luded to in previous notices, which is here said to have been answered by Mr. Warren.

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and finally on the part of the king himself. In one day the bill was defeated in the House of Lords, and the two Secretaries of State were peremptorily dismissed from office, the king declining a personal interview. Says Prof. Goodrich, CHELLOW (vol. iv., p. 19).—Having the materiin his "British Eloquence:" "The course taken was regarded by all concerned as an extremeS. I." The materials are: 1st. "Memoirs of the als at hand, I proceed to answer the query of measure on the part of the crown, to repel an extreme measure of Mr. Fox, which endangered the rights of the king and the balance of the Constitution. The great body of the people gave it their sanction, and rejoiced in a step which they would have resisted in almost any other case, as an invasion of their rights." Well might the king say, "Georgius triumpho voce popoli."

In view of these facts, it would be interesting to know what direct evidence there is that the token in question had a reference to Washington?

F. P. B.

REV. WILLIAM EYRE, OF SALISBURY, ENGLAND (vol. i., p. 153; vol. iv., p. 183).—Rev. Mr. Eyre, was the son of Giles Eyre, Esq., of Brickworth. His pedigree is given in Burke's "Landed Gentry," vol. i., p. 888. He was a clergyman of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, and was ejected in 1662. Palmer's "Nonconformist's Memorial," vol. ii., p. 511, thus notices him:

"Mr. William Eyre, M. A., of Magd. Hall, Oxford. He held justification from eternity, which occasioned the contest between him and Mr. Woodbridge and Mr. Warren. Being silenced in 1662, for nonconformity, he retired to Melksham, where he had an estate, and died there in Jan., 1670."

The only work of his mentioned in the "Memorial" is the "Vindica Justificationis," &c., al

Bolling family," prepared by Robert Bolling, the Bolling of Chellow" himself, about whom you inquire; 2d. Some memoranda of his descendants, sent me by an intelligent friend, closely connected with the family.

I might condense the answer into much less space; but conceiving that a transcript from the memorials themselves would be more acceptable to your readers, and fall in more with the plan of your publication, I adopt the latter mode of conveying the desired information:

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Extracts from “ Memoirs of the Bolling family."

"The family of the Bollings is very ancient. Robert Bolling, Esq., in the reign of Edward IV., possessed that beautiful seat of Bolling Hall, near the town of Bradford, in Yorkshire (England), where his ancestors, for many generations, had lived in the enjoyment of all the sweets of private life. He died in the year 1485, and was succeeded by many of his descendants by the name of Tristam, Nathaniel, &c., until, at length, this beautiful mansion passed, by succession, into the noble family of the Tempests, &c.

"Robert Bolling, son of John and Mary Bolling (of the Bolling Hall family), who lived in the parish of 'All Halloways,' Tower-street, London, was the first of the name, who settled in Virginia. He was born in that great city, December 26th, 1646, old style, and arrived here (at James Town), on the 2d October, 1660, being then not quite 14 years of age. In the year 1675, he married Jane, the daughter of Thomas Rolfe, and grandaughter, by the father's side, of the Indian princess Pocahontas, who was the daughter of the Indian chief Powhatan...... Robert Bolling had by this, his first wife, only one child, a son, born Jan'y 27, 1676, and named John, John was a cheerful, lively, and sagacious man. He lived at a place called 'Cobbs,' upon the Appomatox river, in the county of Chesterfield, where he carried on, with his countrymen, an extensive and gainful trade, and with the Indians (equally his countrymen), a trade still more so, enjoying at the same time all the pleasures of society, for which no person was better disposed. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Kennon, of Conjurer's Neck, by whom he had a son, also named John, born 20th January, 1700, and several daughters. He died at Cobbs, April 20th, 1729, and was buried there.

"His son John possessed the lively disposition of his father, and without engaging in commerce or any other pursuit than that of a plain country gentleman, he led a life of innocent pleasures and amusements, which his ample patrimony enabled him to do. He was fond of fine horses, hounds, hunting, fishing, fowling, feasting, dancing, &c., and doted on his wife and children. He was twice married,-first to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Lewis of Gloucester, one of the members of the Privy Council, or Council of State, in Vir-tachment on the part of Col. Nicholas. ginia; but she dying a few months after marriage, he next married Miss Elizabeth Blair, on the 1st of August, 1728, O. S. She was the daughter of Doctor Archibald Blair, and niece of the celebrated commissary of that name. By her he had many children, some of whom having died in their infancy, no notice is taken of them. Those who survive him, are: Thomas Bolling, born July 18th, 1735; John Bolling, born June, 1737; Robert Bolling (the author of these memoirs), born August 28th, 1738."

