GAS 
ears that he was made loid chief iy of the king’ s bench 
fo earl And in 1405 
law with fo much integrity, ne he refafed to conform him- 
{elf to king’s wifhes, though by this refufal he incurred 
his fovereign’s difpleafure. The anger of the king was but 
. fhort duration; for we find that he prefented his judge with 
ie honour o nighthood that fame year. —— 
the marl end of this reign that the idee teftified his r 
of the land, which fhould bow to none a cies 
high i in ade and in the prince and heir to the ea. Gaf- 
oigne gave an a ide che been os by all 
rom that to the p A riotous com Soa 
of the prince’s had oes indi@ed before ae Chief | uftic 
fome diforders which been committed, pr 
avert 
of law. Finding that his prefence had not overaw el the flern 
magiltrate, he proceeded to infult him in the difcharge of his 
duty ty, but Gafcoigne, regardlefs of every co nfideration ex- 
cept that which the law of the land plehaees and recolleéting 
that he was placed in that high ftation to adminifter juftice, 
committed the prince himfelf to es for his rude be- 
sear ek to wait = ba s pleafure 5 “ but in fuch 
nerable, coerciv reffions ; wheresict 1e paternal 
alone on the kin sneer fo ie od by the awkal a ity of 
the judge, that the prince's calm fubmitlion to the punith- 
ment was no lefs fudden and lurprifing, than the oie 
anaes had been which drew it upon him.’’ An attempt 
wa e by fome of the courtiers t alienate the ki ng’s a 
feAions from the judge on account of his inflexible behaviour 
towards the heir apparent; but the monarch exclaimed, that 
he thanked his Maker, who had a eae a indge 
who could minifter, and a fon w ey juftic 
‘The indge one to ‘le oe of his life ein ‘ie = ac. 
ne 
oe a long dagger on the ce Bing Brit. Hume’s 
CASCONADE, a boaft or vaunt of fomething very im- 
probable. 
The term has its rife from the Gafcons, or people of 
Gafcony, in France, who, it feems, have been diftinguifhed 
for bragging and tacnggreg os 
in Geography, a river of Loui- 
fiana, which runs fies the Miflouri. N. lat. 38°30", W. 
long. 92° 201. 
ica vt ake Vasconta, in Geography, a province of 
’ France before menial pee ces the fouth divi- 
fion of the goverment nt o nne, was b don the no orth 
by the o 
44° 30’ N. lat., and beavea i 
E. long.; being 50 ie ale oo welt aft, a 
from 20 to 30 in breadth. This ince on ives its name 
from the Gafcons, or Vafcones, a “tribe e in Spain that de- 
{cended from.the Pyrenean. mountains towards the conclufion 
of the fixth century, and took poffeffion of Novempopulani. 
GAS 
After their reduction by Theodebert, in 602, they revolted 
feveral times, but were finally fubjected arlemagne. 
hele Gafcons poffeffed a confiderable degree of fpirit ; but 
as were = apt to exaggerate in d e 
centre ; Bec: Soulz, an eee on | the fouth ; Cha- 
loffe and Landes on the weft ; Coudo d Lomagne on 
the north; and on the fouth Comminges and Couferans. 
The principal rivers are the Adour, the aa Gimone, 
Arrats, Gers, Baize, Loffe, Nefte, and Gav 
GA 
CUENA, a town of coe in the ceonne: of New 
aftile ; 30 miles N.W. of Cuenca. 
H, or Gaw, in ‘Mining, 3 is one . the numerous ap- 
pellations for a fault or ae of the ftra AULT. 
LMA, in Ceagraphy, 8 a inal itand on the W. 
» 61" 
A 
fide of the gulf of Bothnia. E. long. 
LMA, Ofter, a pa = on the Ww. fide of the 
N. lat. 61° 57". 17” 
Her, a Pratl fhand on ae WwW. de of the 
N. lat. 61757’. E. long. 17° 17°. 
re oy va of Japan, near the eaft coaft of Ni- 
45 miles N.E. of Jeddo. 
AS KETS, on aren e fmall cord ufed to faften 
the fails to the yards when fur 
GA SMAN, I LORIANO, in ene nmufical 
ompofer of the Vienna fchool, born in- Tin 1720. 
He saree ape not only i in his own country, but 
taly, v mpofed four ferious operas on three 
comic, w hich had conf ider able fuccefs; but no one fo much as 
the comic opera more Artigiano,” peo ofed for 
Vienna, w are in 1770, when the Baglioni ate from Bo 
logna, confiftng - fix fitters, all fingers, and Ga peace, 
were at Milan, a very extraordinary run in that city, 
and afterwa eds was in very high anes ail over Italy and 
throughout Europe, wherever there was an Italian es 
eatre. 
‘Cxs 
gulf of Bo ‘thaia. 
GASIM 
aoe 
a 
“oO 
1772 Gafman was at Vienna, and had been a appointed 
not ony maeftro di cappella to the emperor Jofeph II., 
but infpector of the Imperial mulical library 5 hone to 
which his worth, eee and era Mie aaa bra 
This ingenious compo 3 fometim cufe t of 
a in his aaa Sone cee ors ; but gravity of his ‘ftyle 
s eafily a ted for, by the time and pains he mutt have 
beftow aie on Thanh. mule, ae aim at equal perfeCtion in 
both, is trying to ferve God and Mammen; an a thofe excel- 
ent compofers for t cae a works have furvived 
them, fuch as Puleftrina, Tallis, Birde, Allegri, Benevoli, 
Colonna, Caldara, Maree “Ilo, Tots, Pert and Fux, h 
chiefly confined themfelves to the church ftyle. Aleflandro 
Scarlatti, Handel, Pergolefi, and Jomelli, are fhe ptions, 
ut, in Sonal ona fucceed belt i tor the 
church, ftage, or chamber, who Scelom themfels to that 
particular ae of eae ee only, 
We do not call every modern Pa mafs, or motet, 
church a ; as the fume es a s to diferent words 
ee 
rave and {cientific compolitions for voices only, 
the excellence confifts more in good harmony, learned 
lation, and fugues upon ingenious ; and ieber fubjeCs, than in- 
ight airs and akan i oi a ents 
fh 
his auth ae 
\ compoler to 
j |; forhe died at Va 17755 
only 4 ace for the ferious opera, 
in ia. Merpe, Ip, Ce in Utica, Ezio, twice, and 
4R2 Achille 
