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Rh  in, and pending the the &ldquo;&thinsp;three lower counties&thinsp;&rdquo; were not sure to whom they belonged, and so paid no  s. In  the  was decided, and s appointed, who defined the boundary line of  as it now stands. It was in  that  the first constitution of the  of Delaware was framed, whereby &ldquo;&thinsp;the three lower counties on the Delaware&rdquo; lost their awkward, and again had a new form of. In the Delaware, as one of the thirteen, signed the Declaration of Independence; and in  the , in convention, adopted the constitution of the. In a new State constitution was, and again in , which is now in force. Under it, the is  for four, and the  meets biennially at , the  capital. Delaware was one of the original thirteen, and, though -holding, remained loyal to the at the  of the  in.

 DELAWARE, a of the, capital of a of the same  in, is situated on the west  of the , nearly in the centre of , 24  north of. Its principal institutions are the Ohio   and a   belonging to the same body. The consist of, , en , and. A in the neighbourhood is resorted to for the benefit of its. , 5641.

 DEL CREDERE AGENT is one who, goods for his principal on, undertakes for an additional commission to the solvency of the purchaser.

 DELFICO, (1744–1835), an eminent Italian writer on political economy, was born, at Teramo in the Abruzzi on the 1st August 1744, and was educated at Naples. He devoted himself specially to the study of jurisprudence and political economy, and thus qualified himself for the valuable service he was to render to his native country by his writings on legal and economic subjects. His first publication, Saggio filosofico nel matrimonio (1774), was an eloquent vindication of marriage against the loose views that were prevalent. To his Memorie sul Tribunate della Grascia e sulle Legge Economiche nelle Provincie conftnante del Begno, addressed to the king, the Neapolitans owed the abolition of the most vexatious and absurd restrictions on the sale and exporta tion of agricultural produce. Other Memorie on kindred subjects followed, and did much to promote reform in the direction of free trade. Equally beneficial was the adop tion of the principles developed in his Riflessioni sulla Vendita dei Feudi Devohiti, in 1790, and his Lettera al Duca di Cantalupo su i Feudi Devohtti, in 1795, which were so powerfully reasoned that a law was promulgated for the sale of all feudalities reverting to the crown as free estates. During the short reign of Joseph Bonaparte at Naples, Delfico was made a councillor of state, and employed in the formation of the new judicial organization of Naples. He was employed in a similar manner under Murat; and, when Ferdinand was restored in 1815, Delfico was made president of the commission of the archives, an office which he filled until 1823, when he tendered his resignation on account of his advanced age. His sovereign acknowledged his eminently patriotic services by the grant of a large pension for life. Soon after, he retired to his native town, where he died on the 21st June 1835, at the advanced age of ninety-one. Besides the works we have noticed, on which his Neapolitan fame may be said chiefly to rest, we owe to him several general works of no mean reputation, especially Eicerche sul vero Carattere della Giurisprudenza Komana, e di sue Cultore, 1790, and Pensieri sulla Storia, e sull Incertetsa ed Inutilitfr della Medesima, 1806, which have both been several times reprinted. In the latter he has anticipated the scepticism of Niebuhr on the early history of Rome, which he treats as fabulous ; and he denies to the Romans before the second Punic war all arts but that of agriculture, and of making war on their neighbours.

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 DELFT, a of, in the province of, on the , nearly ten from , and in the line of the  between  and. It is well and regularly in the form of a, but has a rather gloomy appearance from its  being traversed by narrow stagnant s. The   comprise the Prinsenhof, or , where  was  in ; the -,  in , with antiquarian and  collections; the Old , dating from the , and containing monuments to  and , and the  of , the naturalist; the New , founded in , and interesting both for its  of 500 s, and as the -place of the s of the  of  from the s of  down to the ; the , originally erected as a  for the ; and the polytechnic , with the fine collection of  models formerly preserved in the  at. It is sufficient to mention the -magazine, the of , the , the   for the  of  students for the , the  of design, the  , and Madame Renswonde’s. For a long time the of Delft was associated, not only in, but even abroad, with the  of excellent ; but this , as well as the - which was of great importance , has become almost extinct. The present branches are -,, , and. The was founded about  by  of  after his conquest of  from. It was almost totally ravaged by in ; and in  it lost about 1200 of its  by the  of a -magazine. In the Christo Sacrum  was founded by, the  of the , for the n purpose of uniting in one community all the various branches of the. Of the celebrities of the the most famous is, whose  is shown in the. in, 23,900.

 DELHI, a district of British India under the jurisdic tion of the lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, situated between 28 13 and 29 13 N. lat. and 76 53 and 77 34 // E. long. It consists of a strip of territory on the right or west bank of the River Jumna, 75 miles in length, and varying from 15 to 23 miles in breadth, bounded on the N. by the district of Karnal, on the E. by the Jumna river separating it from Meerut (Mirat) and Bulandshahr dis tricts, on the S. by Rohtak, and on the W. by Gurgaon. With the exception of a low-lying alluvial tract in the north, and a narrow fringe of fertile soil along the river bank to the south of Delhi city, the country consists of stony or hard sandy soil, where cultivation mainly depends upon artificial irrigation. This is supplied by the Western Jumna canal, which has a course of 51 miles in the district; by the Ali Murdan canal, constructed by a celebrated Persian nobleman of that name ; by the new Agra canal ; 