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founding the congregation above-mentioned ; and in the 

 mean while, wifhing to ferve the miferable objefts that were 

 under the care of his patron, he applied to court for the ap- 

 pointment of almoner-general of the galleys, and obtained it 

 in the year 1619. His alTiduity in the difcharge of the 

 duties of his office, as well as the piety and benevolence of 

 his difpofition, engaged the general efteeni and refpeft of 

 the inhabitants of Marfeilles. Devoted to afts of com- 

 paflion and beneficence, he was entrufted, in the year 1620, 

 with the direftion and government of the order of the 

 ♦' Daughters of Charity." His next objedl was the accom- 

 plifhment of his purpofe with regard to a new community, 

 in which he obtained the concurrence of iome priells, who 

 made choice of him as their principal. This inftitution 

 was profperous, and the number of the fociety having in- 

 creafed, he accepted the great houfe of St. Lazarus, in the 

 fuburb of St. Denis, which became the principal houfe of 

 his order; and in 1632, its utility was acknowledged by 

 pope Urban VHL, who formed it into a regular congrega- 

 tion, and appointed its founder as the firft fupenor general. 

 The rule prefcribed to the fociety enjoined, independently 

 of attention to their own religious exercifes, the appropria- 

 tion of eight months in the year to the inftruftion of the 

 common people in the neighbouring pariflies, to the relief 

 of the fick and indigent, to infpetlion of feminaries in 

 which young perfons were educated for holy orders, and to 

 other adls of private and public fervice. The fupenor con- 

 duced himfelf with fo much zeal and aftivity, that he ob- 

 tained encouragement in the profecution of his plan, not 

 only in all parts of France, but alfo in Italy, Scotland, 

 Barbary, Madagafcar, &c. Not fatisfied with the fingle 

 objeft to which his benevolent attention was firft directed, 

 he took a very aftive part in the conduft and fupport of 

 many other inftitutions of a benevolent and ufeful kind. 

 So highly was he edeemed on account of his piety and pru- 

 dence, and his zeal for doing good, that he was engaged in 

 regular attendance on Lewis XHL during his laft ficknefs ; 

 and under the regency of Anne of Auftria, mother of 

 Lewis XIV., he was the chief advifer in all the ecclefiaftical 

 affairs of the kingdom. For a period of ten years, during 

 which he poffefled this influence, he maintained the moft 

 exemplary character in the difcharge of his pubhc duties, as 

 well as in his private conduft. He died in 1660, at the 

 age of nearly 85 years. He was beatified by pope Bene- 

 diA XIII. in 1729, and canonized by Clement XII. in 

 1737 ; and it muft be allowed, that he occupies a diftin- 

 guifhed rank among the faints in the Romifh calendar. 

 Moreri. Mofheim. 



Vincent, Gkegory St. See Gregory St. Vincent. 



Vincent, in Geography, a townfhip of America, in the 

 ftate of Pennfylvama, and county of Chefter, containing 

 1630 inhabitants ; 25 miles W. of Philadelphia. 



ViNCEST, St., one of the Cape Verd iflands, being one 

 of the four fituated towards the north-weft, about 30 miles 

 in circumference ; the land of which is generally elevated, 

 but towards the north-weft low and fandy ; fo that it is un- 

 produftive, and the ifland probably ftill uninhabited. It 

 has good frefh water, which fprings up on digging a Uttle 

 way into the foil of the valley, but the hills are totally defti- 

 tute of it ; and, therefore, the ifland is improper for cattle. 

 It has a fine large road called Porto Grande, with a rock 

 like a tower in the centre. The bay, which is about a 

 league and a half broad at the mouth, is furrounded with 

 high mountains, and ftretching into the middle of the ifland, 

 is thus (heltered from the weft and north-weft winds ; and, 

 therefore, it is deemed the fafeft harbour in all the Cape 

 Verd iflands ; but difficult of accefe, on account of the im- 



petuous winds that blow off' the mountains along the coaflv 

 fo as to endanger Ihips before they can arrive at this place of 

 fecurity. Befides this bay, there are feveral others on the 

 fouth fide, in which (hips may anchor ; and thefe are gene- 

 rally chofen by the Portuguefe for landing their hides. 

