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out great difadvantage. The befiegers, encouraged by 
the prefence of their monarch, and aftifted by Vauban 
their engineer, repeated their attacks with fuch impe- 
tuofity, that the fort of Coehorn was furrendered, after 
an obllinate defence, in which Coehorn himlelf had been 
dangeroufly wounded. It was a noble fpeftacle to behold 
the two greateft engineers Europe had ever bred, Vauban 
and Coehorn, exhauft the whole fcience of attack and 
defence. Several faliies and aflaults were made ; the be- 
fieged performed wonders, but the fortune of the befiegers 
prevailed, and the citadel furrendered in fight of king 
William’s army. Namur remained in the pofl'eflion of the 
French till the year 1695, when king William re-took it, 
as related under the article England, vol. vi. p. 700. 
The French king had fo much confidence in the ftrength 
of the place, that he caufed this infcription to be put up 
over one of the gates: Rcddi, non vinci pot cjl; “ It may 
be furrendered, but cannot be conquered.” 
After the death of Charles II. of Spain, the French 
feized Namur, with the reft of the Netherlands. In the 
year 1704., the Dutch army, under Gen. Overkirk, bom¬ 
barded it from the 26th of July to the 29th, and deftroyed 
great part of the city; but the French kept pofi’eflion of it 
till the treaty of Utrecht, when the comte, town, and caftle, 
were given up to the States-General, to ferve as a barrier 
againft France ; the eledtor of Bavaria being to enjoy the 
fovereignty and revenues, and the town to contribute its 
quota to the maintenance of the Dutch troops and for¬ 
tifications. In 1746, after the French had taken Huy, and 
cut off the communication of the allies with Maeftricht, 
prince Charles of Lorraine abandoned the defence of Na¬ 
mur, and it was immediately invefted by the enemy. The 
trenches were opened on the 2d of September, and the 
garrifon, confifting of 7000 Auftrians, defended them- 
felves with equal Ikill and refolution 5 but the cannon¬ 
ading and bombardment were fo terrible, that in a few 
days the place was converted into a heap of rubbiih; and 
on the 23d day of the month the French monarch took 
poffeftion of this ftrong fortrefs, which had formerly fuf- 
tained fuch dreadful attacks. By the peace of Aix-la- 
Chapelle, it was ceded to the emperor; and fince that 
time the fortifications have been demoliflied, except the 
citadel, of which general Valence, with a detachment of 
the French army, made himfelf mafter, the 2d of Decem¬ 
ber, 1792. The French, however, evacuated it the fol¬ 
lowing year. In the year 1794, after the defeat of general 
Clairfait, near Louvain, on the 15th of July, the Nether¬ 
lands were found untenable by the allies. It was, at firft, 
the intention of the commanders of the combined armies, 
to defend Namur, and to form a line of defence from that 
city to Antwerp; but the fuccefles of the republicans, 
and their rapid movements, totally difconcerted this plan. 
Namur was abandoned by general Beaulieu on the night 
of the 16th, leaving behind him 200 men, who furren¬ 
dered both the city and citadel on the firft fummons. 
A large quantity of artillery was found at Namur. On 
the 20th, the keys of the city were prefented at the bar 
of the national convention. 
Namur is the fee of a bilhop, erected in the year 1559, 
by pope Paul IV. It had, before the reformation begun 
by the late emperor Jofeph, four abbeys of Benedidtines, 
fourteen of Ciftertians, one of the order of Premontre, 
one abbey and two priories of canons regular, feven 
chapters of canons, three chapters of noble canoodles, 
with a great number of other religious houfes both for 
men and women, and many hofpitals. It contains about 
16,000 inhabitants. It is twenty-five miles fouth-weft of 
Liege. Lat. 50. 26. N. Ion. 5. 1. E. 
NAMU'SA, a fmall ifland in the Pacific Ocean, belong¬ 
ing to the cluftcr called Meanges. Lat. 5. 1. N. Ion. 
116. 58. E. 
NAMUSS'O, a town of Mingrelia : ten miles foutli of 
Anarghia. 
