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 702 CANGA-ARGUELLES CANITZ Canea. sion of the Turks in 1645. It suffered consid- erably by the earthquake of October, 1856, and was the scene of a bloody riot against the Christians in 1858. CANGA-ARGUELLES, Jose, a Spanish states- man, born in Asturias in 1770, died in 1843. He was deputy from Valencia to the cortes of 1812. After the revolution of 1820 he was appointed finance minister. While in this of- fice he presented to the cortes a report on tho church and state property of Spain, and a pa- per on the condition of the Spanish revenue, in which he showed the insufficiency of the na- tional income to meet current expenses. He proposed an immediate loan, and to sell one seventh of the ecclesiastical property, together with the small possessions in Africa, and to levy indirect taxes. These proposals created sharp discussions, and were adopted only in part, and he retired from the ministry. When the constitution was suppressed he fled to England, where he wrote Elementos de la ci- encia de hacienda (8vo, London, 1825) ; Dic- cionario de hacienda, para el uo de la suprema direccion de ella (5 vols. 8vo, London, 1827- '8); and Olsenaciones sobre la guerra de la Peninsula, in which he disputed the current English assertions that the success of the Span- ish war for independence was mainly owing to the British armies. He returned to Spain in 1829, and was appointed keeper of the ar- chives at Simancas, where he began a his- tory of Spain from the earliest times. CANGE, Dn. See Du CANGB. CANIBAS, a tribe of the Abenaqui nation on the Kennebec river, and by some called the real Abenaquis. (See ABENAQUIS.) CANICATTI, a town of Sicily, in the province and 14 m. N. E. of Girgenti, on the river Naro ; pop. about 20,000. In the vicinity are exten- sive mines of sulphur. CAMILLA. See DOG STAR. CANINA, Lnlgi, an Italian archaeologist and architect, born in Casale in 1795, died in Flor- ence, Oct. 17, 1856. He was for several years professor of architecture in Turin, conducted the excavations at Tusculum in 1839, and those of the Appian way in 1848, and wrote on them and also on church architecture, the topogra- phy of Rome, and kindred subjects. ( AMXI, Giovanni Angelo, an Italian painter and engraver, born in Rome about 1620, died in 1666. He was a pupil of Domenichino, and his martyrdom of St. Stephen and of St. Bar- tholomew are two admirable altarpieces in the church of St. Martin, Rome. CANING, Prince of. See BONAPAKTE, LUCIEN. CAMS. I. Canis Major, a southern constellation containing Sirius, or the dog star. It is situ- ated below the foot of Orion, and contains 31 stars. II. Canis Minor, a northern constellation, whose appearance in the morning twilight gave the Egyptians notice of the approach of dog days. It is near Canis Major, and contains 14 stars, of which Procyon is the principal. CANISIIIS, Petrns, a Dutch Jesuit, born at Nimeguen, May 8, 1521, died at Fribourg in Switzerland, Dec. 21, 1597. He Latinized his original name of De Hondt (the dog). He took a prominent part in the council of Trent in 1545, was selected by the emperor Ferdinand I. for his preacher, and was the first to hold the office of provincial or ecclesiastical gov- ernor of the Jesuits in Germany. He contributed powerfully in spreading the influence of the order in that country, and established Jesuit colleges at Prague in Bohemia, at Fribourg in Switzerland, and at Augsburg and Dillingen in Bavaria. He was the author of a larger and a smaller catechism. The best edition of the former is that of Antwerp of 1587, and the most recent edition that of Landshut of 1842. The smaller catechism (Institutiones Chris- tiana Pietatis, sive Pannis Catechismtis Catho- licorum) has passed through more than 100 editions since its publication in 1566, and has been translated into most modern languages. CANITZ, Friedrich Rndolf Lndwig, baron, a German poet and diplomatist, born in Berlin, Nov. 27, 1654, died there, Aug. 16, 1699. He belonged to an ancient Brandenburg family, studied jurisprudence at Leyden and Leipsic, travelled in France, England, and Italy, and after 1677 was employed in many important diplomatic missions. He survived his wife, Dorothea or Doris von Arnimb, four years. The