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He was made major-general in 1798. July, 1808, he sailed for Portugal as to Sir Henry Burrard, and by Sept. the entire command was left to him. He entered Spain Nov 1808; but, abandoned by the Spaniards and threatened by the actual presence of Napoleon, was obliged to retreat 250 miles to Corunna. While the troops were embarking the French attacked them, and Moore was killed and buried in the citadel during the night of Jan. 16-17. He received a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral. The "Burial of Sir John Moore," by Rev. Charles Wolfe, is one of the most popular English poems. Moore, Thomas. Born at Dublin, May 28, 1779: died at Bromham, near Devizes, Feb. 25, 1852. An Irish poet, son of John Moore, a grocer of Kerry. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1794, where he was intimate with Robert Emmet. In 1799 he entered the Middle Temple, London, and in 1800 published his translation of "A nacre on." In 1803 and 1804 he traveled in America. In 1806 he published his "Odes and Epistles," and his "Irish Melodies" from 1807 to 1834, receiving from them about £500 a year. His lampoons on the regent and his favorites were extremely succe ful, and were collected in 1813 in "The Twopenny Post Bag." On March 25, 1811, he married Be ie Dyke, an actre , and in the same year his friendship for Byron began. "Lalla Rookh," for which Long mans agreed to pay £3,000 without as published in 1817; "National Airs" " in having seen it, was 1815; and "Sacred Songs" in 1816. His prose works, besides the political squibs, are "Life of Sheridan" (1825), "The Epicurean" (1827), "Life of Byron" (1830), "History of Ireland," etc., besides a number of collections of humorous short papers like "The Fudge Family in Paris," all under the pseudonym Thomas Brown the Younger. "Moore's Memoirs, Journals, and Correspondence" were published 1853-56 by Earl Ru ell. Moor fields (mör'fēldz). A district of old London, outside the wall, once used as a place of recreation. It received its name from the moor which lay on the north side of the city. Finsbury Square and adjacent streets now cover it. Moorgate (mör'gāt). A postern gate in the old London city wall, built on the moor side of the city in the time of Henry V. (about 1415). It was rebuilt in 1472, and was pulled down about 1750. Moor of Venice, The, or the Tragedy of Othel10. See Othello . Moors (mörz). [L. Mauri , Gr. Μαυροί , dark men.] A dark race dwelling in Barbary, in northern England, Aug. 19, 1829: died at New York, June 9, 1901. An English-American marine and figure-painter. He came to America in 1844, and exhibited in Paris and London. Moran, Leon. Born at Philadelphia in 1863. An American marine and figure-painter, son and pupil of Edward Moran. He also studied at the National Academy, New York. Moran, Percy. Born at Philadelphia in 1862. spere's "Winter's Tale."-2. In Sidney's ro- mance "Arcadia," a deformed country girl, the daughter of Dametas. Mopsus is (mop's us). [Gr. Μόψος.] A seer in Greek legend, son of Apollo by Him antis. Moquegua (mō-kā'gwä). 1. Å southern mar i- time province of Peru, adjoining Chile on the Moraes Silva (mö-ris' selvä), Antonio de. Born at Rio de Janeiro about 1757: died at Pernambuco, 1825. A Brazilian lexicographer. Little is known of his life, a part of which was pa ed in Europe. His "Diccionario da Lingua Portugueza" (1st ed., 2 vols., 1789) was the first and for a long time the only dictionary of the Portuguese language, and is still an au- thority. Mora kana bad. The grand vizir of Vathek in Beckford's tale of that name. Morales (mō-rä'les), August in. Born at La Paz, 1810: a a inated there, Nov. 28, 1872. A Bolivian politician and general. He led the revo- lution which overturned Melgarejo, Jan. 15, 1871; was im- mediately proclaimed president; and held the post until his death. An American genre-painter, son and pupil of Moran, Peter. Born at Bolton, England, March 4, 1842. An English-American painter of land- scape and animals, brother and pupil of Edward and Thomas Moran. Moran, Thomas. Born at Bolton, England, Jan. 12,1837. An English-American landscape-paint- er, brother and pupil of Edward Moran. He came to America in 1844. He went to the Yellow stone Park in 1871, and many of his subjects are from that region and Mexico. Morano (mō-rä'no). A town in southern Italy, northwest of Cosenza. Morat (mō-rä'), G. Murten (mör'ten). A small town in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, situated on the Lake of Morat 15 miles west of Bern. It is celebrated for