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More willingly I mention air, 
This our old conquefl ; than remember hell, 
Our hated habitation. Milton. 
Victory ; fuccefs in arms : 
In joys' of conquefl he refigns his breath, 
And, fill’d with England’s glory, fmiles in death. Addifon. 
In feodal law, [from conqurjlus , barbarous Lat.] acquifi- 
tion ; purchafe.— CotlqucJ ?, in its feodal acceptation, fig- 
nifies no more than acquifition. What we call purchafe, 
the feudifts call conquefl ; both denoting any means of 
acquiring an eflate out of the common mode of inherit¬ 
ance. Black/lone. 
CON'QUESTS, fignal, and Captures, by the valour 
of the Bri ifh arms, at land and by fea, (not included un¬ 
der the heads of Battles and Naval Engagements.) 
Calais taken by Edward III. after a year’s liege, A. D. 
1347 ; it was held by England two hundred and ten years, 
and then retaken by the French in the reign of queen 
Mary, 1558.—Gibraltar taken from the Spaniards by 
admiral fir George Rooke, fir Cloudefley Shovel!, and 
the prince of Heffe, 3 Anne, 1704.—Lifie city and cita¬ 
del befieged by tire duke of Marlborough ; the fortifica¬ 
tions were fo Itrong that they were deemed impregnable, 
but they were taken in 170S, and this is reckoned the 
molt famous fiege in modern hillory.—Minorca taken 
from Philip, for Charles HI. king of Spain, by fir John 
Leake, admiral, and general Stanhope; but by agree¬ 
ment with the court of Spain kept by England, 6 Anne, 
<1.708. (Taken by the French in 1756, reftored at the 
peace'in 1763.)—Vigo taken from the Spaniards by lard 
Cobham, 5 George I. 1719.—Porto-Bello taken from the 
.Spaniards by admiral Vernon, with only fix men of war, 
12 George II. 1739.—The Acapulco annual gall eon bound 
for Manilla, laden with filver, taken by admiral Anfon, 
1743.—Cape Breton and Louifburgh taken by admiral fir 
Peter Warren, and the New-England troops, headed by 
Mr. Pepperel, a merchant, 1745 ; again by general Am- 
herd and admiral Bofcawen, 1758.—Goree ifland, Africa, 
taken from the French, and alfo their fettlements on the 
.river Senegal, by admiral Keppel and colonel Werge, 
175S. This conquefl was projected by Thomas Cum- 
ming, a patriotic Englifh quaker.—Guadaloupe taken 
■ from the French by commodore Hughes and general Bar¬ 
rington ; Niagara, North America, taken from the French 
by fir William Johnfon ; Ticonderoga by general Am- 
,herll ; 1759.—Surat, Plaft Indies, from the French In¬ 
dians, by captain Richard Maitland, 1759.—Pondicherry 
by colonel Coote, 1760.—Montreal, North America, ta¬ 
ken from the French by general Amherlt, 1760.—Belle- 
Ifle taken from the French by fir Edward Hawke arid ge¬ 
neral Hodgfon, 1761.—Cuba ifle, and the city of Ha- 
vanna taken from the Spaniards by admiral iir George 
Pocock and the earl of Albemarle, 1762.—Manilla taken 
from the Spaniards by admiral Cornifh and fir William 
Draper, 1762.—Mnrtinico, Grenada, St. Vincent, Domi¬ 
nica, St. Lucia, and Tobago, taken from the French by 
admiral Rodney and general Monckton, 1762.—Lord 
Clive brings Bengal under the Englifh government, 1765. 
—Pondicherry and St. Lucia taken, 1778.—Rodney takes 
twenty-feven Spanifh fliips, 1780.—Minorca taken, 1782, 
1790.—Bangalore taken by florin, 1791.—Tippoo Saib 
.redes one half of his dominions to the Englifh, 1792.— 
Tobago taken, 1793; Martinique, 1794.—The Cape of 
Good Hope captured by general Clarke and admiral El- 
phinflone, 179;, and Ceylon by admiral Rainier and ge- 
-neral Stuart the fame year.—Demerara, Illequibo, Ber- 
bice, Guadaloupe, and St. Lucia, taken from the French ; 
Amboyna and Banda from the Dutch ; a large Dutch 
fleet furrenders without fighting; 1796.—-Trinidad taken 
from the Spaniards, 1797.—Seringapatam taken, and 
Tippoo Saib killed, by which the complete conquefl of 
the Myfore country was accomplifhed by general Harris, 
» 799 ; the Dutch colony of Surinam furrendered the fame 
year.—Goree taken from the French; Malta furrenders 
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to general Pigot, after a blockade of two years; Curacost 
taken from the Dutch, 1800.—Euflatius taken; Cairo 
and Alexandria in Egypt; the ifland of Ternate ; 1801. 
