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 BELLEVILLE BELLINI 505 male and 350 female pupils. A daily news- paper (German), and five weeklies, of which two are in German, are published. The St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute (Belleville and Southern Illinois division), and the St. Louis and Southeastern railroads intersect here. BELLEVILLE, chief town of the county of Hastings, province of Ontario, Canada, situated about 50 m. W. of Kingston, on both sides of the river Moira, which here debouches into the bay of Quint6 ; pop. about 8,000. It is a port of entry, and does considerable business in im- ports, and also in the export of lumber, flour, and other agricultural produce. In the vicinity are iron works and quarries of valuable marble. The town is on the line of the Grand Trunk railway, and steamers ply regularly between this point and Kingston and Montreal. BELLEY (anc. Bellied), a town of Burgundy, France, in the department of Am, 38 m. S. W. of Geneya, agreeably situated in a fertile val- ley near the Rh6ne, which is here crossed by a suspension bridge ; pop. in 1866, 4,624. It was a place of note in the time of Julius Ceesar. It was burned by Alaric, was possessed by the dukes of Savoy during the middle ages, and was ceded to France in 1601. The bishopric of which it is still the seat was founded in 412. Lithographic stones are obtained from neigh- boring quarries. BELLIARD, Angustiu Itonlel, count, a French soldier, born at Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou. March 25, 1769, died in Brussels, Jan. 28, 1832! He entered the army with a captain's commis- sion, and being cashiered for having served with Dnmouriez, under whom he had dis- tinguished himself in Belgium, especially at Jemappes, he reentered as a private, fought under Hoche in La Vendee, and in Italy under Bonaparte, acquiring the rank of general on the battlefield of Arcole. He was prominent in the Egyptian campaign, and though obliged to capitulate at Cairo, he was promoted in 1801 to the command of a division, and in 1805 to that of Mnrat's staff. After aiding hi the occupation of Madrid, he remained in com- mand there from 1808 till the Russian cam- paign of 1812, in which he covered himself with glory, especially at the battle of the Moskva. Though severely wounded, he was active in reorganizing the French cavalry after its return to Germany, and lost an arm at Leipsic. Winning new honors at Craonne, he was placed at the head of the cavalry, and received from the emperor, April 3, 1814, the grand cordon of the legion of honor. Louis XVIII. raised him to the peerage, June 4, and to the rank of major general ; but having dur- ing the hundred days served again under Napoleon, he was after the second restoration kept in restraint till June 3, 1816, and deprived of his peerage till March 5, 1819. In March, 1831, Louis Philippe sent him as ambassador to Brussels, where he made himself very useful to the cause of Belgian independence. His towns- men honored him with a monument, and Vi- net published his autobiography {Memoirea du general Belliard, ecrits par lui-meme, 3 vols., Paris, 1834). BELLING, WUhelm Sebastian Tpn, a Prussian soldier, born Feb. 15, 1719, died at Stolpe, Pomerania, Nov. 28, 1779. In 1739 he was a cornet, in 1758 commander of a regiment of hussars, and having been successful in many campaigns, especially in grappling at the head of a small force with the whole Swedish army, he was made major general in 1762, lieuten- ant general in 1776, and received in 1778 the order of the Black Eagle. He was the most famous hussar officer of the seven years' war. His small size and that of his horse made him a target for the enemy ; but his contempt for danger and his lively manners made him a special favorite with Frederick the Great. BELLLGUAM, Rlehard, colonial governor of Massachusetts, born in 1592, died Dec. 7, 1672. He was a lawyer, and one of the original patentees of the colony, to which he removed in 1634. In 1635 he was made deputy gov- ernor, and in 1641 was elected governor in opposition to Winthrop by a majority of sis votes. He was reelected in 1654, and after the death of Endicott was chosen again in May, 1666, and continued in the executive chair till his death, having been deputy governor 13 and governor 10 years. He was chosen major general in 1664, in which year the king sent four commissioners to inquire into the state of the colony, when, according to Hutchinson, Bellingham and others obnoxious to James II. were required to go to England to account for their conduct, but refused, the king being ap- peased by the present of a shipload of masts. His wife having died, in 1641 he married a second time ; an event of which a contempo- rary speaks thus: "A young gentleman was about to be contracted to a friend of his, when on a sudden the governor treated with her, and obtained her for himself." The banns were not properly published, and he performed the marriage ceremony himself. He was prose- cuted for a violation of the law, but at the trial he refused to leave the bench, and sat and tried himself, thus escaping punishment. In his last will he provided that after the decease of his wife and of his son by a former wife, and his granddaughter, the bulk of his estate should be spent for the yearly maintenance " of goodly ministers and preachers " of the true church, which he considered to be that of the Congre- gationalists. This will the general court set aside on the ground that it interfered with the rights of his family. One of his sisters, Mrs. Anne Hibbens, was executed in June, 1656, for witchcraft. BELLINI. I. Jacopo, an early painter of the Venetian school, born in Venice about 1405, died in 1470. He was a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano, and is said to have been taught oil painting, which was then a secret, by Andrea del Castagno, and in turn taught it to his sons, Gentile and Giovanni. Almost all his works