GACHABD, Loris PROSPER, principal archivist of Belgium, was b. in France about the year 1930. He was originally a conipositor;but having removed to Belgium. lie took part in the revolution of 1830, and was naturalized in 1831. In the same year he was appointed to the honorable post of keeper of the public
G. has spent much time in examining the documents relatinn. to Belgian history, which are to be found in the national archives and in those of Spain- His principal writings are: Analeetes
gigues (1830); Documents Politiques et Diplomatiques sur la Rerolution Beige de 1750 (1834); ifenzoires sur les Bollandistes et leers Traramr depuis 1773 jusqu'en 1789 (1847); Corre spondence de Guillaume is Taciturne
Correspondence de Philippe IL, .r,Y r Zes afaires des Pays-Rae
Correspondence du Due d' Albe sur r Inrasion du Comte Louis de iVessau en Frise (1850); Retraiteet
Charles-Quint(1554); and Relation ees Troubles de Gond sous
(18.56). Prescott speaks highly .of his history of Charles V. In 1859, G. puoushed historical documents bearing unfavorably upon the characters of counts Egmont and Horn; which had the effect of stopping the erection of a monument to them. He issued, in 1863, Don Carlos et Philippe II.; in 1866, Ades des Etats Geniraux des Pays Das; in 1867, Correspondance de Marguerite d'Autriehe avec Philippe IL; and, in 1869,
thaque des Princes corsini 8 ROW.
GAD, the first born of Zilpah, LeaIfs maid, was the seventh son of Jacob. His name is differently explained.—The tribe of G. numbered in the wilderness of Sinai more than 40,000 fighting-men. Nomadic by nature, and possessing large herds of cattle, they preferred to remain on the e. side of Jordan, and were reluctantly allowed to do so by Joshua, on condition of assisting their countrymen in the conquest and subjugation of Canaan. Their territory lay to the n. of that of Reuben, and comprised the moun tainous district known as Gilead, through which flowed the brook Jabbok, touching the Sea of Galilee at its northern extremity, and reaching as far e. Rabbath-Ammon. The men of G.—if we may judge from the.eleven warriors who joined David in his extrem ity—were a race of stalwart heroes; " men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains" (1 Chron. xii. 8). Jephtliali the Gileadite, Barzillai, Elijah the Tishbite, and Gad "the seer," were also in all probability members of this tribe.