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 828 MORGAN MORGANATIC MARRIAGE for which he received a gold medal from con- gress, and followed it up by a series of well conceived manoeuvres which seriously embar- rassed Cornwallis. Before the close of the campaign he was compelled by ill health to retire to his home in Virginia. He aided in quelling the whiskey insurrection in Pennsyl- vania in 1794, and was a member of congress from 1795 to 1799. MORGAN, Sir Henry, a British buccaneer, born about 1637, died in Jamaica in 1690. He was the son of a farmer in Wales, became a sailor, and for many years maintained his po- sition among the West India islands as chief of a host of pirates, composed of adventurers from all the nations of Europe. From his strongholds, one of which was the island of St. Catharine, he made many successful descents upon the Spanish settlements in his vicinity, and at sea captured many rich prizes. The most daring of these expeditions was that in which he captured and sacked Portobello and Panama, amassing a large fortune. (See BUC- CANEERS.) He afterward settled in Jamaica, where he was made a marine commissary and knighted by Charles II. MORGAN, Lewis Henry, an American author, born in Ledyard, Cayuga co., N. Y., Nov. 21, 1818. He graduated at Union college in 1840, and studied law at Rochester, where he began to practise in 1844, and where he still resides. In 1864 he retired from practice. In 1851 he published " The League of the Iroquois," a full and accurate account of the Six Nations and their institutions. His researches among the Iroquois led him to observe their pecu- liar system of family relationship, which he found prevailed also among the tribes of the west, and of which in his ethnological studies he discovered unmistakable traces among the barbarous nations of the old world. This led him to institute investigations in all parts of the globe by means of letters and circu- lars addressed to missionaries and to United States ministers and consuls. The results of this correspondence were embodied in " Sys- tems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Hu- man Family," published by the Smithsonian institution in 1870, which Sir John Lubbock pronounced " one of the most valuable con- tributions to ethnological science which have appeared for many years." In 1868 Mr. Mor- gan published " The American Beaver and his Works," the result of much observation of the beaver in the neighborhood of Lake Superior. In 1861 he was a member of the New York assembly, and in 1868-' 9 a state senator. MORGAN. I. Sydney (OWENSON), lady, an Irish authoress, born about 1783, died in Lon- don, April 13, 1859. Her father was an actor, and a man of considerable literary acquire- ments. In 1797 she published a volume of po- ems, followed by two tales, "St. Clair" (1804) and " The Novice of St. Dominick (1805), and a novel, "The Wild Irish Girl " (1806), of which seven editions were printed in two years. In 1807 appeared her "Patriotic Sketches of Ire- land " and " The Lay of an Irish Harp, or Met- rical Fragments." In March of the same year her comic opera, " The First Attempt, or the Whim of a Moment," was brought out. with great success in the Theatre Royal, Dublin. In 1809 she published " Woman, or Ida of Ath- ens;" and in 1811 " The Missionary." In 1812 she was married to Sir Thomas Charles Mor- gan, with whom she subsequently travelled over various parts of Europe, residing for con- siderable periods in France and Italy. Among the results of her travels were a review of the social state of France (4to, London, 1817), and a similar work on Italy (2 vols. 8vo, 1821), both of which caused much controversy. The popularity of these works introduced the au- thoress to the fashionable and literary circles of England. Among her remaining works were her novels, " O'Donnell " (1814), " Flor- ence Macarthy " (1816), " The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa" (1824), "Absenteeism" (1825), and " The O'Briens and the O'Flaher- tys" (1827); "Book of the Boudoir," contain- ing several autobiographical sketches (1829); "Dramatic Scenes from Real Life" (1833); " The Princess, or the Be~guine," written during a visit to Belgium (1835) ; " Woman and her Master " (1840) ; and " Passages from my Au- tobiography" (1858). Lady Morgan was one of the most brilliant conversationists of her time. She passed her last years at her resi- dence in London, in the enjoyment of a pen- sion of 300. See W. J. Fitzpatrick's " Friends, Foes, and Adventures of Lady Morgan " (Dub- lin, 1859). O. Sir Thomas Charles, an English author, husband of the preceding, born in London about 1783, died there, Aug. 28, 1843. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and in 1809 took the degree of M. D. He removed to Ireland, having a place under government as a commissioner of the Irish fisheries, was knighted in 1811, and in 1812 married Miss Owenson. Soon afterward he relinquished his profession for the pursuit of literature, and was an industrious contributor to periodicals. He is the author of " Sketches of the Philoso- phy of Life " (1818), and " Sketches of the Phi- losophy of Morals " (1822), and published in conjunction with his wife a collection of essays and miscellanies entitled " The Book without a Name" (1841). He furnished four dices to Lady Morgan's first work on France. MORGAN, Wyiiam. See AXTI-MASONEY. MORGANA. See FATA MORGANA. MORGANATIC MARRIAGE (Ang.-Sax. mt gifu, Ger. Morgengdbe, morning gift or dowry), the term for a marriage concluded between a man of superior and a woman of inferior rank, in which it is stipulated that the latter and her children shall be entitled neither to the rank nor- to the possessions of the husband, the dowry (morning gift) being in lieu of all other privileges. Marriages of this kind are not in- frequent in the princely houses of Germany, and one of the most noted was that of King