. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. to advance some distance in front of the American line, totake possession of a logdiouse, situated between the two armies; theenemy advancing and firing, the company was ordered to set fire to thehouse and retreat, which order was executed. On coming out of, and a few paces from the house, Mr. Creys cap wastaken off, and two of his comrades knocked down by a rocket from theBritish. They, however, recovered, an<l he, between the fire of botharmies, with the balls whistling aroun
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. to advance some distance in front of the American line, totake possession of a logdiouse, situated between the two armies; theenemy advancing and firing, the company was ordered to set fire to thehouse and retreat, which order was executed. On coming out of, and a few paces from the house, Mr. Creys cap wastaken off, and two of his comrades knocked down by a rocket from theBritish. They, however, recovered, an<l he, between the fire of botharmies, with the balls whistling around him, reached the American sidewith difiiculty. Mr. Crev is one, and perhaps now, the oldest of the association of thedefenders of Baltimore; and, like the sturdy oak on the banks of thestream, entwined with the ivy around, still lives in the enjoyment of theblessings of the domestic circle, so fully imparted by the kind attentionsof his amiable and venerated partner of fifty-three years, and as a strongexemplification of the fact that he who trusts in God, and does His holywill, will not be deserted by ra-ved V BiatreSoB! ^ FROFESSOROrmmCIimS&IlidCTICE Or or FOE wnsswGTatf mnyERsmr. oiSiLLiiMOitE. Mdiai^xj ^Twravo^ forSuiarapiuoai/Sheahai of JOHN C. S. MONKUR, OF BALTIMOUE, MARYLAND. 435 JOHN C. S. MONKUR, PROFESSOR OF PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND CLINICALMEDICINE IX THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE. Dr. Johnson observes, in the Life of Sydenhaiii, that there is no in-stance of any man, ^whose hfe has been minutely narrated, that did not inevery pai-t of it discover the same proportion of intellectual vigor. Theremay be exceptions to this rule, but the biography of Doctor Monkur doesnot furnish one; on the contrary, like the illustrious physician whose lifeDr. Johnson is presenting, the subject of our notice furnishes a strikingproof of the fact. ^ * Dr. John Cavendish Smith Monkur was born in Baltimore, December31st, 1800; his parents were o
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