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youth- His various grammars were founded on Lis ex¬ 
perience as a diligent inftru£!or. He was afterwards fe- 
lefted by the princefs of Conti to educate the young 
princes. Confiderable preferment was within his reach, 
and actually prefled upon him ; but he chofe to retire to 
the abbey of St. Cyran, and enter a monadic life. He 
died at the age of eighty, at the abbey of Quimperle, in 
Brittany. 
NU'GENT (Robert, Earl), an ingenious nobleman, 
was born of an ancient family in the county of Weft- 
meath, in Ireland, in the year 1709. He was bred a Ro¬ 
man Catholic, which religious profeffion he abjured, and 
became a member of the Britifh parliament in 1741. He 
was attached tothecaufe of the late prince of Wales, with 
whom he was a great favourite, and was appointed comp¬ 
troller of the houfehold,of his royal highnefs. In 1754 he 
was made commiffioner of the treafury; and in the parlia¬ 
ment that met in the fame year, he was chofen reprefenta- 
tive for the city of Britlol,and continued to fit for that place 
till 1774, when he was chofen for St. Mawe’s. In 1766 he 
was appointed one of the commiflioners of trade and 
plantations, and at the fame time created a peer by the 
title of Baron Nugent and Vifcount Clare. He was af¬ 
terwards raifed to the rank of earl; and died in 1788. 
His lordfliip is known in the literary world by, 1. A 
Collection 'of Odes and Epiftles, faid to pofl'efs great 
merit, tie was author likewife of, 2. An Ode to Man¬ 
kind, publiflied in 1741. 3. Verfes addrefl’ed to the 
Queen, with a New Year’s Gift of Irilh Manufacture. 
4. Verfes to the Memory of Lady Townfend. And other 
pieces. 
NUGGOO'RDER, a town of Ilindooftan, in Lahore: 
thirty mi es eaft-fouth-eaft of Sultanpour. 
NUGHZ. See Nagaz. 
NUG'MAT, a Ruffian fettlement on the weft coaft of 
North America. Lat.64.3o.S. Ion. 111.40. E. 
MUGO'AH, a town of Ilindooftan, in Bahar: ten miles 
north-north-weft of Chuprah. 
NUG'R, the Mahometan name forBEDNORE; which 
fee, vol. ii. 
NU'HME, a river of Germany, which rifes in the 
county of Waldeck, and runs into the Eder near Fran- 
kenberg in Upper Heffe. 
NU'I-HANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Ho-nan : thirty-two miles weft of Nan'-yang. 
NUIL'LE et VAN'DIN, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Mayenne: fifteen miles north-eall of 
Mayenne. 
NUIL'LE sur VICOI'N, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Mayenne: fix miles fouth of Laval, and 
nine north of Chateau Gontier. 
NU'IS sur ARMAN'CE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Yonne: twenty-feven miles eaft of Aux- 
erre, and twelve fouth-eafl of Tonnerre. 
NU'ISANCE, /! [iiuire, Fr. to hurt.] Something noxi¬ 
ous or offenfive..—This is the liar’s lot, he is accounted 
a peft and a nuifance ; a perfon marked out for infamy and 
fcorn. South. —A wife man who does not affifi with his 
counfels, a rich man with his charity, and a poor man 
with his labour, are perfeCt nuifances in a commonwealth. 
Swift's Mifcell. —Something that incommodes the neigh¬ 
bourhood.— Nuifances, as neceflary to be fwept away as 
dirt out of the ftreets. Kettiewdl. 
Nuisances, in law, are of two kinds : Public or com¬ 
mon, which affeCt the public, and are an annoyance to 
all the king’s fubjefts ; and Private Nuifances, which may 
be defined to be any thing done to the hurt or annoyance 
of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of another. 
I. Common or Public Nuifances, are a fpecies of offence 
again!! the public order and economical regimen of the 
date ; being either the doing of a thing to the annoyance 
of all the king’s fubjedls, or the negledling to do a thing 
which the common good requires. Of this nature are, 
annoyances in highways, bridges, and the public rivers, 
by rendering the fame inconvenient or dangerous topafs> 
either pofitively by aiSIual obflruflions, or negatively by- 
want of reparations. For both of thefe, the perfon fo 
obfirudting, or fuch individuals as are bound to repair or 
cleanfe them, or (in default of thefe lad) the pari(h at 
large, may be indifted, dillrained to repairand amend them, 
and, in fome cafes, fined. And a prefentment thereof by a k 
judge of aflifie, See. or ajuftice of the peace, fhall be in 
all refpefts equivalent to an indidlment. 7 -Geo. III. c. 42. 
