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MANIVAL', a town on the ealt coaft of Madagafcar. 
Lat. 17. 10. S. Ion. 50. E, 
MANKABAT', a town of Egypt: three miles north 
of Siut. 
MANKAKO', a town in the ifland of Celebes, in Btig- 
gefs Bay: a good market for gold and fago. Lat. 1. 45. S. 
MANKA'LJA, a fea-port town of Bulgaria, on the 
Black Sea : fixty-eight miles ealt-fouth-ealt of Sililiria. 
Lat. 44. N. Ion 28. 39. E. 
MAN'KANET, or St. Joseph, a town of Africa, in 
Galam, where the French have a faffory. 
MAN'KAP, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the fouth coalt of Borneo. Lat. 3. 2. S. Ion. 109. 58. E, 
MAN'KETS, See Nogayans. 
MANKFND, f. The race or fpecies of human beings.— 
M. Necker is of opinion, that a knowledge of mankind is 
only to be attained by palling through three abfolutely 
different fituations in life: the ltate of inferiority, which 
obliges us to confult the inclinations of others, and to 
exert all our power to gain their good will; the condition 
of equality, which will make us ltudy the various palflons 
of men ; and that of fuperiority, which affords the oppor¬ 
tunity of obferving our fellow-creatures when on their 
good behaviour. Monthly Review. 
All mankind alike require their grace, 
All born to want; a miferable race! Pope's Odyjjey. 
MAN'KIND, adj. Refembling man, not woman, in 
form or nature : 
A mankind witch! hence with her, out o’door: 
A molt intelligency bawd! Shakefp. Winter’s Tale. 
MANKO'VA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Irkutlk, on the Angara : forty-four miles fouth-eaft of 
Balaganlkoi. 
MANKOU'H, a town of Perfla, in the province of 
Chorafan : fixty-fix miles north of Mefchid. 
MANKOWITZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Bolellaw : two miles north of Jung Buntzel. 
MANKUTOS'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutlk : twenty-eight miles north of Stretenlk. 
MAN'LESS, adj. Without men; not manned.—Sir 
Walter Raleigh was wont to fay, the Spaniards were fud- 
denly driven away with fquibs; for it was no more but a 
ftratagem of fire-boats manlefs, and lent upon the armada 
at Calais by the favour of the wind in the night, that put 
them in fuch terror as they cut their cables. Bacon. 
MAN'LEY (Sir Roger), governor of Jerfey, was the 
fecond fon of an ancient family; and the better part of 
his eftate was ruined in the civil war, by his firm adhe¬ 
rence to Charles I. He was a brave gallant man, of 
great honour and integrity. He became a fcholar in the 
midft of the camp, having left the univerfity at the age 
of fixteen, to follow the fortunes of Charles I. After a 
long time fpent in the civil and foreign wars, he began to 
love eafe and retirement, devoting himfelf to his ltudy, 
and the charge of his little port. In this folitude he wrote 
Ieveral pieces for his own amufement, particularly his La¬ 
tin commentaries of the civil wars of England. He like- 
wife wrote the Hiiiory of the Rebellion in England, Scot¬ 
land, and Ireland ; wherein the moll material paflages, 
battles, lieges, policies, and ftratagems of war, are impar¬ 
tially related on both fides, from the year 1640, to the 
beheading of the duke of Monmouth 1688 j printed in 
1719. He was alfo the author of the firlt volume of that 
admired work, The Turkifh Spy. Dr. Midgeley, an in¬ 
genious phylician, related to the family by marriage, had 
the charge of looking over his papers : among them he 
found that manufeript, whn h he referved to his proper 
life ; and by his own pen, and the alfiftance of lome others, 
continued the work till the eighth volume was finilhed, 
without having the honour to acknowledge the author of 
the firlt. 
