecon. -At Ensham, Oxon, the Rev. Henry Pearse, Rector of St. John's, Bedford, to María, eldest dau. of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Taunton. 17. At Burwash, Sussex, Nathan Wetherell, esq. of the Inner Temple, grandson of the late Rev. Dr. Wetherell, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxf. to Susan, youngest dau. of the late Thomas Gould, esq. of Northaw-place, Herts. 18. At Cheriton, Capt. Geo. Johnstone, eldest son of the late Lieut.-Gen. Wm. Johnstone, R. Eng. Newington, Kent, to Elizabeth, youngest dau. of the late Hugh Hamersly, esq. Sandgate, Kent. 20. At Wallingford, John Phillips, esq. of Harting, Sussex, to Priscilla, only dau. of the late James Flamank, esq. M.D. of Wallingford. --At Portsmouth, David Burnes, esq. M.D. of Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-sq. to Harriet Ann, second dau. of Dr. Alex. Anderson, of Southsea, and late of Brompton-row.--At Kingston, Somerset, Samuel Sampson, esq. eldest son of S. Sampson, esq. of Colyton, Devon, to Georgiana Eliza, only surviving dau. of the late John Thomas Groves, esq. and grand-dau. of the late Gen. Chapman, of Tainfield House, and niece of Sir S. R. Chapman, Governor of the Bermudas. 22. Rev. W. F. Burrows, Vicar of Christ Church, Hants, to Frances, eldest surviving dau. of the late Rev. Thos. Stockwell, Rector of Stratford St. Anthony.--At St. George's, Hanover-sq. William Roebuck, esq. Capt. 11th Dragoons, to Catharine, only surviving dau. of J. A. Knipe, esq. 23. At Harrington-hall, Robert Duncombe Shafto, esq. eldest son of R. E. D. Shafto, esq. of Whitworth-park, to Charlotte Rosa, youngest dau. of the late William Baring, esq. of Lulworth Castle.At Beckenham, Kent, Robert, youngest son of J. G. Wrench, esq. of Camberwell, to Maria, eldest dau. of Edward Lawford, esq. of Eden-park.Rev. William Henry Parson, of Pirbright, Surrey, to Charlotte, fourth dau. of the Rev. G. W. Onslow, M.A. of Ripley.At Saltford, near Bath, the Rev. J. B. Doveton, Fellow Commoner of Downing coll. Camb. to Harriet Mary, youngest dau. of Perrot Fenton, jun. esq. of Saltford and Doctors' Commons.--At Brecon, Lieut.Col. Pearce, of Cheltenham, to Mary-Church, relict of the late W. R. Ellis, of Arundel, esq. At Ealing, J. Bondfield Francis, esq. of Stoke, Som. to Eleanor Martha, eldest dau. of William Wyllie, esq. Castlebar-park.-At Congresbury, Somerset, the Rev. Charles H. Morgan, of Tidenham House, Glouc. to Maria Christiana, only dau. of the late Edward Brice, esq. 24. At Henstridge, Som. the Rev. Mervin West, Vicar of Haydon and North Wootton, Dorset, to Rhoda Charlton, youngest dau. of the late Rev. H. F. Yeatman, Preb. of Wells. 25. At Gilling, Yorkshire, R. S. D. R. Roper, esq. of Trundon Hall, Durham, to Jemima Margaret, eldest dau. of the Rev. John Gilpin, of Sedbury Hall, Richmond.At Widley, near Fareham, Lieut. W. S. Wiseman, R.N. to Charlotte Jane, dau. of Adm. Paterson, of East Cosham House, Hants. At Cains Cross, Fred. Eycott, esq. of Stonehouse Court, to Sophia, eldest dau. of Edward Davies, esq. of Downfield.At St. George's, Hanover-sq. F. A. Whittaker, esq. to Jane, only dau. of Stephen Turley, esq. of Mountains, Kent.-At Walcot, Bath, John Trevelyan, eldest son of the late Rev. Walter Trevelyan, Rector of Nettlecombe, to Jane Caroline, youngest dau. of the late Rev. J. W. Astley, Rector of Quennington, Glouc.- -Charles Burden, esq. of Burden, Devon, to Penelope, only surviving dau. of the late Charles Kendall, esq. R.N. of Lostwithiel, Cornwall.-At Paris, at the British Ambasador's, Lieut.-Col. le Comte Victor de Jocqueville, Chateau Guernes, to Margaret, youngest dau. of the late Col. Beare, of Copstown, co. Cork,--At Fulham, the Hon. Wm. Crane, of Sackville, New Brunswick, to Eliza, eldest dau. of T. J. Wood, esq. 27. At Carberry, W. G. Prescott, esq. of Threadneedle-st. to Arabella, only dau. of Edw. Wolstenholme, esq. of Newberry, Kildare. 29. At Thorndon-hall, Mary, eldest dau. of Lord Petre, to J. A. Douglas, esq. of Gray's Inn, and Ealing, Middlesex. 