DENYS. 
us he had reftored to his reafon a lunatic, and had cured a 
M. de Boude, a Swifs, but his patients unfortunately 
dying, the parliament prohibited any further experiments 
bet oe made on human fubje€ts 
NY AMES, anative of Leyden, rendered himfelf 
ja as the difciple, coadjutor, and, -at length, the fuc- 
ceffor of M Rau, the lithotomift, and not lefs fo for his 
ze punétura, &c 
able Seidler on 
ppears to have made a lar 
very common in Holland; in Batavia it is $ very rare. H 
cut out a ftone from the knee e one of his Rien and 
publithed in 1733, is written in the Dutch language. I 
as not been tranflated, Haller fays, and is, therefore, 
lefs known than for its merit it deferves. Haller Bib. 
ir. 
, Jacques, a painter of hiftory and portrait, was 
born Hi ne in 1645, and going in his youth to Rome 
and Venice, fpent fome years in copying the works of 
‘Raphael, Julio Romano, Guido, and Titian; thus forming 
“bis tafte of defign and colouring from the ee of 
thofe celebwated matters aving been invited byt rch 
duchefs of Mantua to her court, he was taken into i. er fer. 
vice; and not long after he obtained permiffion to vifit 
aS re he painted au saliheu of the € of 
wh 
any and his family : 
pe valuable prefents, aaa was bonoayed by the rae 
with letters patent, exprefling his efteem of the artift’s 
On his return to Mantua, he 
much regretted in ee part of Europe, whither his fame 
had extended. of his aes are in Italy ; neverthelefs, 
at Antwerp ate, is ied be feen an ** Ecce Homo’? of his 
painting, which, with regard to defign ry colouring, is 
altogether in the flyle of Vandyck ; and in the fame city 
there is a portrait, beautifully coloured nd painted wich 
-fingular freedom and force. e wa arkable for 
recinefs of defign, and boldnefs of ealbues ; ane i 
is faid to 
Piking 
NY as FB anum Sandi Dionyfit, or Sandus 
Dion vs in Pata as it was emphatically called, Saint Denys 
ance, in Geography, is an ancient town of France, 
ie place of-a diftri& of the fame err in the department 
the Seine, with a population of 4425 individuals. 
Its canton contains 11,510 inhabitants, diftributed in eleven 
territorial extent of 51,5; kiliome res. 
sof.corn, The town, which has a fub-prefect, and fome ca- 
lico apeare bs bs tuated on a fine plain on ve river 
ae no the Seine, fix miles 
o 8. Be t. Denys is chiefly famou eee 
iebrated ag of Mian i which was pasate here b 
proved by his fon 
in the true Gothic ftyle, and much admired. 
avery rich treafury, and the crown jewels, and was the 
place of 1 interment for the kings of France, and their families, 
h uried 
is XII. s queen, Henry II. 
children, Bertrand du Guefcelin, conftable of 
arfhal Turenne. During the execiles of the 
ica. and i in patticular towards the end of — 
the church of St. D 
t ornament. 
ple infelé wr was “ontenbly damaged ; 
numents we ved from the deftrudtive ae of the mob, 
in a toler si condition, aad preferved in the mufeumo 
French monuments at Paris, eftablifhed by Mr. Le Noir, in 
the former church of the Petits Auguftins, Fauxbourg St. 
Germain, which is now a national eftablifhment. It was at 
the fame shave aee fon that the name of St. Denys 
was changed into nciade, which the town bore, 
until Bonaparte paced himfelf. aE the head of the French go- 
vernment : and fince this extraordinary man has affumed the 
nia eg purple, the church has 
wi 
right hand, two beautiful expiatory altars have been placed, 
one for the ees get the other for the Carlovingian 
race. Between thefe altars is a column deftined to be 
adorned with the portraits = on fix French monarchs, 
i . Onthe left fide of the 
lately been interred in this vault with imperial vise 
= are es other {mall towns of the name of St. 
Deny 
the chief place of a canton, in the diftri@ 
partment of Maine and Loire, with 948 inhabitants, is 
communes, and a population of 6343 individuals for 
whole canton, which has an extent of 285 kiliometres; - 
Denys de Jargeau, in the beg eage of the Loiret, with a 
bridge over the Loire, E. of Orleans; St. 
reas A roe in os Epa de la Manche, 12 miles 
a fmall river of America, in the _ ftate 
mps, in 
ur townfhips or plantations, 
After running a fouthecatterly courfe dbout 15 or 20 miles, 
