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GRANGER, AMOS P. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



que Charles Quint ; " " La Famille Lambert ; " 

 "De Minuit a Quatorze Heures," &c., &c. He 

 also contributed extensively to the literature of 

 the stage. The following are some of his com- 

 edies : " Une Tempete dans une Verre d'Eau ; " 

 "Un Cheveu Blond;" "Le Coucher d'une 

 Etoile " (very popular) ; " La Queue du Chien 

 d'Alcibiade ; " " La Fin du Roman ; " "II faut 

 que Jeunesse se paye : " " Le Gateau des 

 Reines; " " Les Paniers de la Comtesse ; " "La 

 Pluie et le beau Temps ; " " La Goutte de Lait ; " 

 and many others. M. Gozlan also contributed 

 to the Conteur, the Navigateur, the Cent-et-un, 

 the JRevues de Paris, the Deux Hondes, the 

 Brittanique et Contemporaine, the Europe 

 Litteraire, the Journal pour Tous, etc. He 

 had been " Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur" 

 since the 6th of May, 1846, and was promoted 

 " officer " in 1859. A cotemporary writer re- 

 fers to Gozlan as among the most radiant of 

 tbe luminous pleiade of 1830. He had wit, 

 imagination, originality, grace, style. An in- 

 defatigable worker, he attempted every thing 

 and succeeded in every thing. In him were 

 added to the talents of the story-teller that of 

 the brilliant conversationalist, and to those of 

 the dramatic author that of the brilliant im- 

 promsateur. His death was sudden, and, having 

 passed for an Israelite all his life, preparations 

 had been made to bury him with the cere- 

 monies of the synagogue. Two rabbins had 

 sat up with the body all night to recite the 

 prayers of their creed. An hour before the 

 time appointed for the funeral, his son-in-law 

 (M. Duval, the well-known architect) dis- 

 covered, while hunting among his papers, the 

 certificate of his Christian, baptism. The fune- 

 ral was countermanded, the rabbins retired, 

 and the priests were sent for. 



GRANGER, Hon. AMOS P., an American 

 statesman, born in Suffield, Conn., in 1789 ; died 

 at Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1866. He removed 

 to Manlius, Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1811, 

 and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1820, 

 when he took up his residence in Syracuse, and, 

 investing largely in real estate, laid the founda- 

 tion of the liberal fortune he subsequently ac- 

 quired. For several terms he was president of 

 the village corporation. In 1812 he raised and 

 commanded a company of militia which was on 

 duty at Sacketts Harbor, and remained in the 

 militia service several years, attaining the rank 

 of general, by which title he was known in 

 after life. Dnring his whole life he took a 

 deep interest in political affairs. In the Balti- 

 more Convention, which nominated General 

 Scott for the Presidency, he was chairman of 

 the Whig delegation from New York, and had 

 considerable influence upon its action. All 

 measures in the interest of Slavery received his 

 uncompromising opposition. He was a 'lead- 

 ing spirit in the movement which resulted in 

 the organization of the Republican party, and 

 wrote and offered the series of resolutions in 

 the Auburn Convention of 1853, which gave 

 form to that movement. He was the successful 



Republican candidate for-Congress in the Onon- 

 daga district in 1854, and was reflected in 1856 

 by more than six thousand majority. His Con- 

 gressional service was of the most honorable 

 character. He held no public station after retir- 

 ing from Congress, but his interest in the leading 

 public questions continued unabated till the day 

 of his death. In early life he became zealously 

 attached to the Episcopal Church, and by his 

 great liberality, and knowledge of ecclesiastical 

 history did much for the prosperity of that de- 

 nomination in his section of the country. In 

 1856 he was attacked with paralysis, from which, 

 he never fully recovered. 



GREAT BRITAIN, or THE UNITED KINGDOM 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Area, by the 

 latest surveys, 120,879 English square miles. 

 Population, by census of 1861, 29,321,288. The 

 relations between Great Britain and the United 

 States, though not as cordial as they were pre- 

 vious to the war, cannot be said to have been 

 unfriendly. There had been several diplomatic 

 interviews with Mr. Adams, the United States 

 minister, consequent upon the transactions rel- 

 ative to the Shenandoah, and the renewal of 

 the demand for a settlement of the claims 

 against the British Government for the losses 

 caused by the Confederate cruisers to American 

 commerce; but though there was evidently a 

 disposition to look with more favor upon these 

 claims, there was no definite action taken. 

 "When, in consequence of the resignation of 

 the Cabinet in July, a new cabinet was formed 

 in the Conservative interest, the question was 

 necessarily taken up de novo, and though im- 

 mediate action was postponed, the justice of 

 many points in the claims was admitted, and a 

 proposition made for arbitration. The question 

 of civil damages was somewhat complicated 

 and embarrassed for a time by the wholly un- 

 authorized negotiation of an arrangement with 

 the former Confederate agents, Fraser, Tren- 

 holm & Co., by two American agents. The 

 prompt repudiation of this arrangement by the 

 United States Government, though it did not 

 leave matters in quite as good a position as 

 before, still rendered further negotiations on a 

 more equitable basis possible. Meantime other 

 questions, involving indirectly the interests of 

 the two countries, had arisen. Most prominent 

 of these was the trouble growing out of the 

 Fenian organization, and its attacks on Ireland 

 and Canada. In the latter, which was more 

 considerable in its results than the former, 

 though perhaps productive of less excitement 

 on the part of the British Government, the 

 course of the United States Government in a 

 position of extreme difficulty and embarrass- 

 ment was acknowledged by the British Gov- 

 ernment to be fair and satisfactory. (See FE- 

 NIAN BROTHERHOOD.) When, later in the year, 

 Ireland was again threatened by the Fenians, 

 the United States Government was watchful to 

 prevent any violation of the international com- 

 ity. At the same time the Fenians who had 

 been taken prisoners in Canada, and were on # 



