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STILLINGFLEET, Benjamin, grandson of the preceding, a distinguished naturalist and poet, born in 1702, and died in 1771.

STOUFFACHER, Werner, one of the illustrious band of Swiss heroes, who overturned the Austrian government of Switzerland, and restored their country to its original Independ

STILLMAN, Samuel, D. D., a distinguished baptist minister, settled at Boston, Mass., diedence. in 1807.

STOUGHTON, William, chief justice, and

STITH, William, an American historian, afterwards lieutenant governor of the colony of president of the college of William and Mary,||Massachusetts, died in 1701. Virginia, until about 1740.

STOBÆUS, John, a learned Greek writer, who lived in the 5th century.

STOW, John, an eminent English historian and antiquary, died in 1605, aged 80. STRABO, a native of Cappadocia, celebrated STOCK, Christian, a German orientalist, of as a geographer and historian, died at the be great learning, was a professor at Jena; Heginning of the emperor Tiberius' reign. died in 1733.

STOCKADE, Nicholas de Helt, an eminent portrait and historical painter, of Nimeguen, lived about 1614.

STOCKTON, Richard, an eminent lawyer, and judge of New-Jersey, was a member of congress from that state in 1776, and one of the signers of the declaration of Independence; he died in 1781.

STRADA, Famianus, a very ingenious and learned Italian jesuit, died in 1649.

STRADA, John, or STRADANUS, a Flemish painter, born in 1536, and died in 1604. His hunting and historical pieces are much admired. STRAETEN, N. Vander, a celebrated Dutch landscape painter, born in 1680. STRAFFORD, Thomas Wentworth, earl of, See WENTWORTH.

1785.

STRAIGHT, John, an English divine and poet, was prebendary of Salisbury cathedral he died in 1740.

STRANGE, sir Robert, a celebrated histori cal engraver, born in the island of Pomona, in Orkney, in 1721, and died in 1792.

STODDARD, Solomon, an eminent clergy- STRAHAM, William, a very eminent printman, of New-England, settled for nearly 60er, was born at Edinburgh, in 1715, and died in years at Northampton, Mass., and died in 1729. STOFFLER,John, an eminent teacherof mathematics at Tubingeu, wrote some books on that science and on astrology, and died in 1531. STOFFLET, Nicholas, a French private soldier, who at the beginning of the revolution, armed himself and his followers, in support of royalty, and supported himself against the forces of the convention. During two years heat Wittemberg, and afterwards professor of the fought 150 battles, and his bravery generally en- ology and rector of the university of Dantzic, sured success. He was at last prevailed on to died in 1682. lay down his arms, and afterwards on some frivolous pretext taken and shot, in 1796.

STRAUCHIUS, Giles, professor of divinity

STREATER, Robert, an eminent English historical painter, died in 1680.

STONE, John, an eminent English painter, in STREEK, Jurian Van, an admired Flemish the reigns of the two Charles'. He died in 1653. painter, died in 1678. His son. Henry, excelled STONE, Edmund, a selftaught mathemati-as a historical painter; he died in 1713. cian, author of a "Treatise on Fluxions" and STRIGELIUS, Victorius, a teacher of theoother mathematical works; he died about 1750.logy, and afterwards a professor of morality at STONE, Nicholas, a distinguished English Heidleberg, died in 1569. statuary, died in 1647.

STROBELBERGER, John Stephen, an eminent German physician and medical writer, died

STONE, Samuel, an English divine who came to this country to escape persecution. Hein 1630. was one of the first ministers in Hartford, Con. and died there in 1633.

STONE, John Haskins, a brave and zealous officer of the revolution, afterwards governor of the State of Maryland, died in 1804.

STONE, Thomas, a member of congress in 1776, from Maryland, and one of the signers of the declaration of Independence, died in 1787.

STRONG, Joseph, a native of Carlisle, who, although blind from his infancy, was distinguished for uncommon skill in mechanics. He died in 1798.

STRONG, Nathan, D. D., an eminent American clergyman, pastor of a congregational church in Hartford, Conn., distinguished for his talents, eloquence, piety, and learning, died in 1816.

