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 374 LELAND. and entered the university about 1728, as a sizer. In 1735, he obtained a fellowship, and, by dint of appli cation, he speedily became acquainted with most of the European languages. In pulpit eloquence he also ex celled, but acquired more celebrity by his “Lectures on Oratory.” Dr. Lawson died in January 1759, and his friend Dr. Dunkin wrote some lines on his decease. - JOHN LEARY Is, we think, worthy of insertion as an extraordinary instance of longevity. He had been married to eight wives, by seven of whom he had children; the last he married in his hundred and third year. He lived in the reign of six monarchs. He retained his senses and per fect memory to the last moment, and declared he never suffered a day's illness. He died April 30th, 1812, aged one hundred and twelve. ALICIA LEFANU, A lady of considerable talents and literary attainments, was the wife of Joseph Lefanu, Esq. and sister to the celebrated R. B. Sheridan. She was born in Dorset-street, Dublin, in 1754. She was the author of “The Flowers; or, the Sylphid Queen,” a fairy tale, 1810; and “The Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiment,” a comedy, 1812. She died, much lamented, at her son's house, Phoenix park, Dublin, September 4, 1817. - THOMAS LELAND, A learned divine and translator, was the son of a citizen of Dublin, in which city he was born in 1722. The first rudiments of classical education he received at the school kept by the celebrated Dr. Sheridan. In • 1737, he entered a pensioner in Trinity College; and in