ABATS, Andrew, a painter of fruit and still threw him into a deep melancholy; he ever aflife, born at Naples, was employed by the kingerwards kept a monthly fast on Tuesday, the of Spain, and died in 1732. day on which this fatal mischance happened, ABAUZIT, Firmin, born at Uzes, 11th Nov.and settled an annuity of 207. on the widow. 1679, fled from the persecution which attended Worn out, however, with cares and infirmities, his parents on account of their profession of he died at Croydon, Aug. 5, 1633. protestantism, and retired to Geneva, became ABBOT, Maurice, youngest brother of the distinguished for his superior progress in every archbishop, acquired consequence in commerbranch of polite learning, but particularly cial affairs, was employed in 1624 in establishmathematics and natural history; was flattereding the settlement of Virginia, and was the first by Voltaire, and complimented by Rousseau; person on whom Charles I. conferred the hohe died March 20, 1767. nour of knighthood. He was elected represen ABBADIE, James, an eminent Protestant di-tative for London, and in 1638 was raised to the vine, and dean of Rilaloe, born at Nay, in Berne, mayoralty of the city, and died Jan. 10th, 1640. in the year 1654 (or, according to some accounts, ABBOT, Robert, D. D. eldest brother of the i. 1658,) died in the parish of Mary-la-bonne, two preceding; he was born at Guildford, was in London, 1727. The chief of this author's educated at Baliol college, and elected master works was, "Traité de la Verité de la Religion thereof, 1609. His eloquence as a preacher reChrétienne; Rotterdam, 1684." This has gone commended him to further patronage; he was through several editions, and is perhaps the best appointed chaplain to the king, and regius probook ever published on that subject. fessor of divinity at Oxford. He was conseABAS, Halli, a physician, and one of the crated bishop of Salisbury, 1615, and died Mar. Persian magi, who followed the doctrines of 2, 1617, in his 58th year. His writings were Zoroaster; he wrote A. D. 980, a book called principally controvrsial. a royal work, which was translated into Latin] ABBT, Thomas, the German translator of by Stephen of Antioch, 1127, and is now extant. Sallust, and the admired author of a treatise ABBAS, the uncle of Mahomet, opposed the " On merit," and of another, "Of dying for one's ambitious views of the impostor; but when de-country,' was born at Ulm, and died at Buckefeated in the battle of Bedr, was reconciled to berg, 1766, aged 28. his nephew, embraced his religion, and thanked ABDALCADER, a Persian who was greatly heaven for the prosperity and the grace he en-revered by the mussulmans for his learning, his joyed as a mussulman. He died in the 32d year piety, and the sanctity of his manners. of the hegira. ABBASSA, vid. Abassa. ABBATEGIO, Marian d', an ecclesiastic of the 14th century, who rose by his abilities to be governor of Aquila. ABBATISSA, Paul, a famous Sicilian poet, born at Messina, 1570. He translated into Italian verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. ABBIATI, Philip, a historical painter, born at Milan 1640, died 1715. ABDALLAH, father of Mahomet, was a slave, and a driver of camels. ABDALLAH, son of Zobair, was proclaimed caliph of Mecca and Medina, after the expulsion of Yesid. After enjoying the sovereignty for four years, he was besieged in Mecca, by the successor of Yesid in Syria, and sacrificed to the ambition of his rival, 733. ABDALLAH, son of Yesid, celebrated as a mussulman lawyer in the 7th century. ABDALLAH, son of Abbas, endeavoured ABBON, a monk of St. Germain des Près, to raise his family on the ruins of the Ommiades; who was present at the siege of Paris by the he was defeated by his rivals, who, afterwards, Normans, at the close of the 9th century; heretending to be reconciled, perfidiously murwrote an account of this event in 1200 verses, [dered hini, 754. in execrable Latin, which was edited by Du- ABDALMALEK, son of Marvan, was 5th plessis, 1753. caliph of the Ommiades, and began to reign, 685. ABBON, de Fleury, an ecclesiastic of Or-He was called Abulzebab, because bis breath leans, who became abbot of Fleury, supported was so offensive that it killed the very flies that the rights of the monastic order against the in-settled on his lips; he