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golden fpur, the only order which his holinefs has to beftow. 
But lord Kenyon, when his title was introduced in court on 
a trial, refufed to cna ed ai treat | sie affump-. 
pas with pa Seca a and co » however, 
ntinued to retain it, and was naan by the bears in fpite 
of ‘the lord chief juftice. 
The chevaher, extremely worldly, dextrous af a bargain, 
and cautious in his dealings with mankind, was an unfortu- 
nate proje ector i in ae cia ata ea snereale of his pro- 
erty e room anover-{quare, we believe, were very 
rage cine, as he ne every floor and every room, not only to 
concerts, balls, and affemblies, but to exhibitions, lectures, 
and lodgers of all kinds, fearcely allowing himfelf a habitable 
apartment f for his own refide : 
When the Opera houfe was = cand down, in 1789, he ad- 
vanced 30,000/. towards rebuildi ing it, and fent an archite& 
to Italy to procure plans of all the great theatres of that 
which to choofe the moft 
n onitruction ; but it has been faid, and gen y be 
lieved, that by fome jumble of clafhing interefts, or chicane 
aw, the management was sales ut of his hands, and he 
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not only loft his power but his m 
While the great theatre in the a market was rebuilding, 
fir John fitted up the oppolite little theatre as a temporary 
opera houfe, and had Marchefi and ara to 
fing 5 ; but the theatre was fo fimall and inconvenient, that it 
not contain an audience fufficient to cover bre sie ec 
The next year the Pantheon was tra — an hele 
oufe before that in the Haymarket was fini 
and the aa of his profeffion as a dancing-maiter, to the 
end of h 
Indeed, i” ale time of the French revolution, he could 
not refift the temptations — were thrown out in that 
oe carta on the “ebjea of ‘Frunalit 
tt doe however, ae juftly faid of him, that he was gene- 
out able teacher of his art _ ever 
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caufe to be ananere or his bounty, no one hada right to 
complain of his inj 
In the height i] i _profeional praice and favour he 
publithed a book, in ave a hiftory of dancing 
from its origin, and des manner in anne it is' practifed in va~ 
rious parts of the world. It appeared in 1762, under the 
title of «A Treatife on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni 
Andrea Gallini, director of the dancers at Royal 
‘Theatre in the Haymarket,’ 6s. bound. Dodfley see 
Becket We have not feen the original; but. in the 
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Monthly Review, for which it has furnifhed an article of 12 
publiied at ee in 1760 ad rf fork ted into thig 
senate. vied much read and: talked of as a literary perform- 
ance. er Gallini nor the reviewers mention Noverre’s 
captivating ‘ook which, aad neither had feen ; a ui- 
lucki y, ina work oi M. ac, publifhed at the 
in three {mall volume " oe mo. we find all the hiftorical 
part of Gallini peace with the fame {tories of th - 
derful powers a the ancient mimics Bathyllus and Pylades, 
feuds it eccafione But, 
o knew Gallini from his firft arrival 
in England, never east that he had literature fufficient to 
write an original wo ork in his own language, or even to 
tranflate fuch a one as that of Noverre or Cahwfac into any 
language. ‘The oa of this ane is, *¢ - Dante ancienne 
et moderne, ou 1 Tra 
Sed ei: to exemplify gr act motion 
by ar. ance and exercife, enjoyed a good ftate of health 
and efcaped decrepitude to the laft: for it was fai 
printed accounts that “ Sir John Gallini, on Saturday, 5th 
of January, 1805, rung his bell at eight o’clock, and, upon 
- his fervant entering his chamber, ordered his breakiak to be 
prepared immediately, his chaife to be at the door at nine 
o’clock, and his chariot in waiting at three.”? A few minutes 
after giving thefe directions, he complained of not being 
well, and faid, «‘ I will reft till nine o’clock.”’ I an 
our he rang his bell = and order — aa as 
- had a violent pain is ayes an 
ood immediately eee aa a nine o'clock he 
ed without a groan. 
GALL LINULE, in Ondiialey, a divifion of the genus 
Fulica, which 
“Gastonia earns a name given by many authors 
the bir eorren called in Englhih the red-/bank. 
See Scotopax Calidr. 
GALLINULA Hypo aname given by fome authors 
to the becafline, er, as we call it in Englith, the /andpiper- 
See Trinca hypoleucos. 
ALLINULA Melampus, a name given by Gefner and. 
fome others to the bird more ufually known by its German 
name, rotknuffel. See GLAREOLA n@via. 
GaLiinuLa Rhodopus, phenicopus, and ochra a names 
by which Geiner, and fome others, have called the 
tringa ; a bird in which the legs are, at different shee and 
in the different fexes, greenifh, yellowifh, or reddifh. See 
Trinca Ochropus. 
GALLINULA Serica, a name given indiforiminately by 
many authors to the grinetta and the water-rail ; both birds 
of the moor-hen ut {maller than the common moors 
en. See 
GALLIO, in = Bineraphy was proconful, or, 
as it is in our tranflation, of Achaiain the firft cen 
tury of the Chriftian era. Be ] as elder brother of ae 
the on philofopher, ~ as his brother deferibes his charac- 
Nat. Queft. 1. iv. ref.) a f much wit and 
ood fenfe, of a fweet aad gentle difpofition, and of much 
generofity and virtue, The apoftle Paul was brought 
before him in the year . our lord 52 or 53; Dis it i 
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