KESSEL, a town of Upper Guelderland, in the Netherlands, with a handsome castle. It is the chief town in the territory of the same name, and seated on the river Meuse, between Ruremond and Venlo, it being about five miles from each. It was ceded to the king of Prussia, by the treaty of Utrecht. E. Long. 6. 13. N. Lat. 41. 22.