JULIA, the daughter of Titus; her character was infamous.

JULIA DOMNA, the wife of the emperor Severus, was well skilled in philosophy and the sciences.

that he would not command idolatrous soldiers; Tiberius. She was banished by the latter for but, upon an assurance that they would embrace her debaucheries. Christianity, he accepted the throne, immediately shut up all the pagan temples, and forbade their sacrifices; but he did not long enjoy the dignity to which his merit had raised him; being suffocated in his bed by the fumes of a fire which had been made to dry the chamber, in 364, in the 33d year of his age, and 8th month of his reign. JOVINIAN, a monk of Milan, who became the head of a sect, and died in consequence of his debauchery, A. D. 406.

JOVIUS, Benedictus, brother of the historian, known as a poet and historical writer.

JOVIUS, Paul, an Italian Giovio, well known by his histories, was born at Como, in Italy, in 1483, and died in 1552.

JOYEUSE, Anne de, a duke and admiral of France, and a favourite of Henry III.; he died in 1587.

JOYEUSE, Francis de, brother to the preceding, was an able minister of Henry III. and IV., and Lewis XIII.; he died in 1615.

JOYNER, William, or Lyde,an English writer,|| who embraced popery, and died in 1706.

JUAN, George, a Spaniard, knight of Malta, known as an able mathematician; he died at Madrid, in 1773.

JUBA, king of Mauritania, was driven from his kingdom by Cæsar, and destroyed himself 42 B. C.

JUBA, son of the preceding, was carried prisoner to Rome by Cæsar, but under Augustus, hecovered his dominions.

JULIAN, the Roman emperor, commonly styled the Apostate, because he professed Christianity before he ascended the throne; after which he openly embraced paganism and persecuted the Christians. He was killed in battle 363.

JULIAN, St. archbishop of Toledo, author of a work against the Jews, died in 690."

JULIANA. a singular character of Norwich, who in her zeal for mortification, confined herself between four walls; she lived in the time of Edward III.

JULIEN, Peter, one of the best statuaries that France ever possessed. His last work was a marble statue of Poussin. His bathing nymph, in white marble, and the statue of La Fontaine, are considered as his chefs d'œuvres. He died at Paris, in 1805, at an advanced age.

JULIO, Romano, an Italian painter, the disciple of Raphael, with whom he was a particular favourite, died in 1546, leaving immortal proofs of his great abilities.

JULIUS I., pope and saint, was elected pope in 337, and died in 352; he was a man of learning and piety.

JULIUS II., pope, called before Julian de la Rovere, equally distinguished for his warlike exJUDA, Hakkadish,or the Saint, a rabbi, cele-ploits and political negotiations, was born at brated for his learning and riches, who lived in|| Arbizala, in 1440, and died in 1513. He built the the time of the emperor Antoninus, and was famous church of St. Peter at Rome, and was a the friend and preceptor of that prince. He generous patron of the polite arts. collected, about 26 years after the destruction of JULIUS III., John Marie du Mont, a native the Temple, in a book which he called the of Arezzo, was elected pope in 1550. He dis"Misna," the constitutions and traditions of solved the council of Trent, where he presided the Jewish magistrates and doctors who pre-in the name of Paul III., and died in 1556. ceded him.

JUDA, Leo, son of a priest of Alsace, was well skilled in Hebrew, and died minister of Zurich, in 1542.

JUDA-CHING, a rabbi, of Fez, of the 11th century, author of an Arabic dictionary and other works.

JUDAH, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah, was the head of a tribe, and died in 1636 B. C. JUDAS ISCARIOT, so called, from the place of his birth, betrayed his Lord and Master Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, and immediately hanged himself.

JUNCKER, Christian, an able medalist, was born at Dresden, and died in 1714.

JUNCTIN,or GUINTINO, Francis, an Italian, and a Carmelite, who quitted the catholic for the protestant religion, and settled in France, where he died in 1580.

JUNGERMAN, Godfrey, professor of law at Leipsic, died in 1610.

JUNGERMAN, Lewis, brother to the preceding, distinguished for works on botany and natural history, died in 1653.

JUNGIUS, Joachim, professor of mathematics at Glossen, died in 1657.

