1862.] (35 LI*unglison. 



beam, received a severe wound, ■which resulted in a permanent scar 

 over one eye. 



Whilst in Richmond, he contributed to the '' British Spy," edited 

 by Mr. Wirt, and wrote amongst other communications, in the year 

 1800, on the Conspiracy of the Slaves in Virginia, and in 1811, on 

 the Roanoke Navigation, which were printed. In the State Legisla- 

 ture, and in Congress, he was most distinguished as chairman or 

 member of important committees, in which his services were highly 

 valued, and he was twice re-elected to Congress. In the year 1822, 

 he published "Essays on various subjects of Taste, Morals, and 

 National Policy, by a Citizen of Virginia," which were so favorably 

 thought of, as was, indeed, his whole course in the Legislature of 

 Virginia, and in Congress, by President Madison, that he urged and 

 obtained his appointment to the Chair of Moral Philosophy and 

 Political Economy in the nascent University of Virginia. 



In the year 1819, after the death of a daughter at an early age, 

 who had given promise of varied excellence, he wrote in Lynchburg, 

 " Recollections of Eleanor Rosalie Tucker." In 1824 appeared " The 

 Valley of Shenandoah," a novel, intended to illustrate the manners 

 of the Old Dominion, which was republished, the writer has been 

 informed, in London in 1825, and in Germany the year after. 



In consequence of the protracted voyage — of fourteen weeks — 

 from England of the vessel in which were the writer of this notice, 

 and two of the professors, the opening of the University of Vir- 

 ginia, which was to have been on the 1st of February, did not take 

 place until April, 1825, when Professor Tucker, the oldest of the 

 professors, and the one most familiar with the habits of the country, 

 was chosen Chairman of the Faculty for the first session. 



During his residence at the University, he engaged in many 

 literary labors. In 1827, he published a work of fiction entitled "A 

 Voyage to the Moon," the evident aim of which was to fulfil for the 

 existing age, what Swift had so successfully accomplished for that 

 which had passed by ; to attack, by the weapons of ridicule, those 

 votaries of knowledge, who may have sought to avail themselves of 

 the universal love of novelty amongst mankind to acquire celebrity, 

 or who may have been misled by their own ill-regulated imaginations 

 to obtrude upon the world their crude and imperfect theories and 

 systems, to the manifest retardation of knowledge. It was reviewed 

 by the writer in the American Quarterly Review for March, 1828. 



In 1837, Professor Tucker published "The Laws of Wages, 

 Profits, and Rent Investigated," and in the same year, his " Life of 



