CLARKE, John, one of the first founders of Rhode Island, to which he was obliged to retire, on account of his religious sentiments, which, (being a baptist,) were at variance with those which prevailed in Massachusetts; he died in 1676.

died in 1771.

probably, to him, who relished no higher plea-Junable to speak the language, and, withal, very sures, an enjoyment, as it was a second nature,ill bred, nobody cared to set him to work. Mr. Clark died at Pimlico, in his 80th year, Chance brought him at length to Augustino September 6, 1816. Trasso, who hired him to pound his colours, clean his pallet and pencils, look after his house, dress his meat for him, and do all his householddrudgery; for Augustino kept no other servant. This master, hoping to make him serviceable to him in some of his greatest works, taught him by degrees the rules of perspective, and the eleCLARKE, Dr. Samuel, a very celebrated ments of design. Claude at first did not know English philosopher and divine, born at Nor-what to make of those principles of art; but wich, in 1675, died May 17, 1729. His works are being encouraged, and not failing in application, very numerous. The came at length to understand them; then his CLARKE, William, a divine and antiquary,soul enlarged itself apace, and he cultivated the born at Haghmon Abbey, in Shropshire, in 1696, art with wonderful eagerness. He removed his study to the banks of the Tyber, and into the CLARKE, Richard, an elegant classical scho-open fields, where he would continue from mornlar, who came to America in 1750, but returneding to night, taking all his lessons from Nature to England in 1758; he published several works.herself; and by many years diligent imitation CLARKE, John, D. D., colleague with Dr. of that excellent mistress, he climbed to the Chauncy, in Boston, was much esteemed; he highest step of perfection in landscape painting. published some occasional sermons, and letters His memory was so good, that he would paint to a student, &c., and died in 1798. with great accuracy, when he got home, what CLARKE, John, governor of the state of De-he had seen abroad. He has been universally laware, died at Smyrna, in 1821. admired for his invention, the delicacy of his CLARKE, Edward Daniel, L. L. D., profes-colouring, and the charming variety and tenderFor of mineralogy in Cambridge, and author of ness of his tints; for his artful distributions of travels in Europe and Asia, died in 1822. the lights and shadows, for his wonderful conCLARKE, Abraham, a member of congress duct in the disposition of his figures, and for the before and after the adoption of the federal con-harmony of his compositions. Claude was emstitution, and a signer of the declaration of in-ployed by Pope Urban VIII., and many of the dependence; he died in 1794. Italian princes, in adorning their palaces. He died in 1682, and was buried at Rome.

CLARKE, Henry, L. L. D., a distinguished mathematician, professor of the royal military college at Marlow, died in 1818. His writings, on mathematical and other subjects, are nume ous, and are highly valued. CLARKE, Samuel, a celebrated oriental scho-Hague, and died in 1695. lar, of England, died in 1669.

CLAUDE, John, a French protestant, distinguished as an orator, and writer in defence of the protestant church, died in 1687. His son, Isaac Claude, published his works, settled at the

CLARKE, Jeremiah, president of the colony of Rhode Island, died in 1648.

CLARKE, Walter, was governor of Rhode Island for several years; he died about 1700. CLARKE, George, an English lawyer, was governor of the colony of New-York, in 1737. He returned to England, and died in 1763.

CLAUDIANUS, Claudius, a Latin poet flourished in the fourth century, under the emperor Theodosius, and his sons Arcadius and Honorius; the two latter of whom, at the senate's request, ordered a statue to be erected for him in Trajan's forum: on which was soon after placed the following epigrain, in Greek: "Rome and the Cæsars here his statue raise, "Who Virgil's genius joined to Homer's lays." CLAUDIUS I., successor to the emperor CaCLARKE, Edward, chaplain to Lord Bris-ligula, much given to vice; he was poisoned, tol's embassy to Madrid, died in 1786. CLARKSON, David, ejected from his living for non-conformity, a learned and respectable man, died in 1686.

CLARKE, Samuel, a non-conformist under Cromwell, was highly esteemed, and died in 1682.

A. D. 54.

CLAUDIUS II., successor of Gallients, emperor of Rome, died in 271, much lamented. CLAUDIUS, Appius, progenitor of the Ap

CLARKSON, Gerardus, a respectable physi-pian family at Rome, 504 B. C. cian, of Philadelphia, died in 1790.

