MOT 
MOT'TA BE BRUZZANO, a town of Naples, in Ca¬ 
labria Ultra: feventeen miles fouth of Gierace. 
MOT'TA PUL'LU, in botany. See Scirpus. 
MOT'TA di REI'NA, a town of Naples, in Capita- 
nata: fix miles fouth of Serviero. 
MOT'TA St. GI'O, a town of Naples, in Calabria 
Ultra: fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Reggio. 
MOT'TA SIDERO'NI, a town of Naples, in Calabria 
Ultra: four miles north-eaft of Gierace. 
MOTTAH'HEN, a town of Arabia, in the province 
of Yemen : ten miles north-north-eaft of Beit el Fakih. 
MOTTAPA'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Travancore: 
twenty-one miles north-eaft of Porcah. 
MOTTAREL'LE, a town of Italy, in the Paduan : 
nine miles fouth-fouth-weft of Padua. 
MOT'TE, a final! iftand in Lake Champlain, belong¬ 
ing to the ftate of Vermont. 
MOT'TE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper'Loire: three miles north-eaft of Brioude. 
MOT'TE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Vofges, fituated on an eminence, not far from the 
Mouzon. It belonged to the duchy of Bar, and was 
taken by Louis XIV. in the year 1645, when the fortifi¬ 
cations were deftroyed. It is fix miles north-eaft of Bour- 
mont, and eight fouth of Neufchatel fur Meufe. 
MOT'TE (La), in biography. See Lamotte, vol. xii. 
p. 113. 
MOT'TE ACHAR'T, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Vendee : nine miles north-eaft of Sables 
d’Olonne, and ten weft-fouth-weft of La Roche fur Yon. 
MOT'TE du CAERE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Alps : nine miles north of Sifteron. 
MOT'TE CHALENSO'N, a town of France, in the 
department of the Drome : fixteen miles fouth of Die, 
and twelve north-eaft of Nions. 
MOT'TE LANDERO'N, a town of France, in the 
department of the Gironde : four miles eaft of La Reolle, 
and fix north-weft of Marmande. 
MO'TTE St. JEAN', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Saone and Loire: fix miles weft-north-weft 
of Paray le Monial, and ten fouth-eaft of Bourbon Lancy. 
MOTTEGA'NO, a river of Italy, in the Treviian, 
which runs into the Livenza at Motta. 
MOTTE'NE, a town of Arabia, in the province of 
Yemen: eight miles fouth-weft of Sana. 
MOT'TENHAGEN, a town of Prufiia, in the province 
of Natangen : fifteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Konigfberg. 
MOT'TER, or Mot'tern, a river of France, which 
rifes in the mountains of the Vofges, paffes by Pfaffen- 
hofen, Kaguenau, See. and runs into the Rhine at Dru- 
zenlieim. 
MOT'TEVILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine : nine'miles north-eaft of Caudebec. 
MOT'TEVILLE (Frances Bertaud de), daughter of 
a gentleman in ordinary of the king’s bed-chamber, was 
thorn in Normandy about 1615. She was brought up at 
thecourtof queen Anne of Auftria, widow of Louis XIII. 
with whom fhe ingratiated herfelf by her talents and 
agreeable manners. .The jealoufy which cardinal Riche¬ 
lieu entertained of all the confidantes of this princefs 
caufed her to be banifhed from court, and fire retired 
with her mother into Normandy, where fhe married 
Nicholas Langlois, lord of Motteville, firft prefident of 
the chamber of accounts at Rouen. He was of an ad¬ 
vanced age at the time of their union, and fhe became a 
widow within two years. After the death of Richelieu, 
queen Anne, then regent of France, recalled her to court, 
and kept her about her perfon as one of the ladies of her 
houfehold. Her attachment to her miftrefs induced her 
to adopt the defign of writing memoirs of her life, for 
which purpofe (lie carefully noted down every occurrence 
that file witnefled, with all that fhe learnt in familiar con- 
verfations with the queen. She had alfo the advantage 
of being admitted to the intimacy of Henrietta-Maria, 
widow of Charles I. From thefe fources fhe compiled her 
Vol. XVI. No. 1098, 
M O T 121 
“ Memoires pour fervir a'PHiftoire d’Anne d'Anti'iche,’’ 
printed in 1723 in 5 vols, nmo, and in 1750 in 6 vols. 
