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# Destroyers and Other Verses

DESTROYERS AND OTHER VERSES
BY HENRY HEAD, M.D., F.R.S.
HUMPHREY MILFORD Oxford University Press London • Edinburgh • Glasgow • New York Toronto • Melbourne • Cape Town • Bombay 1919
Grateful acknowledgments for their courtesy in giving permission to republish some of these Verses are due to the following periodical Reviews:
To The Yale Review, Newhaven, Con., for "I cannot Stand and Wait," "Destroyers," and "Died of His Wounds."
To The English Review for "Homing Wings" and "The Price."
To The Dublin Review for "To Courage, Seated."
To Her without whose touch the strings would have been mute
1914 to 1918
* I Cannot Stand and Wait
* Homing Wings
* Paris. April, 1916
* The Price
* Destroyers
* Died of His Wounds
* Epiphany
* To Courage, Seated
* Elan Vital
* Pegasus
Songs of La Mouche
Part 1: Alfred Meissner
* The Journey from Havre
* Masqueraders
* In the Garden of the Luxembourg
* Watteauesque
* Sur la Rive Gauche
Part 2: Heinrich Heine
* The New Spring
* Mother of Heaven, I Pray Thee
* My Tender Ways and Laughter
* Fantasy
* The Post
* Last Night the Summer Thunder
* Home-coming
* August Is Blazing Through the Dingy Window
* East and West
* Lullaby
* You Dominate My Lightest Thought
* When Each Morning I Awaken
* Frau Mathilde's Parrot
* When I Am Old It May Be I Shall Sit
* My Love Welled Up in a Dry and Desolate Land
* Thin Rain Drifts Across the Pavement
* I Heard Them Say, "He Died Last Night"
* My Soul Revolves in Helpless Grief
* Yesterday to the Grave They Silently Bore Him
* Anniversary
* Envoy
Seedtime and Harvest
* In the Beginning God Created Man
* Above the Church, Above the Clock
* I Am Loved By Little Children
* When the Copse is Grey With Bud
* Long Ago I Used To Pray
* Within My Arms My Lord Became a Little Child
* No Longer, When the Cold and Sterile Moon
* To Her There Came At Dawn, As She Lay Still
* The First Fruits of A Pregnant Soul’s Increase
* Sleep, My Darling, Naught Can Harm Thee
* A Sparkling Coldness in the Morning Air
Sun and Shower
* I Have Wandered Round an Empire
* In My Copse a Blackbird Whistles
* About an Upland Meadow
* Grey Flowed the River, High up in the Sky
* Last Night There Came a Dream that it was Day
* Would That You Might Bear Me Away
* I Rode In Gathering Twilight
* Deep Within Me Springs a Fountain
* Deep Runs a Silent Music
* High Upon the Hill You Slumber
* Hid From Sight of Pasture Lands
* Willows Are White as Breath Upon Silver
* I Gallop, I Gallop Along
* A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light
Spring Death
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# United States v. McDermott

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United States Supreme Court
140 U.S. 151
United States v. McDermott
Asst. Atty. Gen. Cotton and John C. Chaney, for the United states.
O. B. Hallam, for McDermott.
Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# United States v. McClure

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United States Supreme Court
305 U.S. 472
United States v. McClure
Argued: Dec. 8, 1938. --- Decided: Jan 3, 1939
Messrs. Homer s. Cummings, Atty. Gen., and Julius C. Martin, of Washington, D.C., for the United States.
Mr. Graham K. Betts, of Seattle, Wash., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# United States v. McCullagh

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United States Supreme Court
54 U.S. 216
United States v. McCullagh
THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
The opinion of the court sets out the facts of the case so far as to raise the question of jurisdiction.
It was argued by Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Crittenden, (Attorney-General) for the United States, and by Messrs. Janin and Taylor, for the appellees.
Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

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# United States v. McCandless