CLAUDIUS, Appius, son of the preceding, was consul at Rome, and severe in his discipline. CLAUDIUS, Appius, a Roman decemvir, infamous for attempting to violate the chastity of

CLARKSON, Matthew, of New-York, born in 1758, died April, 1825. He was a major ge neral in the revolutionary war, and particularly distinguished himself at the battle of Bridge-Virginia; he died in prison. water. He subsequently held various public CLAUDIUS, Appius, surnamed Cœcus, cele. trusts, and, at the time of his death, was first brated for making the Appian way, at Rome. vice-president of the American Bible Society. CLAVIUS, Christopher, an eminent matheHis name is associated with those who fought matician, born in Germany, in 1537, and con and bled for American Independence; and insidered as the Euclid of his age, died at Rome, private life, with the most elevated virtues. in 1612. CLAUDE, a monk of the celestine order, in the 15th century.

CLAYTON, Dr. Robert, a learned prelate, and writer, bishop of Cork, in 1735; of Clogher, in 1745; died in 1758; he was averse to the Nicene and Athanasian creeds.

CLAUDE of LORRAINE, a famous landscape painter, born in 1600. He was sent to school, but proving extremely dull and heavy, he was sent CLAYTON, John, an eminent botanist and thence, and bound apprentice to a pastry-cook, physician, of Virginia, who came from England with whom he served out his time. Afterwards in 1705, died in 1773. He was a member of he went with some young fellows to Rome, with some of the most learned societies of Europe, a view of getting a livelihood there; but being and corresponded with Linnæus, &c.

a Roman, succeeded Clement IX., in 1670, of a mild character; he died in 1676.

CLEMENT XI, John Francis Albani, a Ro

CLAYTON, Joshua, a physician, was gover nor of Delaware, and a member of the United States' senate; he died in 1799. CLEAVER, William, prebendary of West-man, elected pope, in 1700, an able politician; minster, afterwards bishop of Chester, Bangor, his reign was much disturbed by the Jansenists; and St. Asaph's, died in 1815. he died in 1721.

CLEANTHES, a stoic philosopher, disciple CLEMENT XII., Laurence Corsini, a Roman, of Zeno, flourished at Athens, 240 B. C. He succeeded Benedict XIII., in 1730; he was very maintained himself in the day by working in popular, and corrected many abuses in the the night; and being once questioned by the church; he died in 1740.

magistrates how he subsisted, he brought a CLEMENT XIII., Charles Rezzonico, of Vewoman for whom he kneaded bread, and a gar-nice, succeeded Benedict XIV., in 1758, and died dener for whom he drew water; and refused a in 1769, greatly respected. present offered him by his judges, having a trea- CLEMENT XIV., John Vincent Anthony sure, (as he said,) in his ability to labour. Ganganelli, an Italian, raised to the popedom CLEEVE, Joseph, a Flemish painter, whose on the death of Clement XIII. He suppressed pieces were misers counting their treasures; he the Jesuits, and died, supposed by some to have died in 1536. been poisoned, in 1774.

CLEGHORN, George, a physician and medical writer, born at Granton, near Edinburgh, in 1716, died in 1789. His chief publication was on "The Diseases of Minorca."

CLEMENT, David, a native of Hof Geismar, a minister and author, died at Hanover, in 1760. CLEMENT, Francis, a native of Beze, in Burgundy, a historian of much celebrity, died in 1793.

CLEIVELAND, John, a noted loyalist and popular poet in the reign of Charles I. He has, CLEMENT, Peter, a native of Geneva, trahowever, had the fate of those poets who, pay-velling tutor of Lord Waldegrave, a poet, and ing their court to temporary prejudices, have conductor of Nouvelles Literaires of France, been at one time too much praised, and at ano-died in 1767.

ther too much neglected. Cotemporary with CLEOBULUS, one of the seven wise men of Milton, he was, in his time, exceedingly pre-Greece, who died about 560 B. C. ferred before him; and Milton's own nephew

CLEOMBROTUS, there were two of this says, that he was by some esteemed the best of name, kings of Sparta; one flourished 371, the the English poets. But Cleiveland is now sunk other about 480 B. C. into oblivion, while Milton's fame is universally CLEOMENES, a king of Sparta, who slew diffused. He was born at Loughborough, Lei-himself, 491 B. C.; another reigned 61 years; cestershire, in 1613, and died in 1658. a third was defeated by the Achæans, fled to Egypt, and killed himself, 219 B. C.

