HOOLE, Charles, an English teacher and di-brated grammarian, of Egypt, flourished about vine, prebendary of Lincoln cathedral; he died A. D. 380. There are extant under his name in 1666. two books "Concerning the Hieroglyphics of the Egyptians."

HOOLE, John, a poet and translator of considerable reputation, was born in London, 1727, HORATII, three Roman brothers, who and educated in Hertfordshire, under Mr. James fought and conquered the three Curiatii of Alba, Bennett, the publisher of Roger Ascham's 667 B. C. works. In 1744, he was placed as a clerk in the|| HORATIUS, Cocles, a renowned Roman India House, in which establishment he remain-knight, who saved the city by his noble defence ed till the end of the year 1785, when he resign- of a wooden bridge, attacked by Porsenna. ed his office of auditor of Indian accounts, and While he and two associates opposed the enemy soon after retired to the neighbourhood of Dor- at the entrance, he desired his fellow-citizens to king, in Surrey, where he died in 1803, having cut away the bridge behind him; this being exeproduced elegant translations of the works of cuted, he fell into the Tyber; but, though woundTasso, Ariosto, and Metastatio, and written ed, and oppressed by heavy armour, he gained three tragedies. He was a very amiable charac- the shore. He flourished 500 B. C. ter, and greatly esteemed by Dr. Johnson. HOOPER, or HOPER, John, bishop of Glou-ancient Roman lyric and satiric poet, who flourcester, was born in Somersetshire, in 1495. In the ished in the age of Augustus, was born at Venupersecution under Mary, refusing to recant his sium, about 65 B. C. His poetical talents soon opinions, he was burned in the city of Glouces- made him known to some of the greatest men in ter, and suffered death with admirable constan- Rome. Virgil, as he has told us, was the first who cy, in 1555. recommended him to Mæcenas; and this celeHOOPER, George, D. D., a distinguished En-brated patron of literature and learned men grew glish prelate, bishop of St. Asaphs, and afterwards of Bath and Wells; he died in 1727.

HOOPER, William, a member of the contimental congress, from North Carolina, and a signer of the declaration of Independence; he died in 1790.

HOORNBECK, John, an eminent Dutch divine, professor of divinity at Utrecht, and afterwards at Leyden, and a theological writer; he died in 1666.

HOPKINS, Ezekiel, a learned prelate, bishop of Raphoe, and afterwards of Londonderry; he died in 1690.

HOPKINS, Charles, son of the preceding, was distinguished in England as a poet and dramatic writer; he died in 1699.

HOPKINS, John, brother of the preceding, was also celebrated as a poet; the time of his death is not known.

HOPKINS, Edward, governor of Connecticut, and a benefactor of Harvard college; he founded grammar schools in New-Haven and Hartford, Conn., and died in 1657.

HOPKINS, Samuel, minister of West Springfield, Mass., died in 1755, much esteemed.

HOPKINS, Stephen, LL. D., chief justice and governor of the colony of Rhode Island, a member of Congress in 1776, and a signer of the declaration of Independence; he died in 1785.

HORATIUS, Quintus Flaccus, or Horace, an

so fond of him, that he became a suitor for him to Augustus, and got his estate (which had been forfeited) to be restored. Augustus was highly taken with his great merit and address; admitted him to a close familiarity with him in his private hours, and afterwards made him no small offers of preferment. The poet had the greatness of mind to refuse them all; the life he loved best, and lived as much as he could, was the very reverse of a court life; a life of retirement and study, free from the noise and hurry of ambition. He died about 8 B. C.

HORMAN, William, a native of Salisbury, distinguished as a divine and as a botanist, died in 1535.

HORMISDAS, a pope of Rome, in 514, died in 523, and was afterwards canonized.

HORMISDAS II., succeeded his father as king of Persia, in 578. His subjects revolted under his general, Varanes, who defeated him, and deprived him of sight. He died in 590.

