a town and seaport of Hindustan, in the British district of Cuttack, within the province of Orissa. The town, which is long and straggling, is built along the banks of the Booree Bellaum River. The English, Dutch, French, and Danes, formerly had factories here; and traces of a Portuguese establishment are also to be found in the ruins of a small Roman Catholic chapel within the town. The English factory was burnt down in November 1688, when, on account of a rupture with Aurungzebe, Captain Heath attacked and plundered the town. Balasore is the principal port of the district, and is provided with dry docks on the banks of the river, to which vessels drawing not more than 14 feet water can be floated during spring tides. Balasore roads form an extensive bay, stretching from Point Palmyras to the mouths of the Hooghly; and as the navigation of this river to Calcutta is extremely dangerous, and requires skilful pilots, it is in these roads that those who

1. "Other nations must watch over every motion of their neighbours; penetrate, if they can, every design; foresee every minute event; and take part, by some engagement or other, in almost every conjuncture that arises. But as we cannot be easily nor suddenly attacked, it may be our interest to watch the secret workings of the several councils abroad; to advise and warn; to abet and oppose; but it never can be our true interest easily and officiously to enter into action, much less into engagements that imply action and expense." (Bolingbroke's Idea of a Patriotic King.)

2. Earl Grey, when the only survivor of that illustrious group of orators and statesmen who opposed the armament, repeatedly and forcibly declared his adherence to the general doctrine; affirming, that though the epithets wild and romantic had sometimes been applied to it, he nevertheless considered the poorest peasant in England as interested in the preservation of the balance of power; and that this country ought to interfere where the balance appeared to be really in danger. Of all those who joined in this opposition, Mr Burke was the only statesman who did so upon a ground, as it appears to us, equally erroneous in fact and principle, namely, that Turkey never had been, nor ought to be, taken into consideration, in any question as to the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe. (See Debates in the House of Commons, 29th March and 12th April 1791, and 29th February and 1st March 1792.) undertake that service wait the arrival of vessels. Balasore town is distant 116 miles S.W. from Calcutta. Lat. 21.30. Long. 87.

BALATON Lake, or Platen Zee, in the S.W. of Hungary, 55 miles S.W. of Pesth. It is 46 miles in length, but of varying width, with a surface of 110 square miles, exclusive of the extensive marshes by which it is surrounded.