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with him from Italy a. great number ofnutficlans ai)d other 
artifts, who, on the difgrace of that officer, were all left 
destitute of bread. Farinello took them into his protec¬ 
tion, and furniflied them with the means of gaining a live¬ 
lihood. In the dreadful diftreffes that enfiied upon the 
earthquake at Lilbon, when the vocal performers and 
dancers implored his ailiftance, to the collection he made 
for them from the royal family and his friends he added 
two thoufand doubloons front his own private purfe. Dif- 
tofed as he was to be liberal in liis' bounty towards others, 
ic found it no lefs difficult to a(k for any thing that had 
reference to himfelf. It was not by his recommendation, 
but by his own deferts, that his brother Ricardo was pro¬ 
moted to the, office of commiffary at war for the marine 
department. This Ricardo died in the year 1756, in the 
flower of his age. He had been mailer of the band in the 
Service of die duke of Wirteniberg; and a mufical work 
printed in London is a proof his force and (kill in com- 
pofitiotv. Farinello was alfograteful andgenerous to every 
One .that had (hewn him any kindnefs: never was he heard 
to (peak ill of any man and when he was injured lie mag- 
naninioully overlooked it. There are even examples of 
his heaping favours on fome that (hewn themfelves en¬ 
vious and malignant towards him: to a Spanifh nobleman, 
who murmured that the king testified fo much munificence 
to a caftrato, he made no oilier return than by procuring 
for his foil a place he applied for in the army, and deliver¬ 
ing to him himfelf the king’s order for his appointment. 
He was in general extremely circumfpedt not to diftinguidi 
himfelf by any thing by which he might excite the envy 
and jealouly of the nation againft him : lienee it was, that 
he conftantly declined accepting the comthury of the or¬ 
der of Calatrava, which the king had fo.frequently offered 
him ; befeediing him rather to beftow it on one of his de- 
ferving (ubjefls. His generous way of thinking was not 
unnoticed by the Spaniards; every one courted his friend- 
.fttip; the grandees of the kingdom, the foreign and do- 
meftic minifters, vouchfafed him their vifits, and lie was 
never wanting in due refpedt for their civilities. Towards 
’■perfans of inferior ftations he was always condefcending 
and friendly. His tailor one day brought him home a new 
fuitof very rich clothes: Farinello was in the aft of pay¬ 
ing him his bill, when he was fuddenly (topped by the 
man’s telling him that he would much rather he would 
grant him another favour inftead of it. “ 1 come back¬ 
wards and forwards fo often ((aid he) to your excellency’s 
houfe ; I have fo frequently the honour to take your or- 
■ders and try on your clothes; but 1 have never had the 
happinels to hear yoiir heavenly (trains, with the praife 
whereof the whole court refounds. I befeech you then 
not to take it amifs if 1 a(k-” He had finifhed no more 
of his lpeech, when Farinello, with a friendly fmile, inter¬ 
rupted him, by taking a chair to the hgrpfichord, andbe- 
ginninga fbng’ with the fame energy and execution as when 
he fang before his m.ajefty; this done, he ordered his fee 
cretary to pay him double the amount of his bill. By fucli 
inethods lie gained the love of all ranks of people. 
But this brilliant fuccefs was unexpectedly brought to 
an end in a very Ihort period. King Ferdinand and queen 
Barbara were both of them in the flower of their age, both 
healthy and (trong; yet death carried them off, in a fliort 
ipace, one alter .the other. The queen went firft, and left 
farinello her collection of mulic and her barpfichords, as 
*1 token of regard. The kihg’,' who loved her tenderly, 
fell int6 a deep dejeClion of fpirits. To get away from the 
^doleful founds of the death bells, he retired to the plea- 
iure-houfe of Villa Viciofa, where his exceflive melan¬ 
choly, after a fpace of fourteen days, laid him on the bed 
of fickiiefs. Farinello-was called to him the day after his 
departure from Madrid, and never quitted him till he was 
no more. The Ipfs of Inch a friend, and the confequences 
of it, were extremely diftreffmg to Farinello. The king- 
had hardly clofed his eyes, but the favourite’s apartments 
were as folitary as a deleft. Friends and acquaintance, 
whom he had loaded with benefits, now turned their backs 
Vo 1.Ill, No. 140. 
upon him, and a general revolution fook place in his af¬ 
fairs. Two days after the,-king’s death lie returned to 
Madrid, and there remained till the arri val of king Charles 
from Italy. He went.as far as Saragoiia to meet hint, to 
thank him for the aflatrahee he had given him of continu¬ 
ing his appointment. The king received him very gra- 
ciottfly, and confirmed Lite promife he had already made • 
him the foregoing year ; at the Line time adding, that he 
was induced to this by Ids moderation and diferetion, 
and that he was thoroughly convinced that he had never 
abided the king’s partiality for him. After a ftayvcf three 
weeks at Saragofl'a, he bent his courfc towards Italy with¬ 
out returning to Madrid, where he had commillioned a' 
friend to fend his baggage after, him. 
