re straight, wide, and run at right angles with another. The houses are generally of wood, and built low; but some of them are very handsome and splendidly furnished. The inhabitants are a mixture of all nations, but the French and Spaniards are the most numerous classes. The style of living is luxurious and expensive. About six miles below this town a battle was fought between the British and Americans, on the 8th January 1815, in which the former were defeated with great loss.

ORLEANS, Peter Joseph, a French Jesuit, and author of Histoire des Révolutions d'Angleterre, was born at Bourges in 1641. He taught belles lettres for some time in his society, but afterwards devoted himself to the writing of history. This pursuit he continued till his death, which happened in 1698. He wrote also a history of the Revolutions of Spain; a History of Two conquering Tartars, Chouchi and Cambi; the Life of Father Coton, &c. His History of the Revolutions in England, under the family of the Stuarts, from the year 1663 to 1692, was translated into English, and published at London 1711, in one vol. 8vo.: to which is prefixed an Introduction, by Laurence Echard, M.A. who says, that "the great varieties and wonderful changes in these reigns are here judiciously comprised in a moderate volume with no less perspicuity than strictness; and with a beautiful mixture of short characters, nice reflections, and noble sentences, which render the whole agreeable and instructive. But while the reader is entertained with so much skill and fineness, we ought to caution him with relation to the education and religion of the author; for though he has great marks of a generous candour, and a laudable deference to all superiors; yet he is to be considered, in all places, as one in favour with the French king, and not only a true papist, but a complete Jesuit."