The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 29, 1762, Page 1

~—; s - B FRIDAY, Ocroser 2. 1}62;.‘. T HE New-Hampfhire Containing tbe Frefbeff Advices, Continuation of the Hiftory of PORTUG AL. ¥ YHAVES is a fmall Town upon the river Tamaga within TwoLeagues of Galicia. It has a good Bridge, and is defended both- by antient and modern Fortifications, as being a Frontier Place. There is a very extraordinary Lake near it, -not unlike that of /a Sierra de Efirella. It was formerly a Roman Town called Aqua Flavia, which is evident from the many Infcriptions that have been found there ; as alfo by the noble Remains of its Bridge, . built by Trajan. The City of Coimbra is built upon the Side of a Hill, at the Fgpt of which runs the River Mondego. li.ftands in 40 De- grees and 18 Minutes of Latitude : It is fortified after the antieat Manner, with high Walls and Towers ; and is a Bithop’s See, a Tribunal of the Inquifition, and an Uni- verfity, which was fettled here by King Fobn the Third in1553. It confifts of Sixteen Colleges, to which belong Fifty Profeffors, and generally about Three thau- fand Stodents ; and the Revenues belong- ing to them are Forty thoufand Pounds peér Annum, befides Donations. - The City is a Place of Trade, contains Five thoufand Families, and ftands in a fruitful Country. The Buildings are lofty and magnificent ; among which thereisa fine Palace for the Refidence of the Kings of Portugal : It was built by King Emanuel in 1512, There are many other fumptuous Buildings ; as the Cathedral, and the Church of Santa Cruz, in which the Two firt Kings of Portugal, Alonjo and Sancko, lie interred under magnificent Monuments. The Bridge alfo is particularly grand : It was firft built by Alonfo Enriguez in 1132. and rebuilt by his Son Sanchs in 12z1o. It confifts of Twenty-nine Arches, over which there is raifed another Row, by the means of which the People crof§ the River under Cover. There are Seven Parifhes, Five Convgpte, and Four Monafleries. One of the Col- leges of theUniverfity was formerly aPalace of their antient Kings. The Monaftery of 8t. Claife was founded by Queen Elizabeh, who lies interred there, in a Monurment which is enriched with Sculpture. The Queen alfo is reprelented there with her Crown upon her Head ; the Whole is inclofed with ¥ Baluftrade of Silver. The Jefuits have one of the fineft Col- leges there, that -belongs to their whole Society = Lt canfilts of four Courts, belides the Claffes for their Scholars, which is a ditin@ Boildisg. The Church is beauti- ful and grand ; and they have one Room capable of t-ntcrmin’!r}g Three hundred Peo- ple at Table, ac the fame time. The moft remarkable of their Convents is that of Samta Cruz : The religious that refide there are chiefly Noblemap, and of the Order of St. Auguptine, or Canons Re- galar. It is a moft magpuificent Pile of Building, and the Apartments are very elegant and grand. There are Two mag- nificent Cloifters, adorned with Cafes of v ¥ &), ok 2 ® Orange-trees 3 and the Church is richly embellithed with curious Sculpture and Painting. Befides the Convents, thereis a fine Hofpital, and a Cafa de Mifericordia, or 2Houfe for theRelief of decayed Families. There is alfo a noble Aqueduét, built by Don Se¢baflian King of Portugal about the Year 1547. It conveys the Water to the Back fide of the Uniusrfity, where ir-falls into a handfome Marble Refervoir, from whence it is diftributed to different Parts of the City. it will be neceffary to fix upon Coimbra, as a Sration from whence the different Ex- curfions are to bé made. As you go from Coimbra to Rabacal, which is a fmall Place, Twelve Miles to the South-eaft upon the the Right hand of the Road, you will fee the Village of Con- dex a Vella, which lies South weft Nine Miles. At this Village there are very con- fiderable Ruins, ‘which, according to Ce/- larius, are the' Remains *of the antient Conimbrica. e We return now to the other Branch of the Mountain, that ftretches directly Eaft from Coimbra, which Mountain is called Mount Stella : It is upon this Meuntain that you find a moft aftonithing Lake, which tho® itis upon the Summit, and above Twelve Leagues from the Sea, the People of the Country affirm, that they have feveral times feen the Wrecks of Ships in it 5 and that whenever the Sea is agitat- ed, this. Lake is moved as much in pro- portion. Covilbao, or Covilbana. Some old Authors