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you became French, my heart made no difference between 
you and other parts of my ftates. As foon as circum- 
ftances fhall permit me, I (hall feel a lively fatisfa&ion in 
being among you.” 
Addreffes of this kind now appear ftrange to us, though 
we have been difufed to them but for a very few years. 
However, it Ihould not be forgotten that Inch things were. 
By the xxiiid article of the Treaty of Vienna, (1815.) it 
is Hated, that “ the king of Pruffia fhall poffefs anew, as 
formerly, in full property and fovereignty, the princi¬ 
pality of Munfter; that is to fay, the Pruflian part of the 
former bifliopric of Munfter, with the exception of that 
part which has been ceded to his Britannic majefty, king 
of Hanover, in virtue of the xxviith article.” The 4th 
feftion of that article declares, that there fhall belong to 
the kingdom of Hanover “ The lower county of Lingen, 
and the part of the principality of Pruflian Munfter which 
is fituated between this county and the part of Rheina 
Wolbeck occupied by the Hanoverian government; but, 
ns it has been agreed that the kingdom of Hanover fhall 
obtain by this ceflion an acceflion of territory comprifing 
a population of 22,000 fouls, and, as the lower county of 
Lingen, and the part of the principality of Munfter here 
mentioned might not coriie up to this condition, his ma¬ 
jefty the king of Pruffia engages to caufe the line of de¬ 
marcation to be extended into the principality of Munfter, 
as far as may be neceffary to contain that population.” 
MUN'STER, capital of the above territory, fituated in 
a very fruitful and pleafant fpot, on the rivulet Aa, not 
far from the Ernbs. Munfter is environed by double 
ditches and ramparts; and contains in it a citadel, which 
is called the Brille, and was eredted by bifhop Chriftopher 
Bernhard, of Galen, in order to curb the town. Among 
others, is the parifh-church of St. Lambert, on the tower 
of which John of Leyden, king of the anabaptifts, toge¬ 
ther with both his princes, were hung up in iron balkets. 
The town itfelf has undergone many calamities, among 
which that is in particular worthy of notice which it un¬ 
derwent in the time of the anabaptifts, in the years 1535 
and 1536. This city is remarkable for a famous treaty 
ofa general peace, which w'as fettled in the year 1648. 
It is lbmetimes called the treaty of Munfter, and fome- 
times the treaty of Weftphalia, becaufe the plenipoten¬ 
tiaries were divided, and laboured at two places at the 
fame time; the Swedes at Ofnabruck, and the French at 
Munfter. Thus, from the two treaties of Munfter and 
Ofnabruck, they have given it the general term of the 
Treaty of Weftphalia. It is fixty-five miles north-north- 
eaft of Cologne. Lat. 51.49. N. Ion. 7. 44. E. 
MUN'STER, a village of Bavaria, in the duchy of 
Neuburg, where the allies were encamped before the bat¬ 
tle of Blenheim: feven miles north-eaft of Hochftatt. 
MUN'STER, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg : ele¬ 
ven miles eaft-north-eaft of Schweinfurt. 
MUN'STER, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine: fourteen miles fouth of Lauften. 
MUN'STER, a town of the county of Tyrol: two miles 
fouth-weft of Rattenburg. 
MUN'STER, a town of Swifferland, and capital of a 
bailiwick, in the canton of Lucerne : twelve miles north- 
north- w'eft of Lucerne. 
MUN'STER, a town of the Grifons, which gives name 
to a valley, called Munjlertlial, in the League of God’s 
Houle: fifteen miles north of Bormio. 
MUN'STER, late a town of France, in the department 
of the Rhine and Molelle : one mile fouth of Creutznach. 
MUN'STER, or Munsterroth, a town of the prin¬ 
cipality of Heffe: four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Butz- 
bach, and fourteen miles north of Frankfort on the 
Maine. 
MUN'STER, or Masmunster, a town of France, in 
the department of the Upper Rhine. This town was for¬ 
merly imperial. It was taken by count Montecuculi, and 
fortified in the year 16339 but the Swedes, taking it foon 
after, deftroyed the fortifications, and put it into the 
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hands of the Fixnch. It is eight miles north-weft of 
Ruffach, and nine weft-fiouth-weft of Colmar. 
