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Jeft of this article was matriculated at the university of 
Glafgow, and attended its various clall’es. As he was 
intended for the profeflion of-medicine, he was placed 
under the care of Dr. Gordon, who did not dildain to 
unite to the kindred arts of furgery and pharmacy. 
After he had obtained a fufficient knowledge of the 
praftice of medicine, he went abroad to exercife the art 
in the army under the duke of Cumberland, in the Low 
Countries. On his return to England, he palled fome 
time in London, attending the leftures of his country¬ 
man, Dr. Hunter, and obtaining every afiiftance in the 
way of his profeflion that the metropolis could afford. 
From Londom he went to Paris for farther improvement. 
Here he refided about two years, and afted as furgeon 
to the houfehold of the earl of Albemarle, the Britilli 
•ambaflador. On his return, he again attended the leftures 
of Dr. Hunter; and went through a courfe under Dr. 
Smellie, then a very celebrated accoucheur. He now 
fettled at Glafgow, fil'd in connexion with Dr. Gordon ; 
and, when this gentleman quitted the general praftice, 
Mr. Moore chofe for his affociate Mr. Hamilton, profefior 
of anatomy. In 1769 he w'as firfl: introduced to the 
family of the duke of Hamilton, by attending the young 
duke, then labouring under a confumptive complaint, 
of which he died in the fifteenth year of his age. In 
3772 he obtained the diploma of M. D. from the univer- 
fity of Glafgow; and was foon after engaged by the 
duchefs of Hamilton and Argyle to accompany her fon 
on.the continent. They fpent five years together in this 
tour, and vifited France, Italy, Swiflerland, and Germany. 
This journey, added to his former refidence in France 
and Flanders, gave him that intimate acquaintance with 
foreign manners, which he has fo happily difplayed in 
his feveral publications. On their return in *778, Dr. 
Moore brought his family from Glafgow to London ; and 
in the following year he publilhed “ A View of Society 
and Manners in France, Swiflerland, and Germany ; 
with Anecdotes relating to fome eminent Charafters,” 
2 .vols. 8vo. This was extremely well received by the 
public, who found it one of the moll entertaining books 
of travels that had for a long time appeared ; replete with 
amufing and charafteriftic (ketches, and remarkably free 
from national prejudice or fplenetic cenfure. Its fuccefs 
induced the author to follow' it, in 1781, with two more 
volumes, entitled “ A View of Society and Manners in 
Italy,” written in a fimilar drain with the former, and 
equally entertaining. Perhaps in this latter publication 
he did not entirely refid the fuccefsful writer’s common 
temptation of book-making; but one of the digreflions 
by which it is lengthened, viz. a Diflertation on Pulmo¬ 
nary Confumption, was probably meant to introduce him 
to the public in a medical capacity. Of both thefe lets 
of Travels feveral editions were printed, and they were 
tranflated into various foreign languages. Not willing 
to fuffer his medical charafter to fink in that of the 
author, he publiflied, in 1786, a volume of “Medical 
Sketches,” treating rather in a popular than a fcientific 
manner on feveral important topics relative to health 
and difeafe, not without an intermixture of pleafant 
dories and humorous farcalm. But, though it proved 
him to be a man of good fenfe, and one who had ftudied 
his profeflion, it does not appear that his praftice in 
London ever extended beyond his particular acquaint¬ 
ance. As a writer. Dr. Moore appeared in a new cha¬ 
rafter in 1789, when he publiflied a novel entitled “Zeluco ; 
Various Views of Human Nature;” 2 vols. 121110. In this 
work, he difplayed a knowledge of mankind, and a force 
of moral painting, which rendered it much (uperior to the 
ordinary compoiitions of this clafs, and at once placed 
him high among the writers of fiftitious narratives. It 
is probable, indeed, that many of the perfonages and 
