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with them, and the faithful execution of the trust reposed inthem.
Treasurer of the Household, is an officer who, in the ab-sence of the lord steward, has power with the comptroller andother officers of the green cloth, and die steward of the Marshal-sea, to hear and determine treasons, felonies, and other crimes.committed within the king’s palace. See Household. There>s also a treasurer belonging to the establishment of her majesty’shousehold, &c.
Treasurer of the Navy , is an officer who receives moneyout of the exchequer, by warrant from the lord high treasurer,or the lords commissioners executing that place; and pays allcharges of the navy, by warrant from the principal officers of thenavy,
TREASURE-TROVE, in law, derived from the French wordtrouter, to find, called in Latin thesaurus inventus, is where anymoney, or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, is found hidden inthe earth or other private place, the owner thereof being un-known ; in which case the treasure belongs to the king: but if hethat hid it be known, or afterwards found out, the owner and notthe king is entitled to it.
TREASURY, the place wherein the revenues of a prince arereceived, preserved, and disbursed. In England the treasury is apart of the exchequer ; by some called the lower exchequer.
TREATISE, \tractatus , Lat.] a set discourse in writing on anysubject. A treatise is supposed more express, formal, and me-thodical, than an essay, but less than a system.
TREATY , a covenant between two or more nations, or the se-v eral articles or conditions stipulated and agreed upon betweensovereign powers. Treaties are of various kinds; as treaties ofPeace, of alliance, of commerce, &c.
TREBIGNA, TREBIGNI, or TREBfGNO, a town of Eu-ropean Turkey, in Dalmatia , 14 miles N. E. of Ragusa,and 60 S.°f Mostar . Lon. 18. 11. E. Lat. 43. 4. N.
TREBISOND, a large, populous, and strong town of AsiaticTurkey, in the province of Jenich, 104 miles N. W. of Erzerum ,2nd 440 E. of Constantinople . Lon. 40. 25. E. Lat. 40. 45. N.
TREBITZ, a town of Moravia , 21 miles S. E. of Iglaw, and52 N. W. of Budweis . Lon. 16. 12. E. Lat. 49. 4. N.
TREBLE, in music, the highest or most acute of the four partsm symphony, or that which is heard the clearest and shrillest in aconcert.
TREBNITZ, a town of Silesia, in the county of Oels, 12 milesN. of Breslaw, and 13 W. of Oels. Lon. 17. 15. E. Lat. 51.>5. N.
. TREE, Arbor, the first and largest of the vegetable kind, con-sisting of a single trunk, out of which spring forth branches andlea ves. Standard-trees are such as naturally rise to a great height,ai 'd are not topped. For the choice of trees of this kind to betra nsplanted out of a nursery, Quintiney recommends us to suchas are straight, six feet high at least, and live or six inches thicka j-.Wtom, and three or four at top; the bark pretty smooth and.lining, as a token of their youth, and of the good soil they grew{"■ Dwarf-trees are such as are kept low', and never suffered tola ve above half a foot of stem.
, Trees, Dwarf. See Orchard. For the planting, pruningelling, grafting, &c. of trees, see Gardening, Pruning, Graft-
TREFALGAR, CAPE, or CAPE TREFALGAR, a cape,! r °montory, or head-land, on the coast of Seville, or Andalusia ,ykpain, projecting five miles beyond the general directions ofle coast. It is situated at the entrance of the Straits of Gibral-r r > 30 miles S ( S. E. of Cadiz , 26 due N. of Cape Spartal, in Af-^ Ca > and 36 W. by N. of Gibraltar . This promontory will ever^ memorable in history, for the great naval victory, obtainedjhin sight of it, by the British Fleet , under the celebrated Ad-lr al Lord Viscount Nelson , on the 21st October, 1805, over thesi n ‘kined French and Spanish Heels. The enemy’s fleet con-tlipn of 37 slli P s of tlie line > viz - 1(5 French alKl la Spanish , whilen . m dish amounted only to 27. In this battle the British lookt - ‘ess that 19 ships; but the great Nelson lost his life in the ac-2 \v 1VI11 S only so long as to be assured of his victory. Lon, 6.•p’jj'Tat. 36. 10. N.