reigned 21 years, and was trusions of the bishops. He was killed in a succeeded by Valid, the eldest of his 16 sons. quarrel between the French and Gascons, 1004. ABDALMALEK, the last of the caliphs of ABBOT, Hull, a respectable minister of the race of the Samanides, was dethroned and Charlestown, Massachusetts, published several murdered by Mahmoud, 999. sermons, died 1782, aged 80. ABDALRAHMAN, or ABDERAMES, vid Abderames. ABDAS, a bishop in Persia, who, by incon siderately abolishing a Pagan temple of the sun, excited the public indignation against himself and his religion. ABBOT, George, archbishop of Canterbury, born 1562, at Guildford, in Surry. In 1604 that translation of the Bible now in use was begun by the direction of king James, and Dr. Abbot was the second of eight divines of Oxford, to whom the care of translating the whole New Testa- ABDEMELEK, king of Fez and Morocco, was ment (excepting the Epistles) was committed. dethroned by his nephew, Mahomet; but by the Or April 5, 1619, Sir Nicholas Kempe laid the assistance of troops, sent him by the sultan first stone of the hospital at Guildford. The Selim, defeated Sebastian, king of Portugal, archbishop, who was present, afterwards en-who had landed in Africa to support the usurper. dowed it with lands to the value of 300l. per The two African monarchs and Sebastian fell ann. The archbishop, being in a declining state on the field, 1578. of health, used in the summer to go to Hamp- ABDERAMES, a caliph of the race of Omshire for the sake of recreation; and being in- miades, was invited into Spain by the Saracens. vited by lord Zouch to hunt in his park at Bran-He assumed the title of king of Corduba, and zill, he met there with the greatest misfortune the surname of just; he died, 790, after reigning that ever befell him; for he accidentally killed ||32 years. his lordship's keeper, by an arrow from a cross- ABDERAMES, a Saracen general of the ca. bow, which he shot at a deer. This accident ||liph Hescham, who, after conquering Spain, 732. penetrated into Aquitain and Poitou, and was at infamous treatment forced Abelard to a cloister, last defeated by Charles Martel, near Poitiers, to conceal his confusion, and he put on the habit in the abbey of St. Denis. He afterwards reABDERAMES, a petty prince, in the kingdom tired to a solitude in the diocese of Troyes, and of Morocco. He murdered Amadin, his prede- there built an oratory, which he nained the cessor and nephew, and was himself assassi-Paraclete, where great numbers of pupils renated by a chieftain, 1505. sorted to him. Here again his success excited ABDIAS, a native of Babylon, who pretend- that envy by which he had through life been ed to be one of the 72 disciples of our Saviour, persecuted; and having been several times in wrote a legendary treatise, called Historia certa- danger of his life, by porson and other artifices, menis Apostolici, which was edited aud trans-he was at length received by Peter the Venerable lated into Latin, by Wolfgang Lazius, Basil, into his abbey of Clugni, in which sanctuary 1571. Abelard was treated with the utmost humanity and tenderness. At length, having become infirm from the prevalence of the scurvy and other disorders, he was removed to the priory of St. Marcellus, on the Saon, near Chalons, where he died, April 21, 1142, in the 63d year of his age. His corpse was sent to Heloise, who deposited it in the Paraclete. ABDISSI, a patriarch of Assyria, who paid homage to Pope Pius IV. 1562, and extended the power of the Romish church in the East. ABDOLONYMUS, a Sidonian of the royal family, placed on the throne by Alexander the Great. ABDON, a Persian, who suffered martyrdom under the persecution of Decius, 250. ABDULMUMEN, a man of obscure origin, seized the crown of Morocco, his death put a stop to his meditated invasion of Spain, 1156. ABEILLE, Gaspard, a native of Riez, in Provence, born 1648, died at Paris, 1718. ABEILLE, Scipio, brother of the preceding, surgeon in the regiment of Picardy, died 1697. ABEL, second son of Adam, was cruelly murdered by his brother Cain. ABELL, John, an English musician in the chapel royal of Charles II. celebrated for a fine counter-tenor voice, and for his skill on the lute. He continued in the chapel till the Revolution, when he was discharged as being a