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EVANS, SIR DE LACY. 



EVEUETT, ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 



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quence of this disappointment he deserted to the Austrians ; served 

 in Bohemia ; and was at Dresden when that capital was besieged by 

 the Prussians. On his return to Denmark he applied himself to the 

 study of theology, with the view of settling in that profession and 

 marrying, but his hopes of the latter were frustrated, as already 

 noticed. He now regarded with indifference all schemes of earthly 

 felicity ; and it was in this frame of mind that he took up his pen 

 and produced his ' Lykken's Temple' (The Temple of Fortune, a 

 vision), which at once stamped his reputation. This was succeeded 

 by his ' Adam and Eve,' a dramatic composition replete with poetical 

 euergy, though in many respects defective and anomalous. Conscious 

 of its imperfections, he devoted two years entirely to the study of 

 poetry, in order to prepare himself for some more finished under- 

 taking. Having made himself master of the English language, he 

 carefully perused Shakspere and Ossiau ; and wbeu he again took up 

 his pen, he composed his ' Rolf Krage,' a tragedy strongly tinctured 

 with Ossianic taste. It was first given to the public in 1770 ; about 

 which time he was attacked with a painful disorder in his limbs, 

 that continued to afflict him with little intermission during the rest 

 of hia life. Notwithstanding his severe sufferings and distressed cir- 

 cumstances, he not only pursued hia literary occupations, but wrote 

 his comedy of ' Harlequin Patriot,' a masterpiece of its kind, abound- 

 ing with pleasantry and satire chiefly directed against pseudo-reformers. 

 In the fallowing year, 1773, he executed hia literary chef-d'oeuvre, 

 ' Balden Dod,' a drama of much poetical beauty, and greatly superior 

 to anything of the kind that had then appeared in the Danish language. 

 Yet although well received, its merits were not so well appreciated by 

 its author's contemporaries as they have been since. It is ou this and 

 his other poetical works that his reputation chiefly rests, but Evald 

 produced also several things in prose, some of which, as his ' Forslg 

 om Pebersvendo" (Project respecting Old Bachelors), are replete with 

 shrewd satire and strong comic humour. Their liveliness forms a 

 strong contrast to the seriousness and even melancholy that pervade 

 his other writings : in which respect he presents a parallel to the 

 author of ' John Gilpin.' There is likewise another point of resem- 

 blance between Evald and Cowper ; each in his affliction met with 

 generous sympathy and succour from a female friend. What Mary 

 Unwin was to the one, Madame Skou was to the other; and it was 

 beneath the hospitable roof of the latter that the Danish poet breathed 

 his last, on the 17th March 1781, after being confined during two 

 years to his bed or arm-chair, and almost deprived of the use of his 

 limbs. The two poets may further be likened to each other for the 

 high moral tone of their writings, vividness of conception, and happiness 

 of expression. 



EVANS, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR DE LACY, K.C.B., 

 is the son of John Evans. Esq., of Miltown, Ireland, and was born at 

 Moig in 1 787. He became ensign in the 22nd Regiment of Foot in 

 1807, and served three years in India. In 1812 he joined the 3rd 

 Light Dragoons, with which regiment he served in Portugal and 

 Spain in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814. He was present at 

 the retreat from Burgos and the action on the Hurmaza, in which he 

 was wounded ; as also at the battle of Vittoria, the investment of 

 Pampcluna, the battle of the Pyrenees, the investment of Bayonne, 

 and at the battle of Toulouse, where his horse was shot under him. 

 In 1814 he was appointed Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the 5th West 

 India Uegiinent, and took part in the capture of Washington under 

 General Ross and Admiral Cochrane. He was likewise present at 

 the attack on Baltjmore and the operations before New Orleans, when 

 the American flotilla was captured. Returning to England early in 

 the following year, he accompanied the army under the Duke of 

 Wellington into Belgium, and was assistant-quarter-master-general at 

 Quatre Bras and at Waterloo, where his horse was shot under him, 

 and aUo at the subsequent investment and capitulation of Paris, 

 where he remained for some time upon the staff of the army of occu- 

 pation. His next military employment was in 1835, when he 

 volunteered to command the British Legion, 10,000 in number, raised 

 with the consent of the existing government in aid of the Queen of 

 Spain against Don Carlos. In Spain his first service was to save the 

 corps under General Espaletta from destruction at Bilboa ; he subse- 

 quently took possession of San Sebastian, defeating the Carlist troops 

 by which it was invested. After several fierce engagements with the 

 enemy, in which both skill and bravery were displayed, but in which 

 success was too frequently purchased at a great loss, he succeeded in 

 storming and capturing the fortrees of Irun, in the spring of 1837. 

 For these exploits he received the Order of the Bath, and the Cross 

 of San Ferdinand and San Charles of Spain. 



In 1831 he was elected to the House of Commons aa member for 

 Rye, but lost his seat in the following year. In May 1833 he was 

 chosen for Westminster, which he has continued to represent since 

 that time with the exception of the parliament of 1841-47. In 

 1 8 54 Sir Do Lacy Evans was appointed to the command of the Second 

 Division of the army in the East. He particularly signalised himself 

 at the battle of the Alma, and in the attack of the Russians ou 

 October 26. At the battle of Inkermanu he rose from a sick bed and 

 joined his division, though he refused to take the honours of the day 

 from General Pennefathtr, who was in command during his absence. 

 For this action, and for his gallantry at the Alma, he was mentioned 

 with high probe by Lord Raglan, and received the thanks of the 



House of Commons on his return to England in February 1855. At 

 the same time he was honoured with the Grand Cross of the Bath. 

