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CHARLES, an English author; born in London, England, Feb. 10, 1775. He was educated at Christ's 1775. He Hospital. He obtained an appointment was educated at Christ's A in the South-Sea House, in 1789, which he quitted in 1792, for the East India Company, from which he retired in 1825, on a pension of $2,250 per annum. A annum. confirmed bachelor, he resided for the great part of his life with an accomplished sister. Their pleasant house at Islington was the first resort of a most brilliant literary coterie which included Coleridge, Lloyd, Southey, Wordsworth, Dyer, Barton, Leigh Hunt, Procter, and Hood, Godwin, Hazlitt, Talfourd, De Quincy and Manning the theologian. Of his works the most eminent is the "Essays of Elia" (1823). This work was supplemented by the "Last Essays of Elia," in 1833. Lamb was also the author of innumerable essays, poems , etc., contributed to the magazine literature of his day. He died in Edmonton, England, Dec. 27, 1834. is is still that of the latter days he be Id in Paris, Dec. 18, (la-mir-tên), AL-

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