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Sturz, a writer whofe early death was a great lofs to German 
literature : “In her countenance and in her pictures, in her 
converfation and in her actions, there invariably prevails 
but one tone, that of meek virginal dignity. She is now 
about feven-and-tvventy years of age; and, without pof- 
feffing perfefit beauty, lire is intereiting in her features as 
well as in the whole of her perfon. The character of her 
face comes under the defcription of thofe painted by Do- 
miniquino: it is noble, timid, expreffive, interefting. She 
can never be obferved with a tranftent glance, but the be¬ 
holder’s look becomes fixed; and there are moments in 
which the makes ftill deeper impreflions. When, fitting 
at her mufical glades, file fings Pergolefi’s Stabat, religi- 
outly lifts up her large languilhing eyes, pietojfi a riguar- 
dar, a muovcr parc/ii, and accompanies with a fixed look 
the moving expreffion of her vocal performance, Ihe be¬ 
comes the living image of St. Cecilia. With fuch qua¬ 
lifications, my friend, what claims has Ihe to be happy ! 
yet at prefent ihe is not fo. Her vifible melancholy is the 
offspring of an ill-placed affection, which produced an 
unhappy marriage, and lately terminated in an entire re¬ 
paration. All the enjoyments of fame, and all the com¬ 
forts oflife, are poifoned by the bufferings of the heart.” 
Angelica, having heard nothing of her liufband for fe- 
ven years, and concluding him dead, married an Italian 
painter of the name of Zucchi; and, having fpent feven- 
teen years in England, ihe in 1782 returned with him to 
her native country, and thence to Rome; where her houfe 
became the refort of genius and tafte ; all artifts and cog- 
nofcenti taking pleafure in being admitted to her conver- 
fazioni; while amateurs endowed with rank and wealth 
were happy in finding employment for her agreeable ta¬ 
lents, and in the poifeffion of her works. She died in 
1807, univerfally regretted, and was honoured by fplen- 
did public obfequies. The talents of Angelica were of a 
pleafing rather than of a fplendid kind. She excelled 
moil, as was molt juitly to be expected, In the reprefen- 
tation of female characters. Her figures of men want 
form and energy, and their faces and characters are all of 
the fame mould ; but grace, eafe, and fuavity of expref¬ 
fion, generally mark her women. Manuel des Curieux. 
KAUFFUN'GEN, a town of the principality of Heffe 
Caffel, the capital of a bailivvic : five miles fouth-eail of 
Caffel. 
KAU'GA, a town of Africa, and capital of a king¬ 
dom of the fame name, on a lake which Ptolemy calls 
Nuba Palus u in which the Niger is fuppofed to lofe itfelf : 
225 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bornou. Lat. 16. 10.N. 
Ion. 24. 40. E. 
KAUGASNIE'MI, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Savolax : thirty-five miles north of Chriftina. 
KAUHAJO'KI, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Wafa: twenty-four miles eaft-north-eaft of Chriftine- 
ftadt. 
KAUHA'VA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Wafa: thirty-feven miles ealt of Wafa. 
KAUT 1 AUT, an excellent performer on^he lute, and 
perhaps the laft eminent mufician who highly cultivated 
that jnftrument. Signor Colini was the laft good perfor¬ 
mer on the lute in England. We believe that Kauhaut 
was a German ; but he is enumerated by M. Laborde 
among French compolers. He was in the fervice of the 
prince of Conti, and compofed between 1760 aud 1764 fe- 
veral comic operas for the Theatre Italien at Paris ; and 
in 1772 was at Vienna, in high reputation as a lutenift. 
Burney. 
KAU'I, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adirbeit- 
zan : 48 miles north-weft of Tabris, and 105 fouth-ealt of 
Erivan. 
KAVIAN', a town of Arabia, in the province of Ha- 
dramaut: 116 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Amanzirifdin. 
KAUKANARO'A, a town of Hindooftan, in the pro¬ 
vince of Cattack : twenty-eight miles fouth ol Cattack. 
KAVKAS'KOI, a government of Ruflia. See Cau¬ 
casus, vol. iii. p. 923, 
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KAU'KE, a river of Pruffia, which runs into the Cu- 
rifeh Haff eight miles weft of Lappinen. 
