DEV 
obliged to interfere to reftore peace. At the age of four- 
teen this young man was betrothed to lady Frances Howard, 
who was ftill younger cia himfelf. The earl immediately 
fet out on his travels, and during his abfence the affeCtions 
his young wife were eftranged from him, and-fixed upon 
e king’s favourite Carr, afterwards earl of Somerfet. The 
seq was a {uit inflituted again{t the hufband for im- 
potency, in which, to the difgrace of the age, the king 
interfered, and w ended in a divorce. he earl of 
Effex, ing hf if difgraced by the fentence, retired to 
his country feat 
a 
very important was atchieved the Englith auxiliaries, yet 
the earl of Effex acquired ro ant and diftinguifhed him- 
felf among the nobility of the On the acceffion of 
arles I. he was employed as vice-admiral in an expedition 
send Spain, which eae unfuccefsful. In 1626 he made 
another campaign ia Countries, and fhortly after he 
poe: the aes of fir ae Paulet, but fe pace 8 
ondu& caufed a divorce within two years. Ww re- 
folved to give iatele up entirely S eee life: he mes 
popularity, and made friends amon 
and the Puritan aa 
yee this 
dukedom, and be allowed ten thoufand pounds per 
to fupport his new dignity.. Neither of thefe were cane. 
and the earl died fuddenly, September 14,1646. Pa as 
ment directed a public funeral for him, which was performed 
with great folemnity inthe following month, at Weftmin- 
ea ey. Such was the end of this nobleman, whofe 
as a warrior will be again referred to in feveral hif- 
eal articles.of this. work. Wath him the title of Effex 
€ iog. Brit 
RON, in Geograph; : river of Seotland, which. 
runa into the Frith of Murray anff, 
DEVERRA, in Myitohes, the tutelary — of fo 
children. 
DEVERRONA, the goddefs who prefided « over the 
xeaping of the crop or productions of the foil. 
DEVESE, La, in Geography, a {mall town of France, 
DEV 
in the department of Gers, near Mirande ; 24 miles-S.W. 
f Auch. 
DEVEST, Devestire, in Feudal Writers, is ‘ated for 
the oppofite to invefting. Jnveflire fignifies poffefionem pue 
tradere. O e contrary, deveflire is poffesionem auferre.. 
Feud, lib. i. c. 7, Cowell. 
own of France, in the de- 
C, in Geography, a 
Cc an ‘hia of Barbezieux ; 15: 
DEVIA 
eth of the Charente, 
es §. of Angoulefme 
pre TATA, a river of Siberia, ae runs into the 
Ofenoka. N. lat. 62° 25’, Eslong. 149° 
DEVIATION, in the Old Afironomy, a a motion of the 
deferent, or eccentric, whereby it advances.te, or. ancedes 
from, the ecliptic. See DErERENT 
The greateit deviation of a planet is equal to the inclina-- 
tion of its Ak t a the plane of the ecliptic. See Incuina-- 
TION fe ar 
“—T a falling Body. The queftion of- the 
ical revolution of the a has long fince ceafed to be a. 
eine: N 
Let the point A, and ne sie B, dire@tly a it, ( Plate 
IX. Aftronomy, fig. 63. se pies to havea eae 
in the direGtion Ac, o 
to 
sii pie in gh ae very ¢ curious-ex- - 
periments on. this fubje&t, made ies ogna work ene. 
titled «+4 lurno terre aH pain tered athe e: 
a sopateulues? The height was 241 oa ch feet; and he 
found a deviation of 8 lines towards t 
Similar experiments have been ped lately by Me 
Henzenberg at Hamburgh. 
From a height of 235 feet, he found the. deviation 
nes. 
In each of the above experiments, a fmall deviation was. 
poet towards the fouth, the caufe of which it is not eafy - 
to Don = 
Laplace, e, who has inveftigated the theory. of this pheno-- 
menon, a4 the Te refult : 
Let : e the 
ouble si on a body defcends in one fecond ; 
: de oe of rotation a the earth in one fecond ; 
§ the co-lat. of the pla 
The deviation towards Le ae will be equal to # x7 & 
fin. 6. 2h 
This, in M. Henzenberg’s a gives 3.9 lin 
n M. Guglielmini’s the obferved deviation was 7 
double that indicated by the theory. 
Deviation, in Marine Infurances, denotes a voluntary. 
ee without ~ neceflity, from the ufual courfe of - 
the fhip . 
fhall proceed by the fhorteft aad fafeft courfe to her ais 
