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and when he was reproached for his friend{hip for La Tre- 

 moiiille, whom Henry had difgraced and baniflied, he ex- 

 ciifed himfelf by faying. "Sire, he is unfortunate enough 

 to have loll the favour of his matter — could I withdraw from 

 him my friend(hip when he has moll need of it:" D'Au- 

 bigne,however, found at length that extreme frankncfsbecoraes 

 not only unacceptable but otTenfive to the beft of princes. 

 H; therefore quitted the court and the kingdom, and retired 

 to Geneva, where he died much honoured and regretted, in 

 1630, at the age of 80 years. By his wife, Sulanna de 

 Lczai, he had feveral children, one of whom was the father 

 of the famous madame de Maintenon. The principal of his 

 works is " An Univerfal Hiflor)- from 1550 to iCor, 

 with an abridged account of the death of Henry IV." in 

 3 vols, folio, printed in 1616, 1618, and 1620. Thcllyleis 

 exceptionable, being partly vulgar and partly afFecled and 

 turgid, but the fentiments are free, and the reprefentations 

 of the tranfatlions and characlers of the times in general 

 are impartial. On the appearance of the firfl. volume, in 

 which the charafter of Henry HI. is reprefented in an 

 odious and contemptible light, the parliament of Paris con- 

 demned it to the flames. The detail of the military opera- 

 tions is the part of the work that has been mod eftecmed for 

 its accuracy. The " Confefiion of Sancy," and the " Barou 

 de Foeneile," are two fatirical poems ; the firft of which is 

 commended for its vein of ingenious and delicate raillery; 

 but the fecond, though not lefs acrimonious, is of a grolfer 

 kind. Bcfides mifcellanous pieces, tragedies, poems, &c. 

 D'Aubigne alfo wrote " Memoirs of his own life," which 

 were not publiilied till 1731. They abound with curious 

 and free anecdotes, and exhibit a lively pifture of the man. 

 Of thefe we have an Engliili tranflation. Gen.'Dicl. Nouv. 

 Dia. Hiftor. 



AUBIGNY, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the ftraits of Calais, and chief place of a canton 

 in thedittria of St. Pol, eight miles W.N.W. of St. Pol— 

 Alfo, a tov^n of France, and chief place of a diftria in the 

 department of the Cher, fix leagues north-weil of Sancerre, 

 and 7 J north of Bourges. In 1442, Charles VH. granted 

 the ellate of Aubigny to John Stuart, conllable of Eng- 

 land and his heirs male, as a recompence for fervices rendered 

 to him in France, with remainder to the crown on failure of 

 male iffue. This reverfionary claule took effea in the i6th 

 centnry, by the death of Charles Stuart without iffue. 

 Lewis XIV. made a new grant in favour of Charles II. king 

 of England, the defcendant of John Stuart, and made the 

 tftate a duchy annexing a peerage to it in favour of Charles 

 Lenox, duke of Richmond, (natural foil of Charles II. by 

 Louifa de Quervuaille, the dutchefs of Portfmouth), from 

 whom it defcended to the prefent duke. The right of peerage 

 to this cflate was guaranteed by the treaty of Utrecht, con- 

 firmed to the prefent duke, and regillered in the parliament 

 of Paris, in 1777. N. lat. 47*^ 29'. E. long.^2" 20'. 



AUBIN, in French Hobh'in, in the Manege, is derived 

 from the Italian word Uhino, fignifying a little horfe. Ac- 

 cordingly the light-armed troops were termed in unclaffical 

 Latin HobliarVi, in contradilliuftion to the cataphraai, or 

 heavy-armed troops. Bcreiiger. See Hobby. 



Aubin'j, St., Bay, in Geography, lies on the ifiand of 

 of Jerfey, in the Eiighlh channel; and at the bottom of it 

 is a town of the fame name with a good harbour, defended 

 by a fort near the fouth-wefl extremity; three miles weft 

 from St. Heller's. N. lat. 49° 7'. W. long. 2° 15'. 



AuBiN, St., is alfo a town of Swifferland, in the princi- 

 pality of Neuchatel. 



AUBLETI.A., in Botany (named after M. F. Aublct, 

 author of the Hiilory of Plants in Guiana). Schreb. 889. 

 Apeiba, Aubl. 213. Swartz.Prod. 82. Sloanea, Lxfl. 3 1 1 . 



