- (anon.), London, 1809, 8vo; 4th edit., with two additional chapters, in the same year.
- ‘The Contemplatist, or a Series of Essays upon Morals and Literature,’ 1811, 12mo.
- ‘The Life and Adventures of Paul Plaintive, Esq., an Author. Compiled by Martin Gribaldus Swammerdam,’ 2 vols. London, 1811, 12mo.
- ‘A Critical Examination of the Writings of Richard Cumberland. Also Memoirs of his Life,’ 2 vols. London, 1812, and again 1814, 8vo.
- ‘An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands in 1815, under the Duke of Wellington and Prince Blucher,’ London, 1817, 4to, with plates by Cruikshank, from drawings by J. Rouse. In this volume he received assistance from the Duke of Wellington, to whom it was dedicated.
- ‘The Five Nights of St. Albans’ (anon.), a novel, 3 vols. London, 1829, 12mo; London [1878], 8vo.
- ‘The Premier’ (anon.), a novel, 3 vols. London, 1831, 8vo.
- ‘The Canterbury Magazine. By Geoffrey Oldcastle, Gent.,’ 1834, &c.
- ‘Stephen Dugard’ (anon.), a novel, 3 vols. London, 1840, 12mo; reprinted in Hodgson's ‘New Series of Novels,’ vol. v. London [1860], 8vo.
- ‘Tales and Trifles from “Blackwood's” and other popular Magazines,’ 2 vols. London, 1849, 8vo; containing the well-known story of ‘The Iron Shroud,’ which is reprinted in vol. i. of ‘Tales from Blackwood.’
- ‘Arthur Wilson, a Study’ (anon.), 3 vols. London, 1872, 8vo (a posthumous publication).
He also translated Golbéry's ‘Travels in Africa,’ 1803; Helvetius's ‘De l'Esprit,’ with a life of the author, 1807; Madame Grafigny's ‘Peruvian Letters,’ 1807; Cardinal de Bausset's ‘Life of Fénelon,’ 1810; ‘Memoirs of Prince Eugene of Savoy,’ 1811; and he edited Goldsmith's ‘Essays on Man and Manners,’ 1804, ‘The British Novelists,’ 1811, and Beattie's ‘Beauties,’ 1809, with memoir.
[Private information; Gent. Mag. June 1848, p. 665; Biog. Dict. of Living Authors, p. 245; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 1626.]
MUDGE, HENRY (1806–1874), temperance advocate, son of Thomas Mudge, was born at Tower Hill House, Bodmin, 29 July 1806. He was educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, became a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries 1828, and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in the following year. He commenced practice in his native town, where he remained throughout his life. From the first he advocated strict temperance principles, never prescribing wines or spirits for his patients. In his later years he said that he had always been willing to give sick people alcohol had it been necessary for their cure, but such a 'necessity had not arisen in his experience. He also opposed the use of tobacco. He edited 'The Western Temperance Luminary,' 1838, twelve numbers, 'The Bodmin Temperance Luminary,' 1840–1, twelve numbers, and ' The Cornwall and Devon Temperance Journal,' 1851–8, eight volumes. Although so stern an advocate of temperance he did not approve of the Rechabites or the Oddfellows, and attacked their principles in 'Rechabitism: a Letter showing the Instability of the Independent Order of Rechabites,' 1844; 'An Exposure of Odd Fellowship, shewing that the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, is Unscriptural, and its Constitution unjust in its Finance … and immoral in its Practice,' 1845; and 'Caution and Testimony against Odd Fellowship,' 1846. He was twice mayor of Bodmin, and for many years a class-leader of the Wesleyan Methodist connexion. He died at Fore Street, Bodmin, 27 June 1874, leaving an only child, wife of J. S. Pethybridge, bankmanager.
Besides the works already mentioned, he wrote:
- 'Rescued Texts or Teetotalism put under the Protection of the Gospel; being a critical Exposition of Texts of Scripture referring to 'lemperance. … With a Key to the Wine Quest ion for the Unlearned,' 1853; 3rd edit. 1856.
- 'Alcoholics: a Letter to Practitioners in Medicine,' 1856.
- 'Physiology, Health and Disease demanding Abstinence from Alcoholic Drinks, and Prohibition of their common Sale. A Course of five Lectures,' 1859.
- 'Dialogues, &c., against the Use of Tobacco,' 1861.
- 'A Guide to the Treatment of Disease without Alcoholic Liquors,' 1863.
[Western Morning News. 29 June 1874, p. 2; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub. 1874–82, pp. 377–8, 1290.]
MUDGE, JOHN (1721–1793), physician, fourth and youngest son of the Rev. Zachariah Mudge [q. v.], by his first wife, Mary Fox, was born at Bideford, Devonshire, in 1721. He was educated at Bideford and Plympton grammar schools, and studied medicine at Plymouth Hospital. He soon obtained a large practice, to the success of which his family connection, his skill and winning manner, alike contributed. In 1777 he published a ‘Dissertation on the Inoculated Small Pox, or an Attempt towards an Investigation of the real Causes which render the Small Pox by Inoculation so much more mild and safe then the same Disease when produced by the ordinary means of Infection’—a sensible work, which shows considerable advance upon the previous treatises by Mead