write it Cyvillan @ Tt isa fine Town,and ftandsNineteen Leagues full Eaft of Coimbra, near the River Zezere, The Buildings here exceed any in the King- dom (except thofe of its Metropolis) being large, regular, lofty, and of Stoné, con- taining Thirteen Parifhes : It was built by Count Falian, and was called Cava Fuliau, from Flerinda the Count’s Daughter, who was born there, and who by the Moors was called Cava, viz. viglated. She was a moft beautiful Attendant upon Rederic’s Queen, and was ravifhed by him ; which incenfed Count Fulian to that Degree, that he bro’c the Moors over from Africa to invade the Kingdom : The decifive Battle was given upon the Eleventh Day of November 714. King Radric loft .the Day, and his Life ; and in three Years the Moors were in Pol- feflion of the whole Kingdom, except a fmall Part beyond theMountains, belonging o Navarre : And by the Condult of Ferdinand and Ifabel, all that remained to the Moc~s was recovered by the Conqueft of Gramada, upon the Firlt of Fanuary 1492. Cubillan had been deflroyed by the Wars, and was. rebuilt by Don Sancée the Firft, in the Year 1186. who made an Order, that the Gentleman of that Place thould enjoy the fame Privileges as Noble- - men ; and that any Slave that fthould live there a whole Year, he, and his Pofterity from that time, fhould be free, [To be Continued. ] .~ Nums. 31 Several natural Curiofities lying _ within a reafenable Diftance of this Place,” (W ekxs fince thi: PabER { was fuft publith’d, femdBhast . G A ZETTE . e Foreign and Domeflick. L0 N D '‘O'N, Aoguft 4 : St. Fames’s Augupf 6. This day.Mcfii’s de Schonhoven, Van Campen, and Vander Hoop, deputies from the Dutch Eaflt India Company, had a private audience of his Majeity, to prefent a letter from the States- General. Admiralty Office, Auguft 7. Capt. Adams of his Majefty’s fhip che - Diana, gives an account, in his letter dated the grh inftanc at Sea, of his having taken on the 1t inft. off the Texel, La Daukerquaife, a French privatecr cutter of four carriage, four {wivel guns, and thirty men, belonging to Dun- kirk. She had been out five weeks, and taken five prizes, which fhe had ranfomed for 800 guineas. The ranfomers and bills were on board. Galicia, Fune 23. Three Catalan barks; with three other fmall veflels, laden with provifions for Ferrol, being chafed by am Englith Frigateof 30 guns, and a privateer of the fame nation, took refuge on the 18th inftant in a creck under Cape Finifterre. In the night the enemy put a perfonon fhore, in order to nail up four cannon, whicht defended the entrance into the creek. Theif emiffary was feized by the peafants, and immediately condulled to Corunna. As he Wwas apprehended under the character of 2 fpy, weare preparing to bring him on his trial. - On the 19th, the Englifh feeing that he returned nor, attempted a defcent. Twenty men were landed by them, who, as we had 1o troops to oppofe them, nailed up the four cannon, and planted the Britith flag on the fpot. But this a peafant foon after car- ried away, while the Englith were amufing themfelves by drinking in a village : the enemy’s frigate, however, with the pri- vateer that accompanied her, fired upon the barks and the three ether vefigs, out of which they took four : the remaining two efcaped being taken, by running athore. ‘T'o enter the creek the Englifh made ufe of a ftratagem : their frigate hoilted a Spanifh flag,and cannonaded the privateer the latter feigning to firike, the frigate fliil kept up her falfe colours,and conducted her pretended prize into the creek. Drefden, Fuly 16. A train of heavy attil- lery is arrived ac Wittenberg,and alfo 3000 quintals of powder ; but for what deftined we knowpet. Auguft 9. 1t is faid that our court has re< ceived a letter written by the prefent Em- prefs of Ruflia, in which fhe declares, that fhe will inviolably keep all the treaties {ub- filting between Ruffia and Great Britain, and grant any advantages that are confiftent with the intereft of both nations. And we are alfo told that fhe fays, that notwith= ftandiog the Ruffian troops are ordered to feparate themfelves from the army of the King of Pruffia, yet neverthele(s fhe will not aét offenfively againft that Monarch. Notwithftanding the above is afferted to be true, there are fome who fay, that the Ruflians have feiz’d the principal cities in Pruffia, and that they live at difcretion throughout the country,