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tleman’s " Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul,’’.not 
publilhed in London till the year i8iij the greater part of 
this article is feledled. 
In reviewing this work in the Auguft of the fame year, 
the editor of the Edinburgh Review was inlpired to utter 
a prophecy: “ The political fituation of Nepaul is curious. 
Subdued it mull be in reality, as it is at prefent by name. 
The queftion is, By whom will it be fubdued ? If it falls 
under our dominion, the ufual routine is an ambaffador, 
a treacherous treaty, a fubfidiary force, a motion in par¬ 
liament by Mr. Creevy, provifion for directors’ fons in 
the ceded country, and the cuftomary apparatus of me- 
thodift preachers. If this is not its fate, it mull become 
a great tea-board ; be vexed by ugly mandarins, and fuc- 
cumb to the laws of the illuftrious Fum-Fo. Unhappy 
country, that mull fall by the aggreffion of an emperor, 
or perifh by the Roman ambition of the chair and deputy- 
chair !” 
Accordingly in about three years the war broke out. 
It was purfued with various fuccefs, but at length ter¬ 
minated in our favour, as might have been expedled ; 
and a treaty was figned on the 2d of December, 1815, and 
ratified by the earl of Moira, governor-general, on the 9th. 
But, unfortunately, about this time the rajah died; the 
fueceffor refufed to ratify ; the war was renewed, but foon 
ended, and peace was finally ratified, after a campaign of 
not more than a fortnight’s a Clive duration, on the 4th 
of March, 1816. By the treaty, the rajah of Nepaul re¬ 
nounces all claim to the lands which were the fubjeft of 
.difcuffion between the two Hates before the war, and ac¬ 
knowledges the right of the Eaft-India Company to the 
fovereignty of thole lands. The rajah alfo cgdes to the 
company, in perpetuity, the low lands between the rivers 
Kali and Rapti, (with the exception of Bootwul Khaas,) 
nnd between the Rapti and the Gun duck; the low lands 
between the Gunduck and the Coofah, in which the au¬ 
thority of the Britifh government has been introduced, or 
is in aftual courfe of introduction ; all the low lands be¬ 
tween the river Meilchec, including the fort and lands of 
Naggree, and the pafs of Nagarcote, leading from Morung 
into the hills; together with the territory lying between 
that pafs and Naggree. With a view to indemnify the 
chiefs and barahdars of the Hate of Nepaul, whofe interefts 
will fuffer by the alienation of the lands ceded as afore- 
faid, the Britilh government agrees to fettle penfions, to 
the amount of two-lacs of rupees per annum, on fuch 
chiefs as may be feleCled by the rajah of Nepaul, and in 
fuch proportions as he may fix. The rajah further engages 
never to take or retain in his fervice any Britilh fubjedl, 
nor the fubjeCl of any European or American Hate, with¬ 
out the content of the Britilh government. And, to fecure 
and improve the relations of amity and peace between 
the two Hates, accredited miniflers from each lhall refide 
at the court of the other. 
NEPE'AN I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the South Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, near the fouth coafi of Norfolk Ifland,about 
half a mile from Point Hunter. 
NEPE'AN SOU'ND, a bay on the well coafi of North- 
America, in the North Pacific Ocean. Lat. 52. 32. N. 
Ion. 127. 30. W. 
NEPE'AN TOW'NSHIP, lies in the eafiern difiriCt of 
Upper Canada, being the eighth townlhip in afcending 
the Ottawa river, and the firlt on the wefi fide of the river 
Radeau. 
NEPENTHE, f. [vvjTrsvGnc, Gr. formed of the privative 
w, without, and forrow.j In antiquity, a kind of 
magic potion, which made perfons forget all their pains 
and misfortunes.—The nepenthe, mentioned in ancient 
authors, was the juice or infufion of a plant now un¬ 
known: Homer lays it was a plant of Egypt; and adds, 
that Helena made ufe of it to charm her hofis, and make 
them forget their pains. Chambers. 
Not that nepenthes, which the wife of Thone 
In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, 
Is of fuch power to Hir up joy as this. Milton's Comus. 
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There where no paffiori, pride, or lhame, tranfport. 