the victory gained near it, June 22, 1476, by the Swi over Charles the Bold, duke of Bur- gundy. IMG:content-0798.png:[blocks in formation] Morazan (mō-rä-thän'), Francisco. Born at Te- gucigalpa, Honduras, Oct., 1792: died at San José, Costa Rica, Sept. 15, 1842. A Central American statesman and politician. He was leader of the liberal-federalists in the revolt against the conser- vatives; defeated them in 1827, and became jefe of Hondu- ras; by succe ive victories routed the conservatives in Salvador, 1828, and Guatemala, April, 1829; and in Sept., 1830, was elected president of the Central American Con- federation. He governed with wisdom and liberality, and was reëlected in 1834; but opposition to the union led to land, surrounded by the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud, 24 miles east of the Lake of Neuchâtel: the Roman Lacus A vent i cens is, later Üchtsee. Its outlet is the Broye, falling into the Lake of Neuchâtel. Length, 5 miles. Morat all a (mō-rä-tälyä). A town in the prov- ince of Murcia, southeastern Spain. Popula- tion (1887), 11,926. Morat in (mō-rä-tēn'), Leandro Fernandezde. Born at Madrid, March 10, 1760: died at Paris, June 21, 1828. A Spanish dramatist and poet, son of N. F. de Morat in: called "the Spanish Molière." His works include the plays "El viejo y la niña" ("The Old Man and the Young Girl," 1790), "La comedia nueva" (1792), "El baron" (1803), "La mogigata" ("The Female Hypocrite," 1804), "El sí de las niñas" miles. Population (1891), 544,470. 1,18erous revolts, and when his second term expired (Feb vain attempt to keep the union together by force, and was supported by Salvador; but he was finally defeated by Carrera at Guatemala, March 19, 1840, and fled to Peru. In April, 1842, he invaded Costa Rica with a view to mak- ing it the basis of federal reorganization: he was at first succe ful, and a umed the executive of Costa Rica in captured, and shot. July, but was deposed by a counter-revolution (Sept. 11), "The Girl's Yes," 1806). He also wrote a prose version of Shakspere's "Hamlet" (never performed), and translated and altered Molière's "Ecole des mar is" and "Le méde- cin malgré lui.” Morat in, Nicolas Fernandez de. Born at Ma- drid, July 20, 1737: died there, May 11, 1780. A Spanish poet. He wrote the first Spanish play con- structed according to the French model, a comedy, "Peti- metra" ("The Female Fribble"), printed 1762. In 1770 he produced on the stage a tragedy, "Hormes ind a," on the las naves de Cortés destruidas" ("Destruction of Cortés's Ships,” 1785), “Diana," etc. Morava (mō-rävä). 1. The principal river of Servia. It is formed by the union of the Western and Southern Morava, and joins the Danube by two mouths about 30 miles east-southeast of Belgrad. Total length, about 240 miles. Moravia (mō-ra'vi-ä). [F [F. Moravie , Sp. Pg. It. Moravia , NL. Moravia (G. Mähren , etc.), named from the river Morava .] A crownland of the Cisleithan division of Austria-Hungary. Capital, Brunn. It is bounded by Bohemia (partly sep a- rated by the Mährische Gebirge) on the west and north- west, Pru ian Silesia and Austrian Silesia (separated by the Sudetic Mountains) on the north and northeast, Hungary (separated by the Little Car path i ans) on the southeast, and Hungary and Lower Austria on the south. The surface is largely mountainous and table-land: it is drained in great part by the March. Moravia is to a great degree an agricultural country. It produces rye, oats, barley, fruit, vegetables, etc.; has manufactures of cotton, woolen, sugar, and linen; and has mines of coal and iron. It has 43 representatives in the Austrian Reichsrat, and has a Landtag of 100 members. The prevailing religion is Ro- man Catholic. The majority of the inhabitants are Slavs in race and language, closely allied to the Czechs; but about 30 per cent. are Germans. The early inhabitants were Germanic tribes. The region was recolonized by Slavs. Christianity was introduced from Constantinople in the 9th century, but the Moravians were subsequently brought within the influence of Rome. Under Svatopluk in the end of the 9th century Moravia was the center a short-lived great Slavic power, Great Moravia, which was overthrown by the Magyars in 906. Moravia was perm a- nently united with Bohemia in 1029, and after that gener ally shared the fortunes of that kingdom. It became a margraviate in 1197; pa ed to the house of Hapsburg in 1526; and became a crownland separate from Bohemia in 1849. Area, 8,583 square miles. Population (1890), 2,276,870. Morales (mō-rä'les), Luis de. Born at Badajoz, Spain, about 1509: died at Badajoz, 1586, A inhabitants of Moravia (which see).