STONE, David, a representative and senator in congress from North Carolina, and after- STRONG, Caleb, LI.. D., a native of Massawards a judge and governor of that state. Hechusetts, was born in 1744. He was distinguishdied in 1818. ed in early life for his energy and zeal in defence STONEHOUSE, sir James, an eminent En- of the rights of the colonies, and after a variety glish physician, and afterwards a popular and of public employments, was chosen a member eloquent preacher, died in 1795. In the early of the senate of the United States, and governpart of his life, he was an infidel; but he re-or of the state of Massachusetts. He was connounced and wrote against his sceptical opin-spicuous for the vigour of his intellect, the deions. cision and energy of his character, and for his STORACE, Stephen, a distinguished musi-patriotism and integrity, and died in 1820. cian and composer for the English theatre, was born in 1763, and died in 1796.

STORCK, Nicholas, a native of Saxony, who in connexion with Muncer founded the sect of the Anabaptists in Moravia; he died at Munich about 1530.

STORCK. See RINGELBERGIUS. STORCK, Abraham, a Dutch painter, whose sea pieces and marine views were much admired; he died in 1708. His brother was a good landscape painter.

STRONG, Simeon, LL. D., a judge of the supreme court of the state of Massachusetts, died in 1805.

STROZZI, Titus and Hercules, father and son, were Latin poets, at Ferrara. The father died in 1502, the son, in 1508.

STROZZI, Cyriaco, a peripatetic philosopher, born at Florence, in 1504, and died in 1565.

STROZZI, Julius, an Italian poet, author of a poem on the origin of Venice, and another heroic poem; he died in 1686

STROZZI, Nicholas, a distinguished poet and dramatic writer, of Florence, died in 1654. STRUDELL, Peter, an eminent German painter, died in 1717.

1703. His mathematical and philosophical writings are very numerous.

STUVEL, Ernest, an admired painter, of Hamburgh, died in 1712.

STRUENSEE, count, a physician, who by STUYVESANT, Peter, the last governor of his abilities, became the favourite and prime the colony of New-York, while in the possesminister of the king of Denmark. He wassion of the Dutch, he surrendered the colony to ruined by the intrigues of the queen mother, the English, in 1664. and perished on the scaffold, in 1772. STRUTT, Joseph, an English artist, well known for the assiduity with which he traced antiquity; he died in 1787, aged 53.

STRUVIUS, George Adam, professor of jurisprudence at Jena, and counsellor to the duke of Saxony, died in 1692.

SUARD, J. B. Anthony, a French writer, and editor of a journal opposed to the revolution, was distinguished particularly for his translations from the English; he died in 1817.

SUAREZ, Francis, a Spanish jesuit, was professor at Alcala, Salamanca, and Rome, and afterwards professor of divinity at Coimbra, in Portugal. He wrote on metaphysics, morality, and theology, and died in 1617.

STRUVIUS, Burcard Gotthelf, son of the preceding, was employed at Jena, in his father's profession, and was equally esteemed. He wrote a "History of Germany," and numerous other works, and died in 1738. STRUYS, John, a Dutchman, celebrated as aller, of Antwerp, died in 1681. traveller. He wrote an account of his travels, and died about 1680.

SUBLEYRAS, Peter, a portrait and historical painter, of Languedoc, died in 1759. SUBTERMANS, Justus, a celebrated paint

SUCKLING, sir John, an English poet and dramatic writer, died in 1641.

STRYPE, John an industrious English divine, biographer, and historian, died in 1737,||medical writer, died at Paris, in 1782. aged 94.

SUE, John, a celebrated French surgeon and

STUART, Robert, lord Castlereagh, marquis of Londonderry, an eminent English statesman and minister, for many years at the head of the British cabinet, and the representative of the nation at the continental meetings of the allied sovereigns; died in Ireland, in 1822.

STUART, Gilbert, an eminent historian, of Scotland, born in 1742, and died in 1786.

SUE, John Joseph, brother of the preceding, was professor of anatomy at Paris, and a writer on anatomy and surgery. He died in 1792.

SUETONIUS, Caius Tranquillus, a historian and biographer, born at Rome, and flourished in the reign of Vespasian.

SUETT, Richard, an English comedian of merit, died in 1805.

