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and chief fecretary to the lords juff ices of It eland. He 
was a Mo made deputy Clerk of t he council in flint king¬ 
dom; and foon after chofcn member of the In Hi parlia¬ 
ment, where he became a bid-rate fpcaker. He acquitted 
himfelf in t.hefe poRs witli great ability, and with lingular 
difinterefteditels. hi 1717, when Addifon became, princi¬ 
pal hcre'ary of {late in England, he procured for Mr, 
Budgell the place of acconip'ant and comptrollet -general 
of tlte revenue in Ireland. He held thele places till 1-718, 
at which time the duke of Bolton was appointed lord lieu¬ 
tenant. His grace carried over with him Mr Edward 
Webber, whom he made a privy-counfellor and his fecre¬ 
tary. A mliuralei (landing anting'between this gentleman 
and Mr. Budgell, the latter treated Mr. Webber, his abi¬ 
lities; and his family, with the 1:snuff contempt. Mr. 
Budgell was indilcreet enough to write a lampoon, in 
which even the lord lieutenant was not fpared, and which 
he publ.fhed, in fpiie of all Addifon could fay againfl it. 
Hence many difputes arofe between them, till at length 
the lord lieutenant, in fupport of his fecretary, fuperieded 
Mr. Budgell, and very loon after got him removed from 
his place of accomptant-general Mr. Budgell, not think¬ 
ing it fafe to continue in Ireland, fet out'for England, and 
foon after his arrival publiihed a pamphlet, reprefenting 
liis cafe, intitled, A Letter to Lord ***, from Euflace 
Budgell, ETq. accomptant-general of Ireland, and late 
fecretary to their excellencies the lords juftrees of that 
kingdom : yet, though eleven hundred copies were fold off 
in one day, the public opinion turned again!! him. Mr. 
Budgell’s great and noble friend lord Halifax, to whom, 
in 1713, he had dedicated a tranflation of Theophrafiius’s 
Characters', was dead ; and lord Orrery, who held him in 
the liigheft elleem, had it not in his power to ferve him. 
Addifon had indeed got a promife from lord Sunderland, 
that, as foon as tlte prefent clamour was a little abated, he 
would do fomethiug for him ; but that gentleman’s d nth 
happening in 1719, put an epd to all hopes of fucceeding 
at court; where he continued neverlhelels to make Seve¬ 
ral attempts, but was conftantly kept down by the weight 
of his enemy the duke of Bolton. In 1720, the fatal year 
of the South-Sea bubble, he was almolt ruined, by loling 
above 20,000!. in it. He tried afterwards to get into par¬ 
liament, and fpent 5000I. more in unfiiccelsful attempts, 
which completed his ruin. Front this period, lie began 
to behave and live in a different manner from what he had 
done before; wrote libellous pamphlets agaim\Sir Robert 
Walpole and the niinihrv, and did many unjuft things in 
regard to his relations. Jn 1727, he had toool. given him 
by the duchefs of Marlborough, to whofe hufband, the fa¬ 
mous duke, he was related by his mother’s fide, with a view 
to his getting into parliament. She knew that he had a 
talent for fpeakmg in public, that he was acquainted with 
bufinefs, and. would probably run any lengths againfl the 
aminiftry. But th ; s Icherne faded, for he could never get 
chofen. In 1730, he doled in with the writers again!! the 
adminiftration, and publiihed many papers in the Craftl- 
raan. In 17.33, he began a weekly pamphlet, called The 
Bee, which lie continued for about a hundred numbers, 
that bound into eight volumes, Svo. During the progrels 
of this work, Dr Ttndal died, by w hole will Mr. Budgell 
had 2000I. left hitn : and the world, being furpriled at 
fuch a gift from a man entirely unrelated to him,, to the 
excltilion of the next heir, a nephew, and the continuator 
of Rapin’s Hiftory of England,, immediately imputed it to 
hjs making the will himfelf. Thus the fatirift : 
Let Budgell charge low Grub-ftreet on my quill, 
And 1 write whate’er lie pleafe—except my will. Pope. 
It was thought he had fome hand in publifhing Dr. 
