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DAL DALLAS,, first baronet, born at Kensington, on the 6th of April, 1758, was, with his elder brother, afterwards Sir Robert, educated at Geneva. At eighteen, he proceeded to Bengal as a writer in the service of the East India company. Before his appointment to a station at Ramgur, he acquired celebrity by the publication of the first poem issued from the Anglo-Indian press—"The Indian Guide"—a sprightly performance, appropriately dedicated to Anstey, of New Bath Guide notoriety. Attracting the notice of Warren Hastings, he was promoted to the important collectorate of Radgeshay; distinguished himself by his administrative talents; and was warmly recommended by the Bengal authorities to the notice of the court of directors, when, in 1785, his health compelled him to return to England. Before leaving, he made a powerful speech at the first public meeting of a political nature ever held in India—one of the inhabitants of Calcutta to petition against Mr. Pitt's India bill. On his return he was among the delegates who appeared at the bar of the house of commons to present the petition, the prayer of which was supported by his brother Robert, as counsel for the petitioners. On the impeachment of Warren Hastings, he published a pamphlet in defence of his former patron, and soon became an industrious political writer. Mr. Pitt's domestic and European policy commanded his warmest support; and for his pamphleteering services to the cause of "order" at home, and to the advocacy of war with France, he was created a baronet in 1798. Among his publications on Indian affairs may be mentioned—his "Letter to Sir William Pulteney" (1802), in which a partial free trade between India and England was recommended; as well as a vindication of the Marquis Wellesley's wars (1808), and a pamphlet on the Hindoo conversion question, published before the discussions of 1813 on the renewal of the company's charter; "A Letter from a Field Officer at Madras," &c. His latest work was a biographical memoir of his son-in-law, Sir Peter Parker, captain of H. M. frigate Menelaus, who was killed in action on the American coast before the affair of Baltimore in 1814. Sir George sat in the house of commons for some time as member for Newport, Isle of Wight, and was likely to have attained parliamentary distinction, but ill health drove him into private life. He died at Brighton, January, 1833.—(Memoir "from a correspondent" in Annual Biography and Obituary for 1834.)—F. E.  DALLAS,, son of Alexander James, was born at Philadelphia, July 10, 1792; graduated with high honours at Princeton college in 1810; studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to practise in 1813. In this year Mr. Gallatin went to Russia as one of the commissioners to negotiate a peace under the mediation of the Emperor Alexander, and young Dallas accompanied him as his private secretary. He travelled extensively in Europe, and returned next year to the United States, where, after assisting his father for a while at Washington, he resumed the practice of law at Philadelphia. He soon attained a high rank at the bar, especially as a criminal lawyer, and also became active as a politician in the ranks of the democratic party. In 1829 he was appointed district attorney. Two years afterwards he was elected to the United States senate, and took a prominent share in the debates of that interesting period, when nullification, the tariff, and the recharter of a national bank, were the great questions before congress. But he declined a re-election in 1833, and returned to the bar, leaving it again, however, in 1837, when he was appointed ambassador to Russia, a post which he held for two years. In 1844 he was chosen vice-president of the United States, and presided in the senate in that capacity during Mr. Polk's administration, which terminated in March, 1849. In 1856 he was appointed minister to Great Britain, a dignity which he ably sustained during Mr. Buchanan's presidency. He died at Philadelphia on the 31st of December, 1864.—F. B.  DALLAS,, eldest brother of Sir George, on his return from Geneva studied for the bar, and became a member of the temple. An able speaker, he attained considerable practice at Nisi Prius, as well as before committees of the house of commons on election petitions; and this procured him a silk gown. He was one of the counsel for Warren Hastings. He sat in the parliament of 1802, first as member for St Michael's, Cornwall, and again, on being appointed chief-justice of Chester in 1805, for the Kirkaldy burghs. In 1813 he was appointed one of the puisne judges of the court of common pleas, and in November, 1818, he became chief-justice. He resigned the post from ill health in November, 1823, and died on the 25th of December in the following year.