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vernment is monavcliical, under a Malay Maliomedan prince, 

 who, like many other Malay princes, engrofleb alnioli; the 

 whole foreign trade of the port, excepting that of an annual 

 Chincfejunk, which pays a certain fum only as duty, and 

 then has leave to trade freely with the inhabitants. This 

 junk imports immenfe quantities of coarfc China-ware, thin 

 iron pans, and many other articles from that country, and 

 exports biche dc mer, called fwallow, (harks' ilns, edible 

 bird's nefts, rattans, tin, rice, dammer, tortoife-fhell, deer's 

 (kins and finews, bullocks and buffaloes' hides and horns, 

 jerked beef, and many other coarfe articles. At Queda 

 there is great plenty of rice, bullocks, bulfalos, and poul- 

 try ; but not fuch abundance of fruit and vegetables as at 

 Acheen. The territory of Queda is a flat country, fa- 

 vourable for the cultivation of rice ; a hill north of the 

 town and inland, called the Elephant, favours the naviga- 

 tor's approach; alfo the fmall iflands called Peers, 20 miles 

 weft of the bar, covered with trees, and good regular mud 

 foundings, a great way off, even by night, indicate the 

 diftance to the mariner ; 300 miles E.N.E of Acheen. N. 

 lat. e'^ao'. E. long. 100^ 18'. 



QUEDENAU,"atown of Pruflia, in Samland ; three 

 miles N. of Konigfberg. 



QUEDLINBURG, a town of Wedphalia, in the 

 principality of Halberftadt, on the Boda, which divides it 

 into the Old and New Towns. It has feveral churches, a 

 hofpital, and a college. Near this town is a princely abbey, 

 fituated on a hill : it was founded by king Henry I. be- 

 tween the years 932 and 936, and fince enriched by va- 

 rious endowments. In 1539 it embraced Lutheranifm, and 

 obliged itfelf, by folemn oaths, to maintain that form of 

 religion. It lately coniifted of four dignitaries, to'z. of the 

 lady abbefs and three others, dillinguKhed by the titles of 

 provoll, dean, and canon. In 1802, the abbey and its re- 

 venues were voted to the king of Pruffia, as an indemnity ; 

 and by the treaty of Tilfit, transferred to the kingdom of 

 Weftphalia. The tovim of Quedhnburg is feven miles S.S.E. 

 of Halberftadt. N. lat. 5 1 -■ 48'. E. long. 1 1° 20'. 



QUEDLITZ, a town of PrufTia, in the province of 

 Ermeland ; four miles S. of Wartenburg. 



QUEECE, in ylgricultui-i', a term fometimes provincially 

 applied to the wood-pigeon, or birds of that kind. 



QUEECHY, in Geography, a river of Vermont, which 

 runs into the Connecticut at Hartland. 



' QUEEN, Regina, a woman who holds the crown of a 

 realm (ingly, and by right of blood. 



The word queen is derived from the Saxon ctven, uxor, 

 the loife of any one, but applied, by way of excellency, to 

 the wife of the king only ; whence fhe was anciently called 

 the king's queen ; the Weft Saxons having no other name 

 for a queen but the iing's wife. (After de Alfred, re- 

 bus, &c.) She was alfo called lady, in Saxon -wLrfi/ig ; 

 juft as madame, mademolfelle, were ufed in France, for the 

 wife and daughter of the duke of Orleans. 



The name queen is alfo given, by way of courtefy, to 

 her that is married to the king ; called, by way of diftinftion, 

 queen confort. In refpett of whom the former is called queen 

 regnant, or regent. 



The widow of a king is alfo called queen, but with the 

 addition of dovager. 



In the firit fenfe, queen is, in all conftruction, the fame 

 with king ; and has the fame powers, prerogatives, riglits, 

 dignities, and duties that the king has. This is exprefslv 

 declared by (tatute i Mar. I. ft. 3. c. i. 



