STEPHEN, a celebrated minister of the reformed religion, born at Nismes, left France at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and retired to Rotterdam, where he began a new Journal des Scavans, and, afterwards removing to Berlin, continued it there three years. At this last place he was made professor of philosophy, and discharged that office with much honour and reputation. His principal work is a philosophical dictionary in Latin, which he published at Rotterdam in 1692, and gave a new edition of it, much augmented, at Lewarden, in 1703, in folio. He died in 1725, aged eighty-five.

CHAVES, a fortified town of Portugal, in the province Entre-Duero-e-Minho. It is situated on the northern frontier, towards Galicia, distant three leagues from Monterrey, and near the banks of the Tamaga, over which there is a bridge of Roman construction, with sixteen arches, and whose strength shows the antiquity of its date. It possesses 3650 inhabitants. Lat. 41. 46. N.