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day and night. There is alfoa church in the fort, which 
ferves both for the Lutherans and Calvinifts. Over the 
gate, on one fide of the entrance towards the outworks. 
Hands the image of Mars, in a bold attitude, looking 
towards Sweden. The fort is well planted with cannon. 
The peninfula, or tongue of land along which the road 
from Pillau to Fifchhaufen lies, is called “ The Paradife 
of Pruflia,” from its extreme pleafantnefs and fertility; 
for it yields not only the neceffaries of life in great 
plenty, but alfo every thing that contributes to pleafure 
and entertainment. Near the fort is a fine plain, where 
the Frifch Haff forms a fine femicircular bay, which is fre¬ 
quented by great numbers of fwans, fea-mews, wild 
ducks, and other water-fowl. On the other fide of this 
bay lies Alt-Pillau, or Old Pillau, inhabited by fifhermen. 
It is twenty-two miles weft-fouth-weft of Konigfberg. 
Lat. 54. 37. N. Ion. 19. 55. E. 
PIL'LE of FOD'DRAY, or Pile of Fouldery, in 
the county of Lancafter ; a defence built on a creek of 
the fea, called pille, by the idiom of the county, for a 
pile, or fort, built for the fafeguard or protection of any 
place. This pile was ereCted there by the abbot of Four- 
nefs, in the firft year of Edward III. 
PILLED GAR'LIC, or Pill-garlic, /. [from pill, 
to peel.] One whofe hair is fallen off by a difeafe. “ A 
pleafant difeourfe betweene the authour and pild-garlike: 
w’herein is declared the nature of the difeafe.” 410. 
1619.—A fneaking or hen-hearted fellow. Dr. Johnfon. 
—Rather, a poor forfaken wretch. Todd. — Garlick, Mr. 
Steevens has obferved in a note on Shakefpeare’s 
Coriolanus, was once much ufed in England, and after¬ 
wards as much out of fafhion. “Fortune favours no 
body but garlick, nor garlick neither now, &c.” Decker, 
161 a. Hence, perhaps, the cant denomination Pil-gatlick 
for a deferted fellow, a perfon left to fuffer without 
friends to aflift him. Steevens. 
This compound word (fays our lamented friend and 
correfpondent the Etymological Gleaner, often quoted) 
has been mifunderftood as to its real meaning. A head 
of garlic, when the white wrapper is taken off, is of no 
ufe; and therefore defpifed, fince it has loft thelharpnefs 
of its flavour. A pill-garlic, pild-gurlic, or pilled garlic, 
is confequently, by metaphor, a good-for-nothing fellow, 
without money, credit, or friends. It may alfo be ex¬ 
plained in another way. Labourers in France now, and 
formerly in England (fee above), ufed much garlic, and 
rubbed their bread with it: hence a pill-garlic meant a 
poor man who was peeling his garlic, to give a fliarp tafte 
to his dry bread, and to make it palatable. 
PII.LEE'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : nine 
miles north-weft of Dalmachery. 
PIL'LER,/. [ pilleur, Fr.] A plunderer; a robber.— 
Pillours and deltroiers of holy chirches goodes. Chaucer’s 
PerJ. Tale—The pil/ers, the pollers, and ufurers. Confut. 
of N. Shaxton, 1546. 
PIL'LERSTORFF, a town of Auftria, on the river 
Rufbach : eight miles eaft-north-eaft Korn-Neuberg. 
PIL'LERY, J. [pillerie, Fr.] Rapine ; robbery. 
Ohfolete. 
PILLIBE'AT, a town of Hindooftan, in Rohilcund : 
twenty-eight miles north-eaft Bereiliy, 120 north-north- 
weft Lucknow. Lat. 28. 36. N. Ion. 80. 10. E. 
