in general, the government, direction, or management of affairs, and particularly the exercise of distributive justice; among ecclesiastics, it is often used to express the giving or dispensing the sacraments, &c.

is also the name given by the Spaniards in Peru to the staple magazine, or warehouse, established at Callao, a small town on the S. Sea, which is the port of Lima, the capital of that part of South America, and particularly of Peru. The foreign ships, which have leave to trade along that coast, are obliged to unload here, paying 13 per cent. of the price they fell for, if the cargo be entire, and even 16 per cent. if otherwise; besides which, they pay 3 per 1000 duty, for customship and some other small royal rights and claims.