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a burletta finger, with the fwceteft tenor voice snA (^yle of 

 finging we ever heard on any ftace. He arrived in Eng- 

 land in the autumn of 1766, with Morigi, Savoi, Micheh, 

 La Guadngni, Piatti, and Gibetti. 



This excellent troop appeared December 9th, for the firft 

 time, in our lyric theatre, in tlie admirable comic opera 

 ♦' La Buona Figliuola," written by Goldoni, and fet by 

 Piccini. The performance and fuccefs of this burletta 

 were complete, and rendered the name of Piccini, which 

 had hardly penetrated into this country before, dear to 

 every lovur of mufic in the nation. All the performers in 

 this drama cllablifhed a charafter which was of ufe to them 

 during the'ell of their lives. 



Lovatini's rtiellifluous voice, manner of fmging, and hu- 

 mour ; La Guadagni's graceful figure, afting, and fmging ; 

 Morigi's mimickry of the pronunciation, accent, and man- 

 ner of a German foldier ; Savoi's fine voice, the charaifter- 

 iltic manners of tlie two prating female domeftics, Piatti 

 and Gibetti; and even the raven-like croak of Micheli, had 

 its fhare of notice ; but whoever remembers the elegant 

 cantabile ftyle in which Lovatini began the charming duet, 

 «' La Baronefs' Amabile," mult retain an exalted opinion 

 of his captivating powers in Jcrhus finging. 



Lovatnii, wken he quitted this country for his own in 

 J 774, merely retired to die, as news of his death arrived 

 here the next year, and we cannot difcover that he per- 

 formed in any other theatre after he left England. 



LOVATOVA, in Geography, a town on the E. coafl 

 of the idand of Flores. S. lat. 8 ' 30'. E. long. 122' 50'. 



LOUDENS, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Upper Garonne ; 1 2 miles N.W. of Revel. 



LOUBEllE, Simon de r,A, in Biography, was born at 

 Touloufe in 1642. He ftudied at the Jefuits' college, 

 and difplayed a good poetical talle by a multitude of light 

 compofitioMS, though he was far from neglefting more 

 ferious purfuits, and particularly attended to politics and 

 public law. He commenced his political career as fecre- 

 t ry to M.'de St. Romain, embaffador to Switzerland. In 

 1687, he was appointed by Lewis XV. his envoy extra- 

 ordinary to the court of Siam, v:here he remained only 

 about three months, during which he collected a large ilore 

 of information concerning its natural and civil hiftory, the 

 rehgion, manners, &v. of the people. On his return, he 

 publifhi-'d an account of what he had obferved, in two vols. 

 I2mo. which became a very popular work. He was after- 

 wards fent without a public character into Spain, on a fecret 

 cemmiflion, but was arrelted, and obtained his rcleafe only 

 in confequence of reprifals on fome Spaniards in France. 

 In 1693 he was elefted mto the French academy, and foon 

 afterwards retired to his native city, where he re-eltablifhed 

 -the " Floral Games," which had funk into decay. He 

 died at the very advanced age of cighty-feven, in the year 

 1729. He was 3 man of very general knowledge, well 

 acquainted with feveral languages ancient and modern, and 

 -excelled as a writer in various branches of literature. 

 Moreri. 



LOUBES, St., in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Gironde ; 12 miL's N.E. of Bourdcaux. 



LOUBIERE, a town of the illand of Dominica, on the 

 W. coalt ; 17 miles S. of Portfmouth. 



LOUBO, a town of Benin, at the mouth of the river 

 Formofa ; 60 miles S.W. of Benin. 



LOUBOUEX, St, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Landes ; nine miles S.E. of St. Sever. 



LOUBRESSAC, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Upper Loire j fix mdes N.W. of Le Puy en 

 Velay. 



LOUCHOU, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 

 zarderan ; 4J miles N.E. of Cafbio. 



LOUDEAC, a town of France, and principal place of 

 a diltrift, in the department of the North Coafts ; in which 

 are an iron forge and a manufa"!ture of thread. ; 20 miles S. 

 of St. Brieuc. The place contains 6096, and the canton 

 14,611 inhabitants, on a territory of 2oj kiliometres, in lix 

 communes. N. lat. 48 8 . W. long. 2'^ 40'. 



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

 Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 

 Le Puy ; fix miles N.W. of Le Puy. The place contains 

 8co, and the canton 5377 inhabitants, on a territory of 173' 

 kiliometres, in nine communes. 



LOUDON, a coiuity of Virginia, in America, on the 

 river Potowipac, adjoining Fairfax, Berkley, and Fiiquier 

 counties ; about 50 miles long and 20 broad, containing 

 15,933 free inhabitants, and 4990 (laves. Its chief tov.'n is 

 Leefburg. Quarries wf grey hone, white flint, and lime are 

 found in this county. The climate is favourable to apples, 

 pears, peaches, plums, cherries, and grapes. The county 

 was firit fettled from Pennfylvania and New Jcrfey. — Alio, 

 a tovvnfhip in Rockingham county, New Hampfhire, taken 

 from Canterbury, and incorporated in 1773 ; fituated E. 

 of the Merrimack river, and containing 1279 inhabitants. — 

 Alfo, a townfliip in Berkfhire county, Maffiichufetts ; 21 

 miles S.E. of Lenox ; incorporated in 1773, and containing 

 614 inhabitants, and 13,000 acres, of which 2944 are 

 ponds. 



LOUDUN, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 diftridt, in the department of the Vienne, fituated on an 

 eminence between the Creufe and the Dive ; 12 miles E. 

 of Thouars. The place contains 5I3'8. and the canton 

 11,299 inhabitants, on a territory of 245 kiliometres, in 18 

 communes. N. lat. 47-'. E. long. 0° lo'. 



LOVE, in Ethics, is. one of tlie primitive pallions ; and 

 may be generally defined to be the gravitation or tendency 

 of the foul towaui good. According to Dr. Hartley, who 

 traces all our paflions to the fources of pleafure and pain, 

 they may be firIt and generally diftributed into the two 

 clalfes of love and hatred ; i. e. we may have all thofe 

 affedtions of the pleafurable kind, which objedts and inci- 

 dents raife in us, love, and all thofe of the painful kind, 

 hatred. Thus we are faid to love not only intelligent 

 agents of morally good difpofitions, but alfo perfonal plea- 

 fures, riches, and honours, and to hate poverty, dilgrace, 

 pain, bodily and mental. When our love and hatred are 

 excited to a certain degree, they put us upon a variety of 

 adtions ; and may be termed defire and avcrfion, by the lat- 

 ter of which Dr. Hartley nnderllands adtive hatred. 



If the affcdtion of love be conceived feparate from any 

 alteration in the body, it is called intellectual or rational 

 love ; if it be attended with an agitation of blood and 

 fpirits, it is called fenfitive or paflionate love. It is ob- 

 ferved by moral writers, that thofe paflions in which love 

 predominates, are more agreeable to the original intention 

 of nature than thofe which are ranged under hatred ; be- 

 caufe they are found to have a more friendly influence upon 

 the body, and tend, within proper bounds, to the preferva- 

 tion and happinefs of We, which the others do not. See 

 Cumberland de Le,;. Nat. c. 2. ^ 19. 



Love, regardino- its objedt as abfent, begets defire ; as 

 prefent, either immediately or in profpedt, joy and hope. 

 Love of defire, abltradtedly confidered, is a fimple tendency 

 towards good ; when confidered as vifhing the good defired 

 to fome being or other, it is called bene'volence and Ji/f-Zov*. 

 See Plea.scke and Pain, and Passion. 



Love infpires mufic and poetry. This was a memorable 



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