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fo many colanders to feparate feveral juices From the blood. 
Ray. 
The brains from nofe and mouth, and either ear. 
Came bluing forth, as through a colander 
The curdled milk. Dryden. 
COTAPIS, or Colops, in ancient geography, a river 
of Liburnia, which, after a winding north-ealt coaft, falls 
into the Savus, at the Infula Segeftica: now the Culpe, 
the boundary of the Alps, running through Croatia into 
the Save; Colapiani, the people living cn it. Pliny. 
COTAR, a town of Hindooftan, in the My fore coun¬ 
try : thirty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of Bangalore, and 
135 weft of Madras. It is famous for the magnificent 
and extenfive maufoleum of Nadim Saeb, father of Hyder 
Aii. Lat. 13.9. N. Ion. 78. 19. E. Greenwich. 
COLARBA'SIANS, or Colorbasians, /. A fet of 
Chriftians in thefecond century, fo called from their leader 
Colarbafus, a difciple of Valentinus, who, with Marcus, 
another dilciple of the fame mailer, maintained the whole 
plenitude and perfection of truth and religion, to be con¬ 
tained in the Greek alphabet; and that it was upon this 
account that Chrift was called the alpha and omega. This 
feft was a branch of the Valentinians. 
COLARDEAU' (Charles Pierre), born at Janville, in 
France, in 1735. He made his firft appearance in the lite¬ 
rary world, in 1758, by a poetical tranflation of Pope’s 
Eloifa to Abelard; in which he has retained the warmth 
of the original, with the richnefs of its images. His tra¬ 
gedies of Altarbe and Calilto, the one performed in 1758, 
and the other in 1760, were not fo luccefsful. The com¬ 
plexion of them is indeed forrowful and even gloomy, but 
never tragical. The Temple of Gnidos, and two of the 
blights of Young, put into French verfe, the Epiftle to 
M. Duhamel, the Poem of Prometheus, which appeared 
afterwards, afford many agreeable particulars, and are in 
general verfified in a loft and harmonious ftyle. Thefe 
feveral performances excited the attention of the French 
academy, who elefted him a member at the beginning of 
1776; but he was denied the power of pronouncing his 
inaugural difcourfe: lie was (hatched away by death, in 
the flower of his age, the 7th of April in the fame year. 
His works were collected in two vols. 8vo. Paris, 1779. 
COLATUS, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Gohud : thirty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Narwa, and 125 
fouth of Agra. 
COLA'TION,/. [from colo , Lat.] The art of filtering 
or draining. 
COLAT'TO, a town of Italy, belonging to the ftate of 
Venice, in the Trevifan : fix miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Ceneda. 
COLA'TURE,/. [from colo, Lat.] The art of drain¬ 
ing; filtration. The matter (trained. 
COL'BA, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and territory of Neudadt: three miles weft-fouth- 
weft of Newdadt. 
COL'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony and Farther Pomerania, fituated at the mouth 
of the Perfante, near the Baltic; remarkable for its falt- 
works, belonging to Pruflia. It was befieged by the Ruf¬ 
fians, in 1758, without 1‘uccefs; but taken by them in 
1761 : ninety-eight miles north-north-ead of Kultrin, 
and 124 north-ealt of Berlin. Lat. 54. 8. N. Ion. 33. 13.E. 
Ferro. 
