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144. Maita Capac. See Mayta Ccapac . Maitland (mat'land). A town in New South Wales, Australia, situated on Hunter River 83 miles north by east of we dero pul at i on (1891), including East and West Maitland, 10,214. Maitland, Sir Frederick Lewis. Born at Ranke i lour, Fife, Sept. 7, 1777: died off Bombay, Nov. 30, 1839. A British rear-admiral. He was stationed off Rochefort in command of the Bellerophon after the battle of Waterloo, under instructions to intercept Napoleon, who opened negotiations with him July 10, 1815, permi ion to sail for the United States. He refused Mainland. The largest of the Shetland Islands. Main Plot, The. A conspiracy in 1603 in favor of Arabella Stuart against James I. of England. Raleigh was implicated in it, and was imprisoned. It was the principal or "main" plot of two organized against James on his acce ion. Compare Bye Plot . Main puri, or Mynpuri (min-pöʻrē). 1. A district in the Northwest Provinces, British India, intersected by lat. 27° N., long. 79° E. Area, 1,701 square miles. Population (1891),762,163. — 2. The capital of the district of Main puri, situated in lat. 27° 14′ N., long. 79° 3′ E. Population, about 20,000. Main ten on (mant-non'). A small town in the department of Eure-et-Loir, France, situated on the Eure 37 miles west-southwest of Paris. It was a place of some importance in the time of Louis XIV. and Louis XV. Main ten on, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de. Born in a prison at Niort, France, Nov. 27, 1635: died at St.-Cyr, near Versailles, April 15, 1719. The second wife of Louis XIV. She was the granddaughter of Agrippa d'Aubigné, and the daughter of Constant d'Aubigné who was imprisoned as a malcontent. On the death of her mother she found her self in abject poverty, and was married in 1651 to the kindhearted wit and poet Scarron, who offered either to pay for her entrance to a convent or to make her his wife. She lived nine years with him, and their salon was frequented by the intellectual society of the time. In 1660 he died, and left her again in poverty. Her pension was discontinued in 1666 at the death of Anne of Austria, who had augmented it, and it was not till 1669 that Madame de Monte span gave her the charge of her son by Louis XIV. She was given a large income and a house at Vaugirard in which to bring up this child and another, born later, in secrecy. She was devoted to them, and established an ascendancy over the heart of the king, who advanced her to various positions in the court. In 1674 she purchased the estate of Main ten on, and in 1678 the king made it a mar Maipures. See May pures . Mairet (ma-ra'), Jean. Born at Besançon in 1604: died there in 1686. A French dramatist. He has been called "the French Marston." In 1631 (1629?) his most noted play, "Soph on is be," was produced. Among his other plays are "Sylvie," "Virginie," "Roland Furieux," "Sidonie," "Sylvanire," "Athénais," "Marc Antoine, ou la Cléopâtre," etc. Maison (mā-zôn), Marquis Nicolas Joseph de. Born at Epinay, near Paris, Dec. 19, 1771: died at Paris, Feb. 13, 1840. A French marshal. He served in the Napoleonic campaigns, and commanded the expedition to the Morea 1828-29. Maison Carrée (ma-zòn' kä-rā'). [F., 'square house."] An ancient building at Nîmes, France, perhaps the most perfect of surviving Roman temples. It is a igned to the 2d century. It is a Co hexastyle pseud ope ript eros, 11 columns on the flanks, on a raised basement with steps in front, and measures 40 by 76 feet, and 40 feet high. "It is constructed with the optical refinement of the curved horizontal lines hitherto considered peculiar to the Par the non and other Greek temples of the 5th and 6th centuries B. C." ( W. H. Goodyear , Amer. Jour. of Archæol., X. 1). Maison Dorée, La (lä ma-zôn' dō-ra'). [F., 'the gilded house. A noted restaurant in Paris, situated on the Boulevard des It aliens. It was built by Lemaire in 1839. Maisonneuve (ma-zo-nev'), Jules Germain François. Born at Nantes, France, 1810. A French surgeon, author of many surgical works.. Maisonneuve, Sieur de (Paul de Chomedey). Died at Paris, Sept. 9, 1676. Governor of Montreal 1642-64. He was a native of Champagne, entered the French army in his youth, and was the leader of a band of colonists who arrived at Quebec in 1641 and settled at Montreal in 1642. He remained governor of the colony at Montreal until 1664, when he was removed from office, and returned to France. Madame Main ten on married Louis privately. Her ence was almost unbounded in matters both of church and state, and she was a patrone of letters and the fine arts. Her somewhat questionable position induced her to behave with rigid propriety, and her reputation for orthodoxy was extreme. She founded a home for the daughters of poor gentlemen at St.-Cyr, and on the death of the king she retired there for the rest of her life. Mainz (mints), F. Mayence (mä-yons'), E. sometimes Mentz (ments). The capital of the province of Rhine-He e, He e, situated on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite the mouth of the Main, in lat. 50° N., long. 8° 16′ E.: the Roman Mogontiacum or Magontiacum. It is an important strategic point, and one of the strongest fortre es in Germany; has extensive commerce by the river and by rail way, especially in wine; and has important manufactures, particularly of leather and furniture. The cathedral, one of the most interesting monuments of the Rhenish Ro manesque, was founded in 975 on a different site. It has been repeatedly ruined by fire, and was finally restored much in its existing form after the fire of 1181. It is a large cruciform church, with pseudo-transepts at the west end also. Both east and west ends are flanked by towers, and larger polygonal arcaded towers surmount both cro ings. The eastern apse, with its rich arcading beneath the roof and its curious gables, is highly picturesque. The main entrance is on the north side. The interior has been adorned with mural paintings designed by Veit: it contains a remarkable number of monumental tombs of ment, but offered to carry Napoleon to England. Napoleon embarked in the Bellerophon July 15, and Aug. 7 was transferred to the North umber land off Berry Head. Maitland was promoted rear-admiral in 1830, and was appointed commander-in-chief in the East Indies and China in 1837. He wrote "Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and of his Residence on board H. M. S. Bellerophon," etc. (1826). Maitland, John, Lord Maitland of Thirl est ane. Born about 1545: died at Thirl est ane, Oct. 3, 1595. A Scottish politician. He became lord privy seal of Scotland in 1567, and spiritual lord of se ion in 1568; supported the cause of Mary Queen of Scots against the Presbyterian party; in 1587 was made chancellor by