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Frond two or three feet high. Leafles 
dla oo aah ly ferrated and flightly jagged. 
Lines of fru@ification neither branched at 
their bats, 1 nor eae at their extremities. 
dark brown, revolute. ules pale. 
DIPLOCONION, in Ancient Geography, a place of the 
Thracian Bofphorus, to the S. of Rhodicrum Portus. 
DIPLOE, in PEEL is the reticular cas connecting 
together Ne tables of the full; fee 
DIPLOIS, deracis, i . Antiquity, a aes pailium, or 
cloak, worn ee fly by the Cyn 
DIPLOMA, eee a Srey duplicor) was originally 
a letter or writing of a fove ie — atitle or dignity, 
ge, or fome land, ie 
Lavolucrum 
difm ifin ng fome veteran ela ers. They were called Din 
loms, becaufe they ufed aces to be mene on waxed 
a . pe together 
fe D: iploms Roe to eftablith the Tights of fome 
ita towns, churches, convents, and 
lands, commors, or to any pa 
eau it is of materi ear sae to 
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In a more ere é ce ae ord Diploma is fynonymous 
with document, and fignifies “ writing which records a 
particular i important (nGeest na folemn ike 
tterly the meaning of the word Diploma has been 
reflrided to a letter or “writing of an cane tg conferring 
the wise or digi:ity of 
LOMA, in Cue, denote a double veflel. Thus 
her: one ve at into another; the inzredients in the 
firft, and the Ge under the ‘aft, the chemift calls it boiling 
in diplomate. 
DIPLOMACY, in French, la Diplomatie, is the know- 
ledge . the relations of a Latent t tates to eac ne 
treaties, hese ments, or ra the do- 
c partic ay eflablith the lee rights 
of nations, and i oouiae ons to which they are refpe@ively 
pledged, were formerly called diplomas. 
diploma, fays Joanfon, is a letter or writing conferring 
fome privilege; but in a more enlarged fenfe, it is any 
writing which ti ipulates a right, confers a a ege, or re- 
cords one particular importan — &ion in a folem aa 
and feience which ‘leads to the ailecver a 
authenticity, import and value of {uch teas is “called 
Diplomas (which fee.) 
But the relatioris of independent ftates to each ae 
not pee es ly ref upon exprefs ftipulations only. 
which traces - ig ts to W _ ations are 
rlpedively ‘ented, (See of Nation Yet as 
ther o fuperiur coéccive power to enforce che perform- 
ance ” Of ake covelsoue ing obligations, nations are induced 
to unite together by means of treaties which are to render 
them more fecure i the en hae of their rights, See 
Treaties of Peace and of Comm 
The colleG@ion of he principal treaties on which the ex- 
ernal relations of the indepen — of Europe have 
depended a the year igor, or “the peace of Amiens, is to 
be found in “ Leibnitz’s Corp. Jur. Daa Corps Di- 
picuae que ef Droit des Gens.” Amfterdam, 1731. 8 vol. 
Fol. *¢ Hiftoire des Traités de Paix et autres Négociations 
ine Puiflasces de Europe depuis la paix de Vervins De ae 
€ 
ed e,?? herdam, 1 2 vol. fol. * 
Liverpool’e Colle&tion of Treaties of Peace.’? 1785. “ Week's 
aris Gentiu entifiimi.”? Li 1788, 2 vol. 
8vo, Recueil des principaux Traités conclus pat les 
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Pulffancee de I’ Europe depuis 176r, par M. de Martens’ 
Goetting. 1791s 80. “G, F. Von Martens, Grundrifo 
einer D: iplomatif chen Gefchichte der Europzife chen Staat{- 
handel und Fricdens {chluffe bis ziim Frieden zit 1 Amie ns 
amburg, 3vo, 
__Wafortanately thefe conventions labour under the fame 
aw of nations itfelf -Nothing enfures 
Independent oe powerful ftates break 
leafure. In vain do-s ass condemn 
fach ce ac of folemn engagements; there i gi 
mate fuperior power to which fhe can truft her a ord for the 
poviten of the offenders. Neither has the continual refi- 
denc diplomatic agents, introduced by cardinal 
Richly been able to keep up 
certain paves of ftates 
leagued _ other af oy fimnitar ftrength. 
Tt wa at the ee of the beter century shit the. 
eietn w e down the overgrown power of 
Auftria, and eisth ithed me in dependence of Holland, gave 
the frit le es ot fuch a Turkey Thefe hop 
were fuppofe quipoife fill more perfe@ 5 and 
the creation of a T:anfatlantic ¢ republic, which fetal the 
eae of Great Britain, was hailed as the only ci-cumftance 
that had been wanting to pee ee ft admired fabric of a 
part of the European com- 
monwealth was to be balance 4 - the other. (See Powez, 
Balen w) 
s ftate of dani fecurity, the ftudy of diplomacy 
was er every where negle& he maintaining of the 
accuitomed relations of ami was confidered as being fo eafy 
and fo fimple that a moderate fhare of talents, a fine figure, 
ere 1 noble birth, were fufficient recommendation s for the 
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But the chimera of an equilibrium, that was to prevent the 
recurrence of wars, or at leaft to n their duration, fud- 
denly vanifhed at the very tim i 
Liners of as realized. ‘Tae partion i Polan 
herent and impolit inft France se er re- 
eee fae and the feeb! ea and unpopularity of the 
governments againit which the fury of the French was di- 
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moveably fixed. 
Whether the order of things, which will ee from the 
refent chaos of European po — fuffe 
hrudure of the connections of inde 
thofe powers from which no injury is to be apprehended, and 
which yet are able to annoy that power, or thofe ftates, 
which, 