HORNE, George, bishop of Norwich, born at Otham, in Kent, in 1730, and died in 1792. This divine united, in a remarkable degree, depth of learning, brightness of imagination, sanctity of manners, and sweetness of temper. Four vo lumes of his incomparable "Sermons" are published. His "Commentary on the Psalms," in 2 vols. 4to, "will (as the writer of his epitaph expresses it) continue to be a companion to the HOPKINSON, Francis, a member of con- closet, till the devotion of earth shall end in the gress, from New-Jersey, and a signer of the hallelujahs of heaven." Dr. Horne also wrote a declaration of Independence; he was after-celebrated piece of irony, in reply to Adam wards a judge of the district court of the Uni-Smith's Sketch of David Hume's Life. ted States, for Pennsylvania, and died in 1791. HORNECK, Dr. Anthony, an eminent EngHe was distinguished also as a popular writer, lish divine, born in the Lower Palatinate, in and as a poet. 1641, died in 1696.

HOPPNER, John, R. A., an eminent English portrait painter, and translator of "Oriental Tales" into English verse (1805), was born 1759, and died in Charles-street, St. James' square, in 1810.

HOPTON, Arthur, a distinguished English mathematician, and writer où mathematical subjects, died in 1614, aged 26.

HOPTON, Ralph, lord, an English officer, distinguished for his valour, particularly during the civil wars; he died in 1652.

HORNER, Francis, an English lawyer, and a member of parliament, of some distinction, died in 1817.

HORNIUS, George, professor of history in the university of Leyden, died in 1670.

HORNSBY, Thomas, D. D., born in 1734, and died in 1810, at the Observatory, in the university of Oxford. He was Savilian professor of astronomy, professor of natural philosophy, reader in experimental philosophy, and librarian to the Radcliffe library; and his long and eminent serHOPTON, Susanna, an English lady, author vices in the cause of science, and successful laof" Daily Devotions" and other religious works; bours in completing the astronomical arrangeshe died in 1709. menis at the Observatory, will ever be rememHORAPOLLO, or HORUS APOLLO, a cele-bered with gratitude by the university.

HORREBOW, Peter, professor of astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, at Copenhagen, and a writer on the Copernican system; he died in 1764.

HORTENSIUS, Martin, an astronomer, of Delft; he died in 1639.

HOSEA, the first of the minor prophets, flourished under the reigns of Jeroboam and Uzziah. HOSIUS, Stanislaus, a native of Poland, was

HORROX, Jeremiah, an English astronomer, memorable from being the first, from the begin-secretary to the king of Poland, bishop of Culm ning of the world, who had observed the tran- and of Warmia, and afterwards a cardinal He sit of Venus over the sun's disk. He was born died in 1579. in 1619, and died in 1641.

HOSKINS, John, an eminent English portrait painter, died in 1664.

HORSLEY, John, author of a very learned and excellent work, entitled," Britannia Roma- HOSPIMAN, Rodolphus, a learned Swiss na;" being an ample account of the vestiges of writer, who has done prodigious service to the the Romans in Britain. He was born in North-protestant cause, born at Altdorf, in 1547, died umberland, and died in 1731.

in 1626.. He wrote an excellent work of vast extent, called, "A History of the Errors of Popery."

HOSPITAL, William Francis Antony, inarquis de l', a great mathematician, of France, born in 1661, died in 1704.

HORSLEY, Samuel, bishop of St. Asaoh, was born in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, where his father was clerk in orders, and was educated at Trinity hall, Cambridge. He became one of the most eminent men of his day, as a theologist, a mathematician, and a profound classic. He was many years rector of St. Mary's, Newington, the first parish to which he was ever promoted, and which preferment he held long after his episcopal elevation. His lordship's first seat on the right reverend bench was in 1788, as bishop of St. David's. In 1793, he was translated to the see of Rochester, with which he held the deanery of Westminster; and, in 1802, ele- HOSTE, Paul l' a French jesuit, professor of vated to the more lucrative bishopric of St.mathematics at Toulon, and a mathematical Asaph. No man of the age, perhaps, possessed writer; he died in 1700.