[All the conquefls made during the war, except Ceylon 
and Trinidad, are to be reltored by the peace,, now nego- 
ciating, 1802.] See Battle and Chronology. 
CON'QUET (Le), a feaport town of France, in the 
department of Finifterre, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diltriCt of Brefl: three leagues and a half well of 
Brefl. Lat. 48. 22. N. Ion. 12.54. E. Ferro. 
CONRAD, [of con and jrat>, Sax. able in counfel.] A 
proper name of men. Several diflinguifhed princes ot 
this name were emperors of Germany.. See that arti¬ 
cle, and Italy. 
CON'RART (Valentjn), fecretary to the French king, 
was born at Paris in 1603. The Academie Franyoife, to 
which he was perpetual fecretary, confidered him as its 
father and founder. It was in his houfe that this il~ 
Iuflrious fociety took its birth in 1629, and continued to 
affemble till 1634. Conrart contributed much to render 
thefe meetings agreeable by his tafle, his affability, and 
politenefs. He publifhed, 1. Letters to Felibian, Paris, 
1681, 12mo. 2. ATreatife on oratorical AClion, Paris, 
1657, i2ino. reprinted in 1686, under the name of Michel 
le Faucheur. 3. Extracts from Martial, 2 vols. 121110. 
and a few other tracts. He died September 23, 1675, at 
the age of feventy-two. It is faid that he reviled the 
writings of the famous Claude before they went to prefs. 
Conrart was related to Godeau, afterwards bifhop of 
Vence, who, whenever he came to towm, lodged at his 
houfe ; feveral men of letters came there alio, for the 
fake of converfing with the abbe : and this was the firll 
origin of the academy. 
CONRIN'GIUS (Hermannus), profeffor of law at 
Helmftadt, was born at Norden in Frifia, in 1606; and 
died in 1681. He was perfectly verfed in modern hillory, 
and confulted by feveral princes upon the affairs of Ger¬ 
many. He compofed many works upon law and hillory; 
and there is a very learned and curious work of his, in- 
titled DeAntiquitatibusAcademicis Differtationes feptem.; 
the belt edition of which is that of Gottingen, 1739, 4to„ 
All his works were collected and printed at Brunfwick, 
1731, in 6 vols. folio. 
C O N S A N G UI' N E OU S, . [ confanguineus, Lat. ] Near 
of kin ; of the fame blood ; related by birth, not affined. 
•—Am I not confanguineous ? Am I not of her blood? 
Shakefpeare. 
CONSANGUI'NITY, f. [ confanguinitas , Lat.] Rela¬ 
tion by blood ; relation by defeent from one common 
progenitor; nearnefs of kin: diltinguilhed from affinity, 
or relation by marriage.—There is the fupreme and in- 
diffoluble confanguinity and fociety between men in gene¬ 
ral ; of which the heathen poet, whom the apofile calls 
to witnefs, faith, We are all his generation. Bacon .— 
Chrilt has condefcended to a cognation and confanguinity 
with us. South. —Confanguinity is often material in our 
common law, to afeertain the legal defeent of land, as 
who fhall take it as next of blood, Sec. and alfo in admi- 
nillrations, which fhall be granted to the next of kin. 
For particulars of this doClrine, fee the article Descent. 
CON'SAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak: 
fifty-two miles north-well of Ifpahan. 
CON'SARBRUCK, or Conz, a town of Germany, 
in the electorate of Treves, fituated at the conflux of 
the Saar and the Mofelle : two miles fouth of Treves. 
CONSARCINA'TION, f. [from conjarcino, Lat. td 
piece.] The ad of patching together. 
CONS'BACH, a town of Sweden, in South Gothland: 
thirty-two miles north of Wardberg. 
CON'SCIENCE, f. iconfcientia, Lat.] The knowledge 
or faculty by which we judge of the goodnefs or wick- 
ednefs of ourfelves. —Confimce fignifies that knowledge 
which a man hath of his own thoughts and aCtions; and 
becaufc, if a man judgeth fairly of his aCtions by com. 
paring them with the law of God, his mind will approve 
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