The queen corfort is inferior, and a perfon diftinft from, 

 and a fubjeft of, the king. In England, though fhe be 

 a feme-covert, yet »iay (he liic, and be fued, in her own 



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name ; and may make leafes, and grants, &c. as a ferno 

 fole. 



She has feveral other prerogatives. Though an alien, 

 fhe may purchafe lands in fee-fimple, without either natura- 

 lization, or denization ; (he may prefent to a benefice ; nor 

 is plenarty a bar againft her more than againft the king. She 

 is alfo capable of taking a grant from the king, which no 

 other wife can do from her hufband ; and fhe may have a fe- 

 parato property in goods as well as lands, and h-is a right to 

 difpofe of them by will. S lie pays no toll, and (hall not be 

 amerced, if (he be nonfuited in any adtion ; and may not be 

 impleaded till lirft petitioned. 



To conipire her death, or violate her chaftity, is high 

 treafon. She has an ancient peculiar revenue, called queen- 

 gold ; befides a very large dower, with a royal court, and 

 officers, diftmtt from the king's ; and her attorney and io- 

 licitor-general are entitled to a place within the bar of his 

 majelty's courts, together with the king's counfel. 



Another ancient perquifite belonging to the queen confort, 

 mentioned by all our old writers, and, on this account only, 

 worthy of notice, is this, that on the taking of a whale ou 

 the coafts, which is a royal fidi, it (hall be divided between 

 the king and queen ; the head only being the king's pro- 

 pe^'ty, and the tail of it the queen's. One reafoii of this 

 whimfical divifion, as alligned by our ancient records, was 

 to furnidi the queen's wardrobe with whalebone. 



The queen dowager, as the widow of the king, enjoys 

 moft of the privileges belonging to her as queen confort. 

 But it is not high treafon to confpire her death ; or to 

 violate her chaftity, becaufe the fuccefTion to the crown is 

 not thereby endangered. Yet ftill, pro d'tgmtate regall, no 

 man can marry a queen dowager without fpecial licence 

 from the king, on pain of forfeiting his lands and goods. 

 She has alfo this particular, that fhe lofes not her dignity, 

 though Hie marry a private gentleman ; as peereffes dow- 

 ager do their peerage, when they marry commoners. Thus 

 queen Catherine, widow of Henry V. being married to Owen 

 ap Tudor, efq. maintained an aftion as queen of England. 

 Much lefs does a queen regnant follow her hufband's con- 

 dition, or is fubjeft to other queens ; but fhe is fovereign to 

 her own hufband, as queen Mary was to king Philip, and 

 queen Anne to prince George of Denmark ; unlefs it be 

 otherwifc appointed by parliament. The hufband may be 

 guilty of high treafon againft her ; but in the inftance of 

 conjugal infideUty, he is not fubjeft to the fame penal re- 

 ftriAions. For which the reafon feems to be, that if a 

 queen confort is unfaithful to the royal bed, this may debafe 

 or baftardize the heirs to the crown ; but no fuch danger 

 can be confequest in the infidelity of a hufband to a queen 

 regnant. 



QuEE.v C.-VROLINE, in Biography, when princefs of 

 Wales, is told in the dedication of the opera of Julius 

 Cxfar to her royal highnefs, that the firft mufical founds 

 which her highnefs heard, were thofe produced by the 

 voice of the celebrated Piftocio, the father of good tafte, 

 then in the fervice of his illuftrious (ire, at the court of 

 Anfpach. 



Mufic doubtlefs was a ferious part of her majefty's edu- 

 cation, as it is, and has ever been, of all the princes and 

 princelTes of Germany ; who have likewifc frequent oppor- 

 tunities of hearing great performers and fplendid perform- 

 ances ; yet we do not recoUeft having heard that her 

 majefty was a performer herfelf, or even an admirer or 

 patronefs of the art. This princefs died in November 



'737- . . ^ 



Queen Mary. (See Mary.) During the fhort reign of 



this bigoted and intolerant princefs, ecclefiaitical mufic was 



again 