JUNILIUS, a bishop of Austria in the 6th

JUDE, St., an apostle, and the author of an epistle, was brother of James the Less, and suf-century. fered martyrdom, A. D. 80.

JUNIUS, Adrian, a learned Dutchman, and JUDEX, Matthew, a learned German, divini-author of numerous works; he died in 1575.

ty professor at Jena, died in 1564.

JUGLARIS, Aloysius, an Italian jesuit. He wrote 100 panegyrics on Jesus Christ and 40 on Lewis XIII., and died in 1653.

JUGURTHA, a brave Numidian prince, who sustained a war of five years against the power of Rome: he was at last betrayed, thrown into a dungeon, and died of hunger.

JUIGNÉ BROISSINIERE, D. Seigneur de Moliere, wrote a Theological and Historical Dictionary, published in 1644.

JUNIUS. See BOYD, Hugh.

JUNIUS, or DU JOHN, Francis, professor of divinity at Leyden. His best known work is a Latin version of the Hebrew Bible, he died in 1602.

JUNIUS, Francis, or Francois du John, born at Heidelberg, in 1589, died in 1677. He was highly distinguished for his skill and researches in the Anglo Saxon and Gothic languages.

JUNTA, Thomas, a physician of Venice, and an author, died in the 16th century.

JUNTAS. There were two of the name, prin

JULIA, a virgin and martyr of Carthage, 440. JULIA, daughter of Cæsar and Cornelia, aters of celebrity, who had establishments at VeRoman lady of great virtue, and the wife of nice, Florence, and Geneva. One of them died Pompey; she died 53 B. C. in 1519; the time of the death of the other in not known.

JULIA, daughter of Augustus, was the wife of Metellus, afterwards of Agrippa, and then of

JURET, Francis a native of Dijon, wLose

poetical pieces are in high esteem; he died in 1626.

JURIEU, Peter, a French protestant divine, Sometimes called the Goliah of the protestants, born in 1637, died in 1713. His theological and polemical writings are held in much esteem particularly his "Treatise of Devotion,' and his Preservative against Popery."

JURIN, Dr. James, a distinguished person, who cultivated medicine and mathematics with equal success. He was secretary of the Royal Society in London, as well as president of the College of Physicians there, and died in 1750. JUSSIEU, Anthony de, a celebrated French physician, botanist,and traveller, born at Lyous, in 1686, died in 1758.

1779.

JUSTINIANI, Bernard, nephew to the preceding, went ambassador froni Venice to Lewis XI. of France; he wrote several historical works, and died in 1489.

JUSTINIANI, Augustin, bishop of Nebo, in Corsica, was a learned man, and professor of Hebrew at Paris He was lost at sea in 1536. JUSTINIANI, Fabio, bishop of Ajaccio, was an author, and died in 1627.

JUVARA, Philip, a Sicilian architect, who erected beautiful edifices at Turin; he died in 1735.

JUVENAL, Decius Junius, a Ronian poet and satirist, was born about the beginning of the emperor Claudius' reign, and died in his 80th year. Juvenal, as a poet, improved on Horace JUSSIEU, Bernard de, a Frenchman, emi-and Persius, being elegant and witty with the nent as a botanist and physician,; he died in former, and great and sublime with the latter. JUVENAL, de Carleneas Felix, a French JUSTEL, Christopher, counsellor and secre-writer, highly respected, died in 1760. tary to the French king, was the author of se- JUVENCUS, Cassius Vectius Aquilinus, a veral works, and died in 1649. Spaniard, of noble birth, in the 4th century, and JUSTEL, Henry, son and successor of Chris-author of a poem. topher. On the revocation of the edict of JUXON, William, archbishop of Canterbury, Nantes, he went to London, and was made was imprisoned by the parliament; he was rekeeper of the king's library; he died in 1693. instated in office at the restoration, and died in

JUSTI, N. de, a celebrated German mineral-1663 ogist, and professor of natural history at Gottingen, was born in 1720.

JUSTIN, an ancient Latin historian, who abridged the large work of Trogus Pompeins, in 44 books, comprising a history of the world from Ninus to Augustus Cæsar, which is written with great purity and elegance. lie flourished about A. D. 250.

