William Martin Leake, an English author, born in 1777, died in Brighton, Jan. 6, 1860. Having entered the army, he was employed on special missions to Asia Minor and other parts of the East, and devoted himself to the exploration of Greece. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, but retired from the service in 1823. He was a zealous champion of the national independence of the Greeks, and endeavored to procure help for them from the English government during the conflict with Turkey. In 1814 he published "Researches in Greece;" in 1821, "Topography of Athens" (2d ed., 1842); in 1824, "Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor;" in 1827, in concert with the Hon. Charles Yorke, " Notices of the Chief Egyptian Monuments in the British Museum;" in 1830, "Travels in the Morea;" in 1835 and 1841, "Travels in Northern Greece;" in 1846, " Peloponnesiaca, a Supplement to the Travels in the Morea;" and in 1854, "Numismatica Hellenica," the appendix to which was published in 1859, shortly before his death. He was assisted in many of his labors by his wife, a daughter of Sir Charles Wilkins. He also wrote several political works on Greece, including a "Historical Outline of the Greek Revolution " (1826).