BARBEYRAC, John, born 1674, at Bariers, Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; a city of Lower Languedoc, in France. He thou knowest what it is to be banished thy natranslated into French the two celebrated works tive country, to be overruled as well as to rule of "Puffendorf," his " Law of Nature and Na-and sit upon the throne; and, being oppressed, tions," and his "Duties of a Man and Citizen;" thou hast reason to know how hateful the opwrote excellent notes to both these performan-pressor is both to God and man: if, after all ces, and to the former gave an introductory pre- these warnings and advertisements, thou dost face. He published also, in 1724, a translation not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but into French of Grotius' treatise "De Jure Belli ac Pacis," with ample and excellent notes, and died in 1729.

BARBIER D'AUCOUR, John, a native of Langres, and a lawyer of some merit, died 1694. BARBIER, Mary Ann, a native of Orleans, and a writer of tragedies, died 1745.

BARBIER, Lewis, a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and bishop of Langres, died 1670. BARBIERI, John Francis, a historical painter of some merit, died 1666.

BARBOSA, Arius, one of the restorers of learning in Spain, and professor at Salamanca, died 1540.

forget him who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow low lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.”— He did great service to his sect over all Europe, by his writings, and died 1690.

BARCOCHEBAS, or BARCOCHAB, an impostor among the Jews; his followers were numerous, but afterwards destroyed by Julius Se

verus.

BARCOS, Martin de, a controversial writer, of Bayonne, died 1678.

BARD, a Mahomedan writer.

BARD, John, a learned Physician, in the city of New-York, several years, and elected presiBARBOSA, Peter, a native of Portugal, pro-dent of the medical society of the same, died fessor at Coimbra, and chancellor of the king-1799. dom, died 1596.

BARDAS, a chief at Constantinople, guard

BARBOSA, Emanuel, a Portuguese author, ian to Michael III., was put to death 866.

died 1638.

BARDAS, called Scelerus, a general raised to

BARBOU, Hugh, a celebrated printer at Ly-the purple by his soldiers; time of his death unons, about 1580. known.

BARBOUR, John, a Scotch clergyman, ambassador from Bruce to the court of England, died 1378.

BARBUD, a celebrated musician at the court of Persia.

BARCALI, a Mahomedan writer, died 960 of the hegira.

BARDESANES, a Syrian author, and foun der of a sect which bore his name, lived about

172.

BARDET, Peter, a French advocate and author, died in 1685.

BÁRDHADI, a Mahomedan writer. BARDIN, Peter, a native of Rouen, and auBARCHAM, John, a learned divine and an-thor, was drowned in 1637. tiquary, born at Exeter, about 1572. He assisted BARDIN, John, a French historical painter, Speed in his History of England; and was au- born at Monthar, in 1732, and died at Orleans, in thor of a Display of Heraldrie," folio, 1611;1809. In 1764, he gained the prize for a picture but having composed this in his youth, and of Tullia driving over the body of her father. thinking it too light a subject to acknowledge, BARDNEY, Řichard, a Benedictine, died in he gave it to John Gwillim, a herald of his ac-1504. quaintance, under whose name it has been repeatedly printed. He died 1642.

BARCHUSEN, or BARKHAUSEN, John Conrad, a German, eminent as a physician, and lecturer on chymistry, died 1717.

BAREBONE, Praise-God, a bigoted zealot of Cromwell's parliament, of such celebrity as a demagogue, that the parliament was ludicrously called after him. His two brothers adopted as Scripture names, "Christ came into the world BARCLAY, or BARKLAY, Alexar.der, a na-to save, Barebone," and "if Christ had not tive of Scotland, rector of a church in England, and an elegant writer of the 16th century. BARCLAY, William, a Scotchman, profesBor of the university of Pontamousson, in France, died 1605.

died, thou hadst been damned, Barebone," called by the wits of the day, by the two last words. BARENT, Dieterich, a Dutch painter, died 1592.