MUN'STER, in Latin Monomia, and in Irifh Mown, 
the molt foutherly province of Ireland ; bounded on the 
north by Leinfter and Connaught, and on the eaft, weft, 
and fouth, by the ocean. It contains the counties of 
Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Water¬ 
ford 5 and 3,289,932 Irifh plantation acres, 740 parilhes, 
63 baronies, and 26 boroughs. It is about 125 miles 
long, and 120 broad; and its principal town is Cork. 
Its ancient name was Mumlian; and in latter ages it was 
divided into Defmond or South Munfter, Ormond or Eaft 
Munfter, and Thomond or North Munfter. It lies between 
lat. 51. 15. and 53. o. N. and Ion. 7. 10. and io. 40. W. 
MUN'STER (Sebaftian), a diftinguiftied mathematician 
and linguift, was born at Ingelheim, in the Palatinate, in 
1649; after lultaining fome time the character of a Fran- 
cifcan monk, he quitted that order, and embraced the 
reformed religion. He became profeffor of the Hebrew 
language and theology at Heidelberg, whence he after¬ 
wards removed to Bade to hold the like offices, where he 
died of the plague in 1552. He was one of the firft among 
the German literati who attempted to improve the fcience 
of geography; and compofed a book entitled CoJbiographia 
Univerj'alis, which was printed in 1550, and translated into 
the Italian and other languages. A French edition was 
published at Paris in 1575, in two vols. folio, with cor¬ 
rections and additions. He was lb celebrated as a geo¬ 
grapher, and alfo for his knowledge in theology, that he 
was ftyled the Strabo and Efdras of Germany. He con- 
ftrufted a map of the territory of Balle, and another of 
Germany, which was corrected and enlarged by Tille- 
man Stella in 1567. Munfter was likewife great as a ma¬ 
thematician and aftronomer. Montucla fpeaks of a trea- 
tile of geometry written by him, entitled “ Rudimenta 
Mathematica;” and he compofed another on gnomonics, 
which the fame author fays is the foundation of the 
modern art of dialling. It was printed at Balle, under 
the title of Compojitio Horologiorum. In addition to 
thefe works, another is mentioned, viz. Organon Urani- 
cum, in which the author gives a theory of the planets, 
with their various motions, for more than 100 years. 
As a linguift, the following works are mentioned : 
4. A Latin Translation of the Hebrew Bible. 5. Gram- 
matica Hebraica. 6. DiCt. Hebraicte Chaldaico-Latinum. 
7. Calendarium Hebraicum. 8. Grammatica Chaldaica. 
9. Tabulae novas ad Geog. Ptolemasi, &c. Gen. Biog. 
MUNSTER BIL'SEN, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Meufe : one mile north of 
Bilfen. 
MUNSTER EY'SSEL, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Roer: twenty-four miles louth-eaft of 
Juliers, and thirty-four north-weft of Coblentz. Lat. 50. 
38. N. Ion. 6. 41. E. 
MUNSTER MEI'NFELD, late a town of France, in the 
department of the Rhine and Molelle : eleven miles weft- 
fouth-weft of Coblentz, and forty-two north-eaft of 
Treves. Lat. 50. 16. N. Ion. 7. 19. E. 
MUN'STERBERG, a principality of Silefia, environed 
by the principalities of Schweidnitz, Brieg, Neilfe, and 
the county of Glatz. It is a good foil ; and, befides flax, 
hemp, and wood, produces all lorts of grain ; and the 
neighbourhood of Munfterberg yields great quantities of 
hops. Here are likewile large breeds of horned cattle 
and Iheep. To the weft and fouth, or near the county of 
Glatz, it is very mountainous ; the Bohemian chain end¬ 
ing in thole parts, and the Moravian chain of mountains 
beginning there. In this principality are three boroughs, 
and one market-town. Its firft princes were of the line 
of the dukes of Schweidnitz. In 1653, the principality of 
Munfterberg, with the diftrift of Frankenftein, was, by 
the emperor Ferdinand, conferred as a fief on John Wei- 
chard, of Auerlberg, whole defcendants ftill enjoy it. 
MUN'STERBERG, a town of Silefia, and capital of 
the above principality, fituated on the Qlilau. The prin¬ 
cipal 
