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Containing the Frefbeff Advices,
IN. [everal of our la} Papers baving given
a general Account of tbe Kingdom of Spain,
&¢c, some of the most remarkable Revoluti
- ons thereof, may not be difagresable, as we
arenow at the beginning of the War with
_4hat Nation 5 and as we bave made a good
Beginning, doubt not we fpall be able to
. give our Readers Accounts of the ReduiZion of
Jfome more of their firong Holds, as the Old
. Englifb Spirit seems too be revived,
N PAlN<was divided into many King
‘@, domsand Principalities ;as it'was
recovered from the Moors, every
- # General almost set up for a Sover
-5 ¢ - eign with theConfeng of the People,
o whom they gganted great Privileges ; no
thingof Importance was tranfalted in the
State without the Consent of their refpe&ive
Cortes or Parliameénts 3 but Charles V. the
molt powerful Spvereign of that Age, part
ly by Places and Pensions, and creating
Divisions among their Chiefs, and partly
by Force, induced the several Cortes to part
with their Privileges, and Spain has ever
since been an absolute Monarchy.
The Spaniards renewed the War with
the Dutch, Anno 1622, which continued
until the Year 1648, when the Dutch were
acknowledged Indepgndent States at the
Treaty of Wefiphalia.” ‘
In the mean Time the Catalans revolted
to the French, Anno 1640. And in the fame
Year Portugal revolted, Fobn IV, Duke of
Braganza, having found Means to expel
the Spaniards and ascend that Throne.
Naples was almost loft in the Yeat
16479, Maffinello, a Fitherman, raising an
lafurre&tion on Account of some Duties
that were laid on Fith and Fruit, reduced
the whole Country to his Obedience ; but
the Spani/b Governor found Means to get
him taken off,and Naples was again redu
ced to the Obedience of Spain.
. Ipthe Year 1655, the English invaded
the Island of Yamaica in America, and took
i from the Spaniards.
And in the Year 1658, the English, with
the Afflitance of the Fremech, took Dunkirk
from Spain.
Inthe Year 1689, Spain entered into
a Confederacy with the Emperor,” and
Ewmpire, England, Holland, and the Nor
thern Crowns, again(t France; but the Al
fies under Prince Waldeck were defeated at
Flerus 1s 1690, before the English had join
ed them, Mons was taken by the Frencd
1693, and Namurin 1692 ; and the Con
federates loft the Battle of Steinkirk the
fame Year, being betrayed by a Domeftick
of the Duke & Bavaris ; for which he was
hanged. In Alay 1692, the English and
Dutch Fleets, commanded by Admiral
Ruflel, totaly defeated the Fremch under
Admiral Teurville, near Cherburg, 21 of
their largest Ships being burnt, funk and
destroyed. In the Year 1693, the French
gained the Vitory at Landen,took Huy and
Charleroy, also Palamos and Gironein Cata
lonia. iln the Year 1695, King William,
who commanded the Cofederates, retook
Namur ; the French on the other Hand,
took Deynefs and Dixmude, and bombarded
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Braffels,and made 14Battalions of theAllies
‘Prifoners of War. -
-~ The Confederate Fleet, commanded by
Sir George Rooke, took Gibraltar on the
-ylth of- Fuly ¥704, and on the 13th of
Augufl defeated the FrencbFleet near Malaga.
In the mean Time the Hungarian Male
contents and the Duke of Bavarig, joined
byPartof theFrench Army,greatly diftrefied
the Emperor and Empire. Whereupon
-the Duke-ofMariborough, who commanded
-the Confederate Forces in Flanders (where
hehad taken so many Towns,that the Dutch
were in no Danger of being furprized in
his Absence) marched to the Banks of the
Danube,and obtained that memorable Vic
tory at Hochftet in 1704, where the French
and: Bavarians lot 40,000 Men, Prisoners
included ; and the Ele&or of Bagwvaria be
ing driven out of his Dominions, the Im
perialifis took Pofleffion of them.
Oan the 23d of Fuly 1705, King Charles
and the Prince of Hefle Darmfladt, with a
Body of Land Forces, imbarked with the
Confederate Fleet at Lifhon,commanded by
Sit Gearge Rooke, and, landing atßarcelona,
attacked and took the Fort of Monjoy, af
ter which the City surrendered to King
Charles ; but the Prince of Hefle was killed
in the Attack of the Fort.. The whole
Province of Catalonia soon after declared for
KingCharles,as did theProvince of Valencia,
on the Earl of Peterborough’s marching
thither. The next Spring, 1706, King
Pbillip laid Siege to Barcelona, in which
King Charles remained ; but Phillip was
obliged by the Earl of Peterborough to raise
'the Siege, and fly precipitately into France.
