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 of Atreus. Cleonymus left Lacedsemon in anger, and went to solicit Pyrrhus, King of Epirua, to make war against the Lacedaemonians. Pyrrhus came against the city with a large army, but was repulsed. The Spartans, on his approach, had resolved to send the women, by night, to Crete for safety; but Archidamia came, sword in hand, into the senate, complaining that they were thought capable of surviving the destruction of their country. The women laboured all night on the abutments, with the exception of Chelidonis, who put a rope around her neck, resolving not to fall alive into the hands of her husband The city was saved chiefly by the patriotism of women, inspired by Chelidonis. She lived about 280 B. C.  CHELONIS, of Leonidas, King of Sparta, B.C. 491, was the wife of Cleombrutus. Her father was deposed by a faction, which placed Cleombrutus on the throne in his stead. Chelonis refused to share her husband's triumph, and retired with her father into a temple in which he had taken sanctuary. Leonidas, some time after, was permitted to retire to Tagea, whither Chelonis accompanied him.

A change occurring in the feelings of the populace, Leonidas was restored, and Cleombrutus obliged to take refuge, in his turn, in the sanctuary. Chelonis now left her father for her husband. Leonidas repaired, with an armed force, to the sanctuary, and bitterly reproached Cleombrutus, who listened in silence, with the injuries he had received from him. The tears of Chelonis, who protested that she could not survive Cleombrutus, softened Leonidas, and he not only gave his son-in-law his life, but allowed him to choose his place of exile. To the entreaties of Leonidas, that Chelonis would remain with him, she returned a resolute refusal; and, placing one of her children in her husband's arms, and taking the other in her own, she went with him into banishment.  CHEMIN, CATHARINE DU, a French artist, who died at Paris, 1698. She principally excelled in painting flowers. Her husband erected a noble monument to her memory in the church of St. Landry.  CHENEY, HARRIET V. a native of Massachusetts. Her love of literature was developed in childhood, probably owing much to the influence of the taste and genius of her mother, who was the authoress of one of the earliest American novels, "The Coquette, or History of Eliza Wharton." Soon after the subject of our notice left school, she wrote, in conjunction with her sister, "The Sunday School, or Village Sketches," which was published anonymously. It was popular, the edition was soon exhausted, and the authors were solicited to republish it;—but not having secured the copyright, another writer had seized on the book, changed the title to "Charles Hartland," and published it for his own benefit. The next work, "A Peep at the Pilgrims," passed through two editions, and was re-published in London. It is an interesting story of the early settlers of New England, and has lately been re-printed in Boston. "The Rivals of Acadia," was the next; and then for a number of years Mrs. Cheney's time was wholly devoted to her family. The death of