He entered Parliament in 1806

On April 11, 1809, he attacked a French fleet in Aix roads, and destroyed four of the enemy's ve els. In Feb., 1814, Cochrane was accused of complicity in originating a fraudulent report of Napolcon's death for speculative purposes, and, though he claimed to be entirely innocent, was imprisoned for a year, fined, and expelled from the navy and from the House of Commons. His constituents stood by him, and at once returned him again to Parliament. Accepting an invitation to organize the infant navy of Chile, he reached Val para i so Nov., 1818. During the subsequent campaigns, with only one frigate and a few old ve els, he managed to neutralize the powerful Spanish squadron; took Valdivia in Feb., 1820; transported San Martin's army to Peru: blockaded Callao, and performed the feat of cutting out a Spanish frigate from under the guns of the castle (Nov. Owing to quarrels with San Martin and the Chilian authorities, he left their service, and from March, 1823, to 1825 commanded the Brazilian navy: during this time he recovered Bahia and Maranhão from the Portuguese. Accused of insubordination, he resigned. In 1827 and 1828 he commanded the Greek navy, but accomplished nothing. In 1832 he was virtually exonerated from the charges on which he had been imprisoned in 1814, and was restored to the Order of the Bath and to his rank in the British navy. and contributed greatly the capture of Cochut (kō-shü'), André. Born at Paris, 1812: died there, Jan. 18, 1890. A French publicist. Cock, The. A famous tavern in Fleet street, London, opposite the Temple. It still retains decorations of the period of the early part of the 17th century. Tennyson has immortalized it in his "Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue." Cock and the Fox, The. A version of Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale," by Dryden. Cockaigne, Cocagne (ko-kān'). [Also Cock ayne, etc., in various archaic forms, after ME. cockaigne , cokaygne , cockagne , cokayne , cocaigne , etc., from OF. cocaigne , cokaigne , coquaigne , co caingne , quoquaingne , F. cocagne (=Sp. cucaña , = Pg. cucanha = It. cocagna, cucagna , now cuccagna ), profit, advantage, abundance, a time of abundance; pays de cocagne, Land of Co cagne (It. " Cocagna , as we say, Lubber land"; " Cucagna , the epicures or gluttons home, the land of all delights: so taken in mockerie" Florio); ML. Cocania , an imaginary country of luxury and idlene ; prob. lit. Cake-land. Usually a ociated with cockney , but there is no original connection.] A fabled land of perfect happine and luxury, intended to rid icule the stories of the mythical Avalon, an isle in the west, prevalent in medieval times. Its houses were built of good things to eat; roast geese went slowly down the streets, turning themselves and in viting the pa ers-by to eat them; buttered larks fell in profusion; the shingles of the houses even were of cake; and the rivers ran wine. The English poets of the 16th century called it Lubber land. Cock burn (kō'bėrn), Sir Alexander James Edmund. Born Dec. 24, 1802: died at London, Nov. 21, 1880. A noted British jurist of Scotch descent, lord chief justice of England. He was graduated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1829; entered Parliament as a Liberal in 1847; was attorney-general 1851-Feb., 1852, and again Dec., 1852, Nov., 1856; and became justice of the Common Pleas in 1856, and lord chief justice of England June 24, 1859. As the representative of the British government at the Alabama arbitration at Geneva, he di ented from the award, holding that in the case of the Florida and that of the Shenandoah the responsibility of his government had not been proved. Cock burn, Mrs. (Alicia, or Alison, Rutherford). Born at Fairnalee, Sel kirks hire, about 1712: died at Edinburgh, Nov. 22, 1794. A Scottish lyric poet, author of "The Flowers of the Forest" ("I've Seen the Smiling of Fortune Beguiling"), and other songs. Cock burn, Mrs. (Catherine Trotter). Born at London, Aug. 16, 1679: died May 11, 1749. An English dramatist and philosophical writer, IMG:content-0305.png:[blocks in formation] Cock burn, Sir George. Born at London, April 22, 1772: died at