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
