American journalist and author, born in Baltimore, MD, in 1784; educated at the Roman Catholic College, Baltimore, and at the Jesuit College, Georgetown, District of Columbia. In 1811 he began the publication of The American Review of History and Politics, the first quarterly issued in the United States. In 1819 he established the National Gazette in Philadelphia, which he published till 1836. He also edited the Magazine of Foreign Literature and the American Review. He removed to Paris in 1837, and was United States consul from 1845 to 1851. He died in Paris on the 7th of February 1859. He wrote prefaces to an edition of the English poets, in fifty volumes, and biographical sketches for the Encyclopædia Americana. While in Paris he was the correspondent of the Journal of Commerce and the National Intelligencer. Among his publications are Letters on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government (1810), four editions of which were republished in England; Correspondence (with R. G. Harper) Respecting Russia (1813); Appeal from the Judgment of Great Britain Respecting the United States (1819); and Didactics: Social, Literary and Political (1836).
