JOHN LEWIS, a premature genius, born at Candiac in the diocese of Nîmes in France, in 1719. In the cradle he distinguished his letters: at 13 months, he knew them perfectly: at three years of age, he read Latin, either printed or in manuscript: at four, he translated from that tongue: at six, he read Greek and Hebrew; was master of the principles of arithmetic, history, geography, heraldry, and the science of medals; and had read the best authors on almost every branch of literature. He died of a complication of disorders, at Paris, in 1726.