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solemn occasions in Westminster Abbey. It is supposed that he died about the year 1604. [J.M.] MORNINGTON, GARRETT WELLESLEY, earl of, father of the duke of Wellington, acquired considerable celebrity for his musical compositions. He showed an early liking for music, and became, for an amateur, a very tolerable violinist. Here in Cool Grot,' is the most admired of his vocal works. The university of Dublin conferred upon him their degree of Doctor in Music. Born in Meath about the year 1720, died in 1781. [J.M.] MORRIS, C., an Engl. song-writer, 1739-1832. MORRIS, L., a Welch antiquary, 1702-1765. MORRISON, ROBERT, the famous Chinese scholar and missionary, was born of humble parents at Morpeth, in Northumberland, 1782, and was sent to Canton by the London Missionary Society in 1807. From this period to 1824 he was resident in China, and translated into that language the four Gospels, and the greater part of the Epistles. He wrote also numerous important works to facilitate the study of the Chinese tongue, the principal of which is his Dictionary, printed by the East India Company at a cost of £15,000. In 1824 Dr. Morrison visited England. In 1826 he returned to Canton, and died there 1834.

MORTIMER, JOHN, an English gentleman, known as a writer on husbandry, died 1736. His son, THOMAS, vice-consul in the Austrian Netherlands, known as a writer on commercial and miscellaneous subjects, 1730-1809.

MORTIMER, J. H., an English artist, 1741-79. MORTIMER, ROGER, earl of, the paramour of Queen Isabella, b. in Wales 1287, executed 1330. MORTON, C., a learned antiquarian, 1716-99. MORTON, JAMES, earl of. See DOUGLAS. MORTON, JOHN, archbishop of Canterbury, and cardinal, distinguished as a statesman and partizan of the house of Lancaster, was born in 1410. He rose in dignity through several succeeding reigns, from that of Henry VI. to Henry VII., having escaped the hands of Richard, however, in this interval, and fled to the continent, where he joined the earl of Richmond. Died 1500.

MORTON, R., a medical writer, died 1698. MORTON, THOMAS, a learned prelate of the same family as the fam. Card. Morton, 1564-1659. MORTON, THOMAS, a drama. wr., 1764-1838. MOSELEY, BENJAMIN, an English physician, experienced in the West Indies, author of a professional work on Dysentery, and of two Treatises o Coffee and Sugar, died 1819.

MOSS, ROBERT, chaplain to William III., and a sharer in the Bangorian controversy, 1666-1729. His nephew, CHARLES, successively bishop of St. David's and of Bath and Wells, d. 1802. CHARLES, son of the latter, bishop of Oxford, died 1811.

MOSSOM, ROBERT, an Irish prelate, d. 1679. MOSSOP, HENRY, an Irish actor, 1729-1773. MOTHERBY, G., an Eng. physician, 1731-93. MOTHERWELL, W., a Scotch poet, 1798-1835. MOTTLEY, JOHN, son of Colonel Mottley, an adherent of James II., known as the biographer of Peter the Great and Catharine of Russia, and the alleged author of 'Joe Miller's Jests,' 1692-1750.

MOUFET, or MUFFET, THOMAS, a physician of London, distinguished as a professional writer and naturalist, died about 1604.

MOUNTAGUE, or MONTAGUE, RICHARD, a learned prelate, distinguished for his knowledge of ecclesiastical antiquities, and known to history as the personal friend and associate in principle of Archbishop Laud, 1578-1641.

MOUNTFORT, WILLIAM, a dramatic writer and actor, assassinated by his rival in love, Capt. Hill, after marrying Mrs. Bracegirdle, 1659-1692. MOXON, JOSEPH, a map maker and writer on navigation, mathemat., astrono., &c., 1627-1700. MOYLE, WALTER, a classical schclar, member of parlia., and wr. on politi. economy, 1672-1721. MOYSES, DAVID, page to King James, and author of a diary, published as 'Memoirs of Scottish History, 1573-1630.

MUDGE, ZACHARY, a dissenting minister, who afterwards entered the Church of England, author of Sermons, &c., died 1769. THOMAS, his son, distinguished for his improvement of the chronometer, 1715-1794. JOHN, brother of the latter, a physician and professional writer, most distinguished for his improvement of the reflecting telescope, died 1793. WILLIAM, son of John, an officer in the army, and an employé in the trigonometrical survey, 1762-1820.

