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QUILICI, Gaetano, in Biogrnphy, an Italian opera- quit the country on account of his oppofition to a meafure 

 finger, with a bafe voice: a good muiician, who arrived of Richelieu, wliich is thus narrated. Quillet was at Loudun 

 here in 1759, during the performance and opera regency of at the time that Loubardcmont, a creature of the cardinal, 



the Mattei. He continued to perform on our lyric ftage 

 near thirty years, and is, we believe, itill living in London, 

 we fear, in penury and obfcurity. Since quittmg the llage, 

 he lias fupported himl'eif, a bed-ridden wife, and an ideot 

 fon, by teaching to fmg, and has made fonie admirable 

 fcholarf. 



QUILIMANCY, in Geography, a river of Africa, 

 which runs into the Indian fea, 20 miles S. of IVtelinda. S. 

 lat. 3° 16'. E. long. 40° 10'. — Alfo, a ica-port town of 

 Africa, in the kingdom of Melinda, at the mouth of tlic 

 before-mentioned river, belonging to the Portuguefe. S. 

 lat. 3° 10'. 



QUILIMANE, a town of Africa, in Mozambique. 

 S. lat. 18' 15'. E. long. 37° 30'. 



QUILLAJA, in Botany, a genus of plants found in 

 Chili, and defcribed by Molina. JuH. 444. Lamarck II- 

 luilr. t. 774. — Clafs and order, Monoecia Doilecandna. 

 Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



EfT. Ch. Male, Calyx five-cleft. Corolla none. Sta- 

 mens twelve, or more. 



Female, Calyx, five-cleft. Corolla none. Germens five, 

 fuperior, oppofite to the fegments of the calyx. Styles 

 five. Capfules five, coriaceous, of . two valves, and one 



was fent thither to lake informations rcfpeifting the pretend- 

 ed podenion of fome nuns by the forceries of Urban Gkan- 

 DIER (fee his article), an impolhire which Richelieu tliought 

 fit to favour. The counterfeit Satan one day threatened, that 

 on the morrow he would lift up to the roof of the church 

 any one wlio fhould prefume to call his power in queftion. A 

 large company appeared on the next day with M. Loubardf- 

 mont, when Quillet, who alio was prefent, challenged the 

 devil to keep his word. To the furprife of the fujicrftitioug 

 who had met on the occafion, nothing follovred, but the 

 challenger found to his coll; that he had given offence to a 

 mightier power than Satan, and felt it necellary to quit 

 Loudun in hafte, and retire to Italy. He went to Rome, 

 and was engaged as fecretary to the French ambaflador at 

 that court. He probably rL-turned to France with tliat mi- 

 nilter, after the death of Riciielieu, and in 1655 he publirti- 

 ed at Leyden, under the name of Calvidius L^tus, the 

 poem by which he is chiefly known, entitled " Callipaedia 

 five de pulchrse Prolis habendx ratione." In the firfl edi- 

 tion were fome fatirical lines againft Mazarin. The cardi- 

 nal fent for him, and having gently remoiiftrated with him 

 for treating his friends with feverity, promifed to give him 

 the firft vacant abbey. Quillet threw himfelf at the cardinal's 



cell. Seeds numerous, oblong, inferted into the bottom of feet, afked pardon, affured him he would inftantly obliterate 



the capfule, dilated and winged at the fummit. the offenfive lines, and begged, as a fign of his penitence, 



Such is the charafter made out by JuITieu, from the to be allowed to dedicate the poem te) him. This was done 



pubhcationsof Molina and Frezier, and from fpecimens of in the Paris edition of 1656, and Quillet became the flat- 



the fruit, brought to Europe by Dombey. They belong terer of him who had been the objcft of his fatire. He 



to a tree, whofe bark has a foapy quality. The leaves are 

 alternate, fimple, evergreen. Flowers axillary. — The ge- 

 nus appears akin to the Magnolis of Juflieu, but whatever 

 it may be, the name is barbarous and quite iuadmiffible ; 

 only tolerable for a time, till fome botaniit, furnifhed with 

 better materials to define the genus, fhall be entitled to give 

 it a more claflica! appellation. Juflieu remarks, that another 

 plant of Dombey's appears to belong to the above genus. 

