American author and journalist, born in Boston, MA, on the 28th of January 1779. He was educated at Harvard College, and then entered the counting-house of John Codman, with which house he retained connection during most of his life; made several business trips abroad, and in 1805, acting as agent of his brother Frederic, went to the West Indies, where he established the ice trade with tropical countries. In 1823 he was appointed United States consul at Lima, Peru, and in 1827 chargé d’affaires in Brazil. He was the founder of the North American Review (1814), and for a number of years its editor; was the originator of the Bunker Hill monument; was one of the founders of the Boston Athenæum; and an active member of the Anthology Club. Among his publications were Letters on the Eastern States (1820); Miscellanies (1821); Life of James Otis of Massachusetts (1823); and a political allegory called Gebel Teir (1829). He died in Rio Janeiro on the 9th of March 1830.
