M A R 
-is two hundred miles north of Herat. Lat. 38. 4-2. N. 
Ion. 61. 12. E. 
MARVA'GLIA, a town of Italy, in the bailiwick of 
Bellinzona. 
MARVA'O, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo : fix miles 
fouth-eaft of Caftello de Vide, and fix fouth-eaft of Va¬ 
lencia de Alcantara in Spain. Lat. 39. 13. N. Ion. 7; 2. W. 
MARU'BIUM. See Marrubjum, p. 4.15. 
MARU'DO, a country of the illand of Borneo, which 
advances towards the north between four great points ; of 
which the firft, called Sanfaon, is at thediftance of eleven 
•Dutch miles from the fecond, denominated Tandjong Mater ; 
after which follows the Bay of Martido, with a town of 
the fame name fituated at its bottom. At foine diftance 
from the fhore are difcovered four large ides, and feme 
fmnller. The two other points on the ealf of the bay are 
Pulo Avigo and Punta Corpaon, between which there are 
fome little illes. From this laft point the coalt bends to 
the ealf, and forms a large bay, called St. Anne’s. The 
country of Marudo is remarkable for forells and moun¬ 
tains ; one of the latter, on the fouth of the town of Ma¬ 
rudo, called by the Portuguefe and Dutch the Mountain 
of St. Pbter, is of prodigious height. In thele wild coun¬ 
tries monkeys are very numerous; and in the bodies of 
thefe monkeys are found the belt bezoar. 
MARVEJOL'S, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diItriiSV, in the department of the Lozere : nine miles 
welt of Mende, and thirty-five eaft-north-ealt of Rhodez. 
Lat. 44.. 33. N. Ion. 3. 22. E. 
MAR'VEL, f. [merveille , Fr.] A wonder; any thing 
aftonilhing. Little in ufe. — A marvel it were, il a man 
could efpy, in the whole feripture, nothing which might 
breed a probable opinion, that divine authority was the 
fame way inclinable. Hooker. 
No marvel 
My lord protestor’s hawks do towre fo well. Skakefpeare. 
To MAR'VEL, v. n t \_merveiller, Fr. ] ' To wonder; to 
be altonilhed. Difufed.—Harry, I do not only marvel 
where thou fpendeft thy time, but alfo how thou art ac¬ 
companied. Skakefpeare. —The countries marvelled at thee 
for thy fongs, proverbs, and parables. Eccluf. xlvii. 17. 
MARVEL of PERU', in botany. See Mirabilis. 
The marvel of the world comes next in view, 
At home, but Ityl’d the marvel of Peru. Tate's Cowley. 
MAR'VELL (Andrew), a political writer of conlider- 
able eminence, was the fon of a clergyman, and born at 
Kinglfon-upon-Hull in the year 1620. He was fent to 
Cambridge at the expenfe of the corporation of Hud, and 
was entered a liudent of Trinity-college in 1635. His 
fine talents rendered him an objett for the tempting arts 
of the Jeluit emiffaries, then perpetually lurking about our 
-univeriities ; and they fo far fucceeded in their prolelyting 
attempts as to induce him to quit his college and go to 
London, where he was accidentally found by his father in 
a bookfeller’s fhop. He was periuaded by his parent to 
return to college; and this half-converfion feems to have 
left upon his mind only a rooted averfion to popery, and 
a ftrong impreffion of its dangerous character. On the 
death of his father, who was drowned in eroding the 
Humber in 1640, he took poffedion of his fmall inherit¬ 
ance; a circumftance that was probably the caufe of fome 
inattention to his academical iludies. From the records 
of Trinity-college, it appears, that in 1641 Marvell with 
foine others was excluded from its benefits on account of 
non-attendance. Poflibly he might then have begun the 
courfe of travels which we find he purfued through Hol¬ 
land, France, and Italy, and which doubtlefs contributed 
to that enlargement of mind which diftingnifiied him from 
the mere party-writers of the time. His propensity to ri¬ 
dicule was difplayed by a humourous though carelefsly- 
written fatire upon one Flecknoe, an Englilh pried: and 
poetalter at Rome; and in a burlefque poem addreifed to 
an abbot de Mardban at Paris,' a pretender to fortune* 
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telling. Of his refidence and employment for many fub- 
fequent years, we have very little information. From a 
letter of his to Oliver Cromwell, dated in 1653, it appears 
that he was engaged by the protestor ter fuperintend the 
education of a Mr. Dutton, at Eton. According to his 
own exprefs declaration, he “ never had any, not the re- 
moteft, relation to public fnatters, till the year 1657, when 
(fays he) I entered into an employment, for which I was 
not altogether improper, and which I confidered to be the 
mod innocent and inoffenfi vg towards his majedy’s affairs 
of any in that ufurped and irregular government.” This, 
doubtlefs, alluded to 'the pod of affidant to Milton in his 
office of Latin fecretary, which he held till'the death of 
Crom well. 
