the courts of Berlin in and Vienna, the warlike King of Prussia becan became alarmthat were made along the Livonian fronted cannon in the village of Lowosed by the hostile preparations tier, and, resolving to anticipate the designs of his enemies, in 1756 invaded and made himself f master of this Saxony, an Dresden. On the first tidings' dings of th invasion Marshal Brown put himself at the head of the army of Prague, and to relieve the Saxons; but marched marques for was anticipated by this movement Frederick left Who 40,000 men continue the blockade of Pirna on t on the left bank of the Elbe (where Augustus J. III. of Poland was shut and ut up), penetrated into Bohemia at the head of 24,000 soldiers. 19 of 9789 1 Brown encamped at Kolin, while his compatriot, Prince Piccolomini, was posted at Konigingratz. From Bobolin he marched, on the the 23rd of September, foto.th the fine old city of Budin, which was surrounded by walls, and the ancient fortress of Hascontains the senberg. Here he endeavoured to bconcert measures VAS with the Saxons for which mowed them down like grass, securing their freedom; but Frede- Passing the the Egra, gra, Count Brown e camped at Lowoswitz, on the Elbe, and near the Saxon frontier, tier, and there the King of Prussia came in sight of his army, in position, at daybreak, on the 1st of October, with 65 squadrons, 26 battalions, 102 pieces of cannon, which formed in order of battle as they advanced, in that steady ly manner for which the Prussians had now become so famous. The infantry were formed in two lines, es, and the cavalry in three allin their rear. Frederick's right wing Occupied a village at the foot of the od Radostitz, and wooded mountain a a on Homolkaberg, in front of it, he had placed a battery of heavy guns; -9his left wing Tested on the Loboschcentre occupied the ferberg, and p tile valley between. The high and steep ep face of the Loby vines, and bantersected by stone walls. Among these Marshal Brown advanced a large body of Croats, with several battalions of Hungarians to sustain a deep ravine and rugged rivuTet lay between the army of Frederick and the Austrians, which consisted of b 72 squadrons, 2 battalions, Tanu 98 On the 14th, he retired towards Boremia The Prussian Lussars followed T his rearguard, and puts 300 Croats to In 1757, a confederacy was completed to punish Frederick of Prussia for his invasion of Saxony. France esent 80,000 men to the Rhine, under the Marshal d'Estrees; 60,000 RusJsians threatened Livonia, the Swedes gathered on the Pomeranian frontier, and Maria Theresa mustered 150,000 a soldiers, the most of whom were sta otioned in Prague, under Prince Charles of Lorraine and the Marshals Brown e and Daun.ro The Austrians were then formed into four divisions one under Marshal Brown, at Budyn; a second Sunder the Duke d'Aremberg, at Egra ; fal third bundert Count Konigsegg, at 3 Richtenberg; a fourth under Marshal Daun, in Moravia. Undeterred by this vast array against him, Frederick i April marched straight upon Prague, and driving before him a column under Marshal Schwerin, attacked Brown at Budyn, before Daun's division could join him from Moravia, On finding This flank turned, Brown fell back upon the Bohemian capital, and Frederick, erleaving one division of his army under HeMarshal Keith, followed him fast with seizing the colours, placed himself on to Prague, leaving the victory to the in Prague, while all the cavalry fled to Beneschau, and joined Marshal Daun. Such was the terrible and disof Prague, and seldom sun upon such a scene of suffering or slaughter as the field presented, for there were more than twenty thousand hilled and wounded men lying upon it at six in the even Siting! the rest, sand gave battle to the Aus-qtrians on the 6th of May, at dawn in -the morning. od brided soil aid gai ybod The Imperialists under Marshal Brown were 80,000 strong; his left Marshal Brown was conveyed by flowing rested on the Ziskberg towards his soldiers into Prague, where he enDoPrague; his right on the hill of Ster- dured the greatest torture from his gboli. In the front were steep and wound, which was aggravated by the craggy mountains, which no cavalry bitterness of being disabled at such a could climb or artillery traverse; but critical time. Thus by the agitation entle deep vale at their foot was lined by and bitterness his s mind, it became hussars and hardy Hungarian infantry. fatal, and fifty-one days after the battle The battle was commenced by Lieu- he expired of mingled agony and chabotenant-General the Prince of Scho-grin, on the 26th of June, 1757, at the of naich assailing the Austriam right with PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES. DEATH is busy, reaping a rich harvest of the noblest sons of Britain. Happy he who dies at once, with his sword in his hand, unconscious of his fate, his blood glowing with the excitement of the charge, his ears ringing with the conquering war-cries of his comrades. A calmer, but a sadder and more