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ceeded by bribery, and got fafe to Bohemia, and afterwards 

 to Elbing, in Polirti Pruflia, in March 1747. After various 

 adventures he arrived at Mofcow, where he infinuated him- 

 felf into the good graces of the lady of the grand-chancellor 

 Beftuchef, the favourite of Ehzabeth. From Mofcow he 

 made a circuitous tour to Vienna, with a view of recover- 

 ing feme contefted property ; and diffatisfied with the re- 

 ception he found at the Auftrian court, he determined to re- 

 turn again to Ruffia ; but in pafling through Dantzic, he 

 was arretted at the requeft of tlie Pruffian refident, and com- 

 mitted to prifon at Magdeburg, where he remained ten years. 

 Here he amufed himfelf, during a tedious and rigorous im- 

 prifonment, in wTiting verfes ; which, long after his releafe 

 in 1763, he publifhed at Frankfort on the Mayne, in 1 769. 

 He publilhed fome other works at Aix-la-Chapelle, where 

 he became editor of a gazette, and married a lady of re- 

 fpeftable charafter and conneftions. Finding the occupation 

 of a gazette-writer tirefome and not lucrative, he began bu- 

 finefs as a wine-merchant ; but the wine-trade not anfwering 

 his expeftations, he difappeared about the year 1783. In 

 1792 he edited a journal at Hamburgh and Altona, and 

 from the latter place he removed to France, where he loft 

 his life by the guillotine in the month of July 1794. The 

 Memoirs of his own Life appeared at Berlin in 1787, in two 

 parts, 8vo. Of the authenticity of the fafts ftated in thefe 

 memoirs, great doubts have been entertained. His hfe, 

 tranflated into French by himfelf, was publiflied at Paris in 

 '7^9> 3 vols. 8vo. A new edition of his " Macedonian 

 Hero" was printed in 1788, Franckfort and Leipfic, 8vo. 

 Gen. Biog. 



TRENCSIN, in Geography, a town and caftle of Hun- 

 gary, near the river Waag, fituated on a rock, and defended 

 by a very ftrong caftle. Near it are fome hot baths ; 20 

 miles N.N.W. of Topoltzan. 



TREND, that part of the ftock of an anchor from 

 which the fize is taken. 



TRENDING, in Rural Economy, the operation or 

 praftice of freeing wool from filth of different kinds. It is 

 ufualty done by perfons who are called trenders, and who 

 are appointed and fworn for the purpofe. In moft (hecp- 

 diftrifts, the beft wool is always underftood to have gone 

 through this procefs, and then to be worth two or three 

 {hillings the tod more than other untrended wool. The 

 fleeces in fuch cafes are neatly rolled together, and bound 

 with ofier or with bands in fome places. It is fometimes 

 termed trendering. See Sheep and Wool. 



TRENDLE, a term fignif^qng the wheel of a barrow, 

 or any thing which turns round in that manner when of the 

 low wheel kind. 



TRENNO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the de- 

 partment of the Olona ; 4 miles N.W. of Milan. 



TRENSDORF, a town of Bavaria, in the biihopric of 

 Bamberg ; 4 miles S. of Bamberg. 



