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moden, was appointed engineer of bridges and highways 
at Call'd, and teacher of the military fciences. He now 
became contributor to fome periodical works, and wrote 
his “ Letters on the Merits of the German Poets,” which, 
on account of the feverity of his animadverfions, excited 
againft him a great many enemies. In the year 1775, he 
tranflated Raynal’s Hiftory of both the Indies, a work of 
Turgot’s, and Ariofto; and was engaged in feveral of the 
journals. In 1777, the landgrave having formed a corps 
of cadets, Mauvillon was appointed a captain in it; and 
about this time he obtained the friendrtaip of profeffor 
Dohm, afterwards Pruffian minifter. The phyfiocratic 
fyltem had excited confiderable notice in Germany ; and, 
as he and his friend often converfed on this fubjeft, he 
wrote his “ Phyfiocratic Letters,” addrefl'ed to Dohm, 
which were publifhed atBrunfwick in 1780. In the fame 
year he was elected a member of the fociety of antiquaries 
at Calfel, and wrote feveral papers inferted in its Tranf- 
adions. In the year 1781, he wrote his Introduction to 
the Military Sciences, with an Eflay on the Thirty Years 
War, and another on the Influence which the Invention 
of Gunpowder has had in Modern Wars; all of which 
were publifhed in French. He ftudied religion as well as 
military tallies; and in 1787, publifhed what he entitled 
a “Syftem of Religion.” He had, previoufly to this, 
formed an acquaintance, which ripened into friendfhip, 
with the celebrated Mirabeau. An account of the joint 
purfuits of thefe friends may be found in Mirabeau’s 
“ Lettres du Comte de Mirabeau a un de fes Amisen Al- 
lemagne, ecrites durant les Annees 1786-90.” Mauvillon 
died in 1792. The lad work which he publifhed was en¬ 
titled “ Man and Woman,” written in oppofition to a 
book by Brandes, in which the female fex had not been 
treated with that degreeof juflice which Mauvillon thought 
due to them. He began a “ Life of Prince Ferdinand of 
Brunfwick,” which is faid to be the beft of all his pro¬ 
ductions. Mauvillon was fond of company ; and in the 
early part of life, the whole objeCl of his labour was that 
he might gratify his tafte without running into debt. In 
his manners and drefs he was exceedingly Ample ; he had 
no attachment to wine, but was exceffively fond of coffee ; 
lie w'asa zealous advocate for the principles of toleration, 
and in ail kinds of company avowed his fentiments with 
the greateft freedom. He was friendly to the French re¬ 
volution, but difapproved of the horrid fcenes which at¬ 
tended it. Gen. Biog. 
MAUZA'T, a town of France, in the department of 
the Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Riom. The place contains 1565, and the canton 
907a, inhabitants. 
MAU'ZE, a town of France, in the department of the 
two Sevres : three pofts fouth-weft of Niort, fifty-fix and 
a quarter fouth-weif of Paris. 
MAW, a feaport of Ceylon, at the mouth of a river 
on the weft coaft : fifty miles weft of Candy. Lat,7. 
4 5 - N. Ion. 75. 55. W. 
MAW, J. [11135a, Sax. maeghe, Dut.] The ftomach 
of animals ; and of human beings, in contempt.—We have 
heats of dungs, and of bellies and maws of living crea¬ 
tures, and of their bloods. Bacon. 
The ferpent, who his maw obfeene had fill’d. 
The branches in his curl’d embraces held. Dryden. 
Though plenteous, all too little feeins, 
To fluff this maw, this vaft unhidebound corps. Milton. 
The craw of birds.—Granivorous birds have the mecha- 
nifim of a mill; their maw is the hopper which holds and 
foftens the grain, letting it down by degrees into the fto¬ 
mach, where it is ground by two ftrong mufcles ; in which 
aition they are alTifted by fmall (tones, which they fiwal- 
low for the purpofe. Arbuthnot. —Formerly a game at cards. 
—Primero, faint, maw, and fuch like. Brewer's Lingua. 
