PER 
PER 
a noble opportunity to be popular. On the firft occasion 
he was defended by Erfkine, and was acquitted in confe- 
quence of the ftrenuous Hand of one of the jurymen. 
On the fecond occafion he defended himfelf with great 
ikill, and fo fuccefsfully, that the late lord Ellenborough, 
the judge, charged the jury in his favour. Though he 
never was condemned by a jury of his countrymen, he 
was committed for fome months to Newgate, together 
with Mr. Lambert, the printer of the Morning Chronicle, 
by the houfe of lords, for a paragraph which that illuf- 
trious affembly pronounced a breach ofits privileges. 
Befides the Morning Chronicle, Mr. Perry embarked 
in a fpeculation of Mr. Booth’s for Polygraphic paintings, 
which did not fucceed ; and he afterwards engaged and 
funk much property in fome mills at Merton, by which 
he was haraffed for a confiderable period. The Morn¬ 
ing Chronicle, however, proved an inexhauftible mine of 
wealth, netting for many years from fix to eight and ten 
thoufand per annum, which enabled its proprietor to live 
in a ftyle of the firft refpedlability, and keep the beft com¬ 
pany, for which he was qualified by his mind and manners. 
In profperity Mr. P. did not negledl his family. He 
cherifhed a widowed filler, who married the celebrated 
profeffor Porfon ; and fupported his mother, who died at 
Richmond. He was twice married, and left fix children. 
It merits notice, that Mr. Perry was not lefs diftinguifhed 
by the admirers of black-letter literature, than by the 
public as a jotirnalift ; his library of rare books, at his 
houfe in Taviftock-fquare, being one of the moll valua¬ 
ble and curious in the metropolis. It was lately brought 
to the hammer; and fome of the articles fetched large 
lums of money. 
Mr. Perry’s declining health had long prevented him 
from taking an active part in the bufinefs of his paper; 
and for the laft four months of his life he had refided en¬ 
tirely at a diftance from London. He died at his houfe 
at Brighton, Dec. 4, 1821, having juft entered the 66th 
year of his age; and was interred in his family-vault at 
Wimbledon. Mr. Perry was greatly beloved and re- 
fpedled by his numerous friends ; he was generous and li¬ 
beral to all who flood in need ofhisbounty ; and, while he 
took care that the duties belonging to his extenfive efta- 
hlifhment were punctually fulfilled, he had the rare qua¬ 
lity of fecuring the attachment, as well as the efteem, of 
all thofe who were in his employ. By none will his 
death be more fincerely lamented than by that benevo¬ 
lent body of men, the Freemafons of England, of whom 
he was a mod diftinguifhed member. For many years he 
was P. D. G. M. under the duke of Athol ; and by his 
influence the late duke of Kent was defied G. M. for 
the purpofe of effecting the union, which fhortly after 
his royal highnefs’s eledlion took place, between the two 
focieties of Scotland and England. Mr. Perry was moft 
aCtive in promoting that and all other events which had 
for their objeCt the welfare of the fraternity. See the ar¬ 
ticle Masonry, vol. xiv. p. 492. Of late the declining 
ftate of his health had compelled him to relinquifh the 
more aCtive duties of a mafon ; but his benevolence was 
exerted to the benefit of his lefs opulent brethren, up to 
the latefl period of his exiftence. 
PERRYBAZAR', a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Ghilan, on the Cafpian Sea : two miles north of Refhd. 
PER'SA, in ancient geography, a town of Afia, near 
the Euphrates, and in the vicinity of Samofata. 
PER'SA, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: fixty miles 
call of Bahraitch. 
PER'SA, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Servia, on the Danube: forty-five miles call of Paffa- 
rovitz, 
PER'SAC, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
twenty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Sultania. 
PF.R'SAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Surgooja : ten miles north-north-eaft of Surgooja. 
PER'SAH, a town of Mocaumpour: thirty-fix miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Mocaumpour. 
