Dr. Kelly's Explication of the Coins of France presents a singular picture of the modern changes of that country. We subjoin it for this, its curious political bearing. He gives a very able and detailed explanation of the same kind respecting all the modern coins of the world, in his Cambist 2 vols. 4to. London, 1826. FRANCE. GOLD COINS. The Piece of 40 FRANCS, 1818-Head of the King, with name and title, thus: LOUIS XVIII. ROI DE FRANCE. Reverse, arms of France, and 40 F. within two branches of laurel. Round the edge of the piece, DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM. O Lord, save the King The Ecu of 6 LIVRES-Head of the reigning The LOUIS-Head of the reigning King, with King, with name and title, as on the Louis. Reis name and title: thus, LUD. XVI. D. G. FR. ET NAV. REX. that is, Ludovicus XVI. Dei Gratia, Franciæ et Navarræ Rex, verse, the arms of France, between two laurel branches; legend, SIT NOMEN DOMINI BENEDICTUM, Louis XVI. by the Grace of God, King of France and a letter denoting the place where the piece was coined. Round the edge are the words and Navarre. Reverse, the arms of France and Navarre, with a crown over them. On the Pieces coined before 1786 there are two distinct shields; and, on those coined since 1786, a double shield; legend, CHRS. REGN. VINC. IMPER. that is, Christus regnat, vincit, imperat, Christ reigns, conquers, governs; under the arms is a letter, by which the mint where the piece was coined is known. The Double and Half Louis bear the same impressions. The Pieces struck in the year 1791 have on the obverse the head of the King, with the title, LOUIS XVI. ROI DES FRANCOIS. Louis XVI. King of the French. and, on the reverse, the Genius of France writing the Constitution on a tablet resting on a pillar, with a cock on one side, and on the other the fasces and cap of Liberty, with the legend, REGNE DE LA LOI, Reign of the Law; and at the bottom, L'AN 4 DE LA LIBERTE, The year 4 of Liberty. The Piece of 1793 has, instead of the head, a crown of oak-leaves, containing the words 24 LIVRES; legend, REPUBLIQUE FRANÇOISE L' AN II. French Republic, the year 2. Reverse, as on the Louis of 1791, except that the date is in figures only. The Piece of 40 FRANCS, 1802-Head of Bonaparte; legend, BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL. Bonaparte, first Consul. DOMINE SALVUM FAC REGEM, as on the 40 Franc Piece. The Ecu of three Livres, the Pieces of 24, 12, and 6 Sous, all last mentioned coins have no motto round the bear the same impressions, except that the three edge. The Ecu of 1791-Head of the King; legend, Reverse, the Genius of France, &c. as on the Louis of the same period. Round the edge, LOUIS XVI. ROI DES FRANCOIS. LA NATION LA LOI ET LE ROI, The nation, the law, and the King. The Pieces of 15 and 30 Sols, coined at the same period, bear the same impressions, except that, instead of the fasces and cock, their value is marked, and that the motto round the edge is omitted. The 6 LIVRE Piece of the Republic-The Genius of France, &c. as above. Reverse, a wreath of oak, containing the words SIX LIVRES; legend, REPUBLIQUE FRANCOISE L'AN II. and round the edge, The 5 FRANC Piece of 1803-Head of Bonaparte; legend as on the 40 Franc Piece. Reverse, a wreath of laurel, containing the words Reverse, a wreath of laurel, containing the value, 40 FRANCS; legend, REPUBLIQUE FRANÇOISE AN. XI. and, round the edge of the piece, DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE, God protect France. In 1804, on Bonaparte's being declared Emperor, the words round the head were altered to NAPOLEON EMPEREUR. The Piece of 20 Francs bears 5 FRANCS; legend, REPUBLIQUE FRANCOISE, but, on pieces coined in 1809, The FRANC of Louis XVIII. bears the same the same impressions, except the figures that impressions as the 40 Franc Piece of the same mark its value period; except the mark of the value. COIN, in architecture, a kind of die cut diagonal-wise, after the manner of a flight of a stair-case, serving at bottom to support columns in a level, and at the top to correct the inclination of an entablature supporting a vault. Coin is also used for a solid angle composed of two surfaces inclined towards each other, whether that angle be exterior as the coin of a wall, a tree, &c. or interior, as the coin of a chamber or chimney. COINAGE, as an art, has been carried to the greatest perfection in our own country, and in very modern times. From the establishment of the mint by act of parliament, in the reign of Edward II, to the year 1815, it is surprising how small were the alterations introduced by successive masters: but at this period an entirely new constitution of the mint was projected and accomplished. The history, therefore, of the British Mint and its operations, will embrace everything valuable in this art. See MINT. For COINS, considered as medals, see Nu MISMATICS. COINCIDE, v. n. Lat. coincido. To fall upon the same point, to meet in the same point; to concur, to agree. The state of several bodies or lines falling upon the same point; tendency of many things to the same end. Occurrence of many things at the same time, without previous arrangement or forethought in their agents. The very occurrence and coincidence of so many evidences that contribute to the proof, carry a great weight. Hile. Christianity