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Andre, at Tarrytown, and the statue of Wash- ! Scottish lines, and in organizing the American Epis- 

 ington, for the "Newburg monument, are also his | copal Church in the General Convention of 1789. 

 works. Frank DEXGLEK ; Daniel C. FRENCH, Seabury was an active and efficient prelate, much 



respected for his character and talents. Two vol- 

 umes of his sermons were published 1791 (again 1793 

 and 1815), and a third volume 1798. He died at his 

 home in New London Feb. 25, 1796. Rev. E. E. 

 Beardsley, D.D., published his Life and Correspond- 

 ence (1881). 



SEALSFIELD, CHARLES, was the assumed name 

 of KARL POSTEL (1793-1864), whosj true history 

 was not revealed till after his death. He was born 

 at Poppitz, Moravia, March 3, 1793, and after being 

 educated at Znaym, entered the convent of the 

 Knights of the Cross, and was ordained a priest. 

 His unruly spirit and lively imagination brought 

 him into trouble, and in 1822 he escaped from the 

 convent and found refuge in Switzerland. Under 

 his assume, d name, he soon emigrated to the United 

 States and was employed on newspapers in New 

 York city. In 1820 he visited Germany and En- 

 gland, publishing in the former a description of 

 America and in the latter Austria as it in (1828), 

 which was translated into several languages. In 

 1827 he returned to the United States and after ex- 

 tensive journeys in the Southwest and Mexico, 

 bought a plantation in Louisiana. But the failure 

 of his banker ruined his prospects and he returned 

 to the North. He then published at Philadelphia 

 a novel, Tokiah, or the While Hose (1828), which hu 

 afterwards enlarged in a German edition, Dtr Lfyi- 

 tinie und der Bt)AibUcantr (3 vols., 1833). Meantime 

 he had l>cen employed in journalism at London and 

 Paris and settled in Switzerland, where he is said 

 to have had intimate relations with Queen Hor- 

 tense. His American experiences furnished him 

 with material for many books, which were mostly 

 i written in German, but soon translated into French 

 and English. Among these were Transatlantic 



important representative-) of the new school. TmxUiwj Klrtclxs (1834); The Cabin L'ook; or 



The work of these young men, though, as said KktU-hu of Life in T(xs (1835) ; The Viceroy and 

 before, not by any means entirely faultless, gives tin 'Aristocrats, or Mfxii-oiu 1812 (2 vols. 1835), which 

 promise of a bright future for the plastic art in this is his best work; Pielurexnf Life in both JlcmitylKres 

 country. (F. L. w.) | (2 co?. is:i~) ; jYwi/i and South (1848) ; and Morton, 



SKABURY, SAMUEL (T729-179C), first bishop of, or the Grand Tour (184ti). A collection of his 

 the Episcopal Church in America, was born at Gro- works in German comprising 18 volumes was pub- 

 ton. Conn., Nov. 3D, 1729. He graduated at Yale lished at Stnttgard in 184K. He vi.-ited America 

 in 1748, and studied theology under his father, then again in 1850 and 1859. His plantation in Louis- 

 rector at Iltiinpstuad, L. I. After taking a year's iaua had then become very valuable, but the war 

 medical course at the University of Edinburgh, he . interrupted his returns from it. His last years 

 was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln Dec. were spent in Soleure, Switzerland, where he lived 

 21, 1753, and priest two clays after by the Bishop of like a peasant, yet remained a mystery to his peas- 

 Carlisle in London. Returning home, he did mis- | ant neighbors until his death March 20, 18(54. After 

 i-niary work at New Brunswick. N. J., 1754-56, his hii-tory was revealed by a clergyman of Zurich, 

 was rector at Jamaica, L. I., 1757-07, and then at a monument was erected to hie memory in Poppitz 

 Wi'stchester, N. Y. As was the case with most of; in 1875. His story has been told by Kerlbeny in 

 ihu Episcopal clergy at that time his sympalhies I Erinnf-runytn on Sealsfteld (1864). 



ST. GAUDEXS' " ABRAHAM LINCOLN." 



sculptor of the Minute Man, at Concord, nnd the 

 statues of John Harvard and Lewis Cass ; Howard 

 ROBERTS, known best by the exceedingly bold and 

 striking statues of Lot's Wife and Hypatia ; J. S. 

 HARTLEY, at one time professor at the Art Students' 

 I.e-inue, and Olin I>. WARXER, are among theoiher 



were with the royalists : he became obnoxious to the 

 Whigs through his "Farmer's Letters" reflecting 

 on the Continental Congress, Nov. and Dec. 1774. 

 Withdrawing to New York city, he practised medi- 

 cine fur a time and acted as chaplain of the King's 

 American regiment, 1778. Oxford gave him the 

 drgrce of D.D., 15 Dec. 1777. The Episcopal min- 

 i-4'TS of Connecticut, in session at Woodbury on 

 M ireh 25, 17K3, elected him bishop ; but grave diffi- 

 cult!' s stood in the way of his consecration. The 

 English bishops feared to act without the consent 

 of Parliament, which could not be procured in the 



SEARCH, RIGHT OF. The controversy as to the 

 right of maritime visitation and search 

 XXI 608 l)( ' t . we . en tlic United States and Great 

 (p 638 Am Britain was the natural outcome of the 

 Rep.). change of relationship that they under- 



went as a consequence of the war of 'the 

 Revolution. Long after the colonies had asserted 

 their independence of that power Great Britain 

 claimed that their citizens were her subjects and 

 liable to such demands as she might make upon 

 their property or personal services. The treaty of 

 peace of 1783 changed this relation, but left Great 



case of a foreigner who could not lake the oath of j Britain disinclined to yield to the Americans any- 

 allegiance prescribed by law. After long delay he ' thing that could possibly be claimed in virtue of 

 applied to the Scottish bishops, who were not state 



olli'-ials. and was privately consecrated by three of 

 them at Aberdeen, Nov. 14, 1784, thus procuring 

 the succession for America. Drs. White, Provoost 

 and Madison bavin;; afterward been consecrated in 

 England, he joined them in consecrating Dr. Clag- 

 gett, who thus represented both the Anglican and 



international rights. On the other hand it was to 

 be expected that the United States would take that 

 view of international obligation that would give the 

 largest freedom from intrusions upon her commerce 

 by the powerful navy of her rival, who had been 

 foiled in the effort to make a monopoly of the com- 

 merce of America. 