MAW'-WORM, f. A ftomach-worm; a worm that 
breeds in the ftomach. The Ascaris vermicularis.—Or¬ 
dinary gut-worms loofen, and Aide off from, the intern tu¬ 
ft! A X 56? 
nic of the guts, and frequently creep into the ftomach 
for nutriment, being attracted thither by the fweet chyle ; 
whence they are called ftomach or maw worms. Harvey on 
Confumptions. 
MAWAWA'RY, a town of Bengal: fifty miles fouth 
of Beyhar. 
MAWBELLIPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Ba- 
har: three miles fouth-weft of Bahar. Lat. 25.21. N. Ion. 
84. 55.S. 
MAW'DOCH, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Avon Vaur at Dolgelly. 
MAWE’s (St.), a borough-town in the parifh of St. 
Juft, and county of Cornwall, is fituated on the eaft fide 
of Falmouth harbour; one mile diftant from Falmouth, 
and 270 from London. It confifts only of one ftreet, con¬ 
taining about twenty houfes, inhabited chiefly by filher- 
men. A fair is held annually on the Friday after St, 
Luke’s day. The town has never been incorporated ; 
and has neither church, chapel, nor meeting-houfe ; yet 
it fends two reprefentatives to parliament, and has done 
fo ever fince the fourth year of queen Elizabeth. It is 
governed by a portreeve, who has the title of mayor, and 
is the returning officer. The number of voters was only 
twenty-two before Mr. Crewe’s bill for difqualifying re¬ 
venue-officers. The principal influence and property of 
the borough are now poflefled by the marquis of Buck¬ 
ingham. King Henry VIII. erefted a caftle here, oppo- 
file to that of Pendennis, to which it is very inferior both 
in fize and fituation, though built nearly at the fame time, 
by the fame monarch, and for the fame purpofe, i.e. the 
fecurity of Falmouth harbour. The works are com¬ 
pletely commanded by a hill, which rifes immediately be¬ 
hind them. It is twenty-fix miles fouth-weft of Leftwi- 
thiel, and 256 weft-fouth-vveft of London. 
MAW'KISH, adj. [perhaps from maw.~\ Apt to give 
fatiety : apt to caufe loathing i 
Flow, Welfted! flow, like thine infpirer beer. 
So fweetly mawkijh , and fo fmoothly dull. Pope. 
MAW'KISHNESS, f. Aptnefs to caufe loathing. 
MAW'MET,/. [from Mahomet.'] A puppet, anciently 
an idol: 
That ever any man Ihculd look 
Upon this mawmet, and not laugh at him. 
Machin's Dumb Knight. 
MAW'METRY, f . Idolatry; the worfliip of idols. 
MAW'MISH, adj. Foolifh ; idle ; naufeous. Obfolete.—r 
It is one of the molt naufeous, mawmijh, mortifications, 
for a man to have to do with a punctual finical fop. 
V EJlrange. 
MAW'NAN SMITH', a village of Cornwall, about 
four miles fouth of Falmouth. In this pariffi is Pen- 
warne, the feat of fir Michael Nowell. 
MAW'RI, a feaport town of Africa, in the country of 
Sabu, on the Gold Coaft ; the inhabitants are chiefly fifli- 
ermen ; in the middle of the town is Fort Nafiau, built 
by the Dutch, with a fmall garrifon. 
MAXANTEL'LA, an ifland near the port of Matan- 
chel, on the weft coaft of New Mexico, in the North Pa¬ 
cific ocean. 
MAX'DORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz : ten miles weft of Kamnitz. 
MAX'EN, a town of Saxony, celebrated for a viftory 
obtained by the Aultrians,, commanded by count Daun, 
over the Pruffians, pn the 21ft of November, 1759, when 
20,000 Pruffians, commanded by general Finck, laid down 
their arms and furrendered themfelves priloners of war, 
generals, officers, and foldiers. It is eight miles.fouth- 
welt of Pirna, and ten fouth of Drefden. 
MAXEN'TIUS, an emperor of Rome. See that ar¬ 
ticle. 
MAX'EY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe: three miles fouth of Vaucouleurs. 
MAXIL'LA,yi [Latin.] The jaw-bone. 
MAX'ILLARY, adj. [rnaxillaris, Lat.] Belonging to 
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