ate from
paralysis, aggravated by the recent shock of his gifted relative's
demise. Except himself and his married niece in Russia, there remains no
representative of a family which England has good cause to hold in
grateful remembrance.

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THE COUNT DE VITTRE.--The Paris journals announce the death of one of
the most distinguished officers of the French army, General Count de
Vittre, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, &c. Charles de Raity de
Villeneuve, Count de Vittre, was descended from an old and noble family
of Poitou, was the comrade of Napoleon at the Military School, and took
a glorious part in the campaign of Russia, where he was severely
wounded. He also distinguished himself in the Spanish expedition in
1823, where he had under his orders General Changarnier, the Duke de
Crillon, and M.A. Carrel, who, on account of his valor, gave him the
surname of the Bayard of the 19th Century. General Count de Vittre was
uncle to M. Hugues de Coval, a distinguished political writer of Paris.

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GLOVER, THE PAINTER.--A Van Diemen's Land newspaper announces the death,
at the advanced age of eighty-two, of Mr. Glover, the painter, whose
pictures of English scenery are well known to lovers of landscape art.

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MATTHEW L. DAVIS died on the 15th June, at the age of 84. He had been
for two or three years enfeebled, and for the last year confined to his
room, but he retained his mental faculties and his physical powers until
after his eightieth year, owing, in great measure, to the temperance of
his habits, his fondness for exercise, and his elastic, hopeful
temperament. Mr. Davis was preeminently a politician through life, and
aided to organize and give triumph to "the Republican party," so called,
more than half a century ago, when the Federal or Washingtonian party
was prostrated not more by its own follies than by the ability and tact
of its leading adversaries. Half the good management and efficient
activity that served to elect Jefferson would have sufficed to defeat
him. And nowhere was the battle of Democracy fought with greater address
or against more formidable odds than in this State and City, under the
consummate generalship of Aaron Burr, of whom Davis was the untiring
lieutenant and confidential friend.

Though so long and so deeply immersed in Politics, possessing decided
talents and a