"Col. John Nicholas, of Buckingham, was a contemporary of Col. Robert Bolling and Thomas Jefferson, and said he was intimate with both. Col. Nicholas frequently observed, that if Col. Bolling had lived and applied himself to public affairs, he would have become as distinguished a man as Thomas Jefferson. Without designing any disparagement of Col. Bolling, we may yet be excused if we attribute this high compliment to a want of discrimination, or to strong personal at

"Although Col. Bolling was well qualified for public life, he manifested no desire for political station. Instead of seeking, he shunned office. When strongly urged to become a candidate for the House of Burgesses, he refused peremptorily. Notwithstanding this, and the fact that there were several candidates before the people, Col. Bolling was elected triumphantly. He did not mix among the people, during the canvass, or leave his home on the day of election, yet he received every vote that was given. In due time, he Assembly, but in a few days after it convened, he left home, in good health, to attend the General was taken sick, and died after a brief illness, in (I think) the 32d or 33d year of his age."

Some of Col. Bolling's descendants, I may add

spondent (the present proprietor of "Chellow")— still survive, and occupy a most respectable social position. A son of his, Powhatan, contested a seat in Congress with John Randolph of Roanoke, in 1799, and was beaten by but 3 or 5 votes.

Extract from the communication of a connection of the family, dated Chellow, Nov. 2d, 1858. "Col. Robert Bolling was educated in England, but whether at Oxford or Cambridge, I am unable to say. Returning to Virginia, he married-one of whom, I believe, married my correand settled in Buckingham, at a period when the population was sparse, and in a neighborhood where he found but little congenial society. He was conversant with the Greek, Latin, French, and Italian languages. Possessing a good library, literary in his tastes, and attached to his wife and children, his books and his family consti-spondent to add further, that I find, in one of tuted the principal sources of his enjoyment and happiness. Content with the patrimony which he inherited, he made no effort to accumulate wealth. You are aware, that prior to the Revolution, very few, comparatively, of the country gentlemen of Virginia, bestowed much attention | on their agricultural concerns, and hence they did not become good practical farmers. Like others of that generation, Col. Bolling was an agricultural amateur. He planted a vineyard and attempted to make wine, but his efforts were unsuccessful. He also wrote a treatise on the culture of the grape, and the process of making wine. Nearly thirty years ago, at the request of his son, Mr. L. Bolling, I handed this work to Mr. John S. Skinner, of Baltimore, then editor of the American Farmer. Mr. S., being pleased with Col. Bolling's treatise, published sundry extracts from it, in his valuable journal.

"I understand that Col. Bolling evinced no partiality for fishing or hunting, although fish and deer were then abundant. He liked music, and played well on the violin. He was fond of poetry....

It may not be unacceptable to your correour statutes, the inspiration of the "Vintage of Parnassus," of Bolling of Chellow, as well as his reason for embalming in Bacchanalian verse the grave and eminent historic names, so seeming, strangely introduced into it. It is a law, passed November, 1769, 10th George III., entitled, “An Act for encouraging the making of wine;" and, perhaps, you may think it curious enough to be worth the space an extract from it will occupy. It runs thus:

§ 1. "Whereas the climate, soil, and natural productions of this colony, make it very probable that the most delicious wines might be made here; and it is certain that the introduction of so valuable an article would bring great riches to the people, and give a very favorable turn to the commerce of the mother country; and it appears that Andrew Estave, a native of France, is acquainted with the culture of vines, and hath offered to undertake the management of a vineyard, from which the public may receive great advantage: Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the au

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and at once took high position as a debater.
resigned his place in the Senate in 1842, and re-
turned to his practice in South Carolina.
He became president of the University of the

confrères. But the whigs retained their ascendency only for a short period, and the next session, when the democrats were victorious, he was restored. Chief Justice Taney having been transferred, in 1834, from the office of Attorney-State in 1845, and continued in that position till general to the Treasury Department, Judge Daniel was pressed by President Jackson to accept the vacant post, but he declined. In 1836, Philip P. Barbour was transferred from the Bench of the United States District Court to the Supreme Bench, and President Jackson appointed Judge Daniel to the vacancy. Judge Barbour dying in 1840, President Van Buren made Judge Daniel his successor. He has held the office from that period to the present time.