BARETTI, Joseph, born at Turin, about 1716. He came over to England in the year 1750, where he resided (with a short interval) the re

BARCLAY, John, son of the preceding, a writer of some celebrity, died 1621. BARCLAY, Henry, D. D. sometime mission-mainder of his life. Baretti had the good forary to the Mohawk Indians, afterwards rector of Trinity Church, New-York, died 1765.

tune to be introduced to Dr. Samuel Johnson, and between them a very long intimacy had BARCLAY, Robert, an eminent writer, of place. From the time of his arrival in Engthe society of Quakers, born at Edinburgh, 1648 land, he subsisted by teaching the Italian Jan. In 1676, his famous "Apology for the Quakers" guage, and by the sale of his writings. In 1760 was published in Latin, at Amsterdam, 4to. he made a tour to Italy, through Portugal and He translated it, however, into English, and Spain, and returned to England after an absence published it in 1678. This work is addressed to of six years. In 1769, he was tried at the Old Charles II., and the manner in which he ex-Bailey for having stabbed a man who violently as presses himself to his majesty is very remarka-saulted him in the Haymarket. He made a most ble. Among many other extraordinary pas- admirable defence; which, added to the bad resages, we meet with the following: "There is putation of his prosecutors, impressed the court no king in the world who can so experimentally much in his favour. He was acquitted of the testify of God's providence and goodness; nei-murder, and of the manslaughter: the verdict ther is there any who rules so many free people, was, self-defence. After this unfortunate transso many true Christians; which thing renders action he again sat down to his studies, and in thy government more honourable, thyself more 1770 published his "Travels," for which, it is considerable, than the accession of many na-said, he received 500l. On the establishment of tions, filled with slavish and superstitious souls. the Royal Academy, he was appointed foreign

secretary, a post of more honour than profit. He died May 5, 1789, without a struggle or sigh, the moment after taking a glass of wine; preserving his faculties to the last moment.

BAREZI, a Mahomedan author, died 738 of the hegira.

BARGRAVE, Isaac, Chaplain to James I. and Charles, died 1642.

BARIDAH, a Mahomedan writer on Aris

totle.

BARINI, a Mahomedan writer. BARKER, Robert, a painter, known as the inventor of panoramic exhibitions, died 1806.

BARKER, Thomas, son of the preceding, was a member of the royal society, and the author of several theological and other pieces, he died in London, 1809.

BARKHAM, John, a native of Exeter, and a divine of reputation for learning; time of his death unknown

BARKI, a Mahomedan writer.

BARKSDALE, Clement, master of Hereford school, and rector of Naunton, died in 1687.

BARLAAM, a monk of Calabria, made abbot of St. Salvador, by the emperor Andronicus, died in 1348.

BARLEUS, Gasparaus, a Latin poet, of Antwerp, sub-principal of the college at Leyden, and afterwards professor of philosophy at Amsterdam, died 1648.

BARLÆUS, Lambert, Greek professor at Leyden, died in 1655.

BARLAND, Adrian, a native of Zealand, and professor at Louvain, died in 1542.

BARLETTA, Gabriel, a dominican, of some celebrity as a writer and preacher, born at Naples, about 1400.

BARLOTTA, Joseph, a Sicilian poet of the 18th century.

BARNARD, Thomas, a highly respected minister in Salem, Mass., died 1755.

BARNARD, Theodore, a native of Amsterdam, and painter under Titian.

BARNARD, John, prebendary of Lincoln, died in 1683.

BARNARD, Sir John, was in the year 1722 chosen one of the representatives in parliament for the city of London; a trust which he continued to enjoy during the six succeeding parliaments, and which he always discharged with equal integrity and ability. In 1727, he was chosen alderman of Dowgate Ward. On the subject of the famous excise scheme, projected by Sir Robert Walpole, in 1733, Sir John made so strenuous an opposition, that, in conjunction with other members, he obliged the ministry entirely to lay it aside. In 1737, he formed a scheme for reducing the interest on the national debt; a project which, though it did not at that time succeed, was, nevertheless, afterwards carried into execution, to the great emolument of the trading part of the nation. In 1738, he served in the high office of lord-mayor of London; and in July, 1758, resigned his gown, and retired to Clapham; where, after having attained to near the age of 80, he died August 29, 1766. A statue is erected to his memory in the Royal Exchange.

