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children being attracted by the fcene. Other people either 
-walk about or place themfelves at the card-tables. The 
royal family are almoft always prefent on thefe evenings, 
and make a party at cards for an hour or two. A ftranger 
mull: be furprifed at feeing the king, the queen, and the 
princes, fitting in the midft of their fubjedts, who enjoy 
their amufements, in the royal prefence, without con- 
ftraint. Asameans ofdiverting themfelves,andat thefame 
time of turning matters to a good account, at the hall of 
entrance is a kind of lottery in behalf of the poor; the 
tickets are fold at a moderate price: but there is only 
one prize to a hundred blanks. This lottery promotes 
alfo the national induftry, fmce all the prizes confift of 
articles manufadtured in the country, as neck-handker¬ 
chiefs, gloves, filver-fpoons, &c.’' 
It is probable, that the ancient city of Campodunum, 
or Campidonum, flood in this neighbourhood. In 1327, 
Munich was greatly damaged by fire; and in 14.48 almoft 
entirely deftroyed. In 163a it was taken by the Swedes; 
and in 1704, 1742, and 1743, by the Auftrians, who, in 
the lafl-mentioned year, eftablilhed a coramiffion of re¬ 
gency. The French took this city in September 1796, and 
levied on the eledtor a contribution of 3300 faddle and 
draught horfes, 200,000 quintals of grain, 100,000 facks 
of oats, 10,000 pair of boots, 30,000 ells of cloth, and 20 
pidtures, with other conditions, which the fudden change 
of circumftances that followed rendered highly neceffary 
to obferve. In 1800 they took the city again. It is two 
hundred miles weft c-f Vienna, and twenty-nine fouth-eafl 
of Augfburg. Lat. 48. 6. N. Ion. 11. 32. E. Depping's Re¬ 
marks on a Tour from Paris to Munich in 1813. Baron 
d'UlilanJkVs Travels in Poland, Bavaria , Sfc. 
MU'NICHA, a town of South America, in the audience 
of Quito: fixty miles fouth of St. Yago de la Laguna. 
MUNI'CIPAL, adj. [from municipalis, Lat. of manus, 
office, and capio, I take or hold.] Belonging to a corpo¬ 
ration.— Municipal cities were thofe whofe inhabitants 
were capable of civil offices in the city of Rome. Muni¬ 
cipal, among us, is now applied to the cuftomary law's 
that obtain in any particular city or province, and which 
have no authority in the neighbouring places. Municipal 
officers, are thofe eledted to defend the interefts of cities, 
their rights and privileges, and t <5 maintain order and 
good policy: as mayor, fheriffs, confuls, bailiffs, &c. 
Chambers. —A counsellor, bred up in the knowledge of 
the municipal and ftatute laws, may honeftly inform a juft 
prince how far his prerogative extends. Drydeil. 
MUNICIPAL'ITY, J. The people of a diftridt in the 
divifion of republican France.—Do you ferioufly think, 
that the territory of France, upon the fyftem of eighty- 
three independent municipalities, can ever be governed as 
one body ? Burlie. 
MUNI'CIPES, f. An appellation given by the Romans 
to the inhabitants of the municipia, or municipal cities. 
See Municipium. 
MUNICIP'IUM, _/.' in Roman antiquity, a corporation 
borough, or enfranchifed city or town, where the inhabi¬ 
tants enjoyed their own laws and cultoms, and at the 
lame time were honoured with the privileges of Roman 
citizens; but then this privilege generally reached no 
further than the bare title. Some indeed, by particular 
merit, obtained the liberty of votes, which occafioned that 
diftindtion of municipium Jhie fuffragio, and municipium 
cum fuffragio. The inhabitants of the municipium Jine 
fuffragio were called barely Romani, but thofe of the mu¬ 
nicipium cum fuffragio were called cities Romani. 
The difference between proper citizens of Rome and 
die inhabitants of the municipium may be thus expreffed. 
The proper citizens of Rome were, 1. Regiltered in the 
cenfus; 2. Had the right of Suffrage and of bearing ho¬ 
nours ; 3. Were affeffed in the poll-tax; 4. Served in the 
legions ; 5. Ufed the Roman laws and religion ; 6. Were 
called Quu-etes and populus Romanns. Whereas the mu- 
nicipes enjoyed the three firft of thefe privileges, but 
were denied the three laft. 
