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uniting moll prohifely the graces of the fpring, the beauty 

 of the fummer, and the rich luxuriance of the autumn. 



Sir R. Wilfon has given us a piclure of Rofetta, very 

 different from that which we have above exhibited. He 

 fays, it is built of a dingy red brick, and that a great part 

 of the town is in ruins, many of the houfes having been 

 pulled down by the French for fuel. The ftreets are not 

 more than two yards wide, and full of wretches, which the 

 pride of civilization revolts at acknowledging to be human. 

 The number of blind perfons is prodigious ; nearly every 

 fifth inhabitant having either loll, or having fome humour 

 in, his eye. -The eryfipelas, the dropfy, the leprofy, the 

 elephantiafis, and lufi naturae, constantly offend the fight. 

 Filth, mofquitos of the molt dreadful fort, vermin of every 

 kind, women fo ugly, that, fortunately for Eu -oceans, their 

 faces are concealed by a black cloth veil, in which are cut 

 two eye-hobs ; flench intolerable ; houfes almoft unin- 

 habitable : — thefe form the charms of Rofetta, and Savary's 

 o-arden of Eden. The quay, however, is allowed to be 

 a handfome objedt, and might be made noble. The baths 

 are reprefented as horridly difgufting. Dr. Wittman, cited 

 alfo by Crutwell, obferves, that though it contains but few 

 Striking public edifices, Rofetta muit be confidered as a 

 handfome place by thofe who have been accuflomed to 

 mud walls and fandy defarts ; the mofques and their mi- 

 narets, as well as their houfes, built with bricks, plaltered 

 over and white -wafhed. The population he eftimates at 

 8 or 10,000, but from the number of empty houfes, it ap- 

 peared capable of containing at leall treble that number. 

 In 1807, the Britifh were defeated here, with confidefable 

 lofs, by the Turks ; 90 miles N.W. of Cairo. N. lat. 3 1 

 24'. E. long. 30 40'.. Savary. Sonnini. Niebuhr. 



ROSETTE, in Military Language, an ornamental branch 

 of ribbands, or cut leather, which is worn both by officers 

 and foldiers in the Britifh fervice, on the upper part of their 

 cues. 



Rosettes, two fmall bunches of ribbands that are 

 attached to the loops by which the gorget of an officer is 

 fufpended upon his chefl. The colour of the ribband mull 

 correfpond with the facing of the uniform. The French 

 ufe the fame term. 



ROSETTI, Donato, in Biography, an ingenious Ita- 

 lian, who flourifhed in the 17th century, but of whofe per- 

 fonal hiitory little is known. He was a native of Leg- 

 horn, where he was probably educated, and was fo fuccefs- 

 ful in the cultivation' of the fciences, that at a very early 

 age he was confidered as completely qualified to teach 

 mathematics and the elements of philoiophy in different 

 univerfities. While he was profeflor of logic at Pifa, he 

 publifhed a trratife relating to the fyflem of the earth, 

 which was well received. The title of this work was 

 V Antignome fifico Mathematiche con il nuovo Orbe e 

 Syftema terreflre." This was followed by " A Collec- 

 tion of phyfico-mathematical Inttru&ions ;" " A Treatife 

 on the Compofition of Dutch Glaffes, and Glafs Drops ;" 

 « A Collection of phyfico-mathematical Demonllrations" 

 of propofitions which he had undertaken to prove. In 

 his " Antignome," he maintained that the number of 

 fenfes was eleven ; this ir.creafe he made out by confidering 

 the different modes in which we touch bodies as fo many 

 different fenfes, and endeavouring to fhew that the per- 

 ception* arifing from them cannot properly be afenbed to 

 the fenfe of feeling in general. He was the author of an- 

 other trratife, entitled " Polifta fedele," intended to ex- 

 plain the inclination of bodies to unite at their poles, and 

 ■various phenomena refpedting their hardnefs, their elafti- 

 eity, their extenfion, and the caufes which convert folids 



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into fluids'. It is not known when tliis philofopher died : 

 he was living at Pifa in the year 1678. 