BARNAVE, Anthony Peter Joseph Marie, a deputy to the national assembly of France, who lost his popularity for some expressions in favour of the king, and was guillotined, 1793.

BARNES, Juliana, prioress of Sopewell nunnery, eminent for her accomplishments and piety, died after 1486

BARNES, Joshua, an eminent critic, and professor of the Greek language in the university of Cambridge, was born in London, 1654. He published editions of Euripides, Anacreon, and BARLOW, William, bishop of different dio- Homer; a life of Edward III., folio, 1688; and ceses, under Henry VIII., and Mary and Eliza-several poems, both in Latin and English; and beth of England, died 1568. died in 1712.

BARLOW, Francis, a native of Lincolnshire,

a painter, died 1702.

BARNES, David Leonard, attorney of the United States, for the district of Rhode-Island, and judge of the same, died 1812.

BARNES, Thomas, D. D., an English dissenting minister, of Manchester, and preceptor of an BARLOW, Joel, L_L. D., author of the Co-academy at the same place, died in 1810. lumbiad, was born at Reading, Conn., 1758, and educated at Yale College; he served in the American army as a volunteer, and as a chaplain. At the close of the war, he went to France, where he became conspicuous and popular as a zealous friend of the revolution. He was ap-was burnt at the stake, 1540. pointed American consul at Algiers, and afterwards minister from the U. S. to France, and died, on his way to Wilna to meet Napoleon, 1812.

BARLOWE, Thomas, successively fellow of Oxford, keeper of the Bodleian, professor of divinity, and bishop of Lincoln, died 1691.

BARLOWE, William, remarkable for having been the first who wrote on the nature and properties of the loadstone, 20 years before Gilbert published his book on that subject. It was be likewise who found out the difference between iron and steel, and their tempers for magnetical uses. He died in 1625.

BARNES, Robert, D. D., employed by Henry VIII.; afterwards incurring his displeasure, he

BARNEVELDT, John d'Olden, an able statesman, of Holland, ambassador to England and France, condemned on faise charges, and executed, 1619.

BARO, or BARONI, Peter, a native of France, who retired to England as a protestant, and resided with lord Burleigh; afterwards professor of divinity at Cambridge, died after 1574.

BAROCHE, Frederick, a painter, of Urbino, of great celebrity, died in 1612.

BARON, Bonaventure, a native of Ireland, and divinity professor at Rome, died 1696. BARON, Michael, the Roscius of the French theatre, born 1652, died 1729. The father of BARNABAS, St., a Levite, converted to Baron also was an actor, famous for his talent Christianity, and a preacher of the gospel with in declamation; and the manner of his death St. Paul; he was stoned to death by the Jews. was singular playing the part of Don Diego, BARNARD, John, minister, of Marblehead, in The Cid, his sword fell from his hand, as the Mass.; the father of the commercial enterprise piece requires; and kicking it from him with of that place, and long regarded as the father indignation, he unfortunately struck against the of the churches in New-England. His publica-point of it, by which his little toe was pierced tions are numerous and valuable; he died 1770. It turned to a gangrene; he refused to suffer BARNARD, Edward, a worthy and dis- amputation, and died 1655.

tinguished minister, of Haverhill, Mass. died BARON, Hyacinth Theodore, a learned phy .774. Jsician of Paris, died in 1758.

BARONI, Adrianne Basile, sister to Basile the poet; greatly admired for her beauty, wit, and accomplishments.

verse with him, and, in his humorous way, to call him an "unfair preacher," because he exhausted every subject, and left nothing for others BARONIUS, Cæsar, a Neapolitan Cardinal, to say after him. In 1675, he was chosen vicelibrarian of the Vatican, and author of "Eccle-chancellor of the university. This great and siastical Annals, from A. D. 1, to 1198," born 1538, died 1607.

BAROU DU SOBEIL, N., a distinguished lawyer at Lyons, put to death in 1792.

learned divine died of a fever the 4th of May, 1677, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. BARROW, Isaac, a native of Spiney Abbey, bishop of Sodor, Man, and St. Asaphs, died

BAROZZI, James, a skilful architect, of Mo-1677. dena, who succeeded Michael Angelo, as the architect of St. Peters, died in 1577.

