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Rh upon to act as an envoy between the hostile forces, which he did, passing back and forth under a fiag- of-truce, endeavoring to further negotiations for peace. In Paris, and among the German besiegers, he was looked upon with the greatest curiosity, and, although his efforts at peace-making were un- successful, he secured the lasting respect and con- fidence of both sides. In January, 1875, after his return to this country, he was elected U. S. senator from Rhode Island, and in 1880 was re-elected. He took a leading position in the senate, was chair- man of the committee on foreign affairs, and sus- tained his life-long character as a fair-minded and patriotic citizen. His death, which was very sud- den, from neuralgia of the heart, occurred at his home in Bristol, R. I. The funeral ceremonies as- sumed an almost national character, for his valua- ble services as a soldier and as a statesman had se- cured general recognition, and in his own state he was the most conspicuous man of his time. Burn- side was a tall and handsome man of soldierly bearing, with charming manners, which won for him troops of friends and admirers. He outlived his wife, and died childless. See " Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside," by Benjamin Perley Poore (Providence, 1882).

BURNSIDE, John, planter, b. in Ireland about 1800; d. at White Sulphur Springs. Va., 29 .June, 1881. At the time of his death he was the largest sugar-planter in the United States. He began life in poverty, and his first business engagement was in a country store in Virginia ; but so marked was his ability that he became partner in a large New Orleans house. About 1852 he began to invest money in sugar lands, and eventually owned ten of the finest plantations in the sugar district of Louisiana and the finest residence in New Orleans. In spite of the loss of more than 2,000 slaves, he was among the first to try sugar-planting with free labor on a large scale, and his success had much in- fluence in re-establishing the, broken industries and credit of the south.

BURNYEAT, John, preacher, b. in Crabtreebeek, Cumberland, in 1631; d. in Dublin, 11 July, 1690. He travelled in England and Ireland, and in 1672 came with George Fox to America. His " Truth Exalted in the Writings of that Eminent and Faithful Servant, J. Burnyeat" (1691), is a collection of his expository essays, and his " Memorials " describe the condition of Maryland and the other colonies through which he passed from New England to North Carolina. He was a zeal- ous advocate of the creed and polity of the society of Friends, and suffered much persecution because of his steadfast ministry.

BURPEE, Isaac, Canadian statesman, b. in Sheffield, N. B., 28 Nov., 1825; d. in New York city, 1 March, 1885. He was educated at the county grammar-school, and in 1848 went to St. John, shortly afterward entering into partnership with his brother in the hardware trade. He was first elected to Parliament in 1872 for St. John, N. B., re-elected in 1874, and sworn of the Privy council and appointed Minister of customs in the Macken- zie administration (Liberal), 7 Nov., 1874. He was re-elected in 1878, and holds many offices of honor and public trust.

BURR, Aaron, clergyman, b. in Fairfield, Conn., 4 Jan., 1716; d. 24 Sept., 1757. He belonged to a Puritan family that for three generations had given to church and state men of eminence. He was graduated at Yale in his nineteenth year, having gained one of the three Berkely scholarships, which entitled him to maintenance at the college for two years after graduating. While pursuing his post-graduate studies he was converted, and at once turned his attention to theology. At the age of twenty-two he became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J., where he soon acquired a commanding reputation as a pulpit orator. Here he also established a school for boys, which proved highly successful. He prepared for his pupils a Latin grammar known as the &ldquo;Newark Grammar&rdquo; (1752), which was long in use at Princeton. In later years he published a small work on the &ldquo;Supreme Deity of Our Lord Jesus Christ&rdquo; (new ed., 1791), with an occasional sermon. In 1748, at the age of thirty-two, he became president of the College of New Jersey, but without interrupting his pastoral service. In the summer of 1752 he married Esther, daughter of Jonathan Edwards, of Stockbridge, Mass. In the autumn of 1756 he resigned his charge at Newark and removed to Princeton, where he died from overwork. He left two children, Sarah, b. 3 May, 1754, and Aaron. As scholar, preacher, author, and educator, President Burr was one of the foremost men of his time. To his more solid qualities were added a certain grace and distinguished style of manner, which re-appeared in his son. Though nominally the second president of Princeton, he was practically the first, since the former, Jonathan Dickinson, only served for a few months. He was in a true sense its founder, and the college may be said to be his monument. Six of its presidents are buried in Princeton by his side. &mdash; His son, Aaron, statesman, b. in Newark, N. J., 6 Feb., 1756; d. on Staten Island, N. Y., 14 Sept., 1836. His mother was Esther Edwards, the flower of the remarkable family to which she belonged, celebrated for her beauty as well as for her superior intellect and devout piety. In the truest sense, Aaron Burr was well born. Jonathan Edwards, his grandfather, illustrious as divine and metaphysician, had been elected to succeed his son-in-law as president of Princeton, but died of a fever, resulting from inoculation for small-pox, before he had fairly entered upon his work, Mrs. Burr, his daughter, died of a similar disease sixteen days later. The infant Aaron and his sister Sarah, left doubly orphaned, were placed in charge of their uncle, the Rev. Timothy Edwards, of Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), N. J. A handsome fortune having been bequeathed to them by their father, their education was conducted in a liberal manner; a private tutor was provided, Tapping Reeve, who afterward married his pupil, Sarah Burr, and became judge of the supreme court of Connecticut. A bright, mischievous boy, and difficult to control, Aaron was still sufficiently studious to be prepared to enter Princeton at the age of eleven, though he was not admitted on account of his extreme youth. He was very small, but strikingly handsome, with fine black eyes and the engaging ways that became a fascination in his maturer life. In 1769 he was allowed as a favor to enter the sophomore class, though only in his thirteenth year. He was