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tery against which they advanced up a steep ascent. His troops, disheartened by his death, retreated, and a desultory block- ade of the town (extending over some months) was eventually raised. Mont- gomery was aged 39 when he fell. His ftineral was attended, with every mark of respect, by the Governor and officers of the garrison. The small wooden house in Quebe3 where his remains were laid out is still shown, and an inscription on the cliff marks where he fell. His loss was deeply mourned all over the States, and his me- mory was eulogized in the British Par- liament by Lord Chatham, Burke, and Barre. Lord North having spoken of him as " only a brave, able, humane, and generous rebel," Fox retorted: "The name of rebel is no certain mark of dis- grace ; all the great assertors of liberty, the saviours of their country, the benefac- tors of mankind in all ages, have been called rebels." Bancroft, the American historian, says of Montgomery : " He was tall and slender, well-limbed, of graceful address, and a strong and active frame. He could endure fatigue and all changes and severities of climate. His judgment was cool, though he kindled in action, im- parting confidence and sympathetic cou- rage. Never himself negligent of duty, never avoiding danger, discriminating and energetic, he had the power of conducting freemen by their voluntary love and es- teem. An experienced soldier, he was also well vei-sed in letters, particularly in natural science. In private life he was a good husband, brother, and son, an amiable and faithful friend." His body was ultimately exhumed and buried in Washington, and Congress voted money to erect the monument to him which stands in front of St. Paul's Church, New York. Montgomery's widow survived him for more than half a century. His brother, Alexander, commonly called "Black Montgomery," sat in the Irish Parliament for many years as member for the County of Donegal. '^ 37* 349

Moody, John, a well-known actor, born, probably in Cork, in 1727. The poet Churchill wrote of him :

" Long from a nation ever hardly used, At random censured, wantonly abused, Have Britons drawn their sport with partial view, Porm'd general notions from the rascal few ; Condemn'd a people, as for vices known. Which, from their country banished, seek our own. Taught by thee, Moody, we now learn to raise Mirth from their foibles — from their virtues praise."

Few particulai-3 are given of his life. He showed both spirit and tact in managing the unruly theatrical mobs of the time. In 1796 he retired fx-om the stage, after 346

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fifty years' service, and died in London, 26th December 181 2, aged 84. The Gen- tle.marCs Magazine,, in a notice that throws some doubt on his Irish birth, calls him the "father of the English stage. . . His character was uniformly unblemished, and for kindness as well a.s probity he had long been a sort of 'pater patrice behind the scenes." ^ "6(62) 146

Moor, Michael, D.D., Provost of Trinity College, was born in Bridge-street, Dublin, in 1640. He was educated in France ; for some years taught philosophy and rhetoric in the college at Grassin, and upon his return home was ordained a priest by Luke Wadding (not the Fran- ciscan), who was Catholic Bishop of Ferns in 1684. For some time Moor had, as Vicar-General, charge of the whole diocese of Dublin. During James II.'s personal government of Ireland he was, in op- position to the Jesuits, and although a Catholic, made Provost of Trinity CoUege, He did much to mitigate the sufferings of the Protestant prisoners ; and it was largely owing to his exertions that the valuable collections in the Library were preserved from injury during the militaiy occupation of the College. In preaching before the King he upon one occasion took the text : " If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." This so incensed his Majesty (who having a Jesuit confessor with weak eyes, considered the discourse levelled against himself) that he deprived Moor of his preferments, and obliged him to retire to France, whence, on James's return, he removed to Rome, where he enjoyed the favour of Innocent XII. and Clement XI. After James II.'s death he returned to France, and, according to Harris's Ware, was made Eector of the University of Paris, in which he estab- lished an Irish College. To it he bequeathed his choice library, which, however, was found sadly thinned at his death, owing to the depredations of an amanuensis he had employed when afflicted in his latter days with blindness. He died in Paris, 22nd August 1726, aged 85, and was buried in the chapel of the Irish College. Harris's Ware gives a list of his theological works, which are all in Latin. No men- tion is made of him in the history of " The Irish College, Paris," which appeared in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record in 1866. 233 339

Moore, Charles, Visconnt Drogh-

eda (descended from Sir Edward Moore, a soldier of fortune, who came over in Elizabeth's reign), was born in 1603, and succeeded his father, the ist Viscount, in 1627. He was in 1641 residing at his