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 HOARE HOBART TOWN sioner to test the constitutionality of the act of that state under which free colored citizens of northern states were imprisoned and sometimes sold. The son graduated at Harvard college in 1835, studied law in Cambridge, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1840. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1849, but resigned in 1855 and resumed practice in Boston. In 1859 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, and re- tained this office till 1869, when he was ap- pointed by President Grant attorney general of the United States. He held this office only one year, but during that time reorganized it, by authority of congress, as a distinct depart- ment of the government, under the title of the department of justice. In 1870 he was nom- inated a justice of the supreme court of the United States, but was not confirmed by the senate. He was a member of the joint high commission which negotiated the treaty of Washington in 1871. In 1872 he was elected representative in congress from the seventh district of Massachusetts. In the spring of 1874 he was an unsuccessful candidate be- fore the legislature of Massachusetts for the seat in the United States senate vacated by the death of Charles Sumner. HOARE, Sir Riebard Colt, an English topog- rapher and antiquary, born at Stourhead, Dec. 9, 1758, died May 19, 1838. He inherited great wealth, and devoted himself to art and literature. He made two extensive tours on the continent, returning from the second in 1791, during which he had made numerous valuable drawings, and published accounts of his travels in Elba (4to, 1814) and Italy (4to, and 2 vols. 8vo, 1819). He then travelled in Wales and Ireland, of which he also published descriptions. But his greatest work was a his- tory of Wiltshire, ancient and modern, pub- lished in parts and forming 8 vols. folio with plates and maps (London, 1810-'19 and 1822- '52), which however he did not finish. All his works were richly illustrated, and he printed many in small numbers for private circulation. HOARE. I. William, an English painter, born about 1707, died in Bath in 1792. He painted portraits of Pitt, Grenville, Lord Chesterfield, the duke of Newcastle, &c., and several altar- pieces for churches in England. He was one of the original members of the royal academy. II. Prinee, an English artist and author, eldest son of the preceding, born in Bath in 1754, died in Brighton in 1834. He studied in the royal academy and under Raphael Mengs at Rome. In 1799 he succeeded Boswell as foreign secretary to the royal academy. He wrote "Such Things Were," a tragedy, per- formed in 1788; "No Song, No Supper," a comic opera (1790) ; " The Cave of Tropho- nius" (1791); "Dido, Queen of Carthage" (1792); "The Prize" (1793); "My Grand- mother " (1793) ; " The Three and the Deuce " (1795); "Lock and Key" (1796); " Mah- moud" (1796); "Julia" (1796); "A Friend in Need" (1797); "Chains of the Heart" (1802); "Partners" (1805); "Something to Do " (1808) ; and " An Inquiry into the Requi- site Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England " (1806). HOBART, John Henry, an American bishop, born in Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1775, died in Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1830. He graduated at Princeton college in 1793, and entered a counting house, which he soon left to prepare for the ministry. He became a tutor at Prince- ton in 1796, and at the same time began there the study of theology, which he completed in Philadelphia, where he was admitted to dea- con's orders in June, 1798, and took charge of two suburban parishes. He was pastor, for short periods, of churches in New Brunswick, N. J., and Hempstead, L. I., and in September, 1800, became assistant minister of Trinity church, New York, being ordained priest in 1801. He had already been secretary of the house of bishops, and was elected secretary of the convention of New York, deputy to the general conventions of 1801, '4, and '8, and was on the last two occasions secretary to the house of clerical and lay deputies. He was elected assistant bishop of New York in Feb- ruary, 1811. In 1812 he became assistant rec- tor of Trinity church, and in 1816 was made bishop of the diocese and rector of the church. He was one of the founders of the general theological seminary of the Protestant Epis- copal church in New York, in which in 1821 he became professor of pastoral theology and pulpit eloquence. In 1823, on account of fail- ing health, he visited Europe, where he made an especial study of the social, moral, and reli- gious condition of the people. Finding that in England he was accused of insisting upon ex- ternal forms, to the neglect of essentials in re- ligion, he published two volumes of his ser- mons (London, 1824) to disprove it. He was rigid in denying the validity of any but Epis- copal orders, and opposed the formation of the American Bible and tract societies, as well as every other such organization including Chris- tians of different denominations. Among his works are: "Apology for Apostolic Order" (1807), "The State of the Departed" (1816; new ed., 1846), several devotional manuals, an edition of D'Oyley and Mant's " Commen- tary on the Bible " (2 vols. 4to, 1818-'20), and a volume of sermons (1824). His posthumous works, with a memoir by the Rev. William Berrian, D. D., appeared in 1833 (3 vols. 8vo). HOBART TOWN, or Hobarton, the capital of the British colony of Tasmania, on the S. side of the island, 20 m. from the sea, at the head of a fine land-locked harbor called Sullivan cove; lat. 42 53' S., Ion. 147 21' E. ; pop. in 1871, 19,092. The river Derwent flows into the head of the bay, and the town is delight- fully situated at its mouth. The bulk of the imports and exports of the colony come to this port. Hobarton and all the other ports of Tasmania are free to foreign whaling vessels.