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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Pulcheria Ælia

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PULCHERIA ÆLIA,
Born in 899, was the daughter of Arcadius, Emperor of the East. She reigned conjointly with her brother, Theodosius, a mild and feeble prince. The vigorous wisdom of Pulcheria, though only two years the elder, compensated for his defects, and she maintained, by meekness and discretion, that ascendency over him which a superior capacity always gives. Adorned with all the graces of beauty, at fifteen she took a vow of virginity, and persuaded her two younger sisters to do the same. She consecrated herself to the service of God and the state, and divided her time between prayer, charity, and the affairs of the empire. At sixteen, she took the name of Augusta, and as she had always the prudence to preserve her brother's honour, she governed in his name with great success. She gave him the credit of completing the destruction of idolatrous temples and worship, which was due to the spirit, firmness, and wise lenity of her measures. Pulcheria's great natural sagacity enabled her to discover at once how she ought to act, and she executed her purposes with promptitude and vigour.
The empire was agitated by factions, when first she stood at its helm; but it soon enjoyed a perfect peace. under her wise administration; she taught her brother to respect the rights of property, saying, that "The more princes abstained from touching the wealth of their people, the greater would be their resources in the wants of the state."
When Theodosius, weak and irresolute, neglected her advice, and suffered himself to be guided by his eunuchs, the empire soon felt and mourned the change. On his death, in 460, as he left but one child, a daughter, married to Valentinian the Third, Pulcheria became sole mistress of the empire. For political reasons she married Marcian, an old officer In the army, whom she made emperor. She lived four years after, till 454, maintaining the same exemplary character. Her loss was deeply regretted. She alone had sustained the imperial dignity, under the reign of her imbecile brother; and after his death, had placed the crown on a head worthy to wear it. During her life she was a mother to the poor, and she left them her possessions at her death.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Curtis, Roger Lucius

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​CURTIS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Roger Lucius Curtis, born 8 May, 1816, is second son of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 24 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 6 April, 1836; and prior to his promotion, which took place 16 April, 1842, served, as Mate, on board the Queen 110, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington, and Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, employed in the East Indies. He was then appointed to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the same station – and since 12 Dec. 1845, has been attached to the Hibernia 104, and Ceylon 2, bearing the flags, in the Mediterranean and at Malta, of Sir Wm. Parker and Sir Lucius Curtis. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Currie, Thomas Metcalfe

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​CURRIE. (Commander, 1835. I-P., 22; h-p., 13.)
Thomas Metcalfe Currie died 13 May, 1846, at Haslar, aged 46.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Nov. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, in which ship, and as Midshipman of the Prince of Wales 98, he served, with the same officer, in the North Sea and Mediterranean, until July, 1814. Joining, then, the Bombay 74, Capt. Henry Bazely, he escorted the British garrison from Madeira to England; after which he became in succession attached – on the Home, West India, South American, Mediterranean, and East India stations – to the Nautilus 18, Capt. John Bradly, Shark, Capts. Chas. Strangways and Alex. Campbell, Sabine 16, Capt. W. Hall, Royalist and Rifleman brigs, both commanded by Capt. Houston Stewart, Salisbury 50, and Vengeur 74, flag-ships of Rear-Adms. J. E.Douglas and Robt. Waller Otway, and Glasgow 50, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. Assuming the rank of Lieutenant 23 July, 1825, Mr. Currie joined, 1 Dec. following, the Menai 26, Capt. Houston Stewart, at Halifax; and he was subsequently appointed Senior, 13 Nov. 1827, of the Clio 18, Capt. Robt. Deans, off Cork – 28 April, 1829, and 15 March, 1830, of the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Gill, and Ranger 28, Capt. Wm. Walpole, on the Jamaica station – 2 Oct. 1831, again of the Sparrowhawk, Capts. Dawson Mayne. and Thos. ​Maitland – and 25 June, 1833, and 16 Feb. 1834, of the Vernon 50, and President 52, Capts. Sir Geo. Augustus Westphal and Jas. Scott, employed in North America and the West Indies. Commander Currie, who, for some months in 1831, had held the acting command of the Falcon sloop at Jamaica, obtained his second promotal commission 7 Aug. 1835. . His last appointment was, 18 March, 1836, to the Second-Captaincy of the Vanguard 80, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, fitting for the Mediterranean, from which ship he was superseded 1 Sept. following. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Curlewis, William Edward

