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LATOUR LAUD. 



to drink, on her flight from Pelos, from which Juno 

 liad again driven her (Ovid's Metum. vi. 4). Latona 

 r-ented as a mild, benevolent goddess, in a sea- 

 green dress. With Diana she cured the wounded 

 ./Eneas, and crowned him with glory. When Diana 

 fled to Olympus, from the anger of Juno, Lntonn 

 carried to her her quiver and arrows, which she had 

 left behind. Latona was worshipped chiefly in Lycia, 

 Delos, Athens, and other cities of Greece. In Crete, 

 a festival was celebrated in honour of her, called 

 Krtlysia, She is sometimes considered as the symlx)! 

 of night, because the sun proceeds, as it were, from 

 the night. Hence, also, some derive her name from 

 the Greek PiWannv (to hide). 



LATOUR D'AUVERGNE-CORRET,THEOPHiLus 

 PK, one of the bravest soldiers mentioned in military 

 history, was born in 1743, at Carhaix, in the depart- 

 ment of Finisterre (Brittany), early decided to become 

 a soldier, and was aid de-camp to the duke De Crillon 

 at the siege of Mahon. When the revolution broke 

 out, he was among the first to rally round its stand- 

 ard. and distinguished himself among 8000 grenadiers, 

 in the army or the Pyrenees. Higher appointments 

 were ofl'ered to him, but he always declined, declaring 

 that he was only fit to command a company of grena- 

 diers. His corps generally made the van-guard, and 

 was called the infernal column. After the peace of 

 Bale, he fell into the hands of the British, and was 

 a prisoner a year in England. After his exchange, 

 he occupied himself with literary labours, and, in 

 1799, again bore arms instead of a son of his friend 

 Lebrigard, fought under Massenn, in Switzerland, 

 and fell at Neuburg, in 1800, while attached to the 

 army of the Rhine, having been, not long before, 

 named first grenadier of France by the first consul. 

 A monument was erected on the spot where he fell. 

 His heart was embalmed, and carried, in a silver 

 box, by one of the company in which he had served. 

 His name was always called, and the bravest grena- 

 dier answered " Died on the field of honour." As 

 an author, he made himself known by a singular 

 work on the early history of Brittany. 



LATROBITE; a mineral named after the reverend 

 C. I. Latrobe. It is found massive and crystallized; 

 but the crystals not well defined ; colour, pale pink; 

 scratches glass; specific gravity, 28. It is composed 

 of 



Silex, ........ 44.65 



Alumiue, . ... 38.21 



Lime, ........ g 2 9 



PotaHl>, ....... _ 6.57 



Oxide of manganese, . . . . 3.10 



It is found at Amitok island, near the coast of 

 Labrador, and is accompanied by mica and carbonate 

 of lime. 



LATTAIGNANT, GABRIEL CHARLES, abbe' de, 

 a poet, the memory of whose songs has not yet 



Eerished in France, and who rendered himself known 

 y the popular opera Fanchon, was born in Paris, 

 towards the end of the seventeenth century. He was 

 canon at Rheims, and counsellor of the parliament of 

 Paris, but united great gaiety with his serious occupa- 

 tions. After having taken part in all the pleasures 

 of life, he retired to a monastery, and died 1779. 

 His poems were published in four volumes, 12mo., 

 which were followed, after his death, by his songs 

 and writings not before printed. 



LATUDE, HENRI MAZERS DE, born in 1724, at 

 Montagnac, in Languedoc, was imprisoned, when 

 twenty years old, in the Bastile, in the reign of Louis 

 XV., because, in order to gain the favour of Madame 

 de Pompadour, he had persuaded her that an attempt 

 was to be made on her life, by a box containing the 

 most subtle poison. The box actually arrived, but 

 contained nothing but ashes, sent by Latude himself. 



UN repeated attempts to escape rendered his confine- 

 meiit more rigorous, and he remained in prison thirty- 

 five years. He was delivered from his confinement 

 in 1779. He then wrote his memoirs, which became 

 a formidable weapon in the hands of the revolutionary 

 party. The national assembly decreed him a pension, 

 which was afterwards, however, withdrawn. The 

 heirs of Amelot and Madame de Pompadour were 

 sentenced to make him indemnification. He died in 

 1804, eighty years old. 



LAUD, WILLIAM, archbishop of Canterbury, in 

 the reign of Charles 1., was born at Reading, in 

 Berkshire, in 1573, and received his education at St 

 John's college, Oxford, of which he became a fellow 

 in 1593. He took priest's orders in 1601, and, the 

 following year, preached a divinity lecture, in which 

 he maintained the perpetual visibility of the church 

 of Rome until the reformation, which doctrine being 

 disapproved by doctor Abbot, master of University 

 college, the foundation of that animosity was laid, 

 which ever after subsisted between them. In 1608, 

 he was made chaplain to Neile, bishop of Rochester, 

 who gave him the rectory of Cuckstone, in Kent ; 

 and he soon after preached his first sermon before 

 James I. In 1611, he became president of his col- 

 lege, and one of the king's chaplains, and, in 1617, 

 accompanied James I. to Scotland, to aid him in his 

 attempt to bring the church of Scotland to a uni- 

 formity with that of England. In 1620, he was 

 installed a prebend of Westminster, and, the next 

 year, nominated to the see of St David's. About this 

 time, James took upon himself to interdict the intro- 

 duction into the pulpit of the doctrines of predestina- 

 tion, election, the irresistibility of free grace, or of 

 any matter relative to the powers, prerogatives, and 

 sovereignty of foreign princes. These measures being 

 attributed to the counsels of bishop Laud, the Calvin- 

 istic or Puritanic party were much incensed at his 

 conduct. On the accession of Charles I., Laud's 

 influence, by the countenance of Buckingham, became 

 very great ; and he was ordered to furnish the king 

 with a list of all the divines in the kingdom, against 

 whose names he marked O. or P., to signify Ortho- 

 dox or Puritan. In 1626, he was translated to the 

 see of Bath and Wells, and, in 1628, to that of 

 London. On the sequestration of archbishop Abbot, 

 in consequence of having accidentally shot a game- 

 keeper, Laud was appointed one of the commission- 

 ers for exercising the archiepiscopal jurisdiction ; 

 and, being a zealous supporter of the hated adminis- 

 tration of Buckingham, became in the highest degree 

 unpopular. On the assassination of that favourite by 

 Felton, bishop Laud, suspecting that some members 

 of parliament might be privy to the deed, prevailed 

 on the king to send to the judges for their opinion, 

 " whether, by law, Felton might not be racked ?" 

 Bishop Laud was also the most active member of the 

 high commission court, the arbitrary and severe 

 proceedings of which were so justly odious to the 

 nation. In 1630, he was elected chancellor of the 

 university of Oxford, to which he was a great bene- 

 factor, and which he enriched with an invaluable 

 collection of manuscripts, in a great number of lan- 

 guages, ancient, modern, and Oriental. In 1633, he 

 attended Charles into Scotland, who went there to be 

 crowned ; and, on his return, he was promoted to 

 the see of Canterbury, become vacant by the death 

 of archbishop Abbot. On the same day, an agent 

 from the court of Rome came to him privately, 

 and offered him a cardinal's hat a fact which 

 shows how strongly he was suspected of a predi- 

 lection for the church of Rome. He, however, 

 declined the proposal, feeling, as he expresses himself 

 in his diary, " That something dwelt within him 

 which would not sufi'er that till Rome were other 