MUDIE, ROBERT, a famous writer on natural history, and contributor to magazine literature, born in Forfarshire 1777, died in indigent circumstances 1842.

MUGGLETON, LODOWICKE, the principal of two enthusiasts, (his companion being John Reeve), who in the year 1651, announced themselves as the two last witnesses, and went from place to place, denouncing with great violence all whom they regarded as false professors of religion, and even magistrates and persons in authority. Their principal attacks were directed against the Quakers and Ranters, some of whom replied to them in writing. The first publication of Muggleton is entitled A Remonstrance from the Eternal God: declaring several Spiritual Transactions unto the Parliament and Commonwealth of England, unto his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell, the Council of State, the Council of War, and to all that love the second appearing of the Lord Jesus, the only wise God and everlasting Father, Blessed for ever.' This pamphlet was first printed in 1653, and was republished in 1710, with a portrait of the author, the subscription to which gives the true date of his life-Dyed the 14th of March 1698, then aged eighty-eight years, seven months, and fourteen days.' Muggleton is depicted with long thin hair, low forehead, protruding brow, broad high cheek bones, and what physiognomists would call the aggressive nose. The exposition of his doctrines is given in his work called 'The Divine Looking-Glass,' published 1656, and his followers formed a sect which has survived to the present times. His fanaticism was perfectly sincere, and he more than once suffered imprisonment for the vigorous manner in which he prosecuted his 'Commission.'

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MUNDAY, A., a dramatic writer, died 1633. MUNDEN, JOSEPH SAUNDERS, a comic actor, distinguished for humour, born in London, 1758. He was intended by his parents for the medical profession; but, disliking it, he was next apprenticed to a law-stationer. Here having learned to copy, he was originally engaged to write out the parts for the performers, and thus introduced to the histrionic profession, was sometimes permitted to tread the stage as mute, and at length joined a strolling company at Rochdale, Lancashire. In 1780, he was engaged as low comedian at the Canterbury theatre. It was not, however, until 1790 that he made his debût in London, when he appeared at Covent Garden, as Sir Francis Gripe, in The Busy Body,' and Jemmy Jumps, in 'The Farmer.' Transferred in 1813 to Drury Lane, he continued there till 31st May, 1824, when he retired. Old Dornton in The Road to Ruin,' was one of his most successful characters. Munden indulged in broad grimace, but added to his humour a pathos which was sometimes irresistibly touching. Unlike most actors, he was distinguished in private life by his economical habits, and accumulated a large fortune. He died 6th February, 1832, in Bernard Street, Russell Square, where he had long resided. [J.A.H.] MUNRO, ALEXANDER, M.D., the son of Dr. Alexander Monro, professor of anatomy in the university of Edinburgh, was born at Edinburgh on the 20th of May, 1733, and after having been carefully educated as an anatomist, he was associated with his father in the chair of anatomy in the year 1755, and ultimately succeeded him in that charge. This chair he held for the remainder of his life, which was terminated on the 2d of October, 1817, when he had attained to the eighty-fifth year of his age. He is generally known in medical biography as Munro Secundus, and, with his father, contributed largely to the establishment of the fame of the Edinburgh school of medicine; but though a skilful anatomist and physiologist, he could lay no claim to the possession of the inventive powers and the original genius of the Hunters, with both of whom he was contemporary, and with the elder of whom he maintained a bitter, but now forgotten, controversy on the origin of the lymphatics. [J.M'C.] MUNRO, SIR T., gover. of Madras, 1760-1827. MUNSTER, COUNT, a statesman of Hanover, known at the congress of Vienna 1814, died 1836. MUNSTER, GEORGE FITZCLARENCE, earl of, eldest son of the duke of Clarence and Mrs. Jordan, born 1794, shot himself, after acquiring distinction as a valiant soldier India, 1842.

MURDOC, a king of Scotland, 715-730. MURE, SIR W., a Scotch poet, died 1657. MURPHY, ARTHUR, an Irish dramatic and miscellaneous writer, author of The Grecian Daughter' and other plays, highly popular in their time. Having supported the government, he was appointed one of the commissioners of bankruptcy. Born at Cork 1727, died 1805.

