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after twenty-eight daj's was raised on the ap- proach of Rawdon with 2000 men. The British general, fearing tlmt he would again be cut off from the seacoast by Lee, evacuated the fort, June 29, 1781, and retired upon Charleston, fol- lowed by Greene's army. Then followed the bat- tle of Eutaw Springs, Sept. 8, 1781, in which Lee's legion rendered distinguished service, and when night came on, and the British retreated to Charleston, Lee followed so closely as to capture a large number of Eawdon's rear-guard. He wit- nessed the surrender of Cornwallisat Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781, and soon after resigned his commis- sion and became proprietor of Stratford House by his marriage to his second cousin, Matilda, daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee. He was a dele- gate to the Continental congress from Virginia, 1785-88, and a member of the convention called to ratify the Federal constitution in 1788, and in that bodj% with Madison and Marshall, he opposed the efforts of Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, George Mason, James Monroe, Benjamin Harri- son, and John Tyler to defeat the ratification. He was a representative in the general assembly of the state, 1789-91, and governor, 1792-95. President Wasliington in 1794 commissioned him major-general in command of the U.S troops sent to western Pennsylvania to suppress the insurrection caused by the enforcement of the Federal excise law, and on liis appearance with 15,000 men the insurrectionists were overawed and peace was restored without bloodshed. He was a repi-esentative in the 6th congress, 1799- 1801, and at the close of that congress retired to private life. He married as his second wife, in 1798, Ann Hill, daughter of Charles and Anne Butler (Moore) Carter, of Shirley, Va. He was oppressed by debt the last years of his life, and for a time was confined within the bounds of Spottsylvania county. On July 27, 1812, while he was in Baltimore on a personal business visit to William Hanson, editor of the Federal Republican, the printing office was attacked by a mob, and in the conflict that followed he was left for dead upon the street, where he was found insensible. He was disqualified from military service from the effects of the encounter. He visited the West Indies in 1817 for the benefit of his health and on his way home he stopped at the homestead of General Greene, near St. Mary's, Ga., where he was entertained by Mrs. Shaw, daughter of his old commander, and under whose roof he died. He is the author of : Funeral Ora- tion ujion President Washington (1799), delivered before both houses of congress, in which occur the words, "The man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens ; " and of War in the Southern United States (2 vols.. 1812), revised with additions by his son Ik-niy (1827),

and by his son Robert Edward, with memoir (1869). He died on Cumberland Island, Ga., March 25, 1818.

LEE, Henry, political economist, was born in Beverly, Mass., Feb. 4, 1783 ; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cabot) Lee, grandson of Thomas and Lois (Orne) Lee, and of Jcseph and Elizabeth (Higginson) Cabot, and great '^-grandson of Thomas and Deborah (Flint) Lee. He engaged in foreign and domestic trade, and devoted him- self to the study of political economy and to the collection of commercial and financial statistics. He was the friend and correspondent of the Eng- lish economists McCulloch, Tooke, Villiers and Cobden, by whom he was regarded as an author- ity. He received the eleven electoral votes of South Carolina for Vice-President on the Inde- pendent ticket, wuth John Floyd for President, in 1833. He contributed to the Free Trade Ad- vocate, Philadelphia, and was associated with Albert Gallatin in preparing the memorial and statistical expositions of the effects of the tariff, at the free trade convention in Philadelphia in September, 1831. He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Jackson, of Boston, and their son, Francis L., born Dec. 11, 1823 ; Harvard, A.B., 1843, was colonel of the 44th Massachusetts volunteers in the civil war, and died Sept. 2, 1886. Henry Lee is the author of Boston Reports (1827), which passed through four editions. He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 6, 1867.

LEE, Henry, author, was born in Westmore- land county, Va., in 1787; son of Gen. Henry and Matilda (Lee) Lee. He was a student at Washington college, Lexington, Va., 1806-07, and was major of the 12tli U.S. infantry regi- ment in the war of 1812, serving in the Canada campaign on the staffs of Generals Wilkinson and Izard. At the close of the war he retired to his plantation. On the appearance of William Johnson's " Life and Correspondence of General Greene" (1822), assailing the conduct of hi.s father and of his command. Major Lee prei^ared a defence, entitled, "The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas" (1824). He went to Palermo in 1829, having been appointed by President Jack- son U.S. consul there, but his appointment was rejected by the senate on political grounds, and he returned in 1830. He served as President Jackson's private secretary, and also as secretary of legation to Paris under U.S. Minister Lewis Cass, 1836-37. While in Italy he made the ac- quaintance of the mother of Napoleon I., which led to his undertaking to write a life of that soldier. He is the autlior of : Essays in Support of Andrew Jackson (1828) ; Evidence in Support of Anti-Tariff Memorial to Congress {\m2)\ Ob- servations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1832); Life of Napoleon (vol. I., 1835), subse-