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JOHN HODGES. 165

George county, some of the people of the town of Upper Marl-
borough took four stragglers who were following the army.
They were gent into the interior of the country together with
a deserter. As soon as they were missed they were demanded
by the British commander, under a threat that the town
should be destroyed if he were not obeyed. Communications
passed between the two parties, the result of which was, that
the men were restored, or placed in a situation to be taken by
the enemy. In effecting this restoration, the prisoner was
among the most active. In a moral point of view, some excuse
might be found for his conduct; but with regard to the de-
serter, there was no excuse, moral, legal, or political. De-
serters, it is well known, are always put to death; and, in
order to save my property, I have no right to immolate the
lives of my fellow creatures.

port of a large family of relatives. United Statea District Judge,
District of Maryland, 1836-1852; Died in Baltimore.

*Ha, Joun Exmav. (1783-1829.) Born Philadelphia; Edu-
eated at Princeton; Studied law and begen practice in Baltimore,
1805; Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-lettree, University of Mary-
land; An active Federalist; Beverely ‘wounded in the Baltimore
Riots of 1812; Edited, 1808-1817, “The American Law Journal,”
Removed to Philadelphia where, from 1817 to 1827, he edited the
“Portfolio,” contributing to it the “Memoirs of Anacreon,” which
attracted much attention; Edited “The Philadelphia Souvenir,’
(1827), and published original and selected “Memoirs of Eminent
Persons.” ‘His other publications include “The Practise and Juris-
diction of the Court of Admiralty” (Baltimore, 1809) ; “Life of Dr.
John Shaw,” prefixed to his collected poems (1810), an English
edition of Emerigon’s “Maritime Laws,” with other matter ( 3
“Tracts on Constitutional Lew, Containing Mr. Livingston’s Answer
to Mr. Jefferson” (Philadelphia, 1813), and an edition of William
Wirt’s “British Spy,” to which he contributed several letters; Died
at Philadelphia.

No mention is made anywhere of Hall's connection ‘with this case,
He is, however, the only J{chn] E. Hall in the Baltimore directory
for 1810, 18141815, where be is cited “alt'y at law.” Seo Apple-
ton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1915; Drake’a Dictionary
of Ameriean Biography, 1907; Herringehaw’s American Biogra-
phy, 1907; Philadelphia National Gazette, June 13, 1829; Philadel-
phia U. 8. Garette, June 13, 1829; The “Portfolio,” Vol. 13, p. 190
(mentions Hall); Philadelphia Directory, 1819-1829; Baltimore
Direetory, 1810, 1814-1815,

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