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United States Supreme Court
147 U.S. 692
United States v. McCandless
Statement by Mr. Justice BROWN:
This was a petition by the clerk of the district court for the western district of Pennsylvania for payment of certain fees which had been disallowed in the settlement of his accounts by the officers of the treasury. Petitioner averred the approval of his accounts by the court, and that his whole compensation, if said fees were paid, would not exceed the maximum compensation of $3,500. The court directed a judgment to be entered in his favor for $171.15, and the United States appealed.
Sol. Gen. Aldrich, for the United States.
C. C. Lancaster, for appellee.
Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clater, Thomas

​CLATER, THOMAS (1789–1867), painter, third son of Francis Clater [q. v.], farrier, of East Retford, Nottinghamshire, and Anne his wife, was baptised on 9 June 1789 at East Retford. He first exhibited in London in 1819 at the British Institution, sending two pictures, ‘Children at a Spring’ and ‘Puff and Dart, or the Last Shilling—a Provincial Game,’ and at the Royal Academy, to which he sent ‘The Game at Put, or the Cheat detected.’ In 1820 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a portrait of his brother John Clater, and in 1823 portraits of Mr. C. Warren and of his father Francis Clater; the latter picture was subsequently engraved by Lupton. Clater continued to send many pictures to the Royal Academy, British Institution. Suffolk Street Gallery, and all the principal exhibitions in the country every year up to 1863. In 1843 he was elected a fellow of the Society of British Artists. His pictures were popular and of a class that was easily appreciated by the public. They were usually of a quietly humorous character, scenes from domestic and provincial life, and executed in a manner based on that of the Dutch genre painters. In the Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool there is a picture by him representing ‘A Chief of Gipsies dividing Spoil with his Tribe.’ Others which attracted attention were ‘The Fortune-Teller Dressing for a Masquerade,’ ‘The Morning Lecture,’ ‘Christmas in the Country,’ ‘Sir Roger de Coverley,’ ‘The Music Lesson,’ ‘The Smugglers' Cave,’ ‘Sunday Morning,’ ‘Preparing for the Portrait,’ &c. Clater resided for the latter portion of his life in Chelsea. So prolific a painter as he was is always liable to incur difficulties in disposing of his pictures; Clater was no exception, and as his pictures latterly failed to find purchasers, he became involved in pecuniary troubles, and had to be relieved from the ​funds of the Royal Academy. He died on 24 Feb. 1867, leaving a family, some of whom also practised painting as a profession. Shortly after his death his widow married Mr. Jonathan Peel.
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clavell, Robert

​CLAVELL, ROBERT (d. 1711), bookseller, of London, was the author of a curious little treatise entitled 'His Majesties Propriety and Dominion on the Brittish Seas asserted : together with a true Account of the Neatherlanders' Insupportable Insolencies, and Injuries they have committed; and the Inestimable Benefits they have gained in their Fishing on the English Seas : as also their Prodigious and Horrid Cruelties in the East and West Indies, and other Places. To which is added an exact Mapp,' &c., 8vo, London, 1665 (another edition, 8vo, London, 1672). He is better known, however, by his useful classified lists of current literature, the first number of which appeared at the end of Michaelmas term, 1668, the last at the end of Trinity term, 1700. Collective editions are as follows: 1. 'Mercurius Librarius, or a Catalogue of Books printed and published in Michaelmas Term (Hillary Term, 1668, Easter Term, Michaelmas Term, 1669),' fol. [London, 1668-9]. Nos. 1-4 were the joint compilation of Clavell and John Starkey, a fellow bookseller. 2. 'The General Catalogue of Books printed in England since the dreadful Fire of London, 1666, to the end of Trinity Term, 1674. Collected by R. Clavell,' fol. London, 1675. 3. 'The General Catalogue of Books printed ... since ... 1666, to ... 1680 ... To which is added, a Catalogue of Latin Books, printed in foreign parts, and in England since 1670,' fol. London, 1680 [-81]. 4. 'A Catalogue of Books printed in England ... since ... 1666, to the end of Michaelmas Term, 1695. With an Abstract of the general Bills of Mortality since 1660,' fourth edition, fol. London, 1696. 5. 'A Catalogue of Books printed and published at London in Easter Term, 1670, to Trinity Term, 1700,' fol. [London, 1670-1700]. Dunton describes Clavell as ' a great dealer, who has deservedly gained himself the reputation of a just man. Dr. Barlow, bishop of Lincoln, used to call him "the honest bookseller." ​He has been master of the Company of Stationers [1698 and 1699]; and perhaps the greatest unhappiness of his life was his being one of Alderman Cornish's jury' (Life and Errors, ed. 1818, i. 207). He died at Islington in 1711 (Probate Act Book, P. C. C., August 1711). His will, as ' citizen and stationer of London,' dated 17 April 1711, was proved on the following 8 Aug. by Catherine Clavell, his widow (Reg. in P. C. C. 161, Young). Mrs. Clavell survived her husband until the close of 1717, dying in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster (Will reg. in P. C. C. 227, Whitfield; Probate Act Book, P. C. C. December 1717).
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarkson, John

