GUA 
| 
the proud and_ lofty minded Guadagni, bereaved of his 
talents and public favour, by age, infirmities, and caprice, 
{pent the laft ten years of his life in indigence and mortifica- 
tion ! 
vapaGni, La Sicnora, filter of Guadagni, a moft 
pleafing finger and elegant actrefs, was the original Cuchina 
in Italy, as well as England, in Piccini’s celebrated “ Buona 
Figliuola.”’? She was married to Aleffandri, a young Roman 
compofer, who fet two comic operas for our flage, “ La 
e alla Caccia ;” which 
whofe fame was already eftablifhed, that a youn 
compofer, who had his reputation to make, had little chance 
of being much noticed. e has, however, diftinguifhed 
himfelf, fince he left England; by writing for fome of the 
firit fingers in the principal theatres of Italy. He ftaid here 
but one feafon, his wife, Signora Guadagni, having been fu- 
e y Zamparini, a pretty woman, but an affected 
finger, which pleafed the votaries of beauty, more than the 
conofcenti in Soak finging. 
Arabic and Chaldee in the College of 
656 he pronounced an oration in the for- 
GUA 
of confiderable extent, conftruéted without much tafte, but 
is rendered 
eru, 
was firlt projected by the baron de Ri- 
was 
perda, A.D. 1720; but it was carried on for fome years 
of Madrid. N. lat. 40° 3 .long 3 
river of ‘Spain, which runs into the fea, between Gibraltar 
and Marbella. 
UADALAJARA, or Guadalaxara, an audience of Mexico 
or New Spain, which extends over all the northern pro- 
vinces, and comprehends Guadalaxara proper, Xalifco or 
New Gallicia, Zacatecas, New Bifcay, Cinaloa, and Cu- 
iacan. 
e than pop 
nine thoufand families of Spaniards, 
toes; for the Indians, who live in farms and villages, cannot 
“be included. It has eight fquares, many convents, and two 
It is fituated on the river Barnaja, 
or Efgquitlan, which echoacan, and 
runs rapidly to the 
fleilful 
with maize at the price of four reals.per bufhel. It is fub- 
ie to frequent tempefts, but it has never fnow. In 
this town there is eitablifhed a manufacture of ci the” 
It is alfo famou 
fale of which contributes to the revenue. 
for its earthen jars, which are of ‘a fweet feent, and are con- 
‘or the Henarez, and the chief town of the beautiful ‘a lwee 
parca of Alcarria in New Caftile. It was formerly in- veyed as far as Spain, where, it is faid, they roel d 
Aes: by the Romars, who named it, according to fome, fome capricious females. Ut is the celebra 
5 ae and according to others, Turria.” d eftate of the marquis of : : 40 leagues in ex- 
‘From the Romans it paffed under the dominion of the Goths, tent, which fends anrzally to Mexico between three and 
Pa otras aol by the Moors in 714, who called it Gui- four beeves. It is alfo sey roductive of wheat, 
hime ara or Guidalarrica, whence it derived its prefent pimento, &c. with numerous flocks o thee and {wine ; but 
a ~ Tt was retaken by Alvar Fanez, coulin of, the Cid, markets are wantin According to cited by Pin- 
kerton, 
