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fpecimens of winter, fo now and then gleams of warm fun- 
ihine illuminate the darker months. However, under all 
the inconveniences of our climate, it appears not that the 
human fpecies in any country can boaft of greater happi- 
nefs or longevity than the people of England ; or that the 
comforts of life, or blellings of plenty, are enjoyed under 
the folace of fofter climes with more heart-felt gratifica¬ 
tion and domeftic felicity than in this country. Even 
thofe fuccefsful adventurers who acquire princely for¬ 
tunes, we know not how, in the luxuriant regions of Afia, 
fatigued with the toils of (late, and fatiated with the 
voluptuous pleafures of Hindooftan, return with anxious 
hafte to the fterner climate of England, to feek that more 
folid and rational enjoyment, which they have fought in 
vain amongft foreign nations. 
London, the capital of England, may now with truth 
be called the metropolis of the world; fince no 
city at this time exifting can be compared with it in 
magnitude, riches, fplendid ftreets and fquares, magni¬ 
ficent architecture, trade, or commerce, which is extend¬ 
ed into almoft every known region of the univerfe. Many 
others of the towns and cities of England juftly merit re¬ 
gard for their magnitude, opulence, induftry, and ele¬ 
gance. Briftol for its manufactures and foreign trade 
ranks high, as does Bath for its fuperior magnificence ; 
while York, Liverpool, Manchefter, Birmingham, Shef¬ 
field, Nottingham, Exeter, Salifbury, Winchefter, Portf- 
mouth, Plymouth, Southampton, Poole, Canterbury, 
Hereford, Gloucefter, Worcefter, Coventry, Shrewfbury, 
Norwich, Newcaltle, Yarmouth, Lincoln, Chelter, Lan- 
calter, Hull, Leeds, Durham, Carlifle, Whitehaven, 
Brighthelmftone, Lewes, Dorchelter, Weymouth, New¬ 
port in the Ifle of Wight, &c. are celebrious in various 
ways, as particularized under each of their refpeCtive 
heads in this work. Thofe which are fea-ports, moftly 
enjoy an extenlive and increafing commerce ; whillt thofe 
which are inland, and noted for their valuable mineral 
productions and manufactures, are extremely benefited 
and enriched by the great extenfion of inland navigation 
through every part of the kingdom.—See Canal Navi¬ 
gation, vol. iii. p. 675. 
The bulk of the Englifh people have received from 
different hiflorians, as much praife for their united induf¬ 
try, hofpitality, and orderly deportment, as for their 
magnanimity and unfhaken courage in times of danger. 
Many and various have alfo been the general charac- 
teriftic features drawn of the Englifh nation ; the neat- 
eltof which, we think, is that of Dr. Wendeborn, a Ger¬ 
man author, in his “ View of England at the clofe of 
the Eighteenth Century;” and, falling from the pen of a fo¬ 
reigner, devoid alike of prejudice and predilection, would 
appear molt. juft. “ In my opinion, (fays this writer,) 
the Englifh, of all cultivated nations, approach the near- 
eft to what man, in reality, ought to be ; and this, I think, 
is their chief charaCteriftic. ” 
EN'GLAND (New). See New England. 
EN'GLE,y’. [from the French engluer, to catch with 
birdlime."] A gull, a put, a bubble, a fnare. Hanmer. 
EN'GLECERY, or Eng leschire,/. [ Engleceria, Lat. ] 
In our ancient laws, a word lignifying the being an Eng. 
lifkman. When Canute the Dane came to be king of Eng - 
land, he at the requeft of the nobility lent back his army 
into Denmark, but kept fome Danes to be a guard to his 
perfon ; and he made a law for the prefervation of his 
Danes (who were often privately made away with by the 
'Englifh), that if an Englijhman killed a Dane, he fliould be 
tried for the murder; orlf he efcaped, the town or hun¬ 
dred where the fa Cl was done, was to be amerced fixty-fix 
•marks to the king: fo that after this .law, whenever a 
murder was committed, it was neceffary to prove the 
party (lain to be an Engliftiman, that the town might be 
exempted from the amercement; which proof was called 
Englecery, or Englefckire. Anjl whereas, if a perfon were 
privately (lain, he was in ancient time accounted Franci- 
E N G 
gena, which word comprehended every alien, efpecially 
the Danes: it was therefore ordained, that where any 
perfon was murdered, he fhould be adjudged Francigena 
unlefs Englecery were proved, and that it was made manil 
feft he was an Engliftiman. The manner of proving the 
perfon killed to be an Engliftiman, was by two w Undies 
who knew the father and mother, before the coroner. 