Where there is a houfe eredled, or an inclofure made, 
on any part of the king’s demefnes, or of a highway, or 
common flreet, or public river, or fuch-like public' 
things, it is called a purprefure, from the French pmirpris, 
an inclofure. 1 Inf. 277. A bridge built in a public 
highway without public utility, is indiftable as a nui- 
fance; and fo it is, if built colourably in an imperfedl or 
inconvenient manner, with a view to throw’ the onus of 
rebuilding or repairing it immediately on the county. 
All thofe kinds of nuifances (fuch as offenfive trades 
and, manufactures) which, when injurious to a private 
man, are aftionabie, are, when detrimental to the public, 
punifhable by public profecution, and fubjed! to fine, ac¬ 
cording to the quantity of the mifdemeanor. 
All diforderly inns or ale houfes, bawdy-houfes, ga- 
ming-houfes, ftage-plays unlicenfed, booths and ltages for 
rope-dancers, mountebanks,and the like, are public nui¬ 
fances, and may upon indictment be fupprefled arid fined-. 
Inns in particular, being intended for the lodging and 
receipt of travellers, may be indicted, fupprefled, and the 
inn-keepers fined, if they refufe to entertain a traveller, 
without a very fuflicient caufe; for thus to fruftrate the 
end of their inllitution, is held to be diforderly behaviour.. 
1 Hawk. P. C. c. 76, 78. 
By fiat. 10 & 11 W. III. c. 17. all lotteries are declared 
to be public nuifances; and all grants, patents, or 
licences, for the fame, to be contrary to law. But, as 
State Lotteries have for many years pad been found a rea¬ 
dy mode of railing the fupplies, feveral ads have from 
time to time been made to licenfe and regulate the keep¬ 
ers of fuch lottery-offices. And by Hat. 6 Geo. I. c. 18-. 
§ 19. all projefts by public fubfeription, for adventuring 
in commerce, to the common grievance, or acting as a 
body corporate without a charter, are confidered as com¬ 
mon nuifances, and punifhable accordingly, and alfo lub- 
jeCt to the pains of preemunire. 
The making and felling of fire-works and fquibs, or 
throwing them about in any ltreet, is, on account of the 
danger that may enfue to any thatched or timber build¬ 
ings, declared to be a common nuifance, by fiat. 9 & 10 
W. III. c. 7. and therefore is punilhabl-e by fine. To this 
head alfo may be referred (though not declared a common 
nuifance) the making, keeping, or carriage, of too large 
a quantity of gunpowder at one time, or in one place, or. 
vehicle, which is prohibited by fiat. 12 Geo. III. c. 61. 
under heavy penalties and forfeiture. 
Eaves-droppers, or fuch as liften under walls or win¬ 
dows, or the eaves of a houfe, to hearken after difeourfe, 
and thereupon to frame flanderous and mifehievous tales, 
are a common nuifance, and prefentable at the court-leet; 
or are indidfable at the feflions, and punifhable by fine, 
and finding fureties for their good behaviour. 1 Hawk. P. 
C. c. 61. § 4. 
Laftly, a common fcold is a public nuifance to her 
neighbourhood, for which offence (he may be indidled ; 
and, if convidted, fhall be fentenced to be placed in a 
certain engine of correction called the trebucket, or 
clicking'-fool. 3 lift. 219. 
II. Private Nuifances are fuch as affeft either the cor¬ 
poreal or incorporeal hereditaments of an individual. 
Firft. As to corporeal hereditaments. If a man builds a 
houfe fo-ciofe to mine, that his roof overhangs my roof, 
and throws the water off his roof upon mine, this is a nui-. 
fance, for which an adtion will lie ; likewife, to eredt a 
houfe or other building fo near to mine, that it obftrudts 
my ancient lights and windows. Alfo, if a perfon keeps 
his hogs, or other noifome animals, fo near the houfe of 
another. 
