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Rh people of Charleston to place themselves in a con- dition of defence. The return of Lincoln from Georgia subsequently compelled Prevost to fall back on Savannah. Again in the spring of 1780 Charleston was attacked by a strong land and sea force, and Moultrie, who was second in command, shared in the capitulation of the American troops. During his imprisonment, which lasted nearly two years, he was several times approached by British officers with offers of pecuniary compensation and the command of a regiment in Jamaica if he would leave the American service. " Not the fee-simple of all Jamaica," was his reply, " should induce me to part with my integrity." After his release in 1782 congress made him a major-general, but too late to enable him to render his country any further service. In 1785 he was elected governor of South Carolina, and again in 1794. Retiring shortly af- terward to private life, he devoted his remaining years to the preparation of his " Memoirs of the American Revolution so far as it Related to the States of North and South Carolina and Georgia " (2 vols.. New York, 1802). — His elder brother, John, received the degree of M. D. at Edinburgh univer- sity, rose to eminence in his profession, and during the Revolution, espousing the royal cause, was gov- ernor of East Florida. — His cousin, James, physi- cian, b. in Charleston, S. C, 27 March, 1793 ; d. there in April, 1869. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1812, and succeeded his father as port physician of Charleston, S. C, and physician to the jail and the Magazine guards. In 1820 he was president of the State medical society, and on the organization of the Medical college of South Caro- lina in 1824 he was elected professor of anatomy, but declined. In 1833 he was elected to the chair of physiology and accepted, retaining it until 1867. On the formation of the American medical asso- ciation in Philadelphia in 1847 he was chosen vice- president, and he was made president at the annual meeting at Charleston in 1851. He was devoted to the study of natural history, and in the inter- vals of his professional duties made large contribu- tions to the different departments of zoology. He was also a thorough musician, and pursued his investigations into the more recondite laws of acoustics governing musical sounds.

MOUNT, William Sidney, painter, b. in Se- tauket, L. I., 26 Nov., 1807; d. there, 19 Nov., 1868. Until the age of seventeen he was, as he has said, a " hard-working farmer's-boy." At that time he went to New York, where he became asso- ciated with his elder brother, Henry S. Mount, as a sign-painter ; but his capacity for a higher order of art soon became evident, and he was enrolled as a student at the National academy of design in 1826. His first picture, a portrait of himself, was painted in 1828, and a year later he established himself as a portrait-painter in New York. He was elected an associate in 1831 and academician m 1832. The first painting that he exhibited was " The Daughter of Jairus," which was followed by other works of a similar character. He soon after- ward returned to Setauket and devoted himself al- most wholly to genre painting. " A Rustic Dance," his first picture of this class, had been exhibited in 1830. Among his subsequent works are " Men Husking Corn " ; " Walking the Crack " ; " The Courtship " ; •' Sportsman's Last Visit " (1835) ; " Farmer's Nooning" (1837) ; "The Raffle " (1837) ; " Bargaining for a Horse " and " The Truant Gam- blers," in the New York historical society ; " Wring- ing the Pigs " ; " The Lucky Throw " ; " Boys Trap- ping "(1839); "Dance of the Haymakers '' (1845) : "Power of Music" (1847); "Music is Conta- gious " : " Raffling for a Goose " ; " Turn of the Leaf " (1849) : " Cider-Making on Long Island " ; " Who'll turn the Grindstone ? " (1851) ; " Fortune- Teller " ; " California News " ; " Banjo - Player " (1858) ; " Right and Left " ; " Just in Time " (1860); " Early Impressions are Lasting " (1864) ; and " Mutual Respect " (1868). Many of these were en- graved and lithographed by Goupil and others in Europe. His portraits include those of James Rivington, Jeremiah Johnson, and Gen. Francis B. Spinola. Mount was successful in depicting the humorous side of American rustic life, and he was one of the first of American artists to make a study of negro physiognomy and character. He was a good draughtsman, an accomplished colorist, and painted in a firm and decided manner, which gave a certain hardness to his pictures that is their onlv objection. — His brother, Henry Smith, b. in Setauket, L. I., 9 Oct., 1802 ; d. in Stony Brook, L. I., 10 Jan.. 1841, though by profession a sign- painter, executed some creditalile pictures of still- life. He exhibited frequently at the National academy, and was elected one of its associates in 1832. — Another brother, Shepard Alonzo, b. in Setauket, L. I., 7 July, 1804 ; d. in Stony Brook, L. I., 18 Sept., 1868. became known as a success- ful portrait-painter and exhibited numerous land- scapes and pieces of still-life at the National acade- my. He was elected an associate in 1833 and academician in 1842. Among the portraits that he painted is one of his brother, William S. Mount.

MOUNTAIN, Jacob, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. at Thwaite Hall, Norfolk, England, in 1750 ; d. near Quebec, Canada, 16 June, 1825. His grandfather, who was a great-grandson of the French essayist, Montaigne, was exiled from France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Mountain was graduated at Cambridge in 1774, became a fellow in 1779, and, taking holy orders, held several important livings and a stall in Lin- coln cathedral. These he owed to the friendship of William Pitt, who also procured his appointment in 1793 as the first Protestant bishop of Quebec. At that time there were only nine clergy- men of the Church of England in Canada, and Quebec had no ecclesiastical edifice, no episcopal residence, and no parsonage. During the thirty- two years that elapsed before his death he raised the church to the flourishing condition to which it afterward attained. He promoted the forma- tion of missions, and the erection of church edi- fices in all the more populous townships. These latter he visited regularly, even when age and in- firmity rendered so vast and fatiguing a circuit a painful undertaking. He served on several im- portant occasions as a member, ex officio, of both the executive and legislative councils of the prov- ince, sat frequently in the court of appeals, and was a faithful and laborious servant of the public and of the crown. He attained note as a pulpit orator, and his self-sacrificing ministrations to the poor will long be remembered. He is the author of "Poetical Reveries" (London, 1777). — His son, George Jehoshaphat, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. in Norwich, England, 27 July, 1789; d. in Que- bec, Canada, 8 Jan., 1863, was graduated at Trin- ity college, Cambridge, in 1810, studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1813. His first ap- pointment was that of evening lecturer at the ca- thedral in Quebec, which he held till 1814. In that year he was made rector of Fredericton, in New Brunswick, and continued there until 1817, when he became rector of Quebec and bishop's official. He was nineteen vears rector before he