. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... d at work in hissaw-mill; and, fired with indignation,seized his musket and immediately pro-ceeded to Cambridge. He was at thebattles of Bunkers Hill and of Trenton,and achieved a glorious victory at Benning-ton. He rose to the rank of brigadiergeneral, and was throughoutthe war for enterprise and courage. Hodied in 1822. ST.\TIUS,PuBLiusPAPiKius,aLatinpoet, was born, a. v. 61, at Naples, anddied there in his thirty-fiflh year. Hewrote The Thel)aid, which he began before
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... d at work in hissaw-mill; and, fired with indignation,seized his musket and immediately pro-ceeded to Cambridge. He was at thebattles of Bunkers Hill and of Trenton,and achieved a glorious victory at Benning-ton. He rose to the rank of brigadiergeneral, and was throughoutthe war for enterprise and courage. Hodied in 1822. ST.\TIUS,PuBLiusPAPiKius,aLatinpoet, was born, a. v. 61, at Naples, anddied there in his thirty-fiflh year. Hewrote The Thel)aid, which he began beforehe was twenty; Sylva; and two canto:lof The Achilleid, which he did not live tocorrect. STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard,a native of the county of Galway, in Ire- STE imnd, was educated at Montpellier, wherebetook his medical degree; practised inthe island of Grenada, where he becameintimate with Lord Macartney, who madehim his secretary, and took liim to accompanied lordship to China, in1795, as secretary of legation; and on hisreturn he published an Account of the Em-He died in 1801. STE 467. STEELE, Sir Richard, son of thesecretary to tlie duke of Ormond, was bornin 1671, or, according to some accounts,in 1675, at Dublin; was educated at theCharter House, and at Merton College, Ox-ford; and entered the military service, in■which he rose to the rank of captain. TheChristian Hero, which was printed in 1701,was his first production. It was followedby the comedies of The Funeral, TheTender Husband, and the Lying the beginning of Queen Annes reign,he obtained the office of gazetteer, and, in1710, he was made a commissioner of6tamps. The Tatler he began in 1709, andhe subsequently was, in part or in whole,the author of The Spectator, Guardian,Englishman, Spinsster, Lover, Reader, andTheatre. In 1713 he was elected 31. Stockbridge, but was expelled for whatthe house was pleased to consider as afterwards sat for the reign of
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