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desires to become better acquainted with the talents 

 of a bayadeer, only a hint is needed. For a girl of 

 the greatest attractions, the matron to whom she 

 belongs receives a hundred rupees for an evening, 

 and as much for a night, besides a present for the 

 girl. After their seventeenth year, when their first 

 cnarms have faded, they retire to a pagoda (the 

 temple of their idols), under the protection of the 

 Bramins, but not, like public girls in Europe, to 

 become devotees. They continue to exercise their 

 profession in the temple, and what they gain belongs 

 to the Bramins, who give them food and shelter. 

 Their profession is not thought infamous in India. 



BAYAMO, or ST SALVADOR ; a town of Cuba, on a 

 river which forms a port on the S. E. coast; 520 

 miles E. S. E. Havaunah; Ion. 76 55' W.; lat. 

 20 46' N. ; population estimated at 12,000. The 

 town is about twenty miles distant from the port. It 

 gives name to a channel situated between the main 

 land of Cuba and the islands called the Queen's 

 Gardens. 



BAYARD, James A., an eminent American lawyer 

 and politician, was born in Philadelphia, in 1767. 

 His classical education was completed at Princeton 

 college. In the year 1784, he engaged in the study 

 of the law, and, on his admission to the bar, settled 

 in the state of Delaware, where he soon acquired 

 considerable practice and reputation. A few years 

 after he reached his majority, he was elected a re- 

 presentative of Delaware in Congress. The first 

 occasion, on which he particularly distinguished him- 

 self, was the impeachment of William Blount, a 

 senator of the United States. Mr B. was chairman 

 of the committee of eleven, who were selected, by 

 the house of representatives, to conduct that impeach- 

 ment. He took the chief and a very brilliant part 

 in the discussion of the constitutional questions which 

 arose out of the successful plea of the accused to the 

 jurisdiction of the senate. At an early period of his 

 political caree", president Adams offered him the 

 post of envoy to the French republic, which pruden- 

 tial reasons induced him to decline. Mr B. was one 

 of the leaders of the federal party in congress at the 

 epoch of the election of Mr Jefferson to the office of 

 president. In the memorable contest in the house 

 of representatives, which was produced by the equa- 

 lity of votes for Mr Jefferson and colonel Burr, he 

 finally prevailed upon his political coadjutors to adopt 

 tiie mode of proceeding which enabled the friends of 

 Mr Jefferson to triumph. Hostile as he was to that 

 statesman, and much as he had reason to expect of 

 personal advantage from a different issue, he sacri- 

 ficed party feeling and ambitious hope, when he per- 

 ceived that the peace of the country and the stability 

 of the constitution might be endangered by continu- 

 ing the struggle. In no debate of the house did Mr 

 B. display his genius more than in that which pre- 

 ceded the repeal, in March 1802, of the judiciary 

 bill. A volume of the speeches which were delivered 

 in this famous controversy has been published. It 

 was almost universally conceded that he was the 

 ablest advocate of the system or organization which 

 was destroyed. He continued in the house of repre- 

 sentatives after the change of administration, always 

 conspicuous for his sound principles, constant acute- 

 ness, extensive knowledge, and manly, copious elo- 

 quence. Elected to the senate of the United States 

 by the legislature of Delaware, he displayed, for 

 several years, in that assembly, the same talents and 

 patriotism. In 1812, he strenuously opposed the 

 declaration of war with Great Britain. President 

 Madison selected him as one of the commissioners to 

 treat for peace under the proffered mediation of the 

 emperor Alexander of Russia. He embarked on this 

 h;i]iortant mission, which had not been sought nor 



I expected by himself or his friends for him, from the 

 I port of Philadelphia, May 8, 1813, and arrived at 

 | St Petersburg in July of that year. The absence of 

 the emperor prevented the transaction of any business, 

 and, when all hope of advancing the main object 

 seemed idle, Mr B. proceeded (January, 1814) by 

 land to Holland. There he learned the willingness 

 of the British court to treat directly with the Ameri- 

 can envoys. Previously to the arrival of his col- 

 leagues, who, in consequence of this annunciation, 

 were despatched by the American government, he 

 visited England. At the proper period, he repaired 

 to Ghent, which was ultimately chosen as the scene 

 of the negotiations which terminated in the treaty 

 that bears the name of that place. His share in the 

 oral discussions and the written correspondence with 

 the British plenipotentiaries was such as might have 

 been expected from his peculiar fitness for the task 

 of negotiation. On the conclusion of this business, 

 he made a journey to Paris, where he remained until 

 he heard of the ratification of the treaty, and of his 

 appointment as envoy to the court of St Petersburg. 

 This he promptly declined. It was his intention, 

 however, to go to England, in order to co-operate in 

 the formation of a commercial treaty with the British 

 cabinet, as he was included in the commission sent 

 for that purpose ; but an alarming illness put an end 

 to every plan, except that of reaching his home as 

 early as possible. He embarked at Havre in May, 

 1815, in a state of the most painful debility, suffered 

 unfortunate delays in the voyage, and arrived in the 

 United States only to die in the arms of his family. 

 Mr B. was a logician of the first order, possessed a 

 rich and ready elocution, and commanded attention 

 as well by his fine countenance and manly person, as 

 his cogent reasoning and comprehensive views. He 

 acquired a reputation, both as a lawyer and political 

 orator, scarcely inferior to that of any one of his Ame- 

 rican contemporaries. 



BAYARD, Pierre du Terrail, chevalier de, called 

 the knight without fear and without reproach, born 

 in 1476, in the castle of Bayard, near Grenoble, was 

 one of the most spotless characters of the middle 

 ages. He was simple and modest ; a true friend and 

 tender lover ; pious, humane, and magnanimous. 

 The family of Terrail, to which he belonged, was 

 one of the most ancient in Dauphine, and was cele- 

 brated for nobility and valour. Young's., educated 

 under the eyes of his uncle, George of Terrail, bishop 

 of Grenoble, early imbibed, in the school of this wor- 

 thy prelate, the virtues which distinguished him 

 afterwards. At the age of thirteen, he was received 

 among the pages of the duke of Savoy, the ally of 

 France. Charles VIII., who saw him at Lyons, in 

 the suite of this prince, was struck with the dexterity 

 with which the youth managed his horse : he begged 

 him of the duke, and committed him to the care of 

 Paul of Luxemburg, count de Ligny. The tourna- 

 ments were his first field of glory. 



At the age of eighteen, he accompanied Charles 

 VIII. to Italy, and distinguished himself greatly in 

 the battle at Verona, where he took a standard. At 

 the beginning of the reign of Louis XII., in a battle 

 near Milan, he pursued the fugitives with such eager- 

 ness, that he entered the city with them, and was 

 taken prisoner. Ludovico Sforza returned him his 

 arms and his horse, and dismissed him without ran- 

 som. Whilst the French were in Apulia, B. defeated 

 a Spanish corps, and made their leader, don Alonzo 

 de Sotomayor, prisoner. He treated him with gene- 

 rosity. Sotomayor, however, not only violated his 

 parole by flight, but calumniated B., who, according 

 to the custom of that time, challenged him, anfl 

 killed him. Afterwards, like Horatius Codes, he 

 defended a bridge over Uie Garigliano singly against 

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