dialogues introduced in his travels were the offspring of 
invention, though employed to elucidate real national 
manners. The French revolution w r as the topic that 
next employed his pen. He had viewed fome of its eftefts 
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upon the fpot; and in 1793 he publiflied “ A Journal 
during a Refidence in France, from the Beginning of Au~ 
gull to the Middle of December, 1792 : to which is added, 
an Account of the moil remarkable Events that happened 
at Paris from that Time to the Death of the late King of 
France;” 2 vols. 8vo. In this work he follows his ufual 
method of anecdote and defcription intermixed w'ith re¬ 
marks ; and of the many writers on this interelling fub- 
jeft, he may rank among the mod impartial and Adeem¬ 
ing. The fame charafter was merited by his “ View of 
the Caufes and Progrefs of the French Revolution ;” 
2 vols. 8vo. 1795. The rapid changes that have fince- 
occurred in France and the reft of Europe have, however, 
thrown thefe works out of circulation. Recurring to 
fiftion, Dr. Moore, in 1796, publiflied his “Edward; 
Various Views of Human Nature, taken from Life and 
Manners, chiefly in England;” 2 vols. 8vo. This chiefly 
confifts of converfation-pieces and detached incidents, in 
which the author’s charafteriftic dry humour difplays 
itfelf with fome fuccefs, but upon the whole becomes, 
rather dale. The iaft produft of his fertile pen was 
“Mordaunt, a Novel, in 3 vols. being Sketches of Life, 
Charafters, and Manners, in various Countries ; includ¬ 
ing the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality;” 1800. 
The author fpent the laft years of his life in retirement at 
Richmond, where he died in 180.3, regretted for his 
focial and domeftic virtues. 
Dr. Moore left a promifing family of fons ; one of whom 
he had the fatisfaftion of feeing advanced to a high 
military ftation, and univerfally efteemed for his (kill 
and bravery. This was Lieutenant-General Sir John 
Moore, who was killed at Corunna in Spain, on the 16th 
of January, 1809. See the article London, vol. xiii. 
p. 188, 9. 
MOORE BAY', a bay on the weft coaft of Ireland. 
Lat. 52. 38. N. Ion. 9. 35. W. 
MOORE’S CREE'K, a river of the American dates 
in North Carolina, which runs into Black-river fixteen 
miles north-weft of Wilmington. 
MOO’RE TOWN, a town of the ifland of Jamaica 1 
twenty-two miles eaft-north-eaft of Kingdom 
MOORE'AH, a town of Hindooftan, in Rohilcund 3 
twenty miles north-eaft of Bereilly. 
MOO'REFIELD, or Moorestown, a town of New 
Jerfey : thirteen miles eaft of Philadelphia. 
MOO'REFIELDS, a town of Virginia, on a branch of 
the Potomack : feventy-five miles of Winchefter, and 
180 north-weft of Richmond, 
MOO'REN, a town of Bengal: nine miles fouth of 
Doefa. 
MOORGONG', a town of Hindooftan, in Berar : thir¬ 
teen miles north-weft of Chanda. 
MOORGULL', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Cicacole : twenty-one miles weft-north-weft of Cof- 
fimeotta. 
MOORHU', a town of Bengal : thirty miles eaft of 
Doefa. 
MOO'RJA, a town of Africa, in Bambarra : 130 miles 
eaft ofSego. 
MOO'RING,/! The aft of confining and fecuringa fliip 
in a particular ftation, by chains or cables, which are 
either faftened to the adjacent (ho re, or to anchors in the 
bottom. 
A (hip may be either moored by the head, or by the 
head and (tern ; that is to fay, (lie may be (ecured by- 
anchors before her, without any behind ; or (lie may have 
anchors out, both before and behind her; or her cables 
may be attached to pods, rings, or moorings, which 
anlwer the lame purpofe. The (ituation of the anchors, 
in a road or bay, is ufually oppofed to the reigning winds, 
or thofe which are moft dangerous ; fo that the (hip rides 
therein with the effort t>f both her cables. Thus, if (he 
rides in a bay, or road, which is expoled to a northerly 
wind and heavy fea from the fame quarter, the anchors 
pafling front the oppofite bqws ought to lie eaft and weft 
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