KAUKEJBAN', a town of Arabia, and capital of a dif- 
triCt, in the province of Yemen, governed by a fcheik; 
fituated on a mountain, almoft inacceftible: eighteen miles 
weft of Sana, and feventy-two fouth-fouth-eaft of Chamar. 
KAUKE'NEN, a town of Pruftian Lithuania, on the 
Kauke : twelve miles weft-north-weft of Tilfit. 
KAU'KI,yi in botany. See Mimusops. 
KAUMA'RI, in Hindoo mythology, is the fakti or con- 
fort of Kumara, or Kartikya, and is reprefented riding on 
a peacock, with a lance in her hand. Moor's Hindoo Pan¬ 
theon. 
KAUM'BOLE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ellore : twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ellore. 
KAUNGUR'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore; 
fix miles fouth of Nagorcote. 
KAU'NITZ, a town of Moravia, in Brunn: eight 
miles fouth-weit of Brunn. 
KAU'NITZ, a town of Moravia, in Znaym: fix miles 
fouth-weft of Crumau, and eleven north-north-weft of 
Znaym. 
KAU'NITZ (Wenzel Anthony), a prince of the holy 
Roman empire, count of Rietberg, knight of the Golden 
Fleece, of the royal order of St. Stephen, See. was born in 
Vienna in 1711. Being the fifth fon of nineteen children, 
he was deftined for the church ; but, as the greater part of 
his brothers had either died a natural death or fallen in 
the army, he quitted the ecciefiaftical profeflion to enter 
into the fervice of the ftate, in which his anceftors had 
made a confiderable figure. He laid the foundation of his 
ftudies at Vienna; in 1737 was madeacounfellorof ftate, 
and two years after, imperial commiftioner at the diet of 
Ratitbon. As the emperor Charles VI. died the year fol¬ 
lowing, and as his commiffion thereby ceafed, he retired 
to his eftates in Moravia ; but he did not long remain un¬ 
employed, being appointed, in the year 1742, minifter 
plenipotentiary to the court of Sardinia, which had enter¬ 
ed into a new alliance with Aultria. This treaty was 
brought to a conclufion by Kaunitz; and the favourable 
fpecimenof his talents which he gave on this occafion in¬ 
duced the court to confer upon him offices of more im¬ 
portance. On the marriage of the archduke Charles of 
Lorrain with the archduchefs Mary Anne, governefs gene¬ 
ral of the Netherlands, in 1744, Kaunitz was appointed 
to a place of honour during the ceremony; and at the 
fame time made minifter for the kingdoms of Hungary and 
Bohemia, in the room of count Konigfegge. In the 
month of October he went to Bruffels, to undertake the 
chief management of public affairs, which at that time re¬ 
quired a man of talents, as the king of France had alrea¬ 
dy declared war, and the Netherlands were the firft part 
of the emperor’s dominions expofed to the attack of the 
French army. In February 1745, was appointed mi¬ 
nifter plenipotentiary; but in 1746, the French having 
taken poffefiion of great part of the Netherlands, he re¬ 
paired to Aix-la-Chapelle; and, on account of his bad 
health, repeated a requeft to the emprefs for leave to re- 
fign, which heat length obtained. He however foon again 
made his appearance on the political theatre; when the 
preliminaries of peace were figned at Aix-la-Chapelle, in 
1748. When the peace was concluded, the emprefs Maria 
Therefa appointed him envoy to Paris, where he refided 
till the end of the year 1752, efteemed and refpefted by 
the court and the whole nation. On his return to Vien¬ 
na, in 1753, Kaunitz entered into the office of chancellor 
of ftate, in addition to that of fupreme dictator of the af¬ 
fairs of the Netherlands and of Lombardy, with the rank 
of minifter of ftate, which he retained till his death. In 
the year 1764 he was raifed to the dignity of prince of the 
empire, with defeent to his heirs male. The moil impor¬ 
tant fervice performed by Kaunitz as a minifter was the 
treaty of alliance between France and Auftria, concluded 
in 1756, which put an end to that lioftility which had pre¬ 
vailed for feveral centuries between thefe two countries. 
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