Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . ist, who had served underCornwallis in the Revolution. Unlike many of his fellowshe had escaped confiscation of his estate,^^ and, as consul, hadwon the genuine esteem of the Norfolk people. In June, 1807,when a mob, furious at the attack of the Leopard on the Chesa-peake, dragged the British flag through the dust in front ofthe consulate. Colonel Hamiltons personal popularity alone Memoirs, vol. i., p. 143. 2The history of South CaroHna in the Revolution, 1780— 1783. ByEdward McCrady, New York and London, 1902. P. 586. 18 Tom Moore in Ber
Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . ist, who had served underCornwallis in the Revolution. Unlike many of his fellowshe had escaped confiscation of his estate,^^ and, as consul, hadwon the genuine esteem of the Norfolk people. In June, 1807,when a mob, furious at the attack of the Leopard on the Chesa-peake, dragged the British flag through the dust in front ofthe consulate. Colonel Hamiltons personal popularity alone Memoirs, vol. i., p. 143. 2The history of South CaroHna in the Revolution, 1780— 1783. ByEdward McCrady, New York and London, 1902. P. 586. 18 Tom Moore in Bermuda saved his home from destruction/^ On the outbreak of thewar of 1812 he sought refuge in England. Moore describeshim as a plain and hospitable man, and his wife full ofhomely but com-fortable and gen-uine civility. Mrs. Hamiltonhad beautiful andabundant auburn . r hair, which great- \.ly excited the .-^young poets ad-miration.^ The Hamiltonhouse stood onthe southwest cor-ner of Main Streetand Kings along thisnow squalid lane,. Colonel Hamiltons house in 1865 which connects Main and Wide Water Streets, one findsit hard to realise that it was once bordered by the Colonels The pictorial field book of the war of 1812. By Benson T LossingNew York, 1868. P. 685. Memoirs, vol. i., p. 138. ^Stanzas, by Thomas Moore, Esq. addressed to Mrs. H. ... atNorfolk, Virginia. The port folio (Philadelphia), 6 October, 1804; re-printed, with other miscellanea, at the end of Longworths edition of** Odes of Anacreon (New York, 1805), vol. ii., pp. 153-4. 19 „#: Tom Moore in Bermuda trim gardens. Fifty years later it was for a short time occupiedby George Prince Regent James, the novehst, who wasBritish consul for Virginia from 1852 to 1858/*^ Twenty-seven years before Moores visit to Norfolk, during
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