melancholy end has been his, whose name we have given above. In the prime of manhood-with the long ambition of his life just attained-Death has snatched him from the arms of his friends, and from the eyes of the world.d As a scientific man his loss is irreparable. He had done more than any man living in certain departments of natural history, and in the connexion between the natural history of the present and that of the past ages of the globe. As Paleontologist to the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, his services had been most valuable in many practical parts of science, while in many theo retical and philosophical questions, his profound and original views had given him a permanent authority in the scientific world. Neither was his a merely dry and scientific mind; it was enlivened by an exquisite taste for the arts of painting and poetry, in both of which he was no mean proficient, As some slight evidence of his taste, we can point to an article written by him for this Magazine, entitled, "Geology, Popular and Artistic." 01732 801901 19070 If, however, his loss to the scientific world is great, what shall we say of that social loss which the wide circle of his friends will have to deplore in him. ther man in Of a manly, gentle, and kind disposition of a noble modesty that thought of others rather than himself and of a frank and open geniality, overflowing with wit and humour himself, and always anxious to draw out and encourage the efforts of others, he was the centre of a larger social circle of men, remarkable for their talents in various ways, and for the cordiality of their union, than any in the United Kingdom. There are soldiers and sailors the East; are men toiling under the burning sun of India, and on the arid plains of Australia in every climate, wherever there is a man who is a student, or a lover of the natural sciences, there will be a friend of Professor Forbes. He was the firmest and truest friend that ever man had. We have, on more than one occasion, witnessed his first meeting with some old school-fellow, or college companion-a man, perhaps, on whom the world had not looked kindly, nay, it might happen, one who had not altogether deserved the kind looks of the world. No matter to have been once a friend or companion, was to entitle him to the right hand of Edward Forbes, and to all other service he could render him. Few rarer, few more valuable qualities are found in the world; and now, while the loss is too recent to permit us to estimate it correctly, this recollection appeals to the heart more strongly than that of all the pleasantness of Forbes's wit, or than all the glory of his fame. He died on Saturday, November the 18th, of internal inflammation, after a severe illness of ten days, retainin his senses, his calmness, and much even of his vigour of mind, up to the last. We believe that he never thoroughly recovered from the effects of the Xanthus fever he caught in Lycia, while naturalist to H. M. S. Beacon. The seeds of disease were left in his frame; and these, it is feared, were lately ripened by his intense application, and the little rest he gave himself, in his anxiety to do justice to the duties of his post as Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh. is left place in the history of scie us: he has done enough to give him an enduring his name and his works cannot die "death hath no more dominion over him." 337 H Adolphus of Nassau, a Memoir, 613. Aird, Marion Paul, Heart Histories, re- Alpine Lyrics, reviewed, 483. ad eri America, Recent Tourists in, 721. American Ambition and Europe's Dilemma, Crimea, the Expedition to the, Part I., 509; Curzon, Hon. Robert, Armenia, reviewed, دروید Danube, The Re-opening of the, 625. Anne of Austria, Queen of Louis XIII., Bio- and since Emancipation, reviewed, 29. graphical Sketch of, 674. Antipathies, 470. Bachelor, History of a, 47. Banks, G. L., What I live for, 46. December, a Chant for, 737. De Quincey, Thomas, Life and Works, re- Eden, a Legend of, by M. J. T., 11. Beechwood, Warwick, The Friends, and Edward VI., King, Letters to Barnaby Fitz- other Poems, reviewed, 484. d Bells, the Voices of the, 703. Bernardes, Diogo, Portuguese Poet, Notices Bigg, J. Stanyan, Night and the Soul, a Black Sea Fleets, the, 203. Bog of Allen, an Incident in the, 424. the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope Caminha, Pedro Andrade de, Notices and Carey, H. C., The Slave Trade Domestic or daile Jones, T. Percy, Firmilian, or the Student of Chubble, Professor, his Tale, 570. rosyal m Collins, Mortimer, The Hyacinth, 54; Hex- Kaye, J. W., History of the War in Affghan- Leix and Ossory, a Pilgrimage to the Land Cotton, Charles, a Ramble in the Country Levinge, H. N., The Crescent and the Cos- Lilies, Vase of the bly aaight The .Cells aid basedt,nox? .981 Michael Angels, thester Dodgo garia and Rumelia in 1828 and 1829, Morbida, or Passion Parts and other Poems, .es 93 esibu! 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