¥YRE 
we fee that the Arab. hordes which frequent the deferts 
make no di ard . the difference of 
nations. ave protels to 
eer deem all 
3 property to iach amount as may 
unately, we have of late years feen, that the rulers 
of great a populous kingdoms could fo far difregard every 
principle of juttice, and fo abufe that confidence which had 
placed them on the throne, as to become free-beoters in the 
moftliteral fenie of the defignation. With fuch, no tie,no claim 
could induce to forbearance where there icamed an opening 
‘or the plundering of contiguous, or even remote nations, 
notwithftanding they might, by their generofity, or by their 
for bearance, have eftablilhed a claim, not only to exemption 
from rapine, but to the moit grateful acknowledg- 
ments 
‘The free-booter, like the pirate, is an outlaw among all 
the civilized nations of the world, and when in the pow 
of any, ought, on noc onfideration, to exper ience the fmall- 
eft oor of lenity. Men inured, as they contftantly are, 
to the perpetration of the molt barbarous deeds, and who 
confider the univerfe to be their p1 roperty, can never be re- 
pie : Fars Weert! humanity, as well as eae dictates, 
that ermination fhould be carried on again 
nn “We : nee “Of this as alluding to profelfed banditti, 
obferving that in the bofom of every nation with which we 
are acquainted a gang of free-booters will be found, whe- 
ther under the defignation of gypfies, or under the 
pata title of paupers, to infeft various parts, where, owin 
o local circumftances, th 
The perfon 
for hie evil rt richly deferve the thanks of his c 
Free Bord, franc bord. ‘In fome places Aine feet, in 
ethers more, and i in others ef is claimed by way of free 
in) 
bar 3 
aun 
mad vocatur brendewode, cum fran 
mid. oe circuitum illius bofei.” 
n. Ang. 2d part, fol 2 I. 
Fre E, Chapel, i is a aaa founded by the king, ahd by him 
exempted from the juriidiction of the ordinary. See Cua- 
PEL. 
A fu eer ee alfo be licenfed by the king to build fuch 
a chapel, and by his charter may exe empt | it trom the vi- 
Gine, of ve ifhop, &c. 
Free Coals, are fuch as do not cr = or oo to- 
gether in the burn main in feparat: 
REE or Taal rae in Germany, are noe ae ae not ete bjce& 
o any magia prince ; but governed, like republics, by 
tes. 
cient ee empire : {uch were thofe to 
by the advice or confent of the fenate, oe the privilege of 
appointing their own magiftrates, and governing themlelves 
by their own laws. ee Z 
air. See 
Page ve. See Fue ae eas 
Free Fifbery, See FIsHer 
Frex Martin, in Rural Lana 
heifer that has been a ae witha b 
Free-mafon. See SON. 
Free Port. See Pon: RT. 
Free Service. See venieaa 
- Soc See Soc 
e State,is a nae governed by magiftrates elected by 
free fuffrages. of the inhabitant 
Frer-fone, awhitith ftone, dug up in many parts of Eng- 
a term fignifying a barren 
ull- 
calf. 
FRE 
jaed, the works like alabafter; but is more hard and dura- 
ble, being of excellent ufe in Buildin g, &e. 
a kind of the gritt ftone, a finer fanded, and a 
{moot ee ftone ; and is called free- one, from its being of 
tuch a er Te tion as to be cut freely in any direction. This 
is a fpecies of the pfaduria of Hill. 
The qualities of the feveral kinds of free-ftone, in con 
mon ufe in the feveral parts of Europe, are very tai 
ein this general property indeed, that they 
are oS while in the quarry than when they have been 
ome expofed to the air: b en this general pro- 
2 ptr 1 a 
per rty aiff fers greatly in degree. g 
ftone in ufe at Paris m yet to 
have met with any quarries in England, though ‘probably 
enough there are fuch, which has this property in fo emi-+ 
nent a ae that the expence of working it is in a great 
meafure 
is fone lie ial) where on the fouth fide ie the river 
Seine, and is oarfe and large gritt. It is oft when 
newly taken ou ‘of the trata “that they cut i ery conves 
niently with a fort of broad axe, and fafhion as many {tones 
for building i in fe manner in an qour. as an equal number 
of our ae in a day or two. ‘Though this ftone is 
as foft a vey when firft taken up, it is found to harden 
fa) per anne n the air, that it becomes more than equal to 
our ordinar e-fton 
Our Portland flone, “Se the fineft kind, which is white, and 
a clofe gritt, is very fit for hewing or foatiaa but tt will 
ne reiift water nor fire, which is a very ‘fingular cir. 
ea ftone; while the br eeu: of en 
iful to the eye, and is a gre colour, 
and contiderably clofe, though of a acer grain, refiite. the 
air and water very well. 
“he free-ftone of Derbyfhire, on the other hand, is fo 
brittle as to be unfit for any fine working, and fo coarfe and 
open in its texture that it lets water through; yet it bears 
the fire extremely well, and is fit for ovens, hearths, &cs 
Phil. Tranf. N 
Free Stool. See 2 Fuiserout 
Free-thinker. 
e WILL 
FREE. BOOTER’s Porn T, in Geography, a cape at the 
wefternextremity of the iflandof Anagada in the Weft Indies: 
FREEDOM, the oan, or ftate of being free. See 
FREE. : 
FREEDO OM 0 ofa City, ‘oan, yan denotes aright or capacity 
f exercifing i ee: trade or employment in that city o 
town corporate, and of. bei 
offices ther cole 
mplim 
, a ftate or faculty of the mind, 
sea ein all the mo tions hee our will are in our alee and we 
e enabled to determine on this at; 9 goo 
a without any ee or per aie from ae es oe 
whatever. Seé Liserry, and Nrcessiry. 
EReEpom of Conjfcience. See Lrnerty, and ToLrraTion. 
e fchoolmen neal two kinds of this freedom, 
FREEDOM i” “the Wi 2 
Fase DOM of — sal Ww hereby be are at our. choice 
will, or nill; to love, or not to lov 
hus, if I a my fiend a oe oe my horfe, that 
friend has freedom of contradidtion with refpe€t to thé 
horfe ; fince it is in his own power either to ufe him, or let 
im alone. 
Freepom of Contrariety, or of. Contnaries, is that whereby 
g we 
