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knoWn as a deputy to the national convention ; my refi- 
dence in a few hours will be in the grave : but my name 
will live in the pantheon of hiftory.” Thus fell one of 
the 1110ft energetic revolutionifts of France, to the grief 
.of the fans-culottes, the joy of the ariftocrats, and to 
the aftonifliment of all who had not confidered what 
ferocious paflions are brought into activity by a great 
revolution. 
Danton was but thirty-five years of age, tall and cor¬ 
pulent, of ftrong and bard features, with a powerful 
voice, and a manner peculiarly imprefiive. By his mien, 
taken all together, it appeared that nature intended him 
more for the turbulent than the calmer walks of life. 
He was bred to the law, and as is fuppofed was exprefsly 
chofen mihifter of juftice at the eventful period of the 
aneftations in Auguft and September 1792, on account 
of his morofe difpofition, and the vengeance lie had uni¬ 
formly fworn againft the partizans of the court. He was 
charged (and we fear but toojuftly) with connivance, 
while in office, at the maffiacres of the prifoners on the 
3d and 4th of September, 1792. This is however a 
tranfadtion covered w ith almoft as much obfcurity as 
atrocity, and which perhaps may never be fully expofed 
to light. He completed his thirty-fifth year the day be¬ 
fore his death ; being born on the 4th of April, 1759, 
and guillotined on the 5th of April, 1794. 
DANTZ, or Danz (John Andrew), a learned Ger¬ 
man Lutheran divine, born in 1654, at Sandhufen, in 
the neighbourhood of Gotha. His promifing talents and 
early attachment to ftudy, recommended him to the pa¬ 
tronage of duke Frederic, at whofe expence he was fup- 
ported in the fchools where he received his preparatory 
education, and afterwards at the univerfity of Wi .tem- 
berg. In 1676 he took his degree of mafter of arts ; af¬ 
ter which he relided at Hamburgh, for the fake of pro¬ 
fiting by the inftruiStions of feme learned Jews in that 
city, in perfecting his acquaintance with the Hebrew 
language, antiquities, and rabbinical writings. From 
Hamburgh he travelled to Holland and to England, in 
which countries he formed refpedtable and learned con¬ 
nections. On his return to Germany he determined to 
fettle in the univerfity of Jena, where he was at firft 
made profeffor extraordinary, and afterwards profeffor in 
ordinary of the oriental languages. The reputation which 
he acquired in this department was very confiderable, 
and fecured to him a numerous lift of pupils. He was 
afterwards appointed to the theological chair, which he 
filled with credit and fuccefs. He died of an apopleCtic 
ftroke in 1727. Among the works which he left, abound¬ 
ing in genuine and profound learning, are, Hebrew and 
Chaldee grammars ; Sinceritas facrcz Scriptures veteris Tejia- 
vienli Iriumpkans, See. 4to. 1713; various differtations, in 
Latin, againft the Jews, on Jewifh antiquities, and on 
different theological topics ; and translations of feveral 
rabbinical treatifes. 
DANT'ZIC, or Dantzig, afea-port town of Pruffia, 
fituated in the province of Pomerelia, on the Viftula, 
about four miles from the Baltic. Two fmall rivers, 
called the Radaune and the Motlau, pafs through the 
city ; thefe rivers unite below the town, and run together 
into the Viftula. It is large and populous, and properly 
confifts of two parts, the Old Town and New Town, with 
> their fuburbs. It has a very good harbour, and wants 
nothing but depth. Here are twelve Lutheran churches, 
two for Calvinifts, and one for Roman catholics. It was 
anciently the principal of the Hanfe towns, being one of 
the firft that entered into that aflociation. The German 
is almoft the only language fpoken here; the Polifh being 
but little ufed by the inhabitants. Dantzic, fo early as 
the year 997, was a large commercial town. The New 
Town was founded by the Teutonic knights in 1311, and 
was firft furrounded with a wall and moat in 1343. The 
inhabitants refufing to do homage to Stephen king of 
Poland, without a previous confirmation of their rights 
and privileges; the city was put under the ban, and be- 
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fieged by that prince. However, matters were adjufted, 
and, on a public acknowledgment of their error, and 
paying a large fine to the king, he received the city into 
favour, confirmed its privileges, and granted the inha¬ 
bitants the free exercife of their religion. In 1734, Sta- 
nifiaus, king of Poland, took refuge in this city ; but this 
occafioned a bombardment from the Saxons and Ruffians. 