30. Grenville Piggot, esq. of Doddershallpark, Bucks, to Charlotte, youngest dau. of William Lloyd, esq. of Ashton Hall, Salop.At St. Andrew's, Holborn, Charles Gunning, esq. youngest son of the Rev. Peter Gunning, Rector of Newton St. Loe, Som. to Lavinia, second dau. of George Faulkner, esq. of Bedfordrow. At Islington, Joseph Woodman, esq. of Leighton, Beds. to Mary Hope, eldest dau. of John Cowie, esq. of Highbury-place.Edward Lloyd Kenyon, esq. of Pennylan, Denb. to Louisa Mary, only dau. of the late Rev. H. W. Marker, of Aylesbeare, Devon.--At Ventnor, Isle of Wight, the Rev. G. F. Dawson, Vicar of St. Mary Bourne, Hants, to Georgiana Elizabeth, fifth dau. of Joseph Hadfield, esq. of the Undercliff. 31. At Old Marylebone church, the Rev. William Palmer, M.A. of Worc. coll. Oxf. to Sophia, eldest dau. of Capt. Beaufort, R.N. Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Lately. At Nobber, Meath, the Rev. F. J. Stainforth, to Elizabeth, dau. of the late E. S. Ruthven, esq. M.P. for Dublin.-At Guelph, Upper Canada, John C. Wilson, esq. son of the late Rev. George Wilson, of Kirby, Essex, and nephew of Lord Berners, to Henrietta, dau. of Robt. Alling, esq. Surgeon 8th Gore Militia. At Kilshrewley House, co. Longford, the Rev. Francis De Montmorenci St. George, to Catharine Jemima, dau. of Major Edgeworth. -At St. George's, Hanover-sq. the Rev. Robert Stapylton Bree, of Queen's coll. to Phillippa Allen, youngest dau. of Sir E. B. Sandys, Bart.- -At Dublin, the Hon. and Rev. Francis N. Clements, youngest son of the Earl of Leitrim, to Charlotte, dau. of the Rev. Gilbert King, of Longfield, Tyrone.-At Dublin, Sir Stewart Bruce, Bart. to Emma, dau. of J. Ramsbottom, esq. of Windsor.- -Rev. C. Kendal Bush, of Gowran, Kilkenny, to Anne, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Graham.--At St. James's, Capt, the Hon. Edw. Wodehouse, R.N. to Diana, only dau. of the late Col. Thornton, of Falconer's-hall, Yorksh. At Cambridge, the Rev. James Heaviside, Professor of Mathematics at Haileybury, to Almira, dau. of Julian Skrine, esq.-Rev. Francis John Stainforth, to Elizabeth, dau. of the late E. S. Ruthven, esq. M.P. for Dublin. At Swallowfield, John Edward Geils, esq. 4th Dragoons, eldest son of Col. Geils, of Dumbuck, Dumbartonsh. to Frances, only dau. of the late Charles Dickenson, esq. of Reading, and Queen Charlton, Somersetshire. Nov. 1. At Wisbeach, William Andrews, esq. M.D. of Golden-sq. to Fanny Elizabeth, eldest dau. of the late Rev. W. Hardwicke, Rector of Outwell, Camb.- -At Southwell, the Rev. Edw. W. Foottit, B.A. to Frances, dau. of GENT. MAG, VOL. XI. the late Francis Smith, esq. of Halam, Notts -At Ewhurst, Surrey, the Rev. E. H. Hopper, Fellow of Christ's coll. Camb. to Adeline, only surviving dau. of the late J. Kerrich, esq. of Harleston, Norf.-At Armthorpe, Daniel Maude, esq. Stipendiary Magistrate of Manchester, to Marianne, dau. of the late John Branson, esq. of Doncaster, and widow of Wm. Bright, esq. -At Westbury, Wilts, the Rev. Thompson Stoneham, Minister of Wrockwardine Wood, and Ketley, Shropshire, to Mary, eldest dau. of the late John Compson, esq. of Penleigh House.At Hedon, George Random Wray, esq. of Keyingham House, to Mary Ann, widow of George Fewson, esq. 3. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. William Sutton, esq. of Bayford House, Herts, to Jean Georgiana, eldest dau. of the Rev. Edward Hodgson, of Rickmansworth.--Rev. B. Spurwell, Curate of St. Philip's, Birmingham, to Anna, only dau. of John Teasdale, esq. of Belgrave-sq. London. 5. Capt. P. D. Bingham, R.N. to Jane, widow of Capt. Howard, of the Hon. Co.'s European Reg. Calcutta.-At Hillingdon, Capt. George Campbell, Grenadier Guards, son of Gen. Sir Henry Campbell, to Louisa, third dau. of R. H. Cox, esq. 6. At Springkell, Hew D. Elphinstone Dalrymple, third son of Sir Robert D. H. Elphinstone, Bart. of Logie Elphinstone, to HelenCatharine, youngest dau. of the late Lt.-Gen. Sir J. H. Maxwell, Bart.-George Williams Bishop, esq. 71st Reg. Bengal Army, to Mary Ann Romer, eldest dau. of late Lieut.-Col. Meadows, H. M. 15th Reg. 7. At Newington, Surrey, the Rev. W. J. Irons, Rector of Reed, and Vicar of Barkway, Herts, to Anne, eldest dau. of John Melhuish, esq. of Walcoutt House, Surrey. -At the British Embassy, Brussels, Lt.