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MOORE. nearly 250 miles, through a desolate and moun- tainous country, made almost impassable by suow and rain, and harassed by tlie enemy. The soldiers suffered intolerable hardships, and ar- rived at Coruna in a very distressed state; but it was impossible to embark without tiyhting. On .January 10, 1809, the French under Soult attacked in four strong eohnnns, and a desperate battle ensued. In an early stage of the action Moore was struck by a cannon ball on the left shoulder, and died in the moment of victory. The French were repulsed with the loss of 2000 men. Consult: Carrick Moore, Life of Hir John Moore (London, 1835) ; Napier, History of the Peninsular H'or (5 vols., New York, 1856).

MOORE, John Bassett (1800—). An Amer- ican jurist, born at Smyrna, Del. He grad- uated at the University of Virginia, studied law, became a law clerk in the State Department in 1885, and was promoted to the position of Third Assistant Secretary of State ( 1880), a post which, although a Democrat, he held under the Republican Administration until ISOl, when he was appointed professor of international law at Columbia University. For a few months in 1898, he served as Assistant Secretary of State, and then became secretary and counsel to the Peace Commission at Paris. He became an editor of the Political Science Quarlerli/ and of the Journal (III Droit International Prire. His publications include: Reporta on Extraterritorial Crime (1887); Extradition and Interstate Rendition (1891) ; American Notes mi the Conflict of Laics { 1896) : and Hisforij and Digest of International Arbitrations (1898)'. MOOBE, Maurice (17.35-77). An American colonial legislator and jurist, born in Brunswick County, X. C. He was the grandson of .James Moore, Sr. (q.v. ), of South Carolina, and was educated in New England. He became a member of the Assembly in 1757 and sat almost continu- ously until his death. From 1707 to 1773 he was one of the three judges of the Superior Court. His sympathies at first were with the Regulators (q.v.), but, alarmed by their excesses, he served as colonel of brigade in Governor Tryon's expedi- tion against them in 1771. In this year he pub- lished the venomous attack on Governor Tryon signed "Atticus." He was a member of the Pro- vincial Congresses of 1775 and 1776, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1776.

MOORE, Thomas (1779-1852). An Irish poet, born in Dublin, May 28, 1779. Having been for a while under an eccentric schoolmaster named Malone, Moore went to a granmiar school kept by Samuel Whyte. In 1794 he went to Trinity College, Dublin, which had been opened to Roman Catholics in 1793. He li;ul already shown a remarkably quick mind, a gift for music, and had written in 1793 "Lines to Zelia" and "A Pastoral Ballad." These verses appeared in the Anthologia Hibernica. a periodical which lived only two years. INIoore began his university life in 1795. He won some fame as a wit. but few honors. He went to London in 1799 and soon arranged for the publication by svib- scription of his Anacrcon. He was vexed on discovering that the Irish subscribers numbered two. the Provost and a Fellow of Trinity, but he had the good luck to find a patron in the Prince of Wales, who accepted the dedication of the poem. The Anacreon was followed by Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little (1801), a volume of sweet but over-sensuous verse, much blamed but widely read. Moore's uuisical talents soon made him a welcome guest among the aris- tocracy. In 1803 he was appointed admiralty registrar at Bermuda ; but disliking the post, he intrusted it to a deputy (1804), and traveled through the United States, where he visited New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston. He returned to England in November, 1804. In 1800 ;ippeared Odes and Epifttirs, which .JelTrey made the occasion for a savage attack on Moore's earlier erotics (Edinburgh Revieiir, July, 1800). The incident led to a duel interrupted by the police (August 11, 1806). After this fiasco the combatants became cordial friends. In 1807 Moore published his Irish Melodies, 124 in numlier, in ten parts. He thus became the lyrist of Ireland, whose poetic side he fancifully and pathetically revealed to the English people. His three satires, "Corruption" and "Intolerance" (1808) and the "Sc-eptic" (1809). fell Hat, as they deserved to do. On the other hand, lam- poons on the Regent and his favorites went from mouth to mouth and were still liked when they were gathered in "The Twopenny Post Bag" in 1813. About 1817 he became embarrassed by the defalcation of the deinity left at Bermuda, and was compelled to retire for a time to the Con- tinent. At Venice he visited Lord Byron, from whom he received the famous Memoirs, after- wards reluctantly burned. Moore returned to England in 1822. In 1835 he was granted a literary pension of £300, which was supplemented in 1850 by a civil pension of £100. He died at Sloperton,' February 25, 1852. Lord .John Rus- sell and Lord Lansdowne were his friends to the end.

Moore was as popular in his day as either Byron or Scott. As a jioet his fame now rests mostly upon the Irish Melodies ( 10 pts., 1807-34) and National Airs (1815), containing "Oft in the Stilly Night." Since the Elizabethan age the lyric had been dissociating itself from music. Moore again united them, and so completely that it is unfair to estimate his lyrics independently. They are light, airy, and graceful, though with- out the passion of Byron or Shelley. For a great poem by which he expected to be remembered, he turned to Oriental romance. Lalla Rookh (1817), eveiywhere applauded, was translated into several languages. Among Moore's other works are: The Fudge Family in Paris (1818). humorous verses : The Lores of the Angels ( 1823). partly in imitation of Byron's Hearen and Earth: The Memoirs of Captain Rock (1824). an attack on the Irish Church ; a prose romance entitled The Epicurean (1827) ; lives of Sheridan (1825), Byron (18.30). Edward Fitzgerald (1831); and a History of Ireland (completed in 1840). The Life of Byron, the main source for all later biographies, is still a classic. Consult: Lord John Russell (ed.), Memoirf>, Journals and Corre- spondence of Moore (8 vols., London, 1853 56) ; Kent, Poetical Works, with memoir, (London, 1883) ; G. Vallat, Thomas Moore, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris. 1887) ; and Gunning, Thomas Moore. Poet and Patriot (London, 1900).

MOORE, Willis Luther (1856—). An American meteorologist, born at Seranton, Pa. He was at first a reporter for the Binghamton (N. Y.) Republican, and then was on the staff of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye, from which