Leaming ton, England, Aug. 19, 1853. An English admiral. He served at the reduction of Martin i que in 1809, and a isted at the capture of Washington in 1814. Cock burn, Henry Thomas, Lord. Born at Edinburgh (?), Oct. 26, 1779: died at Bonaly, near Edinburgh, April 26, 1854. A Scottish jurist, appointed a judge of the Court of Se ion in 1834, and a lord of judiciary in 1837. His autobiography ("Memorials of his Time") was published in 1856. Cocker (kok'er), Edward. Born probably in North amp tons hire, England, 1631: died 1675. An English engraver and teacher of writing and arithmetic, and collector of manuscripts. He was the author of various works on calligraphy, arithmetic ("Tutor to Arithmetic" (1664), "Compleat Arithmetician" (before 1669), "Arithmetic," edited by John Hawkins (1678), etc.), etc. The supposition that the famous arithmetic is a forgery by Hawkins has been abandoned. Cocker am (kok'ram), Henry. Flourished about the middle of the 17th century. An English scholar (of whose life nothing is known), author of the first published dictionary of the English language. The book is entitled "The English Dictionarie, or a New Interpreter of Hard English Words" (1623?; 2d ed. 1626; 12th ed., revised and enlarged by another's hand, 1670). Cockerell (kok'er-el), Charles Robert. Born at London, April 28, 1788: died at London, Sept. 17, 1863. A noted English architect. He became architect of the Bank of England in 1833, and was profe or of architecture in the Royal Academy 1840-57. He completed the Hanover Chapel in Regent street in 1825, built the Taylor Buildings at Oxford 1841-42, and designed numerous other public and private buildings. Author of "Ancient Sculptures in Lincoln Cathedral" (1848), "Iconography of the West Front of Wells Cathedral" (1851), "A Descriptive Account of the Sculptures of the West Front of Wells Cathedral" (1862), etc. Cocker mouth (kok'er-mouth). A town and parliamentary borough in Cumber land, England, situated at the confluence of the Cocker and Derwent, 25 miles southwest of Car lisle. It was the birthplace of Words worth. Population (1891), 5,464. Cock Lane Ghost. A noted imposture perpetrated in 1762 in Cock Lane, Smith field, London, by a man named Parsons and his daughter (eleven years old). Knockings and other strange noises were heard, and a "luminous lady," supposed to be the ghost of a Mrs. Kent, was seen. Dr. Johnson, among others, visited the house, and was maliciously attacked for his credulity by Church ill in his long poem "The Ghost." Parsons was pilloried. Courtezan." Cockledemoy (kok'l-de-moi). An adroit and amusing trickster in Marston's play "The Cockloft (kok'loft), Pindar. The pseudonym of William Irving in "Salmagundi." Cockney School, The. A name derisively given by some English critics to a set of writers including Hazlitt, Shelley, Keats, Leigh Hunt, and others. Leigh Hunt was the shining light of this coterie. Cockpit (kok'pit), The. 1. A London theater which stood in a narrow court, called Pitt Place, formerly Cockpit alley, running out of Drury Lane. It was erected about 1615, but pulled down by a mob in 1617. A second theater was built here, called the Phenix. This again gave place to the Drury Lane Theatre. 2. See the extract. The Master of the Rolls was at that time the presiding Judge of Appeal at the Privy Council, which was commonly spoken of as "the Cockpit," because it sat on the site of the old Cockpit at White hall. Greville, Memoirs, II. 70, note. Cock wood (kok'wud), Lady. In Etherege's comedy "She Would if She Could," a female Tartufe who hides a disgraceful intrigue under a great pretense of religious devotion. Cocles (ko'klez), Horatius. A Roman legendary hero who with Spurius Lartius and Titus Her mini us defended the Sublician bridge at Rome against the entire Etruscan army under Lars Porsena (5081 в. с.). Coco (kōkō). A tribe of North American Indians. See Attacapan . Cocoa-tree Club. A noted London club which was the Tory Cocoa-tree Chocolate-house of Queen Anne's reign, at 64 St. James street. It was converted into a gaming-house and a club, probably before 1746, when the house was the headquarters of the Jacobite party, and the resort of the wits of the time. Timbs . Coco-Maricopas. See Maricopas . Cocopa (kō kō-pä). [Pl., also Cocopas .] A tribe of North American Indians. They live in Lower California from the mouth of the Colorado River to near the Gila. See Yuman . Cocos. See Keeling Islands . Cocos per a (kō-kō-spā'rä). [From the Pima: 'place of the dogs. A peak in Sonora, Mexico, forming a part of one of the western ramifica tions of the Sierra Madre. Cocu Imaginaire, Le. See Sganarelle . Cocytus (kō-si'tus). [Gr. Κωκυτός , from κωκυτός , wailing.] 