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different provinces subject to their gov- principal purpose, at these low angles,
ernment. There is one supreme court being to cover the landing of troops, and
of judicature, held under a single judge, protect the coast and harbors. A bombcalled the recorder.-Since 1814, B. has ketch is generally from 60 to 70 feet long,
been a station of the American board of from stem to stern, and draws 8 or 9 feet
commissioners fobr foreign missions, and, of water, carrying 2 masts, and is usually
in 1828, they had 4 missionaries and a of 100 to 150 tons burden. The tender is
)priting press employed here and in the generally a brig, on board of which the
ricnity; with 16 schools for boys, con- party of artillery remain till their services
taimling 1049 pupils, and 10 for girls, con- are required on board the bomb-vessels.
taianinc 577.-B. was obtained by the Por- BONA (the _dphrodisium of Ptolemy); a
tugor se, in 15130, from an Indian chief at seaport of Algiers, 66 miles N. N. E. ConSalsctte; by them it was ceded to Great stantina; lon. 7~ 360 E.; lat. 36~ 32' N.
Britain, in 1661, and, in 1668, it was Pop. 8000. this town is built above a mile
transferred, by the king, to to the East Incdia south of the ancient Hippo, or Hippona.
company. From the comlmencemnent of The harbor, which is situated to the east
th';e last century, it has gradually increased of the town, is capacious, and a considerain importance, and has now attained a ble trade is carried on here in corn, wool,
high degree of prosperity. It is difficult hides and wax. The situation is good, beto fix, with precision, the extent of the ing near the mouth of the Seibouse, and,
territories included within the presidency with proper care, it might be made one of
of B., as some districts belonging to the the most flourishing towns in Barbary.
native powers are intermingled with BoNA DEA; a name given to Ops, Vesthejm. They may be calculated at about ta, Cybele, Rhea, by the Greeks, and by
1-0,000 square miles, with a population of the Latins to Fauna or Fatua. She was
2,500,000. so chaste that no man saw her, after her
BOnMBELLES, Louis, marquis de; born marriage, but her husband; for which
1780, at Ratisbon, where his father was reason, her festivals were celebrated by
French ambassador at the diet. His night, in private houses, and all statues of
mother hadl been governess in the royal men were veiled during the ceremony.
family (des enfans de France), and an in- BoNALD, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, vistinmate friend of the virtuous Elizabeth, count de, member of the French chamsister of Louis XVI. The son inherited ber of deputies, is one of the first speakers
a feeling of devotion for the family of of the ultramontanist party. He emigratBourbon, Under the protection of prince ed in 1791, and wrote, in H-Ieidelberg, afIletternich, he was sent, in a diplomatic ter the dissolution of the corps of the
capacity, to Berlin, and when, in 1813, emigrants, in which he had served, his
the king left this city to declare himself well-known Theorie due Pouvoir, politique
against Napoleon, he carried the archives et rdligieux (3 vols. 1796). The characof the Austrian embassy, in the absence ter of this, and of his later political writof the ambassador, to Silesia. In 1814, ings, is that of metaphysical abstraction,
at the entry of the allies into Paris, he which is by no meaus popular among the
was appointed, by the emperor of Austria, French. After le returned to France, he
to carry to the count of Artois the white succeeded in insinuating himself into the
cockade, and was repeatedly sent to Den- favor of Napoleon and of his brothers.
mark. In 1816, he went to Dresden, as The emperor made him a counsellor at
Austrian ambassador, and married Ida the university, with a salary of 10,000
Brunr, the daughter of the poetess of this francs. Louis proposed to him to undclername. Since 1821, he has been Austrian take the education of his son, then crownambassador in Florence, Modena and prince of Holland, but B. declined the
Lucca. offer. I-Ee was closely connected with
BOMB-KETCI-; a vessel built for the Chateaubriancd, and assisted in the editing
use of mortars at sea, and furnished with of the.liercure de France. After the resall the apparatus necessary for a vigor- torationi of the Bourbons, he was chosen,
ous bombardment. Bomb-ketches are in 1815, member of the chamber of depuouilt reinarkably strong, to sustain the vi- ties. He voted, in this chambre introuevaolent shock produced by the discharge ble (q. v.), with the majority. In 1816,
eof the mortars. The modern bomb-ves- he was admitted into the French acadesels generally carry two 10 inch mortars, nmy. His most important work is the
four 68 pounders, and six 18 pound car- Legislation primitive (3 vols. 1802).
ronades; and the mortars may be fired at BONAPARTE is the namne of an ancient
as low an angle as 20 degrees; their Italian family, which, Louis Bonaparte