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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 70

Chap. LXX.—An Act supplementary to “An act relating to the ransom of American captives of the late war.”
March 1, 1817, ch. 29. Provisions of the act of March 1, 1817, respecting the ransom of American captives, extended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act relating to the ransom of American captives of the late war,” passed the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be so construed as to embrace within its provisions all officers, soldiers, and persons, attached to, and followers of, the army of the United States, who were captured and made prisoners by the enemy, and who were ransomed during the late war with Great Britain; and that the proper accounting officer of the War Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to adjust and settle the accounts of any person, his assigns or his legal representatives, who may have purchased and ransomed from captivity any citizen, officer, soldier, or other person aforesaid, upon equitable principles: Provided,Proviso. The evidence produced in support of such accounts shall be the best in the power of the claimant, and sufficient to satisfy the accounting officer of the justice of the claim; Provided also,Proviso. That in no case shall a greater sum than one hundred and fifty dollars be allowed for the ransom of any one person.
Accounting officer authorized to adjust and settle accounts for clothing furnished. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of such accounting officer, and he is hereby authorized and required, to adjust and settle the accounts of any person, his assigns, or his legal representatives, who shall have furnished proper and necessary articles of clothing to, and for the use of, any citizen, officer, soldier, or other person, purchased and ransomed from captivity during the late war with Great Britain, aforesaid: Provided, It shall be satisfactorily proved, and made to appear, to such accounting officer, that the apparel and clothing so furnished were necessary, at the time, to the safety, support, and comfort, of the person ransomed; and that the articles charged were applied to the clothing of such prisoners, and to no other purpose whatever.
Sums to be paid out of the Treasury.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all sums of money to be audited and allowed under this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 67

Chap. LXVII.—An Act to authorize the purchase of a number of copies of the sixth volume of the laws of the United States.
The Secretary of State authorized to subscribe for 550 copies of the 6th volume of the laws of the United States. Distribution.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred and fifty copies of the sixth volume of the laws of the United States, published by Davis and Force, of the city of Washington, and cause to be distributed one copy thereof to the President of the United States, one copy to the Vice President of the United States, one copy to each of the heads of departments, to the attorney general of the United States, to each of the senators and representatives, and to each delegate of territories of the seventeenth Congress; fifteen copies to the secretary of the Senate, for the use of the Senate, and thirty copies to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the use of that House; one copy to each branch of the legislature of each state and territory, and one copy to each of the executives of the several states and territories; and cause the residue to be deposited in the library of Congress.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 71

Chap. LXXI.—An Act to establish a national armory on the western waters.
President authorized to employ an engineer to examine a site for a national armory on the western waters.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to employ a skilful engineer or officer of the ordnance department, with such other person or persons as he may judge proper, to examine the most suitable site for a national armory on the western waters; and that the said engineer, and such other person or persons be requested to report the result of their examinations to Congress at the commencement of its next session, particularly designating the sites by them examined, with the comparative advantages of each, and an estimate showing the amount necessary for purchasing each, and erecting all necessary buildings thereon.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to effect the object of this act.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 7

Chap. VII.—An Act in addition to “An act to continue in force ‘An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy,’ and, also, to make further provision for punishing the crime of piracy.”
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 113. The 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th sections of act of March 3, 1819, ch. 77, made perpetual.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first, second, third, and fourth sections of an act, entitled “An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and to punish the crime of piracy,” passed on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, continued in force, in all respects, as fully as if the said sections had been enacted without limitation, in the said act, or in the act to which this is an addition, and which was passed on the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Approved, January 30, 1823.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lupton, Donald

