-Richard Broughton, author of the Monasticum Britannicum, was born at Stukely, on the high-road from Huntingdon towards Stilton. -Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, the celebrated antiquary, whose inestimable MSS and library are now in the British Museum, was born at Denton in 1570. Died 1621.-Huntingdon gave birth to Oliver Cromwell.-Richard Cromwell (Oliver's brother) was also a native of this town. Died 1712.-Stephen Marshall, the parliamentary divine, and head of the Smectymnians, and whom Dugdale calls the bell-wether of that blessed flock,' Presbyterianorum anti-signanus,' was born at Godmanchester. Roger, de St. Ives, an Augustine friar, who wrote against the Lollards about 1390, was born at St. Ives, and appears to have been living in 1420.

There is scarcely any manufacture in this county. A little wool-stapling and spinning of yarn are carried on in some places; also a lace manufactory at Kimbolton. Stilton is famous for its cheese and there is a vinegar manufactory of some extent at the foot of Huntingdon bridge. The remains of antiquity in this county are principally Roman; among them are the vestiges of three roads, which were constructed by that people. The remains of Ramsey Abbey and Castle, the seat of the family of Oliver Cromwell, are of venerable date; and the churches of St. Ives, Bluntisham, and St. Neots, and the castle of Kimbolton are ancient.

HUNTINGDON, the chief town of the above county, is pleasantly situated on the north bank of the Ouse, over which there is here a bridge of six arches. It at present consists of but four parishes, having two churches, and two dissenting chapels; but is said to have been formerly a place of more importance, and to have numbered fifteen churches. Near the church of St. Mary was anciently a priory of black canons, and on an eminence near it stood a castle, erected by Edward the Elder, and enlarged by David I. of Scotland, earl of Huntingdon. Towards the eastern side of the town, where the principal part of it formerly stood, the lanes which divide the enclosures from each other still retain their ancient names; and in a piece of ground, called the Priory-Close, two stone coffins were dug up several years ago. The county assizes, in March and July, contribute greatly to the support of the town. The town-hall is a good modern building, with a piazza and shambles. The lower part contains the civil and criminal courts; and above is a spacious assembly room. The market place is commodious, and the market well supplied. The principal street is very respectable in appearance, and the whole place is well paved and lighted. Here is a free grammar-school, and a charitable green-coat-school. The county gaol is a small structure in the High-street. Huntingdon is famous for being the native place of Oliver Cromwell, whose baptism is entered in the register for 1599. It is a borough by prescription, and sends two members to parliament, chosen by about 200 freemen and inhabitant householders. It is governed by a mayor, twelve aldermen, and a common council of burgesses. The Ouse being navigable from Lynn, through this town up to Bedford, it derives its

HUNTINGTON, or HUNT (William), who styled himself S. S.,was born near Cranbrook in the weald of Kent, in 1774. He does not spare his mother's reputation in endeavouring to sustain his own; he was the offspring,' he tells us, of 'a double adultery. At first he was a farmer's servant of the lowest description; then, for a while, a gun-maker; then, again, a farmer's servant; then a gardener; then a gunpowder-manufac turer; then a coal-heaver (at which period he first began to preach); then a shoe-maker; and, finally, a dissenting teacher. He added to his original name Hunt, the syllables 'ington' to escape the demand of the parish of Frittenden in Kent upon him for an illegitimate child ; and S. S. to proclaim that he was, in his own estimation, a sinner saved.

'You know,' he says, we clergy are very fond of titles of honor; some are called lords spiritual, though we have no such lords but in the persons of the ever-blessed Trinity; others are named doctors of divinity, and prebends, though God gives no such titles; therefore I cannot conscientiously add D. D. to my function, though some hundreds have been spiritually healed under my ministry; nor have I £14 to spare to buy the dissenting title of D. D. Being thus circumstanced, I cannot call myself a lord spiritual, because Peter, the pope's enemy, condemns it; nor can I call myself lord high primate, because supremacy, in the Scriptures, is applied only to kings, and never to ministers of the gospel. As I cannot get at D. D. for the want of cash, neither can I get at M. A. for the want of learning; therefore I am compelled to fly for refuge to S. S., by which I mean Sinner Saved."

