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“BS princes si atbaffadors. 
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By degrees any member, who 
e than one of thofe ftates or chara€ters, which 
entitle: toa ee in the diet, was allowed a proportionable 
number of fuffrages. ‘The Imperial cities alfo, as foon as they 
ecame free and acquired independent jurifdition, were re- 
ceived as members of the diet. The powers of the diet 
extend to every thing relative to the common concern . 
‘the Germanick body, or that even sae or affe& it as 
-confederacy. The diet takes no cognizance of the ae 
adininiftration in the different ftates, unlefs that happens to 
threaten or difturb the general fafety. Robertfon’s Hift. 
harles V. vol i . p» 462. 
The term diet is alfo applied to the aflembly of ele&tors 
‘for the choice of an emperor or king ca the Romans: this 
is ufually held at Frankfort on the Mai 
; but preffing occafions convened them 
-every year; the i alfo confined their fitting to fifteen 
days, but they frequently protracted it to fix weeks. The 
-ufual place was at Warlaw, the capital of the kingdom; 
though it has been often held at other places: in effect, 
-as by the laws every third diet was to be convened at- 
aldara in Lithuania; whenever, for particular reafons, it 
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as judged meet to change the order, and hold it elfewhere, 
he feveral particular diets, which were held fix weeks 
before the Salata ca fent three deputies each, chofen out 
of the members t 
In Poland chee were likewife diets on horfeback, held 
rit afflemble at Araw, and are convoked by 
the canton of Zach the fecond at Lucern, convoked by 
the canton of that name; the third, compofed of the de- 
puties of all the cantons, both Proteftant and Catholic, is 
held twi 
_ is poe canton of Zuric 
which has the right of aa By WITZERLAND. 
DIETA, in our O Sai dea tesa day’s 
ney. ‘* Omnis ane ad bee conftat ex viginti ae ed 
bus.” Fle 
DIETERSTORFF, in epee a town of Germany, 
an the archduchy of A uftria ; four m ag S.W. of Tuln. 
DIETETIC, Dies. sie — of phyfie 
confiders the way of living, 
to particular cafes. T. 
DIETFURTH, in Ge iene a town of Germany, in 
the centre of Bavaria, wes on the north fide of the 
Altmuhl; 19 miles welt o tat ifbon 
which 
with ae to food, fuitable 
DIETHUSA A, in Ancient Geogr aphy yy an ifland al the 
— fea; reprefented by Pliny as a deferted iflan 
DIETMANFRIED, in Geography, a town of eee any, 
in the circle of deg) oe to the abbey of Kempton; 
eight miles N.N.W 
DIETRICH, or gee a Curistian Witria 
Erxnesr, in Biography, a painter and engraver of contider- 
-able merit, was born at Weimar in 1712, and refided chiefly 
at Drefden, where he was profeflor of che academy of arts. 
fAsa painter he poffeffed extenfive abilities, and fucceeded 
both in hiftory and land{cape. 
number of {mall fubje&s from his own compofitions, in the 
ftyle of Oftade, of Lairefle, and of Salvator Rofa. Seve- 
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ral of thefe etchings are very rare. A print by this mafter 
of a “¢ Satyr entertained by a Peafant and his Family,’’ is 
finely drawn and admirably executed: it is dated 173 
The time of his death is not afcertained. rutt 
DIETRICHSTEIN, in Geography, a {mall hele of 
Auitria, in Upper Carinthia, belonging to the prince 
Dietrichftein. It is fituated on the river Gey], three miles 
weft of Arnoldftein. 
TTER, Cuaistian Lupwic, in Biography, born 
at Ludwifburg, 1757, performer on the violin, compofer 
and maitre de Grace to the duke of Wirtenburg, at Stutt- 
gard. He was one of the firft {cholars of his ferene high- 
nefs’s academy, where he at firft fludied painting, and had 
the opportinity of hearing le€tures in mythology, a 
and geography; but devoted all his leifure hours to 
The duke, obferving his mufical talents, advifed him cs aL 
tivate them exclufively.. He accordingly ftudied _ 
Schubart, and the celebrated violinift, Celeftini, who cam 
from Rome to England with the inte. duke of Dorfet, ane 
after remaining in London feveral years, went to Stuttgard, 
where he was placed at the head of the opera-band, Ditter, 
whofe thirft for knowledge was infatiable, wifhing to fludy 
the theory of mufic regularly, and finding that he could get 
no inftructions from the maeftro di cappella Bononi, ftudied 
the works of Jomelli, and other famous compofers ; and in 
the year 1778 a prize medal for compofition, 
which he had gained two years before on the violin. He 
continued to refide in the duke’s academy, or confervatorio, 
till the year 1781, and compofed various works for the 
theatre as well as for public concerts. 
IETZ, in Geography, a {mall town of Germany, in the 
circle of the Upper Rhine, on the river Lahn, formerly the 
capital of the principality of Naffau Dietz, and as fuch 
belonging to the prince of Orange, but fince the peace of 
Tillit, in the con{cription of the new kingdom of Weftphalia. 
It is 18 miles - of Coblentz, 30 N. of Mayence. Lat. so® 
2z'. See 
DIEU, eer DE, in Biography, an eminent proteftant 
divine, was born at Flufhing about the year 1590, where he 
afterwards became paftor to the French church. He was an 
ufeful and popular preacher, and might have been appointed 
court minifter at the Hague, an honour which he declined, 
though prefled upon him by prince Maurice of Orange, who 
had heard him preach at Zealand. In 1619, he was appointed 
ca to his uncle at the Walloon college at Leyden ; 
e duties of this fituation he performed with diligence and 
a, until his death, which happened in the al 104 
His publications were moltly theological; fuch as “A 
Commentary on the Four Golpels ; * « Notes on the Ads of 
the Apoftles ;”” &c. syle has given the titles of a 
lo long lift of works, ck he sible sali his life, or which 
ere given tothe world foon after his 
fhould feem that he wasa learned and a iene divine. 
ayle. orerl. 
Dieu, Pile, or P’Sle d’ Yeu, in oo a {mall ifland on 
the weftern coat of France, 9 miles aint Jean de 
Mont, and 15 W. of Saint Gilles. W. ite: 2° 10%, N. lat, 
46° 50". rock of granite, of a fuperficies of nearly 
four miles, covered with a very thin foil of a fandy earth, the 
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paftures are fo fcanty, that they feed only a very ie cows 
d fh The women till the oe moft of the men 
being engaged as failors and fifherm There is one {mall 
town, the harbour of which is inconreien, and incapable of 
being fitted fortrade. The whole ifland contains fix fquare 
leagues, or 27,600 French arene, It forms a canton of 
the 
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