Papist. Upon this he went abroad, and at Warsaw met with a very extraordinary adventure. He was sent for to court; but evading to go by some slight excuse, was commanded to attend. the palace, he was seated in a chair in the middle of a spacious hall, and suddenly drawn up to a great height, when the king, with his attendants, appeared in a gallery opposite to him. At ABEL, Frederick Gottfried, a native of Hal-the same instant a number of wild bears were berstadt, abandoned divinity for the pursuit of medicine; he died 1794, aged 80. ABEL, king of Denmark, son of Valdimar, II. usurped the throne 1250, and was killed in battle two years after. ABEL, Charles Frederic, whose great musical ability, both as composer and performer, was an honour to the age in which he lived. His instrumental performance, particularly on the Viol di Gamba, was much distinguished for its elegance and fine feeling. He died, at London, after three days' sleep, on the 20th of June, 1787. ABELA, John Francis, a commander of the order of Malta, known by an excellent work called "Malta illustrata," in fol. 1647. At turned in, when the king bid him choose, whether he would sing, or be let down among the bears. Abell chose the former, and declared afterwards, that he never sung so well in his life ABELLA, a female writer born at Salerne, in the reign of Charles of Anjou. ABELLI, Lewis, a native of Vexin Francois, who was made Bishop of Rhodes, died at Paris 1691, in his 88th year. ABENMELEK, a learned rabbi, who wrote, in Hebrew, a commentary on the Bible; it was published at Amsterdam, 1661, in folio. ABERCROMBIE, James, a major general in the British army in Canada, in 1756: he displayed a want of talents, and was superseded by general Amherst. ABENDANA, Jacob, a Spanish Jew, who died 1685, prefect of the Synagogue in London. ABENEZRA, Abraham, a Spanish rabbi, surABELARD, Peter, one of the most celebrated named the wise, great, and admirable, died 1174, doctors of the 12th century, was born in the vil-aged about 75. His commentaries are highly lage of Palais, in Brittany. That he might enjoy valued. all the sweets of life, he thought it necessary to ABENGNEFIL, an Arabian physician, of have a mistress, and accordingly fixed his affec-the 12th century. tions on Heloise, a niece of a canon at Paris. | He boarded in this canon's house, whose name was Fulbert; where, pretending to teach the young lady the sciences, he soon made love to his scholar. Abelard now performed his public functions very coldly, and wrote nothing but amorous verses. Heloise, at length, being likely to become a mother, Abelard sent her to a sister ABERCROMBIE, John, a horticultural writer of his in Brittany, where she was delivered of a of much note. His first work was published unTo soften the canon's anger, he offered to der the title of "Mawe's Gardener's Calendar;" marry Heloise privately; Fulbert, however, was the flattering reception of which led him to better pleased with this proposal than his niece, pursue his literary labours on professional subvho, from a strange singularity in her passion,jects, to which he prefixed his own name. He hose rather to be the mistress than the wife of died at Somers' Town, in 1806, in the 80th year Abelard. At length, however, she consented to of his age. a private marriage; but, even after this, would ABERCROMBY, Sir Ralph, a brave British on some occasions affirm with an oath, that she general, born in Scotland 1743, received his vas still unmarried. Her husband thereupon death-wound (like Wolfe) in the moment of a sent her to the monastery of Argenteuil; where, great victory over the French, within four miles at his desire, she put on a religious habit, but not of Alexandria, in Egypt, March 21, 1801, and he veil. Heloise's relations, looking upon this as died on the 28th of the some month. second piece of treachery in Abelard, were ABERCROMBY, Thonias, M. D. a native of ransported to such a degree of resentment, that Forfar, became physician to James 11. by re hey hired ruffians, who forsing into his cham-nouncing the protestant religion; he died 1726, er by night, deprived him of his manhood. This laged 70. son. ABERNETHY, John, an eminent dissenting minister, born at Coleraine, in Ireland, 1680; died at Dublin 1740. His best esteemed works are a set of sermons