M A L , - 
the refidence of governments and the fee of a bifhop, who 
refides in Chioggiafince the year 1640. In the year 809, 
it was deftroyed by the Franks ; in the year 1105, by fire ; 
and in mi, by an earthquake. The port of Malamoco 
is fituated at the fartheft fouthern point of the fit ore, to¬ 
wards Chioggia, and is defended by two forts, St. Pietro 
and Della Punta. It is, of all others, the fafeft and moft 
convenient port, and on that account mod frequented ; 
yet, owing to the fame dangerous land-bars and (hallow 
places, (hips cannot enter it without pilots. Some thou - 
land of regular troops, well provided with heavy and light 
ordnance, were constantly garrifoned here. 
MAI/ANDERS, or Mallenders, /. [from mal an - 
dare, Ital. to go ill.] A dry fcab on the pattern of horfes. 
— For the cure, fee the article Farriery, vol. vii. p. 252. 
MALANE'A,/,. in botany. See Cunninohamia. 
MALANE'E, a fmall ifland in the Florida Stream. 
Lat. 24. 56.N. 
MALANE'O ISLANDS, two fmall ihands in the 
North Pacific Ocean, near the eaft coaft of the ifland of 
Lu$on. Lat. 18.2. N. Ion. 122, 28, E. 
MALANGER', a town of Norway, at the northern 
extremitv of the diocefe of Drontheim. 
MALANKU'A,/ in botany. See K^mpferia. 
MALANO'VA, a town of Rullia, in the government of 
ToboUk, on the Irtifch : twenty-eight miles north of Tara. 
MAL'ANTZ, a town of Grifons: three miles eaft of 
Mayenfeld. 
MALA'O, a town on the north-weft coaft of the ifland 
of Mindanao. 
MAL'APERT, adj. [mal apris, Fr. ill-taught.] Saucy 5 
quick with impudence; fprightly without refpeft or de¬ 
cency _Are you growing malapert ? Will you force me 
to make ufe of my authority ? Dryden’s Span. Fryar. 
Peace, matter marquis, you are malapert ; 
Your fire-new ltamp of honour is lcarce current. Shakefp. 
MAL'APERT (Charles), a learned Jefuit and excel¬ 
lent mathematician, was a native of Mons in Hainault, 
where he was born in the year 1581. He entered into the 
order in 1600, and diltinguilhed himfelf during the ufual 
eourfe of ltudies, by the extraordinary progrefs which he 
made in learning and fcience. He was appointed to 
teach philofophy at Pont a Mouflon ; and was then fent 
into Poland, where he filled the mathematical chair. Af¬ 
terwards he was made profeflbr of mathematics in the Je- 
luits’ college at Douay. His next appointment was to 
the prefidency of the Scotch college in the fame city ; 
whence he was removed to the reftorfliip of the college 
at Arras. In the year 1630, on the application of Phi¬ 
lip IV. king of Spain, he was direfted to repair to Madrid, 
to become mathematical profefior in a new univerlity 
which that monarch was founding in his capital ; but he 
died on the journey, at Victoria in Catalonia, when he 
was in the fiftieth year of his age. 
Malapert was accuftomed to relax from his feverer flu- 
dies by paying his court to the inufes; and he publifhed, 
while he was in Poland, a volume of Latin Poems, which 
are commended for true poetic genius, and for the purity 
and elegance of their latinity. They have frequently 
been reprinted at Dillingen, Antwerp, and other places. 
But his moft important works were mathematical, and 
confift of, 1. His inaugural oration on his appointment to 
the mathematical chair at Douay, entitled, Oratio de Lau- 
dibus Matkematicis, 1620, 8vo. in which he treats of the 
phenomena of the nevvly-difcovered Dutch telefcope. 2. 
Breves Inftitutiones Arithmetics practicas, 1620, 8vo. 
3. Faciliorum Geornetricae Elementorum Lib. II. 1624, 
nrao. 4. Brevis Commentarius in VI. priores Lib. Eu- 
clidis, 1620, 8vo. Sotvelli Bibl. Script. Soc. Jefu. 
MALAPERT'LY, adv. Impudently 5 faucily. 
MALAPERT'NESS, f. Livelinefs of reply without de¬ 
cency ; quick impudence; faucinefs. 
