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but for a time he concealed his fufpicions in his own bread, 

 and even while under the fear of danger, he conteired upon 

 his minifler additional marks of hij favour, making him his 

 colleague in the confulfhip. He however gradually witlidrew 

 from him the tokens of his confidence, and finding that the 

 fymptoms of this change had greatly diminifhed the crowds 

 that attended his levees, he proceeded, though with much 

 caution, to the meafures for his deftruftion. He now ap- 

 pointed another commander of his prKtorians. Sejanus, 

 knowing the extent of his own guilt, began to be alarmed : 

 he called together his friends and followers, and held forth 

 to them the moft flattering promifes, and having increafed 

 the number of his partifans, formed a bold confpiracy, rc- 

 folved by any means to feize the fovereign power. A 

 powerful league was formed with aftonifhing rapidity, and 

 great numbers of all defcriptions, fenators as well as mili- 

 tary men, entered into the plot. Among thefe, Satrius Se- 

 cundus was the confidential friend and prime agent of the 

 minifter, who, for reafons that arc not known, refolved to 

 betray his mafter. For this purpofe he addreded hinifelf to 

 Antonia, the daughter of Antony the triumvir, the widow of 

 Drufus, and the mother of Germanicus. When this lUuf- 

 trious woman, who was highly elteemed by the people, as 

 well as honoured by the court, heard the particulars, fhe 

 fent difpatches to the emperor by one of her flaves. Tibe- 

 rius was aftonifhed, but not at all difmayed : the danger 

 preffed, and he determined to take decifivc meafures. He 

 fent Macro to Rome with a fpccial commifiion, and giving 

 him ample powers that might be adapted to all emergencies. 

 Early in the morning of the 15th, before the kalends of 

 November, a report was fpread, that letters had arrived at 

 Rome, with the view of augmenting ftill farther the ho- 

 nours of Sejanus. The fenate was fummoned to meet in the 

 temple of Apollo, near the imperial palace. Sejanus at- 

 tended without delay, and a party of prxtorians followed 

 him. Macro met him in the veftibule of the temple. He 

 approached the minifter with all demonftrations of profound 

 refpeft, and taking him afide, told him not to be furprifed 

 that he had not received a letter from the emperor himfclf, 

 but, fays he, I am this day to deliver the emperor's orders. 

 Sejanus, elated with joy, expefting fome unlooked-for dig- 

 nity, entered into the fenate-houfe, and Macro followed. 

 He opened his commifiion by reading a long letter in the 

 fenate to the confuls from Tiberius, which concluded vrith 

 an order to feize his perfon ; inftantly the whole afl'embly 

 loaded with infults and reproaches the man at whofe feet 

 they lately bent, and the people began to throw down and treat 

 with every indignity the llatues before which they had been 

 accultomed to offer facrifices. His perfon was feized, and 

 thrown into prifon, and being accufed of high treafon, he 

 was condemned without a fingle defender. On the fame day 

 he was executed, and his body thrown into the Tiber. A 

 madacre of his relations took place, and even his infant 

 children were inhumanly fbughtered. This catallrophe 

 took place in the year 31 of the Chriilian era, and it fur- 

 nifhed to Juvenal a fine inftance of the mutability of fortune, 

 of which he cook advantage in his tenth fatire. 



SEIDERSHOLZ, in Geography, a town of Bavaria, in 

 the principality of Aichftatt ; 3 miles N. of Aichftatt. 



SEIBERSTORF, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles N.E. of 

 Ebenfurth. 



SEIBO, or Zeybo, a town of the ifland of Hifpaniola ; 

 50 miles E.N.E. of St. Domingo. 



SE I BOUSE, a river of Algiers, which runs into the 

 Mediterranean, near Bona. 



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

 Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif. 



triil of Marmande ; fix miles N.E. of Marmande, The 

 place contains 1^51, and the canton 13,546 inhabitants, on 

 a territory of 2jO kdiomctres, in 20 communes. — Alfo, a 

 town of France, in the department of the Maine and Loire, 

 and chief place of a canton, in the diltrift of Bauge ; nine 

 miles W. of Bauge. The place contains 1364, and the 

 canton 9906 inhabitants, on a territory of 240 kiliometres, 

 in 13 communes. 



SEID Gender, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Lantlan ; 25 miles N. of Lar. 

 SEIDE'. SeeSAlDA. 



SEIDENBACH, a town of Germany, in the principa- 

 lity of Culmbach ; 9 miles W.S.W. of Bayreuth. 



SEIDENBERG, a town if Lufatia, in which are ma- 

 nufatlurcs of cloth and knit ftockings ; 8 miles S.S.E. of 

 Gorlitz. 



SEIDENSCHWANZ, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of Boleflau ; 8 miles N. of Turnau. 



SEIDENSTETTEN, or Seitten.stettin, a town 

 of Auftria ; 9 miles N.N.W. of Waidhoven. 



SEIFERSDORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Boleflau ; 5 miles S. of Krottau. 



SEIGH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 15 miles S. 

 of Bahar, 



SEIGHN, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; 31 miles 

 N. of Hagypour. 



SEIGN, a fortrefs of Ualmatia, in the territory of Spa- 

 latro ; 16 miles N.E. of Spalatro. 



SEIGNELAY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Yoniie ; 6 miles N. of Auxerre. 



SEIGNEUR, or Seignor, Lord. See Sire, Sieijr, 

 MoNSEiGNEUK, Lord, &c. 



SEIGNIORY, Dominium, in our Law, is ufed for a 

 manor or lordlhip. 



SEIGNORAGE, or Slignourage, a right or due be- 

 longing to a feigneur, or lord. 



Seig.n'Orage is particularly ufcd for a duty belonging to 

 the prince for che coining of money, called alfo coinage, 

 (which fee), and in the bafer Latin monctaglum. See Re- 

 MEoy/or the Majler of the Mint. 



This duty is not always tlie lame, but changes according 

 to the pleafure of the prince, and the occafions of ftate. It 

 is in fome mealure for the difcharge of this duty that alloy 

 was invented ; that is, the mixture of other metals with 

 gold and filver. 



Under our ancient kings, for every pound of gold brought 

 in the mafs to be coined, the king's duty was five (hillings ; 

 one (hilling, and fometimes eighteen pence, of which went 

 to the malter of the mint. Under Edward III. the feig- 

 norage of every pound weight of filver was eighteen penny- 

 weight, which was then equivalent to a (hilling. Under 

 Henry V. the king's feignorage for every pound of filver 

 was fifteen pence. At prefent, the king claims no feig- 

 Borage at all, but the fubjeft has his money coined at the 

 public expence ; nor has the king any advantage from it, 

 but what he has by the alloy. 



In France, under Philip Auguftus, the feignorage was 

 one-third of the profit made by coining ; St. Louis fixed it 

 at one-fixteenth part of the value of the money coined : 

 king John, at three livres the mark of gold : Charles VII. 

 by reafon of the diftrelTed ftate of his finances, raifed it to 

 three-fourths of the value ; Louis XIII. fixed it at fix 

 livres the mark, or eight ounces of gold, and ten fols the 

 mark of filver. Louis XIV. took away the right of feig- 

 norage in 1679, though it was re-eftabli(hed in 1689, on 

 the foot of feven hvres ten fols the mark of gold, and 

 twelve fols fix deniers the mark of filver. 



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