BAD 
ly, lie made good his promife, and became the apoflle of 
his country. 
BAD, [quaad, Dutch ; comparative, worfe\ fuper- 
lative, worJl.'\ Ill; not good: a general word ufed in re¬ 
gard to phyfical or moral faults, either of men or things. 
men have politics enough to make, through vio¬ 
lence, the belt fcheme of government a bad one. Pope.— 
Vicious; corrupt: 
Thus will the latter, as the former, world, 
Still tend from bad. to worfe. Milton. 
Unfortunate; unhappy: 
The fun his annual courfe obliquely made, 
Good days contracted, and enlarg’d the bad. Drydcn. 
Hurtful; unwholefome ; mifchievous; pernicious: with 
for .—Reading was bad for his eyes, writing made his head 
ake. Addifon. —Sick: with of-, as, Bad of a fever. 
Bad, or Bade. The preterite of Bid: 
And, for an earneft of greater honour, 
He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawder. Shakef. 
B AD AGRY', a town of Africa, in the country of Benin. 
BADAGSHAN', a very ancient city of Great Bukha- 
ria, in the province of Balkh, fituated at the foot of thofe 
high mountains which feparate Hindoftan from Great Tar¬ 
tary. The city is exceedingly ftrong by its fituation; and 
belongs to the khan of Proper Bukharia, who ufes it as 
a kind of ftate-prifon to fecure thofe he is jealous of. The 
town is not large, but well-built, and populous. It hands 
on the north fide of the river Amu, about ioo miles from 
its fource, and is a great thoroughfare for the caravans 
defigned for Little Bukharia. The inhabitants are enrich¬ 
ed by mines of gold, filver, and rubies, which are in the 
neighbourhood; and thofe who live at the foot of the 
mountains gather a great quantity of gold and (liver duft 
brought down in the fpring by torrents occalioned by the 
melting of the fnow on the top. 
BADAJOS', orBADAjox, a town of Spain, and capi¬ 
tal of Effremadura, fituated on the Guadiana, on the fron¬ 
tiers of Portugal, and fee of a biftiop. The fortifications 
are not very ftrong, yet it flood two lieges, one againft the 
Portuguefe in 1658, and another againft the Englifn and 
Dutch, fupported by a confiderable corps of Portuguefe, 
in 1705. It is eighty-two miles north-north-weft of Se¬ 
ville, and forty-nine fouth of Alcantara. Lat. 38. 43. N. 
Ion. 1 1. 58. E. Ferro. 
BADAS'KA, a town of Siberia, on the weft fide of the 
Angara, eighty miles north-north-weft of Tekutfch. 
BAD'BURY, [badden, byrig, Sax. of bad, a pledge, and 
iyrig, a city, q. d. the town of hoftage; perhaps becaufe 
the Vice-Saxon kings had the hoftages of fubdued coun¬ 
tries there in cuftody.] A town in the county of Dorfet, 
once the court of the Vice-Saxon kings. 
BAD'COCK (Samuel), an eminent critic and contro- 
verfial writer, was born in the year 1750, and deflined to 
the clerical character. We find him in very early life, at 
about the age of nineteen, at the head of a confiderable 
Prefbyterian congregation, at Barnftaple in Devonfhire. 
From this fituation, however, he removed, and was deifi¬ 
ed minifter of South Molton, about twelve miles from his 
firft fituation ; and in this retirement his aftive mind turn¬ 
ed its views to the more public departments of literature. 
During the progrefs of the London Review, he occafion- 
ally correfponded with Dr. Kenrick, and contended with 
that acute and intelligent fceptic on different points of 
Chriftianity. He occafionally wrote foitie articles in his 
Review, which are yet diftinguilhable by their fpirit and 
intelligence. Iq private circles, few were more eagerly 
fought after than Mr. Badcock; few more generally ad¬ 
mired for fprightly (allies of wit, for the brilliant effufions 
of genius, or the colleded ftore of many (Indians hours of 
-retirement and deep inveftigation. His vivacity could en- 
•iiven the dulled fubjeels of controverfy, and his fpirit dart 
<a vivid ray over points of real obfcurity. His memory 
spade marry parts of hiftory familiar to him..; ,apd in aoti- 
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BAD 
quities, which he had begun to glance at, his rapid pro¬ 
grefs railed the higheft expe£lations of future excellence. 
