BUNYAN

John, author of the Pflgrim's Progre , was the son of a tinker, and was bom at the village of Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628. He followed his father's employment, and for some time led a wandering, irregular life. During the dvil war he served as a soldier in the army of the Parliament and the danger to which he was then exposed probably brought him to reflection, in consequence of which his conduct became reformed, and his mind impre ed with a deep sense of the truth and importance of religion. He joined a society of Anabaptists at Bedford, and at length undertook the office of a public teacher among them. Acting in defiance of the severe laws enacted against di enters from the Established Church, soon iSter the Best oration, Bunyan incnired the sentence of transportation, which was not executed, as he was detained in prison more than twelve years, and at last liberated through the charitable interposition of Dr. Barlow, bishop of Lincoln. To this confinement he owes his literary fame, for, in the solitude of his cell his ardent imagination, brooding over the mysteries of Christianity, the miraculous nuratives of the sacred Scripture, and the visions of Jewish prophets, gave birth to that admired religious allegory, the Pilgrim's Progre — a work which, like Bobinson Crusoe, has remained unrivalled amidst a host of imitators. His Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, his other religious parables, and his devotional tracts, which are numerous, are also remarkable, and many of them valuable. There is a curious piece of autobiography of Bunyan extant, entitled Grace abounding to tiie Chief of Sinners. On obtaining his liberty, Bunyan resumed his functions as a minister at Bedford, and became extremely popular. He died during a visit to London in 1688. BUNZLAU. — 1. A town, Pru ia^ in the province of Silesia, on the Bober and the nilway between Frankfort and Bresbiu, 25 miles w. of Liegnitz, with 8817 inhabitants. It is surrounded by a double line of walls, flanked with bastions, and by a deep ditch, and has in its market-place an iron obelisk to the Ru ian general Kuttusov, who died here in 1813. Opitz, considered the father of Grerman poetry, was a native of this Bunzlau. 2. Alt and Juno Bunz- LAU, two towns, Bohemia^ the former 15 miles N.w., and the other 31 miles n.b. of Prague. Alt-Bunzlau, in the circle of Kaundm, and near the right bank of the Elbe, has a collegiate school and a church, much resorted to by pilgrims. Pop. 8063. Jung-Bunzlau, the capital of the circle of Bunzlau, stands on the left bulk of the Iser, is well built, and has an old fort, built by Duke Boleslaa in 973; several churches, a synagogue, a Piarist gymnajsitun, and 8695 inhabitants, duefly engaged in manufacturing cottons, woollens, muslin, soap, and leather. BUONAPARTE. See Bonapabte.