SUEUR, Nicholas le, or SUDORIUS, counSTUART, James, commonly called Athenian sellor and president of the parliament of Paris, Stuart, a very celebrated traveller, and delinea-was assassinated by robbers, in 1594. tor of Athenian architecture, died in 1788, SUEUR, Thomas le, of the order of Minims, aged 76. was a celebrated teacher of theology, philosoSTUBBE, Henry, a learned English contro-phy, and mathematics at Rome, and preceptor versial writer, and physician, was drowned to the duke of Parma, was born in Champagne, near Bath, in 1676. in 1703, and died at Rome, in 1770.

STUBBS, George, an English divine, and able writer, author of the "New Adventure of Telemachus," and some elegant verses, lived about 1720.

STUBBS, George, a celebrated painter and anatomist, died in 1806.

SUEUR, Eustache le, one of the best French historical painters of his time, died in 1655.

SUFFREN, John, a French jesuit, confessor to Mary de Medicis." He wrote "Annee Chretienne," a work of great merit, and died in 1641. A French admiral Suffren, of the same family,

STUCKIUS, John William, a native of Zu-died in 1789. rich, distinguished as an antiquary, and as a writer on antiquities, died in 1607.

STUDLY, John, an English poet, and soldier, killed at the siege of Breda, while serving under prince Maurice, in 1587.

STUKELY, William, an English divine and antiquary, of much celebrity, died in 1765. STUNICA, James Lopez, a Spanish divine, and philologer in the university of Alcala, died at Naples, in 1530.

STURGES, Jonathan, LL. D., an eminent lawyer, and a strong advocate for the rights of the colonies; he was a member of the first congress in 1774, and afterwards a judge of the supreme court of the state of Connecticut, and died in 1819.

STURMIUS, James, a learned German, who was employed as ambassador to the imperial court and to England. He contributed to the reformation in Strasburg, and died in 1553.

STURMIUS, John an eminent German grammarian and rhetorician, called the Cicero of Germany, died in 1589.

SUGER, Abbe, abbot of St. Denis, and minister under Lewis VII., and Lewis the Gros, was distinguished for his talents; he died in 1152.

SUICER, John Gaspard, a most learned divine, and author, born at Zurich, in 1620 and died in 1705.

SUIDAS, author of a useful Greek Lexicon, flourished between 975 and 1025; his native country is not known.

SULLIVAN, sir Richard Joseph, an English writer, and member of parliament, and author of an Analysis of the "Political History of India," and several other works, died in 1806.

SULLIVAN, John, LL. D., a distinguishled patriot and soldier of the revolution, was major-general in the American army during that period, and afterwards a member of Congress, and a judge of the United States district court for New Hampshire. His services as an officer were numerous and important, he died in 1795.

SULLIVAN, James, LL. D., brother of the preceding, was an eminent lawyer, and a judge in the state of Massachusetts, and afterSTURMIUS, Leonard Christopher, an emi-wards a member of congress, and governor of nent architect, of Altorf, published a course of architecture, and died in 1719.

STURMIUS, John Christopher, professor of philosophy and mathematics, at Altorf, died in

that state; he died in 1808.

SULLY, Maximilian de Bethune, baron of Rosni, duke of, a marshal of France, prime minister to Henry IV., and one of the ablest and

most honest statesmen that France ever had.;

He died in 1641, aged 82.

He

SWIFT, Zephaniah, LL. D., a distinguished lawyer, of Connecticut, was a member of conSULPICIA, a Roman poetess, who lived un-gress from that state, and afterwards a judge der the reign of Domitian, and has been called and chief-justice of the supreme court. the Roman Sappho. published a " Digest of the Laws of ConnectiSULPICIUS, Severus, an eminent ecclesias-cut," and other valuable professional works, tical historian, born in Aquitaine, in the 5th cen-and died in Ohio, in 1823.

tury.

