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reeftablilheJ In his employments, fpent his life In its 
fervice. Though his perfon was ungraceful and diminu¬ 
tive, he polfefted qualities the moll fplendid, and virtues 
the molt heroic. Of high and determined courage, he 
was formed to lbine in camps, as well as in courts; and, 
though his income was narrow, he difplaycd a magnifi¬ 
cence of appearance worthy of his birth and ftation. He 
had early attached himfelf to the doctrines of the re¬ 
formed, from which no arts could allure him ; and his 
lteadinefs to thofe religious principles was one of the great 
ornaments of his life. 
The prince of Conde was a ftriking illuftration of the 
obfervation made by the acute Dr. Johnfon ; that in pub¬ 
lic fpeaking there was often more of knack and of habit, 
than of real talent or knowledge : for whilft Conde never 
role to fpeak in the parliament of Paris but to difgrace 
himfelf, Gafton his coufin, with a mind very inferior to 
iiis in every refpeft, was always heard with attention in 
that aflembly. 
A good general, Paid, this great prince, may be beaten, 
but he can never be furprifed. One of his maxims was, 
that to enable a general r.ot to be afraid of his enemies 
when they were near to him, he Ihould have taken the 
precaution to have been afraid of them when they were 
at a diftance from him. 
Louis XIV. once paid Conde a very handfome compli¬ 
ment. The prince, in the latter part of his life, was very 
lame with the gout, and was one day in that lituation 
apologizing to the king for making him wait for him at 
the top of the great ftaircafe at Verfailles, which he was 
afcending veryllowly. “ Alas! my coufin,” replied the 
king, “who that is fo loaded with laurels as yourfelf, can 
walk fait ?•” 
Pains had been early taken by feme of the prince’s 
fuppofed friends to (hake his belief in Chriltianity ; he al¬ 
ways replied, “ You give yourfelves a great deal of unne- 
cellary trouble; the difperfton of the Jews will always be 
an undeniable proof to me of the truth of our holy reli¬ 
gion.” He died in 1686, at Fontainbleau. 
_ CONDE', a town of France,, in the department of the 
North, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Va¬ 
lenciennes, fituated at the conflux of the Hailne and the 
Scheldt. This town was inverted by a large body of the 
allied army in the month of April, 1793, and the works 
completed on the 27th. The town, though ilrong, was 
not furnilhed with provifions fufticient for a liege : the 
governor (general Chancel) therefore, about this period, 
ordered the women and children to quit the place; but 
the prince of Wurtemberg compelled them again to take 
refuge in the fortrefs. In a few days after this unfuccefs- 
ful attempt, the governor feat them out a fecond time; 
but the Aultrians, after killing many of thefe defencelels 
creatures, even in the aft of fupplicating for mercy, forced 
the governor, from motives of humanity, once more to 
receive them. From this period the garrifon appear to 
have exifted in a ftate of extreme diltrels. On the 10th of 
July, the garrifon, after enduring all the rigours of fa¬ 
mine, were obliged to lurrender as prifoners ot war. They 
had originally amounted to 4000 men, but at the time of 
the capture were reduced to -1500 fit for fervice. It was 
retaken by the French republican army in Oftober, 1794, 
and, by a decree of the national aflembly, it was ordered, 
that from henceforth the town Ihould be called Nord Libre ,. 
it is two leagues north-north-eaft of Valenciennes, four 
fouth-eaft of Tournay, and four and a half weft of Mons. 
Lat. 50. 27. N. Ion. 21. 15. E. Ferro. 
CONDE', a town of France, in the department of the 
Aifne, and chief place of a canton, in the diltriCl of Cha- 
teau-Thierry : two leagues and a quarter fouth-eaft of 
Chateau-Thierry. 
CONDE', or Mobile City, fituated on the weft fide 
of Mobile bay, in Weft Florida, about forty miles above 
its mouth in the gulf of Mexico. Lat. 30. 42. N. Ion. 87. 
57.W. 
CONDS' sur. ITON, or Conde' l’Eve^ue, a town 
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of France, in the department of the Eure; twelve miles 
fouth-weft of Evreux. 
