of
Secretary of the Navy, which office he held (being continued by
President Monroe) until he resigned, in November, 1818, when he was
succeeded by Smith Thompson, afterwards judge of the Supreme Court. In
1823 he was chosen a member of Congress from Essex South District, and
was continued by his constituents in that station until 1831--eight
years. He was in Congress when John Quincy Adams was elected President
of the United States, by that body; he participated in that election by
giving his vote for Mr. A., and was a zealous supporter of his
administration, acting subsequently with the whig party. He was
repeatedly, at different periods of his life, a member of the state
legislature, and although not distinguished for eminent talents, in all
the stations which he filled he enjoyed, in a high degree, the public
confidence.

PROFESSOR ANSTEY, lately connected with St. Mary's College, at
Wilmington, died in the early part of February. He was dismissed from
his station on account of intemperate habits, but continued his
dissipation until reduced to the utmost destitution, wandering about
homeless and friendless. He was discovered at length in an almost frozen
state, in an old hovel, with a bottle of whiskey by his side, and soon
died from the effects of his suffering. Professor Anstey was a young man
of fine classical attainments, and was the author of a work published a
year or two since in Philadelphia, entitled, "Elements of Literature, or
an introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and Belle Lettres."

DONALD MCKENZIE, born in Scotland, June 15, 1783, died on the 20th of
January, at Mayville, in New-York. At the age of seventeen he came over
to Canada and joined the North West Company, and continued eight years
with them. In 1809 he became one of the partners with the late John
Jacob Astor, in establishing the fur trade west of the Rocky Mountains,
and with Mr. Hunt, of St. Louis, made the overland route to the mouth of
the Columbia River, a feat then rarely attempted, and full of perils,
and remained at Astoria until it was surrendered by McDougal to the
British. He converted every thing he could into available funds, which
he carried safely through the wilderness to Mr. Astor. Washington
Irving, in "Astoria," narrates a few of Mr. McKenzie's adventures on the
frontiers, although the friends of McKenzie claim that injustice has
been done him by Mr. Irving, relative to the betrayal of Astoria. They
contend that t