MAN'LEY (de la Riviere), daughter of the above, cele¬ 
brated as the author of the New Atalantis, was born in the 
Von XIV. No. 974, 
Ifland of Jerfey. She was lhaniefully entrapped into a mar¬ 
riage with her coulin and guardian, who had a wife living at 
the fame time: he difilpated her fortune, and left her and 
her child ip the greatelt dillrefs. She fought refuge in her 
pen ; and produced, in 1696, a tragedy, called the Royal 
Mifchief, which was very fuccefsful, but is now no longer 
known. The fame year alfo ftie wrote the Lolt Lover, a 
comedy; and fubfequently, Almyna, a tragedy, 1707 ; and 
Lucius, the firlt Chiiftian King of Britain, a tragedy, 1717. 
Her connexion with the (tage and the players was not 
to the benefit of her morals; for we find her in keep¬ 
ing with different perfons, particularly with Mr. Tilly, a 
gentleman of the law, and a married man. Her pen now 
grew as licentious as her conduct; for, in her retired 
hours, (lie wrote four volumes, called Memoirs of the New 
Atalantis ; in which flie was not only very Tree in her 
wanton tales of love-adventures, but fatirized the cha¬ 
racters of many diltinguilhed perfonages, efpecially thole 
who had a principal concern in the Revolution. A war¬ 
rant was granted from the fecretary of ftate’s office, to 
feiz.e the printer and publiflier of thefe volumes. This 
circumltance reduced the writer to a very troublefome di¬ 
lemma : (he could not bear the thought, that innocent 
people Ihould fuller on her account; and (he judged it 
cruel to remain concealed, while they, who were only in¬ 
ferior inftruments, were fullering for her. She therefore 
voluntarily prefented herfelf before the King’s Bench, as 
the author of the Atalantis. When (he was examined 
before the fecretary of Hate (then lord Sunderland), he 
was affiduous to know from whom (he had got informa¬ 
tion of fome particulars, which they imagined were above 
her own intelligence. Her defence was made with much 
humility and forrow, at the fame time denying that any 
perfons were concerned with her, or that (lie had a further 
delign than writing for her own amufement and diverlion 
in the country, without intending particular reflections 
or characters. When this was not believed, and the con¬ 
trary urged againft her by Ieveral circumltances, (he faid, 
“ Then it mult be by infpiration, becaule (knowing her 
own innocence) Ihe could account for it no other way.” 
The fecretary replied, “ That infpiration ufed to be upon 
a good account, and her writings were (lark naught.” 
She, with an air of penitence, acknowledged, “ That his 
lordlhip’s oblervation might be true; but that there were 
evil angels as well as good; fo that, nevertheiefs, what 
(he had wrote might (till be by infpiration.” In coilfe- 
quence of this examination, our authorefs was dole Ihut 
up in a meflenger’s houfe, without being allowed pen, 
ink, and paper. However, her counfel fued out her habeas 
corpus, and (lie was admitted to bail. Whether thofe in 
power were alhamed to bring a woman to trial for writing 
a few amorous trifles, or the laws could not reach her, 
which was generally conjeClured (becaule Ihe had dil- 
guifed her latire under romantic names and a feigned 
fceiie of aCtion), (lie was difeharged, after feveral times 
expofing herfelf in perfon to crols the court before the 
bench of judges, with her three attendants, the printer 
and two publifliers. Not long after this, a total change 
of the ininiltry enfued ; the ftatefmen to whole hate Ihe 
had been obnoxious were removed, and confequently all 
her fears upon that fcore diflipated. She then came into 
great favour with their fuccefl’ors, and was employed in 
defending the Tory meafures purfued in the four lad 
years of queen Anne. The pamphlets which Ihe wrote at 
this period were numerous, and fome of them fuch as 
would not difgrace the belt pen then engaged in the de¬ 
fence of government. After dean Swift relinquilhed The 
Examiner, (he continued it with great fpirit for a confi- 
derable time; and frequently finilhed pieces begun by 
that excellent writer, who alfo often uled to furnilh her 
with hints for thole of her own compofition. At this 
time, or loon afterwards, (lie became connected with aider- 
man Barber, who was then the favourite Tory printer, and 
with him (he refided until the time of her death, whish 
happened on the 11th of July, 1724, at his houfe on Larn- 
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