Gore, Christopher

governor of the State of Ma achusetts, B. at Boston, 1758. In 1789, Washington appointed him the first United States attorney for the district of Ma achusetts; and in 1796 he was selected by the president as the colleague of the celebrated William Pinckney, to settle the American claims upon England for spoliations. In this situation he evinced his wonted energy and talent, and was very succe ful in his mi ion. In 1803 he was left in London as chargé d'affaires, when Rufus King, the American minister, returned to America. In 1809 hel was chosen governor of Ma achusetts, but retained his dignity only for one year. In 1814 he was called to the Senate of the Union, and served in this capacity for three years, when he retired from public affairs. D. 1827. Gore, CATHARINE GRACE, an English novelist, B. in London abt. 1800. She was a rapid and prolific writer, and her works fill about 200 vols. Most of her novels are clever pictures of fashionable life, and they sparkle with wit. She wrote also some poems and plays. Among her best tales are reckoned Cecil , Mrs. Armytage , and The Hamiltons . She was no le celebrated for her wit and brilliant social qualities than for her literary works. During her last years she was blind, and she died in retirement at Linwood, 1861. Gore, a dist. of Upper Canada, on Lake Ontario, comprising the cos. of Halton and Went worth; pop. abt. 45,000. Gore, in Ohio , a post-office of Hocking co. Goree', a town and small island, or rather rock, off the coast of Africa, little more than a mile from Cape Verd. It produces nothing; and its importance is solely derived from its inacce ible situation, on a naked rock of black basalt, rising to the height of 300 feet, Lat. 14° 36′ N., Lon. 17° 22′ W. - This island was first occupied by the Dutch, and afterwards was taken by the French, to whom it was finally ceded by the treaty of Nimeguen. It is now the bulwark of the po e ions of the French in Africa. It is the entrepôt for all the French trade with the opposite coast of Africa. Pop . 6,114, comprising about 100 Europe ans. Gore Island, or St. Matthew, an island in Behring Sea; Lat. 60° 18' N., Lon. 172° 4' W. It is about midway between America and Asia. Gore'ville, in Illinois, a post-office of Johnson co. Gorgansville, in N. Carolina, a village of Rutherford co.