JUSTIN, surnamed the Martyr, one of the earliest writers of the Christian church, was born at Neapolis, the ancient Sichem of Palestine, in the province of Samaria, and beheaded for the Christian religion under Marcus Aure-|| lius, A. D. 167.

JUSTIN I., from a soldier, rose to the rank of general, and was proclaimed emperor of the east by his army, on the death of Anastasius, in 518; he died A. D. 527.

JUSTIN II., successor of Justinian, in 563. He was a weak prince, but his wife governed him and his empire with ability; he died in

578.

K

KABBETE, John, an excelent Dutch painter, died in 1660.

KAHTER, Jolm, a professor of Theology, at Rinletz, and an author, died in 1649.

KAIN, Henry Lewis le, a celebrated French actor, died at Paris, in 1778.

KALB, baron de, a native of Germany, and a brigadier-general of the French army. At the commencement of the American revolution, he volunteered his services in the cause of freedom, was promoted to the rank of major-general, and was for a time commander of the southern army. He was killed at the battle of Cam den, in 1781, and a monument was ordered by congress to be erected to his memory.

KALE, William, a Dutch painter, died in 1693.

KALGREEN, N., a dramatic writer, of Sweden, died in 1798.

JUSTINIAN, the first Roman emperor of his name, celebrated for having collected the im-eminent as a painter, died in 1721. niense variety and number of the Roman laws into one body, called "The Code;" to which the emperor gave his own name; he also had the decisions of judges and other magistrates, together with the authoritative opinions of the most eminent lawyers, collected; and the name of "Digests" or "Pandects" given to them. Besides these, for the use chiefly of young students in the law, Justinian ordered 4 books of "Institutes" to be drawn up, containing an abstract or abridgment of the text of all the laws: and lastly, the laws of modern date, posterior to that of the former, were thrown into one vol. in the year 541, and called the "Novella," or "New Code." This most important transac tion in the state has rendered Justinian's name inmortal.

KALRAAT, Barent Van, a native of Dordt,

KALUBKO, Vincent, a Polish historian, elected bishop of Cracow, died in 1223.

KAM HI, emperor of China in 1661, was a liberal patron of the literature and arts of Europe, and of Christian missions; he died in 1722.

KAMPEN, Jacob Van, an eminent Dutch painter, in the 17th century.

JUSTINIAN II., succeeded to the throne in 685. He was successful against the Saracens, but was of an infamous character, and was assasinated in 711.

JUSTINIANI, St. Lawrence, a noble of Venice, was made the first patriarch of Venice, in 1451; he died in 1455, and was canonized by pope Alexander VIII

KANDLER, John Joachim, an ingenious artist, of Saxony, died in 1776.

KANOLD, John, a German physician, and an author, died in 1729.

KANT, Inmanuel. an eminent metaphysician, born at Koningsberg, in 1724, and died in 1804.

KASTNER, Abraham Gothelf, professor of mathematics at Gottingen, secretary of the royal society, and keeper of the observatory at that place, died in 1800.

KATEB, à Persian poet at the court of the Samanides.

KATTERFELTO, Dr., an eccentric sort of quack philosopher, who for several years ged the good people of England with the exhibition of experiments in electricity, &c. which he

called "Wonderful Wonder;" insinuating that faithful Relation of what passed for many years his practices were magical, and performed un-between Dr. John Dee and some Spirits, &c., der the supernatural agency of the Black Cat, London, 1659." his constant companion on those occasions. He KELLY, Hugh, born in Ireland, in 1739, was is supposed to have been a Prussian by birth, bound apprentice to a stay-maker. At the exand died in Yorkshire, in 1799. piration of his indentures he set out for London, KAUFFMAN, Mary Angelica, an eminent to procure a livelihood by his business. This paintress, and royal academician, in London, was born in 1740, died at Rome, in 1807. The Germans styled her "The Paintress of the Soul;" and her mental acquirements and moral conduct were no less distinguished than her talents as an artist. She was at one time of her life the dupe of a villainous artifice, by which she was drawn into an unfortunate matrimonial connexion