on the "Divine and Moral Attributes." ABGARUS, a king of Edessa, famous for the letter which he is said to have sent to our Saviour, and for the answer he received. ABGILLUS, son of the king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy land with Charlemagne. ABIATHAR, son of Abimelech, was the high priest of the Jews, and the friend and fellow sufferer of David. ABIGAIL, wife of Nabal, married to David after Nabal's death, 1057, B. C. bellion against his father, and was slain by Joab about 1030, B. C. ABSALOM, archbishop of Lunden, in Denmark, minister and friend of Waldemir, displayed his abilities in the cabinet, in the field, land in the fleet, was humane and benevolent; he died universally regretted, 1202. ABSTEMIOUS, Laurentius, an Italian writer, born at Macerata, in La Marca de Ancona, who devoted himself early to the study of polite literature. He published, under the pontificate of Alexander VI. a treatise, entitled "Hecatomythium," from its containing 100 fables, which have been often printed with those of Esop, Phædrus, Gabrius, Avienus, &c. ABUBEKER, father-in-law of Mahomet, was ABIJAH, son of Rehoboam, was king of Ju-elected his successor. After a reign of 2 years dah after his father, 958, B. C. and 6 months, he expired in the 63d year of his ABIOSI, John, an Italian physician and as-age. tronomer, in the beginning of the 16th century. ABLANCOURT, vid. Perrot. ABLE, or ABEL, Thomas, a chaplain at the court of Henry VIII., was executed July 30, 1540. ABNER, son of Ner, was Saul's uncle, and his faithful general, and was perfidiously slain by Joab, 1048, B. C. ABOUBEKER, vid. Abubeker. ABUCARA, Theodore, the metropolitan of Caria, obtained a seat in the synod held at Constantinople, 869; he wrote treatises against the Jews and Mahometans, which have been published. ABUDHAHER, the father of the Carmatians, in Arabia, opposed the religion of Mahomet, plundered the temple of Mecca, and died in posABULFARAGIUS, Gregory, son of Aaron, ABOUGEHEL, one of the enemies of Ma-session of his extensive dominions, 953. homet and his religion. ABOUHANIFAH, surnamed Alnooman, aa physician, born in 1226, in the city of Malatia, celebrated doctor among the mussulmans, born in the 80th year of the hegira. near the source of the Euphrates in Armenia. He wrote in Arabic, a history which does loap-nour to his memory; it is divided into dynasties consists of ten parts, and is an epitome of uni versal history, from the creation of the world to his own time. ABOU-JOSEPH, a learned mussulman, pointed supreme judge of Bagdat by the caliphs Hadi and Aaron Raschid. ABOULAINA, a mussulman doctor, celebrated for his wit. ABULFEDA, Ismael, prince of Hamah, in ABOU-LOLA, an Arabian poet, born at Ma-Syria, but better known as author of Tables ora in 973, became a brahmin, and died 1057. of Geography of the regions beyond the river ABOU-NAVAS, an Arabian poet, whose Oxus. He began his reign in the 743d year of merit was protected and encouraged at the court the hegira, and ended it three years afterwards, of Aaron Raschid. aged 72. ABOU-RIHAN, a geographer and astronomer, ABULGASI-BAYATUR, khan of the Tarwho employed 40 years of his life in travellingars, reigned 20 years, respected at home and through India. abroad, resigned the sovereignty to his son, wrote the only Tartar history known in Europe; he died 1663. ABRABANEL, Isaac, a Jew of Lisbon, employed in offices of importance, by Aphonso V. of Portugal, fled into Spain, and from thence to Naples, then to Corfu, and at last to Venice, where he died, 1508, in his 71st year. ABRAHAM, the patriarch, was born at Ur, in Chaldea, A. M. 2004; he died in his 175th year. ABRAHAM, Nicholas, a learned Jesuit in Lorraine, was 17 years divinity professor at Pont a Mousson, where he died, Sept. 7, 1655, in his 66th year. ABRAHAM, Ben-choila, a Spanish rabbi, skilled in astrology, prophesied that the coming of the Messiah would be in 1358. Died, 1303. ABRAHAM, Usque, a Jew of Portugal. He undertook, with Tobias Athias, to translate the bible into Spanish, in the 16th century. ABULOLA, vid. Aboulola. ABU-MESLEM, a mussulman governor of Khorasan, who, in 746, transferred the dignity of caliph from the family of the Ommiades to that of the Abbassides, by which he occasioned the death of 600,000 men. He was thrown into