Sr.**, was born at Sabaria, in Pannonia (Stain, in Lower Hungary), in the beginning of the fourth century. He was elected Bishop of Tours in the year 374. To the zeal and charity of a bishop he joined the humility and poverty of an anchorite. That he might detach himself the more from the world, he built the celebrated monastery of Marmoutier, situated near the city of Tours, between the Loire and a steep rock. In this situation St Martin, together with eighty monks, displayed the most exemplary sanctity and the greatest mortification; nor were there any monks better disciplined than those of Marmoutier. Martin died at Candes, on the 8th of November 397, but, according to others, on the 11th of November 400. His name is attached to a particular opinion concerning the mystery of the Holy Trinity. St Martin is the first of the saints confessors to whom the Latin church offered up public prayers. His life is written in elegant Latin by Fortunatus, and also by Sulpicius Severus, who was one of his disciples.

Benjamin**, an eminent artist and mathematician, was born in 1704. After publishing a variety of ingenious treatises, and particularly a scientific magazine under his own name, and carrying on for many years an extensive trade as an optician and globe-maker in Fleet Street, the growing infirmities of age compelled him to withdraw from the active duties of business. Trusting too fatally to what he thought the integrity of others, he unfortunately (though with a capital more than sufficient to pay all his debts) became bankrupt. The unhappy old man, overpowered by this unexpected blow, attempted, in a moment of desperation, to destroy himself; and the wound he gave himself, though not immediately mortal, hastened his death, which happened on the 9th February 1782, in his seventy-eighth year. He had a valuable collection of fossils, and curiosities of almost every kind, which, after his death, were disposed of by auction. His principal publications are, 1. The Philosophic Grammar, being a view of the present state of Experimental Physiology, or Natural Philosophy, 1735, 8vo; 2. A New, Complete, and Universal System or Body of Decimal Arithmetic, 1735, 8vo; 3. The Young Student's Memorial Book, or Patent Library, 1735, 8vo; 4. Description and Use of both the Globes, the Armillary Sphere, and Orrery, 1736, in two vols. 8vo; 5. Memoirs of the Academy of Paris, 1740, in five vols.; 6. System of the Newtonian Philosophy, 1759, in three vols.; Martin, Sr. 7. New Elements of Optics, 1759; 8. Mathematical Institutions, viz. Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Fluxions, 1759; 9. Natural History of England, with a Map of each County, 1759, in two vols.; 10. Philology and Philosophical Geography, 1759; 11. Mathematical Institutions, 1764, in two vols.; 12. Lives of Philosophers, their Inventions, &c. 1764; 13. Introduction to the Newtonian Philosophy, 1765; 14. Institutions of Astronomical Calculations, in two parts, 1765; 15. Description and Use of the Air Pump, 1766; 16. Description of the Torricellian Barometer, 1766; 17. Appendix to the Description and Use of the Globes, 1766; 18. Philosophia Britannica, 1778, in three vols.; 19. Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy, in three vols.; 20. Miscellaneous Correspondence, in four vols.; 21. System of Philology; 22. Philosophical Geography; 23. Magazine complete, in fourteen vols.; 24. Principles of Pump-work; 25. Theory of the Hydrometer; and, 26. Doctrine of Logarithms.

Sr.**, an island in the West Indies, situated between Anguilla and St Bartholomew, in latitude 18° 4' 0" north, and longitude 63° 14' 0" west. It is about fifteen miles in length by twelve at its greatest breadth. The coast is indented with numerous bays, which makes it appear larger than it really is. The interior is mountainous, but the nature of the soil is of secondary importance, as the wealth of the island consists in its salt-pits and salt-water lakes. Salt indeed has been found the most profitable article of export, the annual value of one marsh exceeding L12,000. It first belonged to Spain, from which it was wrested by the French; but the Dutch prevented their entire occupation of the island, and the two powers agreed to divide it between them. The French entered into possession of that part of it which looks towards Anguilla, being the most beautiful and pleasantly situated, whilst the Dutch occupied the most profitable, that which contained the salt-pits and ponds. The result was such as might have been anticipated. The Dutch throve prosperously, whilst the French remained poor and ill provided with the necessaries of life; and they were, besides, repeatedly plundered by the English. In 1801 the island was taken by the British, but it was afterwards restored to the two powers, who have since continued in the possession of their respective portions of it.