Andrew Michael Ramsay, known as the chevalier de Ramsay, a Scottish author, born in Ayr in 1686, died in St. Germain-en-Laye, France, May 6, 1743. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, afterward resided for six months with Fénelon at Cambrai, became a Roman Catholic, and was appointed tutor to the duke de Château-Thierry and afterward to the prince de Turenne. Subsequently he had charge for a year at Rome of the education of the two sons of the pretender. He revisited Scotland in 1725, and for several years was an inmate of the family of the duke of Argyll. Returning to France, he was intendant of the prince de Turenne till his death. His largest work is " On the Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion" (2 vols. 4to, Glasgow, 1749). His Voyages de Cyrus (2 vols. 8vo, Paris and London, 1727), by which he is best known, is a palpable imitation of the Télé-rnaque of Fénelon. It was translated into English by Nathaniel Hooke. He also wrote a biography of Fénelon (the Hague, 1723), and one of Marshal Turenne (Paris, 1735), both translated into English.