CLEMANCIS, Nicholas, a Frenchman, rector of the university, who advocated a reform of the Romish church; he died in 1440.

CLEMENCET, Charles, a Frenchman, of great memory, and a distinguished writer, died in 1778.

CLEMENS, Titus Flavius, a father of the church, succeeded, in 191, to the famous school at Alexandria, where he died.

CLEOPATRA, queen of Egypt, famous alike for her beauty, and her licentious passions, was daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, and had a son by Cæsar, called Cæsario. She killed herself after the defeat of Marc Antony, that she might not be carried to Rome in triumph; and with her ended the family of the Ptolemies in Egypt, after it had reigned, from the death of Alexander, 294 CLEMENS, Romanus, a father of the church, years; for Egypt, after that, was reduced to a companion of Paul, bishop of Rome, and author Roman province, in which dependence it reof an epistle to the Corinthians, died A: D. 100.mained till it was taken from them by the SaraCLEMENT II., bishop of Bamberg, a Saxon, cens, A. D. 641. elected pope, in 1047, died in 1048, distinguished for his zeal against simony.

CLEOSTRATUS, a Grecian astronomer, who invented the signs of the Zodiac, 536 B. C. CLEMENT III., bishop of Præneste, succes- CLERC, Sebastian le, engraver to Lewis sor of Gregory VIII., as pope, in 1187, died in 1191XIV., rose from obscurity to eminence; he was CLEMENT IV., Guy de Foulgues, a French-admirable in his landscapes, and died in 1714. man, of great moderation, prudence, and impar- CLERC, John le, a celebrated philosophical tiality, was elected pope, after Urban V., in 1265, and theological writer, and universal scholar, and died in 1268. born at Geneva, in 1657, died in 1736. CLEMENT V., Bertrand de Goth, a French- CLERC, Daniel le, a native of Geneva, and man, bishop of Bordeaux, elected pope, in 1305,||professor; also eminent as a physician, and was accused of licentiousness and extravagance; he died in 1314.

CLEMENT VI., Peter Roger, doctor of Paris university, elected pope, in 1342, a worthy, generous, and learned prelate, but represented otherwise by some; he died in 1352.

learned antiquary; he died in 1728.

CLERC, John le, a Frenchman, was knighted at Venice, and died in 1633.

CLERKE, Gilbert, an able Greek scholar, and mathematician, a Socinian, fellow of Sidney College, Cambridge, died in 1695.

CLEMENT VII., Julius de Medicis, an Ital- CLERMONT TONNERRE, Stanislaus, count ian, elected pope, in 1523; he was besieged by of, a French nobleman in the states general at Charles V., who plundered Roine; he excom-Paris, in 1789, was massacred for his opposition municated Henry VIII., which led to the refor-to the Jacobin club, in 1793. mation in England, and died in 1534.

CLEMENT VIII., Hippolitus Aldobrandin, a liberal minded and benevolent pope, elected in 1592, died in 1605.

CLEVELAND, John. Vid. CLEIVELAND. CLEVELAND, John, a pious and much esteemed minister, of Ipswich, Massachusetts; he was author of several religious works, and died in 1799.

CLEMENT IX., Julius Rospigliosi, a Tuscan pope, elected in 1677, died of grief for the loss of CLIFFORD, Martin, an English writer, who Candia by the Turks, in 1669. made every man's fancy the guide of his reliCLEMENT X., John Baptist Emilius Altieri,gion; he died in 1677.

CLIFFORD, George, earl of Caerland, a celebrated English navigator, born in 18, died in 1505.

CLOVIS I, founder of the French monarchy, was converted to christianity, and died in 511. CLOVIS II.,succeeded his father Dagobert in 638; he was mild but debauched.

CLINTON, Henry, a British general in the American war; evacuated Philadelphia in 1778; took Charleston, in 1750; was governor of G-III braltar in 1795, and died shortly after.

OVIS III., succeeded his father Thierr 591.

LOWES, William, surgeon to queen Eliza

CLINTON, James, was a gentleman of ta- beth. lents in the colony of New-York, and ancestor CLUENTIUS, a Román, accused of murderof the present distinguished family of that name.ing his father, defended by Cicero.