-Col. Fulton, K.H. to Fanny, third dau. of John S. Jessopp, esq. and grand-dau. of the late Hon. Bridger Goodrich, of Bermuda. 8. At Alveston, Warw. the Rev. Joseph Dewe, B.D. Rector of Rockland, Norfolk, to Frances-Catharine-Fortescue, eldest dau. of the Rev. F. F. Knottesford, of Alveston Manor, and Rector of Billesley.--At Doncaster, the Rev. Charles Barker, M.A. vicar of Hollym. with-Withernsea, to Mary Ann, only dau of the late Mrs. Wm. Atkinson, of Doncaster, and grand-dau. of the late Rev. Peter Atkinson, of Hollym House.At Edgeworth's-town, Ireland, Capt. Francis Beaufort, R.N., to Honora, dau. of the late R. L. Edgeworth, esq. At Essex-street chapel, Arthur, third son of the late Rev. J. S. Phillott, M.A. to Frances Caroline, second dau. of William Frend, esq. of Tavistock-sq. 9. At Islington, John Fred. Foster, esq. of Welbeck-st. to Emily, fourth dau. of the late Rev. Theoph. Donne, M.A. of Cranbourne, Dorset. 10. At Tottenham, Harry Young Hulbert, esq. eldest son of H. Hulbert, esq. of Eatonplace, to Eliza, eldest dau. of H. L. Smale, esq.At Bingley, Yorkshire, John Staveley, esq. of Halifax, to Susan, only surviving dau. of the late Colonel Dearden, of the Hollins. 13. At Hull, William Tudor, esq. to Margaret, second dau. of John Horsley, esq. of Cottingham; and at the same time, the Rev. Miles Branthwayte Beevor, Vicar of Henley, Suffolk, to Mary, fourth dau. of John Horsley, esq.--At Heckfield, R. P. Smith, esq. M.D., to Katherine, dau. of the late Sir Nath. Dukinfield, Bart. 14. At Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, Thos. Masterman, esq. of Wanstead, Essex, to Isabella, eldest dau. of the late Wm. Dobson, esq. of Creswell House. N MARSHAL LOBAU. OBITUARY. Nov. 27. At Paris, aged 68, Count Lobau, Marshal of France, and Commandant of the National Guards of the Department of the Seine. in one Count Lobau was born on the 21st Feb. 1770, at Phalsburg, in the Meurthe, of an obscure family without fortune, of the name of Mouton; and at the time of the revolution was employed in a commercial house in his native town (it has been said, as a journeyman baker). He, however, entered the army, which his talents and bravery soon made him distinguished. Every step he gained was earned by some act of valour; and when, in 1804, at the camp of Boulogne he was appointed to the command of the third regiment of the line, the whole army applauded the choice of Napoleon, who soon after appointed him of his Aides-de-camp. He gained the rank of General of Brigade, by his distinguished conduct during the campaign of 1805. The immediately following campaign gave him new claims to the favour of Napoleon, and on the 5th of Oct. 1807, he was promoted to the rank of General of Division. The campaign of 1809 brought his military renown to its acme, and earned him the title of Count Lobau, when he defended the small island of Lobau against the Austrians, and brought his troops out of it across the Danube, gaining a complete victory over the enemy. The Emperor used to say of him, "Mon Mouton c'est un lion." In the year 1812 he was appointed AideMajor of the Imperial Guard, and in 1813 Commander-in-chief of the first corps of the grand army. After the battle of Leipsic, he joined the garrison of Magdeburgh, with which he returned to France at the close of the war. On the 8th Jan. 1814, he was created a chevalier of St. Louis. During the hundred days he resumed his post under the standard of Napoleon, was created Member of the Chamber of Peers, and was made Commandant of the first military division. In the short campaign of 1815, Count Lobau was at the head of the 6th corps of the army of the north, and defeated the Prussians on June 8th; but was wounded and taken prisoner at Waterloo, and sent over to England, where he learned that the entrance into France was closed against him. In 1818 he was re-admitted into France, and, after a lapse of ten years, was elected Deputy for the Meurthe, and took his seat on the opposition benches. He took part in the