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tion on the edge of the piece is MANIBUS, ire. as on the okl 

 rixdollar. 



The rixdollar of Friburg, and its diviiions, have the 



arms of the canton ; legend, RESPX7BLICA F*RIBURGEN 



public of Friburg) ; reverfe, a crofs formed by eight F's, 



and four crowns ; legend, At \iui M NOSTR. DEI S (God is 



our help). The quarter rixdollar has, 01 a fquare in the 



centre of the crofs, the number 56 ; and the inferior divi- 



fions are marked 28, 14, and 7. 



The rixdollar of Treves has the head of the reigning 



prince, with name and titles, thus; clem. WEN< . d. G. ! 



EP. TREV. S. H. 1. A. C. El EL. ; that is, Clemens //'<;/, 



Dei gratia archi epifcopus Trewrenfis fanB't Romani it 



archi cancellarius et .lector (Clement Wenceflas, by the grace 



of God, archbifhop of Treves, arch chancellor and eleftor 



of the holy Roman empire) ; reverfe, arms of the prince; 

 legend, EPISC. AUG. API'. COAD. ELEC. (bifliop of Augf- 

 burg, and other titles), befides the words, 10 EINE 



MARC F. or 10 fine feine MARK (ten to a mark fine). 



The rixdollar of Wirtemburg has the head of the reigning talents, which were not confined to mufic, and there were 

 prince, with name and title, thus: CAROL. ALEX. i>. (;. rumours that file favoured him too much. Henry Stuart 

 dux wlk. in T. (Charles Alexander, by the grace of Darnley, the queen's hufband, had him arretted in the 

 God, duke of Wurtemburg, &c.) ; reverfe, arms of Wur- mulic room of this princefs. But it is faid, in fome ac- 

 temburg; legend, PROVIDE ET CON9TANTER (providently counts, that he was actually at fupper with her maiefty and 

 and conltantly), befides the words, 10 EINE peine mark the countefs of Argyle in her cabinet. Some fay that he 

 (ten to a mark line). . was maflacred in her prefence ; others afiert, that the duke 



The rixdollar of Wurtzburg (coined before 1795) has of Rothfay dragged him out of the room and murdered 

 the head of the reigning prince, with name and titles, thus : him at the door. There is no doubt but that the queen 



after Salvator Rizo, a botanical artift employed by Mutis, 

 is a genus of the Didynamia Gymnofptrmia, whofe diftin 

 characters are fearcely fufficiently marked, for us, without a 

 fpecimen, to decide concerning it. 



The ! l'"" '■ R- ova/if 'Jin, an herbaceous plant of 

 Chili, flowering there in February. Corolla pale rofe- 

 Li mred. 



RIZ.SKOI, in Geography, a province of Ruflia, for- 

 merly Livonia, fo called from Riga, its capital; bounded 

 on the N. by Revelfkoi, on the E. by the government of 

 Peterfburg and Pflcov, on the S.E. by Polot/kot; on the 

 S. by Semigilha, and on the W. by the gulf of Riga ; 

 about 160 miles long, and 100 broad. N. lat. 5 6° 30' to 

 59° 15'. E. long. 24 J to 27 34'. 



RIZZIO, DAVID, in Biography, born at Turin, but 

 brought up in France, was a good mulician, and fung agree- 

 ably. His father was a dancing-mailer. The count de 

 Merezzo took him to Scotland, when he went thither am- 

 bafl'ador from Savoy. Rizzio charmed the queen by his 



FRANC. l.l'D. I). G. El'. BAM. ET WIK. S. R. I. P. F. O. DUX ; 



that is, Francifcus Ludovicus Dei gratia epifcopus Bamhergii 

 et Wirljburgii, fanBi Romani imperii princeps, Francorum 

 Orient alium dux ( Francis Louis, by the grace of God, 

 bifliop of Bamburg and Wurtzburg, prince of the holy 

 Roman empire, duke of Eatt Franconia) ; reverfe, aims of 

 the bifhop , legend, 10 ein feine marck (ten to a mark 

 fine). But the rixdollar of 1 ; 95, &c. bears on the front 

 the head of the bifhop, with names and titles as above ; 

 and on the reverfe only the words, ic EINE feine marck, 

 encircled by two fprigs of laurel ; and above it the legend, 

 pro patria (for the country). See Kelly's Cambill, 

 vols. i. and ii. 



