esidence and engaged extensively in navigation d foreign trade. At this period he married Elizah Annesley, the sister of his partner: the offng of this connexion was seven children, four of 1 died during infancy, and the three younger to become the parents of a numerous progeny. of his first shipments to Europe consisted of re cargo of wheat; and he frequently remarkt, from its novelty, it was at that time the of much conversation. The port of New eing inadequate to the supply of a full freight e vessel, he was compelled to send her round ladelphia to complete her lading: the average e of wheat was three shillings and four pence, rency, per bushel.-In the prosecution of his ercantile pursuits, which exhibited peculiar perseverance and enterprise, he traversed a great part of the continent of Europe. He was twice in Russia, and visited all her sea-ports from Petersburg to Archangel: he also visited the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and was twice shipwrecked on the coast of Ireland.

In the year 1749, notwithstanding the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, the contest between the English and French colonies relative to boundaries, was revived. The most extensive field of controversy was the vast and interesting plan formed by the French govern

And adhered to her cause

In the darkest hours of her struggles

LEWIS.

FRANCIS LEWIS was born in the month of March, 1713, at Landaff in the shire of Glamorgan, South Wales, where his father was established as a protestant episcopal clergyman. His mother was the daughter of the Reverend Doctor Pettingal, a clergyman of the same profession, in Caernarvonshire, North Wales. He was their only child; but death soon deprived him of his natural guardians, and left him an orphan at the age of four or five years. At this tender stage of life, he was consigned to the care of a maternal maiden aunt, named Llawelling, who resided in Caernarvon. A strong and proud attachment to her country was a peculiar feature in the character of this respectable lady, who appears to have been devoted to every thing connected with the ancient British: hence she took particular pains to render her nephew, in early youth, master of the Cymraeg, or native language of his country; a knowledge of which he retained through the course of

his life: he was also sent to Scotland, where he acquired, in the family of a highland relation, the Gaelic language, which is said to be the oldest and purest dialect of the Celtic.

When young Lewis had arrived at the proper age, he was transferred to the tutelage of a maternal uncle, then Dean of St. Paul's, in London, by whom he was placed at Westminster school, where he completed his education and became a good classic scholar. He then entered the compting-room of a merchant in the city of London, where he served a regular clerkship, and acquired a very extensive and judicious knowledge of commerce, which became the occupation of his future life. When he attained the age of twenty-one years, he came into possession of a moderate amount of property, which he converted into merchandize, and embarked with it for the city of New York, where he arrived in the spring of 1735. Finding that his cargo was too extensive for the New York market, he formed a commercial connexion with Mr. Edward Annesley, a descendant of the ancient Anglesey family, and repaired with a portion of his merchandize to Philadelphia, leaving his partner to dispose of the residue in New York.

At the expiration of two years, he returned to New York, where he permanently established his