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feveral different languages. After this, Du Pleflis entered 
into the fervice of the king of Navarre, afterwards Hen¬ 
ry IV. of France, and was admitted into his raoft intimate 
councils ; and by this ftep he was enabled to render effen- 
tial fervice to the proteftant caufe. In 1577, he was lent 
by his mailer on an embaffy to the queen of England, to 
explain to her the jullice of their caufe, and folicit pecu¬ 
niary affiftance, which he obtained to the amount of eighty 
thoufand crowns. During his continuance in England, 
he was enabled to perform very acceptable fervices, as well 
for the United Provinces as for the Low Countries. He 
devoted his leifure moments to the diligent perufal of the 
Greek and Latin fathers, and compoled his treatife “ Con¬ 
cerning the Church,” which was publilhed in 1577. In 
the following year the prince of Orange was called by the 
States-general to Antwerp; and Du Pleffis, having taken 
leave of Elizabeth, went to that city to affilt at the delibe¬ 
rations. But in the midft of his political exertions he 
compofed, and in 1 jSo publifhed at Antwerp, a work en¬ 
titled “ On the Truth of the Chriftian Religion,” in 
which he fhowed himfelf a very able combatant of atheillic 
and other erroneous principles; and in the following year, 
to render his labours more generally ufeful, he tranf- 
Iated it into the Latin language. In 1582, he left Ant¬ 
werp for Paris ; in a few years afterwards was appointed 
governor of Saumur; and upon the acceffion of Henry IV. 
he was made counfellor of Hate. In 1593, when the king 
intimated his intentions of conforming to the catholic 
church, Du Pleffis did all in his power to dilfuade him ; 
and, when he found it impoffible to Live him from the 
difgrace which he believed muff attach to his name by 
fuch a dereliction of principle, he withdrew from the 
court, and occupied himfelf in his Itudies, in the duties 
attached to his government, and in exertions for the 
protellant caufe. He took an aftive part in all the nego¬ 
tiations between the king and his lubjeCts of the reformed 
communion, till the celebrated ediCl of Nantes was ob¬ 
tained in 1598. He alfo diltinguiffied himfelf by his writ¬ 
ings as an able apologift for the protellants and their prin¬ 
ciples. In the year 1596, he publifned a work, intitled, 
“ The juft Procedures of the Profefl'ors of the Reformed 
Religion;” in which he vindicates the protellants from 
the charge of being the caufe of the troubles of the times, 
and retorts it upon thole who unjuftly denied them that 
liberty which their fervices and fufferings demanded. In 
1598, he publilhed his work “ On the Inllitution, Prac¬ 
tice, and DoClrine, of the Eucharifl in the Ancient 
Church,” folio ; of which 'an enlarged edition appeared 
in 1604.. This work gave occaiion to a conference in the 
year 1600, before the king and all the court at Fontaine¬ 
bleau, between Du Perron, then bilhop of Evreux, and 
afterwards cardinal, and M. du Pleffis; which catholic 
writers reprefent to have terminated in favour of the bi¬ 
lhop, while the protellants, on the contrary, claim the 
laurels lor our author. In 1607, he publilhed his treatile 
intitled, “ The Myller^ of Iniquity, or the Hiltory of 
the Papacy,” folio ; in which he points out the progreffive 
Heps by which the popes role to the height of their ty¬ 
ranny, according to the predictions of the apoftles, as 
well as the oppofition which, from time to time, they have 
met with from good men of all nations. This work,-as 
well as moll of his other performances, .was firft printed 
in French, and afterwards in Latin. About the fame 
time he publilhed, “ An Exhortation to the Jews con¬ 
cerning the Meffiah,” in which his Hebrew literature is 
advantageoully difplayed ; and •“ Meditations” on diffe¬ 
rent palfages of Scripture. He was alfo the author of 
Lome other pieces ; and from his papers have been pub¬ 
lilhed curious, inftruClive, and interefting, “ Memoirs, 
&c. confiding of Difcourles, InftruClions, Letters, Dif- 
patches,” in 4 vols. 4to. In the year 1621, Louis XIII. 
having determined to make war upon the protellants, * 
M. du Pleffis remonftrated ftrongly by letters againft the 
injufti.ee and impolicy of fuch conduit. For his honelt 
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freedom he was deprived of his government of Saumur; 
upon which he retired to his barony of La Foreft-fur- 
Sevre in Poitou, where he died in 1623, about the age of 
feventy-four, juftly regretted by the protellants, and ef- 
teemed by the catholics, not only on account of his ex¬ 
traordinary abilities and qualifications, but for the ufeful 
and amiable private virtues that adorned his character. 