His own fanatical story of his conversion, and call' to preach, has been adverted to by the Quarterly Review (No. 48), and other writers, to bring into contempt all modern' experience in religion, and conversions as different from this man's as that of St. Paul the apostle. We entirely doubt Hunt's pretensions to having ever been a real lover of good morals, and therefore dismiss his whole profession of Christianity as a mixture of knavery and fanaticism. No man of right feeling would have thought it needful to confess his mother's sins; no man, as we think, that ever hated his own, would have related them in the manner he has done.

It will be sufficient, therefore, to add, that he removed from Thames Ditton, where he commenced preacher, to London about the year 1796; that he first officiated in a chapel of lady Huntingdon's in Margaret-street, but soon obtained one of his own; and finally built the handsome meeting-house in Gray's-Inn Lane, called Providence Chapel; published largely; married the widow of Sir James Saunderson, a late lord mayor; and died rich, in 1813.

HURD (Richard), D. D., bishop of Worces ter, a distinguished divine and elegant classical scholar, was born, as he himself informs us, at Congreve, in Staffordshire, in 1720. There being good grammar school at Brewood, he was educated there under the Rev. Mr. Hillman, and, upon his death, under his successor, the Rev. Mr. Budworth, and continued under his care till he went to the university, when he was admitted to Emanuel College, Cambridge. He took his B. A.'s degree in 1738-39; his M. A.'s degree, and was elected fellow, in 1742. In 1749 he took his degree of B. D. He published the same year Remarks on Mr. Weston's Book on the Rejection of Heathen Miracles, and his Commentary on Horace's Ars Poetica, which last book introduced him to the acquaintance of Dr. Warburton, by whose recommendation to Dr. Sherlock, bishop of London, he was appointed Whitehall preacher in May 1750. He published the Commentary on the Epistle to Augustus in 1751; the new edition of both Comments, with dedication to Mr. Warburton, in 1753; and the Dissertation on the Delicacy of Friendship in 1755. His Remarks on Hume's Natural History of Religion appeared in 1757; and he was instituted this year (February 16th), to the rectory of Thurcaston, in the county of Leicester, on the presentation of Emanuel College. He published Moral and Pol tical Dialogues in 1759. In 1762 he published the Letters on Chivalry and Romance; and Dialogues on Foreign Travel in 1763; and Letter to Dr. Leland of Dublin in 1764. He was made preacher of Lincoln's Inn, on the recommendation of Mr. Charles Yorke, &c., November 6th, 1765; was collated to the archdeaconry of Gloucester, on the death of Dr. Geekie, August 27th, 1767; and was appointed to open the Lecture of bishop Warburton on Prophecy in 1768. He took the degree of D. D. at Cambridge, in the commencement of this year. He published the Sermons on Prophecy in 1772; was consecrated bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, the 12th of February, 1775; and published the rst volume of Ser

mons preached at Lincoln's Inn, 1776; Dr. Hurd was now made preceptor to the prince of Wales and his brother prince Frederick. He lost his old and best friend, bishop Warburton, June 7th, 1779. He was elected member of the Royal Society of Gottingen, January 11th, 1781; and on the death of the bishop of Winchester was translated to the see of Worcester, and made a clerk of the closet. In 1783 archbishop Conwallis died, and Hurd had it is said the offer of the archbishopric from his majesty; but he begged leave to decline it, as a charge not suited to his temper and talents, and much too heavy for him to sustain, especially in these times. It was also offered to the bishop of London, Dr. Lowth, and refused by him, as was foreseen, on account of his ill health. It was then given to Dr. Moore, bishop of Bangor. Declining all offers of preferment, bishop Hurd continued to fulfil the duties of his station for more than twenty years; during which period he enjoyed the countenance and respect of the royal family, from several members of which he even received repeated visits. The king presented to him two fine full length pictures of his Majesty and the Queen, which the bishop put up in his drawing-room with a suitable inscription. After a few days' confinement to his bed, he expired in his sleep, on Saturday morning, May 28th, 1808; having completed four months beyond his eighty-eighth year. He was buried in Hartlebury church-yard, according to his own directions. He had been bishop of Worcester for almost twenty-seven years; a longer period than any bishop of that see since the Reformation.

HUNYAD, a palatinate of Transylvania on the frontier of Hungary. It has an area of 2250 square miles, and a population of above 100,000, chiefly Walachians, with a few Germans and Hungarians.

