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 CLARKE 641 land in company with Roger Williams as an agent of the colony of Rhode Island, and published there a book entitled " 111 News from New Eng- land, or a Narrative of New England's Persecu- tion." He remained in England after the return of Williams, till at the end of a 12 years' mis- sion he had procured a second charter for the colony, which secured to every person at all times his own judgment and conscience in mat- ters of religious concernment. Bancroft in his history calls him "the modest and virtuous Clarke, the persevering and disinterested en- voy." Upon his return in 1663 he resumed the pastorate of his church at Newport, which he retained till his death. In his will he left his farm for charitable purposes, the income of it only to be expended ; and it has since pro- duced annually about $200. CLARKE, M'Donald, an eccentric American poet, born in New London, Conn., June 18, 1798, died in New York, March 5, 1842. For many years his blue cloak, cloth cap, erect military air, and beaming countenance made him one of the features of Broadway. He was ever in a glow of poetic revery, and always celebrating in verses the belles of the town and the topics of the day. He was familiarly known in the street and in society as the mad poet. Yet his oddities were all amiable; he had no vices, always preserved a gentility of deportment, and was a regular attendant at Grace church. His death was very melancholy. Being picked up by a policeman late at night in an apparently destitute and demented con- dition, he was placed in a cell of the city prison, and in the morning found drowned by the flow of water from an open faucet. He was buried in Greenwood cemetery, where a handsome monument was erected, with the inscription, "Poor M'Donald Clarke!" His poems were of various character, humorous, sentimental, and indignant, contain many touches of deli- cate sensibility, and have a vein of tenderness pervading all their grotesqueness and irregu- larity. Some of the titles of the collections are: "A Review of the Eve of Eternity, and other Poems" (1820); "The Elixir of Moon- shine, by the Mad Poet" (1822); "The Gos- sip" (1825); "Poetic Sketches" (1825); and " The Belles of Broadway " (1833). His last poem was "A Cross and a Coronet" (1841). CLARKE, Mary Anne, mistress of Frederick, duke of York, second son of George III., born in 1778, died at Boulogne in 1852. In 1809 she revenged herself upon her royal lover, with whom for some time she had not been on the best terms, by reporting to Col. Wardle the secrets of the duke's management of the army, of which he was commander-in-chief. On Jan. 27 of the same year the colonel brought the matter before the house of commons, of which he was a member. By a majority of 82 the duke was acquitted of the charge of personal corruption which the colonel's motion implied ; yet on March 20 he tendered his resignation, as the evidence reflected severely upon his character, his mistress having been the chief witness brought before the committee of the house of commons. Her testimony was de- livered with great impudence of manner. CLARKE, Mary Victoria Cowden, an English au- thoress, born in London, June 22, 1809. She is the eldest daughter of the composer and organist Vincent Novello, and sister of Clara Novello, the singer. In her youth she was the pupil and constant associate of Mary Lamb, and frequently met Shelley, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Keats, Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Douglas Jerrold, and other literary celebrities of the day, to whose influence may be attributed the early development of her intellectual powers. In her 15th year she was a contributor to the magazines. In 1828 she was married to Charles Cowden Clarke, and soon commenced the " Concordance to Shakespeare," with which her name is so honorably connected. This work, after 16 years of uninterrupted labor, four of which were devoted to the correction of proofs and the supervision of the printing, was pub- lished in London in 1846, in a large octavo of 860 pages, each containing three closely printed columns, under the title of "The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare." Her services to Shakespearian literature by this publication have been widely acknowledged ; and among the tokens of appreciation which have been bestowed upon her was a memorial from America, consisting of a chair ornamented with small figures of tragedy and comedy carved from the Shakespeare mulberry tree, and with a copy of the Stratford bust of the great dramatist. Nearly every state in the Union sent contributions to the gift. Mrs. Clarke is also the author of "The Adventures of Kit Bam, Mariner;" "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines;" a novel called "The Iron Cousin $ " The Song of Drop o' Wather, by Harry Wandworth Shortfellow" (1856); "World-noted Women" (1857); "Portia and other Stories of the Early Days of Shake- speare's Heroines" (1867) ; several translations of works on musical theory, and a great num- ber of magazine articles, chiefly on subjects connected with dramatic literature. She fin- ished in 1858, for an American publishing house, an edition of Shakespeare, without notes, but with u full glossary, the text of which, founded upon that of Dyce, was sub- jected to a rigid comparison with all others. In conjunction with her husband she produced " Many Happy Returns of the Day, a Birthday Book" (1860), and an annotated edition of " Shakespeare's Plays " (1869). CLARKE, Samuel, D. D., an English clergy- man, born at Norwich, Oct. 11, 1675, died May 17, 1729. He was educated at Cam- bridge, at a time when the philosophy of Des- cartes was still in vogue, and Clarke mastered it and also the new system of Newton. With a view of bringing the old system into disre- pute, he translated and published before his 22d year Rohault on "Physics," with notes,