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A table placed on a movable frame, enabling viands, ., to be pa ed from one story of a house to another: thus dispensing with the attendance of servants for that purpose. ume on a library shelf. Du'mont D'Urville, JULES SÉBASTIEN CÉSAR, ( door veel,) a French navigator, B. 1790. Не was not merely a good sea-captain; he was a good botanist, entomologist, draughtsman, and writer, as may be seen from his interesting account of the French expedition of 1819-20 to the shores of the Archipelago and the Black Sea. As second in command to M. Duperré, in La Coquille , he visited Peru, China, Ocean i a, ., and he brought home immense stores of both knowledge and specimens of natural history. In 1828 he was intrusted with a mi ion to discover, if po ible, some traces of the unfortunate La Perouse. On his return he published a most interesting account, in which he pretty clearly proved that the shipwreck occurred off an island to the south of Santa Cruz. Being subsequently sent to approach as nearly as po ible to the South Pole, he acquitted himself with his usual skill. We have from his pen, besides the narrative already mentioned, A Picturesque Journey round the World . This skilful and brave man was killed, with his wife and child, by the fatal Versailles railroad accident, 1842. Du'montville, in Ohio , a post-office of Fairfield co. Dumouriez, CHARLES FRANÇOIS, (doo-moore-ai,) a French general, B. at Cambrai, 1739. He entered the army early in life, and at 24 years of age had received 22 wounds, and was made a knight of St. Louis. In 1772, Louis XV. sent him with communications to Sweden, but he was arrested, and for a long time confined in the Bastile. However, in 1789, we find him a principal director of the Jacobin Club, which was composed of all who aspired to be accounted the friends of liberty. He afterwards became a minister of Louis XVI., when he strongly advised the monarch to yield the direction of the interior affairs of the kingdom to the council of the a embly then sitting, and to declare war against the foreign foes of France. The advice was disregarded, and D. was dismi ed. Still determined to devote himself to the service of the army, he proceeded to Valenciennes, where he soon gained immortal fame by his valor and his firmne , displayed at the head of the French soldiers, having succeeded La Fayette in the command of the army of the North. He rendered very important service to his country by the stand he so skilfully made against the Pru ian invaders in the forest of Argonne, in Sept. 1792; the famous "Cannonade of Valmy" taking place on the 20th of the same month. His rapid conquest of Belgium followed. Notwithstanding his succe , the Directory, not without motive, entertained suspicions regarding his designs. D. had entered into secret negotiations with the enemy, and on learning that an accusation of treason was to be brought against him, he, with several of his officers, fled to the Austrian headquarters. He refused, neverthele , to serve against his country; wandered for some time through several parts of Europe, and lastly settled in England, where he D., 1823. Du'mous, Du'mose, a. [Lat. dumosus.] Bush-like; abounding with brushes, twigs, or briers; resembling a brake or thicket. (Bot.) Po e ing a bushy form.