happened in 1760; and he encountered all the difficulties which a persou poor and without friends could be subject to on his first arrival in town. He soon after, about 1762, commenced author, and was intrusted with the management of "The Public Ledger," and other periodical publications, in which he wrote many original essays and pieces of poetry. For several years after this period, he continued writing upon a variety of subjects, as the accidents of the times chanced to call for the assistance of his pen. In 1767, the "Babler" appeared in 2 pocket vols., KAY, William, a native of Breda, distin- which had at first been inserted in "Owen's guished as a historical painter, died in 1568. Weekly Chronicle," in single papers; as did KEACH, Benjamin, a baptist teacher, and authe" Memoirs of a Magdalen," under the title thor of works of great merit, died in the begin-of "Louisa Mildmay." He died in 1777, leavning of the 18th century. ing six dramatic pieces.

KAUNITZ, RITBERG prince, a celebrated statesman, and for 40 years prime minister of Austria; he died in 1794.

KEATE, George, a poet and miscellaneous KELLY, John, LL. D. a Scotch divine, who writer, born at Trowbridge, in 1729, died 1797. translated the Bible into the Manks tongue, and What will chiefly distinguish him as a writer published a grammar of that language; he died 1s," An Account of the Pelew Islands," which in 1809.

mental philosophy, in Columbia college, NewYork. He died in 1812.

he compiled from the papers of captain Wilson. KEMP, John, LL. D., a native of Scotland, KEATING, Jeffry, an Irish clergyman and came to America soon after the revolution. He an author, died in 1650. was appointed professor of mathematics, and KEBLE, Joseph, an eminent English law-afterwards of geography, history, and experi yer, born in 1632, died in 1710. He was a man of incredible industry, having published several books in his lifetime; beside which, he left KEMPIS, Thomas, famous for his transcendabove 100 large folios, and more than 50 thick ant piety and devotion, was born at Ken pen, in quartos, in manuscript. His principal works the diocess of Cologne, about 1380, and died in are, "An Assistance to Justices of the Peace, 1471. His well-known book, "De Imitatione for the easier Performance of their Duty," and Christi," of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, has "Reports," taken at the king's bench at West-been translated into almost all the languages in minster, from the 12th to the 30th year of the the world. reign of Charles II.

KEN, Thomas, an English prelate, chaplain KECKERMAN, Bartholomew, professor of to the king. He devoted his life to pious and Hebrew at Heidelberg, fell a sacrifice to his in-literary pursuits, and died in 1710. tense application to study, in 1609.

KEENE, Edmund, an English bishop, and vice-chancellor of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, died in 1781.

KEILL, John, an eminent mathematician and philosopher, born at Edinburgh, in 1671, died in 1721. His works are numerous, and in high repute.

KEILL, James, an eminent physician and anatomist, younger brother of the preceding, born in 1673, died in 1719.

KEITH, James, a brave and experienced field-marshal, in the king of Prussia's service, born in Scotland, in 1696, distinguished himself in the memorable wars of that illustrious monarch, and was killed in the unfortunate affair of Hohkerchen, in 1758.

He

KENDAL, George, lost all his preferiments in the church for non-conformity, in 1662. was the author of several works.

KENNEDY, John, an English clergyman, author of Scripture Chronology, 1753.

KENNEDY, James, regent of Scotland during the minority of James II. He was made archbishop of St. Andrews, and died in 1472. KENNEDY, John, a Scotch physician and antiquary, died in 1760.

KENNET, Basil, D. D., born at Postling, in Kent, in 1674, died in 1714. He was author of the Antiquities of Rome; "The Lives and Characters of the ancient Grecian Poets;" "An Exposition of the Apostles' Creed," &c.

KENNET, White, an Engush prelate. He was an eloquent and popular preacher, and had a valuable manuscript collection. He died in KENNETH II., the 69th king of Scotland, KELLER, James, a learned jesuit, of Sekin-ascended the throne in 823. He brought to gen, the friend of the emperor Maximilian, died Scone the famous stone chair in which the at Munich, in 1631. kings of Scotland were crowned, and died in

KEITH, Sir William, governor of the colony of Pennsylvania, from 1717 to 1726, and author||1728. of a history of Virginia; he died in 1749.