​LUPTON, DONALD (d. 1676), miscellaneous writer, served during the early part of his life as chaplain to the English forces in the Low Countries and Germany. By 1632 he had settled in London, where he subsisted as a hack author. Though he paid assiduous court to all parties in church and state, he failed to obtain preferment until ​27 March 1663, when he was appointed vicar of Sunbury, Middlesex (Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 744). He died in April 1676.
His writings are: 1. ‘London and the Covntrey carbonadoed and quartred into seuerall characters,’ 12mo, London, 1632, an amusing trifle written in ten days. It is reprinted in vol. ix. of the ‘Harleian Miscellany’ (ed. Park), in Halliwell-Phillipps's ‘Books of Characters,’ and in the second series of the Aungervyle Society's reprints (1883). 2. ‘Obiectorvm Redvctio, or Daily Imployment for the Soule. In occasionall Meditations upon severall subjects,’ 8vo, London, 1634, written in imitation of Bishop Hall's ‘Occasional Meditations.’ 3. ‘Emblems of Rarieties, or Choyce Observations out of worthy Histories of many remarkable Passages and renowned Actions of divers Princes and severall Nations,’ 12mo, London, 1636. 4. ‘The History of the moderne Protestant Divines … faithfully translated out of [the] Latine [of J. Verheiden and H. Holland],’ 8vo, London, 1637, besides lives of some twenty-two of the chief foreign reformers, or, as he calls them, ‘out-landish writers;’ this contains lives of English divines from Wiclif to Whitgift, together with ‘effigies or icons’ of the majority of them, excellently engraved and ‘taken to the life, some by Albertus Durerus, and the others by that Famous Henry Hondius’ (Preface). 5. ‘The Glory of their Times, or the Liues of ye Primitiue Fathers,’ 4to, London, 1640. 6. ‘A Warre-like Treatise of the Pike, or some experimentall Resolves for lessening the number and disabling the use of the Pike in Warre,’ 12mo, London, 1642. 7. ‘The two main Questions resolved: How (1) the Ministers shall be maintained: (2) the Impropriators shall be satisfied, if Tythes be put down,’ 8vo, London, 1652. 8. ‘The Tythe-takers Cart overthrown, or the Downfall of Tythes: proved that they are not to be payd now, either to the appropriate or impropriate Parsons or Persons,’ 8vo, London, 1652. 9. ‘The Freedom of Preaching, or Spiritual Gifts defended: proving that all men endowed with gifts and abilities may teach and preach the Word of God,’ 8vo, London, 1652. 10. ‘The Quacking Mountebanck, or the Jesuite turn'd Quaker’ [anon.], 4to, London, 1655. 11. ‘Flanders, or an exact … Description of … Flanders … as also a distinct Relation of some Battels fought, and Towns won, unto the now victorious proceedings of the English and French Armies therein,’ 4to, London, 1658.
What is supposed to be a portrait of Lupton appears on the title-page of his ‘History of the moderne Protestant Divines.’
[Lupton's Works; Cat. of Early English Books, 1828; Churton's Nowell, pp. 37, 244; Granger's Biog. Hist. of England, 2nd edit. ii. 181.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Luny, Thomas

​LUNY, THOMAS (1759–1837), marine painter, born in London in 1759, appears to have been in the naval service, and is stated to have served as purser under Captain (afterwards Admiral) Tobin. He had a great talent for drawing, and he would seem to have been a pupil of Francis Holman [q. v.] In 1777 and 1778 he sent pictures to the exhibition of the Society of Artists from ​‘Mr. Holman's, St. George's, Middlesex,’ in the former year ‘A Sunset, with a View of Westminster from the Surrey side,’ and ‘A distant View of the Island of Madeira and Porto Santo,’ and in the latter year ‘A Storm and Shipwreck.’ In 1780 he exhibited at the Royal Academy ‘A Privateer Cutter,’ and was an occasional exhibitor there up to 1793. In 1802 he sent a painting of ‘The Battle of the Nile.’ It seems probable that Luny served continually on board ship for various periods up to 1810, when he was incapacitated by paralysis. He then settled on a pension at Teignmouth in Devonshire, where, in spite of his paralysis and increasing deformity in his hands from creeping rheumatism, he continued to practise as a painter up to the time of his death. He was a very familiar figure on the shore at Teignmouth, and from the veteran naval officers who made that place their home he received much encouragement and many commissions. He was able to build a house in Teign Street, Teignmouth, which still bears the name of Luny House. He died there on 30 Sept. 1837, and was buried in West Teignmouth churchyard, leaving a fair competence to a favourite niece. Luny had great merits as a marine painter, his drawing of shipping being free and accurate, his colouring harmonious, and his composition easy. The majority of his works are in Devonshire, mostly in private possession at Teignmouth or Exeter. At Canonteign, near Exeter, the seat of Lord Exmouth, there are an important series of paintings by Luny representing the principal events of Lord Exmouth's naval career, including ‘The Siege of Algiers.’ A few of his paintings were engraved, including ‘The Burning of the Spanish Batteries before Gibraltar’ and ‘Admiral Rodney's Action off Cape St. Vincent’ (by J. Fittler). There is a good example of his painting of shipping at the Foundling Hospital in London. In June 1837 a collection of 130 paintings by Luny was exhibited in Bond Street (see Literary Gazette, 24 June 1837).
[Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, xviii. 442, with a detailed list of 295 works; ib. xix. 107; Seguier's Dict. of Painters; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lupset, Thomas

