The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ce in 1831,minister of the interior in 1833, and governor ofthe Bank of France from 1834 until his retirementfrom public life. ARGUELLES, Augustin, Spanish politician ofthe liberal school, was born at Ribadesella, , 1776, and died in Madrid, March 23, 1844. Hewas one of the committee of the Cortes which drewup the new constitution, but, on the return of Ferdi-nand VII, fell a victim to the reactionary spiritwhich ensued in 1814, was arrested and sentencedto ten years confinement in prison at Ceuta. Fo
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ce in 1831,minister of the interior in 1833, and governor ofthe Bank of France from 1834 until his retirementfrom public life. ARGUELLES, Augustin, Spanish politician ofthe liberal school, was born at Ribadesella, , 1776, and died in Madrid, March 23, 1844. Hewas one of the committee of the Cortes which drewup the new constitution, but, on the return of Ferdi-nand VII, fell a victim to the reactionary spiritwhich ensued in 1814, was arrested and sentencedto ten years confinement in prison at Ceuta. Four-teen persons were condemned with him, and theyexperienced such barbarous treatment that in fouryears three died, two became mad, and the restreceived grievous injuries. But the revolution of1820 restored Arguelles to freedom, and he becameminister of the interior. During the regency he wasappointed guardian of the young Queen Isabella. ARGUS, a genus of gallinaceous birds, to whichthe argus-pheasant belongs, remarkable for magnifi-cence of plumage. The argusisa native of the East. GEORGE DOUGLAS CAMPBELL,DUKE OF ARGYLL. Indies. The sides of the head and neck are destituteof feathers; the tail consists of 12 feathers, of whichthe two middle ones of the male are nearly four feetlong. ARGYLE, capital of Washington County, north-eastern New York, is 45 miles N. of Albany, 7 milesE. of the Hudson River, and has no railway connec-tions. Population 1900, 264. ARGYLL OR ARGYLE, George Douglas Camp-bell, Duke of, was born at Ardencaple Castle, inDumbartonshire, in 19 years of age hepublished a Letter to thePeers, from a Peers Son,written in the interests ofScottish succeeded his fatherin 1847, I^d became atonce an active member ofthe House of Lords. Hewas made lord privy sealin 1853, and had chargeof postal affairs from 1855to 1858. He was hered-itary sheriff of Argyleshire,and was appointed lord-lieutenant in 1864. From 1868 to 1874 he wassecretary of st
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