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 CADWALADER CAEN 539 1799, but without success, and he was obliged to flee to England. He was received with distinction by the English government, and by the count of Artois, who made him lieutenant general. In 1803 he returned to Paris, with several other officers, with the design of over- throwing the government. His plot was re- vealed, and all the efforts of the police were immediately directed to his discovery. Piche- gru, his principal associate, was betrayed by a friend, and was a few days later found dead in his cell. Oadoudal was arrested in March, 1804, attempting to leave Paris in a cover- ed carriage, first, however, shooting two of the police, and shortly after was adjudged guilty of an attempt upon 'the life of the first consul. He showed great courage to the last, avowing himself to be the head of the conspiracy, and avoiding most carefully to compromise any of his partisans. CADWALAUER, John, an American soldier, born in Philadelphia in 1743, died Feb. 10, 1786. He was a member of the Pennsylvania convention in 1775 ; and at the commencement of the war was commander of a volunteer com- pany, nearly all the members of which sub- sequently became officers in the army. In 1777 he was appointed by congress a brigadier general, and took part in the battles of Prince- ton, Brandy wine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He commanded one division of the army in the attact upon Trenton, but was prevented by the ice from crossing the river in season to en- gage in anything but the pursuit of the defeat- ed enemy. He fought a duel with Gen. Con- way on account of his intrigues against Gen. Washington, and was after the war a member of the assembly of Maryland. <LEILIAS, or Apoda, an order of batrachians, with a long snake-like body, destitute of limbs, and with very minute eyes. They live in the tropical marshes of the old and new world, and attain a length of 1 to 3 feet. Their move- ments are snake-like. CJJClLirs STATICS, a Roman comic poet, con- temporary of Ennius, and the immediate pre- decessor of Terence, died in 168 B. 0. Of his works there remain only a few fragments, and the titles of 40 of his dramas, which indicate that his plays were adaptations from the works of Greek writers of the new comedy. He was highly esteemed by the Romans, who placed him, with Plautus and Terence, in the first rank of comic poets. CJ3CUJI (Lat. ccecus, blind), the rounded or sac-like commencement of the large intestine. The small intestine opens into the large intes- tine nearly at right angles, and at a distance of 2J inches from the commencement of the lat- ter. This portion of the large intestine, inclu- ded between its commencement and the opening of the small intestine, is called the csocum, or, in popular language, the blind gut, from its closed and rounded extremity. It is also called the caput coli, or head of the colon. It is the most capacious portion of the large intestine, its width being about equal to its length. It is situated in the right iliac region (see ABDOMEN), where it is retained in position by a fold of pe- ritoneum and an attachment of loose cellular tissue. From its rounded extremity it sends off a narrow tubular prolongation, four or fivi inches in length, called the vermiform appen dix, which is curled spirally in several turns, and is also retained in position by a peritoneal attachment. The specific functions performed by the caacum, as distinguished from the re- mainder of the large intestine, are not clearly understood. It is sometimes the abode of a minute parasite, the tricTiocephalus dispar, which is rarely found in any other location. < KIMIOV, the first Anglo-Saxon poet, died A. D. 680. According to tradition, he was a swineherd to the monks of Whitby, and one night a vision appeared to him and com- manded him to sing. When he awoke, the words of a poem in praise of the Creator were impressed upon his memory. He was admitted into the monastery at Whitby, where he continued to compose devotional poems. His paraphrase of parts of the Scriptures was printed at Amsterdam in 1655, edited by Ju- nius. Thorpe published an edition of it (Lon- don, 1832) for the society of antiquaries. It has been said that Milton took some ideas of " Paradise Lost " from the poems of Ceedmon. They were very popular, and furnished plenti- ful materials to the makers of mysteries and miracle plays. The only manuscript of the paraphrase extant is to be found in the Bod- leian library at Oxford. <miUS AURELIANUS, a Latin physician, a native of Numidia, who flourished during the decline of the Roman empire. He was a mem- ber of the sect of the Methodic!, and the au- thor of a medical work still highly esteemed. He divides diseases into two great classes, the acute and the chronic, to the former of which classes he devotes his first three books, and to the latter the remaining seven. < Kl.ll s IIONS. See ROME. CAEN, a town of Normandy, France, capital of the department of Calvados, upon the river Orne, 10 in. from its mouth, and 120 m. W. N. W. of Paris ; pop. in 1866, 41,564. It is on the line of the Paris and Cherbourg railway, at its junc- tion with a railway from the south. The Odon falls into the Orae at the city, and a basin is formed which is connected by a ship canal with the ocean, so that vessels of 200 tons are enabled to reach Caen. Its streets are broad and straight. William the Conqueror built here a large church, known as the aVbaye aux homines, now the church of St. Etienne, where he was buried ; while his queen, Matilda, was the founder of another church, the abbaye aux femmes, now the church of Saint Trinit6, whose elegant architecture contrasts with the austere severity of the former. The church of St. Pierre is remarkable for the beauty of its spire ; and there are several other fine churches. The finest promenades are the Grand Cours'