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 LELAND LELY 333 LELAND, John, an English Presbyterian di- vine, born in Wigan, Lancashire, in 1691, died in Dublin, Jan. 16, 1766. He passed his life as pastor of a Presbyterian congregation in Dublin, and received the degree of D. D. from the university of Aberdeen. Though engaged through life in polemical warfare, he was re- markable for charity and candor. His princi- pal works are: "The Divine Authority of the Old and New Testament" (2 vols. 8vo, 1739-'40); "View of the Principal Deistical Writers that have appeared in England in the Past and Present Century" (1754) ; and "The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Rev- elation" (2 vols. 4to, 1764). LELAND, John, an American clergyman, born in Graf ton, Mass., May 14, 1754, died in North Adams, Mass., Jan. 14, 1841. He was licensed as a Baptist preacher in 1774, and in 1775 re- moved to Virginia, where until 1791, with the exception of occasional visits to the north, he was actively employed in discharging the duties of his office. In February, 1792, he settled in Cheshire, in western Massachusetts, where he resided for the most part until his death. He was a prolific writer, and during his long minis- try preached many thousand sermons, and bap- tized more persons probably than any one of his contemporaries. His occasional sermons, ad- dresses, and essays, together with his auto- biography and additional notices of his life by Miss L. F. Green, were published in 1845 (1 vol. 8vo). He was a man of much eccentricity and shrewdness, and throughout his life took the warmest interest in politics. Toward the close of 1801 he went to Washington to present to Mr. Jefferson a mammoth cheese weighing 1,450 Ibs., as a testimonial of the esteem and confidence of the people of Cheshire in the new chief magistrate. He was firmly attached to the democratic party, and sometimes mani- fested his predilections in his pulpit discourses. LELEGES, an ancient people, who appear in the early traditions of the W. coast of Asia Minor, of the islands of the J2gean sea, and of various countries of Hellas and Peloponnesus, but whose history is involved in great obscurity. They are mentioned in Homer as the allies of the Trojans; Herodotus identifies them with the Carians ; and Pausanias regards them as a part of the latter people. They seem to have been of Pelasgian race, and to have become connected with the Carians after an emigration from the continent of Greece to the islands, whence they followed them to Asia Minor. LELEWEL, Joachim, a Polish historian, born in Warsaw, March 20, 1786, died in Brussels, May 29, 1861. He studied history at Wilna, and was appointed professor of history at Kre- menetz in Volhynia, and afterward at the uni- versity of Wilna. He rose to the first rank among Polish historians, but in 1822 was re- moved for his revolutionary language. Having returned to Warsaw, he was in 1830 elected to the diet, and was a member of the various revolutionary governments which succeeded each other before the events of Aug. 15, 1831. After the fall of Warsaw he went to Paris, where he was placed at the head of a Polish democratic committee, and became involved in controversies with Czartoryski, Bern, and other refugees belonging to the aristocratic party. The committee was dissolved, Lelewel re- moved from Paris by order of the govern- ment of Louis Philippe, and finally, after the failure of several Polish conspiracies in various countries, he was banished from France. He took up his residence at Brussels, where he lectured on history at the new university, and lived a life of self-imposed poverty and inces- sant literary labors. Among his numerous works, in Polish, French, and German, are: a " History of Poland " for the young (Warsaw, 1829); "Treatises on Geographical and His- torical Subjects " (Leipsic, 1836) ; " Numis- matics of the Middle Ages" (Paris, 1836); " Numismatical Studies " (Brussels, 1840) ; " Poland Regenerated " (Brussels, 1843) ; "Po- land in the Middle Ages" (Posen, 1846-'51); " Geography of the Arabs " (Paris, 1851) ; and " Geography of the Middle Ages," with an atlas engraved by himself (4 vols., Brussels, 1852-'7). LELEUX, Adolphc, a French painter, born in Paris, Nov. 15, 1812. He early exhibited land- scapes and genre pictures representing the scenery and life of Brittany, and subsequently excelled in delineating incidents of the revolu- tion of 1848. In his latest pictures he has re- sumed his sketches of Brittany. His brother AKMAND, born in 1818, excels in the same sphere of art; but the scenes of several of his pictures are laid in Switzerland and Italy. The wife of the latter, EMILIE GIRAUP, born in Geneva in 1834, excels as a genre painter. Among her later works are "The Marriage Contract" (1866), "A Supper of Actors" (1868), and " The Singing Teacher " (1869). LELY, Sir Peter, an English painter, born in Soest, Westphalia, in 1617, died in England in 1 680. His family name was originally Van Der Faes, but his father assumed the name of Lely. He was instructed in painting by Peter Greb- ber of Haarlem, and at 20 years of age had ac- quired reputation by his landscapes and por- traits. Visiting England in 1641, he deter- mined to follow the example of Vandyke, and thenceforth devoted himself almost exclusive- ly to portrait painting, in which he soon sur- passed all his contemporaries. The prince of Orange introduced him in 1643 to the notice of Charles I., who sat to him for his portrait. During the commonwealth he remained in Eng- land, and is said to have painted the portrait of Cromwell, who warned him that unless he made a true likeness, with all the roughnesses, pimples, and warts as he saw them, he should not receive a farthing for the picture. At the restoration he became court painter to Charles II., who made him a knight, and he acquired wealth. He excelled in female portraits, and painted a celebrated series of the " Beauties of the Court of Charles II.," preserved at Hamp-