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 MEMOIR

OF

THE LATE

COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER,

OF THE CHILIAN SERVICE.

��My beautiful, my brave !

��Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war !

��The common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English gentleman, who settled in the island about the year 1592, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and his descendants have continued to rank among the first insular families. He had two sons, the elder of whom married the daughter of the Procureur du Roi, or Attorney-General,* and the younger removed to England. During the revolution of 1688, the Channel or Norman Isles were eminently protestant, being among the first in the British dominions to disarm and imprison the troops of James the Second, as well as to declare for the Prince of Orange ; and another ancestor of the subject of this memoir gladly conveyed to Admiral Russell, at some expense and

Guernsey in four reigns, — Henry VIII. to Elizabeth, — and among whose very few male descendants are the present Vice -Admiral Gosselin, and his brother Lieut. -General Gosselki.
 * Hillary Gosselin, Esq., grandson of Hillary Gosselin, Esq., Bailiff of

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