CLINTON, Charles, a native of Ireland, car- CLUVERIUS, Plulip, a celebrated geograly emigrated to America, where he maintained pher, born at Dantzic, 1580, died at Leyden, in a high character for usefulness and respetabia || 123. ty. He was the father of James and George Clinton, and died in 1773.

CLINTON, James, son of the preceding, and major general in the American army during the revolution, distinguished himself as a brave and indefatigable officer, in the wars with the French and Indians; and during the revolutionary war, he was with General Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians; was for some time comniander of the northern section of the union, stationed at Albany, and was afterwards at the siege of Yorktown. He closed his military career, by bidding farewell to Washington at New-York, and retiring to private life; he died in 1812.

CLYMER, George, a member of Congress in 1776, was a signer of the declaration of independence, and a distinguished advocate of Anerican rights; he died in 1813.

COBB, James, sectetary at the East India House, in England, and a very successful writer of operas and jarces, died June 2, 1818, in his 62d year.

COBB, Samuel, author of “ Observations upon Virgil," and a "Collection of Poems," in 8vo. 1700, died in 1713.

COBB, Ebenezer, remarkable for longevity, was born in Mass. in 1C94, and died in 1801, aged 107 years; he lived in three centuries.

COBBET, Thomas, an eminent minister and writer, born in England, but on account of nonconformity, came to America, in 163, and became minister at Ipswich; he died in 1686.

COBDEN, Dr. Edward, an eminent English divine and theological writer, born about 1684, died 1764.

CLINTON, George, brother of the general, was an eminent lawyer and member of Congress in 1776. He was an active supporter of the principles of the revolution and of his country's rights; and, during the war, he rendered essential services to the American arms. He was repeatedly chosen governor of the state of New- COBENTZEL, count Louis de, an eminent York, and was elevated to the office of Vice-statesman of Germany, died Feb. 22, 1809. He President of the United States in 1804. He died was born at Brussels, Nov. 21, 1753, and comat Washington in 1812. menced his political career, under the minister CLINTON, Georgé, vice-admiral of the En-count de Pergen, in 1772. Two years after, he glish navy, and governor of the colony of Now- was named minister plenipotentiary extraordinYork, afterwards returned to England. Theary to the court of Denmark; in 1777, to that time of his death is not known. of Prussia. He was recalled at the epoch of the CLISSON, Oliver de, a native of Brittany, dis-war of the Bavarian succession, and was des tinguished for his valour, died in 1407, much respected.

CLISTHENES, an Athenian, who introduced

the law of ostracism.

CLITOMACHUS, a Carthaginian philosopher, who wrote 400 vols., and committed suicide.

tined to negotiate the peace of Teschen; but a sickness which he had, prevented him. The same year he was named minister from Austria to Petersburgh. On his return to Vienna, ufter the signing of the preliminaries of Leoben, he concluded, in 1797, the treaty of Campo ForCLIVE, Robert Lord, an eminent East India mio; and in the month of December, in the governor, and a striking instance of the ineffi-same year, the military convention, at Radstock ciency of wealth or external honours to confer with Buonaparte. After the conferences of Selz, happiness, was born at Moreton Say, near Marhe returned to Petersburg. On the 9th Febru ket Drayton, Shropshire, 1725; and died, as is said, by his own hand, Nov. 22, 1774. CLIVE, Catherine, an eminent actress in low comedy, born 1711, died 1785.

CLODIUS, Publius, a debauched Roman ator, killed by Milo, 53 B. C

ary, 1801, he concluded the peace of Luneville, and filled, in the month of December following; the places of directory minister of state and conferences, and vice-chancellor of state for foreign sen-affairs.

CLOOTS, Anacharsis, a native of Prussia, who in the French revolution called himself the Brator of the human race; profane, and irreligious; he was guillotined in 1794.

COCCEIUS, Henry, a native of Bremen, pro fessor of the law of nations; a distinguished author; he was created baron, and died in 1719. COCCEIUS, Samuel, a German baron, grand chancellor of Prussia, died in 1747.

COCCEIUS, or COCK, John, a native of Ere

CLOPINEL, or JOHN de MEUN, a French poet, celebrated at the court of Philip the fair:men, and Hebrew professor there; afterwards he died in 1364.