​CLARKSON, JOHN (1697–1763), Dominican friar, was professed at Bornhem in 1716, studied afterwards at Louvain, and was ordained priest in 1721. He was sent on the English mission in 1733, and for thirteen years was chaplain at Aston-Flamville Hall, near Hinckley, Leicestershire. In 1747 he removed to Brussels, as confessor of the English nuns. He held several high offices in his order in Belgium; was elected prior of Bornhem in 1753; and died at Brussels on 26 March 1763. His works are: ‘Theses Philosophicæ,’ Louvain, 1724; ‘Conclusiones,’ Louvain, 1727; and ‘An Essay or Introduction to the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, wherein the institution of that celebrated devotion, in excellence, indulgences, &c., are set forth,’ Lond. 1737; third edit. printed with ‘An Essay on the Rosary,’ by John O'Connor, Dublin, 1788, 8vo.
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clavel, John

​CLAVEL, JOHN (1603–1642), highwayman, was descended from a family in good position, being the nephew and heir-at-law of Sir William Clavel, knight-banneret, whom he admitted he had grossly injured. He took to the highway when he was in great necessity, his first robbery being on Gad's Hill. He was apprehended in 1697, found guilty and condemned to death. In 1628 he published 'A Recantation of an ill-led Life; or a Discoverie of the Highway Law, in verse.' He dates it 'from my lonely chamber in the King's Bench, October 1627.' From the verses it would appear that he owed his pardon to the intercession of the king and queen. The poem was 'approved by the king's most excellent majesty and published by his express command.' A second edition appeared in 1628, and a third, with a portrait, in 1634. Clavel died in 1642.
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clater, Francis

​CLATER, FRANCIS (1756–1823), farrier, wrote the popular works 'Every Man his own Cattle Doctor' (1810) and 'Every Man his own Farrier.' In the preface to the last-named work, which was published at Newark in 1783, when the writer was twenty-six, Clater describes himself as 'farrier, late of Newark,' and states that he served a regular apprenticeship and one year as journeyman to 'the late W. Frost, farrier, of Nottingham, and being his nephew, succeeded to all the secrets of his profession.' The work was published at the desire of the numerous gentlemen and farmers who were Clater's employers, and appears to have roused the hostility of farriers generally. The writer insists chiefly on careful diagnosis of individual cases, and the use of pure drugs. Clater afterwards resided for many years at East Retford, where he practised as a chemist and druggist, as well as a cattle doctor, and, according to the inscription on a small memorial tablet set up in the methodist chapel in Newgate Street in that town, was much respected, and there died, on 29 May 1823, in the sixty-seventh year of his age (Pierce, Hist. of East Retford, 1828). The publication of the above-mentioned works marked a stage in veterinary progress, and their lasting popularity may be judged from the fact that, at the hands of the writer's son, John Clater, and subsequent editors, the former went through over twelve, and the latter over thirty editions. In the later ones — as the edition of 'Every Man his own Farrier' by Mayhew, published in 1850, and of the 'Cattle Doctor' by Armytage, published in 1870 — much exploded conjecture has been omitted, and the text almost entirely rewritten.
H. M. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Claughton, Piers Calverley

