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are fupported on circular pillars without bafes, and hav¬ 
ing capitals of plain upright leaves. 
Six miles north-eaft from Petersfield, but a little out of 
the road, and inSuffex, is Milland-houfe, (now the refi- 
dence of the Rev. John Coles,) which was for feveral 
years the feat of John Wilkes, efq. the original author 
and publifher of this work, and where the firft ten vo¬ 
lumes of it were almoft wholly written. This gentleman 
died at Milland, on the 31ft of March, 1810. For twenty 
years he had a warehoufe in Ave-Maria-lane, London; 
but never publilhed any works except thofe of his own 
writing or compiling: among which we may mention, 
2. The Britifh Directory, 5 vols. 8vo. containing a hif- 
tory of almoft every town and village in England, with 
a lift of the gentry and principal tradefmen. 3. Britan¬ 
nic Magazine, 13 vols. 4. Zoologic Magazine, 5 vols. 
5. Hiftory of the Wars of England, 8 vols. 6. Hiltory 
of France, 4 vols. 7. Natural Hiltory, 14 vols. wdth 300 
very handfome engravings. 
PE'TERSHAGEN (formerly Hockleve), a town of 
Weftphalia, in the county of Minden, and once the re- 
fidence of the bifhop of Minden. 
PE'TERSHAGEN, a town of Plinder Pomerania: 
twelve miles fouth-welt of Corlin. 
PF/TERSHAM, a pleafant pod-town of America, in 
Worceder county, Maffachufetts, formerly called by the 
Indians “Nichewang;” twenty-eight miles north-welt 
of Worceder. It is traverfed by Swift-river, a branch 
of Chickapee-river. The foil is rich, and here are large 
and excellent orchards ; it contains 1490 inhabitants. 
PE'TERSHAM, in Surrey. See vol. xi. p. 750. 
PE'TERSHAUSEN, a princely Benediftine abbey near 
Condance, on a branch of the lake, late under the pro¬ 
tection of the houfe of Audria; founded in the year 9S0. 
In 1802 it was, with the diocefe of Condance, given as an 
indemnity to the margrave of Baden. 
PE'TERSKIRCHEN, a town of Audria : five miles 
north of Sonneberg. 
PE'TERSON (Jofeph), was an aftor long attached to 
the Norwich company, and of great verfatility of talent. 
Ke looked the perfeCt gentleman on the dage, fenced and 
danced elegantly, excelled in the parts of Sciolto (Fair 
Penitent), and Sir Charles Raymond (Foundling), and 
was alfo a very good harlequin. He made his debut (as 
Lord Foppington) at Goodman’s Fields theatre, under 
Mr. Giffard ; and played the part of Buckingham when 
Mr. Garrick made his entree in Richard the Third. His 
end was fomewhat remarkable. In Offober 1758, he was 
performing the Duke in Meafure for Meafure, which he 
piayed in a mailer,ly ftyle. Mr. Moody was the Claudio ; 
and in the third aft, where (as the Friar) he was prepa¬ 
ring Claudio for execution the next morning, at thefe 
words— 
Reafon thus u'ith life : 
If I do lofe thee, I do.lofe a thing 
That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art— 
he dropped into Mr. Moody’s arms, and never fpoke 
more! 
He was in private life a gentlemanly, affable, and good- 
natured, man, and much beloved. He was interred at 
Bury, in Suffolk; and on his grave-ftone are the words 
of his final exit. Mr. Peterfon wrote one drama, entitled, 
the Raree Show, or the Fox trapt, an opera; printed at 
York in 1739. Biograpliia Dramatica. 
PE'TERSTHAL (St.), a town of Germany, in the 
circle of theUpper Rhine: fix miles fouth of Oppenau. 
PE'TERSWALD, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Leitmeritz : eighteen miles north-north-well of Leit- 
meritz. 
PE'TERSWALDAU, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Schweidnitz : nine miies fouth of Schweidnitz. 
PE'TERWARDEIN, a fortrefs of Hungary, on the 
north fide of the Danube, oppoiite Peterwardein in Scla- 
vonia. 3 
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PE'TERWARDEIN, a town of Sclavonja, on the Da¬ 
nube, ftrongly fortified. It is chiefly remarkable for the 
glorious victory obtained near it over the Turks, in the 
year 1716, by prince Eugene. It is 216 miles fouth-fouth- 
ealt of Vienna, and thirty-eight north-weft of Belgrade. 