RIXI, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 

 23 miles S. of Palam iw. 



RIXOUSE, La, a town of Fiance, in the department 

 of the Jura ; lix miles N. of St. Cloude. 



RIXTOWN, a town of the duchy of Holltein ; feven 

 miles S.W. of Lutkenberg. 



RIZAH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the govern 

 ment of Trebifoud, near the Black fea ; 41: miles E.N.E. 

 ,»l Trebifond. N. lat. 48"- </. E. long. 4 c r 2c'. 



RIZEA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in that 

 part of the Colchide, which lay to the left of the Phajis. 

 Procopius fays, that it was lituatcd on the frontiers of the 

 empire, and that it was very popul 



RIZIUM, in Botany, a name given by the ancients 

 to a peculiar kind of red root brought from Syria, and 

 ufed by the Grecian women to paint their cheeks red. 



The Latin writers, who havi mentioned this, have called 

 it radicula; and Pliny, who has more than once mentioned 

 it, calls it herba /anuria, OP radix lanaria. This, howmi, 

 is a very great error, confounding it with thujlruthinm of 

 the Greeks. It is probable, that the rizium was no other 

 than the anchufa, or alkanet root, which grows very plenti- 

 fully in the countries from whence the Greeks hail their 

 rizium, and which will anfwer all the purpofes for which 

 they ufed it. 



RIZOA, fo named by Cavanillcs, Ic. v. 6. 56. t. 578, 



made ufelefs efforts to fave his life ; (but to fave the life of 

 a cat, a dog, or a fquirrel, common humanity would natu- 

 rally have done as much). However, it is added, that fhe 

 revenged his death afterwards on feveral of his aflaffins. 

 Laborde. 



We wifiied to know what foreigners fay of this tranf- 

 aftion, as party concerning Mary, queen of Scotland, ran 

 fo high at the time, and it Itill runs, that there is no 

 great credit to be given to cither fide. 



His inftrument feems to have been the lute, the general 

 favourite at that time all over Europe. 



At Turin, fome years ago, among many other mufical 

 enquiries, David Ri/zio was not forgotten. Imagining, as 

 he was a native of that city, and his father a mufician as 

 well as a dancing-mafter there, if we could find any mufic 

 compofed by either of them or by their Italian contem- 

 poraries, it might determine the long difputed queflion, 

 whether David Riy.zio was author of the Scots Melodies 

 aferibed to him. The refult of this enquiry is related in 

 the article James I. king of Scotland; which fee. 



Sir John Melvil, in his Memoirs, tells us that « the c- 

 q l( 1 lad three valets of her chamber, who fung in three 

 partts and wanted a bafe to fiug the fourth part ; there- 

 fore, telling her niajefty of this man, Rizzio, as one fit 

 to make the fourth in concert, he was drawn in fomc- 

 times to fing with the reit." This was about the year 

 1564. 



He quickly crept into the queen's favour ; and her 

 French iecretary happening at that time to return to Ais 

 own country, he (Rizzio) was preferred by her majelty to 

 that office. He began to make a figure at court, and to 

 appear ae a man of weight and coulequence. Nor was he 

 careful to abate that envy which always attends fuch an 

 extraordinary and rapid change of fortune. On the con- 

 trary, he feems to have done every thing to increafc it ; 

 yet it was not his exorbitant power alone which exaf- 

 perated the Scots; they confidcrcd him as a dangerous 

 enemy to the Proteftant religion, and held for this purpofe 

 a conflant correfpondence with the court of Rome. His 

 9 prevalence, 