Revolution of 1830, and was a member of the committee at the Hotel de Ville; and on the resignation of General Lafayette, in 1831, he was appointed Commandant of the National Guards of Paris and Banlieue. On the 30th July, in the same year, he received his baton as Marshal of France. He lived and died universally respected; and upon bis death, the King, accompanied by the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Duke and Duchess_of_Orleans, the Duke of Nemours, and the Princess Clementina, went to condole with the widow, who had the same day the affliction of losing not only her husband, but likewise her sister, the Countess Klein, wife of the Lieut.-General Count Klein, one of the best officers of the imperial army. The King also addressed to the widow the following letter, which appeared in the Moniteur : "Ma chère Marechale,―The dreadful blow you have just received has filled me with the most lively grief, and I hasten to express to you, with my own hand, how deeply I sympathise with you and your children in your grief at this moment. You know how much I was attached to him whom you mourn, and how much I valued him. His loss will be deeply felt, not only by the brave National Guards whom he has inspired with so much confidence in times of such great difficulties, but also by the army, in whose dangers and glory he so often partook; nor will it be less deplored by the whole nation. Accept, ma chère marechale, with the expression of these sentiments, my assurances of those which I bear towards you, and shall continue to feel. "Your affectionate, LOUIS PHILIPPE." The Marshal was honoured with a public funeral, towards the expenses of which the Municipal Council of Paris voted the sum of 20,000 francs. His remains were deposited at the Hotel des Invalides. The National Guards mustered well, and were followed by detachments of cavalry, artillery, and municipal guards, the bands playing mournful airs and dirges as the procession moved on. An hour and a quarter elapsed before the whole cortége passed by any given point on the line. The Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and d'Aumale were present. We add a circumstance which entitles the memory of Marshal Lobau to some respect in this country. During the present year, the Birmingham Unionists took much trouble to obtain a reciprocation of sentiment from the gallant Commander of the National Guard of Paris; and they received the following cutting reply:"Gentlemen, I have received the address you have done me the honour to send. Without entering into the merits of the subject, I have no hesitation in informing you that I have always considered armed bodies as unfit to deliberate upon political questions. If it were otherwise, we should fall under tyranny, which I have never loved under any form." BARON SILVESTRE DE SACY. Feb. 21. At Paris, aged 80, the Baron Silvestre de Sacy, the highly distinguished Oriental scholar, a Peer of France, Grand Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, &c. &c. Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy was born at Paris Sept 21, 1758, the son of Jacques Silvestre, a notary. He had two brothers; and, conformably to a custom prevailing among the citizens of the capital, the eldest retained the single name of Silvestre; the second took that of Silvestre de Sacy, and the third that of Silvestre de Chanteloup. At the age of seven he had the misfortune to lose his father, but he had a pious and affectionate mother, under whose care he was educated at home. His classical attainments were very brilliant, and his knowledge of Latin and Greek literature would have been sufficient to have made the reputation of a man less celebrated on other accounts. From the age of twelve, he was accustomed to walk with his preceptor in the garden of the Benedictines of St. Germain des Pres. Among them was Berthereau, then engaged in preparing a collection of those Arabian historians who had noticed the wars of the crusades; young de Sacy attracted his regard, and imbibed from him a taste for the Oriental languages. He began with the Hebrew, and then proceeded