the Tigris, 754. ABUNDIUS, a bishop of Come, in Italy, who assisted at the council of Constantinople, as the representative of Leo, and died, 469. ABUNOWAS, an Arabian poet, deservedly patronized by Aaron Raschid, died 810. ABU-OBEIDAH, a friend and associate of Mahomet, extended his conquests over Palestine and Syria, and died 639. ABU-SAID-EBN-ALJAPTU, a sultan, the ABRAHAM, an emperor of the Moors of Afri-ast of the family of Zingis-khan, died 1335. ca, in the 12th century, was dethroned by his ABUSAID-MIRZA, a man of enterprise, who subjects, and his crown usurped by Abdulmumen. placed himself at the head of an army, and deABROSI, John, an Italian physician. Heclared himself independent; he was killed in an wrote a dialogue on astrology, 4to. Venice, 1494. ambush, 1468, aged 42 ABRUZZO, Balthasar, a Sicilian, known for his abilities as a philosopher and a civilian, died, 1665, aged 64. ABRUZZO, Peter, a Neapolitan architect in the 17th century. ABUTEMAN, a poet in high repute among the Arabians, born a Yasem, between Damascus and Tiberias, about 846. ABYDENE, wrote a history of Chaldea and Assyria, of which valuable composition only a ABSALOM, son of king David, distinguished few fragments have been preserved by Eusebius. for his persona! acquirements, his popularity,| ACACIUS, surnamed Luscus, founder of the and his vices, murdered his brother, headed a re-llsect of the Acaciani, died, 365. ACACIUS, patriarch of Constantinople, es-|| ACHARD, Claude Francis, a physician was tablished the superiority of his see over the east-secretary to the academy, and librarian of the ern bishops, was opposed by Felix, and died 498 city of Marseilles; he died 1809. ACACIUS, a bishop of Berea, in Syria, per- ACHARDS, Eleazer Francis des, distin uishsecuted Chrysostom and Cyril,of Alexandria; heed by his learning, piety, and humanity, was died 432. nominated bishop of Halicarnassus, and afterwards sent apostolic vicar to China;h died at Cochin, 1741. ACACIUS, a bishop of Amida, on the Tigris. sold the sacred vessels of his churches to ransom 7000 Persian slaves; he lived in the reign of Theodosius the younger. ACCA-LAURENTIA, wife of Faustulus, and nurse of Romulus and Remus. ACCA, bishop of Hexham, author of treatises on the sufferings of the saints, died 1740. ACCARISI, James, a professor of rhetoric at Mantua, died 1654. ACCETTO, Reginald, author of a thesarus of the Italian tongue, died 1560. ACCIAIOLI, Donatus, of Florence, distinguished by his learning and political services to his country, died 1478. ACCIAIOLI, Renatus, a Florentine, conquered Athens, Corinth, and Boeotia, in the beginning of the 11th century. ACCIAIOLI, Zenobio, a learned ecclesiastic of Florence, and librarian to Leo X., died 1537. ACCIAIOLI, or ACCIAUOLI, Angelo, a learned cardinal, archbishop of Florence, who wrote in favour of Urban VI., died 1407. ACCIAIOLI, Magdalen, a Florentine, celebrated for her beauty, but more for the powers of her mind, died 1610. ACCIUS, Lucius, a Latin tragic poet, the son of a freedman, was born in the year of Rome 583; he did not, however, confine himself to dramatic writing; for he left other productions; particularly his "Annals," mentioned by Macrobius, Priscian, Festus, and Nonius Marcellus. Accius was so much esteemed by the public, that a comedian was punished for only mentioning his name on the stage. ACČIUS, Zuchus, an Italian poet of the 16th century, paraphrased some of the fables of Æsop. ACCOLTI, Benedict, a lawyer of Florence, secretary to the republic, died 1466. ACCOLTI, Francis, brother to Benedict, re puted for his judgment, eloquence and knowledge of jurisprudence, sometimes called Aretin, lied, 1470; vid. Aretin. ACCOLTI, Peter, son of Benedict, raised to he dignity of cardinal; died at Florence 1549. His brother Benedict, duke of Nepi, distinguished aimself as a poet. ACCOLTI, Benedict, conspired with five others to murder Pius IV., and suffered capital punishment, 1564. ACCORDS, Stephen Tabourot, Seigneurdes, advocate in the parliament of Dijon, died 1561. ACCURSE, Francis, a native of Florence, and professor of law at Bologna, died 1229. His son also distinguished himself as a lawyer at Toulouse. ACHERY, Dom Luc d', a native of St. Quintin in Picardy, displayed his learning as an ec clesiastic and antiquary by several