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of brafs, in the midftof a fquare maufoleum, faced with¬ 
in and without with marble and jafper. It is opened 
every morning at nine o’clock, if two ^of the canons 
of the cathedral are prefent, when thefe kings or wile 
men are feen lying at full length, with a crown of gold 
gam idled 'with precious (tones on each of their heads. 
Their names, which are Gafpar, Melchier, and Balthafar, 
are in purple charafters on a little grate, which is adorn¬ 
ed with an infinite number of large rich pearls and preci¬ 
ous (tones, particularly an oriental topaz as big as a pi¬ 
geon’s egg, and valued at 30,000 crowns. Over againlt 
them are fix large branches of filver, with wax candles, 
which burn night and day. The bones of thefe men, we 
are told, were brought to Conftantinople by Helena mo¬ 
ther to Condantine, from thence to Milan by Eultorpius 
bifliop of that fee, and afterwards hither by archbifhop 
Rainold. In the Jefuits college are the portraits of the 
firlt thirteen generals of that order, with Ignatus Loyola 
at their head; and in the church, which is the finell in 
Cologne, are many rich datutes, with an amazing quan¬ 
tity of fine filver plate; and the utenfils for mafs are all 
of gold enriched with precious (tones. 
The Proteftants hold their religious affemblies at Mill- 
heim, a fmall town dependent on the duchy of Berg. 
Cologne acknowledges the power of the archbifhop in fpi- 
rituals, but not as a prince; and on his inauguration he 
takes an oath to maintain the rights and immunities ; 
nay, the inhabitants pretend that he cannot refide in the 
city three days without permiflion. The (freets are nar¬ 
row, winding, and gloomy, and the city, though well fi- 
tuated on the Rhine for commerce, is not populous. The 
principal manufafture is that of ribbons. The city pays 
1100 florins for the Roman month, and 405 yixdollars 
feventy-two kruitzers to the Imperial chamber. The 
military force confids of four companies of foldiers. Of 
the prefent (late of this city, a German traveller in 1798, 
gives the following account: Cologne exhibits a disheart¬ 
ening infiance of a city once fiourifliing, but now haden- 
irig to decay. The wealth, which, in the feafon of its 
profperity, it had acquired by commerce, ferved to excite 
and to feed the rapacity of the clergy 5 and it was wafted 
on ecclefiaftical eftablifhments, which, inftead of promot¬ 
ing the caule of Chriitianity, tended only to favour the 
indolence and authority of priefts, who perverted the bed 
and moll benevolent religion, fo as to render it the word 
and mod malignant. Oppreffion, intolerance, and fuper- 
dition, produced their ufual effefls ; and Cologne, indead 
of being the opulent refidence of commerce, is now the 
abode of ignorance and indolence, of bigotted monks, 
and uielels prelates. Except the advantages which re- 
fult from the paffage of goods along the Rhine, it has no 
other trade than what is carried on by a few manufac¬ 
turers of ribbands, dockings, fnuff, and laces; and even 
this is declining. The internal government of Cologne 
is, like that of mod of the imperial cities, an imitation 
of the ancient republic of Rome: but fo many abufes have 
crept into it, that it is no longer capable of promoting the 
happinefs of the people. It may judly be called a corrupt 
republic, in which the forms of a free conftitution re¬ 
main, but in which the mod falutarv regulations are either 
eluded, or fo perverted as to become detrimental to the 
public intered. Hence it has that lot, which ever befalls 
dates that are Sunken into thefe circumdances of moral 
and political degradation, it is ruled by an arbitrary arif- 
tocracy; the fenate afts as it pleafes, and all the endea¬ 
vours of the reprefentatives of the people, and even of the 
citizens themlelves, who are alfembled in their Several 
tribes, are of no avail. This is not furprifing when it is 
confidered that the people of Cologne, even when they 
oppofe the aridocracy, are not animated by any Spirit of 
true liberty, but merely by a Servile and obdinate attach¬ 
ment to ancient uSages, and to whatever has been long eda- 
bliflied : theirtenacity in this refpefl generallybidsdefiance 
to ail realon, and frequently operates to their own disad¬ 
vantage. In no place, fays the author, are the people So 
terrified at the idea of innovation, and no where are pre- 
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judices of every kind fo deeply rooted. Hence it may 
eafily be conceived how much the inhabitants are infe¬ 
rior to thole of other places, in every thing which renders 
human nature refpeflable; and how little improvement 
in Science and manners can be expected from them. The 
French republican army, after the defeat of general Clair- 
fayt, entered Cologne on the 6th of October, 1794, and 
were received rather as friends-than enemies, The inha¬ 
bitants, it is faid, prefied upon them with the mod une¬ 
quivocal tokens of joy and admiration. The magiftrates 
had previcudy fent four deputies to the French general 
to deprecate the admiffion of light troops within the wails; 
the requed was granted, and he entered onlv at the head 
of 4000 men. Very few of the inhabitants left the place; 
the perfons and property of all who remained were in 
the molt perfeft fecurity ; and the fecular clergy were 
permitted the free exercife of their functions. Sixty-five 
miles north-north-eail of Treves. Lat. 50. 58. N. loh. 28. 
