city, the head of a department of the same name, in the province of Hennegou, in the Netherlands. The department is divided into nine cantons, and contains 140 communes, with 92,249 inhabitants. The city is built on both banks of the Sambre, is strongly fortified, and has 650 houses, with 4020 inhabitants. There are many nails and other articles of iron manufactured here, and some woollen cloths. In the neighbourhood are glass-houses, iron foundries, and very extensive coal mines.

Charleville, a city of France, in the department of the Ardennes. It is situated on the left bank of the Meuse. It is the seat of the departmental courts of law, and contains 770 houses, and 7724 inhabitants, who are employed in the manufacture of arms, and of linen and woollen cloths.