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Loans of the war with the French Re- 
public. 
Sum borrowed. 
Interest. 
£. 
£. s. 
d. 
1793 .. 
4 
1794 .. 
....11,000;000 .... 
9 
1793 .. 
... 4 15 
8 
1796 .. 
....18,000,000 .... 
9 
1796 .. 
.... 7,.300,000 .... 
2 
1797 .. 
... 5 14 
1 
1797 .. 
..,.14,500,000 ... 
... 6 6 
10 
1798 .. 
....17,000,000 ... 
... 6 4 
9 
1799 .. 
.... 3,000,000 ... 
... 5 12 
5 
1799 .. 
....15,500,000 ... 
... 5 5 
0 
1800 .. 
2 
1801 .. 
5 
The sums borrowed since the commence- 
ment of the war, which began in 18()3, have 
hitherto been of somewhat less extent, as it 
has been deemed necessary to endeavour to 
raise a considerable part of the extraordi- 
nary sums' wanted within the year. 
LOASA, in botany, a genus of the Polyan- 
dria Monogynia class and order. Essential cha- 
racter : calyx five-leaved, superior ; corolla 
five petalled; petals hooded; .nectary five- 
leaved, converging ; capsule turbinate, one 
celled, three valved, many seeded. There 
is only one species, viz. L. hispida, a native 
of South America. 
LOBARIA, in natural history, agenus of 
the Vermes Mollusca class and order. Body 
above convex, beneath flat lobate.'^ There is 
but a single species, viz. L. quadriloba, 
which inhabits the northern seas. It has a 
tail with four lobes. 
LOBE, in anatomy, any fleshy protube- 
rant part, as the lobes of the lungs, lobes of 
the ears, &c. 
LOBELIA, in botany, so named from 
Matthias de Lobel, a Flemish botanist, a ge- 
nus of the Syngenesia Monogamia class and 
order. Natural order of Campanace®. 
Campanulace®, Jussieu. Essential cha- 
racter : calyx five-cleft ; corolla one pe- 
talled, irregular ; capsule inferior, two or 
three-celled. Tliere are forty-two species ; 
these are mostly herbaceous plants, some 
annual, more perennial, and a few suffmti- 
cose, or woody at the bottom of the stems, 
which in some are prostrate, in others up- 
right ; leaves alternate ; flowers either soli- 
tary and axillary with two small bractes, or 
in loose terminating spikes with three little 
bractes. The predominant colour of the 
corollas is blue ; they are chiefly natives of 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
LOCAL action, is an action restrained 
to the proper county, in opposition to a 
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transitory action, which may be laid in any 
county at the plaintiff’s discretion. In 
local actions, where possession of land is to 
be recovered, or damages for an actual 
trespass, or for waste, or the like, afiecting 
land, the plaintiff must lay his declaration, 
or declare his injury to have happened in 
the very county and place that it really did 
happen in ; but in transitory actions, for 
injuries that may happen any where, as 
debt, detinue, slander, and the like, the 
plaintiff may declare in what county he 
pleases, and then the trial must be in that 
county in which the declaration is laid ; 
though if the defendant will make aflidavit 
that the cause of action, if any, arose not in 
that, but in another county, the court will 
oblige the plaintiff to declare in the proper 
county. 
LOCAL problem, among mathematicians, 
such a one as is capable of an infinite num- 
ber of different solutions, by reason that the 
point which is to resolve the problem may 
be indifferently taken within a certain ex- 
tent, as suppose any where, within such a 
line, within such a plane, figure, &c. which 
is called a geometric locus, and the problem 
is said to be a local or indetermined one. 
See Locus. 
A local problem may be either simple, 
when the point sought is in a right line; 
plane, when the point sought is in the cir- 
cumference of a circle ; solid, when the 
point required is in the circumference of a 
conic section ; or lastly, sursolid, when the 
point is in the perimeter of a line of the se- 
cond gender, or of an higher kind, as geome- 
ters call it. 
LOCK, an instrument used for fastening 
doors, chests, &c. generally opened by a 
key. The lock is esteemed the master- 
piece in smithery ; much art and delicacy 
b§ing required in contriving and varying 
the wards, bolts, and springs. From the 
different structure of locks, accommodated 
to their different use, they acquire different 
names : thus those placed on outer doors 
are called stock-locks ; those on inner 
doors, spring-locks ; those on trunks, trunk- 
locks, pad locks, &G. Of these the spring- 
lock is the most curious : its principal parts 
are, the main-plate, the cover-plate, and 
the pinhole: to the main-plate belong the 
key-hole, top-hook, cross-wards, bolt-toe, 
or bolt-nab, drawback-spring, tumbler, pin 
of the tumbler, and the staples ; to the co- 
ver-plate belong the pin, main-ward, cross- 
ward, step-ward, or dapper-ward ; to the 
pin-hole belong the hook-ward, main cross- 
