The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 8, 1762, Page 1

£ | Gcrqynn 8, 1763, NG e ¥ £ s _New-Hampfhire 2 - iflibg'tbe Frefbefp Advices, \AS sthe Hifory of the Werld isa neeeflary Braned of sjeful Knowledge, being a Dafeription or Recital of bings-as.they are, or bave been, in a continued orderly Narration of the principal Falls and CircumBlances . Shereof, it mufl certainly be entertaiming to the carions nd thinking Pars of Mankind from Time to Time to ave Accounts of the fiveral Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns and remar kable Places ; and may be of sat Sergice a5 well as dmafement in the perufal of a E%I Paper, tohich is generally allowed to be the agall Ecrope. The Extent of -the Kingdom is’ gbiapeft as well a1 befi-Method of giving us o true ldia of the contending Parties novwo at War. And a the . ciling af. Spain is endiovoaring to comguer Portugal, eobich is one of the richiff Kingdoms in the World, the' : {h/q(af;f./m; Armw‘t of it at this Time may be Aeafonable. it Tke Kingdom of PORTUGAL. ‘H1S Country beingin the fame Latitude,and contiguous toSpain. the Nature.of its Climate an the Produétions in general dre much the fame ; but"in that of beautiful ‘Womep (which [i$ infinitely the fineft that Man can concewe) it is thought to furpafs "2 Hundred Leagues in Length, and about . Thirty-five:in Breadth : Its moft Northern - Province lies between the Rivers Duere and Minbo, the Soil of which is fo fertile, and the Air {a purcand wholfome, that many "of their Women will breed till ‘they are Filty. Theig Houfes are full of Children, " and the ParfWs Tive to a great Age. Plains are co; ith -Sheep, and the Mutton is il ft in all Spain, Here allo they have™® perpetual Spfif‘lg. ' ParrTucar,isthe moft wefterly King dom of Europe, fituated between 4 and 10 degrees of W, lon. and between 37 and 42 degrees of N. Jat. bounded-by theKing- ~dom of Spain oa the N. and E. and by the Actlantic ocean on the W, and S, This country is not fo hot as Spain, efpecially thac part which lies on the coaft being cooled by the fea-breezes ; but it is “not-fo frujtful as Spain, being incmbered with fome of the barrenet mountains on " that continent : however towards-the bot- tom of them, they are planted with vines, which produce a great deal of good wine. The foil alfo praduces plenty of clives, as well -as oranges and lemons; but neither their oil or their four aranges are fo good ‘as thofe of Spaiti. Their fweet oranges, Kowever,which they introduced fromChina, and for that reafon are called China oranges, are the beft in Europe. T'hey have not corn €nough for their fubfitence ; but are fupplied with it frequently from England and Holland: As to their peafants and cauptry people, they eat fcarcer any other but ladian corn 3 a very coarfe foed. - The fieth of their cattle s generally ' lean ard dry ; but they have plenty of chefnuts, al- monds, figs, and raifins, They make alfo a great deal of falt, of the fea water, let in- to thallow pans; efpécially in the bay of St. Ubes, from whence they export a great deal, .efpecially tovAmerica. The foreign trade .of the Portuguefle confifts eicher in the ex- portation of the produce of their own' foil, ‘viz, red and white Po:t wines, oranges, le- ‘mons, and other fruits ; or in the exporta- tion of the merchandife they receive from ‘their plantatidn§gand fectlements in Afia, Africa, aod America ; of which, thofe from 9% The: *‘fiderable : for, befides vaft quantitiesof fu- Brafil, in America, are miuch the moft con- : gar, tobacto, rum, cotton, indigo, hides, train oil, dying woods, and drugs, they im- port ‘vaft treafures of gold, filver, and dia- monds from Brafil; having lately difcovered fome very valpable mines of thefe.precious minerals thete 4 infomuch, that the value of diamonds are funk confiderably. Bur, ‘notwithRanding Portegal is now one ofthe richeft kingdoms in the world,it is;however the weakélt. They have neither fleets or “‘armies fuffidient to defend their fea coafts or frontiers 3 and, were i¢ not that the reft of the powers of Europe kpow it to be their interéft to defend them againft Spain, they would féon be fwallowed up by that potent neighbour. This is a much greater fecu- rity than the double' fharriages ‘contracted between the two crowns, in the year 1729. Portugal is an abfolate monarchy, and the crown hereditary. There are affemblies of the ftates and cortes here, indeed, as well s in Spain but they only-ferve to confirm the “nedr one million fterling, clear of all penfi- ons and'falaries ; but the King receivesa’ -much greater revente from the produce ‘of ‘the “MINES -of Bralil, which it is fcarce poflible to make a juflt eftimate of. Thereisno