1904 Errata appended.
​CLAUGHTON, PIERS CALVERLEY (1814–1884), bishop of Colombo, son of Thomas Claughton (M.P. for Newton, Lancashire, 1818-25, who died in 1842), born at Haydock Lodge, Winwick, Lancashire, on 8 Jan. 1814, was educated at Brasenose ​College, Oxford, where he graduated B. A. in 1835, and M.A. in 1838. He won the prize for the chancellor's prize essay in 1837, was fellow and tutor of University College from 1837 to 1842, public examiner in 1842 to 1844, and select preacher in 1843 and 1850. He was ordained in 1838, and appointed rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire, in 1845, where he introduced harvest festivals, which have since been so popular. He remained at Elton until 1859, when he was appointed the first bishop of St. Helena. During his tenure of that bishopric he took part at the Cape synod in the condemnation of Bishop Colenso. In 1862 he was translated to the see of Colombo, which he successfully administered for eight years. On his return to England in 1870 he was appointed archdeacon of London and canon of St. Paul's, and as practical coadjutor to the Bishop of London he worked indefatigably. On the death of the Rev. G. R. Gleig in 1875 he succeeded to the post of chaplain-general of the forces. In all his offices he showed himself a most kindly, hard-working, and conscientious prelate. He took a leading part in the debates of convocation, as to the importance of which body he published a letter addressed to Lord Derby in 1852. His other publications were: 'A Brief Examination of the Thirty-nine Articles,' 1843, 8vo; 'A Catechism, in six parts, for the Sundays in Lent,' 1847, 12mo; 'Charges to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of London,' 1872 to 1878; 'Our Missions, a Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury,' 1873, 8vo; and occasional sermons published between 1840 and 1877. He died on 11 Aug. 1884, at 2 Northwick Terrace, Maida Hill, London, and was buried at Elton. A tablet to his memory has been placed in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. It contains a medallion portrait, and is near the memorial of Sir John Goss.
C. W. S.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.69 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarkson, Nathaniel

​CLARKSON, NATHANIEL (1724–1795), painter, began his artistic career as a coach-painter and sign-painter. In the latter capacity he has by some been credited with the famous ‘Shakespeare’ sign, which is generally attributed to Samuel Wale, R.A. He resided in Church Street, Islington, and in 1754 painted and presented to his parish church, St. Mary, Islington, an altarpiece of ‘The Annunciation,’ having on either side emblems of the law and gospel in chiaroscuro. This picture remained at the east end of the church till recently, when it was removed to make way for a stained-glass window. Clarkson was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and one of the artists who sub- ​scribed to the charter of incorporation in 1765. He exhibited with that society in 1762, 1764, 1765, 1767, the works contributed being portraits, including one of himself. In 1777 he painted and presented to the Merchant Taylors' Company, of which he was a member of the court of assistants, a large picture, representing Henry VII granting the charter to the master, Richard Smith, and wardens of the company in 1503. For this pretentious and ill-executed picture, which still hangs in the court room of the company, Clarkson was voted the thanks of the company, and presented with a piece of plate. In 1788 he was one of the committee appointed to select a painter for the portrait of George Bristow, clerk to the company, Opie being chosen in preference to Sir Joshua Reynolds. The house in which Clarkson lived in Islington stood until October 1886; it contained some figures painted in chiaroscuro, representing ‘Design, Sculpture, and Architecture.’ He died 26 Sept. 1795, and was buried 2 Dec. at St. Mary's, Islington.
[Redgrave's Dict. of English Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1768–1880; Nelson's Hist. of St. Mary, Islington; Lewis's Hist. of Islington; Pye's Patronage of British Art; Faithfull's Account of the Paintings belonging to the Merchant Taylors' Company; Catalogues of the Incorporated Society of Artists; information from the churchwardens of St. Mary, Islington.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Capper, James

