A SHORT VIEW

OF THE

LIFE and CHARACTER

OF

Lieutenant-General VILLETTES,

Late Lieutenant-Governor and Commander of the Forces
in Jamaica.

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TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

LETTERS

WRITTEN DURING A JOURNEY FROM

CALAIS TO GENEVA, AND ST. BERNARD,

IN THE YEAR 1814.

BY

THOMAS BOWDLER, Esq; F.R. S. & S. A.

Published to assist in providing Free Seats for the Poor of
Swansea, by enlarging the Parish Church.

PRINTED BY

RICHARD CRUTTWELL, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, BATH;

AND SOLD BY

JOHN ROBINSON, PATER-NOSTER-ROW, AND J. HATCHARD,
PICCADILLY, LONDON.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

The following Sketch of the Life of the late Lieut.-General Villettes was written immediately after his death, and was given to his friends in England, Malta, and Jamaica. It is now re-printed, in consequence of the acquisition of a striking likeness of the General, which has been recently obtained from an original picture, in the possession of his sister at Geneva.

ΤΟ

THOSE PERSONS

WHO FEEL PLEASURE IN CONTEMPLATING

A CHARACTER,

NOT MARKED BY À FEW BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENTS,

BUT BY

CONDUCT UNIFORMLY GOOD AND AMIABLE,

FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE LATEST PERIOD OF LIFE.