NAN-BO', a town of China, of the third rank, in Pc- 
tche-li: ten miles eaft-fouth-caft of Chun-te. 
NAN-COM', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Pe-tche-li: fifteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Khi. 
NAN-FONG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-fi : forty-five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Kien- 
tchang. 
NAN-GAN', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Yun-nan: 1192 miles fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 24. 
58. N. Ion. 101. 33. E. 
NAN-GE-SU', a fmall ifiand neai the coaft of China. 
Lat. 25. 6. N. Ion. 119. 24. E. 
NAN-HO', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Pe-tche-li: twelve miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Tay-ming. 
NAN-HO'ANG-TCHIN-TA'O, a fmall ifiand near 
the coaft of China, in the Eaftern Sea. Lat, 38. f8. N. 
Ion. 120. 44. E. 
NAN-KANG', a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
Kiang-fi, on the lake Po-yang: 637 miles fouth of Peking. 
Lat. 29. 33. N. Ion. 115. 39. E. 
NAN-KANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-fi : feventeen miles fouth-weft of Kan-cheou, 
NAN-KIANG', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Se-tchuen : thirty miles north of Pa. 
NAN-KIN', or Kiang-ning, a city of China, the capi¬ 
tal of the province of Kiang-nan, laid to have been 
formerly one of the moll beautiful and flourilhing cities 
in the world. The Cbinefe, in fpeaking of its extent, 
fay, that if two horfemen Ihould go out by the fame gate, 
and ride round it in full fpeed, taking different diredtiens, 
they would not meet before night. Although this ac¬ 
count is exaggerated, it is certain, fays Grofier, that Nan¬ 
kin furpaftes in extent all the other cities of China. Its 
walls, it is faid, are fixteen miles in circumference. A 
French millionary gives the following account of its ex¬ 
tent. The luburbs, he fays, are very long, but not popu¬ 
lous ; the houfes Hand at fome diftance from one another, 
having reeds, pools of water, or plantations of bamboo, 
between them. Viewing it from the fifth ftory of the 
porcelain tower, which commands an extenfive profpedl, 
it did not appear to be above two-thirds as large as Park. 
In order to reconcile this appearance with the accounts 
that have been given of its immenfe extent, they found, 
upon travelling a full league from Nan-kin, the walls of 
a city riling amidft mountains, and appearing as if cement¬ 
ed to the rocks. Thele were the walls of Nan-kin, which, 
leaving the city where it now Hands, have, as it were, 
retired thither, to enclofe a fpace of fifteen or fixteen 
leagues, twelve or thirteen of which are not inhabited. 
This city is fituated at the diftance of a league from 
the river Yang-tfe-kiang; it is of an irregular figure; the 
mountains within its circuit having prevented its being 
built on a regular plan. It was formerly the imperial 
city, and for this realon called Nan-ldug, i. e. the Southern 
Court; but, fince the fix grand tribunals have been tranf- 
ferred from thence to Peking, it is called Kiang-niug in 
all the public adts. It has loft much of its ancient fplen- 
dour; no vellige now remains of its magnificent palace ; 
other monuments of its grandeur have alfo dilappeared. 
A third of the city is defected, but the reft is well in¬ 
habited. Some quarters of it are populous, and full of 
bufinefs. The ftreets are iels broad than thole of Peking; 
but they are very beautiful, well paved, and bordered 
with rich Ihops. One of the great mandarins, called 
Tlong-gtou, refides here, to take cognizance of all im¬ 
portant concerns : the Tartars have a numerous garrifon 
here, commanded by a general of their own nation ; and 
they occupy a quarter of the city feparated from the reft. 
The palaces.of the mandarins are not particularly dif- 
tinguilhed from thofe of the capitals of other provinces ; 
and here are no public edifices correfponding to the re¬ 
putation of a city fo celebrated, excepting its gates, 
which are very beautiful, and fome temples, among which 
is the famous porcelain tower, two hundred feet high, 
and divided into nine ftories, to the firft of which is an 
afeent of forty Heps, and to each of the others twenty- 
one. The port was formerly rendered commodious by 
