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 116 MANLEY fair grounds, one of the state normal schools, three large public school buildings, a denom- inational school, a public library, four weekly newspapers (one German), and 11 churches. MANLEY, John, an American naval comman- der, born at Torbay, Devonshire, Eng., in 1734, di.-.l in Boston, Feb. 12, 1793. He settled at Marblehead, Mass., and was master of a mer- chantman. At the outbreak of the revolution- ary war he had command of the armed schoon- er Lee, with which he cruised along the coast of Massachusetts bay, making captures of great value to the American army then investing Boston. Among these was an ordnance brig laden with heavy guns, mortars, and intrench- ing tools. He was commissioned as a captain by congress Aug. 22, 1776; and on June 1, 1777, his ship, the Hancock, 32 guns, in com- pany with the Boston, 24 guns, Capt. Hector McXeil, encountered the British frigate Rain- bow, 44 guns. While Manley was preparing for action, McNeil deserted him ; and knowing the disparity in strength, Manley tried to es- cape, but was chased and captured. After a rigorous confinement in Halifax, he was ex- changed, and in 1782 was put in command of the Hague frigate, which, after lying in a per- ilous position on a sand bank off Guadeloupe for three days, exposed to the fire of four Brit- ish ships of the line, contrived to effect her escape. This exploit closed the regular mari- time operations of the United States during the revolutionary war. Capt. Manley was sub- sequently tried by a court martial for the loss of the Hancock, but was honorably acquitted, while McNeil was dismissed from the service. MANLEY (DE LA. RIVIERE), Mary, an English authoress, born in Guernsey about 1672, died in London, July 11, 1724. She was the daugh- ter of Sir Roger Manley, governor of the isl- and of Guernsey, who was author of " History of the late Wars of Denmark" (1670), and Commentarii de Rebellione Anglicana (London, 1686). He carefully educated his daughter, and dying when she was young committed her to the care of his nephew, who, having already another wife, enticed her into a marriage with himself and abandoned her in London. The duchess of Cleveland, formerly a mistress of Charles II., then took her under her protection, but soon deserted her. In this emergency she began to write for the stage. Her "Royal Mischief," a tragedy represented at Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre in 1696, brought her into great literary repute, and she almost imme- diately became the centre of a brilliant circle of men of fashion. Although engaged in nu- merous intrigues, she soon produced her " Me- moirs of the New Atalantis " (4 vols., London, 1709), a romance describing with ntuch free- dom of language and under feigned names the amours of several distinguished characters. The work created so much scandal that a crim- inal prosecution was commenced against the printer and publisher, to screen whom from ponkhment she rohmtarfly declared Benetf in MANN the court of king's bench the sole author. She was in consequence imprisoned for a time, but was subsequently released on bail. There were several later editions of the work, and it was translated into French. Upon the accession of the tories to power in 1710, she resumed her position as a leader of fashionable profligacy, and employed her pen with effect in behalf of the ministry, under the direction, it is said, and with the approval of Swift. The "Vindica- tion of the Duke of Maryborough" and other political pamphlets testify to her industry ; and she also conducted the "Examiner" for some time after it had been relinquished by Swift, and frequently finished pieces begun by him. Among her remaining works are : the comedy of "The Lost Lover, or the Jealous Husband " (1696); "Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain " (1717), a tragedy, for which Steele wrote the prologue and Prior the epilogue; and a variety of ephemeral novels, memoirs, dramas, and poems. During the last few years of her life she lived with her printer, John Barber, an alderman of London. MANLII, one of the most celebrated patrician gentes of ancient Rome, members of which held high offices in the state for about five centuries. The first of them who attained to the consulship was Cneius Manlius Cincinna- tus, consul in 480 B. 0., who fell in battle against the Etruscans. MARCUS MANLIUS CA- PITOLINUS, consul in 392 B. C., obtained his surname, according to Livy, from his defence of the capitol against the Gauls (about 390). Roused from sleep by the cackling of -the sa- cred geese, he hastily collected a force, and repulsed the enemy, who had already gained the summit of the hill. He incurred the en- mity of the patricians by his defence of ple- beian debtors, was accused of aiming at the kingly power, and was for a time imprisoned. After his liberation, he instigated the plebeians to take up arms, but was arraigned for high treason before the people in the Campus Mar- tius, was condemned to death, and was thrown from the Tarpeian rock (381). The Manlian gens determined that the name of Marcus should be conferred in future upon none of its mem- bers. The Torquati and Vulsones were fam- ilies of the Manlian gens. MANN, Horace, an American educationist, born in Franklin, Mass., May 4, 1796, died at Yellow Springs, Ohio, Aug. 2, 1859. His father was a farmer in limited circumstances, and the edu- cation of the son was obtained entirely from the common district schools until the age of 20, when he fitted himself to enter the sopho- more class of Brown university, at Providence, R. I., where he graduated in 1819. The theme of his oration, " The Progressive Character of the Human Race," foreshadowed his future career. After his graduation he was tutor in Latin and Greek in Brown university; subse- quently he studied in the law school of Litch- field, Conn., was admitted to the bar in 1823, and opened an office in Dedham, Mass. In