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ings are numerous and handfome ; the private houfes 
commodious ; and the magazines large, convenient, and 
well filled. All kind of labour is here performed by en¬ 
gines feme of them fo well contrived, that fliips are at 
once lifted into the dock. Though this ifland is natu¬ 
rally barren, the induflry of the Dutch has brought it 
to produce a confiderable quantity both of tobacco and 
Rigar ; it has, belides, good lalt-works, for the produce 
of which there is a brifk demand from the Englifh iilands, 
and the colonies on the continent. But what renders this 
ifland of mod advantage to the Dutch, is the contraband 
trade which is carried on between the inhabitants and 
the Spaniards, and their harbour being the rendezvous 
to all nations in time of war. The Dutch fliips from 
Europe touch at this ifland for intelligence, or pilots, 
aiid then proceed to the Spanifli coafts for trade, which 
they force with a ftrong hand, it being very difficult for 
the Spanifli guarda coftas to obftruct them. Befides this, 
there is a conftant intercourfe between this ifland and the 
Spanifh continent. Curayoa has numerous warehoufes, 
always full of the commodities of Europe and the Eaft 
Indies. Here are all forts of woollen and linen cloth, 
laces; filks, ribbands, iron utenlils, naval and military 
(lores, brandy, the fpices of the Moluccas, and the cali¬ 
coes of India, white and painted. Hither the Dutch 
Wefl-India and African company annually bring three 
or four cargoes of Haves ; and to this mart the Spaniards 
themfelves come in finall veffels, and carry off not only 
the bed of the negroes, at a very high price, but great 
quantities of all the above forts of goods ; and the feller 
lias this advantage, that the refufe of warehoufes and 
mercers fliops, and every thing that is grown unfaffiion- 
able and unfaleable in Europe, go off here extremely 
well, being fufficiently recommended by being called 
European. The Spaniards pay in gold or filver, coined 
or in bars, cocoa, vanilla, jefuits bark, cochineal, and 
other valuable commodities. The trade of Curayoa, 
even in times'of peace, is faid to be annually worth to 
the Dutch, no lefs than 500,0001. but, in time of war, 
the profit is much greater, for then it becomes the com¬ 
mon emporium of the Weft Indies; it affords a retreat 
to fhips of all nations, and at the fame time refufes none 
of them arms and ammunition to deftroy one another. 
The intercourfe with Spain being then interrupted, the 
Spanifh colonies have fcarcely any other market from 
whence they can be well fupplied either with (laves or 
goods. The French come hither to buy the beef, pork, 
corn, flour, and lumber, which are brought from the 
continent of North. America, or exported from Ireland ; 
fo that, whether in peace or in war, the trade of Curayoa 
11 ourifhes extremely. The Dutch took this ifland from 
the Spaniards in 1632. Lat. 12.N. I0n.51.40. W. Ferro. 
This ifland furrendered to the Nereide, captain Watkins, 
in the name of his Britannic majefty, on the 13th of Sep¬ 
tember 1800; but was reftored to the Dutch at the peace 
of Amiens, in 1802. 
CU'RACY,^. Employment of a curate, diftindt from 
a benefice ; employment which a hired clergyman holds 
under the beneficiary.—They get into orders as foon as 
they can, and, if they be very fortunate, arrive in time 
to a curacy. Swift. 
CURvE'US (Joachim), a p hyfician and hiftorian, born 
in 1582, at Freyffadt in Sileiia, where his father was a 
clothier and a magillrate. He was liberally educated, 
and ffudied under Melanchthon at Wittemberg, and af¬ 
terwards vifited the principal univerlities of Italy, taking 
the degree of dodt’or of phyfic at Bologna. Returning 
to his own country, he pratfiTed in his prpfeffion at Glo- 
gaw, and died in 1573, when riling'to great reputation. 
He publiflied Annals ■ f Sileiia and Brellaw, folio, in La¬ 
tin, afterwards tranflated into German by Henry Ratel, 
*585 ; and fince publiflied in an augmented form at Jena 
in 162 5. 
CIFRARAY, a river of South America, which runs 
5 n'.o the river of the Amazons, 
4 
CUR 
CURASSOW/, f. in ornithology. See Crax, Fese* 
lope, and Struthio. 