HOSPITAL, Michael de l', chancellor of France, to which office he was raised on the death of Henry II.. in the midst of turbulence and faction. He displayed great abilities, and was distinguished for the firmness, integrity, and mildness of his administration; he died in 1573. HOSSCH, Sidronius, a Flemish jesuit, author of some elegant Latin poems, &c., died in 1653.

HOTMAN, Francis, a learned French civilian, and commentator on Latin authors, born at Paris, in 1524, died in 1590.

more of what is generally understood by the HOSTUS, Matthew, a German antiquary, idea of recondite learning, or was more pro-died in 1587. foundly versed in classical chronology. He edited and illustrated some of the most important of Sir Isaac Newton's works, in 5 vols. 4to, and was himself the author of several esteemed ma- HOTTINGER, John Henry, a native of Zuthematical and theological productions. As a rich, distinguished for his great learning and tasenator, he was deservedly considered in the first lents. His abilities were so conspicuous, that class; there were few important discussions in he was educated at the public expense; he was the house of lords, especially when the topics re-professor of divinity and oriental languages at ferred to the hierarchical establishments of Eng Zurich, professor at Heidelberg, and ecclesiastiland, the French revolution, or the African slave cal counsellor to the elector Palatine. His writtrade, (of which he was a systematic opponent,)ings are very numerous. He died in 1667. in which his lordship did not participate. The HOTZE, an Austrian general, born in Zurich, reverend prelate was many years a leading mem-distinguished for his bravery, was killed in bat ber of the royal society; but withdrew from it,ile about 1799.

as has been said, in consequence of a certain HOUARD DE LA MOTHE, Anthony, a high appointment taking place, of which he dis-French lawyer, skilled in the profession, and auapproved. His concluding words, on retiring, thor of several works connected with it; he were," I quit that temple where philosophy once died in 1803. presided, and where Newton was her officiating minister!" His lordship died at Brighton, Oct. 4, 1806.

HORSTIUS, James, a German physician, and professor of medicine in the university of Helmstadt; he died in 1600.

HOUBIGOUT, Charles Francis, a learned divine, born at Paris, in 1686. He published an excellent edition of the Hebrew Bible, with a Latin version, and notes, 4 vols. folio, 1753, and many other learned works, and died in 1783, in the 98th year of his age.

HORSTIUS, Gregory, of such reputation in HOUBRAKEN, Arnold, a Dutch painter, authe practice of physic, that he was usually cal-thor of the "Lives of the Flemish painters," led the Esculapius of Germany. He was born in Torgau, in 1578, and died in 1636

HORTE, John, an English divine, bishop of Kilmore, and afterwards of Tuam, in Ireland; he died in 1751.

was born at Dordt, in 1660.

HOUBRAKEN, Jacob, an eminent Dutch portrait and historical engraver, born in 1898, died at Amsterdam, in 1780.

HOUCHARD, John Nicholas, a French geHORTENSIA, a celebrated Roman matron, neral, who raised himself to the highest rank in who, when the senate laid a heavy tax on the the army during the revolution; he was guillowomen of Rome, pleaded with so much elo-ined in 1793.

quence in behalf of her sex, that the tax was con- HOUDARD DE LA MOTTE, Anthony, a siderably diminished. French writer. See MOTTE.

HORTENSIUS, Quintus, a celebrated Roman orator and poet, who, being eclipsed at the bar by Cicero, quitted it for a military life, and became military tribune, prætor, and consul. He died about 50 B. C.

HORTENSIUS,Lambert, a Dutch philologist, poet, and historian, a native of Utrecht; he died in 1577.

HOUDRY, Vincent, a jesuit, distinguished as a popular preacher and writer, died at Paris, in 1730, aged 99.

