. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . fhis Embassies, 2 vols. i2mo : and Remarkson the History of Louis XIII. by Dupleis,lamo. These works abound in curious parti-culars rd occasional strokes of satire. Themarshal was restored to his colonelcy of theSwiss after his liberation; and he himself saysthat he was fixed upon for governor of theyoung king, Louis XIV. but excused himselfon account of his age and infirmities. He grewextremely corpulent, and died
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . fhis Embassies, 2 vols. i2mo : and Remarkson the History of Louis XIII. by Dupleis,lamo. These works abound in curious parti-culars rd occasional strokes of satire. Themarshal was restored to his colonelcy of theSwiss after his liberation; and he himself saysthat he was fixed upon for governor of theyoung king, Louis XIV. but excused himselfon account of his age and infirmities. He grewextremely corpulent, and died of an apoplexyin 1646. BASTA, George, Count, a military manof eminence, was an Epirote by descent, butwas born at la Rocca, a village near was commander of an Epirote or Albaneseregiment of horse, when the prince of Parmatook possession of the government of the LowCountries in 1579. He perfected himself inthe art military in the school of this great ge-neral, w^ho, discovering his merit, made himcommissary-general of cavalry, and employedhim in many enterprises of importance. Heaccompanied the prince into France in 1590,when he went to succour the League -, and. LAm M ^ Zaitaan lur^x B AS ( 43 ) BAT CDmmamlcd the rear-guard at the first retreat in1592. He made some campaigns in Hungary,but returned to the Low Countries in 1596,\idicre he succeeded in the difficult attempt ofthrowing provisions into la Fere when besiegedby Henry IV. His principal theatre, however,was the war in Transylvania and Hungary,where, in 1601, he gained a signal victoryover Sigismund Battori, and afterwards tookthe town of Clausenburg. Finding a rival tohis glory in the wayvode of Walachia, hecaused him to be killed in his tent on suspicionof intelligence with the Turks. In the nextyear he completed the ruin of Battori, and com»pelled him to sue for peace, which was onlygranted on his renunciation of all rights overTransylvania. The severities Basta afterwardsexercised against the protestants
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