At length, when there were no hopes of relief from the 
French by fea, and king Staniflaus had found a way to 
make his efcape, Dantzic fubmitted to Auguftus III. 
eledtor of Saxony, as its fovereign. In the year 1752, 
1288 Poliffi velfels, fmall and great, from the Viftula, 
and 1014 fliips from the fea, arrived in this port; and 
58,060 lafts and forty buffiels of corn were brought into 
this city for exportation; other exports confift of tallow, 
leather, wool, wax, butter, (kins, &c. Articles of im¬ 
portation are wine, fpices, cloth, filk and woollen (tufts, 
herrings, fait, iron, lead, drugs, &c. The king of Pruffia, 
who had before feized on the greater part of the pro¬ 
vince, in 1793 added the remainder, with the city of 
Dantzic, to his dominions. It is fixty-eight miles weft- 
fouth-weft of Koninglberg. Lat. 54. 24. N. ion. 18.50. E. 
Greenwich. In the year 1802, in digging a new lluice- 
way at the upper end of the Fairwater at Dantzic, a fhip 
was found buried in the ground, at the depth of about 
twenty feet. She meafured from ftem to item, in the 
infide, fifty-four feet, and in breadth near twenty feet, 
and was laden with ftones, marked H. L. No. V to XII.' 
fome apparently defigned for foundation-ftones, others 
finely poliflied and flat, fuppofed to be head-ftones for 
graves. A box of tobacco-pipes was alfj found, all whole, 
with heads about the lize of a thimble, and (talks from 
four to fix inches in length. The (hip was built of oak, 
her planks about twenty inches broad, full of tree-nails, 
and no iron about her except her rudder-bands. A boat 
was found near, fallen to pieces. Many human bones 
were found in the hold, both fore and aft; and it is fup¬ 
pofed that the veffiel had been loft in fome convulfion of 
nature, before the foundation of the city, upwards of 
five hundred years ago, as the place had long been built 
over. 
DA'NUBA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Tomani. 
DA'NUBE, [from the Latin Danubius , as Ovid calls 
it: Cedere Danubius ft tibi, Nile , negat , which the Romans 
might take from the Teut. Dannen, fir-trees, which are 
planted along its banks.] The mod confiderable river of 
Germany, rifes in Swabia, near Donefchingen, and be¬ 
comes navigable at Ulm; pafles through Swabia, Bava¬ 
ria, Auftria, Hungary, Servia, Bulgaria, Walachia, and 
Moldavia; and empties itfelf into the Black Sea by fe¬ 
veral mouths, between lat. 44. 55. and 45. 30. N. thirty- 
five miles eaft from Ifmail. It receives fixty rivers, great 
and fmall, in its courfe, and runs near to, or wadies, the 
walls of the following cities and towns: Efchingen, Ulm, 
Donawert, Neuburg, Ingoldftadt, Straubing, Paftaw, 
Lintz, Ips, Stein, Tuln, Vienna, Prefburg, Raab or 
Javarin, Comorn, Gran, Vicegrad, Waitzen, Peft, Buda, 
Colocza, Baja, Illok, Peterwaradin, Belgrade, Seman- 
dria, Vipalanka, Orfova, Vidden, Nicopoli, Ruffig or 
Rufcek, Driftra, Kaftbvat, Kirfova, Ibrail, Reni, Ra- 
kel, Ifakzi, Ifmail, Tulcza, Kilia, &c. 
DAN'VERS, a townffiip of the American States, in 
Effiex county, Maffiachufetts, adjoining Salem on the 
north-weft, in which it was formerly comprehended by 
the name of Salem village. It confifts of two pariffies, 
and contains by the cenfus 2425 inhabitants, and was in¬ 
corporated in 1757. The moll confiderable and compadt: 
fettlement in it, is formed by a continuation of the prin¬ 
cipal ftreet of Salem, which extends more than two miles 
towards the country, having many work-fhops of me¬ 
chanics, and feveral for retailing goods. Large quanti¬ 
ties of bricks and coarfe earthen-ware are manufactured 
here. 
DAN'VILLEj a poft-town of the American States, in 
Mercer 