HOUGH, John, bishop of Worcester, memorable for the noble stand he made, when president of Magdalen college, Oxford, against James II., who wanted arbitrarily to impose fellows and officers upon the college by his royal man

date, was born in Middlesex, in 1650, and died [tionate mourner for her death. About this time, in 1743. it is believed, he was elected F. R. S., and, with HOULIERES, Antoinette de la Garde des, aan intention of visiting Lisbon after the earthFrench lady, distinguished as a poetess and dra-quake, he at midsummer, 1756, set sail on board matic writer; she died in 1694. Her daugh-the Hanover packet, which was taken by a ter, who also possessed poetical talents, died in French privateer; and he behaved with so much 1718. hauteur, so much a l'Anglois to the captain of HOUSEMAN, Cornelius, a celebrated land-the privateer, as might probably be the cause of scape pamter, of Antwerp, died in 1727. his suffering so severely as it appears he did, and HOUSEMAN, James, an eminent portrait" perhaps what he suffered on this occasion and historical painter, of Antwerp, died in 1696. ||increased (if it did not first call forth) his symHOUSSAYE. See AMELOT. pathy with the unhappy people." He afterHOUSTON, William, M. D., an eminent En-wards, it is believed, made the tour of Italy; glish physician, pupil to Boerhaave, died in the and at his return, settled at Brokenhurst, a reWest Indies, in 1733. tired and pleasant villa in the New Forest, near HOUSTON, John, a distinguished advocate Lymington, in Hampshire; having, April 25, for the revolution, was a member of congress in 1775, afterwards a judge of the supreme court, and governor of the state of Georgia; he died in 1796.

HOUTEVILLE, Claude Francis, a native of Paris, who wrote an admirable work, called "La Verite de la Religion Chretienne prouvee par les Faits," died in 1742, aged 54.

1758, married Harriet, only daughter of Edward Leeds, esq., of Croxton, in Cambridgeshire. Mrs. H. died in 1765, in childbed. After the death of his second wife, he left Lymington, and purchased an estate at Cardington, near || Bedford, where he very much conciliated the esteem of the poor, by employing them, building cottages for them. &c. In 1773, he served the office of sheriff of the county of Bedford. This office, as he observes, brought " the dis

HOVEDEN, Roger de, an early English historian, whose annals commenced where those of Bede terminated; he lived in the age of Hen-tress of prisoners more immediately under his ry II.

HOVEY, Ivory, minister of Plymouth, Mass. He left a journal which contained about 7,000 octavo pages, and died in 1803.

HOW, William, an officer in the royal army, during the civil wars in England, afterwards a physician and botanist of distinction in London; he died in 1656.

HOWARD, Charles, earl of Nottingham, an intrepid English admiral, commander-in-chief at the defeat of the Spanish Armada, born in 1536, died in 1624.

notice;" and with a view to its alleviation, he began his labours by "visiting most of the county jails in England," and afterwards" the bridewells, houses of correction, city and town jails," where he found "multitudes, both of felons and debtors, dying of the jail fever and the small-pox." Upon this subject he was examined in the house of commons, in March, 1774, when he had the honour of their thanks." This encouraged him to proceed in his design: he travelled again and again through Great Britain and Ireland, and also into France, Flanders, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland; and published "The State of the Prisons in

HOWARD, Sir Robert, an English historian and dramatic poet, died about 1698. There was one Edward Howard, esq., likewise a descend-England and Wales, with preliminary observaant of the same family, who exposed himself to the satirists by writing bad plays.

HOWARD, Henry, earl of Surrey, a brave general and esteemed poet, born in 1520, was beheaded on a suspicion of his designing to wed the princess Mary, and thereby aspiring to the

crown.

