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?Hf, and fortified his dominions, lie turned his arms against Lamp-oons. lie was taken in an ambuscade. 11 is friend Croesus kingl n Lydia was informed of his captivity, and procured his release,j'e lived a few years after he had recovered his liberty. As heMd no issue, he left his kingdom and possessions to Stesagoras thes °u of Cimon, who was ids brother by the same mother. Thejjieinory of Miitiades was greatly honoured by the Dolonci, andLley regularly celebrated festivals and exhibited shows in com-memoration of a man to whom they owed their greatness andPreservation.

M iltiades, the son of Cimon , and brother of Slesagora3 abovementioned, was some time after the death of the latter, who diedWithout issue, sent by the Athenians with one ship to take posses-s 'on of the Chersonesus . At his arrival, Miitiades appearedmournful, as if lamenting the recent death of his brother. Theprincipal inhabitants of the country visited the new governor toCondole with him ; but Miitiades abused their confidence, seizedt-ieir persons, and made himself absolute in Chersonesus . Tostrengthen himself, he married Hegesipyla, the daughter of Olorusking oi the Thracians. His triumph was short. In his third year,>is dominions were invaded In the Scythian Nomades. He tied,but was soon restored to his kingdom. Three years after, he leftL’hersonesus ; and set sail for Athens , where lie was received withSteal applause. At the celebrated battle of Marathon , all thechief officers ceded their power to him ; and by his superior abi-hties, an important victory was gained over the more numerous*°i'tes of the Persians . Some time after, Miitiades was intrusted"’jth a licet of seventy ships, and ordered to punish those islandsMilch had revolted to the Persians . lie was successful at first;but on « siiducn report that the Persian fleet was coming to attackhim, as he was besieging Paros , he raised the siege, and returnedM Athens lie was accused of treason. The falsity of the accti-?atio,rmight have appeared, if Miitiades had been able to comeP'to tiie assembly . But a wound which tie bad received beforemtros detained him at home*, and his enemies, taking advantage®f hi* absence, became more eager in their accusations. He wastoiuiemnt’d to death ; but the rigour of his sentence was retracted011 account of bis great services to the republic, and he was put inprison till lie should pay a fine of fifty talents to tire state. His'•'ability to discharge so great a sum detained him in confinement;hud his wounds becoming incurable, lie died a prisoner about B.L. 489. His body was ransomed by his son Cimon ; who was°.Miged to borrow the fifty talents, to give his father a decent bu-rial. The accusations against him were the more readily believ-ed, because lie had made himself absolute in Chersonesus . But"i condemning the barbarity of the Athenians towards a general,'vho was tiie source of their military prosperity, we must remem-ber tiie jealousy which ever reigns among a free people, and how"’atchful they are in defence of those rights, which they see cvrer.t-e d from otliers by violence. Cornelius Nepos has written the life°f Miitiades, but he confounds the actions of the son of CimonMth those of the son of Cypselus. Herodotus was indisputablybetter informed, and more capable of giving an account of the ex-ploits of men who flourished in his own age, as lie was horn abouts 0t years after the battle of Marathon ; whereas Nepos nourishedy hout 4j0 years after it.

MILTON, John, the most illustrious of the English poets,''’as descended of a genteel family, seated at Milton , in Oxf'ord-s jiire. He was born December 9, 1608, and received his eduea-bon tb-st under a private tutor ; afterwards at London ; in which1118 father had settled as a scrivener. At the age of J7, lie wasSe, it to Christ’s college, Cambridge ; where he made a’great pro-cess in all parts of academical learning. In 1628, lie proceededpt'.B. having performed his exercise ior it with great applause.Ls father designed him for the church ; but young Milton 's at-‘•ehment to tiie Muses was so strong, that it became* impossible to?1 'gage him in any other pursuit, in 1032, lie took the degreeA. M. and retired to the residence oi his parents at Horton,Lolnbrook, in Bucks, where he enriched his mind with tiieChoicest stores of Grecian and Homan, literature : and wrote hisPfieins of Comus, L’Allegro, I! Penseroso, and Lycidas. Aboutp Ve .years afterwards, he travelled into France and Italy ; and atari s became aC q lla ',nted with the celebrated Giotius. Upon hisetuvn be set up a genteel academy in Aidersgate-street, London .n ^41, h e began to write in defence of the Presbyterian party ;