HURA, in botany, a genus of the monadelphia order, and monccia class of plants, natural order fifty-eighth, tricoccæ. The amentum of the male is imbricated, perianth truncated: cor. none, the filaments cylindrical, peltated on top, and surrounded with numerous or double anthere. Female: CAL. none: COR. none: STYLE is funnel-shaped, the stigma cleft in twelve parts: CAPS. twelve-celled, with a single seed in each cell. There is but one species, viz.

H. crepitans, a native of the West Indies. It rises with a soft ligneous stem to the height of twenty-four feet, dividing into many branches, which abound with a milky juice, and have scars on their bark where the leaves have fallen off. The male flowers come out from between the leaves upon foot-stalks three inches long; and are formed into a close spike or column, lyingover each other like the scales of fish. The female flowers are situated at a distance from them; and have a long funnel-shaped tube spreading at the top, where it is cut into twelve reflected parts. After the flower, the germen swells, and becomes a round compressed ligneous capsule, having twelve deep furrows, each being a distinct cell, containing one large round compressed seed. When the pods are ripe, they burst with violence, and throw out their seeds to a considerable distance. It is propagated by

The hurlers must hurl man to man, and not two set upon one man at once.

Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing of the ball, and is of two sorts; to goals, and to the country: for hurling to goals there are fifteen or thirty players, more or less, chosen out on each side, who strip themselves, and then join hands in ranks, one against another: out of those ranks they match themselves by pairs, one embracing another, and so pass away; every of which couple are to watch one another during this play.

Carew.

When balls against the stones are hardest throwne, Then highest up into the aire they fly; So, when men hurle us (with most fury) downe, Wee hopefull are to be advanced thereby,

G. Withers.

HURON, a large lake of North America, one of the five principal ones which lie partly in the British territories, and partly in those of the United States. Its form is nearly triangular, and its circumference above 1000 miles, being upwards of 240 miles long from east to west, and 180 broad from north to south. It has many bays and islands, and communicates with lake Michigan on the west by the straits of Michillimackinac, with Lake Superior on the north-east by those of St. Mary, and with lake Erie on the south by those of Detroit. It abounds with fish, particularly trout and sturgeons, and its banks with sand cherries. The Chippeway, Ottoway, and Huron Indians reside on its banks. It lies between 80° 10′ and 84° 30′ W. long., and between 43° 30′ and 46° 10′ N. lat.

On the western side of lake Huron an extensive series of islands, called the Manatoulin Islands, stretches in an easterly direction for 160 miles;

on some of which the land rises into elevations of great height. On this lake, also, the navigator is often assailed by violent storms, attended with thunder and lightning, more terrific than in any other part of North America. Lake Michigan, at the western angle, although distinguished by a separate name, can only be considered as a part of Lake Huron, deepening into a bay of 262 miles in length, by fifty-five in breadth, and whose entire circumference is 731 miles. Between it and Lake Huron there is a peninsula, that at the widest part is 150 miles; along which, and round the bottom of Michigan, runs part of the chain forming the Land's Height to the southward; whence descend many large and numerous streams that run into it. On the north side of Lake Huron many rivers of considerable size run down from the Land's Height. One of them, called French River, communicates with Lake Nipissing, whence a succession of smaller ones, connected by short portages, opens an intercourse with the Ottawa River, that joins the St. Lawrence near Montreal. On the eastern extremity of the lake is the Matchedash River, which through another succession of lakes, separated only by one short portage, establishes a communication by Lake Simcoe, Holland River, and Yonge Street, with the town of York, the capital of Upper Canada. The land bordering on the western shore of the lake is greatly inferior in quality to that on Lake Erie. It is mixed with sand and small stones, and is principally covered with pines, birch, and some oaks.

HURON, a county of the United States, in Ohio, bounded south by Richland, or the parallel of lat. 41° N. and Indian Lands; east by Medina and Cayahoga counties; north by Lake Erie; and west by Indian Lands. It is watered by Black, Vermillion, and Huron rivers, Pipe and Cold creeks, and Sandusky and Portage rivers. The chief place is Aveny.

HURON, a river of the United States, in the North Western Territory, which rises near the Sciota, and running north-east falls into Lake Erie.

HURONS, a nation of North American Indians, who reside on the banks of the above lake, and whose language is spoken over a great extent of country.

