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years old. Having failed in' the attempt, he dropt his 
knife, and hid himfelf in the crowd. Every body flood 
amazed, being at a lofs to know who the villain was; 
and lie was likely to efcrvpe : but feme one happened to 
call an eye upon him, and he was taken at a venture, the 
wiidnefs of his look betraying, him. The king com¬ 
manded the captain of the guard who had feized him, to 
let him go ; faying that he pardoned him: but hearing 
that he was a difciple of the jefuits, he cried out, “ Mult 
then the jefuits be convidled from my own mouth ?” This 
regicide, being examined by the ordinary judge of the 
king’s houfhold, declared the reafons that determined 
him to fo defperate an attempt. Being queftioned about 
the fact, he laid he was urged to it, by the confcioufnefs 
of having led a fcandalous and wicked life; that he def- 
paired of forgivenefs, and that it was impoffible for him 
to efcape going to hell; but that he hoped to make his 
damnation more tolerable by attempting a great adftion. 
Being afked what that great aftion was ? he anfwer- 
ed, the murder of the king ; not that even this would ab- 
folve him from damnation, but only that it would make 
his torments more.tolerable. Being afked, whence he had 
this new theology ? he replied from the ftudy of philofo- 
phy. He was then queftioned, whether he had ftudied 
philofophy in the college of the jefuits, and whether he 
was ever in the meditation-chamber, in which were fhewn 
the piftures of feveral evil lpirits, and a great many ftrange 
figures; and to which the jefuits introduced tinners, with 
a view to, frighten and reclaim them from their .wicked 
lives. He anfwered, that he had ftudied two years and a 
half under father Gueret, and that he had often been in 
the meditation-chamber. Being afked who it was that 
perfuaded him to kill the king? his anfwer was, that he 
had heard in feveral places, that it was lawful to kill the 
king; and that they who faid it, called him a tyrant. Then 
they afked him whether it was not cuftomary with the je¬ 
fuits to talk of killing the king? to which he replied, 
that he had heard them fry, that it was lawful to kill the 
king: that he was without the pale of the church ; and 
that no one ought to obey him, or acknowledge him for 
a king, till he had obtained the pope’s approbation. 
. He was Sentenced to death by a decree of the parlia- 
'ment December .29, 1594, and buffered the fame day by 
the light of flambeaux. The Sentence lets forth a par¬ 
ticular account of his bufferings, in the following man¬ 
ner : “The court has condemned John Chat el to make 
honourable amends before the chief door of the church 
of Paris, ftripped to his fhirt, holding in his hand a lighted 
wax taper of two pounds weight, and there to fay and declare 
on his knees, that he had wickedly and treacheroufly at¬ 
tempted to commit this moft inhuman and abominable 
murder, and had wounded the king in the face with a 
knife ; and that, having been taught a falfe and damna¬ 
ble dodtrine, he faid on his trial, that it was lawful to kill 
the king, and that king Henry IV r . now reigning, was 
not a member of the church till he had obtained the 
pope’s approbation ; of which he the laid John Chatel re¬ 
pents, and for which he begs pardon of God, of the king, 
and of the court. This done, he is to be drawn on a 
fledge to la Place de Greve, and thereto have the flefh of 
his arms and thighs torn off with red-hot pincers 5 and 
liis right hand, in which he is to hold the knife with 
which he endeavoured to commit the murder, cut off; 
afterwards his body to be drawn and quartered by four 
horfes, pulling’'feveral ways, and his members and corpfe 
to be thrown into the fire, and burnt to allies, and the 
afhes thrown up into the air. The court has alfo declar¬ 
ed, and does declare, all his goods and chattels forfeited 
to the king. Before this fentence be executed upon him, 
he (hall alfo be put to the rack, and buffer the ordinary and 
extraordinary torture, to force him to declare his accom¬ 
plices, and fome other circumftances relating to his trial.” 
