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gunpowder. The enraged multitude then feized the go¬ 
vernor and other officers; took pofl'effion of the guard- 
rooms, armory, and magazine ; broke the windows, fet 
fire to the furniture, and threw open the'doors of the pri- 
fons. Their inhabitants, who till that inftant had been 
ignorant of what had paffied, and dill thought of the world 
in the date they had left it, were brought out, careffed, 
and carried in triumph through the ftreets. The fate of 
the garrifon was very different. The officers and foldiers 
were feized and dragged towards Hie Place de Greve, 
where a committee was fitting. M.-de Laursay, the 
governor, was dabbed in feveral places, and then be¬ 
headed at the Greve. M. de Lofme Salbray, major 
of the Badile, was killed in defending the place. M. de 
Mil ay, aid-major, was killed in the dreet Tournelle. 
M. Peirlon, lieutenant of the invalids, was killed in 
his way to the Greve. M. Caron, lieutenant in the 
fame company, after receiving four wounds, was carried 
to the Hotel Dieu, where he recovered. The pri (oners- 
at this time confined in the Badile were no more than fe- 
ven; a high proof of the mildnefs of the government un¬ 
der Louis XVI. Their names were as follow : Tavernier, 
a perfon laid to have been committed for feveral offences, 
appeared to be infane. Pujade, La Roche, Caurege, and 
Bechade, charged with a capital forgery on Meffrs. Tour- 
ton, Ravel, and Santerre, bankers in Paris, The count 
de Solayes, arrefted in Languedoc, in 1782, by an order 
from the minider, M. Amelot, at the requed of his fa¬ 
ther, for didipation, and other circumdances of mifeon- 
dudt. Having heard the firing, he inquired of the turn¬ 
key, who had juft brought up his dinner, what it meant. 
He Laid, it was occalioned by a revolt of the people on 
account of the fcarcity of bread. At this indant the door 
opened, and the room was filled with armed men. The 
other priloner, whofe name was White, had been arreded 
by an order from M. de Sartine, in 178+. He was born 
of Irifh parents at Rochelle, and was a major in the French 
infantry. The caule of his imprifonment did not appear. 
The people now, with the concurrence of the committee, 
fet about the entire demolition of the Badile. The city 
architefts were employed to conduct the work, and that 
immenfe edifice was foon levelled with the ground. Ma¬ 
ny cannon-balls were found duck in the walls, fuppofed 
to have been fired during the war of the Fronde, at the 
battle in the liiburbs St. Anthony, where the royal army 
was commanded by Turennc, and that of the Fronde by 
the great Conde. See the article France. 
The fame of the Badile will live for ever; and, as the 
edifice is now dedroyed, the reprefentation of what it once 
was will hereafter become a matter of curiofity and value. 
We have for this reafon fubjoined a plan and elevation of 
it, which may be depended on as authentic. The descrip¬ 
tion of the ground plan is as follows: A. Tour du coin. 
B. Tour de la chapelle. C. Tour du trefor. D. Tour 
de la comte. E. Tour du puit. F. Tour de la liberte. 
G. Tour de la Bertaudiere. H. Tourde la Bafiniere. 
1 . Cpuncil chamber. K. The library. L. The chapel. 
M. Rooms for the archives, &c. N. The guard-room. 
O. Ancient gate of the city. P. Gate leading to the baf¬ 
tion. Drawbridge and gate of the cadle. R. Great 
court of the callle. S, The fmall court. On the top of 
the building the roof was flatted, and’the walks round the 
ramparts were extenfive. The whole was furrounded by 
a regular fortification, which cut off all intercourse from 
without. 
BASTIMON'TOS, fmall iflands on the coaft of Ame¬ 
rica and the ifthmus of Darien, at the mouth of the bay 
of Nombre de Dios. Lat. 9.32. N. Ion. 79.40. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
BASTINA'DE, or Bastinado,^ [bajlonnade, Fr.] 
