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568 CHUKCH OF ENGLAND CHURCHMAN entered the army in 1800, and having spent many years in the British and Neapolitan service, and held in 1813 the command of a Greek infantry corps, he in 1827 joined the Greeks in their struggle for independence. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek forces, and ordered by the national as- sembly of Troezene to march to the relief of Athens. His attempt to raise the siege fail- ed, partly from want of prudence, partly from the dissensions which sprang up among the Greek chieftains. He continued in the ser- vice of Greece till 1829, when, owing to his being a foreigner, and to the personal hos- tility and jealousy of Capo d'Istrias, he was forced to resign. He retired to Argos, and was living in obscurity when he was ordered in 1830 to leave the Greek territory. He re- mained, however, and when Capo d'Istrias was assassinated in the following year, he was again placed at the head of the army, though he con- tinued to oppose the administration of Augus- tin Capo d'Istrias, who had succeeded his brother as president. On the establishment of the kingdom of Greece he was appointed a councillor of state, afterward became a mem- ber of the senate, and remained for many years at the head of the Greek army and navy. His death was honored by a national mourning at the request of the king. < III lt< II OF ENGLAND. See ENGLAND, din:.,, OF. ( HI l<( HILL, a W. central county of Nevada ; area, 5,800 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 196, of whom 16 were Chinese. Carson, Humboldt, and Walker rivers water portions of the county. Near the centre is a depressed basin, in which lie the "sinks" or lakes of Carson and Hum- boldt rivers. In this basin are found salt, bi- carbonate of soda, and other like substances. Much of the surface is mountainous. The arable land along the streams amounts to about 50,000 acres ; the grazing lands are more ex- tensive. There is also some land that might be made productive by irrigation, but the greater part is unfit for agriculture. The Central Pacific railroad passes through the N. W. part. Gold and silver are found. There is one quartz mill for the production of gold, with 10 stamps and 3 arastras. The chief productions in 1870 were 559 tons of hay, 7,145 bushels of barley, and 2,224 Ibs. of wool. There were 130 horses, 137 milch cows, 741 other cattle, and 772 swine. Capital, Stillwater. (Ill H( HILL, called also Mlssinnlppl and Eng- lish Rivtr, a river of British America, rises in Lake Methy, flows S. E. through Lakes Buf- falo and La Crosse, runs thence almost due E. to Nelson's lake, and after traversing a woody region in a N. E. direction and expanding into considerable sheets of water, falls into Hud- son bay. It is about 700 m. long. < III ;;< III! I,. Charles, an English poet, born in Westminster in February, 1731, died in Bou- logne, Nov. 4, 1764. He studied for a time at Trinity college, Cambridge, but did not graduate. At the age of 17, although without any means of subsistence, he married, and his father, a curate and lecturer at Westminster, took him and his wife into his house and sup- ported them on condition of his adopting the clerical profession. In 1756 he was ordained, and, having first held a curacy in Somerset- shire, was afterward inducted into a small country preferment which belonged to his father. In 1758, on the death of his father, he succeeded to his curacy. During this pe- riod he was exemplary in his conduct, although he himself declares that he was doing violence to his own feelings, and that he was but an idle pastor and drowsy preacher. Differences with his wife, increasing debts, and finally the evil example of a young friend, the poet Robert Lloyd, plunged him into all the dissipations and irregularities of the town. He was com- pelled to give up his curacy, and was only saved from incarceration by the interposition of his friend's father, Dr. Lloyd, a master in Westminster school. His first poem, published in 1761, was the u Rosciad," a satire on the theatrical world of the day. The criticisms upon this performance drew out the stinging "Apology to the Critical Reviewers," in which he attacked the wits as he had the players. In 1762 he associated himself with Wilkes, and wrote frequently for the " North Briton." The "Prophecy of Famine," a satire on Scotch- men, directed against the Bute administration, attained great popularity. He was involved in the proceedings against the " North Briton," in which Wilkes defended the liberties of the subject against the stretch of kingly preroga- tive. He defended his profligate course in " Night," and wrote also " The Duellist," " The Author," "Gotham," "The Candidate," "The Farewell," "Epistle to Hogarth," "The Times," and many other satirical pieces. He died while on a visit to Wilkes, and was buried at Dover. "No English poet," says Southey, " had ever enjoyed so excessive and so short- lived a popularity ; and indeed no one seems more thoroughly to have understood his own powers; there is no indication in any of his pieces that he could have done anything better than the thing he did." His complete works were published in 1804. ( III K( HILL. John. See MARLBOROUGH, DUKE OF. CHURCHMAN, William H., a blind man, super- intendent of several institutions for the instruc- tion of the blind, born in Baltimore, Md., in 1818. As a pupil of the Pennsylvania institu- tion for the blind, he acquired a good mathe- matical education, and attained proficiency in music. In 1840 he became an assistant teacher of music and other branches in the Ohio in- stitution for the blind at Columbus. In 1844 he was appointed principal of the Tennessee institution for the blind. He resigned after two years' service in consequence of ill health, and in 1847 was chosen superintendent of the Indiana institution for the blind at Indianapolis,