Colation

The act of filtering or straining liquor by pa ing it through a colander, or other perforated utensil. Co-latitude, n. The complement of the latitude, or the difference between this and 90°. Col'ature, n. Act of straining; colation. -The matter strained. Col'berg, a fortified sea-port town of Pru ia, reg. Coslin, in Pomerania, on the Persante, near its enibouchure into the Baltic Sea. Shipping, and the salmon and lamprey fisheries form its chief sources of trade. Pop . 12,936, Colbert, JEAN BAPTISTE, MARQUIS DE SEIGNELAY, & French statesman, B. at Rouen, 1619. He served his apprenticeship in a woollen-draper's shop, and afterwards went to Paris, where his talents introduced him to Mazarin, who soon employed him in most important affairs of state. On his death-bed, Mazarin warmly recommended C. to Lonis XIV., who, in 1661, appointed him controller-general of finances. C's administration became a ble ing to France. Order was restored in the finances, the revenue increased, and the royal treasury was soon enabled to furnish the means for foreign wars as well as for internal improvements. Commerce was extended, and roads and canals-including that of Langue doc-were made. He organized anew the colonies in Canada, Martin i que, and St. Domingo, and founded others at Cayenne and Madagascar. Made minister of marine in 1669, he found France with a few old rotten ships; three years later, she had a fleet of 60 ships of the line, and 40 frigates. C. improved the civil code, introduced a marine code of laws, as well as the so-called Code Noir for the colonies; and statistical tables of the population were first made out by his orders. While attending to material interests, he did not neglect the arts and sciences; all men of learning and genius found in C. a generous patron. The Academies of Inscriptions, Science, and Architecture were founded by him. In short, C. was the patron of industry, commerce, art, science, and literature-the founder of a new epoch in France. Notwithstanding the ingenuity of C., the unbounded extravagance of his master led him to raise money in ways objectionable to his judgment, and to maintain war-taxes in time of peace. He D. 1683, bitterly disappointed, because his great services were but ill appreciated by the king. The people, enraged at the oppre ive taxes, would have torn ('s dead body in pieces, but for the intervention of the military, and his burial by night. Absolute in his temper, repelling in his manners, and destitute of feeling in carrying out his plans, C. was, however, a great man, and posterity has placed him among the most eminent statesmen of any age or country. COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE, MARQUIS DE SEIGNELAY, son of the above, B. 1651, succeeded his father as minister of marine, and minister of the king's household. By his capacity and energy, he raised the French navy to its highest power, and in 1684 he led in person the maritime expedition against Genoa. D. 1690. Colbert, in Mi i ippi , a village of Lowndes co., on the Tombigbee River.