DES 
ing willmg to allow that it was their own fault, formed 
pa phantom of deftiny, to bear the weight of all the 
* HESTOUCHES, Pairip Neri cautr, in Biography, was 
born at Tours in the year 1680. He was fent early to Paris to 
ftudy the law, but the confequences of a love affair in which 
he engaged at fixteen made it neceflary for him to leave that 
ae 7 refources, he entered as a private 
en under orders for Spain. 
the fiege of Ba ene he narrowly dia with his life. 
Shortly after this, he entered into a provincial company of 
om he vifited Switzer'and, e the 
ofed a comedy wh'ch was 
acted-with great applaufe in that country, and afterwards 
in France. While he was at Soleure, he attrafted the atten- 
tion of the marquis de Puyfieux, the French rig aa who 
made is private fecretary, and obtained for him a re- 
railed to a high rank among the writers of the time. 
va afterwards fent by the regent duke of Orleans to Eng- 
d as affiftant to the abbé Dubois, in the negociations be- 
bacee the two courts. At the court of London he refided 7 
years as the fole relident: here he married, but circumftances 
obliged him for fome time to keep the matter a perfed fe- 
c is condu@ in England was highly approved, and 
duties of the fam kind were afterwards offered him, which 
he declined, preferring a literary ae to the bufinefs and 
buftle of a diplomatic ftation. e age of fixty, he 
devoted himfelf entirely, and ees his talents in the 
fervice of religion. He died at the age of 74, and his works 
were culleéted and printed in four volumes quarto, which 
t, he ia inferior to Regnard in gaiety a 
eae in truth and nature, and in unforced pecans ; ‘but 
the place next to thefe 
i m “of 
e art of attaining the pathetic with- 
s the effential character 
In the various conneCtions 
ing 40,000 livres out of his i avings te to his “father who was 
burdened with a large family. 
‘CarpDINAL, a voluminous com- 
li’ 
by La Motte: thele have been long 
voyage to Siam with the ae - Choifis, is ftill remembered. 
‘He died at Paris in 1749, aged 75. 
DESTRUCTION, » trcly taken, is the a tel or 
annihilation of fomething before exifting. See RUP+ 
TION. 
A thing paffes from effe to non effe, either by corruption, 
when nothing of the fubitance is loit, but only the accidents, 
wiz. the difpofition of ile ; or, by eaniiation: when bot 
sd - accidents are lo 
CTION = in | Geograph hy, lies oe hee coat of 
New Alien. . W. long. It is 
about a league in ee level, ae cae ‘entirely 
barrren, producing only a few dwarf trees; although the 
country to the fouthward of it exhibits an appearance of a 
greatett fertility. 
DAB, in rie Geography, a Fade of Thrace, 
in the country of the 1, according to 
DESUDATION, fon defudo, loa ara exprefles 
a profufe and inordinate {weating, followed by the irrup* on 
a fudamina, or heat-pimples. 
DET 
DESULTOR, from defilio, vault, in ae a vault« 
er, or leaper, who jumped off one horfe upon anot 
Among the Scythians, Indians, and Numidian, the Cas 
valiers, or h 
earv, or wanted breath, they leaped with great agility 
and aie upon the other which they led in = hand. 
The Greeks and Romans borrowed the fam e practice 
from thofe barbarous nations ; but the i 
games, races, and funeral folemnities ; 
read of, inwar. Thedefultores, there fo 
a of Afia and saseseg peal ; bata amo 
ey were 10 more tumblers and eo tieccuahets: 
Euitethion on Homer’ 6 lied, h b. iv, affures us, that inftead 
two, they had fometimes four or {x horfes all a-breaft, and 
would ji amp from the firt to the fourth or fxth, which was 
the matter-piece of their art. 
DESUNNAY, in Geography, a river of Wales, ia the 
county of Merioneth, which runs into the Inifh fea, five 
a8 
led eles and Défurennes 
ce of a canton, in the 
s de Calais, diftriet of Boulogne, g 
that oe has 2109 inhabita he 
canton reckons a arenas of 9443 dividuals diftributed 
in 23 communes, on a territorial extent o iliometres. 
DESUVIATILI, in ye Cae a people of Gul- 
lia Narbonnenfis, who oc cupie , ee to Pliny, t ee Vicia 
nity of the Seno and Cavarians, on the - the 
one ville places t hem N, of alae: 
DESWA RTE, in Cas a river af Brabant, which 
runs into the Demer, near Dicf 
oe Fr. A term in ana ba to ees or 
and cut, 
after each, eal to alt ‘i ee 
This fhort and dry manner of executing the notes is ufually 
‘expreffed by jeg raened| points , or accents, thus 
TACHED Pisces, in Fortification, are jeu pu 
ravelins, horn and crown-works, and even baftions, when fe 
with a ftrong relievo from the eeannd. a Goa nae apes 
ranean as a apres term, refers e 
een a portion of any force upon any ecu 
fervic We enerally eocada: a detachment to be rather a 
mall ares “a the whole body; viewing it as ftill apper- 
taining therctoy and ating under the authority by which - 
pale ached. Thus efcorts, foraging-parties, &c. whet 
from one corps, or compofed of drafts trom feveral, caeteh 
all io Giese claffes, fuch as horfe, infantry, artillery, en- 
gineers, pioneers, &c. all come under this denomin ation 
It is perhaps difficult to adduce any part of the milit tary 
{cience that requires more judgment than the detachment of 
various parties for the neceffary aa of fupply, commu. 
nication, alae or reinforce nt. — we look bac 
into nae ¢ annals o appear numberlefs 
caida nce 
manner a eechice 
Hence we cannot but co with the practice of the 
greateft generals, fuch as the duke of Marlborough, marfhall * 
‘Turenne, prince Eugene, the great Frederick, the uo lete — 
3Q3 adaiabts 
