engaged in a plot to kill Cromwell (iii. 43, 68). On 13 July 1663 he was appointed equerry to the queen (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1663–4 pp. 202, 613, 1664–5 pp. 339, 379).
His brother, James Hassall (fl. 1667), also styled a major, arrived at Antwerp in February 1655, and gave Ormonde much information about affairs in England (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, iii. 13). In July following he received a letter from the king desiring him to return to England to collect any sums of money that the generosity of friends might supply (ib. iii. 44). At the end of the year he was concerned in the plot to assassinate Cromwell, but was betrayed, arrested on 16 Nov., and committed a close prisoner to the Tower (ib. pp. 87, 134). There he remained until the Restoration (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1655–60). According to his fellow-conspirators, the plot failed through his delay (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, iii. 81). At this examination he refused to disclose anything (ib. iii. 90). Charles made him his cupbearer and captain of a company (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1660–1, pp. 244, 453), and in October 1660 granted him a patent for ‘sea wreck, minerals, gravel, sand, etc., usually taken up for ballast at low water-mark’ (ib. Dom. 1660–1 pp. 244, 326, 1663–4, p. 409). During 1666–7 he corresponded with Aphra Behn [q. v.], then at Antwerp, but she often complained of his silence and delay (ib. Dom. 1666–7). Pepys, who often met him, describes him as ‘a great creature of the Duke of Albemarle's’ (Diary, 24 June 1666). On 27 Sept. 1667 he was made captain of the foot company employed in Portsmouth garrison (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1667, p. 487). The name occurs in the state papers as Halse, Halsey, Halsall, and Hallsall.
[Draper's House of Stanley, pp. 99, 111.]
HASSÉ, CHRISTIAN FREDERICK (1771–1831), composer and organist, born at Sarepta, Southern Russia, was educated at Barby, near Halle, and at Niesky in Silesia, under Gregor, a Moravian bishop and composer of hymns. After filling the post of classical master at Barby, Niesky, and Hennersdorf, near Herrnhut, Hassé taught music and foreign languages at Fulneck, the Moravian settlement near Leeds, and became organist to the chapel. Hassé did much to improve musical taste and knowledge in that part of Yorkshire, by introducing foreign masterpieces and organising orchestral meetings. He died very suddenly on 1 May 1831. Hassé arranged the music for ‘Polyhymnia, or Select Airs by celebrated foreign Composers, adapted to words by James Montgomery,’ London, 1822. He also compiled ‘Sacred Music, partly original, partly selected’ (Leeds), which included his chorus, ‘Blessed are they,’ his recitative and air, ‘The Mountains shall depart,’ and a bass solo and chorus by him, entitled ‘Amen, praise the Lord.’ The last number has been since reprinted as No. 4 of Swan & Pentland's ‘Part Music.’ Hassé composed many hymns which have not been collected.
[Leeds Intelligencer, 5 May 1831; Holland and Everett's Memoirs of James Montgomery, ii. 302; Cudworth's Round about Bradford, p. 506; private information.]
HASSELL, JOHN (d. 1825), watercolour painter, engraver, and drawing-master, first appears as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1789 with a 'View of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain.' He drew many views of local scenery, which he engraved himself in aquatint, most of them coloured. They were published in various topographical works. He had a large practice as a drawing-master, and published some works on water-colour painting and drawing. Hassell was a friend of George Morland [q. v.], and wrote a life of him, published in 1800; he also engraved Morland's drawing of 'Conway Castle' in aquatint. he died in 1825.
He also published: 1. 'A Tour of the Isle of Wight' 1790, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. A Picturesque guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon and the adjacent Country: illustrated with a set of views taken in the Summer of 1792 by Messrs. Ibbetson, Laporte, and J. Hassell, and engraved in aquatint,' 1793. 3. 'Views of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats ... in the Counties adjoining London', 1804. 4. 'Beauties of Antiquity' 1806. 5. 'The Speculum or Art of drawing in Water-colours' 1809, which reached three editions. 6. 'Calcographia, or the Art of multiplying Drawings', 1811. 7. 'Aqua Pictura; illustrated by a Series of original Specimens from the Works of Messrs. Payne, Munn, Francis, and others,' 1813. 8. 'Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, thirty miles round the British Metropolis,' 1818, 2 vols. 9. 'Tour of the Grand Junction Canal', 1819. 10. 'Rides and Walks round London', 1820, 2 vols. 11. 'The Camera; or Art of drawing in Water-colours,' 1823. 12. 'Excursions of pleasure and sports on the Thames', 1823. 13. 'Graphic delineation: a Practical Treatise on the Art of Etching', 1830. All the works are illustrated with engravings in aquatint by Hassell himself.