SWINBURNE, Henry, a judge of the preroSULZER, John George, an eminent Swiss gative court of the archbishop of York, author philosopher and ecclesiastic, professor of math-of a "Treatise on Testaments and Last Wills," ematics at Berlin, died in 1779. He wrote &c., died in 1620. "Moral Contemplations on the Works of Na- SWINBURNE, Henry, an English traveller, ture," &c. author of "Travels in Spain," and "Travels SUMMERFIELD, John, A. M., a very elo-in the Two Sicilies," died in 1803. quent and popular preacher of the methodist episcopal church, died at New-York, in 1825, aged 27, having been a preacher 8 years.

SWINDEN, Tobias, an English divine, author of a curious" Inquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell," died about 1720.

SWINNOCK, George, an eminent English

SUMNER, Increase, a judge of the supreme court, and governor of the state of Massachu-non-conformist divine, and writer, died in 1673. setts, died in 1797.

SUMOROKOF, Alexander, the founder of the Russian theatre, and a poet. He died in 1777, aged 50.

SWINTON, John, B. D., a celebrated English antiquary, died in 1777.

SYBRECHT, John, a Flemish landscape painter, died in 1703.

SYDENHAM, Thomas, an excellent English physician, and medical writer, died in 1689. SYDENHAM, Floyer, a learned and diligent

SUPERVILLE, Daniel de, a protestant minIster at the Walloon church, in Rotterdam, and theological writer, died in 1728. SURENHUSIUS, William, professor of He-man, but for want of patronage, he lived long brew at Amsterdam, in the 18th century. in indigence, a disgrace to English opulence and SURIAN, John Baptist, a pious and benevo-humanity, and died in 1787. His fate is coulent prelate, and an eloquent preacher, of Prov-nected with the literary fund of Great Britain, ence, became bishop of Vence, and died in 1754.which has since risen to great celebrity. SURIUS, Lawrence, an ecclesiastic, of Co- SYDNEY. See SIDNEY. logne, and a theological writer, died in 1578.

SYLBURGIUS, Frederick, a learned German, SURVILLE, Margaret Eleanor Clotilde de, born in 1546. He wrote some Greek poems ■ French poetess of the 15th century. Her lan-published editions of Herodotus, Aristotle, &c., guage is now almost obsolete, but her writings and died in 1596. display great vigour of mind, and a fertile imagination.

SUTCLIFFE, Matthew, a learned English divine, and controversial writer, was dean of Exeter, and founder of Chelsea college; he died about 1610.

SUTTON, Thomas, a patriotic English gentleman, died in 1611, aged 79.

SUTTON, Samuel, an English soldier and ingenious mechanic, died in 1752.

SUWAROFF, Alexander, count Riminiski,|| a Russian general, celebrated for his inhumanity, was born in 1730, and died in 1800.

SUZE, Henriette de Coligne, countess de la, a celebrated French elegiac poetess, died in 1673.

SWAMMERDAM, John, an eminent Dutch naturalist, died in 1680.

SWANEFELD, Herman, an eminent Flemish landscape painter, whose works are scarce and valuable, died in 1680.

SWEDENBORG, hon. Emanuel, an eminent mathematical,philosophical, and mystical writer, died in 1772, aged 84. He was the founder of a sect which has become very numerous, and is called the New-Jerusalem church.

SWIETEN, Gerard Van, an eminent German physician and medical author, died in 1772, aged 72.

SWIFT, Dr. Jonathan, dean of St. Patrick's, in Dublin, an illustrious political, satirical, and miscellaneous writer, and poet, died in 1745, aged 78. He was author of several singular books.

SYLLA, Lucius Cornelius, a renowned Roman general and dictator, but the scourge of his country, died 78 B. C.

SYLVESTER, Matthew, an English dissenting clergyman, settled in London, and died there in 1708.

SYLVESTER, Joshua, an English poet, died in 1618.

SYLVIUS, Francis, professor of eloquence, and principal of the college of Tournay, at Paris, died in 1530.

SYLVIUS, Lambert, or VANDER BOSCH, a Dutch writer, author of the "Theatre of Illustrious men," "History of his age," and other works, died in 1688.

SYLVIUS, Francis de le Boe, professor of medicine, at Leyden. In his lectures, he ably demonstrated the truth of Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. He died in 1672.

SYLVIUS, James, or DUBOIS, an eminent French physician and professor, died in 1555.

