George Bethune English, an American author and adventurer, born in Cambridge, Mass., March 7, 1787, died in Washington, D. C, Sept. 20, 1828. He graduated at Harvard college in 1807, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, but subsequently studied divinity at Cambridge. In 1813 he published "The Grounds of Christianity Examined," a work in favor of Judaism, which was answered by Edward Everett, and by S. Cary. English subsequently edited a western newspaper, and sailed to the Mediterranean as a lieutenant of marines, but resigned his commission, and is said to have professed Mohammedanism. He accepted a commission in the army of Ismail Pasha in 1820, and served as an officer of artillery in an expedition against Sennaar. He afterward became an agent of the American government in the Levant, returned to America in 1827, and took up his residence in Washington. He wrote replies to Mr. Everett and Mr. Cary; a letter to W. E. Chan-ning regarding his two sermons on infidelity (1813); and a "Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar" (London, 1822; Boston, 1823).