to the Syriac, Chaldee, Samaritan, the Arabic, and the Ethiopian. To an acquaintance with this family of the Eastern tongues, he added Italian, Spanish, English, and German. He was enabled to pursue these various studies by the circumstance of nearly all his time being spent at home; but he was further induced to encroach upon the hours of rest, and the natural result was a failure of health, and a weakness of sight. This, by attention, was overcome; though during the whole of his life he did not entirely recover from the consequences of this drawback. M. de Sacy's first public task was the collation, for a German Orientalist, of a Syriac version of the fourth book of Kings, contained in a manuscript of the Bibliothèque Royale. This was in 1780, when he was in his twenty-third year. The result was published by Eichhorn in the 7th volume of his Repertorium. He afterwards copied the whole book; and it forms a part of Middeldorpf's Codex Syriaco-Hexaplaris, printed at Berlin, 4to. 1835. In 1781 M. de Sacy obtained the appointment of conseiller in the Cour des Monnaies. In 1783, having directed his attention to the two letters addressed by the Samaritans to Joseph Scaliger, about the end of the 16th century, he prepared an accurate text of them, which, accompanied by a Latin version and notes, was communicated to the twelfth volume of Eichhorn's Repertorium. In 1785, on a class of eight Academicians being founded by the King in the Académie des Inscriptions, M. de Sacy was appointed one of them; and he immediately engaged in the composition of his two memoirs on the ancient history of the Arabs and the origin of their literature; these were printed more than eight years after in the Récueil of the Académie, tomes xlviii. and 1. and he afterwards, in 1830, added a supplementary memoir, which is printed in the new series of their Récueil, tome x. Shortly after, he was actively engaged as one of the committee of the Academy appointed to examine the most important unpublished manuscripts, and who gave the result of their labours under the title of" Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi et autres Bibliothèques." He next engaged in his excellent memoirs on the various antiquities of Persia ; they were four in number, read at the Academy in 1787, 1788, 1790, and 1791; and published in 1793, in the midst of the Revolution. In 1791 he had been nominated one of the commissaires-généraux of the mint; and in 1792 he was elected an honorary member of the Academy; but in June 1792 he found it necessary to resign the former office; and as for the Academy, it sunk, with the other learned societies, in the revolutionary storm. He found it necessary to live in the most absolute retirement; and repaired with his family to a country house some leagues from the capital, where he divided his time between his scientific labours and the cultivation of his garden. However, his researches and the printing of his Memoirs on Persia, made a weekly visit to Paris necessary; and this he was accustomed to perform on foot, a staff in his hand, and a bottle of beer in his pocket. His Memoirs, which had been intended for the Récueil of the Academy, were at length published distinctly, in a quarto volume, At this period, when the churches were closed, M. de Sacy had mass read publicly in his house on Sundays and feastdays. This was done in disregard of the penal laws of that epoch, but nobody chose to molest him. He was once ordered, according to the arbitrary requisitions of the day, to assist in threshing a barn full of corn with the neighbouring peasants; but the latter, who held him in the highest regard, undertook to make his excuse, by representing the smallness of his stature, and the weakness of his sight. His leisure was now principally occupied in his great task on the religious system of the Druzes. He made a new translation of four Arabic volumes on this subject, which had been presented by a Syriac physician to Louis XIV. in the year 1700, and added many laborious illustrations; but, at length, found it necessary to defer the completion of his task until he could