BARRAL, Peter, an ecclesiastic of Grenoble, teacher at Paris, and author of a historical dictionary, died in 1772.

BARRE, Francois Pouillain de la, a native of France, professor at Geneva, died in 1723.

BARRY, Girald, a native of Pembrokeshire, clergyman, and author of a history of the conquest of Ireland; he died after 1215.

a

BARRY, James, an Irish lawyer; he was a baron of the exchequer, chief justice of the king's bench, and afterwards lord Santry of the peerages; he died 1673.

BARRY, Spranger, an eminent English actor,

BARRE, Lewis Francoise Jos. de la, a native of Tournay, author of some books on Antiqua-cotemporary with, and a powerful rival of, Mr. rian history, &c.; he died in 1738.

BARRE, Michel de la, of Paris, an eminent player on the German flute, died 1744.

Garrick, born in Dublin, 1719, died in London, Jan. 1774. His peculiar advantages were de rived from a fine person, melodious voice, and BARRE, Joseph, canon of St. Genevieve, pleasing address; and his performances in amachancellor of the university of Paris, and autory characters were perhaps never excelled. thor of a history of Germany, died 1764. See CRAWFORD.

BARRE, Madame du, mistress of Lewis XV., of France, executed during the revolution in

1793.

BARREAUX, Jacques Vallee, a libertine of Paris; he was celebrated rather for his voluptuous life, than for the productions of his pen; died 1673.

BARRY, James, an eminent painter, was born at Cork, in Ireland, 1742; and having early discovered great genius for the art, he was patronized by Mr. Burke, and brought to London, where he became a pupil to Sir Joshua Reynolds. When Mr. Burke came into administration with the marquis of Rockingham, he sent BARRELIER, James, a dominican friar, Mr. Barry to Italy, at his sole expense. After eminent as a scientific botanist, died 1673. visiting all the celebrated schools of the contiBARRERE, Peter, a physician of Perpignan, nent, in which he occupied three years, Mr. died 1755. Barry returned to London; and in 1775, pubBARRETT, George, an eminent self-taught |lished "An Inquiry into the real and imaginary painter, of Dublin, and a member of the Royal | Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in Academy, died 1784.

England." About two years after this, he was BARRETT, William, a surgeon, of Bristol, and elected a Royal Academician, and in 1786 made author of a history of that city, died 1789. professor of painting to the Royal Academy; BARRIERE, Pierre, a soldier who attempted but in 1799, on an alleged addiction to demoto assassinate Henry IV. of France, but was de-cratical principles, was removed from that oftected and broken on the wheel, 1693.

BARRINGTON, John Shute, lord viscount, a nobleman of considerable learning, and author of several books on religious subjects, was born in 1678, and died in 1734.

fice. He seems soon afterwards to have taken disgust at society, from which he retired into a wretched obscurity, living unattended, and half starved, till some friends raised about 10007., with which they purchased an annuity for him; BARRINGTON, Daines, son of the above, but before the first quarter's payment of it bea celebrated English lawyer, antiquary, and came due he died, Mar. 22, 1806, and was interwriter on subjects of law, politics, natural histo-red in St. Paul's cathedral. His greatest effort ry, geography, and criticism, born 1727, died of art is a series of allegorical pictures, which March 14, 1800. His writings are very nume- he painted gratuitously for the great room of the rous, and many of them are in the Philosophi-Society of Arts, in the Adelphi. cal Transactions and the Archæologia; but those which most distinguished him as an author were, his "Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient," &c. of which, two 4to editions were published in one year, (1766.) BARRINGTON, Samuel, son of lord B., a distinguished admiral in the British navy, died

1800.

BARROS, or DE BARROS, John, a native of Viseo, preceptor to the princes of Portugal, afterwards governor of St. George, on the African coast, and treasurer of the Indies, under king Juan. He wrote a history of the Indies, and died 1570.

BARRY, George, D. D., an ominent Scotch divine, author of a history of the Orkneys, died 1805.

BARRY, John, first commodore in the American navy; he possessed great courage, was a patriot, and Christian, and died 1803.