 The fifli are numerous and excellent. The fouth part of 

 the ifland is fituated in N. lat. 16^ 50'. W. long. 25°. See 

 Cape Verd. 



ViKCENT, St., one of the Charibbee iflands in the Weft 

 Indies, about 40 miles in length, and 10 in breadth. Dr. 

 Campbell fays, that the Spaniards called it by this name, 

 becaufe they difcovered it upon the 22d of January, which, 

 in their calendar, is St. Vincent's day ; but it does not ap- 

 pear that they ever, properly fpeaking, had pofleflion of 

 it ; as the Indians were very numerous here, on account of 

 its being the rendezvous of their expeditions to the con- 

 tinent. At length, however, ambition and avarice effefted 

 an ellablifhment for a clals of intruders, who were long dif- 

 tinguiflied by the name of the black Cliaraibes, whom the 

 native Charaibes regarded at firft with contempt and pitv. 

 Of the origin of thele intruders Campbell gives the following 

 account. In 1672, king Charles II. divided the govern- 

 ments in the Weft Indies, and, by a new commiffion, ap- 

 pointed lord Willoughby governor of Barbadoes, St. Lucia, 

 St. Vincent, and Dominica ; and fir William Stapleton 

 governor of the other Leeward iflands, which feparation 

 has ever fince fubfifted. On the demife of lord Wil- 

 loughby, he was fuccecded by fir Jonathan Atkins, who 

 continued governor until the year 1680, when the govern- 

 ment was transferred to fir Richard Dutton ; who, being 

 fent for to England in l68j, appointed colonel Edwin 

 Stade heutenant-governor ; and he, with a view of aflerting 

 and maintaining the Britifli rights, by conftituting deputy- 

 governors for the other iflands, exerted himfelf in prevent- 

 ing the French from wooding and watering in this ifland 

 without permiffion. At this time it was intimated to him, 

 that the king had figned an aft of neutrality, and that com- 

 miflioners were appointed by the two courts to fettle all 

 differences relating to thefe iflands. Some years after, a 

 fliip from Guinea, with a large cargo of flaves, was either 

 wrecked or run afiiore upon the ifland of St. Vincent, into 

 the woods and mountains of which great numbers of the 

 negroes efcaped, whom the Indians fuffered to remain. 

 Partly by the acceflion of runaway flaves from Barbadoes, 

 and partly by the children they had by the Indian women, 

 thefe Africans became very numerous ; fo that about the 

 beginning of the i8th century, they conftrained the Indians 

 to retire into the north-weft part of the ifland. Thefe 

 people, as may be reafonably fuppofed, were much diffati's- 

 fied with this treatment ; and complained of it occafionally 

 both to the Englifli and to the French, that came to wood 

 and water amongft them. The latter at length fuffered 

 themfelves to be prevailed upon to attack thefe invaders. 

 After much deliberation, in the year 1 7 19, they came with 

 confiderable force from Martinico, and landing without 

 much oppofition, began to burn the negro huts, and deftroy 

 their plantations, fuppofing that the Indians would have at- 

 tacked them in the mountains ; which, if they had done, the 

 blacks had probably been extirpated, or forced to fubmit, 

 and become flaves. But either from fear or policy, the 

 Indians did nothing, and the negroes fallying in the night, 

 and retreating to inaccefllble places by day, deftroyed fo 

 many of the French, that they were forced to retire. When 

 by this experiment they were convinced that force would not 

 do, they had recourfe to fair means ; and by dint of perfua- 

 fion and prefents, patched up a peace with the negroes as 

 well as the Indians, from which they received great advan- 

 tage. 