KENNETH III., son of Malcolm, defeated the Danes, and also the English; he was assassinated in 994.

KELLEY, Edward, a famous English necro-854. mancer, was born in 1555. Behaving indiscreetly in Germany, he was imprisoned by the emperor Rodolphus II., by whom he had been knighted; and, endeavouring to make his escape out of the window, so hurt himself by a fall, that he died soon after, in 1595. His chief works are, "A Poem of Chymistry;" "A Poem of the Philosopher's Stone;" and "A true and

KENNICOTT, Dr. Benjamin, well known in the learned world for his elaborate edition of the Hebrew Bible, and other very valuable publications, was canon of Christ Church, Oxford, keeper of the Radcliffe Library, and vicar of

Culham in Oxfordshire. He was born in 1718, and died in 1783.

KERKHERDERE, John Gerard, historiographer to the emperor Joseph I. died in 1738. KEKSAINT, Armand Guy Simon, count of, a French naval officer of merit. He belonged to the party of Girondists in the convention, and was condemned to die in 1793.

KERSEY, John, a mathematician, born in 1616, died about 1700. He published "Elements of Algebra," and "Dictionarium Anglo Britannicum; or a General English Dictionary." KERVILLARS,John Marin de, a jesuit, who translated Ovid into French; he died in 1765. KESSEL, John Van, a Dutch painter of em

KENRICK, Dr. William, was the son of a stay-maker, at or near Watford, Herts, and brought up to the business of a rule maker. However, he seems early to have abandoned it, and to have devoted his talents to the eultivation of letters. His first production as a poet was a volume of "Epistles Philosophical and Moral," in 1759, addressed to Lorenzo; an avowed defence of Infidelity. He was for a considerable time a writer in "The Monthly Review." In the year 1766 he produced his pleasant comedy of" Falstaff's Wedding." Itinence in the 17th century. was at first intended to have been given to the KETEL, Cornelius, a Dutch historical and public as an original play of Shakspeare re- portrait painter, who resided sometime in Engtrieved from obscurity; and it must be acknow-land, and being introduced to queen Elizabeth, ledged a most happy imitation of our great dra-painted her a picture. After his return to Holmatic bard. Dr. Kenrick also translated the land, he laid aside his pencil, and painted with Emilius" and "Eloisa" of Rousseau, and the his fingers. He died 1602. "Elements of the History of Englaud," by Milot; produced several dramatic performances: a volume of "Poems, ludicrous, satirical, and oral," and an infinite variety of other publications both original and translated, and died ined and pious English divine, born in 1653, and died in 1695. His most celebrated work, entitled KENT, William, an English painter, but" Measures of Christian Obedience," has gainmuch more eminent as an architect, born ined him a lasting reputation. 1685, died in 1748. Mr. Walpole considers him as the inventor of modern gardening. KENTIGERN, or St. Mungo, a Scotchman and bishop of Glasgow, in the 6th century.

1779.

KETT, William, a tanner, of Norfolk, who headed an insurrection in the reign of Edward III.; he was defeated and executed in 1549. KÉTTLEWELL, John, an eminently learn

secrated Mistletoe of the Druids; and by "Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorraine," illustrated with copper-plates engraven from drawings taken on the spot.

KHERASKOF,Michael, a Russian poet of the 18th century, and counsellor of state."

KEULEN, Janssen Van, a Dutch portrait painter, and favourite of Charles I., died in 1665. KEYSLER, John George,a learned antiquary, of Germany, born in 1689, died in 1743. He was KENYON, Lloyd, lord, an English judge, author of several learned works; but is most born in 1733. In 1782, he was made attorney-generally known by a "Dissertation on the congeneral; in 1684, master of the rolls; and in 1788, lord chief justice of the king's bench, which office he filled with distinguished integrity. His lordship possessed an uncommon strength of mind, and an intuitiveness of perception, which enabled him at once to discern the direct path of justice, however attempted to be concealed by legal chicanery, and subtleties of KHILHOF, Prince, a Russian nobleman, ampractice. To his exertions, England is indebted bassador to Charles XII., of Sweden; he was for much of that reform which has been intro-imprisoned by that monarch, and died in 1798. duced into the practice of the law, and particularly with regard to attorneys, whose misconduct never failed to meet his just resentment and indignation. His endeavours on the Bench, were uniformly directed to the promotion of every moral and religious duty, to the discouragement of vice, and to the exposure of those false prin ciples of honour, the baneful effects of which we have too often reason to contemplate. He died at Bath, in 1802.

