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to another ; but oblerve, that he accepted a cardinal's hat 

 from pope Felix V., favoured by Alphonfo, king of Sicily, 

 and openly embraced his party during the contcfts about the 

 papal throne. In 1442 he was pope's legate to Frederic, 

 Iting of the Romans ; but when Alphonfo took part with 

 pope Eugenius, Tedefchi retired to liis church at Palermo, 

 of which he was archbifliop. He would not dived himfelf 

 of the purple, though received from an anti-pope, but died 

 poflefled of it in 1445- Of the erudition of this ecclefiaf- 

 tic, however fluftuating and temporifing he was in his poli- 

 tics, we have ample evidence in his works, an edition of 

 which was publiflied at Venice, in 9 vols, fol., in 1617. 



TEDESCHINI, CnnisTIANr, a buffo tenor finger 

 in the comic opera, who came hither from Berhn at the 

 fame time as the Paganini, 1760. He appeared firft in 

 an under charaftcr in " II Mondo nella Luna," cora- 

 pofcd by Galuppi. Nor was his figure (which was ^oWo) 

 or voice fit for a more important part. He was, we be- 

 lieve, by birth a German, whence he had his name ; but he 

 had been in Italy, and his language on the ftage, and manner 

 of finging, were perfedlly Italian. 



He fung on our opera ftage but one year, and afterwards 

 devoted his time totally to fcholars, and became a very 

 faftiionablc and ufcful finging-mafter. Among his numerous 

 pupils he made many good fingers, the Mi{s Fitzpatricks, 

 Mifs Sloper, &c. &c.; and was of ufe to many of ourftage- 

 fingers. After accumulating a confiderable fum of money 

 by diligence and hard labour, he returned to the continent to 

 end his days. 



TE DEUM, a kind of hymn, or fong of thankfgiving, 

 ufed in the church, beginning with the words TV Deum lau- 

 damns, IFe praife thee, God. — It is ufually fuppofed to be 

 the compofition of St. Auguftine and St. Ambrofe. 



It is cuftomarily fung in the Romifh church with extra- 

 ordinary pomp and folemnity upon the gaining of a battle, 

 or other happy event : and fometimes even to conceal a 

 defeat. 



This hymn was likewife fung in Proteftant churches on 

 days of thankfgiving for a viftory, peace, or other national 

 CTent. Purcell compofed his Te Deum for the opening of the 

 cathedral of St. Paul's, but did not live till that ftrufture 

 was finifhed. 



In Boyer's Annals of Queen Anne, vol. iv., 1704, it is 

 faid that the hymn Te Deum, with other anthems, were 

 admirably performed at St. Paul's, when her majefty went 

 thither in great ftate on the day of thankfgiving for the vic- 

 tory at Blenheim. We are not informed by whom the mufic 

 was compofed ; it is only faid that it was performed \vith 

 great folemnity by the three choirs of her majefty's chapel, 

 Weftminfter Abbey, and St. Paul's. There was no inftru- 

 mental band on this occafion, or any other accompaniment 

 to the voices than the organ, which feems to have been the 

 cafe in all former times, when any of our fovereigns went in 

 ftate to St. Paul's. 



But in 1706 we are told in the fame Annals, vol. v. 

 p. 333, that at a pubhc thankfgiving for the battle of Ra- 

 miUies, her majefty went in great ceremony to St. Paul's, ac- 

 "companied by both houfes of parliament, and all the great 

 officers of ftate ; when Te Deum was performed " with 

 vocal and injirumental mufic, after the compofition of the fa- 

 mous Mr. Henry Purcell." And this feems the firft time 

 that an inftrumental band was allowed to accompany the 

 voices in our metropolitan church of St. Paul. 



In 1708, Te Deum was fung to excellent mufie at St. 

 Paul's, compofed by Dr. Crofts for the vijftory at Aude- 

 narde, whither her majefty went in great folemnity. 