MURPHY, JAMES CAVANAGH, an Irish architect and antiq., au. of works on Portugal, d. 1816.

MURRAY, ALEXANDER, a poor self-educated Scotchman, distinguished for his researches into the nature and origin of languages; born 1775, professor at Edinburgh 1812, died 1813.

MURRAY, CHARLES, a successful dramatic wr. and performer, born at Cheshunt 1754, d. 1821. MURRAY, DANIEL, late Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, was born in 1768, and educated at Salamanca, where he was consecrated priest in 1790. He succeeded to the archbishopric in 1823, and during the agitation for catholic emancipation supported that measure by his influence, after which he took no part in political questions. In 1831, he was joined with Archbishop Whately and others in the commission for Irish education, and sanctioned the institution of the Queen's Colleges; he withdrew, however, on knowing the contrary pleasure of the pope. Died 1852.

MURRAY, SIR GEORGE, a British general, born in Perthshire 1772, entered the army in 1789, and greatly distinguished himself in the late wars. In 1812 he was appointed governor of Canada; and, returning to England on the escape of Napoleon from Elba, became, after the peace, governor of Edinburgh castle. He held several other offices, and in 1828 was secretary of state for the colonies. The principal event of his political life was his defeat at the Westminster election 1837. In 1841 he became master-general of the ordnance under Sir Robert Peel; died 1846.

MURRAY, HUGII, a Scottish geographer, historian, and miscellaneous wr., au. of many volumes in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library,' 1779-1846. MURRAY, JAMES, a Scotch divine, 1702-1758. MURRAY, JAMES, a dissenting divine, d. 1782. MURRAY, JAMES, an East Indian officer, who commenced his career in the service in the Maharattas 1790, died 1807.

MURRAY, JAMES STUART, earl of, a natural son of James V., king of Scotland, was born 1531, and educated in France with his sister, Mary, but joined the reformers soon after her marriage with the dauphin. His political history is connected with the fortunes of the queen, after whose imprisonment in Lochleven castle, 1567, he was proclaimed Regent, and defeated her troops at the battle of Langside. He was shot by James Hamilton, whose wife he had seduced, 1570.

MURRAY, JOHN, a Scotch physician and chemist, author of works on the Materia Medica Pharmacy, Elements of Chemistry,' &c., d. 1820.

MURRAY, JOHN, the eminent publisher whose name is associated with the works of Byron, dist. for his literary acquirements and liberality, 1778-1843.

MURRAY, LINDLEY, born of Quaker parents in Pennsylvania 1745, was educated for the mercantile profession, and practised some time as a barrister. He afterwards realized a competency in his earlier pursuits, and acquired the leisure which he devoted to literary studies. He wrote, besides his well-known English Grammar and Spellingbook, several works on education and morals, d. 1826.

MURRAY, PATRICK, fifth Lord Elibank, a writer on the currency and public credit, 1707-78. MURRAY, WILLIAM. See MANSFIELD.

MURRAY, W. H., a Scotch actor, 36 years manager of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 1791-1852. MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD, a member of parliament, and collector of the excise at Dublin, author of Memoirs of the Rebellion in Ireland,' born about 1758, died 1818.

MUSGRAVE, SAMUEL, a physician of Exeter, known as a classical scholar and critic, died 1782.

NALSON, Jons, a Church of England minister, author of historical works elucidating the reign of Charles I., 1638-1686.

NALSON, V., a Church of England divine, 1641-1724.

MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM, grandfather of the preceding, known as a medical writer and antiquarian, 1657-1721.

MYLNE, ROBERT, the architect of Blackfriars' bridge, London, afterwards surveyor of St. Paul's Cathedral, and engineer to the New River Company, born at Edinburgh 1734, died 1811.