Lat. 45. 26. N. Ion. 19. 37. E. 
PETE'SIA, /‘. [derivation unknown.] In botany,'a 
genus of the clafs tetrandria, order tnonogyna, natural 
order of rubiaceae, .luff. Generic Characters—Calyx : 
perianthium one-leafed, bell-fltaped, fuperior; with the 
mouth toothed. Corolla: one petalled, funnel-form: 
tube cylindrical, longer than the calyx : border four- 
parted ; lobes rounded, blunt. Stamina: filaments four, 
awl-lhaped, the length of the tube. Antherae fomewhat 
oblong. Piltillum : germ inferior ; ftyle filiform ; ftigma 
bifid, acute, Pericarpium : berry globular, crowned, 
two-celled. Seeds very many, roundifh.— Effential Cha- 
rafter. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-form ; itigma bifid; 
berry many-feeded. 
1. Petefia ftipularis: leaves lanceolate-ovate, tomentofe 
underneath; flowers in lateral thyrfes. This is a (hrub. 
Leaves oppoiite, quite entire, two inches long. Racemes 
axillary ; brachiate, fhorter than the leaf. Native of Ja¬ 
maica. According to Swartz, it is allied to Rondeletia, 
and fliould be referred to thexlafs pentandria, as appears 
from Browne’s figure and defcription, 
a. Petefia carnea: leaves oblong-lanceolate, even ; 
flowers in terminating trifid cymes. Native of the illand 
of Namoka, in the great Southern Ocean. 
3. Peteli^ tomentofa : leaves oblong, tementofe on 
both'iides. Native of the woods about Carthagena in 
New Spain. Leaves three inches long. 
4. Petefia lygiftum. See Manettia. 
5. Petefia villofa: leaves ovate,fomewhat villous; 
ftipules tipped with a briftle. Gathered by Mr. Browne 
along with the fir'll fpecies. 
Loureiro has two other fpecies, natives of Cochinciiina, 
which he names JimplijJima and trijida. ..Swartz’s P. fpi- 
cata,(Ind.Occ. 1945.) having numerous feeds and acloven 
lligma, cannot belong to this genus. 
PETESIOFDES. See Wallenia. 
PE'TEUS, a fon of Orneus, and grandfon of Erech- 
theus. He reigned in Attica, and became father of 
Mneftbeus, who went with the Greeks to the Trojan war. 
He is reprefented by fome of the ancients as a monfter, 
half a man and half a beaft. 
PETH'ER (Abraham), an ingenious and felf-taught 
artift, born in the j’ear 1756. Of his early life we know 
nothing; but the latter part of it he fpent at Southamp¬ 
ton, where a lingering difeafe, which had confined him 
during thefpace of three years under the mod calamitous, 
fufferings, terminated his exiltence, at the age of 56, 
April 13, 1812, Few men ever attempted, and at the 
fame time attained perfection in, fo many branches of 
fcience. As a landfcape-painter, his abilities were ftri- 
king, particularly in effefts of fire and moon light. The 
peculiar foftnefs of his diftances, and the brilliancy of 
his afternoon-fcenes, conferred on him the appellation of 
the Britifh Claude. He had a thorough knowledge of 
mufic, and at the age of nine years performed the orga- 
nift’s duty at Chicbefter cathedral. His philofophical 
and mathematical refearches deferve every praife : he was 
an admirable mechanic, and had conltruCted telefcopes, 
microfcopes, and almoft every inllrument relative to 
fcience, upon the molt improved principle. With an ar¬ 
dent purfuit after knowledge, he poffeffed fuch a happy 
and contented difpofition, and was fo unaffuming and 
affable, that his company was courted by all claffes. 
Hampjhire Chronicle. 
PETH'ERTON (North), a town in the hundred of 
North Petherton, in Somerfetfhire, 144 miles weft by 
fouth from London. The town confills chiefly of one 
ftreet, which is built along the road from Bridgewater 
to Taunton, and contains many good houfes. It was 
formerly called Pcdrcdan, or Pedrcd's-town, from its fitu- 
ation 