By the fame dejrree all the jefuits were banifhed out of 
France. Peter Chatel his father, and the jefuit Gueret, 
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under whom Chatel was then ftudying philofophy, were 
tried January 10, following. The jefuit was bauifhed 
for ever, Peter Chatel for nine years out of France, and 
for ever out of the city and fuburbs of Paris. The jefiiit’s 
goods and chattels were forfeited to the king, and Peter 
Chatel was fined 2000 crowns.. The court alfo ordered 
the houfe in which Peter Chatel lived, to be entirely de- 
molifhed; the fpot on which it flood to be applied to 
the ufe of the public, and that no other houfe ihould ever 
be built upon it; but that a high pillar of free-ftone fhould 
be let up for a perpetual monument of that moft wicked 
and abominable attempt on the king’s perfon, and that 
on the laid pillar be engraved an inlcription, containing 
the reafons for which the houfe was demolifhed and the 
pillar erefted. This fentence was executed ; but the pil¬ 
lar has fince been taken down, and a fpring caufed to run 
there inftead of it. 
CHATELDON', a town of France, in the department 
of Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, inthedif- 
trift of Thiers : fix leagues eaft-north-eaft of Riom. 
CHATELET' (Le), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Seine and Marne, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Melun : two leagues ealt of Melun. 
CHATELET' (the marchionefs), def’cencied of an an¬ 
cient family of Picardy, and born on the 17th of Decem¬ 
ber 1706. Among the women of her nation who have 
rendered themfelves illuftrious, fhe is certainly entitled 
to the firft rank. Before her, many had acquired repu¬ 
tation by agreeable romances, and by poetical flight?, in 
which there appeared the graces of wit, and the charms 
of fentiment. Several alio, by applying themfelves to 
the ftudy of languages, by making the beauties of others 
to pafs for their own, and by enriching their verfions with 
valuable commentaries, had deferved well of the republic 
of letters' But by compofing works.on fubjedfts which 
unfold themfelves only to men of rare genius, the mar¬ 
chionefs hasclafled herfelf with the greateft philol'ophers, 
and may be faid to have rivalled Leibnitz and Newton. 
She wrote “ Institutes of Phyfic,” a. work confidered as 
a mafterpiece of eloquence and reafoning., addrefled to 
her fon. This is a commentary on Leibnitz’s phiiolophy, 
which is often unintelligible. She died 1749, aged 43. 
CHA'TELLANY, f. \_cba>. lenie, Fr.] The diltridt un¬ 
der the dominion of a caftle.—Here are about twenty 
towns and forts of great importance, with their chatellanics 
and dependencies Dryden. 
CHATELLERAU'LT, a town of France, and princi¬ 
ple place of a diltrift, in the department of the Vienne. 
It is iituated on the Vienne, and contains about 8coo in¬ 
habitants : the principal employment is in making clocks 
and cutlery : five polls north-north-eaft of Poi&iers, and 
forty-three and a quarter foutli-fouth-weft of Paris. Lat. 
46. 49. N. Ion. 18. 12. E. Ferro. 
CHATELLE P (Le), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Cher, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diltridl of Chateau Meillant: two leagues north-north- 
eaft of Chateau Meillant. 
CHATELLU'X, a town of France, in the department 
of the Creufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Bouffac : four leagues South-weft of Bouffac. 
CHATELLU X-l e- MARCH SEU'X, a town of France, 
in the department of the Creufe, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diitribt of Bourganeuf : five miles north- 
eaft of Bourganeuf. 
CHATENAY', a town of France, in the department 
of Paris : two leagues South of Paris. 
CHATENOIS', a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine : one league weft of Scheleftat. 
CHATENOY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Volges, and chief place of a canton, in the diltri£t 
of Neufchateau : two leagues fouth ealt of Neufchateau. 
CHATHAM, one of the principal dock-yards be¬ 
longing to Great Britain, fituate in the county of Kent, 
and feparated by the river Medway from Rochefter, to 
which 