​LUPSET, THOMAS (1498?–1530), divine, born in the parish of St. Mildred, Bread Street, London, about 1498, was son of William Lupset, goldsmith, and Alice his wife. While a boy he attracted the notice of Dean Colet, who sent him to St. Paul's School, and afterwards supported him at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. In 1515 he accompanied Richard Pace [q. v.] on his embassy to Venice, and while he was in Italy visited Reginald Pole, He graduated B.A. at Paris, and returned to England about 1519. Settling in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he read in 1520 the rhetoric and humanity lecture founded by Cardinal Wolsey. In 1521 he was created M.A. at Oxford (Reg. of Oxf. Univ., Oxf. Hist. Soc., i. 112–13), and soon afterwards read Cardinal Wolsey's Greek lecture there. On 28 March 1523 he was admitted to the free chapel of St. Nicholas, in the parish of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. The same year he was at Padua with Pole. Shortly after his return home he again, at the earnest request of Wolsey, journeyed to Paris as tutor to Thomas Winter, the cardinal's natural son. On 31 April 1526 he was instituted to the rectory of Great Mongeham, Kent, and on 4 July following to that of St. Martin, Ludgate (Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 414). He was collated to the rectory of Cheriton, Hampshire, on 1 Aug. 1530, in which year he also became prebendary of Salisbury. He died about December 1530, and was buried in the church of St. Alphage within Cripplegate, London.
Lupset was the friend of More, Erasmus, Linacre, Budæus, Pole, and Leland. He rendered great assistance to his learned friends in preparing and correcting their works for the press. He was the supervisor of Linacre's editions of Galen's treatises, and of the second edition of Sir Thomas More's 'Utopia.'
He was author of: 1. 'Epistolæ Variæ ad Edw. Leuim, Nisenum,et Paynellum' in 'Epistolae aliquot Eruditorum,' 8vo, Basle, 1520. 2. 'A Treatise of Charite,' 16mo, London, 1529, 1535, 1539, 1546. 3. 'An Exhortacion to yonge Men, perswadinge them to walke in the Pathe way that leadeth to Honeste and Goodnes,' 12mo, London, 1530, 1534, 1635, 1538, 1540, 1544. 4. 'A Compendiovs and a very Frvtefvl Treatyse, teachynge the waye of Dyenge well,' 8vo, London, 1534, 1541 , 1546, 1560. He translated into English a 'Sermon of St. Chrysostom, wherein ... he wonderfully proveth that No man is hurted but of hym selfe,' 8vo, 1542. Other translations by him will be found in his collected 'Workes,' 12mo, London, 1545, 1546, 1560.
[Pits, De Angliæ Scriptoribus, 1619, pp. 713–714: Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 40; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss). i. 69; Wood's Fasti Oxon. (Bliss), i. 51, 55, 73: Gardiner's Reg. of St. Paul's School. p. 18; Gent. Mag. 1858, pt. i, 119: Knight's Colet; Knight's Erasmus; Lupton's Colet.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lundie, John

