HUSKISSON, WILLIAM, an able financier and statesman, was born in 1770, at Birch-Moreton, in Worcestershire. After an excellent education at home, he went to Paris to study medicine, which he had chosen as his profession. Accident, however, made him acquainted with Lord Gower, English ambassador in that city, and Huskisson, abandoning medicine, became his private secretary. Connecting himself on his return to England with the Tory party, he held various offices under government, to which he made himself valuable, and indeed indispensable, from his knowledge of business, especially in the department of finance. After the death of Pitt he attached himself to the party of Canning, and distinguished himself by the part he took in the celebrated Bullion Committee, in which he supported and enforced the views of Horner for an immediate resumption of cash-payments by the banks. In 1822 he succeeded Canning as secretary of state. For the remainder of his public history see art. BRITAIN. His death, which took place September 15, 1830, was accidental. At the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway, he was run over by a train, and so severely injured, that he survived but a very short time. A collective edition of his speeches appeared in 1831. They do not exhibit any great eloquence strictly so called; but are distinguished for clear statement, lucid order, close reasoning, and a great mastery of details. The views, without being new or brilliant, are sound and comprehensive, and evidently the result of mature thought and study. The conscientious fulness of the details makes them both instructive and interesting, even to readers of the present day.