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bandits had to be put down, sutteeship abolished, a general survey of the country taken, roads made, the laws revised, the whole of the administration reorganized; yet in addition to all this, Sir Charles Napier added to his labours the social improveNAPIER, LIEUTENANT-GEN. SIR CHARLES ment and education of the people; besides writing JAMES, who combined the talents of a great and arguing against the opposition of the civil auadministrator with those of a conqueror, and was thorities of India. In the midst of these toils the in many respects one of the most remarkable men battles of Ferozeshah and Sobraon finished the of the present age, was born in 1782, and began scheme of conquest while he was speculating his military career in Ireland at the period of the on its enlargement, and in 1847 he was inrebellion. He won his first laurels in the peninsu- duced by the declining health of Lady Napier lar war, where he fought desperately under Sir to return to England. In 1849 another Sikh John Moore, and became the prisoner of Ney, war had broken out, and the anxious eyes of the dreadfully lacerated by the wounds he had received country were fixed on Sir Charles Napier, who, during the retreat on Corunna. Being permitted conscious that his only friends were in the army to return to England on parole, he filled up a and the people of England, for some time declined period of military inaction by writing several works going. He yielded at last to the duke of Wellingon colonization, the state of Ireland, military law, ton, whose last words were,- If you don't and engineering. In 1811 he joined Wellington must,' and forty-three days after he was in Bomas a volunteer, and was present at some of his bay, where he learned that the war had been conhardest fought actions in the peninsula, including cluded. The manner of his reception by Lord Fuentes d'Onore and Badajoz. It was his fate to Dalhousie completely realized his misgivings. 'In be absent on a cruising expedition when Europe ten minutes,' (says Sir Charles) he told me in was surprised by the sudden return of Napoleon, substance, nay, the words were,-"That in letters but he reached the army three days after the from England he had been warned against my enbattle of Waterloo, assisted in what fighting there deavouring to encroach upon his power, and had remained to do, and accompanied it to Paris. He answered he would take d- d good care I shouli was then some years governor of Cephalonia, and not! On such terms it is rather surprising that drew up a plan, in conjunction with Lord Byron, Napier remained commander of the army two for achieving the independence of Greece, won the years than that he tendered his resignation at the lasting gratitude of the Cephalonians, who call end of that period and returned home-not, howhim the father of their country, and was ultimately ever, until he had effected further reforms in all recalled. In 1841, during the administration of that came under his authority. He died at OakLord Auckland in India, he was appointed com-lands, near Portsmouth, 29th August, 1853, leavmander of the Bombay army, and commenced that ing a name that will long be honoured among the reform of abuses which rendered his name a hate-worthies of England-a great soldier, a great ruler, ful one to the magnates of Leadenhall-Street, and and a fearless exposer of all manner of abuses. the authorities under their influence. On the appointment of Lord Ellenborough, his plan for a campaign in Affghanistan found support in a kindred spirit, and taking the field with only 2,000 nen, he found himself face to face with an army of 30,000 whom he defeated with dreadful slaughter at the famous battle of Meeanee, 17th February, 1843. His forces were afterwards augmented to 5,000, and with these he completed the conquest of Scinde, by the defeat of Shere Mahomed at the head of 25,000 men in a pitched battle at Hydrabad. Lord Ellenborough appointed him governor of the conquered territory, and it was now that his brilliant talents as a ruler found the scope necessary for their development. Troops of

His last appearance in public was at the funeral of the duke of Wellington, when his usual grotesque appearance on horseback was rendered painful by his too evident infirmity. The vanity so conspicuous in his writings, is rendered less objectionable than it might otherwise be, by his soldierlike frankness, and graphic skill in circumstantial description. The last from his pen is entitled 'Defects, Civil and Military, in the Indian Government,' lately edited by his brother, Sir W. F. P. Napier; the most interesting is his account of Scinde as he found it and as he left it. [E.R.]

NAPIER, JOHN, Baron of Merchiston, the illustrious inventor of logarithms, was the eldest son of Archibald Napier, of Edinbellie and Mer

