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LCU-Y', a city of Chinn, of the fecond rank, in Quang- 
tong : 1225 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 20. 
51. N. Ion. 109. 22.E. 
LO'VA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Velika 
eight miles north-weft of Onogka. 
"LO'VA, a town of Hungary : twenty miles weft of St. 
Crot. ^ 
LOV'AGE, /. in botany. See Ligusticum, vol. xii. 
p. 699. 
LOV'AGE (Baftard.) See Laserpitium filer, vol. xii. 
p. 256. _ . 
LGUANG', a river of France, which runs into the 
Laye five miles north of Bethune. 
LOUAR/, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad : ten 
miles weft-north-well of Kondur. 
LOV'AT, a river of Ruflia, v\ hich rifes from three lakes 
in the province of Polotfk, and runs into the Lake Ilmen, 
near Stara Rufa, in the government of Novgorod. 
LOV'AT, a town of European Turkey, in Bulgaria: 
lixty-four miles eaft of Sofia. 
LOV'AT (Lord), who was beheaded for treafon in the 
year 1745- See the article England, vol. vi. p. 718, 20. 
Mr. Bofwell tells us, that Dr. Johnfon ufed to repeat with 
great energy the following verles “ On Lord Lovat’s Exe¬ 
cution,” which appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine 
for April 1747 ; but there is no authority to fay they were 
his own. Indeed one of the belt critics of our age fug- 
gefts, that the word “ indifferently” being ufed in the 
lenfe of “without concern,” and being alfo very unpoeti- 
cal, renders it improbable that they fhould have been his 
compofition. The lines are thefe : 
PityVl by gentle minds, Kilmarnock died : 
The brave, Balmerino, were on thy fide ; 
Radcliffe, unhappy in his crimes of youth. 
Steady in what he ftill rr.iftook for truth. 
Beheld his death fo decently unmov’d, 
The foft lamented, and the brave approv’d. 
But Lovat’s fate indifferently we view, 
True to no king, to no religion true: 
No fair forgets the ruin he has done; 
JNo child laments the tyrant of his fon ; 
No tory pities, thinking what he was ; 
No whig.compaffions, for he left the cattle ; 
The brave regret not, for he was not brave ; 
The lioneft mourn not, knowing him a knave! 
Mr. B. juftly obferves, that thefe verfes are fomewhat 
too fevere on the extraordinary perfon who is the chief 
(figurein them ; for he was undoubtedly brave. His plea- 
iantry during his folemn trial was very remarkable. When 
•alked if he had any queftions to put to fir Everard Faw- 
kener, who was one oi the ftrongelt witnefles againlt him, 
be anfwered “ I only with him joy of his young wife.” 
And after fentence of death, in the horrible terms in inch 
cafes of trealor., was pronounced upon him, and he was 
retiring from the bar, he faid, “ Fare you well, my lords ; 
we fhall not all meet again in one place.” He behaved 
with perfect compofure at his execution, and called out 
Dulce et decorum eji propatria mori ; “ It is pleating and ho¬ 
nourable to die tor one’s country!” Bofwell’s Life of 
Johnfon, vol. i. 
LOVATO'VA, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland 
of Flores. Lat. 8.30. S. Ion. 122. 50. E. 
LOU'BENS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper-Garonne: twelve miles north-weft of Revel, 
and fifteen eaft of Touloufe. 
LOUBE'RE (Simon de la), fon of the judge-criminal 
of Touloufe, was born at that city in 1642. He ftudied 
in the Jefuits’ College, and difplayed the vivacity of his 
parts by an abundance of light compofitions, fuch as longs, 
vaudevilles, and verfes of gallantry, in the number of which 
he was fcarcely lurpaffed by any man of his time. He 
did not, however, negleCt more ierious purfuits; and par¬ 
ticularly attended to politics and public law. He com¬ 
menced his political career with being fecretary to M. de 
St. Romain, ambaffador to Swiflerlami. In 1687 he was 
LOU 
appointed by Louis XIV. bis envoy-extfaordinary to the 
court of Siam, between which and that of France an in- 
tercourfe had been formed by the artifices of the Jefuits. 
