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MONG-TSE', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Yun-nan : thirty miles eaft-fouth-eall of Ling-nan. 
MONG-TSIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Ho-nan : thirteen miles north-eaft of Ho-nan. 
MONGAEL'LI, a feaport of Madagafcar, on the weft 
coaft. Lat. 13. 55. S. 
MONGAGU'BA, a river of Bralil, which runs into 
the Atlantic in lat. 9. 20. S. Ion. 34. 56. W. 
MONGAL'LO, or Gallo, a kingdom of Africa, fitu¬ 
ated on the north of Mocaranga, with a capital of the 
fame name, fituated on a river called Mongallo, which 
•runs into the Indian Ocean in lat. 10. 5. S. Ion. 39. 14. E. 
MONGALO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna¬ 
tic : fifteen miles weft of Gingee. 
MONGAN', a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat. 41.46. N. 
Ion. 124. 34. E. 
MONGAN', a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat. 41.46. N. 
ion. 123. 54. E. 
MONGANO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda : 
twelve miles weft-north-weft; of Rachore. 
MON'GAS, a country of Africa, fituated to the weft 
of Sofala; chiefly remarkable for the quantity of gold it 
yields, particularly at Maflapa and Maninas, and the 
mountain of Ophir, whence, it is believed, Solomon’s 
treafures were brought. At Maflapa the Portuguefe are 
fettled, under the authority of the government of Mo¬ 
zambique. 
MONGASA'HA, ft town of Hindooftan, in Oude: 
twenty-eight miles north of Kairabad. 
MGN'GATZ. See Munkacs. 
MONGAU'LT (Nichols-Hubert de), a man of letters, 
. was born at Paris in 1674. He entered, at an early age, 
. into the congregation of the Fathers of the Oratory; and 
was fent to ftudy philofophy at Mans. The fyftem then 
taught in the lchools was that of Ariftotle, which, as 
Mongault could not comprehend, he did not fcruple to 
rejeft, and adopted that of Delcartes, the principles of 
which he openly maintained in public exhibitions. His 
want of health obliged him to retire, in 1699, to the col¬ 
lege of Burgundy at Paris, where he finilhed a tranflation 
of Herodian, which was publiffied in the following year. 
In a few months afterwards, he publilhed the firft volume 
of a tranflation of the Letters of Cicero to Atticus; and, 
almoft immediately after, Colbert, archbifirop of Touloufe, 
gave him apartments in his palace. In a ffiort time, the 
fuperintendant Foucault, who wiffied for the converlation 
and fervices of a man of learning, prevailed upon Mon¬ 
gault to relide with him, and obtained for him admiffion 
into the Academy of Inicriptions and Belles Lettres. In 
X710, the duke of Orleans appointed him tutor to his fon, 
the duke of Chartres. Of this appointment, Duclos thus 
fpeaks in his Memoirs of the Regency : “The abbe Mon¬ 
gault, a man of parts and erudition, a theologian who 
thought freely on fubjefls of religion, was the preceptor 
of the regent’s fon. Whether he thought his pupil inca¬ 
pable of an enlightened fyftem of morality, or was of 
opinion that princes could not be fubjefted to too power¬ 
ful reftraints, he endeavoured to imprefs his charge with 
thole religious principles which excite the greateft degree 
of terror.” The refult was, that the young prince plunged 
into the aufterities of monkilh devotion, in which he per- 
fifted to his death. The abbe’s fervices, however, were 
fo acceptable-to the Orleans family, that feveral church- 
benefices and civil places were conferred upon him. He 
palled fome years of his life under the dominion of a me¬ 
lancholy which made him view every thing on the dark 
fide; but, when free from this complaint, his converfation 
was agreeable and inftruftive. His tranflation of the Let¬ 
ters of Cicero to Atticus, in 6 vols. was publilhed in 1714, 
and again in 1738. It is faithful and elegant; and, being 
enriched with a number of learned notes, it did equal ho¬ 
nour to his tafte and his erudition. The French Aca¬ 
demy admitted him as a member in 1718. He died in 
•if46., at the age of feventy-two. Belides liis.traoflatioiis, 
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he publilhed two difiertations in the Memoirs of the Aca¬ 
demy of Inicriptions. Moreri. 