1. A river in Epirus, a tributary of the Acheron: the modern Vuvos.-2. In cla ical mythology, a river of Hades, a tributary of the Acheron. Codazzi (kō-dät'sē), Agustin. Born at Lugo, near Ferrara, Italy, 1792: died in Colombia, 1859. An engineer and geographer in the northern part of South America. He published at Paris in 1841 "Resumen de la Geografía de Vene zuela." Codding ton (kod'ing-ton), William. Born in Lincoln shire, England, 1601: died in Rhode Island, Nov. 1, 1678. An English colonist in America, one of the founders of the colony of Rhode Island in 1638, and its governor 1640-47, 1648-49, and 1674-76. Code Frédéric (kōd frā-dā-rēk'). A codification of the laws of Pru ia made by Frederick the Great in 1751. Code Napoléon (kōd nä-pō-la-ôn'). A comp i laws of France lati on of the apo napa made under the and emperor, promulgated 1804-10. It is founded on the civil law, and has been largely copied in other countries where the civil law prevails. Code Noir (kōd nwär). [F., 'black code.'] An edict of Louis XIV. of France in 1685, regulating the West Indian colonies and the condition and treatment of negro slaves and freed negroes. Code of 1650. A code of laws compiled for the colony of Connecticut by Roger Ludlow: sometimes called Ludlow's Code . Code of Just in i an, Theodosius. See Just in i an , Theodosius . Codlin (kod'lin), Tom. A cynical exhibitor of a Punch-and-Judy show, in Charles Dickens's "Old Curiosity Shop." Codogno (kō-dō'nyo). A town in the province of Milan, Italy, 32 miles southeast of Milan. It is the chief market for Parmesan cheese. Population, 9,000. Codrington (kod'ring-ton), Sir Edward. Born April 27, 1770: died at London, April 28, 1851. A noted English admiral. He took part in the battle of Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805, as commander of the Orion; was with Cochrane in Chesapeake Bay and at New Orleans in 1814; became vice-admiral 1821, and admiral of the blue 1837; and commanded the allied fleet at Navarino Oct. 20, 1827. Codrington, Sir Henry John. Born 1808: died Aug. 4, 1877. A British admiral, third son of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. He took part, as commander of the Talbot, the bombardment of Nov. 4, 1840; became a rear-admiral in 1857; was admiral superintendent at Malta 1858-63; and was appointed ad miral in 1867, and admiral of the fleet 1877. Codrington, Sir William John. Born Nov. 26, 1804: died at Heck field, Hampshire, Aug. 4, 1884. A British general, second son of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. He served in the Crime an war, commanding a brigade at the battle of the Alma, and a division at Inkerman, and succeeded Sir James Simpson as commander-in-chief in the Crimea, Nov. 11, 1855, returning to England in 1856, when he was appointed lieutenant-general and general in 1863. He entered Parliament in 1857, and was governor of Gibraltar 1859-65. Codrus (ko'drus). [Gr. Κόδρος .] The last king of Athens: reigned (according to tradition) about 1068 в. с. Cody (ko'di), William Frederick. Born in Scott County, Iowa, Feb. 26,1845. A government scout. He became known as "Buffalo Bill" from the fact that he contracted with the Kansas Pacific Railway to supply its laborers with buffalo meat: in eighteen months he killed 4,280 buffaloes. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Nebraska legislature. In 1883 he organized the "Wild West," an exhibition of life on the frontier. Coehoorn (kö'horn), or Cohorn (ko'horn), Menno van. Born near Leeuwarden, Fries land, 1641: died at The Hague, Netherlands, March 17, 1704. A Dutch military engineer, called the Dutch Vanhorn, inventor of the coehorn 1674. He wrote "Nieuwe Vestingbouw" ("New Fortification," 1685).