The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 17, 1762, Page 1

IDAY, "THE New—Hamp Containing the Frefbeft fldbice:, | As we 'bave “certain Intelligence of the Con- queft of the -HAV ANNAH, -and of Con- Jequence, fhall fubdue the whole Ifland of - Cuba, ( which is about 8oo Milesin Jength, and 70 broad ) we Jball give furtber decounts of Spanifh Affairs—As mentioned in our two laft Papers—which _ perbips may be agreable. S to the Pérfons o'-fthéSp'a.niard:,v the Men are generally tall, but feldom corpulent ;their Com-. plexion fwarthy ; their, Hair 5 “black, with brifk fparkling Eyés ; they have Muftachio’s o 'the 'upper Lip ; their Women are generall yfmall and ender. : The Men part their Hair, and tie it be- hind with a Ribbon ; their Habits are black, and they throw a Cloak over all, but fo as to have their Right Hand at Liberty g and every Peafant almoft wears an extrava- gant Long Sword. The Ladies.all paint their Necks, Arms and ‘Hand, as well as their Faces ; dréfs in their Hair, and were \Hoops of Brals Wire, and their Gowns are always black; on which their "Jewels make a glittering A ppearence ¢ their. Pace is ex- ceeding tlow,and they'do every Thing with great Deliberation. - “The Air and Mien of this Peqple being the. very Reverfe of the Among, . their Vicés "and . Defects, are, ¥Eckoned - their -Pride -and, Contempt of ‘oreigners, feldom travelling cut of their own Country.: Their wretched Indolence, Lazioels, and Lufi,” dnd, their Credulity in. believing'the feigned Miratles and fabuleus Srories of ‘their Monls, without Examifati- on ; And thelr hegle&ing'toy apply dhem: felves toManufa@ures; or Hufbandry. The French do meft of this 4s wellas their other ¥ Bufinefs ;-and’ ofully: feturd. with. ¢onfider- able Fortunes foheir own: Country ; but thisis to be undesilpod thiefly ofstbe Two Gajiiles, and the. Midland Provimees. For ; the People of Galliis apply themfelves di- ligently to Hulindry,,as. well as thofe of Granaday"and Andalyfia; and otherSouthern Provinces, being chicRy Defcendants from the Moors, who did“mot logk: apon Hlufban- dry as a low Employment.” 1t is-obferved, that Spain is not half o' well peopled as France and fome “other European Countries; there not being Eignt Millions of People in the Kingdom, ‘whereas i is-computed there are fourteen or . fifteen Milliois ‘in France, which is' not Ta large.’ And for this feveral Reafons are afligied, as the Expul- fion of fo mary Thoufind Fews and Moors 5 the long: Wags théy were engaged in, which carried offeMultitudes of | their Subjedts y7and that c'o%al Drain. of the Weft Indies;whither grtedlNumbers of Spami - grds go over every Year 3 all their Gover- nors and great Officers *in America being Natives of Spain, and cafrying dver a ‘Mai- titude ‘of Servants and -Dependanits’ with them, The Celibacy of the. Clergy, and .of the Manks" and Nuns, is; afligned as another Reafon of cheir wanting People, but this-iscommon to all other PopiCountries: BPTEMBER £7, 1762 , | .| o 'van. ~3 1T " L 5 9”&% b ¥ ‘ ™ ‘ ‘(szxs- fince-this PAPER [ was firft Publith’d, e GAZETTE e Foreign and Domeflick. _The Language of the, Spaniards comes - as near ‘the Latin as any Language now fpoke in Eurepe, mixed with fome Arabic Words ‘and Terminations, intfoduced by the Maors. kb As to Religion, the Spawiardsare zeal- ous Remanifis,and their Cha¥eh is governed by Archbithops and. Bidhgps, fubject to the Controul of the Pope. - And there is no Country, except Portugal, where the Inquifition” reigns with fuch Terror ; ro Subjeéts but is liable to be profecuted by the Holy Qffice, as it is called ; though it was firlt inticuted for the Trial of the-Sin- cerity of the Moorifb ahd Fewifh Convents, who were compelled to protefs the Coriftian Religion after the Conqueft.-of Granada, Ao 1491. "In this Courr, it is fcarce pof- fible for a Prifoner to make a tolerable Defence, not being fuffered to know:eitier his Acculers, or the Witne{fes againft him ; but he 1s required to confefs himfelf guilty, or fubmitto the Torture, till fuch;a Con- feffion is extorted from him as the Fathers require. ; ; . There are eightArchbithopricks in Spain. The Archbifhop of Toleds is. ftiled the Primate of Spain ; he is great Chancellor of Caftile ; has a Revenue of 300,000 Ducats per Annum, amounting to 100,000 L. Ster-. ling, or tOSe,s . 