Loubere remained only about three months in the coun¬ 
try, during which he made it his bufinefs to collect infor¬ 
mation concerning its natural and civil hiftory, the reli¬ 
gion, manners, &c. of the people. From thefe materials, 
and the account of his voyage, he compofed a'“ Relation,” 
on his return, firft printed at Paris in 169b, 2 vols. 12010. 
which became a popular work. He was afterwards fent 
without a public character into Spain, on a fecret com- 
mifiion, fuppofed to have been that of detaching the Spa- 
nifh and Portuguefe courts from their alliance with Eng¬ 
land ; but, the defign tranfpiring, he was arretted at Ma, 
drid, and obtained his releafe otily in confequence of re- 
prifals upon fome Spaniards in France. He attached him- 
felf to the chancellor Pontchartrain, minifter cf the finances 
and marine, with whole fon he travelled. By the minif- 
ter’s influence, he was eleCfed in 1693 into the French 
academy; on which occafion la Fontaine wrote an epi¬ 
gram, the point of which was, that this election was an 
impoft laid by Pontchartrain on the academy ; whence 
his literary character may be eftimated. He afterwards 
retired to his native city, where he re-eftahliflied the jlo - 
ralgavies, which had funk into decay. His long life of 
eighty-feven years complete clofed in 1729. Loubere was 
a man of very general knowledge, acquainted with feve- 
ral languages ancient and modern, and a writer in poetry, 
hiftory, politics, mathematics, and other branches. He 
is, however, only remembered for his account of, Siam. 
Morcri- 
LOU'BES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Gironde ; twelve miles north-eaft of Bourdeaux. 
LOUBI'ERE, a town of the iflana of Dominica, on the 
weft coaft: feventeen miles foulh of Portfmouth. 
LOU'BO, a town of Benin, at the mouth of the rivet? 
Formofa : fixty miles fouth-weft of Benin. 
LOUBOUE'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Landes ; nine miles fouth-eaft of St. Sever. 
LOUBRESSAC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot: four miles weft of St. Cere. 
LOUCIiOU', a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 
zanderan : forty-five miles north-eaft of Cafbin. 
LOUD, adj. Noify : ftriking the ear vvitli great force : 
Contending on the Lefbian fhore, 
His prowefs Philomelides confefs'd, 
And loud acclaiming Greeks the viClor blefs’d. Pope. 
The numbers foft and clear. 
Gently fteal upon the ear; 
Now louder, and yet louder rife, 
And fill with fpreading founds the fkies. Pope. 
Clamorous ; turbulent.—She is loud and ftubborn ; her 
feet abide not in her houfe. Proverbs. 
LOU'DE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Loire : fix miles north-weft of Le Pity en Velay. 
LOUDEAC', a town of France, and principal place cf 
a diftrift, in the department of the North Coalts. Here is 
an iron-forge, and a manufacture of thread. It is twenty 
miles l’outh of St. Brieuc, and twenty-feven fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Guingamp. Lat. 48. 8. N. Ion. 2. 40. W. 
LOU'DES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diitri£t 
of Le Puy : fix miles north-weft of Le Puy. The place 
contains 800, and the canton 5377, inhabitants, in nine 
communes. 
LOU'DLY, adv. Ncifily ; fo as to be heard far : 
The foldier that philofopher well blam’d, 
Who long and loudly in the fchools declaim’d. Denham. 
Clamoroufiy ; with violence ot voice.—I read above fifty 
pamphlets, written by as many prefbyterian divines, loudly 
difclaiming toleration. Swift. 
LOU'DNESS, f. Noife; force of found; turbulence; 
vehemence or furioufnefs of clamour.—Had any dilafter 
made room for grief, it would have moved according to 
prudence. 
