MORGUE MOROCCO. 



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portraits ot Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto, Tasso, ike. 

 A complete list of his works, to the number of about 

 200, was published by Palmerini, at Florence, in 

 1810. 



MORGUE, LA; a place in Paris, where the 

 bodies of unknown persons, who have perished by 

 accident, murder, or suicide, are exposed, that they 

 may be recognised by their friends. If not claimed 

 after remaining three days, they are buried. The 

 clothes of the deceased are hung by the side of the 

 body, which is placed under a glass case, on a slab of 

 black marble. . 



MORHOF, DANIEL, GEORGE, a learned philologi- 

 cal writer, born at Wismar, in the duchy of Mecklen- 

 burg, in 1639, was educated at Stettin and Rostock, 

 where he studied jurisprudence, but, in 1660, was 

 chosen professor of poetry at the latter university. 

 Previously to engaging in the duties of his office, he 

 travelled, for two years, in Holland and Britain. In 

 1665, he became professor of poetry and rhetoric at 

 Kiel. lie visited Britain and Holland a second time 

 in 1670, when he contracted an intimacy witli Boyle, 

 and with several of the Dutch literati. In 1673, he 

 obtained the chair of history, at Kiel, and, in 1680, 

 was appointed librarian to the university. He died 

 iu 1691, at Pyrmont, whither he had gone for the 

 benefit of his health. He was the author of a valu- 

 able work, entitled Polyhistor Litterurius, Philoso- 

 phicus, et Fractious, part of which he published at 

 Lubeck, in 1688, and it was reprinted, with additions, 

 in 1695 ; but the most complete edition is that of 

 1747 (2 vols., 4to). Morhof was also the author of 

 a tract De pura Dictione Latina, and other works. 



MORION ; a kind of open helmet, without visor 

 ar beaver, somewhat resembling a hat, which was 

 commonly worn by the arquebussiers and muske- 

 teers. 



MORISCO. See Moors. 



M O R L A C H I A NS. See Dalmatia. 



MORL AND, GEDRGE, an eminent painter of rustic 

 scenery and low life, was born in London, in 1764. 

 He acquired a great degree of skill as a faithful copier 

 of nature, and, in the early part of his career, confined 

 himself to tile delineation of picturesque landscape ; 

 but, having contracted irregular habits, and a parti- 

 ality for the bottle and low company, he forsook the 

 woods and fields for the ale-house ; and stage-coach- 

 men, postilions, and drovers drinking, became the 

 favourite subjects of his pencil. Some of his best 

 pieces exhibit farm-yards and stables, with dogs, 

 horses, pigs, and cattle ; or scenes at the door of the 

 village ale-house designed with all the truth and 

 feeling which communicate a charm to the meanest 

 objects, and proclaim the genius of the artist. Many 

 af his pictures were painted in the midst of embar- 

 rassments occasioned by his imprudence, and some of 

 them while under confinement for debts which he had 

 contracted. He fell a victim to intemperance, dying 

 while in confinement, Oct. 29, 1804. 



