WILLIAM, an able critic and scholar, professor of civil law at Haileybury College, was born in 1790. He was educated at Winchester, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge. On the death of Napier he succeeded to the editorship of the Edinburgh Review, chiefly through the influence of Francis Jeffrey, whose only child he had previously married. He contributed to the Review upwards of sixty articles on various subjects. The best known is that on Stanley's Life of Arnold. Empson died at Haileybury, Dec. 10, 1852.