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church-yard. The corporation of the city of New York erected a marble monument to Lawrence, which becoming dilapidated, the vestry of Trinity Church erected a handsome mausoleum of brown freestone (1847), neat the southeast corner of Trinity Church, close by Broadway, in commemoration of both Lawrence and Ludlow, and eight trophy cannon were placed around it. Captain Lawrence's coat, chapeau, and sword are now in possession of the New Jersey Historical Society. The freedom of the city of London and a sword were given to Captain Broke by the corporation; the Prince Regent knighted him; and the inhabitants of his native county (Suffolk) presented him with a gorgeous piece of silver as a testimonial of their sense of his eminent services. the Chesapeake was taken to England and sold to the government for about $66,000, and in 1814 was put in commission. In 1820 she was sold to a private gentleman for a very small sum, who broke her up and sold her timbers for building purposes, muc

claiming wildly as he paced up and down the apartment a few minutes, O God! it is all over. In deepest consternation he repeated these words many times. The stubborn King was amazed and struck dumb for a few minutes; then, recovering his equanimity, he wrote, in view of a proposition in the Parliament to give up the contest and allow the independence of the colonies, No difficulties can get me to consent to the getting of peace at the expense of a separation from America. The city of London petitioned the King to put an end to the unnatural and unfortunate war ; and in Parliament a great change in sentiment was immediately visible. Late in February, General Conway moved an address to the King in favor of peace. A warm debate ensued. Lord North defended the royal policy, because it maintained British rights and was just. Good God! exclaimed Burke, are we yet to be told of the rights for which we went to war? O excellent rights! O valuable rights! Valuable you should be,

Gibson, James 1690-1752 Merchant; born in London in 1690; became a merchant in Boston, Mass.; took part in the capture of Louisburg, and after its surrender superintended the removal of the prisoners to France. He published an account of the Louisburg expedition, under the title of A Boston merchant of 1745. He died in the West Indies, while on a trading expedition, in 1752.

Lee, William 1737-1795 Diplomatist; born in Stratford, Va., in 1737: brother of Richard Henry and Arthur; was agent for Virginia in London, and became a merchant there. The city of London being overwhelmingly Whig in politics, William Lee was elected sheriff of that city and Middlesex county in 1773. In 1775 he was chosen alderman, but on the breaking out of the war in America retired to France. Congress appointed him commercial agent at Nantes at the beginning of 1777, and he was afterwLondon being overwhelmingly Whig in politics, William Lee was elected sheriff of that city and Middlesex county in 1773. In 1775 he was chosen alderman, but on the breaking out of the war in America retired to France. Congress appointed him commercial agent at Nantes at the beginning of 1777, and he was afterwards American minister at The Hague. Mr. Lee was also agent in Berlin and Vienna, but was recalled in 1779. In 1778 Jan de Neufville, an Amsterdam merchant, procured a loan to the Americans from Holland, through his house, and, to negotiate for it, gained permission of the burgomasters of Amsterdam to meet Lee at Aix-la-Chapelle. There they arranged terms for a commercial convention proper to be entered into between the two republics. When Lee communicated this project to the American commis

arly as his fifteenth year he had constructed a cradle, used in harvesting grain in the field. His father, in 1816, had invented an improved reaper, and in 1831 Cyrus invented another, for which he first obtained a patent in 1834. In 1845, 1847, and 1858 he patented valuable improvements. He moved to Cincinnati in 1845, and to Chicago in 1847. The gold medal of the American Institute was awarded to him for his invention in 1845, and he received the Commercial Medal at the World's Fair in London in 1851. In 1855 he was awarded the grand gold medal of the Paris Exposition; also the highest prizes of subsequent international and other exhibitions. In the Paris Exposition of 1867 he received the grand gold medal of honor, and the order of the Legion of Honor from the Emperor of the French. In 1859 Mr. McCormick founded and endowed the Theological Seminary of the Northwest, at Chicago, and afterwards endowed a professorship in Washington and Lee University, Va. He died in Chicago, Il