TRENT, a city of the county of Tyrol ; in Latin 

 Tr'identum, called by the Italians Trento, and by the Ger- 

 mans Trtendt ; and fituated upon the Adige or Et^ch, in a 

 very fruitful valley, furrounded with high hills. It was 

 buik by the Cenomani Gauls, who were difpoffefTed by the 

 Romans. The Goths became matters of it when they came 

 into Italy, and after them the Lombards. Afterwards it 

 was poffefled by the German emperors, until 1377, when 

 Wcnceflaus, fon to Charles IV., gave it to the church of 

 Rome. Afterwards its bittiops, being made princes of the 

 empire, became temporal as well as fpiritual lords of the 

 city. Some authors affirm that the name Tridentum is de- 

 rived from Neptune's fceptre, or trident, to whom they fay 

 the city was once confecrated. This opinion took its rife 



from an ancient marble being found there, on which was a 

 Neptune holding his trident. Others derive the name from 

 three rivers and torrents that fall into the Adige, a little 

 above and below the city. Others fay it owes its name to 

 three high rocks in the neighbourhood, which appear like 

 thrae teeth, tres denies. The bifhop was a prince of the 

 empire, and temporal as well as fpiritual lord of his diocefe, 

 which is of very confiderable extent ; but notwithftanding 

 the fovereignty of the bifliop, the city of Trent has its own 

 diftinft privileges, and magiftrates to prefervc them : thefe 

 confift of two burgo-mafters, who prefide by turns, and 

 twelve counfellors. Trent contains no ftreets exaftly regu- 

 lar, and the houfes are in general old. The palace is large, 

 but in the antique ftyle. Befides the cathedral, there are 

 three parilh-churches, a college, and fome convents ; 55 

 miles N. of Mantua. N. lat. 46^. E. long. 11° 5'. 



Trent, a princely biftiopric of Germany, fituated in 

 the Tyrolefe, in which this ancient bifhopric was gradually 

 increafed by the liberality of the ancient Roman emperors. 

 Though the biihop of Trent, after the ftipulation ratified 

 in the recefs of the empire, at Augft)urg, in the year 1548, 

 held of the archducal houfe of Auftria, as a land ftate, yet 

 he enjoyed, as an immediate prince of the empire, both a 

 feat and voice at the diets, in the college of princes of the 

 empire, and likewife aftually fent deputies to the diet of the 

 empire. This prelacy was alfo a ftate of the circle of Auf- 

 tria. Among the indemnities agreed to at Ratilbon, in 

 1802, the biftiopric was given to the grand duke of Tuf- 

 cany, as archduke of Auftria. It was afterwards ceded to 

 Bavaria. 



Trent, a town of the ifland of Rugen ; 1 1 miles 

 N.W. of Bergen. 



Trent, a river of England, which rifes in the north- 

 weft part of Staffordfhire, on the borders of Cheftiire, about 

 fix miles fouth-weft from Leek : taking a fouth-eaft direc- 

 tion, it croftes the county to the borders of Leicetterfhire 

 and Derbyfhire ; it then takes a north-eaft direftion, and 

 croftes the county of Derby and Nottingham to Newark, 

 from whence its direftion becomes nearly due fouth, till 

 after paffing a fmall part in the north of Lincolnftiire, it 

 joins the Oufe, and the two ftreams form the Humber. 

 Canals are made or making, to open a communication be- 

 tween this river and various parts of the kingdom, vi%. from 

 the mouth of the Idle, below Gainfborough, to Redford 

 and Chefterfield ; to Lincoln, and from thence to Tatterfall, 

 Horncaftle, Seaford, Bofton, and the fea ; from near Not- 

 tingham, to Cromford and Winfter ; from the mouth of the 

 Derwent, one branch through the counties of Derby, Staf- 

 ford, and Chefter, to the Merfey, which is joined with an- 

 other branch to Coventry and Braunfton, where it meets 

 with the canal from Brentford : other branches join the 

 Thames at Lechlade, the Avon at Warwick, the Severn at 

 Worcefter, and many others. The Trent is of itfelf navi- 

 gable from Burton in Staffordftiire. 



Trent, a river of Canada, which runs from Rice lake 



to fake Ontario Alfo, a river of North Carolina, which 



runs into the Neufe, at Newbcrn. 



Trent, Council of, in Etclejiajlical Hiflory, denotes the 

 council affembled by Paul III. in 1545, and continued by 

 25 feflions till the year 1563, under Juhus III. and Pius IV., 

 in order to correft, illuftrate, and fix with perfpicuity, the 

 doSrine of the church, to reftore the vigour of its difcipline, 

 and to reform the hves of its minifters. But it has been a 

 matter of complaint by many, both in and out of the com- 

 munion of the church of Rome, that this aftembly, inftead 

 of reforming ancient abufes, rather gave rife to new enormi- 

 ties. It is alleged, that opinions of the fcholaftic doftors on 



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