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We were extremely curious .to learn when and where Hai> 

 del's grand Te Deum for the peace of Utrecht was firft per- 

 formed. It was natural to imagine that it was firft heard at 

 St. Paul's, and that queen Anne went thither in ftate on the 

 occafiOn, which fir John Hawkins pofitively aft'crts, telHng us 

 that, " in 1713, the treaty of peace at Utrecht being 

 finiftied, a public thankfgiving was ordered for the occalion, 

 and Mr. Handel received from the queen a command to 

 compofe a Te Deum and Jubilate, which were performed at 

 St. Paul's cathedral, her majefty herfelf attending the fer- 

 vice." Hift. Muf. vol. v. p. 269. 



But though in a paragraph of the Poft Boy, July 2, 

 1713, it is announced that " her majefty goes the 7th to 

 St. Paul's, being the day appointed for the thankfgiving, 

 accompanied by the houfes of the lords and commons;" 

 yet in the fame newfpaper, from Saturday July 4, to 

 Tuefday July 7, 1713, the public was informed that " her 

 majefty does not go to St. Paul's July 7, as ftie defigned, 

 but comes to St. James's (from Windfor) to return thanks 

 to God for the bleflings of peace." 



If Handel's elaborate compofition had been executed at 

 St. Paul's, a ftyle of mufic fo new, forcible, and maflerly, 

 muft have had a great effeft on an Englifti congregation, who 

 had never heard ecclefiaftical mufic fo accompanied. Pur- 

 cell's voice parts, always pleafing, well accented, and ex- 

 preflive, had little affiftance from an inftrumental band. In- 

 ftrumental mufic, except organ playing, was but little culti- 

 vated in our country during his time. But Handel, befides 

 his experience in Germany, had heard operas and maffes per- 

 formed by great bands in Italy, with fuch precifion and 

 efi^efts, as were unknown in our country till he came hither to 

 teach us. 



Handel's Te Deum for the battle of Dettingen, 1743, 

 and Graun's for the king of Pruffia's viftory at Colin, in 

 1757, are the moft celebrated compofitions to that facred 

 hymn of the laft century, and the moft likely to furvive 

 the prefent. 



TEDIASTUM, in Anc'unt Geography, a town placed by 

 Ptolemy in the interior of Liburnia, near Aruciae.' 



TEDJEN, or TeDVEK, in Geography. See Tedzen. 

 TEDIF, a town of Syria, in the pachalic of Aleppo. 

 Here is a Jewilh fynagogue ; and the inhabitants have a tra- 

 dition that one of the minor prophets refided here. On a 

 hill near this town are fome fepulchres and aquedufts cut in 

 the rock ; 2 1 miles E. of Aleppo. 



TEDINGHAUSEN, a town of the duchy of Bre- 

 men ; 9 miles S. of Otterlberg. 



TEDIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Arabia De- 

 ferta, near Mefopotamia. Ptol. 



TEDLA, or Tedila, in Geography, a province of the 

 empire of Morocco, in the kingdom of Fez, which ex- 

 tends along the eaftern fide of Mount Atlas, and has to the 

 weft the province of Shavoya, and to the S. Morocco. This 

 is a rich province, abounding in fheep, whofe wool is fo fine, 

 that no filk is fofter : it is ufed in the manufacture of caps 

 worn by the opulent, and is fold at Fez at a very high price : 

 its exportation being prohibited, it is confumed by the in- 

 habitants. The province contains 450,000 inhabitants. 



TEDNEST, or Tedoest, a town of Africa, in the 

 empire of Morocco. This town was deftroyed by the Por- 

 tuguefe in the year 15 14, and in part rebuilt by the Jews ; 

 40 mOes N.E. of Mogador. 

 TEDONG. See Tirun. 



TEDSI, a town of Africa, in the coimtry of Sus, 

 fituated to the eaft of Tarudant ; 90 rnjles S.W. of Mo- 

 rocco. 



TEDZEN, 