1 and in 1642, he married the daughter of Richard Powell, Esq. ofForest Hill in Oxfordshire ; who being a zealous royalist, she wassoon advised to return to tier relations; which so incensed her’husband, that lie resolved never to take her again, and wrote andpublished several tracts in defence of the Doctrine and Disciplineof Divorce, lie also paid his addresses to another lady ; but thisincident proved the means of a reconciliation with Mrs. Milton ;who purposely threw herself in his way at the house of- a mutualrelation, and on her knees intreated mid received his-forgiveness.This affecting incident made a deep impression on Milton ’s sen-sibility, and enabled him to paint to life the beautiful scene in hisParadise Lost , B. x. v. 940; where describing Adam’s feeling*he says,

“ Soon bis heart relented;

“ Towards her, his life so late and sole delight,

“ Now at his feet submissive in distress.”

In 1G44, be wrote his Tract upon Education ; and the restraint o»the liberty of the press being continued by act of parliament, tie •wrote boldly and nobly against that restraint. In 1641, he pub-lished his juvenile poems; and about two years after, on the deathof his father, he took a smaller house in liig.ii Iiolborn, the backof which opened into Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Here he quietly pro-secuted his studies, till the death of Charles I. on which occasionhe published his Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, m justificationof tiie fact. He was now taken into the service of the common-wealth, and made Latin secretary to the council of state, who re-sol veil neither to write to foreign princes, tfor to receive any an-swers, except in the Latin tongue, which was common to them all.The famous Eixwv Brs<n>.ixti coming out about the same time, Miltoawrote and published his Iconoc.lostes the same year. It was alsoby order of his masters, backed by the reward of 10001. that, in1651, lie published his celebrated piece, intituled, Pro PopuloAuglicaiio Defensio, A Defence of tiie People of England, in an-swer to Salmasius ’s Defence of the King ; which work spread hisfame over all Europe . He now dwelt in a pleasant house, with agarden, in Petty France, Westminster. In 1652, he buried hiswife, who died *not long after the delivery of her fourth child ;and about the same time he lost his eye-sight, by a gutta serena,which had been growing upon him many years. In 1653, Crom-well took the reins of government into his own hands, but retain-ed Milton in his office. His leisure-hours he employed in prose-cuting his studies; wherein he was so far from being discouragedby the- loss of ins sight, that he even conceived hopes this misfor-tune would add new vigour to hit genius; which, in fact, seems tohave been the case. Thus animated,, he again ventured uponmatrimony : and married the daughter of Captain Woodstock ofHackney, who died in childbed about a year after. On the de-position of file protector, Richard Cromwell , and on the return oftiie long parliament, Milton being still.continued secretary, he ap-peared again in print; pleading for a farther reformation of tiielaws relating to religion; and, during the anarchy that ensued, hedrew up several schemes for re-establishing the commonwealth,exerting all his abilities to prevent the return of Charles II . Eng-land’s destiny, however, and Charles ’s good fortune, prevailing,Milton retired to a friend’s house in Bartholomew Close. A pro-secution was intended against him,' but the just esteem to whichIds admirable genius and extraordinary accomplishments entitledhim, had raised him so many friends, even among those of theopposite pavtv, that lie was included in the general amnesty. Thisstorm over, he married his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.Minshail a Cheshire gentleman; and not long after he took ahouse in the Artillery Walk, i his was his last stage: where heresided longer than lie had done any where. lie now ap-plied himself to finish his grand work Paradise .Lost; oneof the noblest poems that ever was produced by human genius.It was published in 1007, ami his Paradise Regained in 1670.After this he published many pieces in prose ; ior which we referour readers to Millar’s Edition of his whole works, in two voE, •4to. 1753. This great man died at his house in Bunhill Fields,.November 10,' 1674, in his GOtlt year. A monument was erectedto his memory, in 1737, in \Y estniinster Abbey, by Mr. Benson.His person was remarkably handsome, but his constitution wastender, and by no means equal to bis incessant studies. Thoughhe had lost great part of his fortune at tiie restoration, yet he diedworth 15001. in money, besides household goods,. lie left behind

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