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Trance. He had eftablifhed the greateft trade that had 
ever been carried on by any private fubjeft in Europe ; 
and, fince his time, Cofmo de Medicis is the only perfon 
that equalled him. He had three hundred faftors in Italy 
and the Levant. He lent two hundred thoufand crowns 
of gold to his mailer Charles VII. without which he never 
could have recovered Normandy ; and of this Charles was 
fo fenlible, that, when he made his triumphal entry into 
Kouen, he ordered Jacques Cceur to ride with the general, 
Dunois, in the proceflion. By means of his commercial 
connections, he negociated a peace between the knights 
of Rhodes and the fultan of Egypt; and he was after¬ 
wards employed by the king to perfuade Amadeus duke 
of Savoy to refign the triple crown, which had been con¬ 
ferred on him by the council of Bafil. But neither his 
excellent character, nor the fervices which he had ren¬ 
dered, could fecure the gratitude of the king, nor proteCl 
him from the malignity of courtiers, envious of his merit, 
and jealous of his greatnefs. He was faid to have con¬ 
tributed to alienate the affeClions of the king from Agnes 
Sorel; but that Ihe was either convinced of the falfehood 
of the charge, or was cordially reconciled to him, is evi¬ 
dent from her conference with him after her removal 
from court, and from the confidence which fhe repofed in 
him by appointing him her executor. His enemies, how¬ 
ever, taking advantage of this report, accufed him of 
having poifoned her; and when, by the cleared proof of 
his innocence, they were difappointed in this attempt to 
dellroy him, they laid other crimes to hi's charge, which 
feem to have been equally void of foundation. For thefe 
he was condemned to die; but, in confideration- of his 
former fervices, the king changed the fentence to a fine 
of four hundred thoufand crowns and banifhment for life. 
Inftead, however, of being exiled from the kingdom, he 
was ordered to retire to a convent of cordeliers at Beau- 
caire. He found more virtue in his clerks, than in the 
courtiers who ruined him ; the former contributed to re¬ 
lieve him under his misfortunes; and one of them par¬ 
ticularly, who had married his niece, facilitated his efcape 
out of his confinement and out of France. He .went to 
Rome, when Calixtus III. filled the papal chair, who 
gave him the command of a fleet which he' had equipped 
againft the Turks. He died on his arrival at the ifle of 
Ch'io, in 1456; therefore M. de Voltaire is miltaken in 
faying, in his ElTay on Univerfal Hiftory, and the Spirit of 
Nations, that “ he removed to Cyprus, where he continued 
to carry on his trade ; but never had the courage to return 
to his ungrateful country, though Ilrongly invited.” 
CCEftJS, a fon of Ccelus and "Terra. He was father of 
I.atona, Afteria, &c. by Phoebe. Virgil. 
CCEU'VRES, or Estrees, a town of France, in the 
department of the Ailhe, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of SoilTons : feven miles fouth-weft of.Soifl'ons. 
To COEXI'ST, -j. n. [con and exijlo, Lat.] To exill at 
the fame time.—Of fubftances no one has any clear idea, 
-farther than cf certain Ample ideas coexiffing together. 
Locks.— Followed by with. —It is fufficient that we have 
the idea of the length of any regular periodical appear¬ 
ances, which we can in our minds apply to duration, 'with 
which the motion or appearance never coexijled. Locke. 
COEXISTENCE,yi Having exiftence at the fame time 
with another: with to. Locke, who in the preceding lines 
has coexijled 'with, has here coexijience to —The measuring 
of any duration, by fome motion, depends not on the real 
caexifsence of that thing to that motion, or any other pe¬ 
riods of revolution. Locke. —More commonly followed by 
.with. —We can demonllrate the being of God’s eternal 
ideas, and their coexijience 'with him. Grew. 
COEXISTENT, adj. Having exiftence at the fame 
time with another : with to. —To the meafuring the dura¬ 
tion of any thing by time, it is not requifite that that 
thing Ihould be coexijient to the motion we meafure by, or 
any other periodical revolution. Locke. —Sometimes with. 
• —This proves no antecedent necefiity, but coexijient with 
4 he act, Bramhall. —Time is taken for fo much of dura- 
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tion as is coexijient with the motions of the great bodies 
of the univerfe. Locke. 