-2. The members of the Christian denomination entitled the Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren, which traces its origin to John Hu . Its members were expelled from Bohemia and Moravia in 1627, but in 1722 a remnant settled in Herrnhut, Saxony (hence the brethren are sometimes, in Germany, called Herrnhuter ). The or- Mordred. See Modred . ganization at present has three home provinces (German, Mordure (mor-dür'). Prince Arthur's enchant- ernment by synod) and several mi ion provinces. All ed sword: also called Excalibur or Caliburn. Mordvinians Mordvinians (môrd-vin'i-anz), or Mordvins (mòrd'vinz). A people of Finnic origin, living in Ru ia, chiefly in the governments of Nijni Novgorod, Penza, Samara, Saratoff, Simbirsk, and Tamboff. They are largely Ru ian i zed, and comprise two main divisions, the Moksha and the Erzya. Their number is estimated at about 800,000. More (mor), Hannah. Born at Stap let on, Gloucestershire, Feb. 2, 1745: died at Clifton, Sept. 7, 1833. An English religious writer. She was educated by her father, and in 1757 joined her other sisters in establishing a school in Bristol. In 1762 she published "The Search for Happine ," a pastoral drama. In 1773 and 1774 she visited London, and became intimate with Garrick and his wife: she also met Reynolds, Burke, Dr. Johnson, and Mrs. Montagu. In 1782 she published "Sacred Dramas." After the death of Garrick, Jan. 20, 1779, her religious tendencies became stronger. In 1787 she was attracted by Wilberforce's agitation against the slave-trade, and was much interested in establishing schools among the poor as an antidote to the prevailing atheism. She wrote in 1792 "Village Politics, by Will Chip," followed by "Cheap Repository Tracts" (1795-98), one of which was "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain." Some of opposed to Napoleon, he was in 1804 sentenced to two years' imprisonment on the charge of complicity in Cadoudal Pichegru's conspiracy against the first consul. The sentence was commuted to exile. He lived in the United States (near Trenton, New Jersey) from 1805 to 1813, when he entered the Ru ian service. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Dresden, Aug. 27, and died Sept. 2, 1813. Morgan, Lady (Sydney Owenson) Diego"), "El desden con el desden" ("Disdain with Dis dain"), etc. Of those that divided the favor of the public with their great master [Calderon], none stood so near to him as August in More to, of whom we know much le than would be important to the history of the Spanish drama. He was born at Madrid, and was baptized on the 9th of April, 1618. His best studies were no doubt those he made at Alcalá between 1634 and 1639. Later he removed to Toledo, and entered the household of the Cardinal Moreau de Saint-Méry (mō-rō' dè san'mā-rē'), Médéric Louis Élie. Born at Fort Royal, Martin i que, Jan. 13, 1750: died at Paris, Jan. Archbishop, taking holy orders, and joining a brother- 28, 1819. A French jurist and author, a dis- tant relative of the empre Josephine. He was judge of the Supreme Court of French Santo Domingo, 1780; deputy for Martin i que at Paris, 1790; was impris oned by the Revolutionary tribunal, but escaped and lived in the United States until 1800. From 1800 to 1806 he was councilor of state. He published "Lois et constitutions des colonies françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent" (Paris, 5 vols., 1784-85), and important works on Santo Domingo, etc. More cam be (mor'kam). A watering-place in Lancashire, England, on More cam be Bay three miles west of Lancaster. which them developed into Religious Depository in 1799. Her other works are "Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society” (1788), “Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education "(1799), "Cœlebs in Search of a Wife" (1809), "Practical Piety, etc." (1811), "Christian Morals" (1813), etc. More, Henry. Born at Grantham, England, Oct. 12, 1614: died at Cambridge, England, Sept. 1, 1687. An English philosophical writer. His philosophical works (largely mystical and Platonic) were published in 1678. His chief work in verse is "The Song of the Soul." 7, More, Sir Thomas. Born at London, Feb. 1478: executed on Tower Hill, July 6, 1535. An English statesman and author. He was the son of Sir John More, a London barrister. At thirteen years of age he entered the service of Thomas Morton, archbishop of Canterbury. In 1492 he entered Canterbury Hall (later merged in Christ Church), Oxford. He entered the New