SAN DE, a thriving t. of Texas, on the San Antonio river. at a distance of 110 m. to the s.w. of Austin city. It is growing rapidly in population (which amounted in 1870 to 12,258) 'and In wealth. The place possesses six news . a.pers, -several seminaries, three tlouring--mins, three breweries. etc. San Antonio de /3exar was famous in the conflicts between the Mexican authorities and the American adventurers, , more especially for the indiscriminate slaughter by the former of. col. Crockett' and, his garrison.
13EkAW DISTRICT, or TEttnrrottr, n region of nay. Texas between the Rio Pecos. New.Mexieo, and the Indian territory; pop.. .'70, 1077, about one person to 40 main-Beg. Mit'St of the u.w, part is a high table-land without wood or water; the n.e. and e. por tion is well watered by the streams that run into the Brnzos and the Colorado.
BEtERLAIrD, a district in s . Holland, bounded s. by the Hollandish 1)iep and Haringvliet. It has several thriving villages, of which Old B. has 4620 inhabitants; South 13., 1703; and New 13., 1263; the whole canton, 16,000. The people are engnged in agrieultnre, have many orchards, and grow flax extensively. An.inland shipping trade Is carried on in summer.
BEYLE. 31antE-IIEsutt, 1783-1842; a French soldier and author, better known as " De Stet:lethal," the most celebrated of bis many novas (le plume. lle was about to enter
the polytechnic school, when by &nacelle iris present at the battle of Marengo. Car ried away by enthusiasm, be enlisted as quartermaster of dragoons, rose to be lieutenant, and acted as aid-de-camp to gen. Michaud. After the pence of Amiens, he !elf the army. and led a roving life—sthtlying in Paris, becoming u mercantile clerk in Marseilles, run niug after a beautiful actress, who spoiled his romance by marrying a rich Russian—and. returned to war in the commissariat of Napoleon's ill-fated Russian expedition, where he reinaiued loyal to the fallen emperor. After the restoration he resided in Milan until 1821, when he was suspected of being a French spy, and hastily returned to Paris, remaining there nine years, acquiring Mine as an accomplished writer and !flat' of the, world. In 1880, he was consul at 'Trieste, and afterwards at Civita Vecchia, finally returning to Paris a year before he died. He wrote lives of Haydn, 3Iozart, and Aletastasio; a history of Italian painting; Rome, Naples, and Florence in 1817; a life of Rossini; De l'Autour; au essay on Racine and Shakespeare; and Promenaded dans Maw. Ile wits an admirable conversatiouist, 11111 of auecdote and apt in application.