Fleta, l.i. c.30. 7 Rep. 16. Englecery, byreafonof the great 
abufes and trouble that afterwards were perceived to°row 
by it, was utterly taken away by flat. 14 Edw. III. m 4. 
ENGLES QJJEVI L'LE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Seine : fifteen miles fouth-wefl 
of Arques. 
EN'GLISH, adj. [enjlep, Sax.] Belonging to Eno-. 
land; thence Englijh is the language of England. See 
the article Language. 
EN'GLISH,/: [the adj. by ellipfis, for] The Englifh 
language.—I can fpeak Englifh, lord, as well as you. Shake — 
fpeare. — There are in Englijh twenty-fix letters. Lowth. 
To EN'GLISH, v. a. To tranflate into Englifh._The 
hollow inftrument terebra, we may englijh piercer. Bacon. 
EN'GLISH BANK, a remarkable fhoal in the Indian. 
Ocean, is fituate in lat. 17.56. N. and Ion. 39. 3. E. 
EN'GLISH BAR, an extenfive fand-bank 0,1 the weft 
coaft of France, called by the French la Barre Anolois, 
which runs off for near a league from Point Terre Negree 
towards Point de la Coubre, which are .the two points of 
a large bay that affords anchorage in five fathoms water.. 
It is on the north coaft of the river of Bourdeaux, and 
almoft north from the tower of Cordovan. 
EN'GLISH BAY, a fpacious bay on the weft coaft of 
the gulf of Manar, in the Eaft Indies, fituated on the 
coaft to the north-eaft from Cape Comorin, or the fouth- 
ern point of the peninfula of India. It is not far from 
the Dutch ftation for carrying on the pearl filhery, and is 
formed by two points of land, projecting out in fuch a 
manner as to fhape a kind of bafon. Lat. 8. at, N. Ion 
76. 50. E. 
EN'GLISH CHANNEL, all that fpace of fea which 
runs between the fouth coaft of England and the north 
coaft of France, opening or entering from Ulhant to the- 
Scilly I Hands, which is called the Chops of the Channel. 
EN'GLISH COVE, a harbour or bay, on the coaft 
of New Ireland, about three or four miles from Cane 
St. George. 
EN'GLISTI COVE, a commodious bay in the ifiand 
of Minorca, a little below the town of Mahon. It is the 
watering-place for the navy, where the harbour is nearly 
a mile over, which is almoft the greateft breadth of the 
harbour; and is about half a mile above Bloody Ifiand, 
which is fituated nearly in the middle of the channel. 
EN'GLISH CREEK, a fmail cove near the fouth-eaft 
part of the ifiand of Martinico in the Weft Indies, a little 
to the north-eaft from Point Salines, or the mod foutherly 
cape of the ifiand. 
EN'GLISH HARBOUR, a commodious bay of the 
river St. Lawrence, in North America, eight leagues 
weft-by-fouth from Trinity Point. Lat. 49. 29. N. Ion. 
67. o. W. 
EN'GLISH HARBOUR, a fifhing cove near the ex¬ 
treme limit of the large and deep bay called Trinity Bay, 
on the eaft court: of Newfoundland, and contiguous to 
Trinity Harbour. 
EN'GLISH HAR.BOUR, a large bay on the north- 
weft of Cape Raphael, on the eaft part of St. Domingo 
or Hifpaniola, in the Weft Indies. On a rock near the 
entrance of this harbour the Scipion, of feventy-four guns, 
was loft, in running for the harbour, after having had an 
engagement with the London, of ninety guns, in the month 
of October, 1782. Lat. 19. 8. N. Ion. 68. 25. W. 
EN'GLISH HARBOUR, a large bay on the fouth 
coaft of the ifiand of Antigua, in the Weft Indies, and the 
beft port of the whole ifiand. At a very great expence 
it has been rendered capable of receiving the largeft fhips 
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