MONGEL'LA, a fmall illand in the Perfian Gulf, near 
Cape Bardiftan. Lat. 27. 37. N. 
MON'GER, f [Sax. a trader, from mangian, to trade.] 
A dealer; a feller. It is feldom or never ufed alone, or 
otherwife than after the name of any commodity to ex- 
prefs a feller of that commodity ; as, a fijh-monger; and 
l’ometimes a meddler in any thing; as, a vAore-monger, a. 
news-monger. Dr. Johnlon.—Lye makes a fimilar remark; 
overpalfing the ufe of monger by itfelf; which Wicliffe, I 
think, fomewhere ufes in the good fenfe of a trader, or 
merchant; and which Ben Jonfon certainly employs in 
the contemptuous meaning of a low trader. Todd. 
This Chanon has a brave pate of his own, 
A fliaven pate! and a right monger, y’faith ! 
This was his plot! B. JonJ'un's Tale of a Tub . 
MON'GERAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude; fifty- 
five miles north-weft of Manickpour. 
MONG'HAM (Great), a village in Kent, one mile 
and a half from Deal. It is a conftderable living, in the 
gift of the archbilhop of Canterbury; and has a fair on 
the 29th of Oftober. Mongham was given to the church 
by Eadbert king of Kent, for a fupply of diet and apparel 
to the monks of St. Auguftine, and upon the diftblution 
of the convent it was annexed to the crown. Henry VIII. 
in the third year of his reign, granted it to the dean and 
chapter of Chrift-cliurch, Canterbury; they conveyed it 
by leafe to John Fropehunt, who fold it to Mr. Gibbs? 
and in the year 1659 it belonged to the family of Cray- 
ford; which family, in the reign of Edward IV. had re¬ 
ceived fingular honours for the many fervices they per¬ 
formed during the difputes between the houfes of York, 
and Lancafter- There appears to have been in this parilhs 
a manfion-houfe called Fogg’s Court, which belonged to, 
and had its name from, a family of that name. Thomas 
Fogg, efq. ferjeant-porter of Calais, was the laft of that 
name who poffefled it.—Barville lies partly in this pariffi, 
and was for fome centuries in the pofleffion of the Cray- 
fords.—Little Barville, which is now a part of Great Bar¬ 
ville, was formerly a feparate eftate, and for many years 
belonged to a family called Fix ; which name it appears 
they obtained from fome office which they filled about 
the altar, and the utenfils which belonged thereto, among 
which the pix was the moll confiderable, as being the con- 
fervatory of the hoft; and fo, i pixide nomen clietium, it 
was joined to Great Barville about the latter end of the 
reign of queen Elizabeth. 
Shoulden is a ftraggling village about half a mile from 
Mongham. It is a fmall living in the gift of the arch¬ 
bilhop of Canterbury, and the incumbent is commonly 
the reftor of Northbourne alfo. The two principal feats, 
or rather farms, are—Cottington-houfe, the property of 
Bethlem Hofpital; and Hull, formerly belonging to the il- 
luftrious family of Ratling, of Nonington. Thomas de 
Ratling poflefled it in the 20th year of Edward III. and 
at his death bequeathed it to his fon, fir Richard de Rat¬ 
ling. It went from him to John de St. Lawrance, in the 
reign of Richard II. who left it to John Spicer. In the 
21ft of Henry VI. it fell into the hands of John Brelland, 
who, in the reign of Henry IV. fold it to Mr. Phineux, 
of Swinkfield. It was afterwards, in the beginning of the 
reign of Henry VIII. bought by George Monins, elq. from 
whom it went to the Crayfords, of Great Mongham. 
Three miles from this place is Northbourne-houfe, 
which was formerly an ornament to that part of Kent. 
The plealure-grounds and fertile meads around this fine 
oldmanfion confided of nearly thirty acres, encompafled 
with a wall which Hill remains. The gardens rofe gradu¬ 
ally into divers terraces, which had been laid out with 
great art and expenfe for the cultivation of fruits and 
vegetables; but are now a forfaken wildernefs. A large 
farm-houfe, and, owe of the moft fpacious barns in this or 
any 
