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LLOYD LOACH 555 time ; but as the accusation could not be proved, he was restored. Being exiled as an adherent of the French by Ferdinand VII. in 1814, he went to Paris, where,. after a short journey to England, he took up his permanent abode. Here he finished his u History of the Spanish Inquisition," published in Spanish, but at the same time translated into French under his superintendence by A. Pellier (Histoire cri- tique de V inquisition d*Espagne, 4 vols., 1817- '18). The accuracy of his citations from the documents of the inquisition has been disputed by modern Catholic writers, especially Hefele in his " Life of Ximenes ;" but Protestant his- torians are generally of opinion that no suffi- cient reason has yet been adduced to doubt it. Immediately after the publication of this work he was suspended from ecclesiastical functions. He then endeavored to support himself by giv- ing instruction at a literary institution in Paris, but this also was soon forbidden by the Paris university. In 1822 he published his Por- traits politiques des papes, and being ordered by the government to leave France, he re- turned to Madrid, where he found a cordial re- ception, but died soon afterward. Besides the works already mentioned, he published Me- moires pour sermr d Vhistoire de la revolution d>Espagne, par Nellerto, an anagram of his name (3 vols., Paris, 181 5-' 19) ; Discours sur une constitution religievse (2 vols., 1819) ; (Eumes completes de Earth, de Las Casas (2 vols., 1822) ; and Observations critiques sur le roman de Gil Bias (1822), in which he sought to prove that Le Sage took his celebrated work from a Spanish manuscript. He wrote an au- tobiography, Noticia liogrdfica (Paris, 1818), which was reprinted in full in Mahul's An- nuaire necrologique (1824). LLOYD, Henry, an English soldier, born in Wales in 1729, died in Huy in the Netherlands, June 19, 1783. He was present at the battle of Fontenoy (1745), entered the Austrian ser- vice during the seven years' war, and rose to the command of a body of cavalry, but resigned his commission and joined, the army of Fred- erick the Great. He made two campaigns as aide-de-camp to Prince Ferdinand of Bruns- wick, and on the commencement of hostilities between Russia and Turkey in 1768 he entered the Russian service as major general. He dis- tinguished himself at the siege of Silistria and elsewhere, and subsequently participated with credit in the war with Sweden. After more than 30 years' absence he returned to England, and wrote " The History of the late War in Germany " (2 vols. 4to) and " A Treatise on the Composition of different Armies, Ancient and Modern," besides a memoir on the " Invasion and Defence of Great Britain and Ireland," which appeared after his death. LLOYD'S, the name of subscription rooms on the first floor of the London exchange, where merchants, shippers, and underwriters attend to obtain shipping intelligence, and where the business of marine insurance is carried on. One large room with small rooms attached to it is occupied by the underwriters, the object of whose association is to limit the interest of every individual underwriter to a moderate amount, say 50, 100, or 150, rarely ex- ceeding 200 ; so that in case of casualties the loss, instead of falling upon one, is divided among hundreds. The underwriters of Lloyd's have agents in all parts of the world to report casualties and to attend to their interests. Their affairs are managed by a committee of 12 mem- bers ; the chairman is elected annually. An- other large room, called the merchants' room, is provided with newspapers from all parts of the world, and open to subscribers, who for the use of this room alone have to pay two guineas, and for the whole establishment four guineas annually. The third room is called the cap- tains' room, to which a bar is attached, where captains and merchants meet in a more social manner, and where ship auctions are held. In 1716 the association commenced the publica- tion of a weekly journal known as "Lloyd's List." Since 1800 it has appeared daily, and always contains the latest shipping intelligence. This use of the name Lloyd or Lloyd's arose from the circumstance that the headquarters of the London underwriters were originally in Lloyd's coffee house ; it has now become a ge- neric term for similar associations in many parts of Europe. The Trieste or Austrian Lloyd's was established in that city in 1833 by C. L. von Bruck, who afterward became minister and baron. At first it was devoted to the in- surance business, and subsequently it also be- came the agency of steamers to the Levant and the Mediterranean, and other parts of the world. In 1849 a third department was connected with it, embracing literature and art, with the aid of lecture and reading rooms, and a print- ing and publishing establishment. The organ of this institution is the Giornale del Lloyd austriaco, which in 1874 was in its 40th year. Next in importance to this is the North Ger- man Lloyd's (Norddeutscher Lloyd) at Bremen, chiefly in connection with emigration to the United States and transatlantic steamers. LOACH, a soft-rayed cyprinoid fish, of the genus colitis (Linn.). The common loach of Loach (Cobitis barbatula). Great Britain (0. larlatula, Linn.) is 3 or 4 in. long, with a small head, elongated body very little narrowed at the tail, and covered with minute and slimy scales; the mouth is small, without teeth, the upper lip having four barbules in front and one at each corner ; the