MALAR', a large lake of Sweden, extending from the 
town of Kungfar, in Weftraanjand, to the Baltic ; about 
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eighty miles from eaft to weft, the breadth is various; it 
abounds in filh, and is laid to contain upwards of 120 
i(lands, great and fmall. 
MAL'ARY, adj. Judicial; belong to a judge or ma- 
giftrate. Roberts's Indian Glnjfary. 
MALASH'LAH, a town of Africa, fituated on the 
Atlas, in the fouthern part of Algiers: 170 miles fouth 
of Algiers. 
MA'LAT, / in chemiftry, a fait formed by the union' 
of malic acid with an alkaline, earthy, or metallic, bafe. 
See the article Chemistry, vol. iv. p. 164. 
MALA'THA, a cattle in Idumaea, to which the younger 
Agrippa retired, after he had at Rome fquandered his ef- 
tate. Malatha is perhaps the Makheloth of Numb, xxxiii. 
25,26. Eufebius fpeaks of Melatha; and, by comparing 
the paflages in which it is mentioned, it appears that this 
city was in the fouth of Judah, about twenty miles from 
Hebron. Or it may be the Maladah of Jodi. xv. 26. xix. 2. 
MALA'TIA, a town of Aiiatic Turkey, in Aladulia, 
fituated on the weft fide of the Euphrates; the refidence 
of a Jacobite and Neftorian bifliop. In 1400, this town 
was taken by Timur Bee. Tiie Muflulmen redeemed 
themfelves by money, and the Chriftians were made (laves. 
It is ninety miles weft-north-weft of Diarbekir. Lat. 
37. 56. N. Ion. 38. E. 
MALATIVO'E, a fortified port of Ceylon, in a ro¬ 
mantic and delightful fituation, between Trincomalee and 
Jafnapatam. Here the Dutch had a fmall factory, and a 
houfe for the commanding officer. It depended upon the 
garrifon of Trincomalee, and was employed chiefly as a 
port of communication, and to colled! provifions for that 
garrifon. For thefe purpofes, and to keep the natives in 
awe, a few Malay or Sepoy foldiers were ftationed here ; 
but it never was confulered as capable of any defence. 
Clofe to the fort is a fmall village ; and a river, which 
here falls into the fea, forms a harbour fufficient to admit 
fmall craft. The principal employ ment of the inhabitants 
is fithing ; and with this article they (apply the fort of 
Trincomalee. Cattle and poultry are abundantly cheap 3 
game is plentiful ; and the woods abound with wild hogs 
and deer. Percival's Ceylon. 
M ALATZ'KA, a town of Hungary: fourteen miles 
north of Preiburg. 
MALA'VA, or Mlava, a river of Servia, which lifes 
fix milts north-eaft of Rellava, and runs into the Danube 
about one mile weft of Ram. 
MALAVAL' (Francis), a diftinguiflied author among 
the modern French myftics, was born at Marfeilles in the 
year 1627, and became blind at the age of nine months. 
This misfortune did not prevent him from making him¬ 
felf inafter of the Latin language, and becoming a confi- 
derable proficient in literature, with the aid of perfons 
who were employed to read to him. Having been early 
imbued with principles of piety, he gave himfelf up to 
frequent contemplation ; and, having met with fome myfi- 
tical writers, and in particular with The Spiritual Guide 
of Molinos, his mind became captivated with his ideas of 
imaginary perfection, and refined fpirituality. Adopting 
the notions of that enthufiaft, he publifhed them in France^ 
with the extravagance a little corrected, in a book, enti- 
titled, ** A ready Method of exciting the Soul to Con¬ 
templation,” which was cenfured at Rome, and inferted 
in the Index of prohibited books, at the time when Qui- 
etifm was condemned and perfecuted. To this cenfure 
M. Malaval immediately fubinitted, retrafling his opi¬ 
nions, and declaring himfelf openly againft the errors of 
Molinos ; but the influence of the Spaniard’s notions 
on his mind was never eradicated, and the other produc¬ 
tions which came from our author’s pen are abundantly 
feafoned with mylticifm. He maintained an intimate 
correfpondence with cardinal Bona, who procured a dif- 
penfation from the pope for his being admitted into holy 
orders, notwithftanding his blindnels. He was alfo ho¬ 
noured with frequent letters from Chriftina queen of- 
Sweden, cardinal Cibo, and other eminent characters. He 
Y died. 
