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Geneva. The fortifications of Huningen are to be de- 
(,f royed, and.no fortifications are to be ereCted within three 
leagues of Bade. France returns the territory in the Ne¬ 
therlands and Savoy, ceded by the treaty of lalt year,(1814.) 
France (hall pay to the allies 700 millions of francs (29 
millions flerling). During five years fhe (hall maintain 
350,000 allied troops, to be ftationed within her own ter¬ 
ritory in and near the fortrefles hereafter named. The 
following fixteen fortrefles are to be garrifoned by the 
allies during five years: Valenciennes, Conde, Maubeuge, 
Landrecy, Bouchain,Quefnoy, Cambray, Givet and Charle- 
mont, Mezieres, Thionville, Longvvy, Bitche, Montmedy, 
Rocroy, Avefnes, and the Bridge-head of Fort Louis. 
There are alfo two Conventions relative to the claims of 
Britifh fubjeCts againlt the government of France. The 
arrangement of thefe caufed a delay of fome weeks. At 
length the whole was regularly figned and executed by the 
sminiffers of the different powers on the 20th of November; 
and read in the chamber of peers at Paris on the 25th. 
There are no fecret articles. 
We trufl that our readers will pardon this digreflion, 
in which we have taken a rapid view of moll important 
events, the particulars of which muff be enlarged upon in 
the proper place. See the article Paris. 
MAUBEU'GE (John de), one of the early laborious 
practitioners in the art of painting after the ufe of oil 
became known in Flanders, was born at Maubeuge, in 
Hainault, in 1499. He was invited by Henry VIII. to 
England, and employed by him to paint the portraits of 
Ills children. By his neat mode of finifhing, and the 
fmoothnefs and high polifh of his works, he gained in this 
country, where the art of painting was then almoft un¬ 
known, a very coniiderable reputation, and in confequence 
bis paintings are not unfrequent among us. They are 
known by their dry, ffiff, and formal, manner, both of 
aCtion in the figures and in the foldings of their draperies; 
by a total lack of the chiaro-fcuro, and yet poflefling much 
ingenious taffe in colour; great care in the faces, which 
always appear to have been portraits; and in almolt bound- 
lels labour in the finifhing, particularly of all the orna¬ 
mental parts, fuch as gems, pearls, See. &c. which he was 
fond of bellowing lavifhly. He is laid to have been im¬ 
moderately addicted to drinking, though he lived to the 
age of fixty-three. 
MAUBOURQUET', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Pyrenees : fifteen miles north of Tarbe, 
and fix north of Vic-Bigorre. 
MAUCAU'CO. See the article Lemur, vol. xii. p. 472 
■$c feq. 
M AUDERDALTY, a town of Hindoofian, in Coim¬ 
batore: ten miles weft-north-welt of Coveriporum. 
MAUDISIMIL'IA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
Shirty-five miles fouth-eaft of Bahar. 
MAU'DLIN, adj. [Maudlin is the corrupt appellation 
of I$agdalen, who is drawn by painters with fwoln eyes, 
and difordered look; a drunken countenance feems to 
have been fo named from a ludicrous refemblance to the 
picture of Magdalen. John fan.~\ Drunk ; fuddled ; approach¬ 
ing to ebriety.—And the kind maudling crowd melts in 
her praife. Southern. 
She largely what fhe wants in words fupplies 
With maudlin eloquence of trickling eyes. Rofcommon. 
MAU'DLIN,/ A plant. See Achillea. —The flowers 
of the maudlin are digelted into loofe umbels. Miller. 
MAU'DUIT (Jaques), faid by M. Laborde to have 
been a great mufleian in the time of Henry IV. of France, 
who “accompanied wonderfully on the lute.” (Eflais 
fur la Mufique, t. iii. p.5i9.)' We are likewife told, that 
he added a fixth It ring to viols, which had originally but 
five; and that he was the firit in France who introduced 
thefe inftruments in concert, inltead of bafe-viols. 
