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The double-bafe of this inftrument goes a 5th lower than 

 any other bafe. It has the fineft efFeft in funeral procef- 

 fions, and in general in melancholy ftrains. We never hear 

 it with more pleafure in England than in Handel's dead 

 march in Saul. Its ufe (hould be rare, and its efFefts would 

 be more ftriking. But tromboni and double-drums are now 

 fo frequently ufed at the opera, oratories, and in fymphonies, 

 that they are become a nuifance to lovers of pure harmony 

 and refined tones : for, in fad, the vibrations of thefe in- 

 ftruments produce noife, not mufical iounds. 



T ROME LI A, in indent Geography, a town of the 

 Peloponnefus, in Achaia Propria. 



TROMNES, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the North 

 fea, near the coaft of Lapland. N. lat. 68° 5'. E. long. 

 15° 26'. 



TROMP, Martin Harpeetzoon, in Biography, a 

 famous Dutch admiral, was born at the Brill in 1597. At 

 the age of eight years he was deftined for the fea-fervice, 

 and was fent on board a (hip bound for the Ealt Indies. 

 Whilft he was very young he was taken prifoner by an 

 Englifli pirate, wath which he continued for two years, ac- 

 quainting himfelf with the ftratagems and manoeuvres prac- 

 tifed in that kind of fervice : and being afterwards employed 

 in the Mediterranean, he was captured by the Turks, from 

 whofe cuftody he had the good fortune to make his efcape. 

 In the fervice of the States, he accompanied the famous 

 Peter Hein in his various expeditions, and being his favourite, 

 fought by his fide when he was killed. By various gra- 

 dations he was advanced to the rank of admiral, and in 

 February 1639, he purfued a Spanifh fquadron, and in an 

 engagement off Graveline, captured and deftroyed five men 

 of war and four frigates. In Oaober of the fame year he 

 engaged another Spanifli fleet in tile Downs, and obtained 

 a glorious vidory, taking or deftroying the greateft part of 

 the fleet, though flieltered by the Englilh. On this occa- 

 fion he faved the life of Oquendo, the Spanilh commander, 

 by fending a frigate to his relief, when his own fliip was 

 finking. His name now became famous through Europe, 

 and the king of France enrolled him by patent among the 

 French nobility. In 1652, Tiomp and Blake, the Enghfli 

 admiral, had a rencontre in the Downs, in confequence of 

 wliich the Dutch fleet, after having fuftained fome lofs, 

 was obhged to retire. Having on another occafion met 

 with a difappointment in fulfilling his orders for attacking 

 Blake by reafon of a ftorm, he was difgraced and recalled, 

 and De Ruytcr was appointed to fuperfede him ; but his 

 command was reftored to him in the fame year. In No- 

 vember he attacked Blake, commanding an inferior force, in 

 the Downs, and after a fevere engagement, obliged him to 



retire into the Thames, with the lofs of five (hips. Tromp 

 with fome degree of arrogance triumphed, and fixed a 

 broom on his top-mad, intimating vain-glorioufly that be 

 would fweep away the Englifh from the Channel. This 

 triumph, however, was of no long duration. In Fe- 

 bruary 1653, the two powerful fleets of Holland and 

 England had an engagement which lafted three days ; one 

 of which terminated in the lofs of eleven men of war to the 

 Dutch, but it is faid that Tromp loft no reputation in this 

 aftion. This engagement was fucceeded by another off" 

 Nieuport, in which Tromp and De Ruytcr mutually ref- 

 cued each other from imminent peril ; but the termination 

 of the contell was unfavourable to the Dutch, who fulfered 

 confiderable lofs. Thefe two Dutch commanders made 

 complaints to the States of the infufficiency of their equip- 

 ment, and great exertions were made to fupply them with 

 both (liips and men. In .July, Tromp with eighty-five (hips 

 defcried the Englilh fleet with ninety-four ; but before they 

 could come to an engagement, which was prevented by a 

 ftorm, the Dutch fleet was augmented to 120 fail. On the 

 6th of Auguft the contending fleets ruftied to aftion. The 

 firft day was indecifive : the fecond was unfavourable to 

 Tromp, who, according to his ufual praftice, pierced the 

 enemy's line, and was furrounded, being deferted by his 

 own fquadron. Whilft he was fighting with defperate 

 valour, he fell by a muflcet-fliot, as he was giving orders 

 on the deck ; exclaiming, before he expired, " Take 

 courage, my lads, I have run my courfe with glory!" 

 The Dutch feamen, having loft their commander, could not 

 be re-animated, and a dlfaftrous, though dearly bougtit, 

 defeat clofed the day, and alfo the war. The remains of 

 Tromp were interred with funeral honours in the church 

 at Delft, and a magnificent maufoleum was erefted to lii« 

 memory. Un. Hift. Moreri. 



Tromp, Cornelius, the fecond fon of the preceding, 

 was born at Rotterdam in 1629, and having been educated 

 with a view to the navy, he was appointed, at the age 

 of 19, to the command of a (hip of war againft the Corfairs 

 on the Barbary coaft. When the war broke out between 

 England and the United Provinces in 1665, he was one 

 of the admirals in the fea-fight off Solebay, when the 

 Dutch fleet was defeated, though by his maftcrly retreat 

 the viAors were prevented from making the moft of their 

 fuccefs. In fome fubfcquent engagements Tromp diftin- 

 gui(hed himfelf by liis valour, though not always unblended 

 with temerity, and feldom with any great fuccefs. Com- 

 plained of by De Ruyter, who was iuperior in command, 

 he was fuperfedcd ; nor was he again employed till the year 

 1673, when the two rival admirals, being reconciled, fought 



