a town of Suffolk in England, 88 miles from London, situated between two channels, where the river Ore, after having joined the Ald, falls into the sea. It was once a large populous town, with a castle; of which, and of a nunnery near the quay, there are still some ruins. The towers of the castle and its church are a sea-mark for colliers, coasters, and ships that come from Holland. There is a light-house at Orford-Nesse, which is also of great use to seamen, and is a shelter for them when a north-east wind blows hard upon the shore. The town was incorporated by Henry III. has a mayor, 18 portmen, 12 chief burgesses, a recorder, a town clerk, and two sergeants at mace. Though it sent members to parliament in the 26th of Edward I., yet it had no more elections till the reign of Edward IV. It still sends two members to parliament, and has the title of an earldom. There are still remaining the ruins of an holy house where the seamen's wives used to pray for the safety of their husbands. The town is now very mean, and no one contends for an interest in it, but such as want to make themselves a merit in the choice of the two members it returns to parliament. It has indeed, by the withdrawing of the sea, been deprived of its chief advantage, for it now deserves not the name of a harbour. It had the honour to give title of earl to the brave admiral Russell, which, after being many years extinct, was revived in the person of Sir Robert Walpole, whose grandson now enjoys it.