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who fhall yield ea againft the ee of 
ae pe elas deferve death; TE DEAT The 
affembly, though not SL for its compatfion, when 
the king or his family was concerned, was in a general fer- 
ment: one member, ftarting from his feat, and ftriking his 
hands together, exclaimed, ** Ah, le oa al and many 
cruel populace could devife; but o at occafion, aware 
that h not m 7 the ahaa aay of the people, from 
whom i e n wh e had liberally expended his 
property, he valled “forth a ae of dignity and courage 
d, 
that was unexpeéted, and fubmitted to the blow with decent 
fortitude Adolphus’ s Hiftory of ca 1803. Hitt. of 
Revolution, by Rabaut de St. Etie 
Orvrans, in Geography, a cit no France, and prin- 
LE 
cipal place of a d.frict, as well as capital of the department 
the Loiret. It is divided into three parts, pore 
36,165 inhabitants ; und its three cantons contain 45,630 
habitants, ona territory of 124 kilometres, in one commune. 
It was formerly called Aurelana Civitas, Cenabum or Ge- 
differently built ; it contains a ee Ff  rexcellont G Gothic 
architeCture with a handiome {pire, 22 pari urchea, an 
old univerfity, and a literary fociety. The city is pleafantly 
fituated at the foot - a declivity bathed by the Loire ; 
24 leagues SS.W aris. ithout including feveral 
fuburbs, the city is ae toifes in circuit, formerly environed 
by a wall and ditch. The m all i agre es walk, 2890 
Orleans has 
y from hence to Paris is flat and uninterefting. 
city was taken by Julius Cefar; in 451 it was befieged b 
Attila, king of the Huns, who was defeated by Theodoret, 
king of the Goths, aflited by ABtius, the general of Valen- 
tinian, and the king of the Franks. It was taken by the 
lat. 47° 54’. E. long. 1° 
ORLEANS, a county of Bo rica, being the middle of the 
three northern counties of t of the lake 
oe 
Onion rivers, rifing here, fall into lake Champlain ; 3 thofe of 
an and re ie difcharge themfelves into Con- 
county contains 1439 inhabitants, 
ou 141, and the whole population con- 
fifted of 174 famlice ad 1095 perfons. 
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_ ORLEANS, Ys of, an ifland of Canada, fituated in the 
ver St. Law Quebec, re. 
mare for ‘he richnefs of its foil, The S.W. end of 
the ifland is called Point Orleans. The coaft is rocky for 
a mile and a half within the S. channel, where is a ca- 
reening place for merchants’ fhips. Round Point Levi, 
and along the S.E. fide of the river, ns fhore is rocky, 
but the — of the bafon is entirely fr 
ns, New, the capital of Loni in North Ame- 
rica, uated on the E, bank of ae rena 95 miles from 
t : mouth of the river, . long. 89' ‘5s 
nd This town 
as a court Nout 
king’s hofpital, a lunatic hofpital, and a {ma 
oufe. The fide next the river is open, and fecu 
its inundations by a raifed bank, which extends to a diftance 
of more than 50 miles. o the . of the town are harale 
marfhes, which contribute to render. It ‘unwholefome n fum- 
i aay 3 ae ereas the 
by the epidemic 
town means of the creek St. John, which ele 
from the lakes through a courfe of fix miles, and within 
two miles of the town, But a bar at the entrance of this 
hai abel veflels that ge more than three or four feet 
t {mall craft are numerous, an nd 
— in 
to the ns and at the mouth of the creek = re it en- 
ters the ‘ake i is a {mall fort of fix guns. In ar 1802 
the principal aggregate exports of American at Spani 
produce have been eftimated at 
Dollars. 
30,000 bales of cotton, value - 2,000,000 
8,000 hogfheads of fugar,do. =~ 480,000 
90,000 hogfheads of four, do. = - 400,000 
Total 2,880,000 
. the fame year were exported, ef former crops, about 
coo lbs. of indigo, _ 300,000 dollars. Confider- 
d fome furs are alfo exported ; 
e 
epee for the produce of the 
country on the Miffifippi, Ohio, and its other branches, af- 
ford advantages which feem to enfure the growing profperity 
of this city, more efpecially as it is now in the poffeffion of 
the United States. Morfe. 
ORLENGA, 