SYMMACHUS, Q. Aur. Avianus, a citizen and senator of ancient Rome, and consul in the year 391. He was a pagan, and a warm opposer of the Christian religion.

SYMMES, William, D. D., a minister, of An dover, Mass., died in 1807.

SYMNUS, Thomas, a minister, of Bradford, Mass., and author of sermons, died in 1725. SYNCELLUS, a monk, of Constantinople, in 792, author of a chronography in Greek and Latin.

SYNESIUS, of Cyrene, an ancient father and bishop of the Christian church, who flourished SWIFT, Deane, a near relation of the pre-at the beginning of the 5th century. He wrote ceding, and author of an "Essay on the Life, about 150 epistles on philosophical and polemiWritings, and Character of Dr. Jonathan Swift," cal subjects, which are in high esteem with the died in 1783. learned.

SWIFT, Job, D. D., a congregational minister, of Bennington, Vermont, died in 1804.

SYNGE, Edward, an eminent Irish prelate, bishop of Raphoe, and archbishop of Tuam; he

died in 1741. His father, uncle, and two sons,|| Bologna, famous as an anatomist, and chiefly were bishops in Ireland. celebrated, by his skill in restoring lost parts of the face, particularly the nose. He died in 1553, aged 64.

SYPHAX, a king of Numidia, who revolted from the Romans to the Carthaginians, and to Asdrubal, whose daughter he had inarried. He was defeated by Massinissa, and died in prison, 201 B. C.

T

TABOR, John Otho, a native of Lusatia, be came counsellor to the landgrave of Hesse Darm stadt; he wrote several works on law, and died at Frankfort, in 1674.

TALIESIN, a celebrated Welsh bard of the 6th century. Some of his compositions are still preserved.

TALLARD, Camille D'Hostum, count de, usually styled marshal Tallard, a brave French general, who was taken prisoner by the duke of Marlborough, in 1704. He died in 1728, aged 76. TALLIS, Thomas, one of the greatest musicians that England ever bred, died in 1585. TAMERLANE, or TIMURBEG, or TIMUR

TABOUROT, Stephen, called Sieur des Ac-the Lame, cham of the Tartars, who becam cords, a French writer, born in 1549, and died in 1590.

TACCA, Peter James, a native of Carrara,distinguished as an eminent sculptor, died at Florence, in 1640. His son, Ferdinand, was also an excellent sculptor.

TACHARD, Guy, a French jesuit, sent as a missionary to Siam, in 1686. He wrote an account of his voyages to that place, and died in

1694.

formidable toward the end of the 14th century He was the son of a shepherd, and raised him self by his courage and prudence. He obtained so many victories, that he boasted that he had three parts of the world under his power. He died in 1405.

TANAQUIL, wife of Tarquin the Elder, persuaded her husband to settle at Rome, where he was elected king.

TANEVOT, Alexander, first commissary of TACITUS, Caius Cornelius, a celebrated Ro- the finances of France, died in 1773. He wrote man historian, orator, and statesman, who flour-two tragedies, besides fables, songs, epistles, &c. ished under Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. He was born A. D. 56, but the time of his death is uncertain.

TACITUS, Marcus Claudius, emperor of Rome, in 275, was a wise, benevolent, and patriotic monarch, and died in 276.

TACKANASH, John, an Indian minister, of Martha's Vineyard, cotemporary and colleague with Haacoomes, died in 1684.

TACONNET, Touissant Gaspard, an eccentric character, of Paris, known as a player and dramatic writer, died in 1774.

TACQUET, Andrew, a Dutch jesuit, eminent for his knowledge of mathematics, died in 1660.

TAFFI, Andrew, an artist, of Florence, eminent for his designs in Mosaic, which he learned and introduced from some Greeks. He died in 1294.

TANNER, Thomas, bishop of St. Asaph, and a learned antiquary, died in 1735, aged 61, leav ing a very valuable work, which employed him 40 years.

TANSILLO, Luigi, an eminent Italian poet, author of " Tears of St. Peter," and other works, died about 1596.

TANUCCI, Bernard, marquis de, a native of Tuscany, was professor of jurisprudence at the university of Pisa, and prime minister of Naples. For 50 years, he sustained that office with dignity, ability, and integrity, after which he resigned, and died in 1783.

