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Bodies ; with a Descnptioti of Original Experiments 

 relative to that Subject a work remarkable for its 

 perspicuity, and the extensive information which it 

 affords. About the same time, he made public an 

 Analysis of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of 

 Natural Philosophy, read at the University of Cam- 

 bridge, which is not less valuable than the preceding. 

 William Pitt, having attended Mr Atwood's univer- 

 sity lectures, conceived such an opinion of his talents 

 and scientific information, that he engaged him to 

 devote a considerable part of his time to financial 

 calculations, and bestowed on him a sinecure office, 

 the income of which he retained from 1784 till his 

 death, in 1807, at the age of sixty two, when the 

 office which he had held was abolished. Mr Atwood 

 published a Dissertation on the Construction and 

 Properties of Arches, 1801, 4to, and several other 

 valuable treatises relating to mathematics and me- 

 dia nical science. 



ATYS, or Ai TVS. 1 . The favourite of Cybele, who, 

 having broken the vow of chastity which he made to 

 the goddess, castrated himself, as a punishment for 

 his crime. See Cybele. 2. A son of Croesus, king of 

 Lydia ; an affecting example of filial love. He was 

 dumb, when, seeing a soldier in a battle who had 

 raised a sword against his father, he exerted himself 

 so much, that the bands of his tongue gave way, and 

 lie cried out, " Soldier, kill not Croesus !" 



AUBAINE, DROIT D'. Foreigners in France, in the 

 middle ages, were called Albani, or Albini. Some 

 derive this word from Albanach, which term the 

 Highlanders of Scotland, even now, apply to them- 

 selves ; and, if this name was common to all the 

 Gaelic tribes, or, at least, if it was used by the in- 

 habitants of Bretagne, the Gentian races may have 

 applied it, from this circumstance, to all foreigners. 

 The Romans, indeed, did not permit foreigners to 

 inherit property a law which the emperor Frederic 

 I. abolished, since he gave to all foreigners the 

 right of making a will, and ordered that the effects 

 of such as died without one should be assigned by the 

 bishop to the foreign heirs, or, if this was not possible, 

 should be employed for some pious purposes. France 

 was the only country where foreigners were treated 

 according to the maxim of law peregrinus liber vivit, 

 servus moritur. They were permitted to acquire all 

 kinds of property, even real estate. They could not, 

 however, obtain it by inheritance, nor bequeath it at 

 their death. The king (by virtue of the law of 

 aliens, droit d'Aubaine}, in whose peace and protec- 

 tion they remained during life, was their only heir 

 after death. No feudal lord could acquire this right. 

 It was very early softened in favour of the relations 

 who resided in the kingdom. Some cities, as Lyons, 

 in order to favour commerce, obtained the privilege 

 that the estate of foreigners who died in them should 

 go to the foreign heirs, and this was agreed upon by 

 treaties with certain states. (See the account of 

 these states in Schloezer's State Papers Staats- 

 anzeigen H. 31, and the later treaties in Marten's 

 Recueil des Traitcs.) The national assembly, by the 

 decrees of the 6th of Aug., 1790, and the 8th and 

 3lst of Aug., 1791, abolished this law; and, as it 

 was acknowledged by no other country of Europe as 

 a general rule, out was only put in force as a measure 

 of retaliation against Franee, there was no necessity 

 for a particular abrogation of the same in any Euro- 

 pean state. The rrench, however, were not con- 

 scious of this. They confounded their own droit \ 

 d'Aubaine with the rule prevailing in other countries, 

 of deducting a certain proportion of the estates of 

 foreigners deceased ; ana the droit d'Aubaine was re- 

 stored in the Code civile (Code de Napoleon, art. 1 H, 

 because complaint was made that other coiinlrir*. 

 especially Prussia, had not abolished it 2. In Bri- 



tain, no droit d'Aubaine is known. The alien can 

 transact any business there (under the provisions of 

 the alien act), and his property descends to his heirs, 

 wherever they may be. Real estates alone lie can- 

 not acquire. (For further information respecting the 

 rights of aliens in England, see Alien, Alien Act, 

 and Natu-alization.) 



AUBE, department of; a French department in the 

 former province of Champagne. (See Department.) 

 Aitbe ; a river of France, which rises in the de- 

 partment of Upper Marne, and, running through that 

 of Aube, passes by Bar-sur-Aube and Arcis, and falls 

 into the Seine, near Nogent. The Aube became 

 important, in the last war against France, as a line of 

 military operation. 



AcBERT-DusAYET, Jean Baptiste Annibal ; born in 

 Louisiana, Aug. 9, 1 759. From the 18th year of his 

 age, he was an officer, and fought in the. service of 

 the United States in the war of independence. Shortly 

 before the breaking out of the French revolution, he 

 went to France. In 1792, he was elected president 

 of the legislative assembly. As general of brigade, 

 he defended Mayence, and justified himself from the 

 charge of improperly surrendering the place. He 

 afterwards fought with vigour against the Vendeans, 

 in the west ot France. In the year 3 of the re- 

 public, he was appointed minister of war, and went, 

 in the year 4, to Constantinople as French ambas- 

 sador, where he died two years afterwards. He was 

 an ardent republican, upright, and endowed with 

 talent, but is said to have been extremely vain. 



AUBIGNE, Theodore Agrippa d' ; a French author, 

 born in 1550. He early gave proofs of talent. 

 In his thirteenth year, he lost his father, and fought 

 afterwards under Henry IV., king of France, who 

 made him a gentleman of his bed-chamber. He 

 soon became a favourite of Henry, but when the king, 

 thinking it necessary, favoured the Catholics more 

 than the Protestants, A. expressed his displeasure with 

 little reserve, and, at length, lost the favour of Henry. 

 He now retired to Geneva, where he devoted himself 

 to literary pursuits. He wrote a Histoire Universelle, 

 from 1550 to 1601, with a short account of Henry 

 I V.'s death, 3 vols., folio, the first volume of which 

 was ordered to be burned by the parliament of Paris. 

 He died at Geneva, in 1630. 



AOBREY, John, F. R. S. ; an English antiquary, 

 born at Easton Piers, In Wiltshire, in 1626 ; educated 

 at Oxford. He collected materials for the Monasti- 

 con Anglicanum, and afforded important assistance to 

 Wood, the Oxford antiquary. He lost his property, 

 and was reduced to absolute want ; but a lady Long 

 supported him till his death, about the year 1700. 

 He published little, but left large collections of manu- 

 scripts, which have been used by subsequent writers. 



AUBRY DE MONTDIDIER ; a French knight of the 

 time of king Charles V., who, according to tradition, 

 was basely murdered, in 1371, by his companion in 

 arms, Richard de Macaire. The murder was dis- 

 covered by means of a dog of the deceased, who 

 showed the most hostile disposition to the murderer. 

 The king compelled Macaire to fight with his accuser, 

 the dog, in order to decide the case ; and the murderer 

 was conquered. This story has been formed into a 

 drama, for the German stage, called the Dog of 

 Aubry, or the Wood of Bondy. 



ADBORN ; a post-village of New York, and capital 

 of the county of Cayuga, in the township of Aurelius, 

 on the great western turnpike, at the north end of 

 Owasco lake, 170 miles W. of Albany. Pop., in 

 1825, 2982. It is a pleasant and flourishing village, 

 and contains an academy, a court house, a state prison, 

 large enough to receive 1000 prisoners, a county jail, 

 a market house, a Presbyterian theological seminary, 

 and four houses of public worship. The theological 