COL'BERT (John Baptift), marquis of Segnelai, a ce¬ 
lebrated ftatefman of France, born at Paris in 1619. His 
grandfather is faid to have been a wine-merchant, and his 
father at fird followed the fame occupation ; but after¬ 
wards traded in cloth and fdk. Colbert was early in- 
druCled in the arts of merchandize, and afterwards be¬ 
came clerk to a notary. In 1648, his relation John Bap- 
tid Colbert, lord of St. Pouange, preferred, him to the 
fervice of Michael le Tellier, fecretary of date, whofe 
fider he had married; and here he dilcovered fuch dili¬ 
gence and exattnefs in executing all the commifiions that 
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were entrufted to his care, that he quickly grew diftin- 
guilhed. One day his mader feat him to cardinal Maza¬ 
rine, who was then at Sedan, with a letter written by the 
"queen-mother; and ordered him to bring it back after 
that minilter had leen it. Colbert carried the letter, and 
would not return without it, though the cardinal treated 
him roughly, ufed feveral arts to deceive him, and obliged 
him to wait for it feveral days. Some time after, the car¬ 
dinal, returning to court, and wanting one to write his 
agenda or memoranda, defired le Tellier to furnifn him 
with a fit perfon for that employment; and Colbert be¬ 
ing prefented to him, the cardinal had fome remembrance 
of him, and defired to know where he had feen him. Col¬ 
bert was afraid of putting him in mind of Sedan, left the 
remembrance of his importunacy in demanding the queen’s 
letter, (hould renew the cardinal’s anger. But his emi- 
nency was fo far from dilliking him for his faithfulnels. 
to his late mafter, that he received him on condition that 
he (hould ferve him with the like zeal and fidelity. 
Colbert applied himfelf wholly to the advancement of 
the cardinal’s interefts, and gave him fo many marks of 
his diligence and (kill, that he made him his intendant. 
He accommodated himfelf fo dextroufly to the inclina¬ 
tions of that minifter, by retrenching his fuperfluous ex- 
pences, that he was entrufted with the management of 
that gainful trade of felling benefices and governments. 
It was by Colbert’s counfel that the cardinal obliged the 
governors of frontier places to maintain their garrifons 
with the contributions they exafted. He was fent to 
Rome to negociate the reconciliation of cardinal de Retz, 
for which the pope had fhewed fome concern ; and to per- 
fuade his liolinefs to confent to the difincamerating of Caf- 
tro, according to the treaty concluded with his predecef- 
for Urban VIII. Upon the whole, Mazarine had fo high 
an opinion of Colbert’s abilities, and withal fuch a regard 
for his faithful fervices, that at his death, whiclPhappened 
in 1661, he earneftly recommended him to Louis XIV. as 
the moll proper peilon to regulate the finances, which at 
that time ltood in much need of reformation. Louis ac¬ 
cepted the recommendation, and made Colbert intendant 
of the finances. He applied himfelf to their regulation, 
and fucceeded; though it procured him many enemies, 
and fome affronts. France is alio obliged to this minif¬ 
ter for eltablilhing at that time her trade with the Eaft and 
Weft Indies; a great defign, and from which (he reaped 
innumerable advantages. 
In 1664, he became fuperintendant of the buildings; 
and from that time applied himfelf fo earneftly to the en¬ 
larging and adorning of the royal edifices, that they are 
at prelent fo many monuments of his talfe for architec¬ 
ture ; witnefs the palace of the Thuillerles, the Louvre, 
St. Germain, Fontainbleau, and Chambord. Verfailles, 
it may be faid, he railed from the ground. It was a ken¬ 
nel, where Louis XIII. kept his hunting equipage; now 
a palace fit for the greateft monarch. But royal palaces 
were not Coibert’s only care; he formed feveral defigns 
for increafing the beauty and convenience of the capital; 
and he did it with great magnificence and grandeur. 
The public are obliged to this minifter for the eltablilh- 
ment of the academy for painting and fculpture, in 1664. 
To Colbert, alfo, the lovers of naval knowledge are obliged 
for the ere&ion of the academy of fciences, and for the 
royal obfervatory at Paris, which was firft inhabited by 
Calfini. But thefe are not the only obligations that 
France has to this minifter: (he owes to him all the ad¬ 
vantages fhe receives by the union of the two feas; a pro¬ 
digious work, begun in 1666, and finifhed in 16S0. Col¬ 
bert was alfo very intent upon regulating the police, and 
ellablifhing the order, decency, and well-being of fociety. 
He undertook to reform the courts of juftice,. and to put 
a Hop to the ufurpation of noble titles, which was then 
very common in Fiance. 
In 1669, he was made fecretary of ftate, and entrufted 
with the management of affairs relating to the lea ; and 
his performances in this new province were anfwerable to 
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