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Saxony, 21 miles W. of Saxe-Gotha, 35 S. S, E. of Gottingen ,and 36 E.S. E. of Cassel. Lon. 10. 19. E. Lat. 51. 8. N.
TREGANNON, a town of South Wales, in Cardiganshire , 15miles S.S.E. of Aberystwith, and 197 W. of London . Lon, 3.56. W. Lat. 52. 13. N.
TREGONY, a borough of England, in Cornwall , 16 milesN. E. of Falmouth , 41 W. by S. of Plymouth, and 245 W. by S.of London . Lon. 4. 43. W. Lat. 50. 16. N.
TREQ.UIER, a sea-port-town of France , in the department ofthe North Coasts, and province of Lower Bretagne; seatedon a peninsula, on the banks of the Trequier near the EnglishChannel .
TREILLEBURG, a «ea-port-town of Sweden , in Schonen, onthe coast of the Baltic, 30 miles S. E. of Copenhagen . Lon. 13.26. E. Lat. 55. 26. N.
TRELAWNEY, a town of Jamaica , 60 miles N. W. of King-ston. Lon. 77. 42. W. Lat. 18. 21. N.
TR EM ELLA, in botany, a genus of plants of the class crypto-gamia ; natural order Alga :. It is a gelatinous membranous sub-stance ; the parts of the fructification scarcely visible. There areeleven species.
TREMESEN, TREMECEN , TLEMSAM, or TREME-ZEN, a province of Algiers , bounded on the N. by the Mediter-ranean, £. by the province called Africa , S. by the desert ofZaarah, and W. by the kingdom of Fez. It is above 370 miifeslong, and 125 broad. The soil is very barren and mountainous,except on the north side, where there are fertile plains aboundingin corn, fruits, and pasture. This province comprehends the westdivision of Algiers , and is governed by a bey.
Tremesen, Tremecen , Tlemsam, orTREMEzEN, an ancientand celebrated city of Algiers, capital of the above province, 50-iniles S. W. of Oran, and 200 S. W. of Algiers . Lon. 1. 29. \V.Lat. 34. 40. N.
TREM1TI, three islands of Italy in the Adriatic, 15 milesfrom the coast of Naples. Their distinct names are, Capraria,St. Nicolo, and St. Domino.
TREMOLITE, in mineralogy, is a species of the talc genusof which there are three sub-species, viz. the asbestos, the com-mon, and the glassy; the colours of the last are yellowish, red-dish, grey, and green ; it occurs massive and crystallized ; it iseasily frangible, and not very heavy ; its constituent parts are,
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Tt is said to emit a phosphoric light when rubbed in the dark.Before the blow-pipe it melts without addition into a cellularwhite-coloured scoria. It is found principally in primitive moun-tains, and is there usually imbedded in limestone; it is found inmany parts of Germany, in the Shetland islands , and in the ba-saltic rock on which the castle of Edinburgh is built.
TREMOUILLE, a town of France in the department of theVienne, and province of Poitou, 33 miles E. S. E. of Poitiers ,and 6 E. of Montmorillon. Lon. 1. 10. E. Lat. 46. 28. N.
TRENCHES, in a siege, are ditches made by the besiegers,that they may approach more securely to the place attacked ; onwhich account they are also called lines of approach. The tail ofthe trench is the place where it was begun, and its head is theplace where it ends.
Trench’s Island, an island of the United States , on the coastof South Carolina , 25 miles in circumference. Lon. 80. 58. W.Lat. 32. 13. N.
TRENCK, Frederic, Baron, a Prussian nobleman, who, bysome trivia! piece of imprudence, had given such offence to Fre-deric the Great, king of Prussia, that he was kept, by the ini-quitous power of that despot under a tedious, cruel, and solitaryconfinement for above forty years, without ever being brought totrial, or confronted with his accusers. From this cruel imprison-ment, he at last effected his escape, and published a very interest-ing memoir of his fife, sufferings, and innocence. But while thisnarrative interested the feelings of every humane reader in Eu-9 G rope,