, DEW 
WIT, or De Wirt, Jaques, a painter of hiftory and 
ortrait, was born at Amfterdam in 1695, and acquired the 
principles of his art from A‘bert Spiers, a portrait painter. He 
afterwards became a difcinle of Jacqnes Van Halen, an hiftori- 
cal painter of contideiable i tated 3 under w ofe inftruc- 
ie "Jefaite henated at Antwerp, originally painted wR Rubens 
and Vandyck, which had been much injured by lightning. 
He declined the painting of portraits, though much folicited 
to engage in this branch of his art, and chiefly reftri&ed him- 
fcl¥ to the snes of ciclings and eiand apartments, in which 
he excelled by an elegance of tafte, and tolerable corre&tuefs 
of defign. His moft noted work was for the burgo-mafters 
rdam, in their great council-chamber; in which he 
chofe for his fubje& Mofes appointing the 70 elders, and 
which he executed in a manner highly eee to him as 
an arti ithout ever ig or pais e, he sae the 
efigns, a fet of fix fmalt 
of boys,”? which are executed in 
a very and the * Virgin and Child.’ Pilk- 
ington tt 
“D Joun, the eee fae ‘penfi ionary, 
was born at ee t, where he was educ He exhibited a 
ftrong tafte for mathematical ftudies, ad  publihed when he 
was only twenty-three years of age, a work of confiderable 
reputation, entitled ‘* Elementa Curvarum Linearum.’’ In 
the year 1650, he was chofen penfionary of Dort, and foon 
diftinguifhed himfelf as an able politician, and upright ftatef- 
man. He was the advocate of a and oppofed very pal 
nuoufly the war between the and Dutch. He w 
afterwards ena in teens a pene e with Cromwell. Tn 
this treaty was inferted a fecret ide for excluding the 
ange, which rendere 
ngland, which broke 
he was appointed one of the commiffioners to direé&t the navy, 
and afterwards appointed, with two others, to the command of 
the fleet ; for hig great fervices in this particular, and likewife 
as penfionary, he merited and received the thanks of the 
He afterwards fell into difgrace: by a cou- 
nly wit- 
ufllanimos 
judges did not dare to oppofe the prevailing aaa popular cr 
they condemned him to ‘¢ fuffer the queftion.” This man, 
DEX 
who hai bravely ferved h's country in war; and ehe had 
been invefted with the hizneft dignities, was delivered into 
the hands of the executioner, and almo# torn in pieces by the 
fevere(t and mott favage tortures. In the midit of his 
agonies, he repeated, as applicable to himfeif, the ode of 
Horace. 
«¢ Jufum et tenacem propofiti virum,”? &c. 
His life was i and he was condemned by the judges, 
who have ever been held up to public infamy, to banifiment, 
during this profecution, refolved not to defert him on account 
of the unmerited fufferings which he had endured. fi 
t 
they rofe in ams broke open the prifon doors, peated 
away the two brothers, and a thoufand favage hands vied 
with each other who fhould be the firft and deepeft ftained 
with the innocent blood of thefe uncorrupted, and incorrup- 
tible patriots. The brutal wretches were not fatisfied even 
with their lives: on their dead bodies they exercifed every 
indignity, which monfters in the fhape of men could invent 
and devife. Thus ended’the De Wits, whofe actions will 
be more The pend noticed under the e Unirep 
Srat e penfionary, to whom this article is chiefly 
xim, ne 
DE WITTSBURGH, i in ser a town ve Am 
rica, in the ftate of New York, on the Sufquehana; oe 
miles N.W. of ei Yor 
DEX, e uled be many Greek writers for a wo 
or maggot, eerehed of the egg of a beetle, and paar 
for its eroding wood. Itis alfo “called thrips 
lon, The old Greeks ufed the ee of wood e 
it in various direGtions as feals HRI 
DEXTANS, in Aniiguity. As. 
DEXTER, in dees is applied to the right fide, as 
finifter is - — 
ou “Lati in, fignifying right-handed; whence 
word deter ty for addrefs and ability in the perform- 
the 
ing of a ing. 
Dex er ia is the right fide of the bafe. 
— chief, the angle on the right hand of the chief. 
Dexrer- Hee See Porn. 
DEXTRARIUS, is Stipa of one who takes the 
right hand of another; and the word dextrarii has beer 
ufed for light horfes, or theres for. ie great faddle; from 
the French deftrier, a horfe for fervice 
DEXTROCHERE, or Deeaocueee. in Heraldry: 
is applied to the right-arm painted ona fhieid, mecca s 
naked, fometimes senate or adorned with a bracelet, and 
fometimes armed, or holding fome moveable, or member 
ufed in the ar 
od is "formed from the eee dextrocherium, 
wiih. Ggniis Agee worn o e right wrift, men- 
tioned in the A a ae Mertyedom of St. Agnes,. and 
the Life of the Ein 
The dextrochere is vorcaae pee at the creft. 
7 DEY, 
