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they haring relinqiiiflied the dcfign of fettling in Ireland, the 

 place remains uninhabited. 



Soon after the revolution of 1782, a memorial, figned by 

 more than 1000 Genevans of both fexes, who were either 

 perfons of fome property, or verfed in trade or manufac- 

 tures, expreffing a delireof fettling in Ireland, was prefented 

 to earl Temple (marquis of Buckingham) then the lord- 

 lieutenant of Ireland. His excellency, apprized of the ad- 

 vantage which would redound to Ireland from the reception 

 of fo many induftrious artiits, many of whom poffeffcd pro- 

 perty in the Englifh, Irifh, and French funds, communicated, 

 in September 1782, the propofal to the privy-council of 

 Ireland for giving an afylum to the Genevan emigrants. 

 This propofal, patronized by the lord-lieutenant, and unani- 

 moully confentcd to by the privy-council, was approved by 

 the king. The Irilh parliament votL-d 50,000/. towards 

 defraying the exponces of their journey, and building a town 

 for their reception ; lands were purchafed for 8000/. and 

 part of the town was atlually completed at the expence of 

 10,000/. ; a charter was granted, with very conliderable 

 privileges ; the llandard of geld was altered for the accom- 

 modation of the new manutufturers ; the foundation of an 

 academy, approved, upon an ufeful, extenlive, and econo- 

 .mical plan ; in July J7S3, feveral Genevans landed in Ire- 

 land ; and when the nation had expended near 30,000/. 

 the projett was fuddenly relinquiflied, and the fettlement 

 finally abandoned. The failure has been attributed to 

 delays in the arrangement of io complicated a plan, occa- 

 fioncd by the high demands of the Genevan commiflioners, 

 who, in preparing the ch.arter, required many privileges, that 

 were contradiiiiory to the laws of the land, and by the 

 building of New Geneva. In confequence of thefe delays, 

 and the refentment of the Genevans, many returned and 

 took the oaths of allegiance to the new government. The 

 projeft became gradually lefs popiJar ; tlie few Genevans, 

 who prematurely landed in Ireland, were difcontented, at 

 not liiiding the new town ready for their immediate recep- 

 tion ; and the emigrants who pofielTed mod property, 

 having withdrawn their names, the reft wanted fufficient 

 capital to fettle in a foreign country, and to eftablilh an ex- 

 tenfive manufafture without ftill farther affiftance. In con- 

 fequence of this deficiency, the Genevan conuiiifTioncrs peti- 

 tioned to appropriate 10,000/. of the 50,00c/. for the purpofe 

 cf forming a capital. But, as that fum liad been voted by 

 pariiament for other purpofes, the petition was rejefted ; 

 and the Genevans, in an addrefs to the duke of Rutland, 

 who fucceedcd lord Temple as lord-lieutenant, reliuquiihed 

 the fettlement, and foon afterwards quitted Ireland. 



GENEVIEVE, St., a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of Paris ; 6 miles VC. of Paris Alfo, a tov.-n 



of France, in the department of the Avjiron, and chief 

 place of a canton, in the diilrift of Efpalioii ; 27 miles N. 

 of Rhodez. The town contains 1241, and the canton 6077 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 175 kiliometres, in 17 com- 

 munes. — Alfo, a town, or village, of Amcric?., in Louifiana, 

 on the wellern bank of the Miiiilippi, 12 miles fouthtrly of 

 fort Chartres. It contained, fome vears ago, more than 100 

 houfes, and 463 inhabitants, befides negroes. N. lat. 37' 

 35'- W. long, go 44'. — Alfo, a town of Canada, on the 

 Batifcan. N. lat. 46 38'. W. long. 72' 14'. 



Genevieve, St. Genevieve, or Si. Ginevicfve, fathers or 

 religious of St. Genevieve, the name of a congregation of 

 regular canons of the order of St. Auguiline, eftabhflied in 

 France. 



The congregation of St. Genevieve is a reform of the 

 Auguiline canons. It was begun bv St, Chailes Faure, in 



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the abbey of St. Vincent de Scnlij, whereof he was a mem. 

 ber, in the year 161 8. 