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​CURLEWIS. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 29; h-p., 15.)
William Edward Curlewis was born, 30 July, 1789, in London, and died about the commencement of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 May, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, and in Sept. following assisted, under the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, at the bombardment of Granville. On subsequently proceeding to the West Indies, we find him wounded while serving in the boats under Lieut. Wm. Coote, and extolled for his unsurpassable bravery, at the cutting out, on the night of 2 Jan. 1807, of two of the enemy’s vessels, defended by a most Tremendous fire from the batteries, near Pearl Rock, Martinique, which killed 2 men and wounded 10. After witnessing the surrender to the Cerberus of the islands of Marie-galante and Deseada, Mr. Curlewis, in 1808, joined the Leviathan 74, Capt. John Harvey, and under that officer was present, 26 Oct. 1809, at the self-destruction, in the Mediterranean, of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion. He next served for some time in the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez in the Baltic, and being promoted, 28 Nov. 1811, to a Lieutenancy in the Cressy 74, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, was in company with the St. George 98 and Defence 74, in the gale which, on 24 Dec. following, proved so memorably fatal to those ships. From April, 1813, to Jan. 1814, Mr. Curlewis subsequently cruized in the North Sea on board the Cretan 18, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne. He then became attached to the Warrior 74, Capts. Hon. Geo. Byng and John Tremayne Rodd, under the former of whom he sailed with convoy for the West Indies. Prior to being paid off, in Sept. 1815, Mr. Curlewis was caught in another dreadful hurricane, in which the Warrior lost her masts, guns, boats, and stores, and received 11 feet water in her hold. From 30 Sept. 1825, until March, 1831, he was next employed on the Coast Blockade as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and from 22 April in the latter year until promoted to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841, he had charge of a station on the Coast Guard. He continued thenceforward on half-pay.
Commander Curlewis married in 1817, and has issue seven children. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Curzon, Edward

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​CURZON, C.B., K.S.L., K.S.V., R.G. (Captain, 1823. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
Edward Curzon was born 9 Dec. 1789. This officer entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. ​Arthur Kaye Legge; and, continuing to serve in that ship for the period of six years, was present in Sir Robt. Calder’s action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, 22 July, 1805 – witnessed the capture of the Marengo of 80 guns, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, 13 March, 1806 – was at the taking of Le President 44, by a squadron under Sir Thos. Louis, 27 Sept. following – and attended the expeditions to Constantinople and Flushing in Feb. 1807, and Aug. 1809. Being confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, 14 March, 1811, he served on the coast of Catalonia until March, 1813; after which he joined, 5 March, 1814, the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Inglis Cochrane, and was employed on shore as an Aide-de-Camp to the Commander of the Forces during the ensuing operations against New Orleans. At the termination of hostilities with the United States, Mr. Curzon obtained a second promotal commission dated 29 March, 1815. He subsequently commanded the Pelican 18, on the West India station, from 23 July, 1816, until 7 Dec. 1818; and on 10 Oct. 1822, was appointed to the Fly 18, fitting for the South American station, where he assumed Post-rank 8 Feb. 1823. Becoming Flag-Captain to Sir Edw. Codrington, in the Asia of 84 guns, 6 Oct. 1826, he obtained the highest praise for the able and zealous assistance he afforded that distinguished officer at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827. He was superseded from the Asia in 1828; and, with the exception of a few months in 1831, when he commanded the Caledonia 120, as an experimental ship, was not further employed. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Curzon, for his services at Navarin, was nominated a C.B. 18 Nov. 1827, and invested with the orders of St. Louis of France, St. Vladimir of Russia, and the Redeemer of Greece. He is Senior Captain on the list of 1823. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1887, p. 2322.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1827, p. 2331.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Curry, Douglas

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​CURRY. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 22; h-p., 2.)
Douglas Curry, born at Gorlston, North Yarmouth, is second son of Vice-Admiral Rich. Curry, C.B.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Feb. 1823. He embarked in Dec. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rose 18, Capts. Hon. Chas. Abbot (now Lord Colchester) and Lewis Davies; and while afterwards cruizing, as Midshipman, in the Archipelago, witnessed several encounters with piratical vessels, on one of which occasions the boat he was in suffered a loss of 1 man killed and 2 wounded. Participating, next, in the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827, Mr. Curry on that day took command of the Rose’s pinnace, and sustained a severe fracture of both bones of the right leg while in the act of boarding a Turkish fire-vessel, which blew up with destructive effect, killing or wounding all around. In consequence of this disaster he was unfortunately confined for many months, first to Malta and then to Haslar Hospital. He then, however, joined the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, in the Mediterranean; and passing his examination on his return to England, 12 June, 1829, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated the same day. He was subsequently appointed – 17 Aug. 1830, to the Rainbow 28, Capt. Sir John Franklin, again in the Mediterranean – 7 May and 25 June, 1834, to the Tribune 24, Capt. Jas. Tomkinson, and, as First, to the Talbot 28, Capt. Follett Walrond Pennell, on the Home and South American stations – and, 18 Nov. 1837, also as Senior, to the Pique 36, Capt. Edw. Boxer, in which frigate he sailed for North America and the West Indies, and ultimately returned to the Mediterranean. During the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, Mr. Curry commanded the Pique’s boats, and assisted in destroying the guns on the ramparts of Caiffa 17 Sept. – was spoken of in the highest terms for his conduct in levelling the approach to the town of Tsour, on the occasion of its capture, 25 Sept. – and afterwards (Capt. Boxer being otherwise employed) carried the Pique into action at St. Jean d’Acre. For these services he was promoted to the rank of Commander on 4 Nov. in the same year, and appointed, 15 Dec. following, Second-Captain of the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, which ship he paid off 8 Feb. 1842. He obtained an Inspectorship in the Coast-Guard 24 March, 1843, and from 31 Jan. 1846, until the attainment of his present rank, which took place on 9 Nov. in the same year, commanded the Harlequin 12, in the Mediterranean.
Capt. Curry, who possesses a certificate of his ability in the art of steam-navigation, has been in the receipt, since June, 1829, of a pension for his wounds of 91l. 5s. He married, 9 Feb. 1843, Mary Ann, only child of the late Chas. F. H. Rowe, Esq., of Willicote, near Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, and was left a widower, 1 Jan. 1844.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1827, p. 2325.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2602.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Curtis, Alfred John

