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Rate, the abbe continued attached to the interefls of his 
patron, and would not defert him. When he was told 
that he would lof'e his place by his. conduit, he replied, 
“ My place is with a virtuous perfecuted man who has 
been my benefaftor; and that I (hall never lofe.” At 
length, having filled the hiftorical chair with great appro¬ 
bation, he returned to France, and was appointed precep¬ 
tor to the duke d’Enghien. In this fituation he died, 
A.D. 1785, aged 59. 
The abbe Miilot did not Ihine in company; he was 
cold and referved in his manner; but every thing he laid 
was judicious, and exactly in point. D’Alembert laid, 
that of all his acquaintance the abbe Miilot had “ le moins 
de preventions, et le morns de pretentions ; the feweft pre¬ 
dices and the leaft pretenlions.” He compofed feveral 
works, which are digelied with great care, and written in 
a pure, limple, and natural, ltyle. The principal are, 1. 
Elemens de 1 ’HiRoire de France, depuis Clovis jufqu’a 
Louis XV. 3 vols. izmo. Querlon thought this the befi 
abridgment which we have of the liifiory of France, and 
preferred it to that of the prefident Henault. 2. Elemens 
de l’Hifioire d'Angleterre, depuis fon Origine l'ous les 
Romains, jufqu’a George II. 3 vols. 12100. 3. Elemens 
de l’Hifioire Univerfelle, 9 vols. izmo. 4. L'Hifioire des 
Troubadours, 3 vols. 121110. compiled from the manu- 
fcripts of M. de Sainte Palaie. This work appears rather 
tedious, becaufe it treats of men almofi unknown, and 
molt of them deferving to be fo. What is there quoted 
from the Provencal poets is not at all interelfing; and, 
according to the obfervation of a man of wit, “ it lerves no 
purpol'e to fearch curioufly into a heap of old ruins, while 
we have modern palaces to engage our attention.” 5. 
Memoires Politiques et Militaires, pour fervir a l’Hifloire 
de Louis XIV. et de Louis XV. compofed from original 
papers collefted by Adrian Maurice due de Noailles, 
marlhal of France; 6 vols. 12010. 6. He publilhed alfo 
feveral Difcourfes, read before the French Academy, of 
which he was a member; and, 7. A Tranflation of l'eleft 
Harangues from the Latin Hiflorians. The abbe Miilot 
in his hiflorical works Ihows himfelf fo far unprejudiced 
by his ecclefiaflical profeflion, that fome have charged 
him with being too much difpofed to dwell on the vices 
and ul'urpations of the clergy. This, however, is done 
in the fpirit of truth and candour. He flatters, indeed, 
neither priefts norflatefmen; and he relates more inflances 
of vicious than of virtuous aftions, becaufe the one are 
infinitely more common than the other : but he appears 
to be guided more by fincerity and a love of truth, than by 
that partial pliilolophy which blames the Chriflian reli¬ 
gion for thole evils which it condemns. Ency. Brit. 
MIL'LOWITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Saatz : ten miles weR of Saatz. 
MILL'STREET, a poR-town of Ireland, in the county 
of Cork, chiefly remarkable for a good inn, at which tra¬ 
vellers to Killarney ufually pafs a night. It is 134 miles 
fouth-wefl from Dublin. 
MILL'TOWN, a town of the Rate of Delaware : two 
miles from Wilmington. 
MILL'TOWN, a town of Pennfylvania, on the Suf- 
quehanna: fourteen miles north-welt of Sunbury. 
MILL'TOWN, a town of New Jerfey : 198 miles north- 
eafl of Walhington. 
MIL'LUM, a village in Cumberland, and the moR 
fouthern lordlhip in the county, lying between the rivers 
Dudden and Elk, and extending from the wefl fea to the 
mountains above the manor of Thwaits. Here is an old 
caRle, and a Rately park. On the wefl fide of this caflle, 
above the park, riles gradually a very high mountain, 
called Blackcomb; from the top of which may be feen 
feveral mountains in North Wales, feven Englilh coun¬ 
ties, and as many in Scotland, together with the Ille of 
Man. This mountain, and the ridge of hills which run 
north-wefl from thence, are efleemed the befl Iheep-heaths 
in the country. The foil is fertile; there are iron-mines. 
Vol. XV. No. 1052. 