Tindal’s Chriftianity as old as the Creation ; tor he often 
talked of another additional volume on the lame fubjett, 
but never publiihed it. After the reflation of the Bee, 
he became lo involved in law-lints 1 , that he was reduced 
to a very unhappy fituation. He now returned to his de- 
ffination at the bar, and attended for Tome time in the 
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courts of law ; but finding himfelf incapable of making 
any progrels, and being diJtreffed to the turnoff, he deter¬ 
mined on liucide. Accordingly, in 1736, he took a boat 
at Somer,fet-fta;rs, after filling his pockets vfith Hones, and 
ordered tire waterman to (boot the bridge; and, while the 
boar was going tinder, thiew himfelf into the river, tv here 
he peri tiled. Mr. Budgell as a writer is very agreeable ; 
not argumentative or deep, but ingenious and entertain¬ 
ing; and his liyle is fo peculiarly elegant, that it may in 
that refpett be almoli ranked with Addifon’s, and is cer¬ 
tainly fuperior to that of moll Englilh writers. A concife 
epitaph, which lie wrote in nieinury of a very fine young 
lady, is worth preferving : 
She was, (be is .(what can there more be faid?) 
On earth the firlf, in heaven the fecond, maid. 
BUD'GER, J. 'One that moves or ftirs from his place 1 
Let the firlf budger die the other’s Have. Shakefpeare. 
BUD'GET, f [ bogette , Fr.] A bag, fuch-as may be 
ealily carried. It is tiled for a (fore, or (fork.—It was na¬ 
ture, in fine, that brought off the cat, when the fox’s w hole 
budget of inventions failed him. DEJlrange. 
BU'DIN, or Budyn, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Schla.n : eight miles north of Schlan. 
BUDIN.'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, and county of Ifemburg: ten miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Francfort on the Mayne, and twenty-fix 
fuuth-eair of Wetzlar. 
BUDI'NUS, a mountain of Sarmatia Europsea, from 
which the more northern fpring of the Boryfthenes is faid 
to take its rife, according to Ptolemy : but this is contra¬ 
dicted by later accounts. Now Podolia. 
BUDLANIOW', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Podolia : 1 h rty-fix miles north-weft of Kaminiec. 
BUDNFE'ANS, f. in eccleftaftical hillory, a left who 
followed the errors of Simon Budnanis. They not only 
denied all kind of religious worlhip to Chrift, but alferted, 
that he was not begot'en by any extraordinary aft of di¬ 
vine power; being born, like other men, in a natural way. 
Budnaeus was depofed from miniftetial functions in 1384, 
and publicly excommunicated, with all his dilciples; but 
afterwards abandoning his peculiar (entiments, he was re¬ 
admitted to the communion of the Socinian feft. Crellius 
aferibes the origin of the above opinion to Adam Nettfer. 
BUDO'A,or Budua, a ftroug lea-port of Dalmatia, for¬ 
merly inbjedt to the Venetians, the fee of a bilhop, fuffra- 
ganof Antivari. lit 1667 it Buffered greatly by an earth¬ 
quake; and it was befieged by the Turks in 1686, with¬ 
out fuccefs. It is thirty mites fouth-fouth-eaft of.Ragula, 
Lat. 42. 31. N. Ion. 36. 20. E. Ferro. 
BU'DRIO, a town of Italy, in the Bolognefe : ten miles 
north of Bologna. 
BU'DRUN, a town and fortrefs of Afiatic Turkey, in 
the province of Natol a, near the fea-coalj, with a harbour, 
in the gulf of Stanchio: eight leagues fouth of Milets. 
BLT'DUN, the name of one of the Ceylonefe gods : he 
is faid to arrive at (upremacy, after fuccellive tranfmD- 
gration from the loweft Hate of ail infett, through the 
various fpecies of living animals. There have been three 
deities of this name, each of which is fuppofed to reign as 
long as a bird removes a hill of fand, halt a mile high, 
and fix miles round, by a fingle grain in a thotiland years. 
See Sa-kradawendra. 
BUD'WKISS, or Budiegowitz, a town of Bohemia, 
in the circle of Bechin, fituated on the Moldaw, in the 
environs of -■ h'ch are mines of gold and filver, and in the 
Moldaw they filh for pearls. It was fretted into a bilhop- 
ric, in 1787, by the emperor. Immediately after the re- 
duttion of Prague by tlte Pruflians, in 1744, general Nalfau 
with 8000 men laid liege to if; and it furrendered, in con- 
(equcnce, to the Pruftian monarch, w ho did not long keep 
; dlellion of it. It is eighteen miles fouth of Bechin, and 
ftx y-'ix fouth of Prague. 
BUD'WIZ, 3 town of Moravia, in the circle of Znaym: 
fourteen t 