country to which the Englith trade to greater advantage ; for, tho’ we import the greateft part of their wine and fruit, they take cur woollen manufaéture in return, with which they do not only clothe the Portuguefe of Europe, but bpumerous colonies they ‘have in Afia, Africa, and America 3 and many nations that: formerly wént nakéd; which the Portuguefe have taught to clothe themfelves, and conform to European cuftoms. .And, *tis certain, we have imported a great deal of gold from ortugal, tho’ the exportation of it from thehce is prohibited, under very fevere pen- alties, by their governinent. Tbe Province of Entre Ducero e Minbo Porto. THE City of Perto lies upon the North Side of the Rives Dugro : It is remark- able for the vaft Quantities of its Wine, which it exports for-England. The Port *is fpacious, but difficult to enter 3 but there is a very fine Key, that runs from one End of the Town to-the other. ) e The City {tands upon the Decllvity of a: Mountain,which malkes the Streets uneven; butthey are well paved, and kept clean ¢ It is fortified after the old Fathion, with high Walls and Towers. = There are Aca- demies, where Gentlemen miay learn the ufual Exercdes, and otherArtsandSciences, They have alfo Docks, where they build Men of War. One aof their fineft public Structures is the Convent of St. Auguftine. The Chusch is ‘a round Building, and richly adorned 3 and in theConvent there is aGallery, which is remarkable upon account of its extraor- dinary Length. ThePlace has noDefence, buta fmall Fort. - Pioley sl su hou SRR ACKRLS Lty : T HE City of Braga is fituated on the iy NuMB. 314 ¢réds of the Prince. The ‘public an- nualrevenues of the kingdom amount to . this PabEn, f ‘Wre o finks. L was hift pubhih’d, - GAZETTE % Foreigninid DirehicE " South Side of the River Cavado, in Forty- one Dc%rce's and Forty Minutes Latitu’s, andEighteen Miles from the Sea: 1t is the Metropolis of @il Porsupal, and was fore merly of all that Pare of Spain, which hims béen recovered from the Mobrs, before the Spaniards retook Toledoy and from thag time the Primacy was given to Toledo. “The Archbithop is both Spiritual and Terhp ral Lord of it 3 for which Reafon he cars riesa Crofier in his Hand, and wears” a Sword by his Side. Tt was' a Colony of bt the Romans, and ‘was cilled Bracara- Au- gufta, or Bracarangufla, ‘as appears by the Infcription which they found there. . Andas an additional Confirmation of the Antiquity of the Place, in the Year 1748, in digging a new Foundation for the Monaftery of the Capucbins there, they difcovered the following Treafure, con- fiting of a vaft Quantity of Gopper Cains of feveral Roman Emperors, contained in a large Urn, and of One hundred and Seventy feven Gold Medals, in Four fepérate Vel- fels, contained in another large Urn, = In the firlt of thefe there were T wenty- one of the Emperor Nero, and his Mother Agrippina, with this Infcription, Djvo Ne- §oni Confuli, et Agrippinae”Augufte. In the Second, were Eighteen of Titus (ftruck in the Life‘time of his Father, up- on his fubduing ‘the Fetws) thus infcribed, Tito Ve[pafiani Augufti Filio, Tudeis fubatis. In ‘the Third, were Twenty-three of the . Emperor Trajam, upon his Return from Cologne, asappears by this Legend, M. Ul- pio Crinito Cazfari Trajane a Cols. Ubior: . Romam reduci. : In the Fourth, were Twenty-nine of Se- ~ weris, on his fetcling the Affairs of Africa, with this Infcription, Flavie Valeria Inmper- atori Severo Africe Moderatori, PioPacifico. In the Veffel there were Thirty-fix fmall Pieces of the Emperor Taciftus, which were ftruck wpon his Ele&ion, being thus inferi- bed, Marco ClaudioTacito elefiione exercitas Romnni Divo Augufto Imperatori. 3 Afcer the Romans, theSuevis ' made it theie Capital for the Space of 190 Years § and theirimmediate Succeffor the Geosbs hon- oured it as long in the fame Manner. The Buildings are of a durable Stone, and are andient, magnificent, and ftrong ; and the City-Walls were rebuilt by King Ferdinand in the Year 1375. on the Foun- datien laid before by Don Dionis. It is alfo very -worthy of our Notice, that St. Faimnes preached the Golpel there jom— The Cathedral is large, beautiful, and firong 5 and the Archbifhop’s Palace is a raagnificent Pile. ' The Inhabitants are computed to be a- bout Three thoufand Families, deftributed into Five Parithes, containing Three Con- vents, and as many Monafteries ; a fine Hofpital for the Sick, and a handfome Col- lege for Students: Here, as in moft Ciaes, and many Market-towns, is a fine Building called lz Mifericordia, for relieving of Per- fons well born, and reduced ; and all fuch as cannot publicly alk Alms, are from hence plentifully relieved, and fo privately, chas