teacheth nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well-inclined man. South. If the equator and ecliptick had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revolution of the earth useless. Cheyne. These circles I viewed through a prism; and, as I went from them, they came nearer and nearer together, and at length became coincident. Newton's Opticks. An universal equilibrium, arising from the coincidence of infinite centres, can never be naturally acquired. Bentley. The rules of right judgment, and of good ratioci nation, often coincide with each other. Watts's Logic. I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. Cowper, COINDICATION, n. s. From con and indico, Lat. Many symptoms betokening the same cause. COJO'IN, v. n. Lat. conjungo. To join with another in the same office. Thou mayest cojoin with something, and thou dost, And that beyond commission. Shakspeare's Twelfth Night. COIRE, a large and handsome town of Switzerland, capital of the League of God's House, and of the canton of the Grisons, is seated in a valley at the foot of the Alps, abounding in vineyards and game; and said to have been founded by the emperor Constantius. It is divided into two parts: the upper principally inhabited by Catholics, and the lower by Protestants. The former contains the cathedral built in the eighth century, the bishop's residence, and the town-house, containing the archives of the Canton: the diet of which meets here every three years. The principal support of the inhabitants is the trade carried on along the Rhine to Loudon and Zurich. It was formerly a city of Germany, and was governed by counts, but became a bishopric in the ninth century, and a part of the Grison's Republic in 1526. The government being partly aristocratic, partly democratic. In 1799 it was taken by the French under general Massena, and annexed to the Helvetic Republic. It is thirty-two miles north of Chiavenna, and twenty-two E.S.E. of Glacis. COI'STRIL, n. s. Corrupted from kestrel. It signifies a mean fellow; a runaway. He's a coward and a costril, that will not drink to my niece. Shakspeare's Twelfth Night. COIT, n. s. Dut. kote; a die. A thing thrown at a certain mark. See QUOIT. The time they wear out at coits, kayles, or the like idle exercises. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. which two bodies come together. Copulation. COITION, n. s. Lat. coitio. The act by By Gilbertus this motion is termed coition, not made by any faculty attractive of one, but a syndrome and Browne's Vulgar Errours. concourse of each. I cannot but admire that philosophers should imagine frogs to fall from the clouds, considering how openly they act their coition, produce spawn, tadpoles, and frogs. Ray on the Creation. He is not made productive of his kind, but by coition with a female. Grew's Cosmologia. COIX, Job's-tears, a genus of the triandria order, and monœcia class of plants; natural order fourth, gramina. Male, flowers in remote spikes: CAL. a biflorous, beardless glume. Female CAL. biflorous glume: COR. a beardless "glume; the style bipartite : SEED covered with the calyx, ossified. Of this there are three species, natives of the East and West Indies. The chief is C. lachryma Jobi, an annual plant, rising two feet from a fibrous root, with two or three jointed joint, resembling those of the reed. At the base stalks, and single, long, narrow leaves at each of the leaves come out the spikes of flowers standing on short foot-stalks; the seeds greatly resemble those of gromwell; whence the plant has by some writers been called lithospermum. It may be propagated in this country by seeds brought from Portugal, and sown on a hot-bed; after which the young plants should be removed each other. They require only to be kept free into a warm border, and planted two feet from from weeds. In Spain and Portugal the poor grind the seeds of this plant in times of scarcity, and make a coarse kind of bread of them. The seeds are enclosed in small capsules about the bigness of an English pea, and of different colors. These are strung upon silk, and used instead of bracelets by some of the poorer sort in the West Indies, particularly by the negroes. COKALAHISKIT, a river of North America, which takes its source in the Rocky Mountains, and, after a course of about 300 miles, enters Clark's River, a branch of the Columbia, in long. 113° W., lat. 47° N. It is deep and rapid, and its average width about sixty yards. In one part of its course it approaches within sixty miles of Dearborn's Creek, a branch of the Missouri. COKE, n. s. Lat. lignum coctum. Fuel made by burning pit-coal under earth, and quenching the cinders; as charcoal is made with wood. It is frequently used in drying malt. COKE, or CоAK, charred pit-coal, much used for smelting iron ore in malt-houses, and other places where smoke is to be avoided. It is usually prepared by putting screened coal into cylindrical ovens of brick or stone, generally about six feet by seven, and eight feet in height, and there burning it. When it is red-hot the apertures are all closed, and it is left to cool; it is then drawn out with long iron rakes, and the mass is found to have assumed an arrangement not much unlike starch. An improvement has been adopted by lord Dundonald, by means of which he receives, in