CONDE' sur NOIREAU, a town of France, in the. 
department of the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Vire. The inhabitants carry on a conii- 
derable trade in doth, leather, and cutlery ; the number 
about 3500. It is feventeen miles weft of Falaife, and 
twelve eaft of Vire. 
CONDEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Bellefme : ten miles eaft of Beilefme. 
To COMDE'MN, v.a. [condemno, Lat.] To fin 1 guilty; 
to doom to puniftiment: contrary to abfolve. —Coniidered 
as a judge, it condemns where it ought to abfolve, and pro- < 
nounces abfolution where it ought to condemn. Fiddes. 
My confidence hath a thoufand leveral tongues, 
And ev’ry tongue brings in a fev’ral tale, 
And ev’ry tale condemns me for a villain. Shakefpeare. 
It has to before the punilhment.—The fon of man Ihali be 
betrayed unto the feribes, and. they (hall condemn him to 
death. Matt. xx. 18.—To cenfure ; to blame; to declare 
criminal: contrary to approve. —He who was fo unjuft as 
to do his brother an injury, will fcarce be fo juft as to 
condemn himfelf for it. Locke. —To fine.—And the king 
of Egypt put him down at Jerufalem, and condemned the 
land in an hundred talents of lilver. z Chronicles. —To 
lhew guilt by contrail.—The righteous that is dead ftiail 
condemn the ungodly which are living. IVifdom, iv. 16. 
CONDEM'NABLE, adj. Blameable; culpable.—He 
commands to deface the print of a cauldron in allies; 
which ftriclly to obferve, were coudemnable fuperftition. 
Brown. 
CONDEMNATION, f. [ condemnatio , Lat.-] The fen- 
tence by which any one is doomed to puniftiment; the 
aft of condemning; the ftate of being condemned.—There 
is therefore now no condemnation to them. Romans , viii, 
CONDEMNATORY, adj. Palling a fentence of con¬ 
demnation, or of cenfure.—He that pafles the firft con>- 
demnatory fentence, is like the incendiary in a popular tu¬ 
mult, who is^chargeabie with all thofe uiforders to which 
he ga ve rife. Government of the Tongue. 
CONDEM'NER, f. A blamer ; a cenfurer; a cenfor__ 
Some few are the only refufers and condemners of this ca¬ 
tholic praftice. Taylor. 
CONDEN'SASLE, adj. That which is capable of con- 
denfation; that which can be drawn or comprefled into a 
narrower compafs.—This agent meets with refiftance in 
the moveable; and not being in the utmoft extremity of 
denfity, but condcnfable yet further, every refiftance works 
fomething upon the mover to condenfe it. Digby. 
To CONDEN'SATE, a-. a. [condenfo , Lat.] To con¬ 
denfe; to make thicker. 
To CONDEN'S ATE, v. n. To grow thicker. 
CONDEN'SATE, adj. [ condenfatus , Lat.} Made thick; 
condenfed; comprefled into lei's lpace.—Water by nature 
is white; yea, thickened or condenfate , molt white, as it 
appeareth by the hail and fnow. Peacham. 
CONDENSATION, /. The aft of thickening any¬ 
body, or making it more grofs and weighty : oppolite to 
rarefattion. —The fupply of its moifture is by rains and. 
l'now, and dews and condenfation of vapours., and perhaps, 
by fubterraneous paflages. .Bentley. 
To CONDEN'SE, v.a. \condenfo , Lat.] To make a body 
more thick, clofe, and weighty; to drive or attraft the, 
parts of any body, nearer to each other ; to infpiflate i. 
oppofed to rarefy. —Moving in fo high a fphere, he mult 
needs, as the fun, raile many envious exhalations; which,, 
condenfed by a popular odium, were capable to cloud the. 
brighteft merit. King Charles. 
Some lead their youth abroad, while fome condenfe 
Their liquid ftore, and.fome in cells difpenle. Drydsn. 
To CONDEN'SE, v. n. To grow clofe and weighty ; to 
withdraw its parts into a narrow compafs.—All vapour 
* when 