CU'RATE, f. [curator, Lat.} A clergyman hired to 
perform the duties of another ; 
He fpair’d no pains; for curate he had none, 
Nor durff he truft another with his care. Dryden . 
A pariflt prieft.—Bifliops and curates, and all congrega¬ 
tions. Common Prayer.. —I thought the Engliffi oi°curate 
had been an ecclefiaftical hireling.--No fuch matter j 
the proper import of the word fignifies one who has the 
cure of fouls. Collier. 
By the ecclefiaftical law, a curate is he who reprefents 
the incumbent of a church, parfon, or vicar, and takes 
care of divine fervice in his (lead : in cafe of pluralities 
of livings, or where a clergyman is old and infirm, it is 
requifite there ffiotild be a curate to perform the cure of 
the church. He is to be licenfed and admitted by the 
billiop of the diocefe, or by an ordinary, having epifeo- 
pal jurifdidtion; and, when a curate hath the appro¬ 
bation of the bilhop, he ufually appoints the falary too ; 
and, in fuch cafe, if he be not paid, the curate hath a 
proper remedy in the ecclefiaftical court, by a lequeftra- 
tion of the profits of the benefice ; but, if he hath no li¬ 
cence from the biffiop, he is put to his remedy’at com¬ 
mon law, where he muft prove the agreement, &c. Right 
Clerg. 127. By 28 Hen. VIII. c. 11. Rich as ferve a 
church during its vacancy, (hall be paid Rich ftipend as 
the ordinary thinks reafonable out of the profits of the 
vacancy; or, if that be not fufficient, by the fucceffor, 
within fourteen days after he takes poffeflion. 
By 12 An. c. 12. where curates are licenfed by the bi¬ 
ffiop, they are to be appointed by him a ftipend not ex¬ 
ceeding fifty pounds per annum, nor lefs than twenty 
pounds a-year, according to the value of the livings, to 
be paid by the redtor or vicar: and the fame may be 
done on any complaint made. One perfon cannot be cu¬ 
rate in two churches, unlefs Rich may fatisfy the law, 
by reading both morning and evening prayers at each 
place : nor can he ferve one cure on one Sunday, and 
another cure on the next; for lie muft not negledt to 
read morning and evening prayer in bis church every 
Lord’s day ; if he doth he is liable to puniffiment. Comp. 
Incumb. 572. But it is otlierwife where a church or chapel 
isamemberofthe parifli-church; andwhereone church is 
not able to maintain a curate. Can. 48. A curate having 
no fixed eftate in his curacy, not being inftituted and in- 
dudted, may be removed at pleafure by the bifhop or in¬ 
cumbent. But there are perpetual curates, as well as 
temporary, who are appointed where tithes are impro¬ 
priate, and no vicarage endowed : thefe are not remove¬ 
able ; and the impropriators are obliged to find them, 
fome whereof have certain portions of the tithes fettled 
on them. 29 Car. II, c.8. 
It was provided in 1603, by Can. 33. that if a bifliop 
ordains any perfon not provided with fome ecclefiaftical 
preferment, except a fellow or chaplain of a college, or 
a mafter of arts of five years (landing, who lives in the 
univerfity at his own expence, the biffiop fhall fupport 
him till he prefer him to a living. 3 Burn. Eccl. L. 28. 
The biffiops, before 1 they confer orders, require either 
proof of Rich a title as is deferibed by the canon, or a 
certificate from fome redlor or vicar, promifing to em¬ 
ploy the candidate for orders Iona fide as a curate, and to 
grant him a certain allowance till he obtains fome eccle- 
liaftical preferment, or fhall be removed for fome fault, 
la a cafe where the redtor of St. Anne, Weftminfter, gave 
Rich a title, and afterwards diRnilfed his curate without 
affigning any caufe, the curate recovered in an adlion of 
affumpfit the fame falary for the time after his difmif- 
fion which he had received before. 'Cowp. 437. When 
the redlor had vacated St. Anne’s, by accepting the liv¬ 
ing of Roclid.de, the curate brought another adlion to 
recover his falary after the redtor left St. Anne’s; but 
the court of king’s-bench held that that adlion could 1104 
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