CARLINGFORD

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CARLINGFORD , a small market town and port of Co. Louth, Ireland, in the north parliamentary division. Pop. (1901) 6o6. It is beautifully situated on the western shore of Carlingford Lough, at the foot of Carlingford Mountain (1935 ft.), facing the fine heights of the Mourne Mountains across the lough in Co. Down. It has a station on the railway connecting Greenore and Newry, owned by the London & North-Western railway of England. It was formerly a place of

great

GREAT

importance, as attested by numerous remains. King John's Castle (1210) commands the lough from an isolated

rock

. There are other remains of the castellated houses erected during the Elizabethan and previous wars. A Dominican monastery was founded in 1305, and combines ecclesiastical and military remains. The town received several charters between the reigns of

Edward

EDWARD

II. and James II., was represented in the Irish

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

until the Union, and possessed a mint from 1467. The lough is a typical

rock

-basin hollowed out by glacial action, about 4 fathoms deep at its entrance, but increasing to four times that depth within. The

oyster

OYSTER

-beds are valuable.
CARLI-RUBBI, GIOVANNI RINALDO,

COUNT

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

OF (1720-1795), Italian economist and antiquarian, was born at Capo d' Istria, in 1720. At the age of twenty-four he was appointed by the senate of Venice to the newly established professorship of astronomy and navigation in the university of Padua, and entrusted with the superintendence of the Venetian marine. After fillingthese offices for seven years with

great

GREAT

credit, he resigned them, in order to devote himself to the study of antiquities and political

economy

ECONOMY

. His principal economic works are his Delle monete, e della instituzione delle zecche d' Italia; his Ragionamento sopra i bilanci economici delle nazioni (1759), in which he maintained that what is termed the

balance

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

of trade between two nations is no criterion of the prosperity of either, since both may be gainers by their reciprocal transactions; and his Sul libero commercio dei gran (1791), in which he argues that free trade in grain is not always advisable.

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Carli's merits were appreciated by

Leopold

LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

of Tuscany, afterwards emperor, who in 1765 placed him at the head of the council of public

economy

ECONOMY

and of the board of public instruction. In 1769 he became privy councillor, in 1771 president of the new council of finances. He died at

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

in February 1795. During his leisure he completed and published his Antichitd Italiche, in which the literature and arts of his country are ably discussed. Besides the above, he published many works on antiquarian, economic and other subjects, including L' Uomo libero, in confutation of Rousseau's Contrat Social; an attack upon the abbe Tartarotti's assertion of the existence of magicians; Observazioni sulla musica antica e moderna; and several poems.

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