1851, when ill health compelled him to resign. Since that time he has lived in retirement. Mr. Preston was a singularly eloquent man, and his influence over a popular assemblage was truly electrical. But, while he was ready and fluent, he lacked that solidity and breadth of thought requisite to produce a lasting impression. Hence, while he charmed, he did not convince, and his oratory, therefore, made no lasting impression upon his hearers. In private life he was gracefully natural, amiable, and fascinating, and made many warm, devoted friends. As a rhetorician, he was equalled by few, and surpassed by none.

COL. DANIEL COLEMAN died recently in Danville, Va., at the age of 92. At twelve years of age he was employed as an express by the military commandant at Halifax, N. C., where he THE REV. THEODORE PARKER, was born in lived, to convey general orders, forwarded to him Lexington, Mass., Aug. 21, 1810, and died in by Gen. Lafayette, for the commandant of Penn- Florence, Tuscany, May 10, 1860. His grandsylvania, ordering troops to the rendezvous, near father, John Parker, served in the last French Irvine's Ferry, for the purpose of aiding Gen. war, and commanded his company at Lexington. Greene, then actively retreating before the ad- Theodore was to a great degree self-educated, vancing columns of Cornwallis. He delivered the but entered Harvard in 1830, and after spending orders the troops marched promptly-Greene some years in various places as a teacher, graducrossed the Dan in safety, and Cornwallis, cha- ated at the Theological School, in 1836. He then grined at his escape, wheeled about and returned became Unitarian minister at West Roxbury, but into North Carolina. He was commissioned as in 1841, in a serinon on the "Transient and Percaptain of militia in the 101st Pennsylvania Regi-manent in Christianity," took ground which the ment, in July, 1794; as captain in the 42d Regi-Unitarian body would not indorse, and he hencement, in December, 1795, and successively major and colonel of that regiment, which he commanded previous to and during the war of 1812.

WE learn by telegraph that the HON. WILLIAM C. PRESTON of South Carolina, died on Wednesday, at the capital of that State. Mr. Preston was born in Philadelphia, Dec. 27, 1794, while his father, then a member from Virginia, was attending Congress in that city. His mother, daughter of Gen. Campbell, of King's Mountain renown, was a niece of Patrick Henry. As a student at the University of South Carolina, he was distinguished for his fluency of speech and readiness in debate. In 1812 he graduated, and, returning to Richmond, entered the office of William Wirt, with whom he studied law.

From 1816 to 1819 he travelled in Europe, and was admitted to the bar after his return in 1821, commencing the practice of law in Virginia. He removed to Columbia, South Carolina, in the following year, where he achieved distinction and success at the bar. Two years later he was elected to Congress, where he distinguished himself by his devotion to Free Trade and State Rights. In 1832 he was elected to the United States Senate as the colleague of Mr. Calhoun,

forth stood alone, regarded by many as ultrarationalist and pantheist. He maintained his views with boldness and fearlessness; and by his singular talents, his varied learning, his participation in every movement of the public mind, and in every exciting interest of the day, exercised a wide and powerful influence.

After a visit to Europe in 1843, he was invited to become minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston, and occupied that position from Feb. 16, 1846, till his death.

MAJOR-GEN. THOMAS S. JESUP, U. S. A., was born in Virginia, and entered the United States army, May 3, 1808, as a second lieutenant in the Seventh regiment of infantry. He took an active part in the war of 1812-13-14, and was a participator in the battles of Queenstown, Chippewa, Niagara, and Lundy's Lane. General Jesup at the battle of Chippewa held the rank of major, but for his gallant services he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, by the President. In May, 1818, he was promoted in line of promotion to a brigadier-generalship, and in ten years after, viz., 1828, he was breveted Major-general.