MORNAY, PHILIP DE (sieur du Plessis Morlay), 

 a distinguished French nobleman of the sixteenth 

 century, born in 1549, at Buhi, in Normandy, was 

 educated by his mother in the tenets of the reformed 

 religion. In 1567, he entered the army, and bore 

 his part in the civil wars, which, at that period, 

 distracted France ; but, after the massacre of St Bar- 

 tholomew's, he left his country, and visited Switzer- 

 land, Germany, Italy, and a great part of the north 

 of Europe, including England, where Elizabeth re- 

 ceived him with distinguished marks of favour, as an 

 able supporter of the Protestant cause. When, in 

 1576, Henry of Navarre (afterwards Henry IV., of 

 France) openly placed himself at the head of the 

 Huguenot party, De Mornay once more took up 

 arms, and continued in the service 'of this monarch dur- 



ing the whole struggle against the league ; but when, 

 in 1593, Henry reconciled himself to the church of 

 Rome, De Mornay sent in his resignation, and, retir- 

 ing from court, devoted the remainder of his life to 

 literary pursuits, and to advocating, with his pen, the 

 cause of that religion which he had defended with his 

 sword. His first work- a Treatise on the Church 

 appeared in 1578, and was followed, the succeeding 

 year, by another, on the Truth of Christianity. His 

 most able, as well as most celebrated work, was a 

 Treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 

 (1598), in which he vindicated the Calvinistic doc- 

 trine, as opposed to that of transubstantiation ; and 

 cardinal Du Perron, two years after its publication, 

 entering into a personal dispute with the author on 

 the subject, in a conference at Fontainebleau, the 

 latter maintained his argument with so much ability, 

 as to acquire, from those of his own persuasion, the 

 appellation of the Protestant pope. Seven years 

 afterwards, he printed a history of the papacy, under 

 the title of the Mystery of Iniquity. This estimable 

 man, whose learning, constancy, and unblemished 

 morals, acquired the respect even of his opponents, 

 died in ] 623, at his chateau of La Forest, in Poictou, 

 whither he had retired, in 1621, after having been 

 deprived of his government of Saumur, by Louis 

 XIII. His Mem. et Corresp. pour servir a I'Histoire 

 de la Reformation et des Guerres civiles, 1571 1623 

 (most complete edition, Paris, 1825, 15 vols., with 

 a sketch of his life), is a valuable contribution to the 

 history of the time. Voltaire has erected to him a 

 fine monument in the Henriade. 



MOROCCO (Marokos, or Marasch part of an- 

 cient Mauritania); a large empire in the north-west 

 part of Africa, bounded N. by the straits of Gibraltar 

 and the Mediterranean, E. by Algiers, S. by Sahara, 

 and W. by the Atlantic ; about Jon. 1 to 10 W. ; 

 lat. 29 to 36 N.; square miles, according to Gra- 

 berg, 290,000. The limits and divisions are not well 

 ascertained. It is divided into two parts by the 

 great chain of the Atlas, which traverses it first from 

 E. to W., and then from N. to S., leaving between 

 itself and the sea a plain of from 50 to 100 miles in 

 breadth. This plain, which is 400 or 500 miles in 

 length, in an oblique line, includes all the populous 

 and fertile part, comprising Morocco Proper and 

 Fez. The division beyond the Atlas comprises 

 Draha, Tafilet, Sugulmessa, &c. The population is 

 variously estimated; by Graberg, at 5,000,000; by 

 Chenier and Hoest, at 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 ; and 

 by Jackson, at 14,886,000 : population of the cities, 

 according to Jackson, 995,000 ; of Morocco and 

 Fez, N. and W. of Atlas, 10,300,000 ; the Brebers, 

 3,000,000; Tafilet, S E. of Atlas, 650,000. This 

 statement is said to have been taken from the impe- 

 rial register, but is probably a great exaggeration. 

 The chief towns are Morocco, the capital, Fez, Me- 

 quinez, Mogadore, the principal seaport, Tarudant, 

 Rabat, Sallee, Tangiers, Saffet, and Tetuan. The 

 government is a most barbarous despotism, under a 

 chief, styled the sultan of Fez and Morocco, who is 

 absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his sub- 

 jects. In many parts of the country, his power is 

 very precarious, and his superiority is acknowledged 

 by many tribes merely by the payment of tribute. 

 The religion is Mohammedan. The population con- 

 sists of Moors, who live in the towns, and carry on 

 trade; Arabs, who dwell in the country, in villages ; 

 Brebers, the oldest inhabitants of the land (see Bar- 

 bary States); Negroes, who live in a state of free- 

 dom, dispersed over the country ; Jews, in a great 

 measure the descendants of those who were driven 

 from Spain, by Ferdinand the Catholic; they are 

 numerous, but despised and oppressed ; renegado 

 Jews and Christians, principally Spaniards ; Chris- 



