was chosen secretary. (In 1792, he was appointed judge of probate for the county of Suffolk, and several years afterwards judge of the municipal court in Boston.

He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts historical society. He was also a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He died January 2, 1802. )

MIFFLIN, THOMAS, one of the signers of the federal constitution, and major-general in the army of the United States, was born about the year 1744. His education was intrusted to the care of the Rev. Dr. Smith, provost of the university of Pennsylvania, with whom he was connected in habits of cordial intimacy and friendship for more than forty years. At an early period of our struggles he zealously espoused the cause of his country, and ably advocated the liberties of the people against the usurpations of tyranny.

In 1774, he was elected a member of the first congress.

In 1775, on the organization of the continental army, he was appointed quarter-master-general.

In 1787, he was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, and his name is affixed to that instrument.

In 1788, he succeeded Dr. Franklin as president of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, in which station he continued till 1790. În September, a constitution of this state was formed by a convention, in which he presided, and was chosen the first governor.

In 1794, he contributed not a little by his eloquence and activity to restore order and peace among the insurrectionists of Pennsylvania.

He was succeeded in the office of governor by Mr. McKean at the close of the year 1799, and died at Lancaster January 20, 1800, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. He was an active and zealous patriot, who had devoted much of his life in the service of his country.

MAYHEW, JONATHAN, DD. a learned divine, was born at Martha's Vineyard, October 8, 1720. He was educated at Harvard college, and received the honours of that seminary in 1744. While he was a youth he exhibited marks of an original genius, and such strength of mind as was very uncommon.)

After being occupied for some time in the study of theology, he was ordained the minister of the West church in Boston, June 17, 1747. He soon exhibited a liberality of sentiment and boldness of spirit which excited great surprise.

He spoke with great sensibility against every priestly usurpation over the consciences of men, and with peculiar earnestness in favour of truth and religion. He was an unshaken friend of civil and religious liberty, and the spirit which breathed in his writings, transfused itself into the minds of many of his fellow citizens, and had no little influence in producing those great events, which took place after his death.) He was the associate of Otis and other patriots in resisting the arbitrary claims of Great Britain.

He was a whig of the first magnitude. In his sermon on the repeal of the stamp act, 1766, he remarks. "Having been initiated in the doctrines of civil liberty as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero, and other renowned persons, among the ancients; and such as Sidney

and Milton, Locke, and Hoadley, among the moderns. I liked them; they seemed rational

"And having learned from the holy scriptures that wise, brave, and virtuous men were always friends to liberty; that God gave the Israelites a king in his anger, because they had not sense and virtue enough to like a free commonwealth; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty:" this made me conclude, "that freedom was a great blessing."

He believed it to be his duty to promote the happiness of his brethren in every possible way, and he therefore took a deep interest in political concerns. }

He died suddenly, July 8, 1766. No American author ever obtained higher reputation. He would have done honour to any country by his character, or by his writings./

He possessed superior powers of mind. In classical learning he held an eminent rank. His writings evince a mind capable of making the nicest moral distinctions, and of grasping the most abstruse metaphysical truths. Among the correspondents which his literary character or his attachment to liberty gained him abroad, were Lardner, Benson, Keppis, Blackburne, and Hollis.

His writings are numerous and valuable.

MORGAN, JOHN, M. D. F. R. S. a learned physician, was born in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1735.

In 1757, he was admitted to the first literary honours in the college of Philadelphia, and commenced soon after the study of physic under the care of Dr. John Redman, late president of the college of physicians.

With a view of prosecuting his studies in medicine, he repaired to Europe, and after attending the lectures of the celebrated William Hunter, he spent two years at Edinburgh, where he received the instructions of Munroe, Cullen, Hope, Rutherford, and Whytt. He then published an elaborate thesis upon pus, and was admitted to the degree of doctor of medicine. From Edinburgh he went to Paris, and passed a winter in attendance upon the anatomical lectures of Mr. Sue.

He also visited Holland and Italy, and in both of these countries he was fondly received by the first medical and literary characters. He had the honour of a long conference with the celebrated Morgagni at Padua, and with Voltaire at Geneva. On his return to England he was selected a fellow of the royal society of London. He was also elected a member of the college of physicians of London and Edinburgh. During his absence he concerted with Dr. Shippen the plan of a medical school in Philadelphia, and on his arrival in 1765, was immediately elected professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the college of that city.

In 1769, he saw the fruits of his labours, for in that year five young gentlemen received the first honours in medicine that were conferred in America.

He was active in establishing the American philosophical society in 1769.

In 1775, he was appointed by congress directorgeneral and physician-in-chief to the general hospitals of the American army.

He died October 15, 1789, in the fifty-fourth year of his age.

He published "Tentamen Medicum de puris Confectione," 1763.

MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR, one of the signers of the federal constitution, was born in New-York, about the year 1751.

At the age of twenty-four he commenced his political career as a member of the provincial congress of his native state. He rendered himself conspicuous by taking the lead in all measures conducive to the welfare of his country.

In 1778, he was elected a member of the general congress, and soon after taking his seat in that enlightened assembly, he was appointed one of the committee to report on the treaty which had been negotiated with France. And while a member of that body, the public journals amply bear testimony of the consideration in which his patriotism and talents were held.

After the close of the war he removed to Philadelphia, where he was again called to act in the councils of the nation.

In 1787, he was appointed by the legislature of Pennsylvania a member of the grand convention which met at Philadelphia to frame the constitution of the United States.

In 1792, he was appointed by president Washington minister plenipotentiary to the court of France.

On his return home, he was elected a member of the senate of the United States. In this body he took a distinguished part in the ever memorable debate on the repeal of the judiciary law, to which he was opposed.

He died at his seat near New-York, after a short illness, October 10, 1816.

There are few men to whom we are so much indebted for our independence. His labours were faithful, enlightened, and unwearied.