His friendfhips were warm and animated ; nor did he ever 
decline aftifting thofe who, from his character and reputa¬ 
tion, were led to requeft his aid. Many admired publica¬ 
tions received their beft embellifitments from his hand. 
About three years before his death, which happened on 
the 19th of May, 1788, he conformed to the eftablifhed 
church. 
BAD'DAMY, a town of Hindoftan, in the country of 
Viliappur, eighty miles fouth of Vifiapour. Lat. 16, 10. 
N. Ion. 75.40. E. Greenwich. 
BAD'DELEY (Robert), an excellent low comedian, 
many years attached to Drury-lane theatre, died Novem¬ 
ber 20, 1794. By his will he left to the theatrical fund 
his cottage at Hampton in trull, that they fhould elect to 
refide in it fuch four of the fund petitioners as might hot 
objeCt to living fociably under the fame roof. In this 
houfe are two parlours for their joiijt indulgence, and four 
feparate bedchambers. This bequeft: is an inflanceof his 
benevolence, and of his refpect for his profeftion: but the 
manner in which it was done is even more honourable to 
him than the donation itfelf: that the decayed aCtors who 
are to be chofen by the fund committee as tenants for this 
houfe might not appear like dependents on charity in the 
eyes of the neighbourhood, he left alio a certain fum to 
be diftributed by thofe tenants to the poor of the vicinity. 
There is alfo a little fummer-houfe for thofe tenants t» 
regale in ; and it is fo fituated as to command a view of the 
temple of Shakefpeare, erected by Mr. Garrick. The 
fingularity of Mr. B’s mind is farther obfervable, in his 
leaving 3I. annually for a twelfth-cake to be diftributed 
in the green-room. The origin of this fancy was as fol¬ 
lows : On this feftival it was cuftomary to eat cake in the 
theatre, and Baddeley ufually prefided at the table. The 
delire of fame is as univerfai as the means of attaining it 
are various: the caprices of men are unaccountable ; and, 
if Dogget fecured his memory by a coat and badge, [tec 
Dogget,] why lliould not Baddeley enfure his by the 
more folid properties of a Chriftmas cake, bequeathed ex- 
prefsly to make the future fons and daughters of Thelpis 
remember an old friend and member of the profeftion over 
an annual repaid ? 
BADELO'NA, a town of Catalonia in Spain, (eated on.' 
the Mediterranean. Lord Peterborough landed here in 
1704, when, with Charles king of Spain, he laid liege to 
Barcelona, from which it is ten miles diftant. Lat. 41, 
1?. N. Ion. 2. 20. E. 
BADELU', or Badibou, a country of Africa, on the 
borders of tire river Gambia. 
B ADELUND'S ABS, a long narrow Tandy trail of land, 
in Sweden, in the province of Weftmannland, where the 
Danes were totally defeated in 1 $ zl - 
BA'DEN, a margraviate and lovereignty of Germany, 
in the circle of Suabia. It is divided into two principa¬ 
lities, that of Baden-Baden and Baden-Durlach. Baden- 
Baden is bounded on the weft by the Rhine, though a 
fmall part lies on the weft fide of that river ; on the north 
by Baden-Durlach ; on the eaft by the duchy of Wurteni- 
berg; and on the fouth by the Brifgaw. The principal 
towns are Raftadt, Baden, Ettingen, Steinback, and Stol- 
hofen. The margrave of Baden-Baden is a fovereign 
prince, and has a vote in the college of princes. The ef- 
tablifned religion is Roman Catholic. Baden-Durlach is 
bounded on the north by the Palatinate and the bifhopric 
of Spire, on the eaft by the duchy of Wurtemberg, on 
the fouth by Baden-Baden, and on the weft by the Rhine. 
The principal towns are Durlach, Pforzheim, Muhlberg, 
and Emmendingen. This prince enjoys two votes in the 
college of princes of the empire, viz. one for Baden-Dur¬ 
lach, the other for Hochberg. The reigning prince .and 
his Inbje-Sts profefs Lutherar.ifm. 
Baden, a town of Germany, in the circle of Suabia, 
and capital of the marquifate of Baden-Baden, celebrated 
fop its hpt baths, whence its name. In the year 1688, th» 
fj tow a 
