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attention to \ht intercfti and liappincfs of liis faxily. Fro.-n 

 the lime of liis ciuit!:!!/ t''<^ uiiivcrlity till he was coiifidcr- 

 aWy 3'Uaticrd in life, he cii-ja^cd i>i a variety of publica- 

 turns of which the followinq; liil is taken froiii a paper in 

 his o.vn haiul-M-iitiii^^ : " Chrilliairty ('.itliiiA from rhc Re- 

 ligion of N.itiire, i:i ^lirce ])arts, in aiifwer to Clirillfaiiity 

 at oUI as the Creation ;" " 'IVanlhtion of Voltaire's Temple 

 of TaHe ;" " Preface to liis Father's Letters to a Roman 

 Catholic;" " Alteration of Uorrel on the F.piiUes and 

 Onfpcl-i, fn.m a P.inilli to aTrotcilant Book," 2 vols. Svo. ; 

 " Part of the new Edition of Bayl-'i Dictionary in Englilh, 

 corrtcled, with a Tranflatinn of the Latin, and other 

 (Quotations;" " Jarvis'3 Don (Quixote, the Lnnc;iiage 

 thorouj;hly altered and conxfted, and the poetical parts new 

 tr^ndatcd ;" Tranflation of the mottoes of tlie Spertator, 

 r.tinrdian, and Freeholder ;" " Original Poems and Tranf- 

 lations bv John Dr)-den efq., now full colkfted and pub- 

 liftied together, 2 vols. ;" " Tranditions of the quotations 

 in Addifon'j Travels, by him left untranflatcd ;" " the firft 

 a-d third Ohnthiacs, and the four Philippics of Demof- 

 thenrs (bv feveral hands), revifcd and corrected, with a new 

 Trandation of the frcond Olinthiac, the Oration de Pace, 

 and that de Cherfonefo, to which are added all the 

 Arguments of Libanins, and felect notes from Uipia'r," 

 Svo. ; " Lives in the Diog. Brit. ;" " The Bifhops of Lon- 

 don and Winchefter on the Sacrament, compared ;" Her- 

 cules, a mufical Drama ;" " Bibliothtca hiilorico-facra, an 

 hillorical Didionary of all Religions from the Creation of 

 the World to the prtfent time," 1756, 2 vols, folio ; " A 

 Defence of the com.nonly received Doftrine of the human 

 Soul ;" and " A Profpcft of I'uturity, in 4 DilFertations, 

 with a preliminary Difcourfe of the natural and moral 

 evidence of a future State." He alfo left ui manufcript 

 " A fhort View of the Principles upon which Chrilliau 

 Churches require of their refpective Clergy, Subl'cription to 

 eUablillied Articles of Religion," whicii was compol'ed not 

 long before his death. From feveral fugitive pieces found in 

 manufcript among his papers, and two unfinirtied tragedies 

 written at the age of 17, it is interred that he pofleflTcd 

 no inconfiderablc talents for poetry. Biog. Brit. 



Brouchtoh Ijlun;/, in Gi'0';rnphy, an ifland of America, 

 lying at the month of Alata-nalia river in Gtnrgi;', which 

 belonged to the late Henry La.'.rens, efq. The loulh chan- 

 nel, after its feparation from the north, defcends gently, 

 winding by M'Intolh and Broughton iflands, in its way to 

 the ocean through St. Simon's found. 



BaouKiiusiuj, in Biogm/jhy. See Broeckhutsk. 

 Brooncker, or Brounkkr, Vv'^illiam, lord vifcount 

 of Callle Lyons in Ireland, and firft prcfident of the Royal 

 Society after its incorporation, was the fon of fir William 

 Brounker, made vifcount in 1645, ^"^ '^°''" about the year 

 1620. At an early period he manifefted a genius for thofe 

 haathemaiical fciences, in which he afterwards excelled. 

 The place and coarfe of his education are not known ; 

 but in June, 1646, he was created doftor of phyfic at 

 Oxford ; and in 1657 and l^^.S, he corrcfponded on mathe- 

 matical fubjefts with Dr. John Wallis, who publifhed his 

 ktters in the " Commerciuni cpiftolicum," printed at Ox- 

 ford in I<ij3, 4to. In April 1660, he united with the 

 nobility and gentry in fublcribing a declaration, acknow- 

 ledging general Monk to be the reflorer of the laws and 

 privileges of thcfe nations. After the reftoration, he was 

 made chancellor to queen Catharine, and keeper of her great 

 feal, a commifiioner of the admiralty, and mafter of St. 