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PERSAI'N, a town of Pegu, near a river of the fame 
name: 132 miles fouth-weft of Pegu, and 252 fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Aracan. Lat. 16.45. N> Ion. 94. 55. E. 
PERSAI'N, a river of Pegu, which runs from the great 
river Ava into the Bay of Bengal a little to the fouth- 
eaft of Cape Negrais. 
PERSAN'TE, a river which rifes in a fmall lake about 
four miles north-weft from New Stettin, erodes Pomera¬ 
nia, and runs into the Baltic a little below Colberg. 
PERSAW', a town of Pruflia, in Pomerelia : feven 
miles north-well of Marienburg. 
PER'SCHLING, a river of Auftria, which runs into 
the Danube three miles above Tulin. 
PER'SCHLING, a town of Auftria, on a river of the 
fame name: eight miles fouth-weft of Tulin. 
PERSCOVA'RI, a town of Walachia: eight miles 
fouth-weft of Braticovani. 
To PERSCRI'BE, v. a. [from the Lat. per, through, 
and fcribo, to write.] To write out to the end. Cole. 
PERSCRUTA'TION, f [from the Lat. per, through, 
and fcruto, to fearch.] A thorough fearch. Cole. 
PER'SE, f. [perhaps from Perfian .] A ffcy colour. 
Scott. 
PER'SE, adj. Sky-coloured, having a bluilh-grey co¬ 
lour. Chaucer. 
PERSE-BRID'GE, is on the Tees, weft of Darlington, 
Durham, where it is faid that priells were formerly fta- 
tioned to officiate for the devotion of travellers, as well 
as of the neighbours, in a chapel, the ruins of which re¬ 
main, near to the bridge. This would tempt one to think 
the original name of this place was Prieft’s Bridge, efpe- 
cially if it be true, as tradition fays, that the old bridge, 
which was of wood, was replaced with one of ftone, by 
two neighbouring priells. A Roman altar, befides urns, 
coins, arid other marks of antiquity, has been found here j 
and it is fuppofed that here the Roman highway from 
Catrick entered this county. 
PERSE'A, J'. in botany. See Laurus. 
To PER'SECUTE, v. a. [perfecuter , Fr. perfecutus, 
Lat.] To harafs with penalties ; to purfue with malig¬ 
nity. It is generally ufed of penalties inflidled for opi¬ 
nions.—I perfecuted this way unto the death. A6ls xxii. 4. 
—To purfue with repeated aits of vengeance or enmity. 
—They might have fallen down, being perfecuted of ven¬ 
geance, and fcattered abroad. WiJdurn, xi. 20. 
Relate 
For what offence the queen of heaven began 
To perfecute fo brave, fo juft, a man ! Dryden. 
To importune much : as, He perfecutcs me with daily fe¬ 
licitations. 
PERSECU'TION, f. [Fr. perfecutio, Lat.] The adl or 
pradlice of perfecuting.—-The deaths and fufferings of 
the primitive Chriftians had a great Ihare in the converfion 
of thofe learned Pagans who lived in the ages of perfecu - 
tion. Addifon. 
Heavy perfecution (hall arife 
On all who in the worlhip perfevere 
Of fpirit and truth. Milton's P. L. 
The ftate of being perfecuted.—Our necks are under per¬ 
fecution; we labour, and have no reft. Lam. v. 5. 
Persecution is any pain or afflidlion which a perfon 
defignedly inflidls upon another; and, in a more reftrained 
fenfe, the fufferings of Chriftians on account of their re¬ 
ligion. Hiltorians ufually reckon ten general perfecu- 
tions; the firft of which was under the emperor Nero, 
31 years after our Lord’s afeenfion ; when that emperor, 
having fet fire to the city of Rome, threw the odium of 
that execrable adtion on the Chriftians, who under that 
pretence were wrapped up in thefkins of wild beads, and 
worried and devoured by dogs; others were crucified, 
and others burnt alive. The fecond was under Domi- 
tian, in the year 95. In this perfecution St. John the 
apoftle was fent to the ifle of Patmos, in order to be em- 
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