tions, and an account of some foreign prisons, 1777. in 1780, he published an Appendix to this Account, in which he extended the narrative of his travels to Italy, and gave some observations on the management of prisoners of war, and the hulks on the Thames. This Appendix he republished, in 1784; which publicaHOWARD, Thomas, earl of Surrey, and tion included also an account of his visit to duke of Norfolk, lord high admiral of England, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Portugal, in the reign of Henry VIII., distinguished for and Spain. By this time his character for achis services as a naval officer, and as a soldier, attive benevolence had engaged the public attenthe battle of Floddenfield, and afterwards as tion, and it was proposed that a subscriptio 1 viceroy of Ireland; he narrowly escaped the should be set on foot, to erect a statue to his ho capricious tyranny of that prince, and died in nour. This idea was so well received, that in 1554. 15 or 16 months, 615 persons subscribed 15331. HOWARD, Edward, a brave and celebrated 13s. 6d. ; but some of those who knew Mr. HowEnglish admiral, brother to the preceding, wasard best never concurred in the scheme, being killed in an action with a French ship, in 1514. ||well assured that he would never countenance HOWARD, John, was born at Hackney, in nor accede to it: and the event justified their Middlesex, in the year 1726, and put apprentice conduct; for the language that he held upon to Mr. Nathaniel Newnham, a wholesale gro-the subject, when first advised of it, was, “ Have cer, in Watling-street. His constitution was not I one friend in England that would put a thought very weak, and his health appeared to stop to such a proceeding?" In consequence have been injured by the necessary duties of his of two letters from Mr. Howard himself to apprenticeship; at the expiration of it, there- the subscribers, the design was laid aside. In fore, he took an apartment in a lodging-house, 1789, Mr. H. published "An Account of the in Stoke, Newington, kept by a Mrs. Sarah principal Lazarettos in Europe, with various Lardeau, a widow, by whom he was nursed papers relative to the plague, together with with the utmost care and attention. At length further Observations on some Foreign Prisons he became so fond of his landlady, that they and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the were privately married, about the year 1752. present State of those in Great Britain and Ire She was possessed of a small fortune, which he land," with a great number of curious plates presented to her sister. This wife, hoover No: sausfied, however, with what he had alrea died in 1755, and he was a sincere and aftec-dv done, he concludes his "Account of Laza

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rettos" with announcing his intention again to Familiar Letters Domestic and Foreign, partly quit his country, for the purpose of revisiting historical, partly political, partly philosophical." Russia, Turkey, and some other countries, and It is not to be wondered that these letters have extending his tour in the East. On this tour, run through many editions; since they not only however, he fell a victim to his humanity; for, contain much of the history of his own times, having visited a young lady at Cherson, sick of but are also interspersed with many pleasant an epidemic fever, for the purpose of adminis-stories properly introduced and applied. tering some medical assistance, he caught the ROWELL, William, a civilian, of Oxford, distemper himself, and was carried off in 12 and chancellor of Lincoln, died in 1688. The days, Jan. 20, 1790. The name of Howard will works that he has left behind him are, among ve in the remembrance of those who have others, "Medulla Historia Anglicane;" a been rescued, by his exertions, from the gloomy" History of the World from the earliest Times horrors of confinement, which might otherwise have been unlimited; alleviated in the pangs of disease, which might have been irremediable; and comforted in the still more agonizing reproaches of conscious guilt, which would inevitably have terminated in destruction. A statue to Mr. Howard's memory has been erected in St. Paul's cathedral.

to the Ruin of the Roman Empire;" and "Ele menta Historiæ Civilis."

HOWELL, David, an eminent lawyer, of Rhode Island, was a member of congress, attorney-general, and judge of the supreme court of that state, professor of mathematics, and afterwards of law, in Brown university, and a judge of the district court of the United States, for that district. He died in 1824.

HOWELL, Richard, governor of New-Jersey, in 1793, to which office he was elected eight years successively; he died in 1802.

HOYLE, Edmund, author of some celebrated treatises on the games of Whist, Quadrille, &c., born in 1672, died in 1769.

HUARTE, John, a native of French Navarre, though he usually passes for a Spaniard, lived in the 16th century, and gained great fame by a work that he published in the Spanish tongue, upon a very curious and interesting subject, viz. to show the gifts and different abilities of men, and for what kind of study the genius of every man is adapted. This book has been translated into several languages. Its title is "The Trial of Wits."

HUBBARD, William, minister of Ipswich, Mass., author of a history of New England in manuscript; he died in 1704.