histon, master of the mint in Scotland. He matter came.'-It is quite possible that Longomonwas born at Merchiston castle, near Edinburgh, in tanus may have been occupied with the attempt to 1550. After going through the usual course of abridge astronomical calculations, but if he had study at St. Andrews, he is said to have applied made the slightest progress in such an investigahimself to mathematics, during a tour to the tion, his friend Kepler would not have failed to Netherlands, France, and Italy. Upon his return give him the credit which he may have deserved. to Scotland, he declined all civil employment in Whereas, in a letter to Cruger, he distinctly states order that he might devote himself entirely to that nothing can surpass the method of Napier, literary and scientific pursuits. The principal (Nepereanam rationem).-The work in which subjects of his study were mathematics and the Napier gave his great invention to the world, was sacred writings, and he began his career as an au- published at Edinburgh in 1614, with the title of thor by the publication of his commentaries on Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio.' the apocalypse, under the title of A Plain Dis- When the invention of logarithms was first made covery of the Revelation of St. John.' This work known to Mr. Henry Briggs, Reader in astronomy was translated into French, and published, as re- at Gresham college, and the improver of logarvised by himself, at Rochelle in 1602, and after-ithms, he was so surprised with admiration that he wards in 1605 and 1607. It was highly lauded could not rest till he saw the inventor. When by the protestants of France, owing to the zeal Napier heard of this he invited Briggs to Scotland. and learning with which he endeavoured to show When they met, about one quarter of an hour that the pope was the antichrist of Scripture; but was spent each beholding the other with admirahe was more successful in this discussion than in tion before one word was spoken.' The Baron others, in which he vainly attempted to predict entertained his guest most nobly, and Briggs future events from the revelations at Patmos.- visited Merchiston castle every summer during The attention of Napier was at this time directed the life of his friend.-Baron Napier improved to other subjects than theology, though religious trigonometry by the invention of his universal feeling was the motive which impelled him to the rules, which he calls the first circular parts, for task. In 1596 he addressed a letter to Anthony solving all the cases of right-angled spherical Bacon, (the original of which is in the Archiepis-triangles, and which was published in his poscopal Library of Lambeth), entitled-Secret In- thumous work, Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis ventions Necessary in these Days for the Defence Constructio,' which appeared in 1619.-The last of this Island, and Withstanding Strangers, production of our noble author was his 'RabEnemies to God's Truth and Religion.' The first dologia seu numerationis per virgolas,' published in of these inventions, is a burning mirror for destroy- 1617, and reprinted at Lyons in 1618, and 1620. ing the enemy's ships at any distance, by reflect- The instrument here described is known by the ing to a focus the beams of the sun; and the second name of 'Napier's Rods or Bones,' an account of another mirror for effecting the same object by which will be found in our various encyclopædias. reflecting 'the beams of any material fire or flame.' -This was the last work written by Napier. He It does not appear that Napier made any experi- died at Merchiston castle, on the 4th April, o.s., ments with these mirrors, or placed his inventions 1617, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and was in the hands of those who alone could apply them. buried in the church of St. Giles, Edinburgh, where When, a short time before his death, a particular a stone tablet, with a Latin inscription, points out friend implored him not to bury in the grave with the burial place of the Napiers.-Baron Napier himself such excellent inventions, he replied that was twice married, and has left behind him a race there was already too many devices for the ruin distinguished by their talents, by their writings, and overthrow of man; and that as the malice of and by their military and naval services.-So the human heart would not allow mankind to high was Napier's reputation, that the illustrious diminish the number of them, they should never Kepler dedicated to him his 'Ephemerides,' which be increased by any new conceit of his. There is appeared in 1617; but the greatest compliment that reason to believe that Napier had previous to 1594, has been paid to his memory was that of Laplace, begun those investigations which led him to when speaking of the value of logarithms in astrothe invention of logarithms. We are informed by nomy: This admirable invention,' he says, Wood in his 'Athenæ Oxoniensis,' that Dr. Craig, 'added to the ingenious algorithm of the Indians, a Scotchman, who had come from Denmark, told by reducing to a few days the labour of several Napier that Longomontanus had invented a method months, doubles, if we may so speak, the life of 'of saving the tedious multiplications and divisions astronomers, and spares them the errors and disin astronomical calculations,' and that this was gust inseparable from long calculations; an invendone by proportionable numbers,' 'which hint tion too, which is the more satisfying to the huNapier taking, he desired him upon his return to man mind, from its having been entirely deduced call upon him again. Craig, after some weeks from its own resources. In the arts man makes had passed, did so, and Napier then showed him a use of the materials and the forms of nature to inrude draught of what he called Canon Mirabilis crease his powers, but in this case, it is all his Logarithmorum; which draught, with some altera- own work,' ('Systeme du Monde,' Liv. v., chap. iv. tions, he printed in 1614.' Wood adds, 'that it edit. 2mo, p. 326). See the 'Account of the Life, came into the hands of our author Briggs, and of Writings, and Inventions of John Napier of MerWilliam Oughtres, from whom the relation of this chiston,' by the earl of Buchan, Perth, 1787;

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NAPIER, WILLIAM JOHN, Lord, a dist. naval officer, born at Kinsale, 1787, appointed superintendent of the trade and interests of the British nation in China 1833, died at Macao 1834.