 In 1853 he obtained the colonelcy of the 21st Fusiliers. 



EVELYN, JOHN, author of 'Sylva,' 'Memoirs,' c., was the 

 second son of Richard Evelyn, Esq., of Wotton, in Surrey, and was 

 born at that place October 31, 1620. He received his educational 

 Lewes' free school and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1641 he went 

 abroad, and served for a short time as a volunteer in Flanders. 

 Instead of taking arms in the royalist cause, aa his family politics 

 would have inclined him, he went abroad a second time in 1C44, with 

 the king's permission, and spent, with one interval, the next seven 

 years on the continent, diligently employed in studying natural philo- 

 sophy, cultivating the fine arts, and acquainting himself with such 

 particulars of manners, trade, and manufacture as were most worthy 

 of notice. In June 1647 ho married the daughter of Sir Richard 

 Browne, the royalist ambassador at Paris, and in right of his wife 

 became possessed of Sayes Court, near Deptford, where he fixed his 

 abode on returning to England in 1652. He lived in privacy and 

 study till the Restoration ; after which, being much esteemed by the 

 king and of some weight by family, fortune, and character, he was often 

 withdrawn from his retirement and engaged in many capacities in the 

 public service. He was appointed a commissioner to take care of the 

 sick and wounded, on the Dutch war breaking out in 1664, commis- 

 sioner for the rebuilding of St. Paul's, a member of the Board of 

 Trade on its first institution, &c. He was also one of the first 

 members of the Royal Society, and continued through life a diligent 

 contributor to its ' Transactions.' His most favourite pursuits were 

 horticulture and planting, upon which he wrote a variety of treatises 

 which are collected at the end of the fifth edition (1729) of his 

 ' Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber 

 in his Majesty's Dominions,' first published in 1664. The object of 

 thi, the best known and chief of Evelyn's works, was to encourage 

 planting, both as a matter of national interest and of private adventure. 

 It sold largely, and, as Evelyn himself says, had no small effect. In 

 the same year he published the first ' Gardener's Almanac," containing 

 directions for the employment of each month. This was dedicated 

 *o Cowley, and drew forth one of his best pieces, entitled ' The 

 Garden," in acknowledgment. 



Mr. Evelyn's works on the fine arts are : ' Sculptura,' 1662, a history 

 of the art of engraving, in which the first account is given of Prince 

 Rupert's new method of mezzotinto engraving : ' A Parallel of Antient 

 and Modern Architecture," 1'369 : ' Numismata, a Discourse upon 

 Medals,' 1697. All these, though long superseded, were much 

 esteemed, and were in fact valuable additions to the then existing 

 stock of literature. 



By the death of his brother, in October 1699, Mr. Evelyn succeeded 

 to the family estate at Wotton, where he died, February 27, 1706, full 

 of honour as of years. He was a diligent and successful labourer, in 

 that age of discovery, in the subordinate departments of science ; a 

 valuable pioneer, as he used to call himself, in the service of the 

 Royal Society. Besides this, he was a model for the character of a 

 gentleman. A friend of the learned and the good, devoid of jealousy, 

 pious, beneficent, intellectual, delighting in the occupations of his 

 station, yet always ready to quit them for the public service : he was 

 respected even by the court profligates to whom his example waa i 

 daily reproach. To the present age he is best known by his Memoirs, 

 a journal extending nearly from his childhood to his death, which 

 contains much curious and valuable matter relative to his travels, and 

 to the manners and history, political and scientific, of the age. Many 

 of his letters, and the private correspondence of Charles I. with 

 Secretary Nicholas, and Clarendon with Sir R. Browne, are subjoined 

 to these memoirs, which were first printed in 1818 in 4to, but have 

 since been several times reprinted in a more convenient and less 

 expensive form. 



EVERDINGEN, ALDERT VAN, a very able Dutch landscape 

 painter and etcher, born at Alkmaar in 1621. He studied under Roland 

 Savery and Peter Molyn, known as the Cavaliere Tempesta, and he sur- 

 passed them both. Thewildandthe rugged is the prevalent style of his 

 landscapes, and chiefly from Norwegian scenery ; he spent upwards of 

 a year in Norway, and took the greatest delight in sketching the wild 

 scenery of its rugged coast. Everdingen was excellent also in sea- 

 storms, and in all his works showed himself a master of aerial per- 

 spective. Some of his fine forests are extremely true and picturesque, 

 and he excelled in figures and animals. He died at Alkmaar iu 1675. 

 Everdingen 's etchings are numerous, but scarce ; among them are a 

 series of one hundred Norwegian landscapes, and a series of fifty -six 

 original illustrations to the celebrated Dutch fable of 'Reynard the 

 Fox : ' his plates are generally marked A. V. E. 



Aldert's elder brother, C.ESAR VAN EVERDINOEN, was likewise a 

 clever painter, and an architect ; he painted history and portrait. 

 He was born at Alkmaar in 1606, and died there in 1679. 



(Houbraken, Groote Schouburg, <kc. ; Bartsch, Peintre-Grnvew.) 



* EVERETT, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, was born March 19, 

 1790, at Boston, United States of North America, where his father 

 occupied a high position as a clergyman. He graduated with dis- 

 tinction at Harvard University in 1806; was for a while tutor iu an 

 academy ; and then entered the office of Mr. John Quincy Adams, as 

 a law student. He accompanied Mr. Aduins hi his mission to Russia 