Rosetti, Antonio, chapel-mafter to the duke of Meck- 

 lenburg Schwerin, born, according to Gerber, at Milan, in 

 1744; but we have better authority to fay that he was 

 a native of Bohemia, and a difciple of the great Haydn at 

 Vienna, where, in 1755, he was a violimll in the imperial 

 chapel, and afterwards in the fervice of count Althan, 

 1780. Since that time he has been a voluminous publifher 

 at Hamburgh and Leiplic, of pieces for the piano-forte, with 

 and without a violin accompaniment, of fymphonies for a 

 full orcheflra, on the plan of his mailer Haydn, flute con- 

 certos, &c. Some of his fymphonies, when performed at 

 the concerts in England, while Haydn was in this country, 

 we thought written with force, and abounding with fire 

 and new paflages. 



ROSEWAY Pout, in Geography, a populous fea-port 

 town on the S E. coaft of Nova Scotia, N.E. by E. of 

 cape Negro and Harbour. 



RosEWAY IJland, an ifland that lies at the mouth of 

 Port Waiter, on the S.E. coalt of Nova Scotia. 



ROSEWELL, Thomas, in Biography, a Prelbyterian 

 divine, was born in Somerfetfhire about the year 1630, and 

 was educated at Oxford. After leaving the univerlity, he 

 was prefented to the living of Strode, in his native county, 

 from which he was ejected in the year 1662, by the Bar- 

 tholomew acl. In 1674 he officiated with a Non-con- 

 formift congregation at Rotherhithe ; and in the year 1684 

 he was arretted on a charge of high treafon : on this charge 

 he was tried in the court of king's bench, November 8th, 

 before the infamous Jefferies. The indictment was on words 

 faid to have been delivered from the pulpit, and the wit- 

 nefles were three women of abandoned characters, of whom 

 the chief was afterwards fet in the pillory for perjury. 

 The trial lafled feven hours, and Mr. Role well behaved 

 with all the decency and refpeCt that could have been ex- 

 pected, and made a defence that was applauded by all who 

 heard him. The women, fays bifhop Burnet, could not 

 prove, by any circumltance, that they were even prefent 

 at the meeting, and the words to which they lwore were 

 fo grofs, that it was not to be imagined that any man in his 

 wits would have made ufe of them in a mixed aflembly ; 

 yet Jefferies urged the matter with his ufual vehemence. 

 He laid it down as an axiom, concerning which there could 

 be no controversy, that all preaching at conventicles, as he 

 was pleated to call diflentii.g places of woiihip, was trea- 

 fonable, and that this ought to difpofe the jury to believe 

 any evidence upon that head. The jury accoi lin rly found 

 the prifoner guilty. As fa n, b< wevers as the 1 I 

 over, fir John Talbot, who was prefent at it, went to the 

 king, and urged it on his majeity, that if fucli evidence 

 was admitted, as had appeared againit Mr. Rofewell, no 

 one of his libjedts would be late. Upon tins, when 

 Jeffries foon after came into the royal prefence, with an 

 air of exultation and triumph, to congratulate his majefty 

 on the conviction of a traitor, the king afforded him a 

 cool reception, which mortified him exceedingly, but at the 

 fame time it gave . complete turn to the his mind; 



fo that when the court met to hear Mr. R i. well's counfel, 

 who moved for an arrcil of judgment, this judge, who was 

 as mean as he was corrupt and cruel, afi limed a tone of 

 moderation, and flrongly recommended to the king's coun- 

 . lei caution and deliberation where the life of a man was 

 depending. The prifoner was, in the end, pardoned. He 

 died in 1691. Neal's Hilt. vol. iv. 



ROSHAN, or RosHAWN, 111 Geography, a country of 

 Alia, fituated between Meckley and Arracan, between 



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