Jesse, (Mem. of the Pretenders I. ; ; 127,) and others confound him with the son of Lord Loyvat, who was baveanee for joining the pretender, and who died in, 1782. i Met in his Political Index II.; 150-1, contains a list of Colonels. in the Army who, "at different periods, sae as Brigadier.Generals in North America and the West Indies since the commencement of the war in 1775," and on p. 151 is the name of ''Srmon Fraser. Died of the wounds received at the battle of Stillwater." He was grand uncle to the celebrated Sir James Mackintosh. Dodsley's Annual Reg., 1780, pp. 218-19, contains an abstract of the cause of Mr. Schreiber, pltff., against Mrs. Fraser, widow of the late Gen'l Fraser ; who died at Saratoga, deft., for damages on a breach of promise of marriage. Verdict for pltff. £600 itditnaledd and costs. We are indebted to Dr. Harris, the polite Librarian of Harvard College, and to other correspondents, for many interesting particulars of the Fraser fara, ; but want of space excludes them at present.

XVI.

MEMOIR

OF THE

Hon. JAMES DUANE,

JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES | , FOR NEW YORK.

Hon. SamvuE. W. JONES.

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. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE HON. JAMES DUANE.

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The subject of this sketch--a prominent and patriotic son of New York--was held in high estimation in his day, and was for near forty years actively engaged in the most important affairs of his country. He obtained the confidence of men of business in very early life, and of the people of New York as soon as they required able and fearless agents to carry on the controversy with the mother country, and retained it not only in the outbreak and vicissitudes of the Revolution, but in the period .of discontent and uneasiness which followed the acknowledgment of our independence by Great Britain, and until his voluntary retirement from public life, several years after the adoption of the present Constitution of the United States.