In the parliament of 1660, Marvell fat as one of the 
reprefentatives of the borough of Hull; and his fervices 
were fo acceptable, that he was continued in the fame im¬ 
portant trud to the end of his life. He iVas probably one 
of the laft who received pay from the place he ferved, 
which he fully earned by the diligence, firmnefs, and in¬ 
violable integrity, with which he difebarged his duty. 
Of all men in his llation, he is the perfon who would be 
feleited as an example of the genuine independence pro¬ 
duced by the philofophical limitation of wants qnd defires.. 
He was not to be purchafed, becaufe he wanted nothing 
that money could buy, and held cheap all titular honours 
in companion with the approbation of his confidence, and 
the efteern of the virtuous. At the beginning of the new 
reign, we find him abfient in Holland and Germany be¬ 
tween 1661 and 1663, upon what account we are not in¬ 
formed ; not long after his return, he complied with the 
requeft of lord Carlifle, appointed •ambafiador extraordi¬ 
nary to the northern courts, to accompany him as his fie- 
cretary. It was not till the parliament of October 1665 
that, from his letters to his conftituents, his attendance 
feems to have been conftant and uninterrupted. From 
that period to 1674, he made a regular report of the pro¬ 
ceedings of both houfes to the mayor and corporation of 
Hull. The corruptions of the court, and the tendency 
to arbitrary meafures, which marked the unprincipled 
reign of Charles II. neceffarily threw a man of Marvell’s 
character into oppofition ; and his whole efforts in and 
out of parliament were directed to the prefervation of ci¬ 
vil and religious liberty. He rarely fpoke in the houfe, 
but his influence over the members of both houfes was 
con filterable. The patriotic earl of Devonfhire was on 
terms of intimacy with him ; and prince Rupert often 
privately vifited him, and took his advice ; infomuch that, 
when he gave a vote on the popular fide, it was commonly 
faid by the courtiers “that he had been with his tutor.” 
By his writings Marvell obtained the character of the 
wittieft man of his time ; and.doubtlefs was of great fer- 
vice to the caufe he efpoufed, which had in general been 
defended rather by ferious argument than by ridicule. 
He occafionally threw out a number of poetical effufions 
of fbe humorous and fatirical kind, in which he did not 
fpare majetty itfelf: thefe are loofe in their compofition, 
and frequently pafs the bounds of decorum ; but they were 
well calculated for effect as party-pieces, and became very 
popular. He exercifed his wit It ill more copioufly in 
prole. In 1672, Dr. Samuel Parker, afterwards bifinop of 
Oxford, an intolerant high-churchman, publiftieda work 
of bilhop Bramhall’s, to which he added a preface of his 
own, maintaining the molt extravagant politions concern¬ 
ing the rights ot (overeigns over the confidences of their 
fubjefls. This piece Marvell attacked in the fame year 
in a work which he entitled “TheRehearfalTranfprofed.” 
With a profufion of witty farcafm, it contains much lolid 
argument, and may be reckoned one of the ablefi expo- 
fures of the maxims of religious tyranny. Parker wrote 
an anfwer, to which Marvell replied ; and the reverend 
champion did not choofe to carry the controverfy further. 
Of the eftimation in which the Rehearfal Tranfprofed was 
held, an evidence appears in Swift’s Tale of a Tub, where 
remarking on the negleft into which anfwers to hooks foon 
4- fall. 
