. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . s of ; and these, and many others, provetliat he was not only deeply conversant inbooks, but was a very attentive and sagaciousobserver of nature. In private life he was aman of worth and integrity, unambitious, anddevoted to study and literary conversation. Heresigned his olliee of justice of Chester in 1785,and thenceforth lived in retirement in hischambersinKings-bench-walks, Jimer-Temple,associating ch
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . s of ; and these, and many others, provetliat he was not only deeply conversant inbooks, but was a very attentive and sagaciousobserver of nature. In private life he was aman of worth and integrity, unambitious, anddevoted to study and literary conversation. Heresigned his olliee of justice of Chester in 1785,and thenceforth lived in retirement in hischambersinKings-bench-walks, Jimer-Temple,associating chiefly with his brother benchers,,and amusing himself with superintending theimprovements of the gardens. He died March14, 1800, and was buried in the Templechurch. Gent. Afagazi>ie, March 1800.—A. BARROS, John dos, an eminent Portu-guese historian, was born at VIseo, in 1496,and was educated at the court of king Emanuel,with the royal children. When the infantJohn succeeded his fatlier, Barros was ap-pointed in 1522 to the government of del Mina, on the coast of his return to Portugal three years after, hewas made treasurer of tlie Indies. King John. BAR ( 19 ) BAR <!OiiferreJ upon him the lordship of Paraiba, inBrazil, on the condition of his peopling itwith Portuguese, and expelling tlie native In-dians. He fitted out an expedition for thispurpose, under the command of two of hissons ; but the fleet being almost entirely de-stroyed, the project came to nothing. Bar-ros had not ceased in the midst of public af-fairs to cultivate letters; and he now adoptedthe design of writing the history of the Indies,of which his olhces had given him an intimateknowledge. Me was encouraged in his purposeby the cardinal don Henry, who had tlie prin-cipal management of affairs during the minorityof don Sebastian. Barros assiduously employedhimself in this great work, to wliich he gavedie title of Decadas dAsia, or History ofAsia and the Indies. He published the firs
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