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ISAAC, an American naval officer; born in Derby, Conn., March 9, 1775. In July, 1812, he commanded the frigate "Constitution." While cruising in the Gulf of St. Lawrence he met the British frigate "Guerrière," which, after a bloody fight of half an hour, surrendered, Aug. was so injured in the battle that she soon Lug. dered, Aug. 19, 1812. The "Guerrière" sank. The British ship lost 100 men; the "Constitution" had 14 men killed and wounded, and within an hour or so was ready for another fight. This was the first naval battle of the War of 1812, and Congress gave Captain Hull a gold medal for his services. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1843. HULSEAN LECTURES. The Rev.
John Hulse; born in Middlewich, Cheshire, England, in 1708, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and died in 1790, bequeathing his property to Cambridge University for the founding of two divinity scholarships in St. John's College, the Hulsean Prize, the office of Christian Advocate (in 1860 changed into the Hulsean Professorship of Divinity), and that of Hulsean Lecturer or Christian Preacher. The lecturer, appointed annually, must deliver four lectures before the university. The subjects are "The Evidence for Revealed Religion; the Truth and Excellence of Christianity; Prophecies and Miracles; Direct or Collateral Proofs of the Christian Religion, especially the Collateral Arguments; the most difficult Texts or Obscure Parts of Holy Scripture." Among the lecturers have been Trench, Farrar, and Bishop Boyd Carpenter.