BAS 
To BAS'TARDIZE, v. a. To convicft of being a baf- 
tard. To beget a baftard.—I fhould have been what I am,- 
had the maidenlieft ftar in the firmament twinkled on'my 
bajiardizing. Shakefpeare. 
BAS'TARDLY, adv. In' the manner of a baftard j fpu- 
rioufty : 
Good feed degenerates, and oft obeys 
The foil’s difeafe, and into cockle drays; 
Let the mind’s thoughts but be tranfplanted fo 
Inl^o the body, and bajlardiy they grow. Donne. 
B AS'TARDS,yi An appellation given to a kind of fac¬ 
tion or troop of banditti whorofe in Guienne about the be¬ 
ginning of the 14th century, and, joining with fotne Englilh 
parties, ravaged the country, and fet fire to the city of 
Xaintes. Mezeray fuppofes them to have confided of the 
natural fons of the nobility of Guienne, who being exclud¬ 
ed the right of inheriting from their fathers, put them- 
at the head of robbers and plunderers to revenge and main¬ 
tain themfelves. 
BAS'TARDY,/! An unlawful ftate of birth which dif¬ 
ables the perfon from fucceeding to an inheritance : 
Once file fiandered me with bajlardy ; 
But whether I be true begot, or no, 
That dill 1 lay upon my mother’s head. Shahefpeare. 
Euftathius fays, bafiards among the Greeks were in equal 
favour with legitimate children, as low as the Trojan war; 
but the courfe of antiquity feems againfl him. Potter and 
others fliew, that there never was a time when baftardy 
was not in difgrace. Though, in the reign of William the 
Conqueror, baltardy feems not to have implied any re¬ 
proach, if we may judge from the circumftances of that 
monarch himfelf not fcrupling to aftume the appellation 
of bajlard. His epifile to Alan count of Bretagne begins, 
Ego IVillielmus cognomcnto bafiardus. 
Arms of Bastardy ,f. in heraldry, are eroded with a 
bar, fillet, or traverfe, from the left to the right. Baf- 
tards were not allowed to carry the arms of their father, 
and therefore they invented arms for themfelves ; and this 
is .dill done by the natural fons of a king. 
Right of 'Bastardy, Droit de batardife, In the former 
French laws, was a right, in virtue whereof the effeds of 
bafiards dying inteftate devolved to the king or the lord. 
B ASTAR'NZE, or Bastern JE, a people of German o- 
rigin, manners, and language; who extended themfelves a " 
great way to the eafi of the Viftula, among the Sannatse, 
as far as the mouth of the Ifter and the Euxine ; and were 
■divided into feveral nations. An army of them was de- 
ftroyed by a fudden ftorm, as they were purfuing the Thra¬ 
cians. Livy. 
BASTAR'NICZE ALPES, mountains extending be¬ 
tween Poland, Hungary, and Tranfylvania, called alfo 
the Carpates, and now the Carpathian mountains. 
BASTAVO'E, a bay on the eafi fide of Yell, one of 
the Shetland iflands. 
To BASTE, v. a. particle pafi’. bajled, or bajlen, \_baf- 
tpnner, Fr. bazata, in the Armoric dialed, dignifies to 
ftrike with a flick; from which perhaps baj/on, a flick, 
and all its derivatives, or collaterals, may be deduced.] 
To beat with a (lick. 
Bajlings heavy, dry, obtufe. 
Only dulncfs can produce ; 
While a little gentle jerking 
Sets the fpirits all a-working. Swift. 
To drip butter, or any, thing elfe, upon meat as it turns 
upon the fpit.—Sir, I think the meat w ants what I have, 
a bajhng. Shakefpeare .—To moiften meat on the fpit by 
falling upon it.—The fat of roafied mutton falling on the 
birds, will ferve to bajie them, and to lave time and butter. 
Swift .—To few ftightly; from bajier, Fr. to ditch. 
BASTEL'LICA, a town of the iiland of Corfica, five 
leagues ealt-north-eaft of Ajaccio. 
B ASTE'Rl A,./, inbotany. See Cawcakthus. 
