or HELLEVOETSLIUS, a strongly fortified seaport-town of Holland, province of South Holland, on the right bank of the River Flakkee or Haringvliet, the largest mouth of the Rhine, 16 miles S.W. of Rotterdam. It has an excellent harbour and large naval dockyard. Pop. about 2000. William III. embarked here for England Nov. 11th, 1688.

HEMANS, Mrs., one of the most pleasing of English poetesses, was born at Liverpool in 1793. Her maiden name was Felicia Dorothea Browne. Her father was a Liverpool merchant, who, meeting with some reverse in business, retired with his family into Wales, where his daughter imbibed that love of nature that glows in her works. Before she was fifteen she published a volume of poems, which had no great success, but the popularity gained by her second publication (a poetical volume on The Domestic Affections which appeared in 1812), encouraged her to persist in her literary career. In the same year she married Captain Hemans, but the union was not a happy one; and though it was never formally dissolved, yet when the Captain was obliged by bad health to seek a more genial clime in Italy, his wife remained at home to educate her children, and they never met again. In 1819 Mrs Hemans gained the prize of £50 offered by a patriotic Scotsman for the best poem on the subject of Sir William Wallace. Her next considerable effort was a tragedy entitled The Vespers of Palermo, which, though produced on the London stage by John Kemble (he and Young taking the principal parts), was not successful. It is matter of much regret that she should have been obliged to waste her powers on occasional pieces which she produced in great numbers for the periodicals of the day. But the expenses of her children's education compelled her to exert herself in this way, and it may be doubted, even if she had had the leisure necessary for the production of a great work, whether her powers of mind