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Genl. W. --at his recommendation also appointed his
friend Rivardy a Captain, in the U.S. Army, where he
rose to be a Major, and after being in the service, some of the
most valuable years of his life, with credit to himself and the
Government, he was dismissed (deranged as it was called) by
Genl. Dearborn, then Sec. of the War; who, as well as some
other of the American officers, disliked foreigners of talents
and education. He then being thrown, upon the world with
a family, settled in Phila, where his wife established
a young Ladies Academy on an extensive Scale, he adjusted
and was pretty well satisfied, till a visit from Genl. Moreau
revived all his military ardor, made him discontented,
injured his health, and he went to the W. ladies as prescribed
by his physicians and there ended a life of care and troublee
leaving a wife and three children to lament his untimely fate.
--He was a member of the philosophical Society in phila-
who honored him with a gold Medal *for his learned Treatise
on Language called "Cadmus", a work of great labor
and research, and which has been highly eulogized by Men
of learning and deep thought. He intended to revise and
* now in the possession of his Widow.--