During the Creek war in Georgia and Alabama, in 1836, General Jesup, with his superior

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in rank, General Scott, was actively engaged, the latter having been called from Florida to assist in its termination. A disagreement arose between them, which resulted in a Court of Inquiry on the course of General Scott, who was acquitted. General Jesup afterwards took an active part in the Florida War, displaying marked ability. But he was soon withdrawn from active service in the field to fill the important post of quarter- THIS, the second volume of the Revolutionary master-general, which he held till his death. His Period of Mr. Bancroft's great history, brings the ability in the management of this department-work to the Declaration of Independence; two especially during the Mexican War-is well known. He died at Washington, June 10, 1860.

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more, we are told, will conclude the era with the treaty of Peace. As it proceeds it gains strength with movement. The hand is, if possible, firmer; the principles, if possible, more established as the theory of the work is exemplified by fact. This theory is one of sound rational democratic progress in obedience to a fixed idea of the growth and development of the popular national life. It is seen in the weakness of kings and princes and the strength of the people, who, in obedience to a hidden impulse, work out the conclusions of freedoin and liberty, unfettered by restraint, save such as the very condition of their being and the laws of nature have imposed upon them. History, in Mr. Bancroft's view, is no accident, but a vital growth, and the true working of democracy has never received a happier exemplification than in his pages.

COLONEL JOSEPH PLYMPTON, was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, on the 24th of February, 1787, being the second son of Ebenezer Plympton. His ancestors emigrated from Sudbury, England, in 1635, and founded the town of the same name in Massachusetts. He entered the army in 1812, as a second lieutenant of infantry, and served with credit and distinction throughout the whole of that war, chiefly upon the northern frontier. At the reduction of the army after the peace, Lieutenant Plympton was retained in service. Under the command of Colonel Snelling he was active in establishing military posts on the extreme frontier. In 1840 he was ordered to Florida, where the Seminole war was then raging, and took an active part, under His topics, now that the work has reached the the command of Gen. Worth, in the movements days of our fathers, begin to assume a more perwhich resulted in the subjection of those Indians sonal interest and involve more points of controtwo years later. Major Plympton particularly versial opinion, as they embrace the characters distinguished himself in the battle with the Semi- and acts of men whom it was the necessity of the noles near Dunn's lake, in January, 1842. In time, perhaps, to esteem beyond their deserts. 1846 he received orders to proceed to Mexico The early members of the old Congress and the with his regiment, as lieutenant-colonel of the first officers of the army, were persons whom it Seventh infantry; he commanded it through the was necessary to accept at their full valuation in whole campaign, under General Scott. Colonel the exigency of the occasion, as we receive paper Plympton took an active part in the memorable money in times of financial difficulty without too siege of Vera Cruz, and at the sanguinary battle close a scrutiny of the specie in bank vaults; of Cerro Gordo he led his regiment at the point and as we are grateful when the pressure is reof the bayonet into the main stronghold of the moved and we enjoy a sound currency again, so Mexican army. For his "gallant and meritorious in the general joy of success, our revolutionary conduct" on this occasion, he received the brevet heroes have passed at a uniform standard. Loof colonel, to date from the 18th of April, 1847. cal pride has trumpeted each of its representaHis regiment under his immediate command per- tives a hero, and the title of a general has been made formed desperate service at the battles of Contre- to conquer all deficiencies. A sifting period, ras and Churubusco, in which actions, and par- however, has come at last, and henceforth statesticularly the former, the Seventh infantry took a men and soldiers must rest on their merits. This most prominent part. He resumed command of is Mr. Bancroft's view of the responsibilities of the regiment on the frontiers, between Texas and history; and he would be unworthy of the trust Mexico, in 1853, and remained on duty for a the public has reposed in him, by the large and year, when he was strongly advised by his medi- cordial support given to his work, were he false cal officers to return to the North on account of to it. Indeed, he could receive that growing conhis health. With enfeebled health, but clear and fidence and mental allegiance on no other terins. vigorous intellect, he remained, in or near New He is not looked to deliver eulogies, but to write York until his death, which took place on the history. In our commemorative proceedings5th of June, 1860, at Stapleton, on Staten Island. I anniversary orations, celebrations, and the like