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as well as of philosophy, mathematics, the classical, and 
some modern languages. The town school has been united 
with this institution since 1805; but there are in the place 
several other seminaries; among others, a navigation school. 
The manufactures are very diversified, comprising woollens, 
linens, cotton, leather, soap, and tobacco; but above all, 
ships* anchors, of which, as of ships and boats built here, 
there is a large export. Stettin is the great outlet for the 
manufactures of Silesia, and the import of colonial goods 
and foreign fabrics required by that province, as well as by 
Berlin and other towns in Brandenburg. The vessels, in 
general small, that visit this town annually, are about 1000, 
of which nearly one-fourth are the property of merchants 
of the place. The drawbacks on its trade are the difficulty 
of navigating the Oder,, vessels drawing more than seven 
feet water being obliged to stop at Swinemunde, a small 
town at the mouth of the branch of the Oder called the 
Swine. Of the exports, the leading articles are linen, corn, 
and timber; of the imports, coffee, sugar, cotton, dye-woods, 
and wine. 
Stettin is a place of strength, but fell on 29th October, 
1806, without resistance, into the hands of the French. It 
was garrisoned by them after their disastrous retreat from 
Russia in 1812, but obliged to capitulate in October, 1813, 
when the Dutch troops belonging to the garrison hoisted the 
Orange cockade. The adjoining country, called formerly 
the duchy of Stettin, was ceded to Sweden by the peace of 
Westphalia, but seized by the Prussians in the misfortunes 
of the latter years of Charles XIL; 80 miles north-north¬ 
east of Berlin. Lat. 53.25. 36. N. long. 14. 45. E. 
STETTIN, a government or large division of the Prussian 
states, comprising the middle part of Pomerania, beginning 
at the river Peene, and extending eastwards to a few miles 
beyond the Bega. Its area is computed at 6625 square miles, 
and its- population at about 300,000. It is divided into the 
following 13 circles, viz., Randow, Anclam, Demmin, 
Usedom, Wollin, Greifenbagen, Pyritz, Saatzig, Naugard- 
Daber, Flemming, Greifenberg, Osten-Blucher, and Bork. 
See the proper names enumerated in this. 
STETTIN, New, a small town of Pomerania, in the 
government of Coslin, with 1800 inhabitants, and a gym¬ 
nasium; 41 miles south-by-east of Coslin, and 14 south-by¬ 
west of Baldenburg. 
STEUART (Sir James), was bom in 1712, and after a 
regular course of education at Edinburgh, devoted him¬ 
self to the study of the law. In conformity to the fashion 
of the times he undertook a foreign tour, and having spent 
five years abroad, returned to his native country, an ac¬ 
complished gentleman, in 1740. About three years after 
his return he married Lady Frances, the daughter of the Earl 
of Wemyss, and retired to his seat at Coltness. Having 
formed an acquaintance with the Pretender at Rome, he 
renewed his connection with him at Edinburgh, in the year 
1745; but the hopes of the exiled prince being frustrated. 
Sir James removed to France, and remained at Sedan until 
the year 1754. In the following year he removed to Flan¬ 
ders, and began to communicate.to the public the fruits of 
his literary labours. In 1757, during his residence at Frank- 
fort-under-the-Maine, he published “ A Vindication of 
Newton’s Chronology ;” and having settled in the same 
year at Tubingen, in Germany, he there published his 
“ Treatise on German Coins,” in the German language. This 
was followed, in 1761, by “ A Dissertation on the Doctrine 
and Principles of Money, as applied to the German Coin.” 