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​CURTIS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Alfred John Curtis is youngest son of Timothy Abraham Curtis, Esq., by Margaret Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Young Green, Esq., of Poole, co. Dorset; nephew of the present Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart., and of Capt. Timothy Curtis, R.N. (1826), who died in Oct. 1834; and cousin of Lieut. Geo. Curtis Adams, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 25 April, 1831; passed his examination 6 Sept. 1837; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the Seringapatam 42, Capt. John Leith, stationed in North America and the West Indies, as also in the North Star 26, Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home, under whom he appears to have been employed during the campaign in China. He obtained his commission 18 Nov. 1842; and continuing attached to the North Star, on the Indian station, until paid off in the summer of 1846, was mentioned as having served on shore in command, in Jan. of that year, of a division of seamen, and as having made himself otherwise extremely useful during an attack on a pah, belonging to a rebel chief named Kawiti, at Ruapikapika, in New Zealand, which was assaulted and carried in a most gallant manner, after a severe action of nearly four hours. He has been First-Lieutenant, since 19 Dec. 1846, of the Mutine 12, Capt. Robert Tryon, attached to the Channel squadron.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Curtis, Roger

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​CURTIS. (Commander, 1846.)
Roger Curtis, born 9 Nov. 1812, is eldest son of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C.B. This officer entered the Navy 6 Oct. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; and obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838. He was appointed, 14 Aug. following, to the Action 26, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the South American station; and, on 21 March, 1843, was invested, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father, with the command of the Ceylon 2, receiving-ship at Malta. Since his attainment of the rank he now holds, 9 Nov. 1846, Commander Curtis has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Currie, Mark John

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​CURRIE. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 17; h-p., 22.)
Mark John Currie, born in 1795, in London, is son of the late Mark Currie, Esq., by Eliza, daughter of John Close, Esq., of Easby, co. York; and first-cousin of Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, with whom he continued to serve, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Midshipman, until April, 1813. He then, in the Niobe 38, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu, cruized for some months off the coasts of Portugal and Spain; and, obtaining his first commission 23 Sept. 1814, was appointed, 24 Oct. following, to the Centaur 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, in which ship he visited the Cape of Good Hope. We subsequently find him joining – 8 Feb. 1816, the Rivoli 74, Capts. Chas. Ogle and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, at Portsmouth – 7 May, 1818, the Racehorse 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Pryse Campbell, in the Mediterranean – 29 March, 1820, the Nimrod 18, Capt. Chas. Nelson, at Leith – and, 20 Oct. 1820, and 8 Aug. 1821, the Satellite 18, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, and, as Flag-Lieutenant, the Leander 50, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, on the E. India station. He there assumed command, 9 Jan. 1823, of his former sloop the Satellite; and, on 18 March following, was appointed Acting-Captain of the Asia, an 84-gun ship, which he brought home under very peculiar and trying circumstances, and in a manner that saved the Government considerable expense. He was not, however, confirmed to Post-rank until 23 Nov. 1841; since which period he has been unemployed.
Capt. Currie, we find, officiated with great ability as Secretary, in 1827-8, to Sir H. Blackwood, then Commander in Chief at the Nore. He also, from 1829 until 1832, fulfilled the duties of Colonial Auditor and Secretary to the Executive and Legislative Councils of Western Australia; and for the zeal and intelligence he displayed in those capacities, he received the thanks of the Governor, Sir Jas. Stirling. He married, 14 Jan. 1829, Jane, third daughter of Chas. Boynton Wood, Esq., by whom he has issue three sons and three daughters. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day