Lull’d with thefweet nepenthe of a court; 
There where no fathers, brothers, friends, difgrace, 
Once break their refi nor Hir them from their place. Pope, 
NEPENTHES, J. [a name adopted by Linnaeus, or 
. rather Breynius, from the ancient Greeks, which, being- 
formed of the negative vr„ and vrsvGo^, grief,, exprefies a 
plant furnilhed with the power of driving away care, in 
which fenfe Homer ufes the word. The borage and the 
elecampane have been fuppofed to poifefs this valuable 
property ; and the above name has been applied to them, 
or to fome potation in whofe compofition they had a (hare. 
The Nepenthes of Linnaeus is an herb, whole leaves bear 
a lingular pitcher-like veflel, into which a pure and fweet 
water is difiilled through their fialks, in great abun¬ 
dance; and this liquor might, in fome circumfiances, 
prove a welcome refrelhment to travellers.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs dioecia, order monadelphia; natural 
order uncertain, for Jullieu obferves that it has no affinity 
to any other genus. Generic charaflers—I. Male. Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium one-leafed coriaceous, coloured within, 
fpreading, four-parted ; fegments roundilh, minutely 
toothletted, almofi equal. Corolla: none. Stamina: 
filaments one, columnar, cylindric, eredl, a little fliorte.r 
than the calyx ; antherie many (fifteen to feventeen)', 
one-celled, connected into a convex peltate head, con¬ 
cave at the centre, round the upper part of the filament; 
three of them at the top ; tranlverfe. II. Female, on a 
diflin il plant. Calpx : as in the male, permanent. Co¬ 
rolla : none. Piftillum: germen ovate, four-grooved, 
fuperior, the length of the calyx ; Hyle none ; fiigtna large, 
peltate, four-lobed, hollowed out into four excavations, 
permanent. Pericarpium : capfule oblong, columnar, 
truncate, crowned with the permanent Higma, quadran¬ 
gular ; the fides grooved ; four-celled, four-valved, gap¬ 
ing at the angles ; partitions contrary. Seeds : numerous, 
oval, inclofed in long, membranaceous, angular, arils, 
acuminate at both ends, fafiened obliquely to the inner 
angle of each cell in a double row.— Ejj’ential Char after. 
Calyx four-parted; corolla none. Male : Filaments one, 
with many antherae connected into a peltate head. Fe’- 
male. Style none; Higma large, peltate, four-lobed ; cap¬ 
fule four-celled, with many drilled feeds. 
Nepenthes diftillatoria, a fingle fpecies. This elegant 
plant rifes with a fungofe thick round Halk, three or 
four feet high. Leaves alternate, fertile, wide, oblong, 
fmooth, with a very firong nerve running along the mid¬ 
dle, ending in a long tendril, generally twified, to which 
hangs a receptacle, or long cylindrical membranaceous 
fmooth hollow bag, which, on being prefTed, yields a 
fweet limpid pleafant refrefhing liquor, in fuch quantity 
that fix or eight of them are fufficient to flake the third: 
of a man. Flowers very numerous, filky or downy, in a 
lpike on long peduncles. Seeds very numerous linear- 
oblong, narrowed to both ends, dirty firaw-colour, fas¬ 
tened all round in a fuberedl pofition to the partition. 
Native of Ceylon, Ainboyna, and Madagafcar. Lin¬ 
naeus placed it in the clafs gynandria ; he doubted, how¬ 
ever, about the lex, and thought it might be dioecous, as 
it proves to be. 
M. Poiret has difiinguifhed the Madagafcar plant as a 
feparate fpecies, by the lmoothnefs of the edge of the veflel 
at the end of the leaf. In our fpecimens from that coun¬ 
try, as well as from Amboyna and Ceylon, the part in 
quefiion is uniformly crenate. Perhaps the clufier of 
flowers being Ample or compound may indicate a fpecific 
difference, but we perceive gradations that lead us to he- 
fitate. The lateral ribs of the leaves too vary in difiindt- 
nefs and direction. The pitcher at their ends is one of 
the mofl curious appendages to leaves. It holds two 
ounces or more of clear water, difiilled through the high¬ 
ly vafcular fialks, and, according to Rumphius, is the re¬ 
fuge of a fmall aquatic flirimp. 
NEP'ETA, J'. [faid to be derived from nepa, a fcorpion, 
becaule it was fuppofed an efficacious remedy for the bite 
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