​LUNDIE, JOHN (d. 1652?), poet, was elected a regent in King's College, Aberdeen, in 1626, was humanist in 1629 (Fasti Aberd. lxxxiv.), and was advanced in 1631 to be professor of humanity in the university of Aberdeen. This was, at least, his official style, though Gordon says he was ‘raither maister of the grammar schoole.’ In November 1638 he represented his university at the general assembly at Glasgow (Bailie, Correspondence, Bannatyne Club, i. 135, 169), having already in July secretly subscribed the covenant, but refused the king's covenant of October 1638. He appears to have received small powers from the university, ‘for if,’ says Gordon, ‘they meant him a voice ther, they would have sent a divyne, not a grammarier.’ Getting wind that he was a covenanter, however, the assembly gave him that power which the university of Aberdeen withheld, with the result that he exceeded his powers, and got into trouble on his return with the Aberdeen authorities, to whom he subsequently ‘pleaded guiltie and confessed his error’ ({{sc|Spalding}, Hist.)
According to Charters (Cat. of Scotish Writers) Lundie wrote ‘very many poems and the comedie of the 12 patricians in the Latin tongue.’ Besides the ‘Oratio Eucharistica et encomiastica in benevolos Vniversitatis Aberdonenses benefactores fautores et patrones … habita xxvii. Jul. ​1631,’ Aberdeen, 4to (Marischal College Library), he wrote the ‘Carmen dedicatorium in commendationem totius libri,’ prefixed to Bishop Patrick Forbes's ‘Funeralls,’ in which are other verses from his pen both in English and Latin (pp. 370, 414). He married on 12 July 1647, at Gordon's Mill, Margaret Gordon (Prof. Thomas Gordon's MSS. in Aberd. Univ. Library), by whom he had a son, John, who predeceased him (Poems, p. 29). From the ‘Epicedium’ on p. 30 of his selected ‘Poems, Latin and English’ (reprinted by the Abbotsford Club in 1845) it appears that his wife was a sister of Elizabeth Gardyne, formerly wife of Alexander Morisone of Bognor. He seems to have been familiar with John Leech (Leochæus) (fl. 1623) [q. v.], and with the more celebrated David Leech [q. v.], to whom he addressed one of his poems. To his brother-in-law(?), Alexander Gardyne [q. v.], the poet, he states that he gave one New-year's day, ‘ane Dictionar of 400 languages’! But of this ‘treasure of four hundreth tongs’ nothing further seems known. Lundie probably died in 1652, when eighteen of his books were bought ‘for the use of the bibliotheck’ for 91l. (Scots) (Fasti Aberd. p. 599). His poems are of small account.
[Gordon's Hist. of Scots Affairs (Spalding Club), i. 155; Fasti Aberdonenses, passim; Spalding's Hist. of Troubles, i. 58, 74, 88, 117; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. i. 45; information kindly supplied by P. J. Anderson, esq.; Lowndes's Bibl. Man.]
T. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Foster, Thomas (1798-1826)