In Italy his firft care was to wait upon don Philipps 
duke of Parma, and the king of Naples, who gave him a 
very gracious reception. After remaining here fix months, 
lie repaired to Bologna, where he pafl'ed the reft of his 
days in tranquillity. His voice continued clear and me¬ 
lodious to the laft: lie fang frequently, and lie alone per¬ 
ceived the depredations of time, while his friends who 
heard him obferved no defeCl. During fiie three laft 
weeks of his life, like what is 1 fabled of the dying fwan, 
he fang almoft every day. He died the 16th of Septem¬ 
ber, 1782, of a fever, in the 78th year of his age. 
BRO'SELY, a hamlet near WenJock in Shropftiire, 
once celebrate ! for a burning fpring, or well, which was 
continually boiling with the mod violent agitation. See 
the article Burning Springs. 
BRO'SIMUM,/ Gr. eatable.] The Jama- 
ca Bread-tree. In botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, 
order monandria. The generic characters are—I. Male. 
Calyx: ament common, globular, covered on all hides 
w ith imbricate, orbicular,' peltate, membranaceous, deci¬ 
duous, feales ; three larger, furrounding the bale of the 
ament 5 and others fmaller, of an irregular fhape, between 
each of which the ftamens break out. Corolla : none. 
Stamina ; filaments folitary, very fhort, cylindric ; an- 
thene bilamellate; lamellas orbicular, peltate; lower 
gaping, from the upper; difperfmg a globular pollen. 
Fiftillum : germ at top included in a fpongyameut, very 
fmall, Ovate, abortive ; ftyle (ingle, upright, bifid at the 
tip; ftigmas reflex, Ample. II. Female, on a different 
tree. Calyx: ament like the vnale. Corolla, none,. Pif- 
tillum; germ globular (the fcaly body of the anient it- 
felf) ; ftyle fpringing from the middle of the germ at top, 
long, bifid; ftigmas Ample, (harp, a little' reflex. Peri- 
carpium : berry pedicelled, corticofe, fpherical, one- 
cellcd. Seeds: folitary, with a two-lobed kernel, fur. 
ro.undedby a thin' membrane, and bipartite.— EJ'entialCka- 
raEler. Male: ament globular, covered all round with or- 
bicuiate peltate feales ; filaments folitary, between the 
feales. Female: anient as in the male; ftyle bifid; berry 
one-feeded. 
Species. 1. Brofinrum alicaftrum : leaves ovate-lanceo» 
late, perennial; aments globular, pedicelled, folitary, ax¬ 
illary; fruit corticofe. This tree is frequent in. the. pa¬ 
ri flies of St. Elizabeth and St. James, in the fl uid of 
Jamaica; and in b<\ih is computed to make up about a 
third part of the woods. The timber is hot defpicable ; 
but tlie leaves and younger branches are more ufeful, and 
a hearty fattening fodder for all forts of cattle. The fruit, 
boiled with falt-fifti, pork, beef, or pickle, has-been fre¬ 
quently the fupport of the negroes and poorer fort of white 
people, in times of fcarcity, and proved a w hoiefome find 
110 unpleafant food : .when retailed, it eats fomethiug like 
our European chefnut-, and is called bread-nut. The 
leaves and younger (hoots are full of gum, which renders 
them difagreeable to 1110ft cattle at firft, but they fooa 
grow very fond of them. 
2. Brofinmm fpurium : leaves lanceolate, ovate, acumi¬ 
nate'; aments pedicelled, .ovate, axillary, in pairs ; fruit 
foft. This fecond fort is called milk-wood , and is pretty 
common in St. Mary’s parifti, Jamaica. It riles to a con. 
fidqrable height in the'woods, is' reckoned among 1 t!)« 
5 T timbii*.; 