KICK, Cornelius, a painter, of Amsterdam, of great merit, died in 1695.

KIDDER, Dr. Richard, bishop of Bath and Wells, author of "A Commentary on the five books of Moses; with a dissertation concerning the writer of the said books; and a general ar gument to each of them." He was a very clear, elegant, learned writer, and one of the best divines of his time; and was unfortunately killed in his bed, together with his wife, by the fall of

KEPLER, John, a celebrated German astro-a stack of chimneys, in 1703. nomer, and author of many valuable discoveries] in that science, born in 1571, died in 1630.

KIEN-LONG, emperor of China, died in the latter part of the 18th century, after reigning 60 years. He was a popular and benevolent mon

KIERINGS, Alexander, a Dutch painter of eminence, died in 1646.

KILBURN, Richard, an English author of the 17th century.

KEPPEL, Rt. Hon. Augustus viscount, son of William, earl of Albemarle, greatly distinguish-arch. ed himself in the naval service of his country. He was created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of viscount Kepple, and was, at two different periods, first lord of the admiralty. Respecting his services during the American war, while he commanded the channel fleet, we must refer to history for the detail. He died in 1786. KERCKCHOEE, Joseph Van der, a painter of Brussels, of some note, died in 1724.

KERCKRING, Thomas, a physician, obtained celebrity in his profession, and died at Hamburgh in 1693.

KERGUELIN DE TREMARA, Yves Joseph, a distinguished French naval commander, died in 1797.

KERI, Francis Borgia, a learned jesuit, of Haugary, and an author, died in 1769.

KILBYE, Richard, Hebrew professor at Oxford, and one of the translators of the bible, died in 1620.

KILBYE, Richard, a minister of England, who wrote "Binder of a loaded Conscience,' died in 1617.

KILIAN, Cornelius, a native of Brabant, for 50 years corrector of the press; he died in 1607 KILLEN, William, an eminent lawyer, of Delaware, chief Justice of the supreme court, and chancellor of that state; he died in 1805.

KILLIGREW, Catherine, an English lady had a great knowledge of the learned lan

guages, and wrote elegant Latin poen.s; she died in 1600.

appointed to arbitrate the differences between the French and Spanish synagogues concerning KILLIGREW, Sir William, an English drama- the books of Maimonides. His "Hebrew Gramtic poet, born at Hanworth, in 1605, died in 1693 mar" was printed at Venice, in 1545; and his KILLIGREW, Thomas, brother of the former, Talmudical Dictionary" in 1506. His "Comborn in 1611, and distinguished by uncommon mentaries on the Psalms, Prophets, and other natural parts, was page of honour to Charles I., books of Scripture," are very valuable. and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II., KINASTON, Francis, an Englishman, edu with whom he had suffered many years' exile cated at Oxford, and an author, died in 1642. During his absence from his country, he applied KING, John, bishop of London, born in 1559, his leisure hours to poetry, and wrote 11 plays. died in 1621. James I. used to style him "the He died in 1682, and was buried in Westminster king of preachers;" and lord chief justice Coke Abbey. Killigrew was a man of very droll hu-often declared that "he was the best speaker mour, with which he used to divert the merry of the star-chamber in his time." monarch, Charles II., who on that account, was fonder of him than of his best ministers, and would give him access to his presence when he denied it to them.

KILLIGREW, Dr. Henry, brother of the former, born in 1612. His writings were on opposite themes of theology and the drama; that is, sermons and plays.

KING, Henry, bishop of Chichester, son of the preceding, and an elegant poet. He turned the Psalms into verse, and published "Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets." He was born in 1591, and died in 1669. KING, John, second son of the bishop of London, and an author, died in 1639.