HUBER, Samuel, a native of Berne, was professor of divinity, at Wittemberg, in 1592. HUBER, Ulric, a Dutch lawyer, professor of

HOWE, Richard, earl, a famous British admiral, born in 1725. At 14 he entered the navy; and at the early age of 20 was appointed captain of the Baltimore sloop, in which he attacked two French frigates of 30 guns each, and obliged them to sheer off. Our limits prevent us from tracing this brave man through all his exploits; but, being presented to the king, by lord ke, after the memorable victory over Conflans, in 1759, his majesty said, "My lord Howe, your life has been one continued se-law and history, at Franeker; he died in 1694. ries of services to your country." In brief, we His writings were on subjects connected with may say the same thing of the latter period of his profession. his existence. In 1782 he was sent to the relief HUBER, Mary, a native of Geneva, distinof Gibraltar, a service which he performed in guished as a writer. She died at Lyons, in 1753. the most admirable manner in the sight of the HUBER, John Rudolph, a portrait and histohostile fleet, which he in vain challenged to bat-rical painter, of Basil; he died in 1748, aged 80. tie. In 1793, his lordship took the command of the channel fleet; and in 1794, totally vanquished one of the most powerful fleets that France had ever equipped for sea, and brought home HUBNER, John, of Saxony, was professor seven ships of the line, besides smaller vessels.of geography, at Leipsic, and rector of the On this glorious occasion their majesties, with school at Hamburgh, where he died in 1731. three of the princesses, paid him a visit on board HUDDE, John, a burgomaster of Amster his ship, at Spithead; when the king presented dam, eminent as a mathematician, and known him with a magnificent sword, enriched with also as a politician; he died in 1704. diamonds, a gold chain, and a medal; and the HUDSON, Captain Henry, an eminent Engthanks of both bouses of parliament, the free-lish navigator, who flourished in high fame, in dom of London, and the universal acclamations the beginning of the 17th century, having discoof the nation, followed these acknowledgments vered Hudson's bay at the north of Canada, of the sovereign. Earl Howe died in 1799, and and the river in New-York, which has since a handsome monument is crected to his memo-borne his name. He is supposed to have perry, in St. Paul's cathedral. ished at sea, being set adrift in a shallop by

HUBERT, Matthew, a preacher, and priest of the oratory of Paris, distinguished for his eloquence; he died in 1717.

HUDSON, Dr. John, an eminent English cri-f rec, and keeper of the Bodleian library, and principal of St. Mary-hall, Oxford; he died in 1719

HUDSON, William, an eminent botanist,|| born in Westmoreland, about 1730. In 1762 he published "Flora Anglica," and died in 1793. HUET, Peter Daniel, bishop of Avrances, in France, and a celebrated philosophical, historical, and commercial writer, born at Caen, in 1630, and died in 1721.

HUFNAGEL, George, a native of Antwerp, distinguished as a writer on natural history, and of Latin poetry; he died in 1600.

HUGH CAPET, count of Paris and Orleans, was raised to the throne of France by his merits and courage, in 987, and thus became the head of the third race of the French monarchy; he died in 996.

HUMPHREY, Lawrence, an English writer, was professor of divinity, and president of Mag dalen college, Oxford, and afterwards dean of Gloucester, and of Winchester; he died in 1590. HUMPHREYS, David, LL. D., a soldier of the revolution, aid-de-camp, successively, to Putnam, Greene, and Washington; afterwards, ambassador from the United States to Lisbon, and minister plenipotentiary to Spain; he died at New-Haven, in 1818. He rendered essential service to his country, by his poetical and patriotic writings, which were read and admired, both here and in Europe; also, by the introduction, into the United States, of a valuable breed of fine-wooled sheep, from Spain.

HUNNERIC, king of the African Vandals, known for his severe persecution of the Christians, died in 484.

HUNNIADES, John Corvinus, a general of the Hungarian armies in the 13th century, and was distinguished for his bravery, and his great success in the wars with the Turks; he died in 1456, lamented by the pope, by the Christians,

HUGHES, John, an English poet, dramatic author, and essayist, born at Marlborough, in 1677, died in 1720. His last work was "The Siege of Damascus," a tragedy, which is still occasionally acted. Several papers in the "Tat-and even by the infidels. tlers," "Spectators," and "Guardians," were HUNNIUS, Giles, a distinguished Lutheran written by him. divine, professor of divinity at Marpurg, and HUGHES, Jabez, younger brother of the pre-afterwards at Wittemberg; he died in 1603. ceding, distinguished as a scholar, and as a translator from the Latin and Spanish; he died in 1731.

