and the Barbary States; but this trade declined after the War of 1812, and the whaling and sealing industries, once very lucrative, have also declined in value. The imports in 1906 were valued at $54,873 and the exports at $60,522; in 1909 their respective values were $10,870 and $10,295. Manufacturing is the principal industry; among the products are silk goods, cotton gins, printing presses and foundry and machine shop products. The total value of factory products was $4,709,628 in 1905, an increase of 11·6% since 1900.
New London was founded in 1646 by John Winthrop, the younger. It was known by its Indian name “Nameaug” until 1658, when the General Court of Connecticut approved the wish of the settlers to adopt its present name from London, England, the river Monhegin at the same time becoming the Thames. During the War of Independence it was a rendezvous for American privateers. In 1776 the first naval expedition authorized by Congress was organized in its harbour, and there in the next three years twenty privateers were fitted out. On the 6th of September 1781, 800 British troops and Loyalists under General Benedict Arnold (who was born in New London county) raided New London, destroyed much private property, and at Fort Griswold killed 84 American soldiers, many of them after their surrender. The massacre is commemorated by an obelisk, 134 ft. high, on Groton Heights. The city was incorporated in 1784. In 1798 there was an epidemic of yellow fever. From the 7th of November 1812 until the close of the second war with Great Britain the harbour was blockaded by a British fleet.
See F. M. Caulkins’s History of New London (new ed., New London, 1900); and the publications of the New London County Historical Society (New London).
NEWLYN, a village in the St Ives parliamentary division of
Cornwall, England, on the shore of Mount’s Bay, 1 m. S.W. of
Penzance. It is a small fishing port, with narrow paved lanes
and old-fashioned cottages. Near the parish church of St Peter
stands an ancient cross of granite, discovered in a field close by.
The harbour, one of the safest for small craft in the west country,
is sheltered by two long and massive stone piers. A more
ancient pier, originally constructed in the reign of Henry VI.,
was renewed in that of James I. Tin mining and smelting have
been largely carried on in the neighbourhood, and several galleries
were worked far under the sea. The principal modern industry,
however, is fishing, especially for pilchard. The picturesque
appearance of the village, with its quays and little harbour, and
the grandeur of the cliffs and moorland scenery towards Land’s
End, make Newlyn an attractive spot. Between 1880 and 1890
an artistic coterie grew up here, the leaders of which were Edwin
Harris, Walter Langley, Fred Hall, Frank Bramley, T. C. Gotch,
Mr and Mrs Stanhope Forbes, Chevalier Taylor and H. S. Tuke.
The earlier artists at Newlyn were said to have selected it as their
centre, because a greyness in the atmosphere helped their
depiction of subtleties in tone, part of their creed being subordination
of colour to tone-gradation. In later times, the element
of a common ideal tended to disappear, but the interest of the
“Newlyn school” attracted a regular art-colony, who in various
ways assimilated and expressed the picturesque influences of
the place (see Painting: Recent British). There is a permanent
Art Gallery, containing examples of the work of the Newlyn
artists. Newlyn ward in the urban district of Paul (pop. 6332)
had in 1901 a population of 3749.
NEW MADRID, a city and the county-seat of New Madrid
county, Missouri, U.S.A., on the right bank of the Mississippi
river, about 35 m. S. by W. of Cairo, Ill. Pop. (1900) 1489;
(1910) 1882. It is served by the St Louis South-western railway
and by river packets. The city is a shipping point for a rich
grain, cotton, livestock and lumber region. Among its manufactures
are lumber, staves, and hoops. The municipality owns
its water-works. Owing to the encroachments of the Mississippi river, the site of the first permanent settlement of New Madrid is said to lie now about 112 m. from the E. bank of the river, in Kentucky. This settlement was made in 1788, on an elaborately
laid out town site, and was named New Madrid by its founder, Colonel George Morgan (1742–1810),[1] who, late in 1787, had received a grant of a large tract of land on the right bank of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the Ohio, from Don Diego de Gardoqui, Spanish minister to the United States. The tract lay within the province of “Louisiana,” and the grant to Morgan was a part of Gardoqui’s plan to annex to that province the western American settlements, Morgan being required to establish thereon a large number of emigrants, whom he secured from New Jersey, Canada and elsewhere. Governor Estevan Miro of Louisiana, however, disapproved of the grant, on the ground that it would cause the province to be overrun by Americans; the settlers became restive under the restraints imposed upon them; Morgan himself left; and in December 1811 and January 1812 a series of severe earthquake shocks caused a general emigration. New Madrid was occupied by Confederate troops under General Gideon J. Pillow, on the 28th of July 1861, and after the surrender of Fort Donelson (February 16, 1862) the troops previously at Columbus, forming the Confederate left flank, were withdrawn to New Madrid and Island No. 10 (in the Mississippi about 10 m. S.). There were Confederate batteries on the left bank of the Mississippi opposite Island No. 10, and along the same bank from a point opposite New Madrid to Tiptonville, Tennessee. Behind these batteries were Reelfoot Lake and overflowed lands. Retreat by land was thus virtually impossible. Early in March, Major-General John Pope and Commodore A. H. Foote proceeded against these positions; New Madrid, then in command of General John P. McGown, was evacuated on the 14th; (Admiral) Henry Walke (1808–1896), commanding the “Carondelet,” ran past the batteries of Island No. 10 and the shore batteries on the 4th of April, and Lieut.-Commander Egbert Thompson, commanding the “Pittsburgh,” on the 7th; meanwhile the Federals under the direction of Colonel Josiah W. Bissell (b. 1818), of the engineer corps, had, with great difficulty, constructed an artificial channel to New Madrid across the peninsula (swamp land) formed by a great loop of the Mississippi; troops were conveyed by transports through this channel below the island, Federal batteries having been established on the right bank of the river; the retreat of the Confederates down stream was effectually blocked; they evacuated the island on April 7th, and on the 8th the garrison and the forces stationed in the shore batteries, a total of about 7000, under General W. W. Mackall (who had succeeded General McGown on the 31st of March) was surrendered at Tiptonville. The island was subsequently washed away, a new one being formed in the vicinity.
NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM (1805–1897), English scholar and miscellaneous writer, younger brother of Cardinal Newman, was born in London on the 27th of June 1805. Like his brother, he was educated at Ealing, and subsequently at Oxford, where he had a brilliant career, obtaining a double first class in 1826. He was elected fellow of Balliol in the same year. Conscientious scruples respecting the ceremony of infant baptism led him to resign his fellowship in 1830, and he went to Baghdad as assistant in the mission of the Rev. A. N. Groves. In 1833 he returned to England to procure additional support for the mission, but rumours of unsoundness in his views on the doctrine of eternal punishment had preceded him, and finding himself generally looked upon with suspicion, he gave up the vocation of missionary to become classical tutor in an unsectarian college at Bristol. His letters written home during the period of his mission were collected and published in 1856, and form an interesting little volume. Newman’s views matured rapidly, and in 1840 he became professor of Latin in Manchester New College, the celebrated Unitarian seminary long established at York, and the parent of Manchester College, Oxford. In 1846 he quitted this appointment to become professor in University College, London, where he remained until 1869. During all this period
- ↑ Morgan had been made Indian agent at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) in 1776, and was commissioned a colonel in the Continental Army in 1777. In 1806 he was visited at his home, near Pittsburg, by Aaron Burr, who told him something about his famous “conspiracy” scheme in the West, which Morgan reported to Jefferson—“the very first intimation I had of the plot,” Jefferson afterward wrote to Morgan.