KING, Edward, fellow of Christ's College, ́KILLIGREW, Anne, "a grace for beauty, Cambridge, in 1633. He was unfortunately and a muse for wit," was the daughter of Hen-drowned in 1637, in his passage from Chester, ry Killigrew, and born in London, a little before in the Irish sea; a circunstance which gave the Restoration. She became eminent in the birth to the admirable "Lycidas" of Milton, arts of poetry and painting, and died in 1685. who says of him, that KILLIGREW, Margaret, wife of the duke of Newcastle, and author of 13 folio volumes;

she died in 1673.

KILWARDEN, Arthur Wolfe, lord, an Irish Judge, of great virtue and impartiality in public life, was killed by a mob in the streets of Dublin, in 1803.

KIMBER, Isaac, a learned protestant dissenting minister, born in 1692, died in London, in 1755. This gentleman was the author of many literary productions, highly esteemed for purity of style and impartiality; among which were "The Life of Oliver Cromwell," "The Life of Bishop Beveridge:" a "History of England," in which he was concerned with Messrs. Baily, Hlodges, and Kidpath "The Reign of George II." "History of England," esteemed one of the best abridgments of the English history extant. In 1731, he was engaged as editor of "The London Magazine," which he conducted with credit to himself, and advantage to the proprietors, to the time of his death, which was occasioned by a fit of apoplexy.

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"He knew

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."

KING, Dr. William, an ingenious and hu mourous English writer, born in London, in 1663, died in 1712. His poetical and political works are numerous; but his most useful book is "A Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes, necessary for the understanding of the ancient Poets."

KING, Dr. William, archbishop of Dublin, born in 1650, wrote a celebrated treatise, "De Origine Mali," on the Origin of Evil; wherein he undertook to show how all the several kinds of evil with which the world abounds are con sistent with the goodness of God, and may be accounted for without the supposition of an evi principal. He died in 1729.

KING, Peter, chancellor of England, and famous for his ecclesiastical learning, as well as his knowledge in the law, was born in 1669, and died in 1734.

KING, Sir Edmund, a surgeon and chymist, esteemed by Charles II., whom he attended in his last illness.

KING, John G'en, D. D., F. R. and A. S. 8., author of "The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church in Russia," &c., died in 1787.

KING, Edward, F. R. and A. S. S., an eminent English antiquary, poet, and biblical critic, author of "Morsels of Criticism," and other works, born in 1735, died in London, in 1807.

KING, Dr. William, principal of St. Mary KIMBER, Edward, son of the preceding, born Hall, Oxford, and an ingenious theological and in 1719, died in 1769. He served an apprentice-political writer, born in 1685, died in 1763. ship to Mr. John Noon, bookseller, in Cheapside; but his active genius led him early in life to prefer a military occupation under the late general Oglethorpe, from whom he received an ensigncy, was with him at settling the then infant colony of Georgia, and signalized himself in an expedition to the gates of St. Augustine, In Florida; " A Relation or Journal," of which, printed in 1744, was the first production of his ren. Upon quitting the army he succeeded his father as editor of "The London Magazine,” KING, Thomas, a very eminent comedian, which flourished to the time of his death, and who continued 42 years an oruament of the then gradually declined till it was entirely English stage, was born in London, in 1730, and dropped, in 1785. In 1750, he published "A first appeared at Drury-lane Theatre, in 1748. Letter from a Citizen of London to his Fellow-His first essays being passed over without notice, citizens, &c., occasioned by the late Earth-he repaired to Bath, and afterwards to Ireland, quakes;" and soon after, "The Life and Ad-where he rapidly accomplished himself in his ventures of Joe Thompson," 2 vols., and several profession. He was recalled to Drury-lane stage other novels, of considerable merit. He also in the year 1749, when he was received as one compiled, "The Peerages of England, Scotland, of the first comic performers of the day. Fot and Ireland," contrived for the pocket, and a forty years, he was constantly before the public; "History of England," in 10 vols. with plates. and those who recollect his Lord Ogleby, Sir KIMCHI, David, a Jewish rabbi and com-Peter Teazle, Tom, Prass, and Lissardo, nust mentator in the 13th century. In 1232, he was be rather fastidious m their reception of any