VAN IT Y
M. ST. GEORGE. From an Original Picture at Mr. ANGELo’s Academy.
Dans les armes jamais on me vit son égal, Musicien charmant, compositeur habile,
A la nage, au patin, a la chasse, a cheval,
Tout exercise enfin, pour lui semble facile,
Et dans tout, il découvre un mode original.
Si joindre it see talens autant de modestie,
Est, le nec plus ultra de Hercule Frangais ;
C’est que son bon esprit exempt de jalousie
N’a trouvé le bonheur en cette courte vie,
Que dans les vrais amis que son cceur s'étoit fait.
The above éloge is not a trait of his “ auta-nt dc modestie,” verses written purposely to be placed under his portrait! What ! a fencing master? I may say, “ “'ould the gods had made me poetical.” As a fencer he certainly was considered for a number of years far superior to all the others; many who travelled gram-2’s to Paris to oppose him, returned back beaten; and, except his abilities as a musician, a thorough master of music, his other accomplishments may have been superficial. Two years after, he returned to this country; which happening in the month of August, the usual period of my vacation, I followed him to Brighton, where he resided at that time, and took up my abode in the same house, by Which means I had the opportunity of practising with him every morning. On his return to France, during the revolution, he was presented with the colonelcy of a regiment of hussars (the greater part des tireurs d’armes). In this character he served under General Dumourier; but St. George, who was perfectly ignorant of the details of a military life, became a victim of intrigues, and of the arts of individuals. His regiment charged,
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