Vol. XVI. No. 1104. 
MU'NIE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Hiffar: 
fifteen miles north of Hiffar. 
MUNIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. munus, a gift, and 
fero, to bring.] Bringing gifts. Bailey. 
To MUNIF'ICATE, v. a. [munifico, Lat.] To enrich. 
Cocker am. 
MUNIF'ICENCE, f. [Fr. from munficentia, Lat.] Li¬ 
berality; the adl of giving.—A Hate of poverty obl’cures 
all the virtues of liberality and munificence. Addifon. —In 
Spenferit is ufed, as it leems, for fortification or ltrength, 
from munitiones facere: 
A nation ftraunge with their importune fway 
This land invaded with like violence. 
Until that Locrine, for his realm’s defence, 
Did head againll them make, and Itrong munificence. F. Q. 
MUNIF'ICENT, adj. Liberal; generous.—Is he not 
our molt munificent benefadtor, our wifeft counlellor, and 
molt potent protedlor ? Atterbury. 
MUNIF'ICENTLY, adv. Liberally; generoufly. 
MUNIL'LA, a town of Spain, in Old Caltile: eight 
miles fouth of Calahorra. 
MU'NIMENT, f [muniment nm, Lat.] Fortification; 
ftrong hold. Support; defence: 
The arm our foldier, 
Our fteed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter; 
With other muniments and petty helps 
In this our fabrick. Shakefpeare's Coriolanus. 
Record ; writing upon which claims and rights are found¬ 
ed ; evidences; charters.—The more ancient muniments of 
Winchcombe were deltroyed by fire in the reign of king 
Stephen. Warton's Hi ft. of Kiddington. 
MlFNIMENT-HOUSE, or Muniment-room, f. in 
cathedrals and collegiate churches, caftles> colleges, or 
public buildings, is a houfe or little room of ftrength; 
purpofely made for keeping the leal, evidences, deeds, 
charters, writings, &c. of fuch church, college, &c. Such 
evidences of title to eftates, whether of public bodies or 
private perfons, being called muniments, from munio, to 
defend; becaufe inheritances and poffeffions are defended 
by them. Jacob's Law Di£l. —The venerable Gothic vault¬ 
ing of the ancient muniment-room in Redcliffe-cheft, and 
the maffy monumental cheft which preferved thefe inefti- 
mable remains. Warton's Rowley Enq. 
MUNIM'INA, f. [of the Latin munio, I defend or 
ftrengthen.] The grants or charters of kings and princes 
to churches : fo called, becaufe cum eis muniuntur againll 
all thole who would deprive them of thofe privileges. 
To MUNI'TE, v. a. [from munio, Lat.] To fortify; to 
ftrengthen. Not in uje .— Heat doth attenuate, and the 
more grofs and tangible parts contract, both to avoid 
vacuum, and to munite themfelves againft the force of the 
fire. Bacon's Nat. Hifl. —Men, in the procuring or muniting 
of religious unity, mult not diffolve the laws of charity 
and human fociety. Bacon. 
MUNI'TION,yl Fortification; ftrong hold.—All that 
fight againft her and her munition. Ifa.xx ix. 7. — Keep the 
munition; watch the way. Nahum, ii. 1.—Authority is to 
be a fenced as well as a brazen wall. The inward firm- 
nefs of one mult be corroborated by the exterior munitions 
of the other. South.— Ammunition; materials for war; 
materials for commerce.—He provided vidtuals for the 
cities, and fiet in them all manner of munition. 1 Macc. 
xiv. 10.—The bodies of men, munition , and money, may 
juftly be called the finews of war. Ralegh's Arts of Emp. 
Mailer Picklock, fir, your man o’law 
And learn’d attorney, has fent you a bag of munition. 
■—What is’t ?—Three hundred pieces. B. Jonfon. 
MU'NITY, f. [from munite.] Security; freedom. Not 
in life. —Devotion doth rather compofe the munity than 
infringe the true liberty of oaf affediion. W. Mountague's 
Dev. EJf. 
MUNKAT'ZKOE, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Kolivan, on the Torn; 180 mites eaft of Koli- 
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