large town of Asia, in Indostan, and capital of a province of the same name, and one of the most considerable in the country. It is of a vast circumference, and contains a great number of mosques, public baths, caravanseras, and pagods. It was once the residence of the Great Mogul; but since the removal of the court, the fine palace is going to decay. There is a magnificent walk of shady trees, which runs from this to Agra, that is upwards of 300 miles. Here they have manufactures of cotton cloths and stuffs of all kinds, and they make very curious carpets. E. Long. 75. 55. N. Lat. 31. 40.

Lainez, James, a Spaniard, companion of Ignatius of Loyola, second general of the Jesuits, and a man of a more daring and political character. Having procured from Pope Paul IV., the perpetual generalship of the new order of Jesuits, after the death of Ignatius, he got the following privileges ratified by that pontiff, which show that he was in fact the founder of the worst part of their institution: 1. The right of making all sorts of contracts (without the privity of the community) vested in the generals and their delegates. 2. That of giving authenticity to all comments and explanations of their constitutions. 3. The power of making new, and altering the old: this opened the door to their bloody political tenets, not to be attributed to Loyola. 4. That of having prisons independent of the secular authority, in which they put to death refractory brethren. Lainez died in 1565, aged 53.

Lairesse, Gerard, an eminent Flemish painter, born at Liege in 1640. He received the principal part of his instruction from his father Reneive de Lairesse, though he is also accounted a disciple of Bartsch. He first settled at Utrecht, where he lived in distressed circumstances; but an accidental recommendation carrying him to Amsterdam, he soon exchanged want and obscurity for affluence and reputation. He was a perfect master of history; his designs are distinguished by the grandeur of the composition; and the back grounds, wherever the subjects required it, are rich in architecture, which is an uncommon circumstance in that country. He had the unhappiness to lose his sight several years before his death, which happened in 1711; so that the treatise on Design and Colouring, which passes under his name, was not wrote by him, but collected from his observations after he was blind, and published after his death. He had three sons, two of whom were painters; and also three brothers, Ernest, James, and John: Ernest and John painted animals, and James was a flower painter. He engraved a good deal in aquafortis: his works consist of 256 plates, above half of which were done with his own hand. He wrote an excellent book on the art, which