MIL 897. 
The place is fo thinly inhabited, that the market has been 
long dificontinued. Here is a charity-fchool. 
MILL'WOOD, a town of Virginia: fixty-eight miles 
well of Walhington. 
MIL'LY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Seine and Oile: nine miles wefl of Fontainebleau, and 
twelve eafl of Eflampes. 
MILNE (Rev. Colin, LL.D.), a popular preacher and 
celebrated botanifl, was born in the year 1743. After 
leaving college, he became reftor of North Chapel, Suf- 
fex, evening preacher to the City of London Lying-in 
Hofpital, and lecturer of the Old and New Churches, 
Deptford. In the year 1770 he publilhed a Botanical 
Dictionary, nmo. and afterwards wrote Inflitutes of Bo¬ 
tany, in two parts, 4to. a Supplement to his Botanical 
Dictionary; and vol. i. of Indigenous Botany, 8vo. a moR 
ufeful book, publilhed, in 1793, in allociation with Mr. 
Alexander Gordon. In 1775, he publilhed “The Bold- 
nels and Freedom of Apoflolical Evidence, recommended 
to the Imitation of Miniflers: at the death of the reve¬ 
rend and learned James Bate, M. A. late ReCtor of St. 
Paul’s, Deptford.” In 1778, Dr. Milne preached the an- 
niverfary lermon for the Royal Humane Society, being 
the fourth that was preached for that excellent inflitu- 
tion, which has alfo fince been indebted to him for many 
fimilar exertions in its behalf. Befides other Angle Dil- 
courles, he alfo publilhed a volume of Sermons, in 1780. 
In Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Cen¬ 
tury, is given a curious illuflration of the art and myitery 
of Bible-making, as not unfrequently praCtifed by lpecu- 
lating bookfellers. It is the narrative of Dr. Robert San¬ 
ders (a laborious compiler of popular books), who had 
been employed to write a Commentary on the Bible, but 
whofe name, as he was not a clergyman, could not with, 
much propriety be prefixed to it. Among other refpefta- 
ble clergyman who refufed to fanftion with their name 
and reputation an undertaking with which they were ta 
have no other connexion, was Dr. Milne, who honeflly 
faid, that, although he had no doubts concerning Dr. San¬ 
ders’s abilities, yet he would not have his name affixed to 
what he was not to write. Dr. Milne died at Deptford, 
Oft. 2, 1815, in the 72d year of his age. Gent. Mag. 
MIL'NTHORP, or Milthorp, a fea-port and market- 
town in Weflmoreland, fituated near the mouth of the 
Can, or Ken, five miles from Kendal, and 251 from Lon¬ 
don. It confifls chiefly of one flreet, which is pretty well 
built; and at the eafl end there are fome good houles, in 
pleafant and open fituations. This town is the only fea- 
port in the county, and has feveral velfels belonging to it, 
which trade principally to Liverpool, Port Glafgow, and 
Annan in Scotland. Here are three rope-yards, two pa¬ 
per-mills, one flax-mill, and one cotton-mill. The mar¬ 
ket is on Friday ; and there is an annual fair on old May- 
day. A very handfome bridge is thrown acrofs the river 
Betha, which flows through the town. 
The country around this town is pjeafingly diverfified 
with hill and dale, and embellifhed by a variety of elegant 
manfions. Of thefe that of Dallam Tower, the feat of 
Daniel Willon, efq. is the mofl confpi.cuous. It is fitu¬ 
ated at the foot of a hill, which riles rapidly from its 
bale, and is covered to the fummit by a profufion of trees. 
In front extends a fine park, adorned with wood, the 
ground of which riles as it recedes from the houfe. At 
Beerham-hill, near this maniion, is a waterfall on the river 
Beele, well deferving the attention of the curious travel- 
ler. HouJ'man's Topographical Description of Cumberland, 
Wejlmoreland, fc. 
MI'LO, a celebrated athlete of Crotona in Italy. His 
father’s name was Diotimus. He early accuRomed him¬ 
felf to carry the greatefl burdens, and by degrees became 
a prodigy of Arength. It is faid that he carried on his 
fhoulders a young bullock, four years old, for above forty 
yards ; and afterwards killed it with one blow of his fifl, 
and ate it up in one day. He was feven times crowned at 
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