 Catharme's hofpital near the tower of London. He was 

 alfo an aftive and ufcful member of the Royal Society at its 

 fir.t eftabliftuaent, and held the office of prelident with 



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honour to himfelf, and advantage to the inftitution, for i? 

 years, \i/.. from July li')''3 tiH November 1677. Of his 

 works, notwiihllandiiig his aflivity in promoting literature 

 and feience, there are tew extant. Thefe are " Experiments 

 on the recoiline of Guns," publilhed in Dr. Spratl's Hillory 

 of the Royal Society ; " An algebraical Paper upon the 

 fquaring of the Hyperbula," publilhed in the Philofophieal 

 Traiifactiims (See' Lowlhorp's Abr. vol. i. p. 10, Sic.) ; 

 ** Several Letters to Dr. Jam(;s Ullifr, archbifliop of Ar- 

 magh," annexed to that primate's life by Dr. Parr ; and 

 " A Tiai.'Hation of the Treatife of Dcs Cartes, entitled 

 Mii/ii\e Ccmpi-nJiiim," publiflied without his name, but tn- 

 richcd with a variety of obfervations, which ilicw that he 

 was deeply flcilkd in the theory of the fcier.ce of mufic. 



I,ord Brounker died at his houfe in St. James's ilreet, 

 Welhninftcr, April 5, 1(^)84, and was buried in a vault in 

 the middle of the choir belonging to the hofpital of St. 

 Catharine. Biog. Brit. 



BROUSONNETRA, in Bottiny. See P.\pirius. 



BROUSSE, in Gcngniphy, a town of France, in the 

 departimiit of Puy le Dome, ; 6 leagues E. of Clermont. 



BROUSSON, Claude, in Biography, a French pro- 

 teftant, who was a zealous partizan, and at length a 

 martyr of the reformed religion, was born at Nifmes in 1647, 

 and educated to the law. He exercifed the profcffion of an 

 advocate for 20 years, firll at Caftres and afterwards at 

 Touloufe, with fingular reputation for gencrofity and dif- 

 intereiltdnefs, as well as firmnefs and ability. As he took 

 part in his pleadings with the protellant minillers and 

 churches, an attempt was made to corrupt his integrity by 

 the office of a couufellor's place, which he rejected wkh 

 contempt. It was at his houfe that the deputies of the 

 protellant churches alTemblcd in 1683, and here they con- 

 curred in the refolutiou of continuing to affenible for 

 public worlhip though their churches were demolifhed. 

 The execution of this purpofe was produdtive of many 

 tumults, feditions, and niairacres ; and though they were 

 terminated by an amneily ilTued from the court of Louis 

 XIV., this was accompanied by an order for arrcfting feven or 

 eight perfons, who had been principally concerned in framing 

 the relolution. BroiifTon was one of thefe ; and appre- 

 hending the coufequence, he had previoufly retired to 

 Nifmes ; and as foon as he received the intelligence of the 

 propofed arrcft, he fled to Geneva, and afterwards to 

 Laufanne. At this latter place he publilhed his " State of 

 the Reformed in France," 1684 ; and his >' Letters to the 

 French Clergy in favour of the Reformed Religion," 1685. 

 About this time he was appointed one of the deputies from 

 the principal refugees in Swiflerland, for engaging the 

 protellant powers to intcrell themftlves in favour of the 

 French reformed that were difperfed through Europe. 

 At Berlin, he compofed, by defire of the eleftor of Bran- 

 denburg, his " Letters from the Protellants in France to 

 all other Protellants." From Berlin he went to Holland, 

 and had feveral conferences v.ith the prince of Orange and 

 penfioner Fagel. Afterwards returning to SwifTerland, he 

 printed " Letters to the Roman Catholics;" and, with a 

 view to the more efitftual diftribution of them in France, he 

 ventured, in 1C89, to vifit that country. On his arrival 

 in the Cevennes, he accepted the office of minifter to a- 

 congregation of protellants, which alTembled on the top of 

 a high mountain, and, notwithftanding the various profccu- 

 tions with which he encountered, he continued the exercife 

 of his minillcrial funftioiis in thefe parts for 4 years. In 

 169S, he returned to Laufanne, and from thence removed to 

 Holland, where he printed " A fummary Relation of the 

 Wonders wrought by God in the Cevennes and Lower 



Languedoc, 



