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1em  CHUTTERPUR, a city of British India, in the province of Bundelcund, 180 miles S.E. of Agra, and 140 S.W. of xllahabad. It was established by the Rajah Chutter Sal, the founder of the short-lived independence of Bundel cund, and the resolute opponent of the Mogul empire in the 17th century. Situated but a short distance from the diamond mines of Pannah, and forming an important entre pot in the trade between the Deccan and Benares, it soon grew into a very nourishing city. It is still a thriving place, but it maintains its prosperity less by its transit trade than by its manufactures, of which the most important are paper and coarse cutlery. It is irregularly built, and con tains but few buildings of individual interest. The palace is a modern structure of hybrid character, combining the features of an Italian villa with those of a Rajput castle. There was formerly a political agent of the British Govern ment in the city, but he has been transferred to Nowgong. The territory of which the town is the capital contains an area of 12-40 square miles, with a population of from 200,000 to 300,000. The revenue is stated at not more than twenty lacs of rupees per annum. As the Rajah Per- taub Singh had no male issue, the territory on his decease would have lapsed to the paramount power; but in acknow ledgment of his fidelity and the beneficial results of his administration, the British Government recognized a suc cessor in the person of his grand-nephew Juggut Singh.  CIBBER, or, (1630-1700), sculptor, was born at Flensburg in Denmark. He was the son of the king s cabinetmaker, and was sent to Rome at the royal charge while yet a youth. Nothing further is known of his earlier life, save that he came to England during the Protectorate, or during the first years of the Restoration. By his second wife, Miss Colley of Glaiston, a son was born to him afterwards to be known as Colley Gibber. Besides the famous statues of Melancholy and Raving Madness (&quot;great Gibber s brazen brainless brothers&quot;), once in old Bethleham Hospital and now at South Kensing ton, Gibber produced the tas-reliefs round the Monument on Fish Street Hill. The several Kings of England and the Sir Thomas Gresham executed by him for the Royal Ex change were destroyed with the building itself in 1838. Gibber was long employed by William fourth earl of Devon shire, and many fine specimens of his work are to be seen at Chatsworth. Under that nobleman he took ip arms in 1688 for William of Orange, and was appointed in return carver to the king s closet. He died rich, and, according to Horace Walpole, built the Danish church in London, where he lies buried beside his second wife, to whom he erected a monment.  CIBBER, (1671-1757), actor, dramatist, and laureate, was the eldest son of Caius Cibber, and was born in London. Sent in 1682 to the free school at Grantham, he distinguished himself by passing through all its grades, from lowest to highest, and by producing an &quot; Oration &quot; on the death of Charles II. whom he had seen feeding his ducks in the park and an &quot; Ode &quot; on the accession of James II. , with whom he had sat at worship in Whitehall Chapel. He was removed in 1687 on the chance of election into Winchester College. Caius Cibber, however, had not then presented that institution with his statue of William of Wykeham, and his son s claim was ignored. The boy went to London, and amused himself with the theatre, for which he had a passion. It was presently decided, on his own recommendation, that he should not return to school, but that he should go straight to Cambridge, for certain colleges in which university the sculptor was then executing com missions; meantime he was invited to Chatsworth, the seat of his father s patron. On his way thither, the Revolu tion broke out, and father and son met at Nottingham, where Colley Cibber was received, at the instance and in the place of Caius Cibber, into Devonshire s company of volun teers. He served in the bloodless campaign that resulted in the coronation of the Prince of Orange, and on its con clusion, at his father s request, presented a Latin petition to the earl afterwards duke imploring his interest and protection. By that nobleman s desire the young man returned to London, and ere long his craze for things histri onic enrolled him in Betterton s grand company of actors. After playing &quot; full three quarters of a year &quot; without salary, as was then the custom of all apprentice actors, he began to be paid ten shillings a week. His rendering of the little part of the chaplain in Ot way s Orphan procured him a rise of five shillings; and a subsequent impersonation, on an emergency, and at the author s request, of Lord Touch wood in the Double Dealer, advanced him, on Congreve s recommendation, to a pound a week. On this he contrived to live with his wife and family, and to produce a play Love s Last Shift. Of this comedy, highly praised by Southern and Dorset, Congreve said that it &quot; had only a great many things that were like wit in it ; &quot; Vanbrugh honoured it by writing his excellent Relapse as a sequel. In 1697 Cibber was included by Collier among the repre hensible in the famous Short View. In 1704 he brought out, for himself and Mrs Oldfield, his best play, the Careless Husband, the most striking scene in which is said to have been suggested by an episode in the life of the notorious Mrs Brett (better known as the Countess Macclesfield) to whom the MS. had been submitted. In 171 1, with Collier, Wilks, and Dogget, he became a patentee of Drury Lane theatre, where, in 1712, Addison s Cato was produced under his management. In 1715, on the occasion of the Rebel lion, Cibber adapted the Nonjuror from Moliere s Tartn/e ; the play, a mere piece de circonstance, ran eighteen nights, and the author received from George I., to whom it was dedicated, a present of two hundred guineas. In 1726 In-, pleaded the cause of the patentees against Sir Richard Steele (who had succeeded Collier as manager of Drury Lane) be- 