TAPLIN, William, a veterinary surgeon, and author of several publications connected with his profession; he died in 1807.

TAPPAN, David, D. D., a distinguished American clergyman, and professor of theology in Harvard college, Mass., died in 1803. TALBERT, Francis Xavier, an ecclesiastic, TARGE, I. B., professor of mathematics, and and canon of Besancon, author of several ele-author of a General History of Italy, and other gies, and some poetical pieces; he died in 1803. works, died at Orleans, in 1788.

TALBOT, John, earl of Shrewsbury, a brave TARIN, Peter, a French physician, and me and warlike Englishman, who distinguished him-dical writer, whose works are much esteemed self in Ireland, and in the wars with France. He died in 1761. was called the Achilles of England, and died in 1453.

TALBOT, Peter, a native of Ireland, almo-|| ner to Catherine, wife of Charles II., and archbishop of Dublin, died in 1682.

TALBOT, Richard, earl of Tyrconnel, bro ther to the preceding, was made viceroy of Ireland by James II., and died in 1692.

TALBOT, Charles, earl and duke of Shrewsbury, was distinguished as the warm promoter of the revolution. He was afterwards viceroy of Ireland, and high-treasurer of England, and|| died in 1717.

TALBOT, William, an English divine, was dean of Worcester, and successively bishop of Oxford, Sarum, and Durham; he died in 1730. TALBOT, Charles, lord, sou of the preceding, an eminent lawyer and statesman, was lord chancellor of England; he died in 1737.

TALHAIARN, a Welsh bard of the 6th century, who retired to the solitude of a hermitage, where he was visited and reverenced as a saint. TALIACOTIUS, Gaspar, or TAGLIACO CEI, a professor of medicine and surgery, at

TARLETON, Richard, a celebrated English jester and actor, and a dramatic writer, died in 1589.

TARPA, Spurius Mœtius, a learned Roman, who was appointed with others, by Augustus, to examine the compositions of cotemporary poets.

TARPEIA, daughter of Tarpeius, the governor of Rome under Romulus; she betrayed the city to the Sabines, and was killed by the bucklers of the enemy, which were thrown upon her as they entered the city.

TARQUIN the Elder, fifth king of Rome, was elected on the death of Ancus Martius. He was a benevoient prince, highly distinguished for his improvements of the city, and for the dignity and importance he attached to the senate and magistrates. He was assassinated 578 B. C.

TARQUIN the Second, or the Proud, king of Rome, a tyrant and usurper, died at the age of 90.

TARRAKANOFF, N., princess of, daughter of Elizabeth, empress of Russia. She was seized at the age of 12, carried to Rome, and after

wards brought back to St. Petersburg in chains, poet, from his being bred a waterman, wrote and confined in a prison, where she was drown-eighty books, and died in 1654.

ed by the sudden rise of the Neva, in 1777. TARRANTIUS, Lucius, a Roman, the friend of Cicero.

TAYLOR, Dr. Brook, a very able English mathematician, died in 1731, aged 46. TAYLOR, Dr. John, a learned dissenting divine, who, among other works, published, a Hebrew and English Concordance," a valua ble work; he died in 1761.

TARTAGLIA, Nicholas, an eminent mathematician, of Brescia, and author of an Italian" translation of Euclid, &c.; he died in 1557.

TARTINI, Joseph, an admirable musician, distinguished for his performances on the violin, died at Padua, in 1770.

TARUFFI, Emilius, a distinguished landscape painter, of Bologna, died in 1694.

TASKER, William, an English divine and poet, died in 1800, aged 60. He was author of several works.

TASMAN, N., a Dutch navigator, who discovered New Holland and New Zealand, in 1642.

TASSO, Bernardo, an Italian poet, author of Amadis, in 100 cantos, and some letters which are highly regarded by the Italians; he died in 1575.

TASSO, Torquato, the prince of Italian poets, son of the preceding, died in 1595, aged 51. His works show him to have been a philosopher, orator, logician, critic, and poet, and excellent in every kind of composition. His life was a chain of miseries and woes.

TAYLOR, John, a learned English divine, a writer on civil law, and an antiquary. He died in 1766.