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Ch^s, pctyani^na monogynia. Gen. Char. C^7. perianth fivc- 

 leaved, rigid, fpreading, coloured within, pubefcent without, 

 deciduous, five -parted; parts linear-lanceolate, acute, with 

 thick margins, which before flowering are contiguous. Cor. 

 petals five, roundifh-oblong, fmaller than the calyx, with 

 very fliort claws. Slam, filaments very many, very flinrt ; 

 anthers ovate-oblong, outwardly gilibons, gaping on the 

 inner fide, foliaceous at the tip, acute, the exterior ones 

 llevlle, lanceolate, ending in a foliaceous point, fliorter than 

 the corolla. Fiji, germ roundilh, deprefled; llyle long, flri- 

 ated, gradually thickening, llightly incurved; iligma tpicad- 

 ing, perforated, ten-toothed. Per. capfule large, oibiculate, 

 depreffcd, coriaceous, ecliinate, ten-ceiled, gaping at the 

 bafe. Sera's, vc.-y many, fmnll, roundilh, foniewhat com- 

 preffed; receotacle of the feeds, flefhv. 



Elf. Gen. Char. Ca/. five-l'eaved. Cor. fivc-petallcd. 

 Caff, many- ceiled, echinate, with man}" feeds in each cell. 



Species, I. A. Tiboiirl/oii, apeiba tibourbou. Aubl. 1. c. 

 Swartz. 1. c. " Leaves acutely ferrate, hirfute." A tree 

 of a middling fize, having a trunk feven or eiglit feet high, 

 and a foot in diameter, with irregular, chopped, foft bark, 

 which is fibrous, and fit for making ropes. Wood white and 

 hght; branches fpreading in all direaions, and bent down; 

 twigs villofe ; leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, cordate at the 

 bafe, green above, on fliort petioles; ftipules in pairs, acute; 

 flowers in racemes, oppolite to the leaves. A pair of i;ppo- 

 fite braaes is placed at the origin of each twig, and four at 

 the peduncle. The raceme, peduncles, and under fide of the 

 leaves, are covered with ruflet-coloured hairs. A native of 

 Bralil, Guiana, the iflands of Cayenne and Tobago. Apeiba 

 is the Eralilian name, and Tibourbou the Caribbean. 2. A. 

 Pelonmo apeiba potoumo. Aubl. I.e. Swaitz, 1. c. "Leaves 

 elliptic, acute, terrulate, hoary beneath." This tree often 

 rifes forty feet high, with a brown, thick, filamentofe bark, 

 fit for cordage. Wood w'litifli, foft; branches fpreading, 

 arifing from the top of the trunk; leaves alternate, nine 

 inches long, and fnir brond, entire, fmooth, ending in a 

 point, petiolated ; flowers yellow, in racemes oppolite to 

 the leaves, on long peduncles, furroundcd by fourlarge fcales 

 at the bafe. A native of Guiana, in the vail forells of 

 Sinemari. It is called petoumo by the Caribbtes. 3. A. 

 afpera. Aubl. and Swartz. I.e. " Leaves quite entire, 

 pubefcent beneath; fruit comprefled." A tree from thirty 

 to forty feet high, with bark and wood Hke thofe of the 

 preceding. Leaves alternate, ovate, fmoolh, pointed, rounded 

 at the bafe, five inches long, on a fliort footllalk, at the bafe 

 of which are two ftipules, which foon fall ofl ; flowers at the 

 extremities of the branches, in racemes which have at the 

 bafe two braaes, and at the divifious three or four fcales, 

 fi-om which Ipiing three yellow flowers. A native of 

 Guiana and Cayenne. It is alfo called petoumo by the 

 Caribbees. ^. A., lavis. Aubl. 1. c. t.2 14. (apeiba glabra) 

 '•■ Leaves quite entire, fmooth on both fides; fruit rough, de- 

 preffcd." A tree of middling fize, with a trunk from ten to 

 twelve feet high; its wood is very light; leaves ovate, acu- 

 minate, on fliort footllalks; ftipules in pairs, fhort, deci- 

 duous; flowers in racemes, greenifh. A n.itive of Guiana, 

 flowering in May. The inhabitants call it Ivouyra, and ufe 

 pieces of the wood rounded and pointed to procure lire: 

 hence the Creoles call it bois de meche. 



AUBONDAGE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Meiirte, and chief place of a canton in 

 the diftria of Chateau-Salins, fix miles N.N.E. of Chateau- 

 Salins. 



AUBONNE, the name of a government and of a town 

 in the canton of Berne, in Swifferland, whicli was formerly a 

 lordfhip, belonging to the marquis du Qucine, purchafed by 

 him of the famous traveller, Tavernier, and afterwards fold 



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