" partly starved into a surrender and partly under the jipivrchonsion of s:imc violent proceeding against him," he withdrew to Eng- Jand in 1775. In 1787, he was selected to fill the proposed Episcopal see of iNuva tcoti.i., bat a fatal malady from wliich he was suffering compelled him to decline tlie elevation. He died June 17th 1790, aged 6-1. He left behind him a life of the Rev. Dr. Johnson, 1st president of King's Coll. N. Y., Avhich was printed in IH'Jd.-- Condensed from Haivkins^ Missions.

2JVIYI.E3 Cooper, D.D., was educated at Oxford, where he graduated in 1760. He arrived in New York in 1762, as assistant to Dr. Johnson, of Kings (now Columbia) Coll., in which institution he was appointed Professor of Moral theology. He became president of the College after Dr. J. '3 resignation m 1763. He took considerable interest in the conversion of the Indians, and with a view of promoting that interest, visited England in 1771. After his return he took such a decided part in his writings against the American colonies as to render him obnoxious to the whigs of the day, whose fury, it is said, he narrowly escaped. Hs retired to his native country in 1775, and afterwards becam.e one of the ministers of the Episcopal chapel of Edinburgh, in which city he died on the 1st of May 1785, aged about 50 years. He was the author ofa vol. of Poems; of some Sermons, and maintained whilst in this country a literary character of considerable eminence. Allen. JMrs. Washington's son by her first marriage, was a pupil of Dr. Cooper, of whom Washington, himself, spoke in very handsome terms.