The sketch of his life and character cannot be better concluded than with the following extract of a letter written by the late general Hamilton : " There was something singularly interesting in the character and fortunes of Andre. To an excellent un derstanding, well improved by education and travel, he united a peculiar elegance of mind and manners, and the advantages of a pleasing person. It is said he possess ed a pretty taste for the fine arts, and had himself at tained some proficiency in poetry, music, and painting. His knowledge appeared without ostentation, and em bellished by a diffidence, that rarely accompanies so many talents and accomplishments, which left von to suppose more than appeared. His sentiments were elevated, and inspired esteem; they had a softness that conciliated affection. His elocution was handsome, his address easy, polite, and insinuating. By his merit he acquired the unlimited confidence of his general, and was making a rapid progress in military rank and reputa tion. But in the height of his career, flushed with new hopes from the execution of a project the most benefi cial to his party that could be devised, he is at once cipitated from the summit of prosperity, sees all the expectations of his ambition blasted, and himself ruined. Hamilton's. letter. Collec. of Mass. Hist. Soc. vol. Warren, vol. ii. HosAcK E.: FRANCIS.
mission, Scythia and the neighbouring countries were assigned to the apostle Andrew as the field of his la bours. In his way to that barbarous country, he tra velled through Cappadocia, Galatia, Bithynia, and along the banks of the Euxine sea, instructing the inhabitants in the Christian faith. (Euseb. lib. 3. ch. i.) He after
wards spent several years in travelling over Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly, and Achaia, preaching and pro pagating the gospel, and confirming by various mira cles the truth of the doctrines which he taught. It is said that he founded a Christian church in Constantino ple; and that he ordained the person named by Paul (Rom. xvi. 9.) the beloved Stachys, the first bishop of that place. At length he came to Faux, a city of Achaia, where he gave his last and greatest testimony to the truth of the gospel. .Egeas the proconsul, en raged at his boldly persisting to preach the doctrine of a crucified Saviour, commanded him to join in offering sacrifices to the heathen gods; and upon the apostle's refusal, he ordered that he should be severely scourged, and then sentenced to the death of the cross. That death he cheerfully endured, but not in the usual form : his cross was shaped like the letter X, which froth that circumstance commonly bears the name of St Andrew's cross. To make his death the more painful and linger ing, as a punishment for his invincible patience and constancy, he was fastened to the cross, not with nails, but with cords. Having hung two days, praising God for his martyrdom, and exhorting the spectators to a faith in those doctrines for which he suffered, he is said to have expired on the 30th day of November, but in what year is uncertain. The emperor Constantine caused his body to be removed to Constantinople, and to be interred with great solemnity in a church which he had built in honour of the apostles. See Cave's Lives of the Apostles. (A. F.)