Vgl. II. No. jo£. 
B A s. 785 
BAS'TI, anciently a town of the province of Bsetica in 
Spain, fipuated to the vvefi of the Campus Spartarjus. Now' 
Baza in Granada. 
BAS'TIA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Modena, 
on the Panaro, eight miles north-eafl of Modena. 
Bastia, a city and feaport of Corfica, and capital of 
the ifland, commanded by a lofty mountain about 400 fa¬ 
thoms in length, and 100 in width, in the centre of which 
the fea forms a fmall bay, defended by a mole. It is fup- 
pofed to be the Mantinum of the ancients. It is divided 
into two parts, called Terra Nuova, and Terra Vecckia , in 
the former of which is a citadel, furrounded with fortifi¬ 
cations. The harbour is good, but fmall, and fit only'for 
fmall veffels: the commerce is confiderable. 101745, it 
received confiderable damage from a bombardment by the 
Englilh. In 174S, it was befieged by the Andrians; but 
without fuccefs. In 1794, lord Hood, after the furrender 
of Morbello and St. Fiorenza, proceeded to Baftia, where 
he arrived the 10th of May. The number of perfons ca¬ 
pable of bearing arms in. Baftia originally amounted to no 
more than 3000 men. The fortifications were not in the 
belt (late, and the garrifon but indifferently provided; yet 
they made a molt gallant defence againfl the united efforts 
of the Britifh fleet and army, joined by a confiderable 
corps of Corficans, w hich Paoli had collected and dif- 
patehed thither, and refilled till the 19th of May, when 
lord Hood, “in confideration of the very gallant defence 
made by the garrifon of Baftia, and from principles of hu¬ 
manity,” offered honourable terms to the commandant, 
Gentiii; which, in the fituation of the garrifon, it would 
have been defperation to reject. In confequence of this 
negociation, on the 24th, they marched out with the ho¬ 
nours of war, and Baftia was taken poflefiion of by the 
Englilh, and annexed to the Britifh dominions. It was 
however abandoned, and given up to the natives, in 1797. 
The number of inhabitants is fuppofed to be about 6000. 
Lat. 42. 35. N. Ion. 27. 12. E. Ferro. 
Bastia, a fea-port town of Iflria, imthe Adriatic, eight 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Umago. Lat.39.41.N. Ion. 
3-S. o. E. Ferro. 
BASTFDE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Cartel-Jaloux, two leagues and three quar¬ 
ters weft-foilth-weft of Tonneins, and tlire 5 quarters north 
of Caftel-Jaloux. 
Bastide de Montfort (I.a), a town of France, in 
the department of the Tarn, and chief place-of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Gaillac, five miles north-eafl of Gaillac. 
Bastide de Seron (La), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Arriege, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diflridt of Tarafcon, four leagues and a half north- 
weft of Tarafcon. 
Bastide de Jgurdans (La), a town of France, in t he 
department of the Mouths of the Rhone, and chief place 
of a canton, in the diflridt of Apt, four leagues fouth-eaft 
of Apt. 
Bastide d’Armagnac ,(La), a town of France, in 
the department of the Gers, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridt of Noga.ro, four leagues and three quarters 
north-north-weft of Nogaro, and one and three quarters 
north-weft of Cazaubon. 
Bastide de Bearn, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Pyrenees, four leagues weft of Orthez. 
BASTI'LE,y. [from bajlion, a fortification; or proba¬ 
bly from bajier, to appeafe or fuffice ; the king’s wrath be¬ 
ing appealed on commitment of tire offender.] A ftate- 
prifon of France, fomewhat fiinilar to the Tower of Lon¬ 
don. It was long tire fcoprge of the French nation, as 
will appear from" the following facts in its hillory; for 
which reafon it was demoli.flied by the people at an early 
period of the late revolution. The caftle of the Baffle 
was begun building in the reign of Charles V. by Hugh 
d’Aubriot, mayor of Paris, who laid the firft fione dn the 
2.2ft of April, 1370;. and, as if the hand of Providence 
was againfl him, he was the firft prisoner confined in it.- 