26. E. Ferro. 
COLO'GNE, a town of France, in the department of 
Gers, and chief place of a canton, in the dhtrift of L’lde- 
en-Jourdain : fix leagues ealt of Auch. 
COLOGNO'LI, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Tuf- 
cany : fix miles ead of Leghorn. 
COLOKFTIA, or Kolokitia, a town of European 
Turkey, on the fouthern coad of the Morea, in a gulf to 
which it gives name : twenty-five miles (outh-fouth-ead of 
Mifitra. Lat. 36. 47. N. Ion. 40. 20. E. Ferro. 
COLOMAY', a tpwn of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Red Rudia : five miles north-ead of Halicz. 
COLOM'BES, a town of France, in the department of 
Paris, and chief place of a canton, in the dittridt of St. 
Denys : one league and a half north-wed of Paris. 
COLOMBEY' AUX BELLES FEMMES, a town of 
France, in the department of the Meurte, and chief place 
of a canton, in the diitri£l of Vezelize : fifteen miles fouth- 
wed of Nancy. 
COLOMBIER', a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didriit of Vefoul: four miles north-ead of Vefoul, and 
ten wed of Lure. 
COLOMBIER', a town of Swifierland,' in the county 
of Neufchatel: two miles fouth-wed of Neufchatei. 
CQLOMBIERE (Claude de la), a famous jefuit, born 
at St. Symphorien, near Lyons, acquired great reputa¬ 
tion by his extraordinary talents in the pulpit. He was 
preacher for two'years at the court of James II. in Eng¬ 
land, who lidened to his fermons with great pleasure, 
and, as it is faid by the Romanids, with edification ; 
but, falling under the fufpicion of being concerned in a 
confpiracy, he was banifhed England, and retired to 
Parai, where he died, at the age of forty-one, in Febru¬ 
ary 1682. His maderly eloquence difplays itfelf even in 
the extreme fimplicity of his dyle, as we are told by the 
abbe Trublet, fpeaking of his fermons, publifhed at 
Lyons in 1757, in fix volumes nmo. Thefe fermons 
breathe the mod gentle, and at the fame time the mod 
fervent, piety : he has been equalled by few in the art of 
affecting his hearers, and no enthufiad ever fell lefs into 
the familiar. The celebrated Patru, his friend, (peaks, 
of him as the bed lkilled of his time in the refinements 
and niceti^j of the French language. There are like- 
wife by him, MoralRedeftions, and Spiritual Letters. 
COLOM'BO. See Columbo. 
COLOMBRA'RO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Bafilicata : four miles and a half 
fouth-fouth-wed of Turfi. 
COLO'MIES, or Colomesitjs (Paul), born at Ro¬ 
chelle, in 1638. After having traverfed France arid Hol¬ 
land, he withdrew to England, at the foli citation of Ifaac 
Vofiius, then canon of Windsor; and died at London in 
1692. The republic of letters are indebted to him for 
many ufeful works as, 1. Gallia Orientalis, reprinted at 
Hamburg, in 1709, 4to, under the care of the learned Fa- 
bricius. 2. Hifpania & Italia Orientalis. 3. Bibl.iothe- 
que Choifie ; reprinted at Paris in 1731, with notes of 
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