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patron of every generous and laudable undertaking. 

 In liis own establishments, he paid the utmost atten- 

 tion to the comfort and education of his workers, and 

 there the poor and destitute seldom failed to find an 

 asylum. On one occasion, when a vessel, freighted 

 with Highland families emigrating to America, was 

 driven back on the coast, under circumstances of dis- 

 tress, lie took the greater part under his protection, 

 and established them comfortably at New Lanark. 

 Mr Dale died on the 17th March, 1806. His public 

 exertions in the cause of the poor and uneducated, as 

 well as his private charities, have made his name 

 venerated in the west of Scotland. Mr Dale was the 

 founder of an independent religious sect in Glasgow, 

 which somewhat resembles, in doctrine and practice, 

 the Glassites, and of which little congregations still 

 exist in some parts of Scotland, under the name of 

 Daleites. 



DALE, RICHARD, an American naval commander, 

 was born in Virginia, November 6, 1756. At twelve 

 years of age, lie was sent to sea, and, in 1775, he 

 took the command of a merchant vessel. In 1776, 

 he entered, as a midshipman, on board of the Ameri- 

 can brig of war Lexington, commanded by captain 

 Jolm Barry. In her he cruised on the British coast 

 the following year, and was taken by a British cut- 

 ter. After a confinement of more tlian a year in Mill 

 prison, he eilected his escape into France, where he 

 joined, in the character of master's mate, the cele- 

 brated Paul Jones, then commanding the American 

 ship Bon Homme Richard. Jones soon raised Dale 

 to the rank of his first lieutenant, in which character 

 he signalized himself in the sanguinary and desperate 

 engagement between the Bon Homme Ricliard and 

 the English frigate Serapis. He was the first man 

 who reached the deck of the latter when she was 

 boarded and taken. In 1781 , he returned to America, 

 and, hi June of that year, was appointed to the 

 Trumbull frigate, commanded by captain James Ni- 

 cholson, and soon afterwards captured. From 1790 

 to 1794, he served as captain in the East India trade. 

 At the end of this period, the government of the 

 United States made him a captain in the navy. In 

 1801, he took the command of the American squa- 

 dron of observation, which sailed, in June of that year, 

 from Hampton roads to the Mediterranean. His 

 broad pendant was hoisted on board the frigate Pre- 

 sident. Efficient protection was given by Dale to the 

 American trade and other interests in the Mediter- 

 ranean. In April, 1802, he reached Hampton roads 

 again. He passed the remainder of his life in Phila- 

 delphia, in the enjoyment of a competent estate, and 

 of the esteem of all his fellow citizens. He died 

 February 24, 1826. Captain Dale was a thorough, 

 brave, and intelligent seaman. He was several tunes 

 severely wounded hi battle. The adventures of his 

 early years were of the most romantic and perilous 

 cast. No man could lay claim to a more honourable 

 and honest character. 



DALECARLIA ; a province of Sweden. See Swe- 

 den. 



DALIN, OLOF or OLAUS of ; the father of the Swe- 

 dish literature of the eighteenth century. He exerted 

 much influence by his periodical paper, The Swedish 

 Argus (1733 34), and still more by his spirited 

 ooems, particularly Satires (1729), an excellent poem 

 on the liberty of Sweden (1742), many songs, epigrams, 

 and fables. The best edition of liis poetical works 

 appeared at Stockholm, 1782 83, in 2 vols. He 

 ucquired equal reputation by his able liistory of Swe- 

 den (Stockholm, 1777, 3 vols. 4to, translated into 

 German by Benzelstiema and Daelmert, Greifswalde 

 4 vols., 4to), on wliich account he was appointet 

 historiographer of the kingdom (1756). He also par- 

 ticipated in the foundation of the academy of belles 



ettres by Ulrica Eleonora, 1753. He was born in 

 ,he district of Winberga hi Halland, 1708; and died 

 hancellor of the court of Sweden, in 1763. 



DALKEITH, a parish in the county of Edin- 

 Durgh, extending about four miles in length, and 

 about two or two and a half in breadth. The town 

 of Dalkeith (six miles S.S.E. from Edinburgh,) is 

 capital of the parish, and is finely seated on a 

 ;ongue of land formed by the rivers North and 

 South Esk, the banks of which are fringed with wood 

 and further adorned with elegant villas occupied by 

 amilies of distinction. Among these, upon the site 

 of a castle, for ages the chief seat of the noble family 

 of Morton, stands the mansion of the duke of Buc- 

 ileugh, who is earl of Dalkeith and superior of the 

 whole parish, which, before the abolition of heredi- 

 ary jurisdictions in 1747, was a burgh of regality. 

 The town comprises a spacious, well built street 

 with several inferior streets branching from it. The 

 public buildings and establishments are, the church 

 auilt in the reign of James VI., an elegant stone 

 bridge over the North Esk, an ancient jail, the gram- 

 mar-school, in which many whose reputation stands 

 :iigh in literature commenced their studies, several 

 other good seminaries, a penny-post office, and a com- 

 modious workhouse for the poor. The market here 

 For corn is considered the greatest in Scotland. Po- 

 pulation of town and parish in 1831, 5,586. 



DALLAS, ALEXANDER JAMES, was born June 1, 

 1759, in the island of Jamaica. When quite young 

 le was sent to school at Edinburgh, and afterwards 

 at Westminster. His father was an eminent and 

 wealthy physician in the island of Jamaica. In 

 1781, after the death of his father, he left England 

 for Jamaica. It was found that the whole of Mr 

 Dallas's property was left at the disposal of his 

 widow, who married again, and no part of it ever 

 came to the rest of the family. The subject of this 

 article left Jamaica in April, 1783, and arrived at 

 New York, June 7, and at Philadelphia a week after. 

 June 17, he took the oath of allegiance to the state 

 of Pennsylvania. In July, 1785, he was admitted to 

 practise hi the supreme court of Pennsylvania, and, 

 in the course of four or five years, became a practi- 

 tioner in the courts of the United States. During 

 this period, his practice not being extensive, he pre . 

 pared his Reports for ttie press, and occupied himself 

 in various literary undertakings. He wrote much 

 in the magazines of the day. Of the Columbian 

 Magazine he was at one time editor. His essays 

 will bear a comparison with those of t r s contempo- 

 raries ; and this is no small praise, for Franklin, 

 Rush, and Hopkinson, were of the number. Jan. 

 19, 1791, he was appointed secretary of Pennsylva- 

 nia by governor MifBin. In December, 1793, his 

 commission was renewed. Not long after, he was 

 appointed paymaster-general of the forces that 

 marched to the west, and he accompanied the expe- 

 dition to Pittsburg. In December, 1796, the office ot 

 secretary was again confided to him. While he held 

 this office, he published an edition of the laws of the 

 commonwealth, with notes. Upon the electiolr.o'r 

 Mr Jefferson, in 1801, he was appointed attorney of 

 the United States for the eastern- district of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and he continued in this office until his re- 

 moval to Washington. October 6, he was appointed 

 secretary of the treasury of'the United States. The 

 circumstances under which he entered this difficult 

 situation, the boldness with which he assumed its re- 

 sponsibilities, his energy of character, and the gene- 

 ral confidence and approbation with which his ca- 

 reer was accompanied, belong to the history of the 

 times. March 13, 1815, he undertook the additional 

 trust of secretary of war, and performed with suc- 

 cess the delicate task of reducing the army of th 