—F. E.  DALLAS,, a miscellaneous writer, was the son of a physician of Jamaica, in which island he was born about 1754. Educated in the mother country and for the London bar, he alternated his abode for several years, after arriving at manhood, between Jamaica, England, and the continent of Europe, settling at last in or near London as a man of letters. He wrote novels, poems, histories, and executed many translations from the French, chiefly of memoirs relating to the Revolution of 1789. It is to his connection, however, with Lord Byron that he owes, whether as man or author, his escape from oblivion. His sister was married to the present Lord Byron, the cousin of the author of Childe Harold; and this connection gave rise to an acquaintance with the poet, which was fruitful in results to both. It was to Mr. Dallas that, on his return from the continent. Lord Byron showed the first cantos of Childe Harold, of which he himself thought lightly; and it was chiefly to the more correct appreciation of Mr. Dallas that the publication of the poem was due. The critic was amply rewarded. Lord Byron bestowed on him the purchase-money of Childe Harold and of the Corsair. The only work of Mr. Dallas' which survives, his "Recollections of Lord Byron," was not published until after the death of both poet and reminiscent. Mr. Dallas died 20th November, 1824, in the neighbourhood of Havre.—F. E.  DALLAWAY,, was born in the parish of Philip and St. James, Bristol, on the 20th of February, 1763, and died at Leatherhead, Surrey, on the 6th of June, 1834. From the grammar-school of Cirencester he removed to Trinity college, Oxford, where, it is said, some satirical verses which he had written lost him all chance of academical preferment. He left the university with blighted prospects, and for some time served a curacy in the neighbourhood of Stroud. In 1785 he became editor of Bigland's Collections for Gloucestershire, and in 1789 gave to the world his first publication—"Letters of the late Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry, to Mrs. Sandys, with Introductory Memoirs." Three years later appeared his "Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of Heraldry in England, with Observations on Armorial Ensigns." He was soon afterwards appointed chaplain and physician to the embassy at Constantinople. The fruit of his sojourn in the east was "Constantinople, Ancient and Modern, with Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad," a work pronounced by Dr. Clarke to be the best on the subject. He also communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was a member, an account of the walls of Constantinople. Dallaway was secretary to the earl-marshal in 1797, 1816, and 1824. Meanwhile he obtained considerable preferment in the church. In the latter part of his life he devoted himself to artistic and topographical antiquities. In 1800 appeared "Anecdotes of the Arts in England, or comparative remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, chiefly illustrated by Specimens at Oxford;" three years afterwards, in 5 vols. 8vo, "The Letters and other Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, from her original MSS., with Memoirs of her Life;" and in 1806, "Observations on English Architecture, Military, Ecclesiastical, and Civil, compared with similar buildings on the Continent, including a Critical Itinerary of Oxford and Cambridge, &c., and Historical Notices of Stained Glass, Ornamental Gardening," &c. His last considerable works were entitled "Of Statuary and Sculpture among the Ancients, with some account of specimens preserved in England;" and "William Worcestre Redivivus: Notices of Ancient Church Architecture in the Fifteenth Century, particularly in Bristol, with hints for Practical Restorations." Dallaway was also an occasional contributor to the Retrospective Review and the Gentleman's Magazine. His works are of the old school of criticism, and will not take high rank in that particular department of literature to which they belong.—R. M., A.  DALLERY,, a French organ-builder of eminence in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the father of Pierre Dallery, also an eminent organ-builder. These two builders, jointly with François Clicquot, built some of the finest organs in France. We may instance those of Notre Dame, St. Gervais, St. Nicholas des Champs, St. Sulpice, the chapel at Versailles, the abbey of Clairmarais, &c.—E. F. R.  DALLERY,, a French mechanician, was born at Amiens in 1754, and died in 1835. Dallery appears to have been one of those men of genius whose 