Miller, Cincinnatus Heine 1841- (better known as Joaquin Miller), author; born in Wabash district, Ind., Nov. 10, 1841; went with his parents to Oregon in 1850; subsequently engaged in mining in California, and studied law. In 1863 he edited the Democratic register, in Eugene, Ore., a weekly paper which was accused of disloyalty and suppressed; in 1863-66 practised law in Canton City, Ore.; and in 1866-70 was judge of Grant county, Ore. Later he went to London, where he published his first book of poems. Returning to the United States he spent several years in newspaper work in Washington. Since 1887 he has resided in Oakland, Cal. In 1897-98 he was correspondent for the New York Journal in the Klondike. His publications include Songs of the Sierras; Songs of the Sunland; The ship of the Desert; Life among the Modocs; The one fair woman; Shadows of Shasta; Songs of far-away lands; 1849, or the gold-seekers of the Sierras; The life of Christ, etc. He has also written plays, i

states were confiscated or destroyed; and he himself died in exile, before the restoration of the prince. Upon the reinstating of Carolus II. on the throne of his father, he was visited by William Penn, the only son of Lord Penn; and he received him very graciously. In consideration of the services of his father, he presented to him this entire region, together with the colony of New Castle, forever. This royal bounty bears the date April 21, 1681. Penn now published it in the city of London, that he intended to establish a colony there, and offered to sell lands to all such as wished to emigrate. Upon this many persons offered to go, and Penn accompanied them thither, where he founded the city of Philadelphia, in 1682. A German society also contracted with his agents in London for several thousand acres of land to establish a German colony there. The entire region was named Pennsylvania, which signifies Penn's forest lands. [Here follow Penn's charter and plans of settl

, in 1812-13, he became a partner with Elisha Riggs, in New York City, and afterwards in Baltimore. In July, 1843, he became a banker, in London, and amassed an immense fortune, which he used in making princely benefactions, as follows: To his native town, $200,000, to establish a lyceum and library; to the first Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, $10,000; to found an institute of science, literature, and the fine arts, in Baltimore, $1,400,000; and, in 1862, to the city of London, $2,500,000, for the benefit of its poor, for which the Queen gave him her portrait, the city its freedom, and the citizens erected a statue of him. In 1866 he gave to Harvard University $150,000 to establish a museum and professorship of American archaeology and ethnology, and, the same year, to the Southern Educational Fund, just created, $2,000,000. He also gave to Yale College, to found a geological branch of instruction, $150,000. He died in London, England, Nov. 4, 1869, and his remain

portsman, naturalist, preserver of animals, an inventor, and was the first dentist in the country who made sets of artificial teeth. He took Charles Wilson Peale. instructions from Copley, in Boston, in 1770-71; studied at the Royal Academy in London; and in 1772 painted the first portrait of Washington ever executed, in the costume of a Virginia colonel, and at the same time painted a miniature of Mrs. Washington. He did military service and carried on portrait-painting during the Revolutio 1860; painted a portrait of Washington from life, which is now in the Senate chamber in Washington, and was commended by personal friends of the patriot as the best likeness of him (excepting Houdon's statue) ever made. He studied under West in London, and, going to Paris, painted portraits of many eminent men for his father's museum. Charles Wilson Peale's youngest son, Titian Ramsey, born in Philadelphia in 1800; died there, March 13, 1885, was also a painter and naturalist. He was painter

pointed superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, which post he held until his death in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1880. He was a member of leading scientific societies at home and abroad; an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, 1842; member of the Royal Society of London, 1852; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1853; and one of the scientific council that established the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N. Y., in 1855. Dr. Peirce pubbridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1880. He was a member of leading scientific societies at home and abroad; an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, 1842; member of the Royal Society of London, 1852; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1853; and one of the scientific council that established the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N. Y., in 1855. Dr. Peirce published many scientific essays; and in 1851 discovered and announced the fluidity of Saturn's rings.