'TIS the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays; The world's whole sap is sunk; The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph.
Study me then, you who shall lovers be At the next world, that is, at the next spring; For I am every dead thing, In whom Love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness; He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death—things which are not.
All others, from all things, draw all that's good, Life, soul, form, spirit, whence they being have; I, by Love's limbec, am the grave Of all, that's nothing. Oft a flood Have we two wept, and so Drown'd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow, To be two chaoses, when we did show Care to aught else; and often absences Withdrew our souls, and made us carcasses.
But I am by her death—which word wrongs her— Of the first nothing the elixir grown; Were I a man, that I were one I needs must know; I should prefer, If I were any beast, Some ends, some means; yea plants, yea stones detest, And love; all, all some properties invest. If I an ordinary nothing were, As shadow, a light, and body must be here.
But I am none; nor will my sun renew. You lovers, for whose sake the lesser sun At this time to the Goat is run To fetch new lust, and give it you, Enjoy your summer all, Since she enjoys her long night's festival. Let me prepare towards her, and let me call This hour her vigil, and her eve, since this Both the year's and the day's deep midnight is.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Nightmare (Gilbert)

Song from Act II of Iolanthe
* "Song—Lord Chancellor" in Iolanthe, 1882
* "A Nightmare" in Songs of a Savoyard, 1890
# A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson/04 The fourth Remove

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AND now must I part with the little company I had. Here I parted with my daughter Mary (whom I never saw again till I saw her in Dorchester, returned from captivity) and from four little cousins and neighbours, some of which I never saw afterward, the Lord only knows the end of them. Among them also was that poor woman before mentioned, who came to a sad end, as some of the company told me in my travel: She having much grief upon her spirits about her miserable condition, being so near her time, she would be often asking the Indians to let her go home; they not being willing to that and yet vexed with her importunity, gathered a great company together about her, and stripped her naked, and set her in the midst of them; and when they ​had sung and danced about her (in their hellish manner) as long as they pleased, they knocked her on the head, and the child in her arms with her. When they had done that, they made a fire and put them both into it, and told the other children that were with them, that if they attempted to go home they would serve them in like manner. The children said she did not shed one tear, but prayed all the while. But to return to my own journey: We travelled about half a day or a little more and came to a desolate place in the wilderness where there were no wigwams or inhabitants before; we came about the middle of the afternoon to this place; cold, wet and snowy, and hungry, and weary, and no refreshing for man, but the cold ground to sit on, and our poor Indian cheer.
Heart-aching thoughts here I had about my poor children, who were scattered up and down among the wild beasts of the ​forest. My head was light and dizzy, (either through hunger or bad lodging, or trouble, or all together,) my knees feeble, my body raw by setting double night and day, that I cannot express to man the affliction that lay upon my spirit, but the Lord helped me at that time to express it to himself. I opened my Bible to read, and the Lord brought that precious scripture to me. Jer. 31. 16. Thus ʃaith the Lord, refrain thy voice ƒrom weeping, and thine eyes ƒrom tears, ƒor thy work ʃhall be rewarded, and they ʃhall come again ƒrom the land of the enemy. This was a sweet cordial to me; when I was ready to faint, many and many a time have I sat down and wept sweetly over this scripture. At this place we continued about four days.
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NOW away we must go with those barbarous creatures, with our bodies wounded and bleeding and our hearts no less than our bodies. About a mile we went that night, up upon a hill within sight of the town, where we intended to lodge. There was hard by a vacant house, (deserted by the English before, for fear of the Indians,) I asked them whether I might not lodge in the house that night? to which they answered, What, will you love Englishmen still? This was the dolefulest night that ever my eyes saw. Oh the roaring, and singing, and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell: And miserable was the waste that was there made, of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, ​roasting pigs and fowls (which they had plundered in the town) some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling, to feed our merciless enemies: who were joyful enough, though we were disconsolate. To add to the dolefulness of the former day, and the dismalness of the present night, my thoughts ran upon my losses and sad bereaved condition. All was gone, my husband gone, (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay: and to add to my grief, the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward,) my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home, and all our comforts within door and without, all was gone (except my life) and I knew not but the next moment that might go too.
There remained nothing to me but one poor wounded babe, and it seemed at present worse than death, that it was in such a pitiful condition, bespeaking ​compassion, and I had no refreshing for it, nor suitable things to revive it. Little do many think, what is the savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy, those even that seem to profess more than others among them, when the English have fallen into their hands. Those seven that were killed at Lancaster the summer before upon a sabbath day, and the one that was afterward killed upon a week day, were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner, by one-eyed John, and Marlborough's praying Indians, which Capt. Mosely brought to Boston, as the Indians told me.