Thefe memoirs arc full of minute particulars, moftly of 
fmall importance, but fome of them curious, and which 
difplay an intimate acquaintance with the court during 
the minority of Louis XIV. and are marked with the 
ftamp of truth. Some letters by this lady are met with 
in the collection of thofe of Mademoifelle de Montpenfier. 
She died at Paris in 1689. Moreri. 
MOT'TEUX (Peter Anthony ), v'as a native of France, 
being born in 1660 at Rohan, in Normandy, where allb 
he received his education. On the revocation of the edift 
of Nantes, he came over to England. He lived at firft 
with his godfather and relation, Paul Dominique, efq. 
but afterwards became a confiderable trader liimfelf, kept 
a large Eaft-India warehoufe in Leadenhall-ftreet, and 
had a place in the poft-office, relating to the foreign 
letters, being maker of feveral languages. During his 
refidence in this kingdom, he acquired fo perfect a maftery 
of the Englifh language, that lie not only was qualified 
to give a very good tranflation of Don Quixote, but alfo 
wrote feveral fongs, prologues, epilogues, &c. and, what 
was ftill more extraordinary, became an eminent dramatic 
writer in a language to which he was not native. He 
produced feventeen or eighteen dramas. This gentle¬ 
man, who feeras to have led a very comfortable life, his 
circumftances having been perfectly eafy, was yet unfor¬ 
tunate in his death ; for he was found dead in a diforderly 
lioufe, in the parifh of St. Clement Danes, not without 
fufpicion of having been murdered. This accident hap¬ 
pened to him on the 19th of February 1717-18, which, 
being his birth-day, exadlly completed his fifty-eighth 
year. Biog. Dram. 
MOTT'LEY (John), was the fon of colonel Mottley, 
who was a great favourite with king James II. and fol¬ 
lowed the fortunes of that prince into France. James, 
not being able liimfelf to provide for him fo well as he 
defired, procured for him, by his intereft, the command 
of a regiment in the fervice of Louis XIV. at the head of 
which he loft his life, in the battle of Turin, in the year 
1706. Mr. Mottley received the firft rudiments of his 
education at St. Martin’s Library-fchool, founded by 
archbifhop Tennifon; but was foon called forth into 
bufinefs, being placed in the excife-office, at fixteen years 
of age, under the comptroller, lord vifeount Howe, whofe 
brother and lifter were both related by marriage to his 
mother. This place he kept till the year 1720, when, 
in confequence of an unhappy contract that he had made, 
probably in purfuit of fome of the bubbles of that in¬ 
fatuated year, he was obliged to refign it. Soon after 
the acceflion of king George I. Mr. Mottley had been 
promifed by the lord Halifax, at that time firft lord of 
the treafury, the place of one of the commiftioners of the 
wine-licenfe office ; but, when the day came that his name 
Ihould have been inferted in the patent, a more powerful 
intereft, to his great lurprife, had ftepped in between him 
and the preferment of which he had fo pofitive a promife.” 
Finding his profpefts overclouded, he applied to his.pen, 
and wrote his firft drama, which was luccefsful. From 
that time he depended chiefly on his literary talents, and 
wrote five dramatic pieces at leaft, bsfides having a hand 
in fome others. He died in 1750. Biog. Dram. 
MOTT'LING, or Metling, a town of the duchy of 
Carniola. This town was taken by the Turks in the 
year 1451, and again in the year 1578 : ten miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Landftrafs, and 152,fouth of Vienna. Lat. 
45. 48. N. Ion. 15. 15. E. 
MOT'TO,/ [Italian.] A fentence or word added to a 
device, or prefixed to any thing written.—It may be laid 
to be the motto of human nature, rather to fuller than to 
die. L'Eftrange. —It was the motto of a bifliop eminent 
for his piety and good works in king Charles the Second’s 
reign, Infervi Deo §• la tare, Sprve God and be cheerful. 
Addifon's Freeholder. 
MQT'TRAM St, ANDREW'S, a village in Chelhire, 
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