 This is a tree referred by him to Dioecia Icofandria, whole 

 fruit is called Gayo Colorado, and which is the fame with the 

 " Loque, or Peruvian tree with iive capfules," of Jofeph de 

 Juffieu, whofe branches, according to his manufcript ac- 

 count, are fo long and pliant, as to be twifted into cords, 

 ferving, in the province of Cufco, for the fupport of hang- 

 ing bridges. 



QUILLALA, in Geography, a town of Chili, on the 

 Aconcagua ; 30 miles E.N.E. of Valparayfo. 



QUILLAN, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Aude, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrift of Li- 

 moux ; 10 miles S. of Limoux. The place contains 1568, 

 and the canton 9195 inhabitants, on a territory of 272^ 

 kiliometres, in 22 communes. N. lat. 42^ 52'. E. long. 

 2^ !6'. 



QUILLA-YACU, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of 

 Lima; 60 miles E.N.E. of Guanuco. 



QUILLE, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland ; 23 

 miles N. of Uddevalla. 



QUILLEBCEUF, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the didritt 

 of Pontaudemer, feated on the Seine ; eight miles N. of 

 Pontaudemer. The place contains 1200, and the canton 

 7272 inhabitants, on a territory of I07r. kiliometres, in 16 

 communes. N. lat. 49° 29'. E. long. 0° 38'. 



QUILLET, Claude, in Biography, b9rn at Chinon, 

 in Touraine, about the year 1602, was brought up to me- 

 dicine, which he pvaftifed fome years, till he was obliged to 

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died at Paris in 1661, repenting not of his adulation, but 

 of the licentious cait of fome of his verfes. The Callipse- 

 dia has gone through many editions, and has been tranflated 

 into various languages. " It is," fays an able critic, " an in- 

 genious performance, agreeably varied by fable and epifode, 

 but frivolous in its main topic, and in its reafonings. Its 

 details arc frequently loofe and inflammatory, and that a car- 

 dinal Ihould have allowed it to have been dedicated to him, is 

 a proof how little regard was paid, at that period, to the 

 rules of decorum. The verfification, though generally free 

 and flowing, is by no means correft, and the diftion is fre- 

 quently impure." Quillet compofed a verfion of Juvenal 

 in French verfe, and a Latin poem in twelve books, entitled 

 " Henriados," or the aftions of Henry IV. This, with 

 other papers, he left to Menage, with 500 crowns to de- 

 fray the charge of printing them, but the abbe took the 

 money, and negledled the conditions. 



QUILLIGA, in Geography, a country of Africa, in 

 Upper Guinea, near the river Maqualbary. 



QUILLOBO, in Betany, a name given by fome to a 

 fpecies of ketmia, called alfo quingombo. 



QUILLOT, KiLLO, or K'ljlo, in Commerce, a Turkifh 

 corn meafure, weighing, in wheat, about 23 okes, or 6olbs. 

 avoirdupois : 4 killos make i fortin ; 85 killos anfwcr 

 nearly to I Englilh quarter. A killo of rice contains 10 

 okes, and the oke is 400 drachms. 



QUII^LOTA, in Geography, a town andjurifdiftion of 

 Chili. The towhi does not contain above lOO families, but 

 thofe fcatteredover the country exceed 1000. 



QUILLY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lower Loire ; 7 miles N. of Savenay. 



QUILOA, a country and kingdom of Africa, fituated 

 near the eall coaft, near the mouth of the Coavo, about 

 1 80 miles from north to iouth ; but the extent inland towards 

 the weft is unknown. This country was firft difcovered by 

 the Portuguefe, in the year 149S. The king and his fub- 

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