LORRAIN, a sovereign state of Europe, bounded on the north by Luxemburg and the archbishoprick of Treves, on the east by Allace and the duchy of Deux Ponts, on the south by Franche Compté, and on the west by Champagne and the duchy of Bar. It is about 100 miles in length, and 75 in breadth; and abounds in all sorts of corn, wine, hemp, flax, rape-seed, game, and fish, with which it carries on some trade, and in general all the necessaries of life. There are fine meadows and large forests, with mines of iron, silver, and copper, as also salt-pits. There are a great number of rivers; of which the principal are the Maese or Meuse, the Moselle, the Seille, the Meure, and the Sarre. It is divided into three parts; the duchy of Lorrain, properly so called, which was heretofore a sovereign state; the duchy of Barr, which formerly belonged to the dukes of Lorrain, but afterwards came under the government of France; and the third comprehends the three bishopricks of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, which have belonged to France ever since the year 1552. In 1733, the emperor of Germany being at war with France, this last got possession of the duchy of Lorrain; and when there was a peace made in 1735, it was agreed, that Stanislaus king of Poland, father-in-law to the king of France, should possess these duchies, and that after his death they should be united for ever to the crown of France. It was also then agreed, that Francis Stephen, duke of Lorrain, and the emperor's son-in-law, should have the grand duchy of Tuscany as an equivalent for Lorrain. After the death of the great duke of Tuscany, in 1737, king Sta-
Stanislaus and the duke of Lorrain took possession of their respective dominions, and the cessation was confirmed and guaranteed by a treaty in 1738. The inhabitants are laborious and valiant, and their religion is the Roman Catholic. They have but little trade with strangers, because they have no navigable rivers, and because they have all necessaries within themselves: but what little trade they have consists of corn and linen cloth. Nancy is the capital town.