Pere Merfenne, who had a particular regard for this 
Cuulidan, has given us an engraved head and eloge of him 
M A 0 
in his Harmonie Univerfelle ; with the chief part of which 
we fhall prefent our readers. 
“Jaques Mauduit, defcended from a noble family, was 
born in 1557. He had a liberal education, and travelled 
during his youth into Italy, where he learned the language 
of that country, together with Spanifti and German, which, 
with the literature he had acquired at college, enabled 
him to read the belt authors of almoft every kind. He 
had a general knowledge of moft fciences, as well as of 
mechanics; and, ftudying mufic with unwearied diligence, 
without any other afliftance than that of books, he ren¬ 
dered himfelf fo eminent, that he was honoured, even 
during his life, with the refpeCtable title of Pere de Is. 
Mufique, Father of Mufic, And with reafon, fays his pa- 
negyrilt; he being the inventor of good mufic in France, 
by the many excellent works he publifhed, both vocal and 
inftrumental, which have been long the ornament of our 
concerts. His merit obtained him admiflion into the fa¬ 
mous Academy of Mufic, inftituted by the learned Bai'f, 
1583; and many writers of his time feein to have pro¬ 
duced their poetical effufions in order to have them im¬ 
mortalized by the airs of Mauduit. The firft compofition 
in which he diftinguifhed himfelf as a learned harmonift, 
was his tnafs of Requiem, which he fet for the funeral of 
his friend, the celebrated poet Ronfard; it was afterwards 
performed at the funeral of Henry IV. and, laltly, at his 
own, 1627, under the direction of his fon, Louis Mauduit, 
at which time Merfennus officiated in the facred function 
as prielt. He left behind him innumerable mafles, hymns, 
motets, fancies, and longs. A fmall hereditary place at 
the court of requelts defcended to him from his father, 
which he feemed to exercife for no other purpofe than to 
oblige and ferve his friends. At the liege of Paris, when 
the Fauxbourg was taken by ftorm, he ventured through 
the victorious foldiers to the houfe of his friend Bai'f, then 
dead, and faved all his manuferipts, at the hazard of his 
own life. Upon a fimilar occafion, in which there was 
(till greater difficulty and danger, he faved the douze modes 
of Claude le Jeune, and his other manufeript works, at 
the time that this compofer was feized at the gate of St. 
Denis as a Hugonot; fo that all thofe who have fince re¬ 
ceived pleafure from the productions of this excellent 
matter, are obliged to Mauduit for their prefervation, as 
he faved them from deftruftion by feizing the arm of a 
ferjeant at the very inftant that he was going to throw 
them into the flames; perfuading the foldiery that thefe 
papers were perfectly innocent, and free from Calvin- 
iftical poifon, or any kind of treafon againlt the League : 
and it was by his zeal and addrefs, with the afliftance of 
an officer of his acquaintance, that Claude efcaped with 
his own life.” 
Such (adds Dr. Burney) are the praifes bellowed upon! 
Jaques Mauduit, by his friend the learned and benign 
Merfennus, whofe diligence, fcience, and candour, far 
furpafled his tafte. The Requiem, by Mauduit, is printed 
in the Harm. Univ. in five feparate parts; but, in (coring 
it, neither the harmony nor modulation offer any thing 
that is either curious or uncommon at any period of 
counterpoint. It is literally plain counterpoint of crotchets 
and minims moving all together, as in our cathedral chant¬ 
ing. The chief merit of this production is in the exact 
accentuation of the words, <2 l'antique-, a minim for a 
long Fy liable, and a crotchet for a fliort. Merfennus, in 
his Commentary on Genefis, has illuftrated his mufical 
remarks with many of his friend Mauduit’s compolitions, 
in which we have never been able to dig out the leaft 
fragment that would do honour to this country. Burney's 
HiJI. of Mufic. 
MaU'DUIT (Michael), a learned French prieft of the 
Congregation of the Oratory, whofe writings are much 
efteemed by his countrymen, was born at Vire in Nor¬ 
mandy, about the year 1634. He embraced the ecclefiaf- 
tical life when very young; and acquired a perfeCt know¬ 
ledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, languages. For 
a long 