10 | sl » There are twenty-two Unverfities;; of which theChief ate, Salamanca, Compsfiéila, Alcala de Henares, Valladgiid Sagragofa, Palentia, Seville, Toleda, &c. ; There are alfo in Spain 2 141Convents and Nunneries containing at leaft 50,000 Monks aad Nuns., - : - " The Roinans remained Sovereigns ‘of Spain until the Year of Chrift 400 ; about which Time the Goths, Vandals, and ether Noithern. Nations, broke in upon the Roman Empire, and made a “Conqueft of The Empire, of the GosZs, was in .ifs gresteft Glory about the Year 500, for then it comprehended the Southeérn Pro- vinces of France, all Spain, and Mauritania in Africa y but about cheXear 713, Roderic then King of the Gorbs having commirred . a Rdpe on Fldrida, Daughter of Count Falian, Governor of Gothic - Mauritania, that difguefted Lord entered into a ‘Con- federacy with the Saracens or Moors to in- vade Spain, and having with their united Forces gained a decifiveViétory,theSaracens fubdued 4N Spain-excepr the Norihern Pro? vinces, whither "Pelagias'a noble Spaniard retired, and having recovered Leosn from the Infidels, took upon -him the Title of King of Leon, A Qe SN A From this Time the Gopbs, {upported by -other Chrifiian Princes,made War upon the Moorswith variousSuccefies. The Moors were not entirely fubdted ™ uitil the Year 1291, when the City of Granada was taken by Ferdivand and Ifabella; who had united all the petty Kingdomys ‘of Spuin into’ éng by theif - Martiage, and were fuéceéded in their apited Kingdem, ' by -tneir Grandfon Charles: V. Archduke of: Aufiria, and afiers wards Emperor of Germany. ... - Wl RRY R By tHeArticles for theSurrender ofGrana- da, Boabdil King- of the Moors with his Subjedts, fubmitted t0 do Hamagne to Fer- dinand ‘and IHabella, ‘on “Condirion ~they might retain the Poficion of their Eftates, be governed by their own Laws, and-have the freeExercife of theirReligion. However, dll the Moors in Spain. were compelled to’ turnChrifiians,or leave theKingdom; wheres vpon feveral ‘hundred thorfand of them tranfperted themfelves.to 4frica. and their Jewifh Subje@s were banifhed to Portugal. . And in the Reign of Philip 111. 1609, a Million more of the Moors, weredanithed, .and the new Converts that 'remained -be- hind, perpetually perfecuted and tortured by the Inquifition. The Year after the Moors were fubdued, © America was difcovered by Columbus, and within thirty Years after, the Empires of Mexico and Peru were conquered, whereby CharlesV. became pofleffed of the moft ex-~ tenfive Dominions that ever any Monarch enjoyed. His American Dominions were at leaft ix thoufand Miles in Length, and he was ac the fame Time Eniperor of Ger- many, Sovereign of Burgundy and the Ne- therlands, and-of moft Part of fraly, ds well ds'Spain 5 of the Pbhilipine Iands in Afia, and feveral Places in 4frica. ! The Spaniards made feveral Efforts for the Recovery of their Rights and Privile- ges, which were denominatedRebellions by the Court ; but noble Struggles for the Re< covery of their loft Privileges, to firengthen and confirm ‘the unlimited Power of the Emperor, who was engaged moft Part of his:Reign in,a Foreign War with France, or with his Proteflant Subjects of Germany, i which he was not fo fortunate in the Decline - of Life, as he had bfen in his ‘Youth, whereupon he refigned the Crown totiis Son Phulip 11, Ansio 1556, and fhut himfelt'ap in _the Monaftery of St. Fuflin Spain, where he died two Yearsafter. His Son Philip 11. attempting to govern ds arbitrarily in the Nétherlands as he did in Spain, and at the fame Time introdu- cing a kind of Inquifition for the Sep- preflion of the Prorgflams, who wete very humerous there, ‘sccafioned a generallnfur- rection of the Flemings, and a Civil War commenced, in whicit the Duke of Alva, the King' of Spain®s ‘General exercifed great Crugltics 3 but was notable entirely to res duce them, as. they 'were affifted . by . the Queen ot “England, (Elizabeib) as well ‘as France. Pbilip therefore firred out' the moft powerful Eleet thatever.rode upon theOcean ttiled, The Invincible Armaday Anne 1588, with'which he atrempted 'té‘i@x’(agef,’hgldztdl; but,by the Bravery. and Stratagems of \¢h -Englifh, and. the Storms they. met with, the :greatelt Parvof the Armada was deftroyed. He afterwards entered into’a War - with France with no better Swccefs ;. But. ‘'upga “the Death of Henry King of:Porsugabdnmo 1579, he ifivaded thit Kingdom, which'he “claimed as’Son 2ad Heit of [fabells, EJa‘\.igfi;g; .er of, EmanuelKing of Porsugal s and thoug ' the BraganzaFammly wergithought to-have »& bester. Fitle, they werenas flreng enough A0 ndmage s aliw et vig: Mgy -