HURRICANE, n. s. Į Fr. ouragan; Span. HURRICA'NO, n. s. Shraacan. A violent storm, such as is often experienced in the western hemisphere.

Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout! Shakspeare. A poet who had a great genius for tragedy, made every man and woman too in his plays stark raging mad: all was tempestuous and blustering; heaven and earth were coming together at every word; a mere hurricane from the beginning to the end.

Dryden,

The ministers of state, who gave us law, In corners with selected friends withdraw; There in deaf murmurs, solemnly are wise, Whisp'ring like winds, ere hurricanes arise. Id. A storm or hurricano, though but the force of air, makes a strange havock where it comes. Burnet.

So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. Addison.

HURRICANES, in the warm climates, greatly exceed the most violent storms known in this country. The ruin and desolation accompanying a hurricane,' says Dr. Mosely in his Treatise on Tropical Diseases, cannot be described. Like fire, its resistless force consumes every thing in its track, in the most terrible and rapid manner. It is generally preceded by an awful stillness of the elements, and a closeness and mistiness in the atmosphere, which makes the sun appear red, and the stars larger. But a dreadful reverse succeeding-the sky is suddenly overcast and wild-the sea rises at once from a profound calm into mountains-the wind rages and roars like the noise of cannon-the rain descends in deluges-a dismal obscurity envelopes the earth with darkness-the superior regions appear rent with lightning and thunderthe earth often does, and always seems to tremble-terror and consternation distract all nature birds are carried from the woods into the ocean; and those whose element is the sea seek for refuge on land-the frightened animals in the field assemble together, and are almost suffocated by the impetuosity of the wind in searching for shelter, which, when found, serves only for

destruction-the roofs of houses are carried to vast distances froin their walls, which are beaten to the ground, burying their inhabitants under them-large trees are torn up by the roots, and huge branches shivered off, and driven through the air in every direction, with immense velocity-every tree and shrub that withstands the shock, is stripped of its boughs and foliage plants and grass are laid flat on the earth-luxuriant spring is changed in a moment to dreary winter. This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror: the harbour is covered with wrecks of boats and vessels; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place, heaps of earth and trunks of trees in another, deep gullies from torrents of water, and the dead and dying bodies of men, women, and children, half buried, and scattered about, where streets but a few hours before were, present the miserable survivors with a shocking conclusion of a spectacle to be followed by famine, and, when accompanied by an earthquake, by mortal diseases.' These destructive phenomena are now thought to arise from electricity, though the manner in which it acts in such cases is unknown. See WIND.

HURRY, v.n. & n. s. Į Sax. pergian, to HURRIER, n. s. plunder hurs was likewise a word used by the old Germans in urging their horses to speed, and seems the imperative of the verb.-Johnson. To hasten; to put into precipitation or confusion; to drive confusedly; to move on with precipitation: hurry, tumult; commotion: hurrier, a disturber.

A long train of coaches and six ran through the heart, one after another in a very great hurry. Id.

I do not include the life of those who are in a perpetual hurry of affairs, but of those who are not always engaged. Id.

A man has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage. Id.

After the violence of the hurry and commotion was over, the water came to a state somewhat more calm. Woodward.

The pavement sounds with trampling feet, And the mixt hurry barricades the street.

Gay's Trivia. If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed, the reader is hurried out of himself by the poet's imagination.

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Pope's Preface to the Iliad. Time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream, Yet treads more soft, than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And carries off his prize.

Blair.

Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. Byron. Childe Harold. HURST CASTLE, a fortress in Hampshire on remarkable tongue of the county, projecting two miles into the sea toward the Isle of Wight, though scarcely 200 yards over at high water. The castle was built by Henry VIII., and consists of a round tower, fortified by bastions. Here Charles I. remained for several days previous to his trial. It is two miles west of Yarmouth.

HURT, v.a. & n. s.
HURT'ER, n. s.
HURT'FUL, adj.
HURT FULLY, adv.
HURTFULNESS, n.s.
HURT'LESS, adj.
HURT LESSLY, adv.
HURT'LESSNESS, n. s. J

Imperf. I hurt; preterper. I have burt. Sax. bynt; Teut. hurtew; Fr. heurter, to strike. Hurt implies corporeal injury, as mischief; wound; blow; bruise; mental pain, or wounded feelings; sorrow; displeasure; personal loss by injustice or wrong: hurtful, mischievous;