Gen. Biog. 
MORNBACIPLIN, a river of Wurtemberg, which 
runs into the Nagold two miles north of Liebenzell. 
MO'RNE au DIA'BLE, a cape on thq well coalt of 
Hifpaniola. Lat. 19. 32.N. Ion. 72.47. W. 
MO'RNE-G AROU', a very rem. rkable volcanic moun¬ 
tain on the illand of St. Vincent’s in the Well Indies. It 
was vifited by Mr. Tames Anderfon, lurgeon in the year 
1784. See Phil. Tranf. 1785. 
MO'RNE le GRO'S, a town of the illand of Hifpaniola, 
on tiie north coalt: twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Port Paix. 
MO'RNE PAGOU'A, a cape on the eall coaft of Do¬ 
minica. Lat. 15. 39. N. Ion. 61.19. W. 
MO'RNE ROU'GE, a town on the north coaft of the 
illand of Hifpaniola: feven miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Cape Frangois. 
MO'RNE St. NICH'OLAS. See Cape St. Nicholas. 
MOR'NING, f. [from mum.] The firft part of the 
day, from the firft appearance of light to the end of the 
firll fourth part of the fun’s daily courfe.—What lhall be¬ 
come of us before night, who are weary fo early in the 
morning? Bp. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. 
By the fecond hour in the morning 
Delire the earl to fee me. Shake/peare'$ Richard III. 
MOR'NING, adj. Being in the early part of the day. 
—Your goodnefs is as a morning cloud, and as the early 
dew it goeth away. Hof. vi. 5. 
Rife before the fun, 
Then make a breakfaft of the morning dew. 
Serv’d up by nature on Lome grafiy hill; 
You’ll find it neftar. Mafngcr. 
MOR'NING-GOW'N, f. A loofe gown worn before 
one is formally dreffed.—Seeing a great many in rich 
morning-gowns, he was amazed to find that perfons of 
quality were up fo early. Addifon. 
MOR'NING-STA'R, J’. The planet Venus, when a 
little to the weltward of the Sun ; that is, when lhe riles 
a little before him. In this fituation flue is called, bjr the 
Greeks Pkojphorus, by the Latins Lucifer, See. Chambers. 
—Any one of the planets rifing before the Sun: 
Bright as doth the morning-Jlar appear, 
Out of the eall, with flaming locks bedight, 
To tell the dawning day is drawing near. SpenJ'er. 
Morning-Star, or Morgan-Stern, a weapon for¬ 
merly uled in the defence of trenches. It was a large 
flaff banded about with iron like the lhaft of a halbert, 
having an iron belt at the end with crofs iron lpikes. 
MOR'NSHEIM, a town of Bavaria, in the principality 
of Aichftatt: fix miles w^ft of Aichftatr. 
MO'RO, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Chumbal about ten miles north-eaft from Suifopour, in 
the circar of Rantampour. 
MO'RO, a mountain of Piedmont : fourteen miles 
well of Domo d’Ofceila. 
MO'RO CAS'rLE, a fortrefs on the illand of Cuba, 
to defend the Havannaii. 
MOROC', orMAROc , f. A beautiful bird of Abyffinia, 
deferibed by Mr. Bruce, who thinks its name is derived 
from mar honey, though lie lays that he never heard it 
was further concerned in the honey than deftroying bees. 
It is probably the Cuculus indicator, vol. v. p. 440, 1. 
M'OROCAR'PUS, J\ in botany, the name given by 
Ruppius to the genus Blitum, from the relemblance of 
its fruit to a mulberry. See Blitum, 
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