publications; he died at Paris, 1685. ACHILLINI, Alexander, a Bolognese physi cian, known by his publications, and distin guished himself as the follower of Averroes, died 1512. ACHILLINI, Philotheus, wrote a poem to honour the memory of Italian genius and recommend morality; he died 1538. ACHILLINI, Claude, distinghished for his knowledge of medicine, theology and jurispru dence, died, at Bologna, 1640. ACHMET I., emperor of Turkey, son and successor of Mahomet III., made war against the Hungaries, died 1617. ACHMET II. succeeded his brother Solyman III. on the throne of Constantinople; he was unfortunate in his wars against the Venetians and Austrians, and died 1695. ACHMET III,. son of Mahomet IV., was crowned by a faction who deposed his brother Mustapha II.; he granted an asylum to Charles XII., made war against the Russians and Persians, and was hurled from his throne by an insurrection; he died 1736. ACHMET GEDUC, or ACOMET, a celebrated general, he assisted Bajazet II. in obtaining the throne, 1432, and was afterwards inhumanly assassinated. ACHMET Bacha, a general of Solyman, revolted from his sovereign, 1524, and was soon after defeated and beheaded. ACHMET, an Arabian who wrote on the in terpretation of dreams; the work was published in Greek and Latin, by Rigault, 1603. ACH-VAN, or ACHEN, John, a historical painter, born at Cologne, died 1621. ACIDALIUS, Valens, a native of Wistock in Brandebourg, distinguished by his extensive erudition, died 1595. ACKERMAN, John Christian, Gottlieb, professor of medicine at Altdorf, in Franconia, died 1801. ACOLUTHUS, Andrew, a learned professor of languages at Breslaw, published a Latin translation of the Armenian version of Obadiah, at Leipsic, died 1704. ACONTIUS, James, a famous philosopher, civilian, and divine, born at Trent, in the 16th century. He embraced the protestant religion; and, going over to England in the reign of Elzabeth, met with a very friendly reception from that princess, as he himself has testified in a work dedicated to her. This work is his celebrated "Collection of the Stratagems of Satan," which has been often translated, and gone pub-through many different impressions. ACCURSE, Marius Angelo, a native of Aguila, in the 16th century, eminent for his critical and literary abilities, ACERBO, Francis, a native of Nocera, lished some poems at Naples, 1666. ACESIUS, Bishop of Constantinople, in the age of Constantine, maintained, that those who committed any sin after being baptised, ought not to be again admitted into the church, though they might repent. ACHALEN, a British sovereign in the 6th century, was driven from his dominions, and took refuge in Wales. ACOSTA, Gabriel, professor of divinity at Coimbra, wrote a Latin commentary on the Old Testament, he died 1616. ACOSTA, Joseph, a provincial of the Jesuits, in Peru, was born at Medina del Campo, and died at Salamanca, 1600. ACOSTA, Uriel, a native of Oporto, educated in the Romish religion: he fled to Judaism, and shot himself 1640. ACQUAVIVA, vid. AQUAVIVA. ACRON, a physician of Sicily, who relieved Athens during a plague, by buriling perfumes; lived about 440 B. C. ACRONIUS, John, a Mathematician of Friesland, who wrote on the motion of the earth, died at Basle, 1563. 1741. His principal works are, "Roman Anti ADAM, Melchior, rector of a college at Heidelberg, where he pub ished" Lives of Illustrious Men," in four vols., and died about 1635. ACRONIUS, John, a Dutch writer of the 17th ADAM, Robert, architect, was born in 1728, century, who wrote against the Romish religion.at Kirkcaldy, in Fifeshire, and received his edu ACROPOLITA, George, one of the writers cation at the university of Edinburgh. After of the Byzantine history, born at Constantino-his return from visit to Italy, Mr. Adam wa ple, 1220. In his 21st year, he maintained a appointed architect to his majesty in the yea learned dispute with Nicholas, the physician, 1762, and produced a total change in the archi concerning the eclipse of the sun, before the em-tecture of that country. His fertile genius peror John. Gregory Cyprian, a patriarch of elegant ornament was not confined to the deco Constantinople, in his encomium upon him, pre-ration of buildings, but has been diffused int fixed to Acropolita's history, is perhaps some-almost every branch of manufacture. At