CLOSTERMAN, N., a portrait painter, who made himself rich in London; he died in 1713. CLOTAIRE I., fourth son of Clovis, king of Soissons, and in 558 king of all France; he died in 561.

removed to Leyden; he maintained that the bible is mystical of Christ and the church; he died in 1669.

COCCII, Anthony, professor of Physic, at Florence and Pisa; was intimate with Boerhaave and esteemed for his learning; he died in 1758. COCHIN, Charles Nicholas, a French engraver, whose pieces are adinired; he died in CLOTAIRE III. king of Burgundy,died in 670.1654. Another, of the same name, equally disCLOVIO, George, a Sclavonian, eminent as tinguished, died in 1790.

CLOTAIRE II., king of Soissons, was cruel and oppressive, and died in 628.

a historical and miniature painter, died in 1578. COCHIN Henry, a native of Paris, as emi

nent at the bar, as Bourdaloue was in the pulpit ;| he died in 1747.

COHAUSEN, John Henry, a German physician, who maintained that life might be extendCOCHLEUS, John, a catholic of Nuremburg,ed to 115 years by taking in the breath of young who violently attacked Luther, Bucer, Calvin, &c., died in 1552.

COCHRAN, Robert, a Scotch architect, hung by the old nobility, because he was raised to the earldom of Mar, in 1484.

COCHRAN, William, a very eminent painter in Scotland, born at Strathaven, in Clydesdale, 1738, died Oct. 25, 1785.

women, died in 1750.

COHORN, Memnon, a very celebrated Dutch engineer, and author of a treatise in the Flemish language on the "Method of Fortifying Places," born 1632, died 1704.

COIGNET, Giles, an eminent painter, who sold his scholars' productions as his own, died in 1600.

COINTE, Charles le, a distinguished French historian, died in 1611.

COITER, Volcherius, celebrated as a surgeon, physician, and anatomist, born at Groningen; died about 1600.

COCKAIN, Sir Alston, a dramatic writer, born at Ashbourn, in Derbyshire, 1606, died in 1084. His works were printed in 1658; and again, in 2 vols, small 8vo. 1669, and are very rare. COCKBURN, Catharine, born in 1679, gave marks of a genius for poetry before she had COKE, Sir Edward, lord chief justice of Engpassed her childhood: and in her 17th year pro-land, and one of the most eminent lawyers of duced a tragedy called "Agnes de Castro," that kingdom, was born at Mileham,in Norfolk,in which was acted in 1695. In 1698 she brought 1549, and died at Stoke Pogey's in Bucks, Sept. a second tragedy upon the stage, and in 1701, a 3, 1634. Sir Edward had great quickness of third tragedy and a comedy. But poetry and parts, deep penetration, a faithful memory, and dramatic writing were the least of this lady's a solid judgment. He committed every thing talents, she had a great and philosophic turn to writing with an industry beyond example, of mind, and wrote a defence of Locke's "Es-published a great deal, and met with many say on the Human Understanding," against changes of fortune; being sometimes in power, some remarks which had been made upon it at and sometimes in disgrace. He was, however, several times, by Dr. Burnet of the Charter-house.so excellent at making the best of a disgrace, This defence was finished as early as Dec. 1701, that king James used to compare him to a cat, when she was but 22 years of age: she died in 1749.who always fell upon her legs. "His learned COCKER, Edward, deservedly esteemed one and laborious works on the laws," says Fuller, of the improvers of the arts of writing and arithmetic, died 1677, having published 14 copybooks engraved by his own hand; some books on Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetics; a small Dictionary; and a book of sentences for writing, called Cocker's Morals.

COCLES, Publ. Horat. a Roman, celebrated for his defence of a bridge, across the Tyber, against the whole army of Porsenna.

CODDINGTON, William, the father of R. Island; first settled in Mass., but having some religious differences, he, with others, removed he was governor of R. Island several years, and died in 1678.

[Worthies, p. 251.]" will be admired by judicious posterity, while Fame has a trumpet left her or any breath to blow therein." His principal works are, "Reports of Cases during the most happy reign of the most illustrious and renowned queen Elizabeth, the fountain of all justice and the life of the law;" "A Book of Entries:" and his "Institutes."