Under assurances of protection in his native country, he 
settled at Coltness in 1763 ; and in this retirement he pro¬ 
bably finished his work entitled “ Inquiry into the Princi¬ 
ples of Political Economy,” on which he had bestowed the 
labour of eighteen years. In 1769 he again presented to 
the public, under the name of Robert Frame, “ Considera¬ 
tions on the Interests of the County of Lanark.” His full 
pardon passed the great seal in 1771; and in the following 
year he printed the “ Principles of Money applied to the 
present State of'the Coin of Bengal.” He also wrote “ A 
Plan for introducing an Uniformity of Weights and Mea- 
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sures,” published after his death; and engaging in metaphysi¬ 
cal speculations, he published “ Observations on Beattie’s 
Essay on Truth;” Critical Remarks on the Atheistical False¬ 
hoods in Mirabaud’s System of Nature,” 1779; and soon 
after, “ A Dissertation concerning the Motive of Obedience 
to the Law of God,” He died in November, 1780, at the 
age of 67. His collected works were printed at London in 
1805, in six vols. 8vo. 
STEUBEN, a post township of the United States, in 
Washington county, Maine, on the Naraguagus; 311 miles 
north-east of Boston. Population 552. 
STEUBEN, a county of the United States, in New York, 
bounded north by Ontario county, east by Seneca lake and 
Tioga county, south by Pennsylvania, and west by Allegany 
county. Population 7246. Chief town, Bath. 
STEUBEN, a township of the United States, in Oneida 
county. New York. Baron Steuben died in this town in 1796, 
and here his remains lie buried, without any monument. 
STEUBENVILLE, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Jefferson county, Ohio, situated on the Ohio. It 
is a very flourishing town, regularly laid out, and contained, 
in 1817, 453 houses, 3 churches, an academy, 2 banks, a 
market-house, a woollen manufactory, the machinery of 
which is put in motion by a steam-engine; a steam paper- 
mill ; a flour-mill, and cotton manufactory, driven by steam 
power; a printing-office, from which is issued a weekly 
newspaper; an iron foundry, 27 mercantile stores, and 16 
public inns. The progress of this place has been uncom¬ 
monly rapid. In 1805, there were scarcely any houses 
where this town now stands, 69 miles by the river, below 
Pittsburg, 38 by land ; 109 above Marietta, 25 north-east of 
St. Clairsville, and 150 east-by-north of Columbus. Popu¬ 
lation in 1810,800; and in 1817, 2032. Lat. 40. 25. N. 
long. 8. 40. W. 
STE’VEN, s. [pcepen, Sax.] A cry, or loud clamour. 
Obsolete. 
Ne sooner was out, but swifter than thought. 
Fast by the hide, the wolf Lowder caught; 
And had not Roffy renne to the steven, 
Lowder had been slain thilke same even. Spenser. 
STEVENAGE, a village, of England, formerly a market 
town, in the county of Hertford, pleasantly situated-on the 
great north road, on a dry sandy hill. It consists of one 
large street, and several smaller ones, and contains a free 
school, and a small church. The name of the town was 
anciently written Sligerhaught. The manor was given by 
Edward the Confessor, to Westminster abbey, to which it 
was annexed, till Henry VIII. converted the abbey to a 
bishop’s see, after its dissolution by Edward VI. Stevenage, 
with Ashwell and other manors in the county, became by 
rant the property of the see of London, to which they 
ave since belonged. From James I. it received the grant 
of a weekly market and three annual fairs; but the neigh¬ 
bouring towns of Baldock and Hitchin have tended greatly 
to its decay. Nearly a mile southward are six large barrows, 
some of which have been opened, but nothing of conse¬ 
quence discovered. They appear to be composed of gravel 
and fine clay, and have been thought, from the titles of Dane 
and Mundane, which occur in this part of the county, to be 
of Danish origin ;-12j miles north of Hertford, and 31.] 
north-west of London. 
STEVENSBURG, a post town of the United States, in 
Culpeper county, Virginia. 
STEVENSTON, a considerable village in the district of 
Cunninghame, in Ayrshire. It contains 1777 inhabitants, 
among whom weavers and colliers are the most numerous 
classes. It is the seat of a small parish, of which the popu¬ 
lation amounts to 3607, a considerable part of the town of 
Saltcoats being situated within it. It is a very ancient place, 
being mentioned in charters as far back as in 1240. It is. 
situated nearly a mile east from Saltcoats, and 5 west-by- 
north of Irvine. 
STEVENSVILLE, a post village of the United States, in 
King and Queen county, Virginia. 
STEVENS W AERT* 
