GENERAL BURGOYNE.
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1t is curious that man of such celeb
|rity as writer, a senator, and an officer,
las the late Lieut.. Gen. John Burgoyne,
should be found among the number of those
Iof whose youthful days no memorial has
been preserved. Neither the time, place,
nor circumstances of his birth are known.
Even his parentage is doubtful.--He is
said, but upon what authority does not APP


pear, to have been a natural son Of that
Lord Dingley who died at an advanced
|age, in IVA. That he had the advantage
|of liberal education, and early inter-
coure with polished society, is sufficiently
evident from his writings: and it is pro-
|bable that he was early devoted to the pro-
fesslon OF arms. In 1853, he was raised
ito the rank of lieut.. Colonel Commandant
|of the 10th Light Dragons. His after
services at different periods. in Spain,


Portugal, and America, are we'll known,
the unfortunate termination of
his military career at Saratoga, which, tho


it tarnished but his honour, cast a shade


over his brow ever afterwards conspicuous


to hesphysiognomical eye. He made on


certain occasions, no ordinary figure in


Parliament. He moved in the first circles


and married lady Charlotte Stanley, a


daughter of the Earl of Derby; and yet,


we know not who or what originally, he


was. He Was the author of four success


ful dramas. The Maid of the Oaks, The