the what extravagant in his praise, when he says, time of his death, March 3, 1792, the new unithat he was equal to Aristotle in philosophy, versity of Edinburgh, and other great public and to Plato in the knowledge of divine things works, both in that city and in Glasgow, were and Attic eloquence. erecting from his designs, and under his direcrion. His death was occasioned by the breaking of a blood-vessel in the stomach, and his remains were interred in the south side of Westminster Abbey. ACTIUS, or AZZO, Visconti, sovereign of Milan, distinguished by his valour, and the integrity of his government, died 1355. ACTUARIUS, a Jew physician, practised at Constantinople in the 13th century. ADAM, James, architect, brother to the foreACUNA, Christopher, Jesuit of Burgos, em-going, died Oct. 20, 1794. The Adelphi buildployed as missionary in America, published an ings and Portland-place are monuments of his account of the Amazon river, at Madrid, 1641. taste and abilities in his profession. ADAIR, James, an English lawyer of eminence, member of parliament, died 1798. ADAIR, James, author of some law tracts, and some time recorder of London, died July 21, 1798. ADAIR, James Mackitbriek, a physician and presiding judge of the courts of the island of Antigua, W. I., died 1082. ADAM, a canon of Bremen, in the 17th cen tury, published an ecclesiastical history of Bremen and Hamburgh, edited, 1670. ADAM, St. Victor, an ecclesiastic at Paris, died 1177. ADAM, Scotus, a monkish writer, born in Scotland, and taught divinity at Paris, died 1180. ADAM, John, a Jesuit of Bordeaux, wrote ADALARD,or ADELARD, son of count Ber-several treatises against the disciples of Austin, nard, and grandson of Charles Martel, was died 1684. made prime minister of Pepin, king of Italy,| and died Jan. 2, 826. ADALBERON, archbishop of Rheims, and chancellor of France, an ecclesiastic and minister of Lothaire, died 928. ADAM, d'Orleton, of Hereford, became bishop of Winchester; he was intriguing and turbulent. ADAM, John, a Jesuit of Limosin, professor of philosophy, died at Bordeaux, 1C84. ADAMS, Sir Thomas, a native of Wem, in Shropshire, became a draper in London, and rose to the high honour of Lord Mayor of London, 1645; he died 1667. ADAMS, Thomas, distinguished for his learning, and tutor to persons of rank, in the time of Cromwell; he died Dec. 11, 1670. ADAMS, Richard, minister of St. Mildred, is ejected, 166; he assisted in the completion of Poole's Annotations, and died 1698. ADAMS, William, D. D., master of Pembroke ADALOALD, a king of Lombardy, was deposed by his subjects, and succeeded by Ario-College, Oxford, the friend of Dr. Johnson, disvald; he died 629, in a private station. ADAM, the father of the human race, lived 930 years after his expulsion from paradise. ADAM, Lambert Sigisbert, an ingenious sculptor, born at Nanci, died 1759, aged 59. tinguished for his urbanity, &c., died 1789 ADAMS, Joseph, a physician of London, au thor of several medical works, died 1818. ADAMS, Andrew, L. L. D., chief justice o. Connecticut, was born at Stratford, Ct., edu cated at Yale College, afterwards elected member of the council, and a representative in congress; he died 1799. ADAM, Nicholas, brother of Lambert, imita ted and equalled him; he executed the Mau soleum of the queen of Poland, and died 779. ADAM, Francis Gaspard, younger brother of ADAMS, John, a clergyman and poet, born the two preceding,excelled also as an artist; hein Nova Scotia, and settled at Newport, R. 1. died at Paris, 1757, aged 49. ADAM, Thomas, an English divine, born at Leeds,obtained the living of Wintringham, Lincolnshire; he died 1784, aged 83. he died 1740, much lamented, aged 36. ADAMS, Eliphalet, an eminent minister of New London, Ct., died 1753, aged 77. He published several occasional discourses. ADAMS, Amos, minister of Roxbury, Mass., distinguished for his learning and piety; died at Dorchester, 1775, aged 48. ADAM, Billaut, a joiner of Nevers, better known by the name of Master Adam, wrote po etry while employed at his tools; he died 1662 ADAM,Alexander, L.L.D.,an eminent school- ADAMS, Joseph, a minister, settled at Newmaster, and a useful writer, in Scotland, bornington, N. H.; he died 1783, aged 93. at Coats of Burgie, county of Moray, June, ADAMS, Zabdiel, minister of Lunenburgh, |