. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... e,botli of whom displayed literary talents. He resigned in 1818, and died in born in London, in 1745, and died His best known works are treatises Onthere in 1827. He was instructed in en-| the Police of the Metropolis, and On thegraving by Anthony and William Walker,, Police of the Ri\er Thames. He is alsoattainecl to eminence, and was elected | the author of vaiious tjacts, and of a COL New System of Education for the Poor; aTreatise on Indigence; and a Treatise onthe Populat
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... e,botli of whom displayed literary talents. He resigned in 1818, and died in born in London, in 1745, and died His best known works are treatises Onthere in 1827. He was instructed in en-| the Police of the Metropolis, and On thegraving by Anthony and William Walker,, Police of the Ri\er Thames. He is alsoattainecl to eminence, and was elected | the author of vaiious tjacts, and of a COL New System of Education for the Poor; aTreatise on Indigence; and a Treatise onthe Population, &c., of the British STON, Edw ARD, a munificent andphilanthropic merchant, was born at Bris-tol in 1636, and ac(|iiired a splendid fortunein the Spanish trade. He died in whole life of Colston seems to havebeen devoted to doing good. In privateand public charities, while he lived, he issupposed to have spent more than £150, founded and endowed St. AugustinesSchool, for a hundred boys, at Bristol;and various almshouses and benevolentinstitutions in other places. COM 189. COLUMBUS, Christopher, the dis-coverer of the new world, whose real namewas Colombo, was born in the GenoesetcHTitory in 1441, but whether at Genoa,Savona, Nervi, or Cogoreo, was long amatter in dispute. That it was at Genoais no longer a matter of doubt. It hasbeen asserted that his origin was is of the least possible consequence,or it would not be difficult to produceevidence that he was well descended. Hestudied a while at Pavia, but quitted the uni-versity at an early period to follow a mari-time life. Between thirty and forty yearswere spent by him in voyages to variousparts of the world, during which geometry,astronomy, and cosmography, occupiedmuch of his attention. At length he settledat Lisbon, where he married the orphandaughter of Palestrello, an Italian naviga-tor. His geographical investigations, sup-ported by the evidence of pieces of carvedwood, trunks o
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