COKE, Thomas, LL. D., a leading minister of the Wesleyan Methodists, a very zealous and able divine, and most excellent man, was born at Brecon, in Wales, educated at Jesus college, Oxford, and entered into orders in the Established Church. For the last 28 years he disCODMAN, John, a member of the Senate in charged, with unremitting diligence the extenMass. highly esteemed for his honesty and fidel-sive duties of general superintendent of the ity; he died in 1803. Methodist missions; which so warmly engaged his active and incessant energies, that he many times crossed the Atlantic, visiting the West India islands, and travelling through the United States. He gave to the world, among other

CODRINGTON, Christopher, a native of Barbadoes, distinguished for his knowledge of physic and belles lettres; sometime governor of the Leeward Islands; died in 1710. CODRUS, the last king of Athens, who de-works, a "Life of John Wesley," a "History voted himself to death for his country, 1070, B. C. COEFFETEAU, Nicholas, a Dominican of Calais, author of a Roman History: died in 1623. COEN, John Paterson, governor of the Dutch East Indies; founded the city of Batavia, and died in 1629.

of the West Indies," and a "Commentary on the Bible," in 6 large vols. 4to. Dr. Coke died May 3, 1814, on his voyage to India, with six missionaries, intended for Ceylon and Java. COLARDEAU, Charles Pierre,a Frenchman, who translated Pope's Eloisa to Abelard; he CŒUR, James, a French merchant, the rich-wrote some tragedies, and died in 1776. est subject in Europe; lent Charles 7,200,000 crowns; he was basely imprisoned, but escaped lat, one of the greatest statesmen that France and died at Chio, in 1456.

COLBERT, John Baptist, marquis of Segne

ever had, was born at Paris 1619, and died 1683. COFFEY, Charles, a dramatic writer, prin-He was a pattern for all ministers of state; and cipally known by his farce of "The Devil to Pav," died 1745.

COGAN, Thomas, an Englishman, master of Manchester school, and author of the "Haven of Health for Students.”

COGGESHALLE, Ralph, an English monk, author of an account of the siege of Jerusalem, by Saladin, died about 1228.

every nation may wish itself blessed with a Colbert.

COLBERT, John Baptist, marquis of Torey, ambassador to Portugal, Denmark and England, secretary of state, &c., died at Paris, in 1746.

COLDEN, Cadwallader, a respectable physician, botanist and astronomer of Scotland, who first came to America in 1708, and again in 1716,

offices; published several learned works.

COGSWELL, James, D.D.,minister in Wind-and afterwards sustained several high political ham, Con. distinguished for his learning and piety, was dismissed in old age, and died at Hartford, in 1807.

COLE, William, born at Adderbury, in Oxfordshire, about 1625, was the most famous

botanist of his time. In 1656, he published "The Art of Simpling:" and in 1657," Adam in Eden, or Nature's Paradise:" he died in 1662.

COLE, Thomas, a dissenting minister in England, and preceptor of the great Locke, died in

1697.

COLE, Thomas, a native of Gloucestershire, distinguished for making a curious collection of herbs, &c.

COLLET, Philibert, a French advocate; author of treatises on excommunications, tythes, &c., died in 1718.

COLLETET, William, a French academician, who wrote for the theatres, under Richelieu, died in 1695.

COLLETON, James, was governor of the colony of South Carolina, about 1680.

COLLIER, Jeremy, an eminent English divine, born at Stow-Qui, in Cambridgeshire, in COLES, Elisha, born in Northamptonshire, 1650, died 1726. He published "Essays upon in 1640, became one of the ushers of Merchant several moral subjects," which have passed Tailor's school, and wrote several useful and through many editions. In 1698, he made an necessary books for the instruction of beginners, attempt to reform the stage, by publishing his the principal of which were "The Complete Short View of the Immorality and ProfaneEnglish Schoolmaster," "The newest, plainest, uess of the English Stage," and other pamphlets. and shortest Shorthand,” “Nolens volens; or, This engaged him in a controversy with the you shall make Latin whether you will or no, wits; and Congreve and Vanbrugh, whom, with containing the plainest directions for that pur-many others, he had taken to task very severely, pose,' "“An English Dictionary," and "An appeared openly against him. In this controEnglish-Latin, and Latin-English Dictionary." versy with the stage, Colier exerted himself to COLET, Dr. John, a learned English divine, the utmost advantage; his labours were attende born in London, in 1466, was the eldest son of ed with success, and actually produced repentSir Henry Colet, knt., twice lord-mayor, who ance and amendment; for it is allowed on all had, besides him, 21 children. Being dean of hands, that the decorum which has been, for St. Paul's, and having a very plentiful estate the most part, observed by the later writers of without any near relations, (for numerous as dramatic poetry, is entirely owing to the an his brethren were, they were all dead and bu-madversions of Collier. Collier also published ried,) he resolved, in the midst of life and health, An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain," to consecrate the whole property of it to some 2 vois. folio, which is written with great judgstanding and perpetual benefaction. And this ment; and translated Moreri's "Historical, Geohe performed by founding and endowing St. graphical, Genealogical, and Poetical DictionaPaul's school, in London, of which he appoint-ry," in 4 vols. folio, a work of very great laed William Lilly first master, in 1512. He or-bour.