​FOSTER, THOMAS (1798–1826), painter, a native of Ireland, came to England at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and in 1818 became a student of the Royal Academy at Somerset House. He was patronised by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker [q. v.], and painted numerous portraits of his family. In 1819 he exhibited at the Royal Academy ‘Portraits of Miss and Master Croker and a favourite dog.’ In 1820 he exhibited a portrait of the French general Dumouriez in his eighty-second year. Foster was a frequent visitor at the studio of J. Nollekens, R.A. [q. v.], the sculptor, where he used to model from antique heads, and was also on intimate terms with Sir Thomas Lawrence, several of whose portraits he copied for Croker. He painted portraits of H. R. Bishop [q. v.], the musician, which was engraved, and of Colonel Phillips (who was with Captain Cook at the time of his death), and showed rapid advancement in the art. In 1822 he exhibited ‘Mazeppa,’ a picture which showed considerable genius; in 1823, ‘Domestic Quarrels;’ and in 1825 ‘Paul and Virginia previous to their separation,’ all of which, besides portraits, he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Foster was considered by his friends to be a rising painter; he was good-looking, well connected, and popular in society, which occupied a good deal of his time. Croker gave him a commission to paint the scene at Carlton House when Louis XVIII received the order of the Garter, and for this ambitious subject he made numerous studies. In March 1826 he died by his own hand at an hotel in Piccadilly, leaving a letter stating that his friends had deserted him, and that he was tired of life. It is uncertain whether this act was prompted by the want of interest he felt in the subject of his picture, or by a hopeless attachment to a young lady whose portrait he was painting. He was in his twenty-ninth year. Foster painted numerous portraits of himself, and sat to Northcote for one of the murderers in his ‘Burial of the Princes in the Tower.’ According to Northcote, Foster was good-looking, good-natured, and a wit, all qualities which would have prevented him from becoming a great artist.
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Foster, Thomas Campbell

​FOSTER, THOMAS CAMPBELL (1813–1882), legal writer, son of John Foster of Leeds, born in 1813, was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1846, and went the northern and afterwards the north-eastern circuit. He stood as a liberal-conservative for Sheffield in 1867, but was unsuccessful. In 1868 he was appointed revising barrister for the West Riding boroughs. He resigned this appointment in 1875, upon being made queen's counsel and bencher of his inn. He was made recorder of Warwick in 1874. He was leading counsel for the crown at the trial of the murderer Charles Peace at Leeds. Foster was in bad health for a considerable time before his death, which took place at Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park, 1 July 1882. Foster wrote: 1. ‘Plain Instructions for the Attainment of an Improved, Complete, and Practical System of Shorthand,’ 1838. 2. ‘Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland. Reprinted, with additions, from the “Times,”’ 1846. 3. ‘A Review of the Law relating to Marriages within the Prohibited Degrees of Affinity, and of the Canons and Social Considerations by which that Law is supposed to be Justified,’ 1847. 4. ‘A Treatise on the Writ of Scire Facias,’ 1851. 5. ‘Reports of Cases decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit, and Select Decisions at Chambers’ (with N. F. Finlason), 1858–1867.
F. W-t.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Foster, Peter Le Neve

​FOSTER, PETER LE NEVE (1809–1879), secretary to the Society of Arts, born 17 Aug. 1809, was the son of Peter le Neve Foster of Lenwade, Norfolk. He was educated under Dr. Valpy at Norwich grammar school, whence he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in the mathematical tripos in 1830. He was elected to a fellowship at his college as thirty-eighth wrangler. In 1836 he was called to the bar, and for fifteen or sixteen years he practised as a conveyancer. In 1853 an association of some years with the Society of Arts led to his being appointed secretary to the society on the retirement of George Grove, and this post he held till his death. In association with Sir Henry Cole [q. v.], Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke [q. v.], and others, he had much to do with the organisation of the first Great Exhibition of 1851 and its successor in 1862, though his share of the work was not recognised by any of the honours or rewards which fell to the lot of many of his companions. He was also connected in various capacities with several of the earlier foreign exhibitions. He was one of the first to practise, as a scientific amateur, the art of photography, and was one of the founders of the Photographic Society. He served for thirteen years as secretary of the mechanical science section of the British Association, and was for a still longer time a regular attendant at its meetings. He was a constant contributor to several of the scientific and technical journals. In the journal of his own society he wrote a good deal, generally anonymously. He read two papers before the Society of Arts, one on ‘Aluminium’ (in 1859), and the other on the ‘Electric Loom’ (in 1860). As secretary to the Society of Arts, he took part in many public movements originated by the society, but being a man of simple tastes, and singularly devoid of personal ambition, he was never anxious to obtain recognition for his labours or to dispute with others the credit which was often justly his due. He died at Wandsworth, Surrey, 21 Feb. 1879.
H. T. W.