a separate chamber, the coal tar. Baron Von Haak, at Newcastle, distilled the coal in cast-iron chambers, but he withdrew the soot for lamp black before the rise of the gray ashes; but the coak thus formed is not so well fitted for the iron smelting. COKE (Thomas), LL. D. a respectable divine among the Wesleyan methodists, was born September 9th, 1747, at Brecon, in South Wales, where his father was a surgeon and a magistrate. Receiving a classical education, in the public school of that place, he went, as a gentleman commoner, to Jesus College, Oxford. In 1770 be took the degree of master of arts, and in 1775 that of doctor in civil law; became, in the interim, a member of the corporation, and mayor of his native place. Soon after this he became acquainted with Mr. Wesley, and, entering into orders, obtained the curacy of South Petherton, in Somersetshire. He was soon dismissed from his curacy, when he preached at the church-door, which occasioned a riot; and on this he timely left Petherton to become an assistant of Mr. Wesley. In 1784 the latter is said to have consecrated him as a bishop for the purpose of superintending the methodistical societies in America. The doctor now, therefore, made several voyages to the United States and the West Indies, establishing meeting-houses, organising congregations, and ordaining ministers. He also visited Ireland, where he held and presided over several conferences. About the commencement of the French revolution, he attempted a mission in that country, but failed in his object. He next turned his attention to the Wesleyan cause in Wales, which he lived to see very flourishing. He now formed an establishment at Gibraltar; and on the 21st of February, 1814, sailed with some preachers for Ceylon; but on the 3d of May was found dead in the cabin of the vessel, having fallen on the floor in an apoplectic fit. He published a Commentary on the Bible; a History of the West Indies; and some Sermons and Tracts. COKE (Sir Edward), lord chief justice of the king's bench in the reign of James I. was descended from an ancient family in Norfolk, and born at Milcham in 1549. When a student, in the Inner Temple, he distinguished himself by stating the case of a cock belonging to the Temple so exactly, that all the house admired him, and the whole bench took notice of him. After his marriage with a lady of good fortune, preferments flowed upon him. The cities of Norwich and Coventry chose him for their recorder; the county of Norfolk for one of their knights in parliament; and the house of commons for their speaker, in the thirty-fifth year of queen Elizaheth. The queen appointed him solicitorgeneral in 1592, and attorney-general in 1593. In 1603 he was knighted by king James I.; and the same year, upon the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, at Winchester, he treated that gentleman with a scurrility of language hardly to be paralleled On June 27th he was appointed lord chief justice of the common pleas, and in 1613 lord chief justice of the king's bench, and one of the privy council. In 1615 he was very vigorous in the discovery and prosecution of the persons employed in poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower in 1612. His contest not long after with the lord chancellor Egerton, with some other cases, hastened the ruin of his interest at court: so that he was sequestered from the council table, and the office of lord chief justice. In 1621 he vigorously maintained, in the house of commons, that no proclamation is of any force against the parliament. The same year, being looked upon as one of the great incendiaries in the house of commons, he was removed from the council of state with disgrace; the king saying that he was the fittest instrument for a tyrant that ever was in England:' he was also committed to the Tower, and his papers were seized. Upon the calling of a new parliament, in 1625, the court party, to prevent his being elected a member, got him appointed sheriff of Buckinghamshire. To avoid the office he drew up exceptions against the oath of a sheriff, but was obliged to undertake the office. In 1628 he spoke vigorously upon grievances; and made a speech, in which he affirmed, that 'the duke of Buckingham was the cause of all our miseries.' While he lay upon his death-bed his papers and last will were seized by an order of council. He died in 1634. He published many works; the most remarkable are his Institutes of the Laws of England; the first part of which is a translation and comment of Sir Thomas Littleton, one of the chief justices of the common pleas in the reign of Edward IV. COKESBURY COLLEGE, a college in the State of Maryland, in Abington, Harford county, founded by the Methodists in 1783, and takes its name from Thomas Coke, and Francis Asbury, the American bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. The edifice is of brick, handsomely built, on a healthy spot, enjoying a fine air, and a very extensive prospect. The college was erected, and is wholly supported by subscriptions and voluntary donations. The students, who are to consist of the sons of travelling preachers, annual subscribers, members of the society, and orphans, are instructed in English, Latin, Greek, logic, rhetoric, history, geography, natural philosophy, and astronomy, |