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though it boats of a gymnafium or academy which has fe 
ofeffors; of an extenfive public library, and o 
n 1700, c was feverely vifited by the plague, 
which {wept off above 40,000 of its inhabitants; yet their 
number, in 1730, is faid to have approached 200, But 
18 computation is ate oo for in year 
aa when t 
org fhips area. none Batching ftates the number of 
oa to have been only 1846, which, calculating even at 
~one in fifty, gives but 92,300 inhabitants. In the year 
774. Ludwig.von Baczko, a very a agg Proffian au- 
mee eftimates the population of Dantzic at 50,000. In 
-¥802, nine years after it had been rene to fubmit to the 
1097: 
ormetly at the head of the Hanfeatic 
. league in the north. Towards the end of the fourteenth 
century its trade was confiderable, having already engroffe 
‘all the foreign commerce 0 orn. Before the 
difaftrous war of 1806, its own fhipping was numerous, and 
more than roco fhips-were reckoned ° enter inwards annus 
rally: but in that unfortunate year the number of veflels ar« 
rived was only 3479, and of thofe chee. ‘failed 4c8. In th 
“year 1803 there ins into the a ports of Great Bri- 
ps from Dantz 
y 
cordials, a large quantity of aoe beer, know fag 
‘land by the name of black bee a a variety of other arti- 
cles. Its pri nee rcngleuree befides the diftillerics and 
“‘brewerie e of faltpetre, potafsy woollen cloth, 
According to Bufching, ‘it ‘appears from ancient records 
ntzic was a confiderable 
t 18, however, generally fuppofed that, 
til the year 1164, a confifted only of fome hifhermen’s cot- 
tages; that Mafleirn the fecond duke of Pomerania, dying 
without male iffue, left it to Primifiaus, king of Poland, 
‘who annexed - to the crown, and in 1295 ereéted it into a 
In 1310, the knights of the Teutonic order rendered 
‘thiemielves matters of eee and by them it was firft 
veges to the citizens, who ake 
Lutheran confeffion, fided with Maximilian 
the Poles, which provoked king Stephen cepa to ee 
Dantzic in 15773 but, by the mediation of other princes, 
the citizens were reftored to all their former peace a 
n the year 1632 Dantzic was ma 
ifh diets, and admitted 
a vote on the election of a king of Poland. For a long 
iferies of years Dantzic continued a free a ay with a 
es to the invader, put 
Swedes, faved the kingdom of Poland, and 
palneg ears five years after an honourable ieoudnfion of the 
y' the peace of Oliva in 1 
eaknefs of Dantzic, as a ae ey 
“quent ciokeAntions from the neighbouring powers, who often 
exacted from it =a conakaasees and though m1706 | 
expofed it to fre-- 
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the queen of England, the rd of —- and the fates 
of Ho oe entered into a league to te&t it, yet the 
czar, Peter I. of Ruffia, called t twice on (Dae for large 
— 
1934 yee king of Poland, tock refuge in this 
ibm to Auguiftus I{I., only after Stanif. 
a that trme till the 
minated the ‘Ordinatia on tivitati Gedanenfi pres 
ak am 
Att rf partition of Poland, in eine the kin 
the Pruffian 
by capitulation, to the French marfhal Lefebvre, who on 
this occafion sole the title of duke of Dantzic from 
the ten 
oe jun 1807, Dantzic recovered its old 
edtio Dn of Rof. 
A e for 
mon fertile ifland formed by a branch of the Viftula aie ale 
river Motlau, sae twelve aaeeare and thirty-three 
villages. The latter is a narrow flip and between the 
Frifche Haf and the Baltic fea, 50 Englith miles long and 
not more than two miles and a half broad in its ee 
pi ft) His pro- 
Seoaeon. take precedency of the decrees of the Dantzic 