In the year 1634, the abbey was made cleftive ; and a 

 general chapter, compofcd of the fuperiors of fifteen 

 houfes who had now received the reform, chofc F. Faure 

 coadjutor pf the abbey of St. Genevieve, and general of the 

 whole congregation. Such was its beginning. 



It has fince increafed very much, and has confifted 

 of above a hundred monafterics ; in fome of which the reli- 

 gious are employed in the admini(l(4kion of the parilkes 

 and hofpitals ; and in others, in tlje celebration of divine 

 fervice, and the inftruftioB of ecclefiaftics in feminaries for 

 the purpofe. 



The congregation takes its name from the abbey of St. 

 Genevieve, which is the chief of the ord r, and whofe abbot 

 is the general of it. Tlf abbey itf.-lf took its name 

 from St. Genevieve, the patroncfs of tlie city of Paris, who 

 died in the year 512. Five years after her death, Clovis 

 erected the church of St. Genevieve, under the name and invo- 

 cation of St. Peter, wliere her relics have been preferved, 

 her ihrine vifited, and her image carried with great proceffion* 

 and ceremonies, upon extraordinary occafions, as when fome 

 great favour is to be intreated of hcaten. 



Genkvieve Bny, in Geography, a bay on the W. coaft of 

 Newfoundland, in the Itraits of Belleifle ; 20 miles N. of 

 St. John's bay. 



GENE VO IS, or Dtciiy of Geneva, a province of 

 Savoy, bounded on the N. by the Swifs territories, on the 

 E. by Faucigny, on the S. by Savoy Proper, and on the 

 W. by France, from which it is fcparated by the Rhone. 

 Geneva and its territory formerly made a part of it. It is 

 now annexed to France. 



GENE V RAY, a town of France, in the department 

 of tlie Ifere ; 10 miles S. of Grenoble. 



GENEURO, a m.ountain which divides Piedmont from 

 the ancient Dauphiny, in tlie road from Brian9on to Sufa. 



GENGA, GiKOLAMO, in Biography, a painter of very 

 confiderablc celebrity in his day. He Houriflied at the earlr 

 period of the revival of the art, being born at Urbino in. 

 1476. At the age of 15 he ftudicd under Luca Signorelli 

 oi Cortona, then in great eftcem, and aiufted his mailer in 

 moft of his undertakings in different parts of Italy, but par- 

 ticularly at Orvieto, being acknowledged the bell difciple of 

 that fcliool. He afterwards fpeiit three years with Pietro 

 Pcrugino, at the fame time that Raphael was under the 

 tuition of that artiil ; and that intercourfe laid the foundation 

 of a moll cordis! friendlhip between Raphael and Genga, 

 which nevei" was i.-iipaircd. 



He was highly encouraged by Guido-Baldo II., and 

 his iucceifor, Francefco Maria III., dukes of Uibino, in 

 tlieir palates and theatres, and in defigning trii:mphal arclics. 

 In Rome, Sienna, Forli, Pefaro, and many otl er places, he 

 left behind him ;:n incalculable number of works, both ia 

 painting and architeilare, which were iield in great eileem, 

 and which procured him honour and riches. He died of a 

 fever in 155 1, aged 75, leaving two fons, one of whom, 

 Bartolomeo, follo'ved the profelTion of his father in the fame 

 llyle, and was moreover an emir.cnt llatuarv and architttl. 



Geng.\, BEnxARcr., a dcftor in phiLfophy and medi- 

 cine, was born in tlie duchy of Urbiii. He v/as a teacher 

 of anatomy and furgcry nt Rome about tlie middle of the 

 17th century ; and, acrovdiiig to Mangetii;, furgeon to the 

 hofpital of the Holy (H'.oll in that city. He was a .nan of 

 firm underllanding, and maintained the doclrine of the cir- 

 culation of the blood, wiien it was not generally admitted ii» 

 Italy ; but he attributed the difcoverv of it to Paul Sarpi. 

 L ' He 