PILLING HA'LL and MOSS', Lancalhire, are between 
Garftang and the fea. On Saturday the 26th of January, 
1744-5, a P art of Pilling Mofs, lying between Hefcomb- 
houfes and Wild Bear, was obferved to rife to a furprifing 
height: after a ftiort time it funk as much below the 
level, and moved flowly towards the fouth fide: in half- 
an-hour’s time it covered twenty acres of land. The im¬ 
proved land adjoining that part of the Mofs which moved, 
was a concave circle containing near 100 acres, W'hich 
was well nigh filled up with mofs and water. In fome 
parts, it was thought to be five yards deep. A family 
was driven out of their dwelling-houfe, which was quite 
furrounded, and the fabric tumbling down. The part of 
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the Mofs which was funk like the bed of a river ran 
north and fouth, was above a mile in length, and near 
half a mile in breadth ; fo that it was apprehended there 
would be a continual current to the fouth. A man was 
going over the Mofs when it began to move : as he was 
going eaftward, he perceived, to his great aftonifhment, 
that the ground under his feet moved fouthward. He 
turned back fpeedily, and had the good fortune to efcape 
being fwallowed up. Wilkes's Britijh Directory. 
PIL'LION, f. [from pillow, or from paille, Fr. ftraw.] 
A foft fiddle let behind a horfeman for a woman to fit 
on : 
The horfe and pillion both were gone; 
Phyllis, it feems, was fled with John. Swift. 
A pad; a pannel; a low faddle.—I thought that the 
manner had been Irifh, as alfo the furniture of his horfe, 
his (hank pillion without ftirrups. Spenfer. —The pad of 
the faddle that touches the horfe. 
PIL'LOC, a high pointed rock in the Mediterranean, 
near the coast of Algiers: three miles north-weft of Cape 
Zibeeb. 
PIL'ON (Frederic), was born at Cork in 1750, and 
at a very early age diftinguilhed for his clafflcal attain¬ 
ments, and a great difplay of abilities in oratory. Before 
he reached his twentieth year, he was fent to Edinburgh, 
to ftudy medicine ; but, finding little gratification in the 
attendance on leCtures, and lefs in the infpeCtion of 
anatomical fubjeCts, he turned to purfuits more confonant 
to his feelings, and determined to indulge his partiality 
for the Mufes, by going on the ftage. To his fuccefs as 
an aCtor, however, there were obftades which genius 
could not fubdue, nor even induftry remove: his voice was 
deficient in melody, and kis figure wanted grace and im¬ 
portance. He made his firft appearance at the Edinburgh 
theatre, in Oroonoko : his conception was good, and his 
diferimination far beyond the mechanifm of general 
aCting; but his defedts were too obvious, and a few trials 
convinced him that he could never fucceed on the ftage. 
He now felt all the confequences of imprudence, as, 
by the difpleafure of his friends, he was left without any 
other refource. He therefore continued to play for three 
or four years at the provincial theatres in the northern 
parts of this kingdom. At length he returned to Cork, 
where, yielding to the advice of fome judicious friends, 
he abandoned a profeflion for which he found himfelf fo 
unfit. He then repaired to London, and commenced 
literary adventurer. On his firft coming to town, he was 
engaged by Mr. Griffin, bookfeller, and then printer of 
the Morning Poft, to write for that paper; but, at the 
death of his employer, he loft his fituation. Thus ne- 
ceflitated, he exercifed his pen in occafional traCts ; and, 
having produced “A critical Effay on Hamlet, as per¬ 
formed by Mr. Henderfon,” procured the friendfhip and 
patronage of Mr. Colman. He was fortunate in adapting 
temporary fubjeCts to the ftage, and in that line had fome 
fuccefs. If his pieces do not difplay much ingenuity or 
invention, or afford any confiderable ihare of fatisfaCtion 
to the auditor or reader, it fhould be remembered that all 
of them are evidently the productions of hafte, intended 
merely to take the advantage of fome temporary public 
event, which would not allow of opportunity for the cor¬ 
rections of leifure or judgment, and therefore entitled to 
much indulgence. At length, by pecuniary embaraff- 
ments, Pilon was obliged to retire to France. During 
his abfence there, however, affairs were accommodated 
by his friends, and he returned to England, when he 
married Miss Drury, of Kingfton (1787), and died 
Jan. 17, 1788. He was buried at Lambeth. 
His knowledge of the world rendered him an agreeable 
companion, while the gentlenefs of his heart made him 
no lefs acceptable as a friend. His dramas are as follow: 
1. The Invafion ; or, A Trip to Brighthelmftone; a 
farce; 1778. 2. The Liverpool Prize; a farce; 1779, 
3. Illumination; or. The Glaziers’ Confpiracy; a prelude; 
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