BARSUMA, or BARSOMA, metropolitan author of several books in Syriac.

BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste du, a French poet of Monfort, in Armagnac, died 1590.

BARTH, John, a native of Dunkirk, who, by his bravery and skill, rose to a high rank in the French navy; he died in 1702.

BARTHE, Nicholas Thomas, a native of Marseilles; he was author of some dramatic pieces, and died 1785.

BARTHELEMI, Nicholas, a Benedictine of the 15th century, and author of some devotional Latin poems.

BARROW, Isaac, an eminent mathematician and divine, born in London, 1630. When the King advanced Dr. B. to the dignity of master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his majesty was pleased to say, "he had given it to the best scholar in England;" and he did not speak from re- BARTHELEMI, the Nestor of French liteport, but from his own knowledge. The doctor rature, and author of the "Travels of Ansbeing then his chaplain, he used often to con-charsis in Greece," died May 4, 1795. During

BARTON, Elizabeth, commonly called "The holy Maid of Kent," was a religious impostor in the reign of Henry VIII., and executed at Tyburn, April 20, 1534.

the domination of Robespierre, like most other||physician, of Philadelphia. He was appointed men of learning, he was imprisoned; when, professor of natural history and botany, and af notwithstanding his great age (upwards of 80) terwards of Materia Medica, in the univer and infirmities, instead of sinking under the ri-sity of Pennsylvania, and succeeded Dr. Rush, gour with which he was treated, he exerted him- on his death, as professor of the theory and self in consoling his fellow-sufferers. Soon af- practice of medicine; he died in 1815. ter the fall of Robespierre, he was released, and allowed a pension. In the" Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres,' are preserved many of his papers, illustrating Greek literature. BARTRAM, John, a distinguished botanist, BARTHELEMI DES MARTYRS, a domini-born in Pennsylvania; he was elected American, of Lisbon, archbishop of Braganza, died ||can botanist to George III., and died in 1777. in 1590. Linnæus pronounced him "the greatest natural BARTHES DE MARMORIONS, Paul Jo-botanist in the world." seph, a French medical writer, and professor BARUCH, the prophet, the friend of Jereof medicine, and chancellor of that faculty, in miah, he was author of a book not received as the university at Montpelier; he died 1806. canonical, either by Christians or Jews. He BARTHIUS, Gaspard, of Brandenburg, an went to Babylon with the Israelites in their cap elegant scholar, and perfect master of most for-tivity. eign languages, died 1658. BARWICK, John, a native of Westmoreland, BARTHOLIN, Gaspard, professor of Latin, distinguished for his zeal in the royal cause; of medicine, and afterwards of divinity, at Co- and his attachment to Charles I. and II.; he penhagen, died 1629. was afterwards dean of Durham and St. Paul's, BARTHOLIN, Thomas, son of Gaspard, pro-and died 1664. fessor of mathematics and of anatomy at Co- BARWICK, Peter, a brother of the dean, an penhagen, afterwards librarian to the univer-eminent physician; he supported Hervey's docsity, and physician to the king of Denmark; he trine of the circulation of the blood, and died died 1680. 1705.

BARTHOLIN, Thomas, son of the above, professor of law and history at Copenhagen, and counsellor to the king; he died in 1690. His three brothers were also professors of the university of Copenhagen, and their sister was an eminent Danish poetess.

BARTHOLOMEW, St., one of the apostles, who preached the gospel in Ethiopia, Lycaonia, and the Indies.

BARZERINI, a Mahomedan writer. BAS, Le, a French engraver of eminence, died 1765.

BASCHI, Matthew, founder of a new order of Franciscan capuchins, died 1552.

BASEDOW, John Bernard, professor of moral philosophy, at Soroe, in Denmark, from which he was expelled for irreligion; he died 1790.

BARTHOLOMEW, the Martyr, a kind and BASHUYSEN, Henry James Van, profesbenevolent Christian, and archbishop of Braga,sor of ecclesiastical history and the oriental died 1590. languages at Hanau, and afterwards of divinity BARTLET, John, minister of St. Thomas, at Berlin, died 1758. near Exeter, and author of some divinity tracts.

