Excerpt from A Short View of the Life and Character of Lieutenant-General Villettes, Late Lieutenant-Governor and Commander of the Forces in Jamaica: To Which Are Added, Letters Written During a Journey From Calais to Geneva and St. Bernard, in the Year 1814 The following Sketch of the Life of the late lima-general Villettes was written immedi atelg afler his death, and was given to his friends in England, Malta, and Jamaica. It is non) reprinted, in consequence of the acqui sition\qf a striking likeness of the General, which has been recently obtained from an original picture, in the possession of his sister at Geneva. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.