dained that there should be in this school a high COLLINGS, John, an eminent textuary and master, a submaster,and a chaplain, who should critic, born in 1623, died 1690. He wrote many teach gratis, 153 children, divided into 8 classes; books of controversial and practical divinity, and he endowed it with lands and houses, a-the most singular of which is "The Weaver's mounting then to 1221. 4s, 7d. halfpenny per an-Pocket-book; or Weaving spiritualized," Svo; rum, of which endowment he made the com- and he had a principal hand in Matthew Poole's pany of mercers trustees. He died September Annotations on the Bible. 16. 1519. COLEY, Henry, an eminent astrologer, in England, died in 1690.

COLIGNI, Gaspard de, a celebrated admiral of France, who bravely supported the cause of the French protestants against the duke of Guise and his adherents; but after several victories gained over their persecutors, was at last basely assassinated by one of the domestics of the duke of Guise, in the beginning of the horrid massacre of Paris, on the eve of St. Bartholomew's day, 1572.

COLLINGWOOD, Cuthbert, lord, a gallant British admiral, the intimate friend of the inmortal Nelson, and his successor in the command of the Mediterranean fleet, which achiev ed the glorious victory of Trafalgar. His lordship was born in the county of Northumberland, in 1750; was created a peer of the realm, withi a handsome annuity, Nov. 29, 1805, and died March 7, 1810, on board his flag ship, the Ville de Paris, off Minorca. He was a man of great, but unobtrusive merit. He commanded a 74 in the battle of the 1st of June, under lord Bowe. In the great battle of Aboukir, he also bore a distinguished part; but it was reserved for the battle of Trafalgar to raise his fure to its highest pitch. His ship, the Royal Sovereign, m which he broke through the rentre of the enemy's line, appeared, as viewed from the VictoCOLLANGE, Gabriel de, a Huguenot, killed ry, which led the other division, a blaze of fire. at the massacre of St. Bartholomews, in 1572. See," said the great Nelson, on viewing it, COLLATINUS, husband of the celebrated"how that noble fellow, Collingwood, carries Lucretia, in conjunction with Brutus, expelled his ship into action. On the death of the forthe Tarquin family from Rome, and established mer lamented hero, he succeeded to the command in chief. Since that great and memoraCOLLE, Charles, a Frenchman, distinguish-ble day, comprising an interval of about four ed as a comic writer, died in 1783.

COLIGNI, Henrietta, daughter of a marshal of France of the same name, celebrated for her poetical productions, died in 1673.

COLLADO, Diego, a Spaniard, superintendent of the convents of the Philippines,and author of a work on the Japanese language.

the consular government.

COLLEGE, Stephen, a protestant mechanic, unjustly condemned in 1681, as engaged in the conspiracy against Charles II.

COLLEONE, Bartholomew, a native of Ber gamo, distinguished for his military successes in the service of the Venetians, died in 1475. COLLET, Peter, a French ecclesiastic, of Ter nay, author of several works on theology and biography died in 1770.

years and a half, his lordship had never set foot upon land; being employed in the arduous and harassing duty of watching the Toulon feet; so that he never took his seat in the house of peers, nor revisited his family or country, after his signal merits had obtained the distinguished honours and rewards that we have stated.

COLLINS, John, a mathematician and arithmetical writer, born at Wood Eaton, near Oxford, 1624, died 16x3.