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Moore, the 19th century. Montucla was a member of the Roy. 

 ' al Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and of the French 

 """ r "~" ' Institute, from its commencement. His manners are 

 said to have been amiable, his disposition kindly and 

 generous. The Recreations Mathematiyues el Physiques 

 of Ozanam, which he edited in 1778, is the only work 

 connected with him that has been translated into Eng- 

 lish. (T. c.) 



MOON'. In the article ASTRONOMY, the reader will 

 find the fullest information respecting this planet. The 

 map of the moon given in this work, and forming Plate 

 CCCC. is engraven on a reduced scale from that which 

 was drawn by Dr. Brewster, and published in his edi- 

 tion of Fergutoiit Astronomy. 



MOORE ( DR. JOHN), a noted miscellaneous writer, 

 the son of Charles Moore, episcopal clergyman at Stir- 

 ling, was born in the year 1730. Mrs. Moore, upon 

 the death of her husband in 173.5, having removed to 

 Glasgow, where she possessed some property, John, 

 her only surviving son, enjoyed the benefit of being 

 educated in the Grammar School and College of that 

 city. After obtaining a considerable acquaintance with 

 classical literature, he was placed under the charge of 

 Mr. Gordon, a practitioner in surgery ; and at the 

 ame time attended the lectures of the medical pro- 

 fessors in the university, among whom Dr. C'ullen was 

 already distinguished for his original ideas regarding 

 the practice of physic. 



The knowledge acquired from these teachers was 

 not long in finding employment. By the kindness of 

 the Duke of Argyle, Moore, in the 17th year of his age, 

 was appointed Mate to the military hospital established 

 at Maastricht, during the war which Great Britain at 

 that time carried on for the Empress Maria Theresa. 

 He afterwards served in a similar capacity at Flushing ; 

 and next year he became assistant surgeon in the Col. l- 

 strram guards, and passed the winter of 1748 under the 

 command of General Braddock, afterwards so unhap- 

 pily remarkable for his fate in North America. 



The arrival of peace, which put a stop to Moore's 

 advancement in the army, afforded him the opportunity 

 of attending Dr. Hunter's course of Anatomy in Lon- 

 don ; and toon afterwards the Earl of Albemarle, our 

 ambassador at the French court, to whom Moore had 

 been introduced in Flanders, invited him to undertake 

 the duties of Surgeon to his family at Paris. During 

 the two years of bis residence in that city, Moore dili- 

 gently employed all the facilities which his situation 

 afforded, to improve his medical knowledge ; and so 

 ardent was his desire of attaining this object, that he 

 declined residing at the ambassador's house, in order 

 to have more frequent opportunities of witnessing the 

 practice at the hospitals, by living in the neighbour- 

 hood of those establishments. Constant application 

 naturally increased his professional skill, and gave a fa- 

 vourable opinion of his assiduity ; and Mr. Gordon 

 was sufficiently impressed with the character and abili- 

 ties of his former pupil, to propose admitting him to a 

 hare of his practice at Glasgow. 



In partnership with this gentleman, and afterwards 

 with Mr. Hamilton, professor of Anatomy, Moore en- 

 joyed considerable success for a number of years. The 

 University of Glasgow had honoured him with a de- 

 gree ; the cares and pleasures of a family . were now 

 added to his other engagements ; and in the bosom of 

 domestic comfort, his life seemed to give promise of 

 being respectable and happy, but not distinguished by 

 any thing superior to the lot of those around him ; 

 when, in 1769, an event occurred which imparted a new 



colour to his future pursuits. Among the patients 

 who at this time came under his care, was James 

 George, Duke of Hamilton; a young man possessed 

 of talents and virtues, which were only prevented from 

 doing honour to his exalted station, by the attack of a 

 consumption that baffled all the arts of medicine, and 

 cut him off in his fifteenth year. Dr. Moore's services, 

 though ineffectual, were gratefully acknowledged by 

 the family to whom they had been rendered. He wrote 

 the epitaph, which records the fate and character of his 

 patient, in Hamilton church-yard ; and as the surviv- 

 ing brother of this nobleman was of a weakly constitu. 

 tion, his mother, for that reason, felt desirous that 

 he should visit the continent in company with a person, 

 qualified at once to direct his observations, and watch 

 over his health. Dr. Moore, in whom both these re- 

 quisites were united, was prevailed on to accept the 

 charge. He left Britain with his pupil in 1773, and 

 spent five years in visiting the most remarkable coun- 

 tries of Europe. 



The fruit of those travels, ' A View of Society and 

 Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany,' pub- 

 lished at London in 1779, and followed in 1781 by a 

 similar accounv of Italy, procured the author some 

 emolument, and a considerable literary reputation. 

 works were speedily translated into French, 

 and read with applause by the people whom they pro. 

 I to depict. They were read with equal applause 

 in England, and are still deservedly admired for their 

 spirited descriptions, their perpetual flow of lively, if 

 not profound, observation, and above all, for the vein of 

 pungent, yet on the whole, good-natured, humour, 

 which lends a charm to their other merits. 



It does not seem that Dr. Moore's efforts to obtain 

 employment as a physician in the metropolis, whither 

 his family had removed, soon after his return from 

 abroad, were equally fortunate : and the reception of 

 his ' Medical Sketches/ published in 1785, appears to 

 have confirmed lu's predilection for the career of a man 

 of letters. The success which the novel Zelucco met 

 will), was not calculated to disappoint such hopes. Its 

 strong delineations of character and passion, its scenes 

 of pathos and pleasantry, redeemed the occasional harsh- 

 ness and exaggeration of this work, and gave to it a 

 more lasting existence, than generally falls to the lot of 

 similar productions. 



The fame arising from these performances procured to 

 Dr. Moore the advantages of a society fitted to appreciate 

 his acquirements. He had corresponded with Dr. 

 Smollett, and was prompt to encourage the genius of 

 Robert Burns. His time seems chiefly to have been 

 engaged by such intercourse, and by a limited exertion 

 of his professional abilities, till in 1 7.02, the French re- 

 volution having awakened the attention of all Europe, 

 Moore visited Paris in company with Lord Lauderdale, 

 for the purpose of more narrowly inspecting a phenome- 

 non so extraordinary and so vast. The ' Journal' of his 

 residence in France, which he quitted immediately after 

 the fatal 9th of September, was published on his return 

 to England ; and the author's ideas upon the object he 

 had been contemplating, were given in a more mature 

 shape under the title of ' Causes and Progress of the 

 French Revolution,' three years afterwards. Though 

 the temporary interest which caused these works to be 

 eagerly sought after, at the time of their appearance, 

 no longer exists, they still merit a perusal. The first 

 in particular is noted for the fidelity and spirit with 

 which it sketches some events that will long figure in 

 the history of the world. 



Moore, 

 Dr. John. 