TAYLOR, William, of North Carolina, remarkable only for longevity; he died in 1794, aged 114.

TAYLOR, George, a member of congress from Pennsylvania, and one of the signers of the declaration of Independence.

TEILO, a British saint in the 5th century. It is said that he erected the church at Landaff into a bishopric, and founded a college at that place.

TEISSIER, Anthony, a French writer, who left France for Russia at the revocation of the edict of Nantes; he died at Berlin, in 1715, leaving numerous and valuable writings.

TEKELI, Emmeric, a noble Hungarian, distinguished for his brave and continued opposition to the encroachments of Austria, died in 1705.

TELFAIR, Edward, a revolutionary patriot, and governor of the state of Georgia, died in 1807.

TASSONI, Alexander, a distinguished Italian poet, author of "the Rape of the Bucket," a mock heroic poem, admired in Italy for its elegance and delicate humour. He died in 1635. TELL, William, an illustrious Swiss patriot, TATE, Nahum, a dramatic poet, born at and chief instrument of the revolution which Dublin, in 1652, succeeded Shadwell as poet-delivered the Swiss cantons from the German laureat, and died in 1715. He and Dr. Brady wrote a version of the Psalms.

TATIAN, a native of Assyria, a writer in defence of the Christians of the primitive church, flourished A. D. 170.

TATISCHEF, Vassili, a Russian historian, who was employed thirty years in collecting materials for the history of his country, and died before his labours were completed, in 1750. TATIUS, king of the Sabines, took possession of the Roman capital, but afterwards shared the kingdom with Romulus. He was murdered at]] Lanuvium, 742 B. C.

TATIUS, Achilles, an ancient Greek writer on mathematics, and author of a romance.

yoke, in 1307. He shot an apple off the head of his son with an arrow, and soon after shot the tyrant who compelled him to do it. He died in 1354.

TELLIER, Michael le, an eminent French lawyer, and secretary of state under Lewis XIII., and afterwards chancellor of the kingdom. He is known as a zealous enemy of the protestants, and by his influence caused the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and the violent measures that followed. He died in 1685.

TELLIER, Francis Michael le, marquis de Louvois, son of the chancellor of France, was made minister of war at the age of 23, and afterwards secretary of state. He was a statesTAUBMAN, Frederick, professor of belles man of splendid talents, who devoted himself to lettres and of poetry at Wittemberg, and a the glory and prosperity of France, and died in favourite of the prince of Saxony, died in 1613. ||1691.

TAVANES, Gaspard de Sauly de, a French TELLIER, Adrian le, a French lawyer, and general, who became an ornament to the mili-member of the national assembly and conventary profession, and particularly distinguished tion. He was sent to Chartres, in 1795, to enhimself at the battle of Rentis, and at the victo-courage a more free circulation of corn, but ries of Jarnac and Moncontour. He saved the met with such indignities from the populace, king of Navarre and the prince of Conde from that he shot himself soon after. the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and died in 1573. His son, William, was governor of Burgundy, and died in 1633.

TAVARONE, Lazarus, a distinguished Genoese painter, died in 1631.

TAVERNER, William, an English dramatic writer, died in 1731.

TELLIER, N. le, a faithful servant and constant attendant of the minister Barthelemy, in his exile and misfortunes, during the French revolution.

TEMPESTA, Antonia, an eminent landscape painter, of Florence, died in 1630.

TEMPLE, sir William, an eminent English statesman, and political and miscellaneous wri

TAVERNIER, John Baptist, a Frenchman, famous for his travels, died in 1689, aged 84. ter, died in 1700. TAYLOR, John, an eminent English critic and divine, died in 1766. His works are nume-sician and medical writer, died in 1769. rous and respectable.

TEMPLEMAN, Dr. Peter, an eminent phy

TEMPLEMAN, Thomas, an English writing TAYLOR, Dr. Jeremy, bishop of Down and master, who published engraved tables conConnor, in Ireland, and a very eminent theolo-taining calculations of the number of square gical writer and controversialist, died in 1667, fect and population in the several kingdoms of aged 54.

the world.

TAYLOR John, usually called the water! TENCIN, Peter Guerin de, a French ecclesi

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