obtain access to several foreign libraries. However, the violence of the reign of terror began to subside. By a decree of the Convention, dated April 2, 1795, a public school was attached to the Bibliothèque Royale, now called Nationale, for the teaching of the living Oriental lauguages, useful in politics and commerce. M. de Sacy, from the first, was assigned to the chair of Arabic; M. Langlés to that of Persian. An article of the decree stipulated that the professors should compose in French a grammar of the language which they were charged to teach; and M. de Sacy was not a man who would be content to repeat what had been said before him. This occasion directed his attention to the principles of grammar in general, and in 1799 he published the first edition of his " Principes de Grammaire Générale mis a la portée des enfants, et propres à servir d'introduction à l'étude des toutes les langues." This was trans. lated into Danish; as the second edition, which appeared in 1804, was into German; and the third, in 1815, was translated into English in the United States of America. A law of the 25th Oct. 1795, re-established the old Academy upon new foundations: the united corps, which became the representative of them all, bore the name of the National Institute, and was divided into three classes: and M. de Sacy was at once admitted into the class of Literature and the Fine Arts; but, declining to take the oath then required of hatred to royalty, it became necessary for him to send in his resignation. It was then signified to him that the same oath was incumbent upon his retaining the professorship: he still declined it, but it was not easy to find a substitute for the office, and he remained unmolested. At length, the Institute having been reorganised in Jan. 1803, and the Académie des Inscriptions re-established under the title of the class of Ancient History and Literature, M. de Sacy was restored to his old position. In 1805 M. de Sacy was sent to Genoa, on a commission to search for some important Oriental works supposed to exist in the archives of that city. They were not found; but M. Sacy made some important collections from manuscripts of the middle age, upon which he made a report to the Academy on his return to Paris in 1806. On the 4th April that year he was appointed Professor of Persian at the College of France and the same year he published a selection of unpublished extracts from Arabic writers, under the title of Chrestomathie Arabe, in 3 vols. 8vo. As a Professor, M. de Sacy united talents so various and so brilliant, that he was perhaps more distinguished in that capacity than in any other. Endowed with a perfect clearness of intellect, having long reflected on all the mysteries of the theory of language, and possessing a fuller knowledge of the languages he taught than any one that had preceded him, he added to these precious advantages much coolness and an imperturbable presence of mind. If any difficulty arose, he boldly met it, saying all that was necessary, and no more. His lectures were constantly attended by men who had passed the whole circle of their studies, and who were already distinguished by important works, but who came to submit their learning to his. It has been seen, that, during the republican régime, M. de Sacy had steered clear of politics. In 1808 he was elected a member of the corps legislatif by the department of the Seine. In 1810 appeared the first edition of his Arabian Grammar; and in the same year he published "Relation de l'Egypte, par Abd-Allatif, médecin Arabe de Bagdad," with various illustrations and notes, in one volume quarto. He also wrote three memoirs on Egypt, which were all read before the Academy, in 1805, 1815, and 1818, and are printed in their Récueil. Besides these several works, he was one of the most zealous collaborateurs of the Magasin Encyclopédique, which was established by Millin in 1795, and appeared monthly until 1806. Coming at a period when the Journal des Savants, and most of the literary and scientific journals of the ancien régime, had disappeared, it powerfully assisted to re |
