David Urqudart, a British author, born at Bracklanwell, county of Cromarty, Scotland, in 1805. He was educated at Oxford, travelled in the East, and in 1835 was appointed secretary of legation at Constantinople. He resigned this office in 1836, returned to England, and charged the Palmerston ministry with Russian tendencies and betrayal of British interests, renewing his attacks from Paris in 1840. He was elected to parliament for Stafford in 1847, but failed of reelection in 1852. He has published " Observations on European Turkey " (1831); "Turkey and its Resources " (1833); "Spirit of the East" (1838); "Exposition of the. Affairs of Central Asia" (1840); "Exposition of the Boundary Differences between Great Britain and the United States" (1840); La crise, ou la France devant les quatre puissances (Paris, 1840); "Annexation of Texas a Cause of War between England and the United States" (1844); " The Pillars of Hercules, a Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco" (2 vols., 1850); "Progress of Russia" (1853); "Recent Events in the East" (1854); and "The Lebanon" (2 vols., 1860).