Whereupon the Allied Army, on the Side
of Portugal, marched to Madrid, where
they proclaimed King Charles 111. and invi
ted him to come and take Pofleffion of that
Capital ; but the Province of Arragon de
claring for King Charles at the fame Time,
he marched thither, where he spent so
much Time, that King Phillip returned
from France with a powerful Army, and
obliged the Allies to retire from Madrid.
The French having ‘taken every Town
of the Duke of Savay’s, except Turin, laid
Siege to that Capital ; whereupon Prince
Eugene having joined the Duke, attacked
the French, who were commanded by the
Duke of Orleans, in their Trenches before
Turin, and gained a most compleatVi&ory,
Septesnber 7, 1706. And the Fremch were -
soon after compelled to evacuate Savoy,
Piedmont, Milan, and all the North of Izaly.
The Queen of Spain, Maria Louifia,
Daughter of the Duke of Savgy, dying in
the Year 1714, the King the fame Year
married the Princess Elizabeth, Daught®r
of the Duke of Parma ; which Match being
negotiated by Alberonia an lialian Ecclefias
stick, the Queen procured a Cardipai’s Cap
for him,and by her Influence he soon after
became PrimeMiniftér in the Spanife Court.
And the Penetians being attacked by the
Turks in the Year 1715, the Cardinal, at
the Instance of the Pope, fem a Squadron
of Men of War to their Aflitance, which
saved the Island of Corfu, but the Kenetians
loft all the Moerea.
Foreign and Domeftick,
The Spaniards having now increased
theirNavy,and being vneafy at the difmenm
bering their Menarchy, Cardinal Alberoni,
onPretence that the Emperor had forfeited
his Right to theSpanifh Dominionsin Jialy,
by not delivering upCatalonia and the 10and
of Majorca to King Philip, invaded apd
subdued the liland of Sardinia in 1717 3
and the negt Year invaded Sicily, and re
duced the greatest Part of that Island :
Wherevpon the Emperor, Grear Britain,
France, and Holland, entered into a Con
federacy against Spain, which was called
the Quadrupie ‘Alliance ; and the Englifb
Admiral, Sir George Byng,was sent into the
Mediterranean with a strong Squadron,
to prevent the entire Loss of that Island.
The Admiral coming up with theSpanifh
Fleet in the Strait of Meffina, Fuly 1718,
took eleven and burnt {ix of their Men of
War. He also transported a Body of Ger
mans to Sicily, to oppole the Spanish Ge
neral the Marquis De Lede ; and several
fmartEngagements happened there between
the Germans and the Spaniards, ‘
Present State of Spain.] The Spaniards
have parted with almost all their Europen
Dominions out of Spain, particularly Bur
gundy, and the Netherlands, Milanese, Naples,
Sicily, and Sardinia : but as the Princes of
the House of Bourbon pofie(s France,Spain,
the Sicelies, and Parma, the Interests of
Spain and France seem to be so firmly united,
that they will probably join against any
other Power in Europe, whenever either of
them are attacked: I look upon Spain
therefore, to be much more formidable at
present, than it was before the Duke of
Anjou mounted that Throne. We find
France took this Kingdom under its Pro
teCtion in the last War, and, thus united,
they appeared anOvermatch for all she Allies
at Land, though they were no Match for
Eangland alone at Sed, And as France is the
great Support of Spain, no Poubt they will
make the French some Return, by favour
ing their Trafick with Spanish America.
Alliances are never more firmly eftablithed,
than when it is the Interest of both the
contralling Parties to observe the Terms
they have agreed on.
~ Nor is the Alliance of France the only
Benefit arising from Spain’s having a Prince
of French Extraltion on the Throme., The
Court ofSpain have considerably improved
their Revenues, and encreafed their Forces
by Sea and Land ; since that Event, the
People are encouraged to apply themfielves
to Manufactures and Husbandry, and to
shake off that idle and . heavy Dilpofitiong
which had rendered them f{o contemptible
in the Eyes of other Nations 5 and they
may probably, in a few Years, make a
more conliderable Figure in Eurape, than
they did under their Native Princes ;3 and
it is not at all improbable, that Spain should
on some Pretence or other, hereafter add
Portugal to her Domintons again, since
France will {carce ever make a Diversion in
Favour of that Kinggom, as it used to do,
when Portugal 'was invaded by Spaix :No
Nation belide France can prote& Portugal a
ganlt Spain, except Britain with its Fleet ;