The a6t of beating with a cudgel; the blow given with a 
cudgel.—But this courtefy was worfe than a bajiinado to 
Zelmane ; fo with rageful eyes (he bade him defend him- 
fielf. Sidney.- —It is alfothe puniffiment of beatinganoffender 
«« the foies of his feet. The Romans called H fujigatie, 
B' A S' 
fujlium admonido, or fujtibus eddi ; which differed from the 
jlagellatio , as the former was done with a flick, the latter 
with a rod or fcourge. The furtigation was a lighter pu¬ 
niffiment, and inflidled on freemen ; the flagellation a Se¬ 
verer, and reServed for Haves. It was alfo called tympanum, 
becaufe the patient here was beat with flicks like' a drum. 
The punifhment is much in ufe in the eafl; to this day. The 
method here praciifed is thus : the criminal being laid on 
his belly, his feet are raifed, and tied to a flake, lield faff 
by officers for the purpefe; in which pofture he is beaten 
by a cudgel on the foies of his feet, back, chin, &c. to 
the number of 100 or more blows. 
To Bastinade, v. a. [from bajtonner , Fr.] To- beat; 
to treat with the baJiinade.—K\cV. Seized the longer end of 
the cudgel, and with it began to bajlinade old Lewis, v.ho. 
had Slunk into a corner, waiting the event of a Squabble.. 
Arbuthnot. 
BASTION, f. in the modern fortification, a large mafs 
of earth at the angles of a work, conneiling the curtains 
to each other ; and anfwers to the bulwark of the ancients. 
It is formed by two faces, two flanks, and two demigor^es. 
The two faces form the Salient angle, or angle of the baf- 
tion ; the two flanks form with the faces, the epaules or 
Shoulders; and the union of the other two ends of the 
flanks with the curtains forms the two angles of the flanks. 
See the article Fortification. 
Compofed Bastion, is when the two Sides of the interior 
polygon are very unequal, which makes the gorges alfo 
unequal. 
Cut Bastion, is that which has a re-entering ande at 
the point, and is fometimes called a Bajlion with a Tcnailk , 
whofe point is cut off', making an angle inwards, and two 
points outwards. This is ufed when the Salient angle 
would be too Sharp,, or when water or Some other impedi¬ 
ment prevents it from being carried out to its full extent. 
Deformed or Irregular Bastion, is when theirregularity 
of the lines and angles throws the baftion out of Shape : as 
when it wants one of the demigorges, one fide of the inte¬ 
rior polygon being too Short, &c. 
Demi Bastion, or Half Bastion, alfo otherwife 
called an Epaulment, has but one face and flank. 
Double Bastion, is when one baflion is raifed withia, 
and upon the plane of another baftion. 
Flat Bastion, is one built in the middle of the curtain, 
when it is too long to be defended by the ufual baflions at 
the extremities. 
Regular Bastion, is that which has its due proportion 
of faces, flanks, ana gorges. 
Solid Bastion, thofe that are entirely filled up-with 
earth to the height of the rampart, without any void fpace 
towards the centre. 
Void or Hollow Bastion, lias the rampart and parapet 
ranging only round the flanks and fpaces, fo that a void 
fpace is left within towards the centre, where the ground 
is fo low, that,, if the rampart be taken, no retrenchment 
can-be made in the centre, but what will lie under the 
fire of the befieged. 
Bastion of France, a fortrefs on the coaft of Bar¬ 
bary, belonging to the French. 
B ASTITA'NI, anciently a people of the province of 
Bstica in Spain. 
BASTO'GNE, a city of the Netherlands, in the duchy 
of Luxemburg, near the foreft of Ardennes; it is fo po¬ 
pulous, fo well built, and has fo much trade, that it is 
not unfrequently called Paris in Ardennes. This city was 
in polfeffion of the French from 1684 to 1698, when, by 
the peace of Ryfwick, it was reftored with its jurifdiftion 
to Spain, from whom it defeended to the houfe of Auftria, 
The jurifdi&ion, which is part of the ancient comte of 
Ardennes, comprehends one hundred and forty-five vil¬ 
lages and hamlets; twenty-two miles north-weft of Lux¬ 
emburg, and thirty-five fouth of Liege. Lat. 50. 6. N 
Ion. 23. 11. E. Ferro. 
BAS'TON,/. [baton, Fr.] A ftaff, or club, fn heral¬ 
dry, it is borne as a mark of illegitimacy. In the ftatutqs 
