HAS 
plants agree in the virtues of agglutinants and aftrin- 
ep to not oe of which virtues our virga poftoris has any 
 HASSADA, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 20 miles 
E. - Doe t, 
AN, in Biography, eldeft fon of Ali, by Fatima, 
dau ci at Mahomet, was born in the third year of the he- 
625. e was advanced to the caliphate in 660 ‘wi 
without any oppofition, though the mildnefs of his temper 
ill fitted him for the turbulent fcenes in which he was likely 
blood, to which he had been an eye witnefs, determined to 
abdicate his office ; which he accomplifhed in the prefence 
of the any affembly of the people of Cufa, in the great 
which he attributed to his anxious defire of 
He now retired to Medina 
nf args proyifion for his future as Of this he ex- 
e 
not even leave nei nige hy ste to alle viate 
nature he ped himielf of a ¥ poffeffed, 
oe tice he “divided. half his fubftance am the poor. 
at pean eight years ina private co oiiesan; ted obtained 
amniverf ape unt of his 
virtue 
an and 
graidfathes Mahomet, who had 
im, when he wa hild. 
ath was hee ‘s poifon. ing prefled to name on 
bea whom he fufpeéted of the foul deed, he replied « The 
ife of this world is made up of nights that vanifh away. 
-R: 
Let him alone till he and I meet before the tribunal of God.’’ 
Univer, 
: ASSAN, in Geography, a town of prawee on the coat 
of Tripoly. N. lat E. long. 16’ 18 .—Alfo, a town 
of lg in the province of Irak; 80 miles N.N.E. of fia 
- Hassan, Chilhibec, a oe of ad pe In the go- h 
vernment of Sivas; 32 miles E. of Siv 
NS Seta eg Paha, a town SE Piven Turkey, 
ety : s N.N.E. of Novibafar. 
gee dt il Hon pans in Biography, fr 
his havin ving b een 2 a in Lower Rixeay, 
within eight oats af Ham urgh. 
uantz relates, in his own memoirs written by himfelf, 
172 met 
Pot in the year 
ith his co 
Saar 
i ot ve 
die 
attention in a theatre, 
appoted to be wholly the work of Hafle; but 
he fongs, partic 
HAS 
to be called ee: © fet the opera of “ Sefoftrate”’ for 
‘the great theatre at Naples; and in 1728 he et “ Attalo 
Re di Bitinia,” fot the fame theatre. The © operas 
feem to have been bait Se a by the eipotet himfelf, -- 
1e verbal enumeration of his works, which we obtaine 
the following manner: or 
vanni Adolfo Hafle deci if Saffone, oe in di Capella 
anfwick 3’ 
able. In 1730 he two operas for Vadis: “ Dalifa,”’ 
in which the Feincipaa fingers were Pafi, ‘Ainotevali, and 
Fauftina, whom he married about this time; and “ Arta- 
ferfe,”” written by Metaftafio, in which the principal parts 
uzzoni. In one of 
written b Seta tao, and the nger 
formed in them, gg his “ecutahh, Sill rextended 
to every part o 
Haffe was the fagsuth compofer of Italy ‘and Ger. 
. He and the Fauilin 
e fervice of the court at a targa till it w 
befic ote: by the king of Pruffia, when, in e bom 
ment of that city, all his books, saiaicnine and effets 
were dellroyed by fire 
The abilities of this admirable. vocal compofer are 
but little known in England, as but few of his beit 
‘compolitions are pielatedy and thofe, except his ‘ Salve 
the moft trivial kind. However, the yer 
we 
a 
he i 
is ftill heard with olesdure; 
old. 
ae more than 70 years 
Metattafio iat mates; of all the ‘com- 
mas to mutic, had na baotich 
the continent, that we pitty converfed wtihs a. eae pro- 
feffor on the fubje&t, who has not prt him to be the 
moft natural, — te "iudicious ompofer of vocal 
s the m rp a " eoapal is 
nd the voice, he dif- 
jargon of a multiplicity of inftruments and f 
is as careful of preferving its importance as a paste, of 
ure of 
gee the aes i upon the ii 
’ 
or three diff 
fingers Lag out. of the 
a o more than 1 
ed entire on our ftage, except, in 17575 Peecisd 
b penfomas 2 in which Farinelli firit appeared 1 
jail 
cularly t us bravura ie belie 
aoe were as nets “a ahicratGe beet a foro er 
of Farinelli. ce wees 