​CAPPER, JAMES (1743–1825), meteorologist, &c., younger brother of Francis Capper [q. v.], was born 15 Dec. 1743, and educated at Harrow School. He entered the Hon. East India Company's service at an early age, and attained the rank of colonel, holding for some time the post of comptroller-general of the army and fortification accounts on the coast of Coromandel. After retiring from military service he settled for some years in South Wales, taking much interest in meteorology and agriculture. Removing to Norfolk, he died at Ditchingham Lodge, near Bungay, 6 Sept. 1825.
James Capper wrote: 1. ‘Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt; also to Vienna through Constantinople and Aleppo, and from thence to Bagdad, and across the Great Desert to Bassora, with occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes,’ London, 1784, 4to, and 1785, 8vo. 2. ‘Memorial to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company,’ 1785 (privately printed). 3. ‘Observations on the Winds and Monsoons, illustrated with a chart, and accompanied with Notes, Geographical and Meteorological,’ London, 1801, 4to. 4. ‘Observations on the Cultivation of Waste Lands, addressed to the gentlemen and farmers of Glamorganshire,’ London, 1805. 5. ‘Meteorological and Miscellaneous Tracts applicable to Navigation, Gardening, and Farming, with Calendars of Flora for Greece, France, England, and Sweden,’ London, 1809, 8vo.
Capper, Louisa (1776–1840), was a daughter of Colonel James Capper, by his wife, Mary Johnson, and was born 15 Nov. 1776. She published in 1811 an ‘Abridgment of Locke's Essay concerning the Human Understanding,’ and died unmarried 25 May 1840. She was buried at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
C. J. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Capper, Joseph

​CAPPER, JOSEPH (1727–1804), an eccentric character, was born in 1727 in Cheshire of parents in humble circumstances. At an early age he came up to London, and, after serving his apprenticeship to a grocer, set up a shop on his own account in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel. Owing to the recommendations of his old master, Capper soon prospered in his trade, and, having been fortunate in various speculations, eventually retired from business. Having given up work, he spent several days in walking about the vicinity of London, searching for lodgings. Stopping at the Horns, Kennington, one day, he asked for a bed, and, being curtly refused, determined to stop in order to plague the landlord. Though for many years he talked about quitting the place the next day, he lived there until the day of his death, a period of twenty-five years. So methodical were his habits, that he would not drink his tea out of any other than his favourite cup. In the parlour of the Horns he had his favourite chair. He would not suffer any one to poke the fire without his permission. He called himself the champion of government, and nothing angered him more than to hear any one declaiming against the British constitution. His favourite amusement was killing flies with his cane, before doing which he generally told a story about the rascality of all Frenchmen, ‘whom,’ he said, ‘I hate and detest, and would knock down just the same as these flies.’ Capper died at the Horns on 6 Sept. 1804, at the age of seventy-seven, and was buried in the church of St. Botolph, Aldgate. In his will, which was made on the back of a sheet of banker's cheques, and dated five years before his death, he left the bulk of his property, then upwards of 30,000l., among his poor relations, whom he always had refused to see in his lifetime. To his nephews, whom he appointed his executors, he bequeathed 8,000l. three per cents. between them. There appears, however, to have been considerable doubt whether ​this will had been properly witnessed or not. A curious portrait of Capper will be found in the third volume of Granger.
G. F. R. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Caradog (d.1035)

Caradog ap Rhydderch in the ODNB.
​CARADOG (d. 1035), a South Welsh prince, was a son of Rhydderch, who had seized the government of Deheubarth, and died in 1031 at the hands of Irish pirates. Caradog did not, however, manage to succeed to Rhydderch's power, which fell to Howel and Maredudd, sons of Edwin, who are said to have brought the Irish against Rhydderch. War ensued between the new rulers and the sons of Rhydderch, and in 1032 the latter were defeated in an action at Hiraethwy. Before long the death of Maredudd restored victory to Caradog and his brothers (1035). Before the year was out Caradog himself was slain by the English. The event is not noticed in the English chronicles.
T. F. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Capper, Francis

​CAPPER, FRANCIS (1735–1818), divine, born 24 Aug. 1735, son of Francis Capper, a London barrister, was educated at Westminster School, and proceeded thence to Christ Church, Oxford (1753). He graduated as M.A. in 1760, being then in holy orders and rector of Monk Soham (October 1759) and Earl Soham (December 1759), Suffolk, benefices which he retained until his death. He had a local reputation as a faithful minister and an upright magistrate. His only contribution to literature was a small tract, entitled ‘The Faith and Belief of every Sincere Christian, proved by references to various Texts of Holy Scripture,’ Ipswich, 12mo. Capper died at Earl Soham 13 Nov. 1818.
C. J. R.