He was from infancy remarkable for his attachment to books, and for the rapid progress he made in acquiring classical literature.

At the age of thirteen he entered Princeton, and at sixteen, received the honours of that celebrated seminary.

{ He afterwards applied himself to the study of physic, and in the year 1773, took the degree of doctor of medicine. He then removed to Charleston, South Carolina, and rose to distinguished eminence in his profession.

During our revolutionary struggle he was a decided and active friend of his country, and was one of the earliest and most zealous advocates of American independence.) In every period of the war he wrote and spoke boldly and constantly; and by his personal exertions in the legislature, and in the field, was very serviceable to the cause of American liberty.

In 1782, he was elected a member of the general congress. In this body he was always conspicuous, and particularly exerted himself in procuring relief for the southern states, at that time overrun by the enemy.

In 1785, he was elected president of that august body, and continued for a whole year to discharge with much ability, industry, and impartiality, the important duties of that station..

He is, however, best known as an historian, for which he was well qualified by profound learning and great research.

In 1785, he published a history of the revolution in South Carolina, in two volumes octavo.

In the latter part of this year, he was again elected a member of congress, and finding himself associated with many of the most distinguished heroes and statesmen of the revolution, and having free access to all the records and documents that could throw light on the late war; he began to collect materials for a general history of the revo

lution. He also conferred with Washington, Franklin, and others, and gained from them much valuable information. Thus possessing greater advantages and facilities for procuring materials than any other individual of the United States, and being an eye-witness of many of its events, and a conspicuous actor in its busy scenes, he completed and published in the year 1790, a history of the revolution, in two volumes octavo, which was received with universal approbation.

In 1801, he gave to the world the life of Washington, which is considered as fine a piece of biography as can be found in any language.

In 1808, he published the history of South Carolina, in two volumes octavo.

He afterwards completed a history of the United States to the year 1808, and had not death put a termination to his labours, it was his intention to have brought it down to the end of the late war.

This work has since been brought down to the treaty of Ghent by the Rev. Dr. S. S. Smith, late president of Princeton college, and published.

During his leisure hours for the last forty years of his life, he was employed in preparing for the press a series of historical volumes, which, since his death, have been published in nine volumes octavo, entitled, "Universal History Americanised."

He died by the hand of an assassin, May 8, 1812. As an historian, he is every where to be found the impartial and faithful recorder-the best evidence of which is, the high reputation which his histories sustain throughout this great republic.

Nor is his fame as an historian confined to America. It has found its way to Europe, where he is honoured and respected as the Tacitus of Ame

rica.

His style, free from obscurity or laboured ornament, is distinguished for being chaste and classical, and admirably adapted for history.

As a husband, father, and christian, he was alike exemplary; his habits were those of the strictest temperance. He usually slept four hours, rose before the light, and meditated with a book in his hand, until he could see to read.

He was parsimonious of his time to the highest degree. He, however, never read by the light of a candle with the first shades of the evening, he laid aside his book and his pen-surrounded by his family and friends, gave loose to those paternal and social feelings which ever dwell in the bosom of a good man. )

REDMAN, JOHN, M. D. first president of the college of physicians of Philadelphia, was born in that city, February 27, 1722. After finishing his education, he commenced the study of medicine. He afterwards proceeded to Europe and attended the school at Edinburgh. From thence he went to Paris, where he attended the lectures of that celebrated school, and at length graduated at Leyden, in July, 1748.

He then returned to London, and after passing some time at Gray's hospital, he returned to America, and settled in his native city, where he soon gained great and deserved celebrity.

In the evening of his life he withdrew from the labours of his profession; but it was only to engage in business of another kind.

In 1784, he was elected an elder of the second Presbyterian church, and the benevolent duties of this office employed him and gave him delight.

He died of an apoplexy, March 19, 1808, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.

As a physician his principles were derived from the writings of Boerhaave, but his practice was formed by the rules of Sydenham. He considered

a greater force of medicine necessary to cure modern American, than modern British diseases, and hence he was a decided friend to depletion in all the virulent diseases of our country. He bled freely in the yellow fever of 1762, and threw the whole weight of his venerable name into the scale of the same remedy in the year 1793.

In the diseases of old age he considered small and frequent bleedings as the first of remedies. He entertained a high opinion of mercury, in all chronic diseases. He introduced the use of turbith mineral, as an emetic, in the gangrenous sore throat of 1764.

Towards the close of his life he read the latter medical writers, and embraced with avidity some of. the modern opinions and modes of practice. As a christian, he was eminent.

SULLIVAN, JOHN, LL. D. a major-general in the American army, and president of New-Hampshire, is entitled to honourable distinction among the general officers of the American republic.

Before the revolution he had attained to eminence in the profession of the law in New-Hampshire. But indulging a laudable ambition for military glory, he relinquished the fairest prospects of fortune and fame, and on the commencement of hostilities, appeared among the most ardent patriots and intrepid warriors. He was a member of the first congress, in 1774; but preferring a military commission, he was in 1775 appointed by congress a brigadier-general; and in the following year a major-general. He superseded Arnold in the command of the army in Canada, June 4, 1776, but was soon driven out of that province.

In August following, he took command of a division of the army in the battle on Long-Island, and with lord Stirling was captured by the British.

In September he was exchanged; and was appointed to the command of the right division of the troops, in the famous battle at Trenton, and acquitted himself most honourably on that ever memorable day.

In the battles at Brandywine and Germantown, in the autumn of 1777, he commanded a division, in which he displayed his skill and bravery.

In August, 1778, he was the sole commander of the expedition, which laid siege to Newport, then in the hands of the British; but being abandoned by the French fleet under D'Estaing, who sailed to Boston, he was obliged, with great mortification to himself, to raise the siege. He effected his retreat with so much skill, that it greatly increased his military reputation as a skilful commander.