To COEX rE'ND, 'v. a. [raw.and extendo, Lat.] To ex¬ 
tend to the fume fpace or duration with another.—Every 
motion is, in fome fort, coextended with the body moved. 
Grew. 
COEXTEN'SION, f. The aft orftate of extending to 
the fame fpace or duration with another.—Though it be 
a fpirit, I find it is no inconvenience to have fome analo¬ 
gy, at lead of coextenfion, with my body. Hale. 
CCEY'MANS, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Albany county. New York, twelve miles below Albany. 
By the date cenfus of 1796, three hundred and eighty-nine 
of its inhabitants were eleftors. 
... COFFE'A, f. [fo named from the kingdom of Caffa 
in Africa, where it grows abundantly.] The Coffee- 
tree ; in botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of ftellatae. The generic cha- 
rafters are—Calyx : perianthium five-toothed", very fmall, 
fuperior. Corolla: one-petalled, falver-fhaped; tube cy- 
lindric, (lender, many times longer than the caiyx; bor¬ 
der flat, five-parted, longer than the tube; divifions lance- 
(haped ; fides rolled back. Stamina: filaments five, fubulate, 
placed on the tube of the corolla; an theraelinear, incumbent, 
length of the filaments. Piltillum : germ roundifii, infe¬ 
rior; ftyle Ample, length of the corolla ; ftigmas two, re- 
fledled, fubulate, thickifh. Pericarpium : berry roundifh, 
umbilicated by a one or two-ceiled punclure. Seeds: 
one or two, folitary, elliptically-hemifpherical, gibbous 
on one fide, flat on the other, where it is furrowed longi¬ 
tudinally, involved in an aril.— EJfential Character. Co¬ 
rolla, .falver-fhaped; ftamina, upon the tube; berry, in¬ 
ferior, two-feeded ; feeds arilled. 
Species. 1. Coffea Arabica, or eaftern coffee-tree: flow¬ 
ers five-cleft, berries two-feeded. The coffee-tree leldoni 
rifes more than lixteen or eighteen feet high in its native 
country, or more than ten or twelve in Europe. The 
main Hem grows upright, and is covered with a light brown 
bark. Branches horizontal, oppofite, brachiate at every 
joint, long, Ample or undivided, (lender, linooth, lax, 
and inclined to bend downwards ; the lower ones longed, 
the others gradually decreafing to the top, fo as to form 
a pyramid. Leaves oppofite, when fully grown four or 
five inches long, and an inch and a half broad in the 
middle, ovate-lanceolate, the borders waved, the furface 
of a lucid green, fmooth, beneath paler. Petiole only two 
or three lines in length ; from the fides of the midrib, 
which is a continuation of it, ifl’ue twenty or more fecre- 
tory punftures. The leaves generally continue three 
years. The flowers are produced in clufters [two to four) 
at the bafe of the leaves, fitting clofe to the branches; 
they are of a pure white, with a very grateful odour,-but 
of (hort duration; they are fucceeded by berries, which 
are firft green, but turn red when fully grown, and change 
to black when ripe. They afe of an oblong fpheroidal 
form, with a little circular area at the top, within w’hich 
is a callous.dot; the pulp is pale, infipid, and gelatinous; 
within it is two-celled, and the partition is (k(hy and 
vafcular; this is the only receptacle, and penetrates the 
cleft of the feeds. In each cell is one feed only, of an el¬ 
liptic form, convex on one fide, flat on the other, with a 
longitudinal cleft, of a pale glaucous colour, loofely co¬ 
vered with an elaftic diaphanous aril, the lubftance of 
paper. _ _ •« 
The liquor which we call coffee, prepared from the 
berry of this tree, is faid to have been drunk in Ethiopia 
from time immemorial. The Galia, a wandering nation 
of Africa, in their incurfions on Abyffinia, being obliged 
to traverfe immenfe deferts, and being alfo delirous of 
filling on the Abyffinians without warning, that they 
may be encumbered as little as poflible with baggage, 
carry nothing with them to eat, hut coffee roafted till it 
can be pulverized, and then mixed with butter into balls, 
and put into a leathern bag. One of theie, about the 
fize of a billiard-ball, keeps them, they fay, in llrength 
and 