HUGHES, Jabez, of Cambridge, known as the editor of Chrysostom's treatise on the Priesthood; he died in 1712.

HUNT, Walter, an English carmelite, known for his opposition to the union between the Greek and Latin churches; he died in 1470. HUNT, Jeremiah, D. D., an English clergyman and theological writer, died in 1744. HUNTER, Robert, author of the celebrated

HUGO, of Cluni, abbot of Cluni, and a saint" Letter on Enthusiasm," which has been asof the Romish calendar, died in 1609.

cribed to Swift, and still more commonly to the HUGO, Herman, a learned jesuit, who wrote earl of Shaftesbury. He wrote also a farce, on metaphysical subjects, and was also distin-called "Androboros," and died governor of Jaguished in his time as a poet, was born at Brus-maica, in 1734. sels, in 1588, and died of the plague, at Rhimberg, in 1629.

HUGO, Charles Lewis, a French and Latin writer, abbot of Etival, and titular bishop of Ptolemais; he died in 1735.

HUGTENBURGH, John Van, an eminent Dutch painter, died in 1733. His brother, James, was a landscape painter of reputation. He died in 1696.

HULDRIC, John James, professor of law, at Zurich, where he died in 1731.

HULL, Thomas, a respectable actor and dramatic writer, and founder of the theatrical fund for the relief of distressed actors and actresses, was bred to the practice of physic, but quitted that profession for the stage, of which he died the father, at the age of 80, in 1808.

HUNTER, William, M. D., a most celebrated English physician and anatomist, born in 1718, died in 1783. The most splendid of Dr. Hunter's medical publications is, "The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus." His Anatomical Museum was the most complete of all the private ones in Europe, and was collected by him at the expense of upwards of 20,000l.

HUNTER, John, younger brother of the preceding, a very eminent English surgeon, and anatomical writer, born in 1728, died suddenly in 1793. At the age of 20 he began, as assistant to his brother, the career that ended in his becoming, both in theory and practice, the first surgeon in the world. His anatomical researches were various, persevering, and successful: with the office, use, situation, or communication, of the several parts of the human structure, no man was better acquainted; and his numerous writings may be considered as a basis on which HULSEMANN, John a Lutheran divine, the whole art of physic may securely rest. Mr. professor of divinity at Leipsic, and a theolo-Hunter's most valuable treatises may be found gical writer; he died in 1661. in the "Philosophical Transactions," from the 62d to the 82d volumes.

HULMÉ, Nathaniel, an English physician of reputation, and author of several essays on medical subjects; he died in 1807.

HULSIUS, Anthony, a distinguished oriental scholar, and professor of divinity at Leyden; he died in 1685.

HULSIUS, Henry, a theological writer, and professor at Douisburgh, where he died, in 1723. HULST, Peter Van der, an excellent painter of animals, a native of Dort; he died in 1708.

HUMÉ, David, a celebrated philosopher and historian, born at Edinburgh, in 1711, and died in 1776. His "Essays," and "History of Eng land," are so well known, as scarcely to need mention. The latter has, undoubtedly, the preference, in the public mind, over every other extant. The former are very strongly tinctured with infidelity.

HUNTER, Anne, widow of Mr. John Hunter, the anatomist, was distinguished as the author of several beautiful poems, and as the intimate friend of the celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Carter; she died in 1802.

HUNTER, Dr. Henry, an eminent presby terian divine, equally admired for his pulpit elquence, and beloved for his benevolence, was born at Culross, in Perthshire, in 1741, and died at Bristol, in 1802. His works are numerous, but the most important are translations. His principal original publication is a course of ser mons, in 6 vols. 8vo., entitled "Sacred Biogra phy." The most distinguished of his trausla