BASIL, St., bishop of Cæsarea, persecuted by Valens, for refusing to embrace Arianism, BARTLETT, Josiah, a physician in New-died 379. Hampshire; he was a member of the continen- BASIL, an Arian, bishop of Ancyra. tal congress from that state, and a signer of the BASIL I., a Macedonian. Being but a comdeclaration of independence, and was after-mon soldier, he was taken prisoner by the Bulwards governor of the state; he died 1795. garians, from whom, however, he escaped, and BARTOLI, Cosimo, of Florence, resident of solicited alms to support him on a journey to duke Cosmo at Venice, in the 16th century. Constantinople, where he became emperor of BARTOLI, Daniel, a Jesuit of Ferrara, set-the East. Dreaded by his enemies the Saracens, tled at Rome, where he wrote several historical works in Italian; he died in 1685.

BARTOLO, a lawyer of eminence, professor of law at Pisa, and counsellor to Charles IV., died 1359.

BARTOLOCCI, Julius, a cistercian monk, of Naples, and Hebrew professor at Rome, died 1687.

whom he frequently vanquished; and beloved by his subjects for his justice and clemency; he died in 886.

BASIL II., emperor of Constantinople, a valiant, but cruel and inhuman prince, died 1025. BASIL, an impostor, who disturbed Constantinople, by pretending to be Constantine Ducas, for which he was burned alive, after 934.

BASIL, a physician, who became head of a |sect called Bogomiles, in Bulgaria, and was condemned for his heresies.

BASILIDES, a sectary of Alexandria, in the 2d century, who enjoined five years silence on his followers.

BARTOLOZZI, Francesco, a very eminent engraver, born at Florence, in 1728. In 1764 he came to England and worked for the printsellers, particularly Mr. Boydell. In 1769 he was chosen a member of the Royal Academy. The new mode of stippling, or engraving in the red chalk manner, now becoming fashionable, gave BASILICES, brother of Verina, the wife of Bartolozzi ample employment, and he executed Leo I., emperor of the East; he seized and rein that way many hundreds of prints. The finest tained the throne a short time, during which the of all his works, perhaps, are the Marlborough valuable library of Constantinople, containing Gems, and the prints for Boydell's Shak-120,000 volumes was burnt; he died 478. speare. In 1802 he went to Lisbon, on an invitation from the prince regent of Portugal, who allowed him a pension; and there he died in March, 1815.

BASILOWITZ, Iwan, a hero, who laid the foundation of the Russian empire, and first assumed the name of Czar, died 1584.

BASINE, wife of the king of Thuringia, who BARTON, Benjamin S., M. D., an eminent left her husband to espouse Childeric I., o

BASIRE, James, an eminent English engraver, born Oct. 6, 1730, died Sept. 6, 1802. He BASSVILLE, Nicholas John Hugon de, amwas many years engraver to the Royal Societybassador from France to Rome, where he was and to the Society of Antiquaries.

BASNAGE, Henry, an advocate of the parliament of Rouen, who, upon the proscription of the protestants, in France, fled to Holland,||ferings. where he died, 1710.

BASNAGE, Benjamin, a protestant, author of a treatise on the church, and deputy from the French churches to Scotland, in the reign of James VI., died 1652.

BATE, George, physician to Charles I., then to Oliver Cromwell, and afterwards to Charles BASNAGE, Anthony, son to the above, mi-II.; he died 1669. nister of Bayeux; he was imprisoned for his re

BATE, Julius, a friend of Hutchinson, author ligion at Havre de Grace, and afterwards fled to|| of a defence of his system, and of some valuable Holland, where he died in 1691. pieces of criticism, died 1771.

BATHURST, Allen, Earl, an English noble man of distinguished abilities, born November 16, 1684. To uncommon talents he added many BASSANI, John Baptiste, an admired Italian virtues, integrity, humanity, and generosity: composer in the 17th century, master to Corelli. and to these virtues, good breeding, politeness, BASSANTIN, James, a Scotchman, who ac-and elegance. His wit, taste, and learning, conquired reputation as a teacher of mathematics at Paris, died 1568.