., but even masquerades. Here are several handsome houses. From hence there is a canal to the sea at Tilney, about eight miles. Besides a charity school for 40 children, it has a free school founded by Edward VI. with a large church, and a fine steeple, which some think is as high as Grantham spire, which is 238 feet high. Its markets are on Wednesday and Saturday, and its fairs on May 24th, and August 16th.

OUTH, a county in the eastern part of Ireland, which extends in the form of a bow or half-moon, on the side of the ocean, being much longer than it is broad; it is bounded on the south and south-west by the county of East-Meath, on the north-west by Monaghan, on the north by Armagh, and on the north-east by the bay of Carlingford, which parts it from the county of Down: it is watered by several small rivers which fall into the sea; and its south frontiers are watered by the river Boyne. Its chief towns are Dundalk and Carlingford; unless we include Drogheda, a part whereof is in this county. It is the smallest county in the kingdom; but very fertile and pleasant, and abounding with many remains of antiquities, of which Mr Wright, in his Louthiana, has given a very ample description. It contains 111,110 Irish plantation acres, 52 parishes, 5 baronies, and 5 boroughs, and returns 16 members to parliament: it is about 22 miles long and 14 broad.

OUTH, a town in the above county, having a yearly fair.a city in the Austrian Netherlands, in the province of Brabant, pleasantly seated on the river Dyle, in a plentiful and agreeable country. The walls are about eight or nine miles in circumference; but they include several fields and vineyards. The castle stands on a high hill, surrounded with fine gardens, and has a charming prospect all over the country: This town contains nine market places, 14 water-mills, 126 streets, 16 stone bridges, and several handsome palaces. The town-house is a venerable old building, adorned with statues on the outside; and the churches are very handsome, particularly the collegiate church of St Peter, but the principal ornament is the university, founded only in 1425 by John IV. duke of Brabant, with the concurrence of Pope Martin V. It contains about 40 colleges, four of which are called Pedagogia. There is in the number also an English college of friars-preachers, which owes its establishment to the liberality of Cardinal Philip Howard, brother to the duke of Norfolk, who, before he was raised to the purple, had been private chaplain to Queen Catherine, comfort to Charles II. The Irish have likewise a seminary, erected in part under the care of Eugenius Matheus, titular archbishop of Dublin, anno 1623, which receives its appointments from the Propaganda at Rome. Besides the above, there are two convents for the Irish, one of Recollets and the other of Dominicans, where divinity and the Mathesis are taught. In the last century the number of scholars exceeded 4000, but in the year 1743 the inhabitants amounted to 12,000, including 2000 students only.—At the beginning of the 14th century, under John III. it flourished considerably in the manufacture of woollen cloth: 400 houses were then occupied by substantial clothiers, who gave employment to an incredible number of weavers, so great it is said, that a bell was rung to prevent any injuries which the children in the street might receive from the crowd and hurry on their returning from work. In 1382, these weavers, however, took up arms, and rebelled against their sovereign Prince Wenceslaus, throwing from the windows of the Town-hall 17 of the aldermen and counsellors, and afterwards proceeded to lay waste great part of Brabant: but being besieged and reduced to great extremities, they submissively implored his clemency: which was granted after the execution of some of the principal ringleaders. The weavers, the chief instigators to this revolt, were banished, the greater part of whom took refuge in England; where they first introduced, or at least augmented very much, the woollen manufacture. The town, by this circumstance, being almost depopulated, the university was established to supply in some measure the loss of the rebellious clothiers. Since that time the manufacture gradually declined, no cloth of any account being made there at present. This impolitic step of the Duke Wenceslaus sent treasurers to England, through the hands of those exiled people; an important lesson to governors, that they should deal with great precaution respecting such useful members of the community. Upon the ruins of these looms was formed the cloth manufacture of Limbourg, which is carried on with good advantage to this day. There is yet standing at Louvain part of the old drapers-hall, now converted into four public schools, where lectures in divinity, philosophy, law, and physic, are given, and the public acts are made. Adjoining to the schools is the university library, which altogether compose a large pile of building. Over the door of the chief entrance we read these words, Sapientia edificavit sibi domum. The principal church is collegiate, dedicated to St Peter, which had formerly three very large towers with elevated spires, one considerably higher than the two collaterals; these were blown down in the year recorded by this chronogram, *Mala CaDVal*. From the name of this church the burghers have acquired the nick-name of *Petemen*, whose ancestors having clothed the back by a noble woollen manufacture, the modern Petemen now compose an ignoble mixture for the belly, called after them, *Peteman beer*, a sort of whitish muddy ale, which they notwithstanding send in large quantities to all parts of the country, as well as to Holland, by the canals. Louvain was anciently the capital of the province, long before Bruxelles had any claim to that title. E. Long. 4° 40'. N. Lat. 51° 12'.