FLINT, Rev. Tniorrirr, an American clergyman and author, was b., in 1780, at Reading, Mass., and graduated at Harvard college. In 1802, he became minister of the Congregational church in Lunenburg, co. of Worcester in that state, where he remained till 1814. In the following year, he became a missionary for the valley of the Mississippi, where he was engaged in itinerant preaching and teaching a school. In 1825 he returned to the northern states; and in 1826, published his Recollections of Ten Years passed in the Valley of the Mississippi (Boston, 8vo). The same year appeared from his pen a novel, entitled _Francis Berrian, or the Mexican Patriot, purporting to be the auto biography of a New England adventurer who acted a conspicuous part in the first Mex ican revolution, and in the overthrow of Iturbide. In 1828, he issued two works: A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States in the Mississippi Valley (Cincin nati, 2 vols. 8vo); and Arthur Clenning, a novel (Philadelphia, 2 vols. 8vo). Another
novel, George Mason, or the Backwoodsman, and a romance in 2 vols., The Shoshonee Valley, appeared at Cincinnati in 1830. In 1833, he edited several numbers of the Knickerbocker Magazine, and was subsequently editor for three years of The Western Monthly Magazine. His other Works are: Indian Wars in the West (1833, 12mo); Lectures on Natural History, Geology, Chemistry, and the Arts (Boston, 1833, 12mo); translation of Droy's L' Art d'etre Heureuse, with additions by translator; and Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the first Settler of Kentucky (Cincinnatt 1834, 18mo). In 1835, he con tributed to the London Athenaurn a series of sketches of the literature of the United States. He died at Salem, Aug. 16, 1840.—His son, Mi.cAn P. FLINT, published a volume of poetry, entitled The Hunter and other Poems.