NARBOROUGH, SIR JOHN, an English naval officer, dist. against the Dutch and Algerines, d.1688. NARES, JAMES, an eminent English composer and doctor of music, successor of Dr. Green as organist and composer to the king, author of a "Treatise on Singing,' &c., 1715-1783. His son, ROBERT, assistant librarian at the British Museum, distinguished as a theologian and critic, died 1829. EDWARD, nephew of James, a clergyman of the Church of England, 1762-1841.

NASH, JOHN, a distinguished architect of the metropolis, originally a miniature painter, designer of Buckingham palace, the Brighton pavilion, the Haymarket theatre, the Regent-Street improvements, &c., 1752-1835.

NASH, RICHARD, a man of taste and pleasure, commonly called Beau Nash, and the King of Bath, in which city he was for more than fifty years the arbiter of fashion. Born at Swansea in Glamorganshire 1674, died 1761.

NASH, THOMAS, a dramatic writer and satirist, known as the literary antagonist of the puritan writer Marprelate, flourished about 1558-1601.

NASH, T. R., a divine and antiq., 1724-1811. NASMITH, J., a divine and antiq., 1740-1808. NASMYTH, A., a Scotch painter, 1757-1840. NASMYTH, P., a Scotch painter, 1786-1831. NAUNTON, SIR ROBERT, Secretary of state to James I., author of historical notices of Queen Elizabeth and others, died 1635.

NAYLOR, JAMES, a well-known enthusiast among the Quakers, was a native of Yorkshire, born 1616. Converted by the preaching of George Fox, after serving in the parliamentary army 1651, he was punished with the severity of the age for his extravagance, and died 1660.

NEAL, DANIEL, a dissenting minister, author of a History of the Puritans," History of New England,' and other works, 1678-1743.

NEAL, or NELE, T., a catholic divine, b. 1519. NEEDHAM, JOHN TUBERVILLE, a Roman Catholic divine, distinguished as a naturalist and physiologist, 1713-1781.

NEEDHAM, M., a political writer, 1620-1678. NEEDHAM, W., an anatomical wr., died 1691. NEELE, HENRY, a poet and miscellaneous writer, born 1798, died by his own hand 1828.

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sublimed by earnest religious feeling, gave him at once the keenest incentive to exertion, and a neverfailing stay and support amid the vicissitudes of fortune. As boy, and as man, he won the love as well as the confidence of all whom he acted with, whether as superiors, equals, or subordinates. The details of Nelson's early life, as given in Southey's admirable biography, abound in traits which mark out the spirit of the future victor of the Nile and Trafalgar, and of the almost idolized chief of the British navy.-In 1773, Nelson served in the expedition to the Polar seas under Commodore Phipps. In 1777 he was made a lieutenant, and two years afterwards he obtained the rank of post-captain, and the command of the Hinchinbrooke of 28 guns. He distinguished himself in some desperate attacks on the Spanish forts in Nicaragua, and served on the American coast till the general peace in 1783.-In 1784 he was appointed to the Boreas, and for some time was stationed in the West Indies. He here showed

his political courage and independence of character by stopping the contraband traffic which the Americans carried on with our colonies. This had been connived at, and even sanctioned by the British authorities in the islands, and Nelson ran the greatest risk of ruin in purse and in professional prospects by the sturdy course which he pursued. He said himself afterwards of this trying part of his career, 'Conscious rectitude bore me through it; and he obtained in the end the just thanks of our government for his patriotic NELSON. HORATIO NELSON was born 29th conduct. While in the West Indies he married September, 1758, at Burnham Thorpe, in Norfolk. Mrs. Nisbet, the widow of Dr. Nisbet, a physician. His father was a clergyman of the Church of-When England took part in the wars of the England, and the rector of Burnham Thorpe parish. His uncle, by the mother's side, Captain Suckling, commanded the Raisonnable, a sixty-four gun ship, on board of which young Nelson was entered as a midshipman at the age of twelve.

French revolution, Nelson was appointed to the Agamemnon, a 64 gun-ship. He did good service on board of her in the Mediterranean during 1793, 1794, and 1795, and he equally signalized himself on shore in Corsica, while co-operating

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