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A33698	An account of the court of Portugal, under the reign of the present king, Dom Pedro II with some discourses on the interests of Portugal, with regard to other sovereigns : containing a relation of the most considerable transactions that have pass'd of late between that court, and those of Rome, Spain, France, Vienna, England, &c.	Colbatch, John, 1664-1748.	1700 (1700)	Wing C4991; ESTC R20800	212,299	370

may be expected that I should say something of the reciprocal Benefits derived from the Holy See upon a People that hath done and suffers so much for its sake or at least of that Fatherly Tenderness which the Pope must needs have for a King of Portugal who purchases the favour of his Holiness by so constant and meritorious an Obedience His Holiness must by some very distinguishing marks of Affection put a Difference between this his Benjamin from whom he hath received so much comfort and those other Sons of his who by their untoward Behaviour have been always a crossing and tormenting him He that hath been so often worried by the head-strong Emperors in former Ages braved in Italy by the Spaniards in the last Age and more than once in his own Capital by the French in our Days and received so many Mortifications from the Italian Princes from whom he might expect that they should upon the Account of their Natural as well as their Spiritual Relation behave themselves more as becomes the Children of the Holy See He one would think should have reserved the greatest and best of his Blessings for this his most Obedient Son But the Holy Father seems to be affected with quite contrary Passions to other Men to have cast away his most endearing Favours where the utmost Rigour should be expected and where a Blessing was most lookt for to have entail'd his Curse The Royal House of Portugal hath certainly had great cause for Complaints of this kind as often as it hath been in distress and stood in need of his Protection When Philip the 2d while the Question concerning the Succession to Henry the Cardinal was depending was preparing by force of Arms to deprive the true Heiress of her Birthright Pope Gregory the 13th did his utmost indeed to divert him from the enterprize but it was to the end that he might seize upon the Crown for his own use as a Chattel of the Cardinals alledging that his Spoils among which he reckon'd the Kingdom were forfeitable to the Holy See and least this ridiculous Claim should be thought insufficient he added another Alphonso Henriquez the first King as hath been said would needs make his Kingdom Tributary to St. Peter and charged with the annual Payment of four Ounces of Gold and this was made a pretence by Pope Gregory for depriving the Posterity of that King of their Inheritance he pretending that Portugal was by this means become a Feif to St. Peter's Chair and as such by default of the Male-line was devolved to himself but his pretensions meeting with that contempt they deserved he still resolved to deprive the right Heiress at any rate and of all the Pretenders made Interest for him that had the worst Title that is for Dom Antonio the Bastard as if he had a mind to embroil a Kingdom that had deserved so well at his hands in perpetual Wars But it was for his convenience that King Philip should be diverted from troubling him in Italy and convenience at Rome is a just Excuse for the worst Actions However when Philip by force of Arms had baffled his Holiness as well as all the other Pretenders and had reduced the Kingdom to his Obedience the Pope made no scruple to acknowledge his Title and treat him as rightful King of Portugal Nor did he in this deviate from the practice of those that went before him the Popes having on many occasions found it Turn to account to approve the Titles of the most Illegal Usurpers ever since the extraordinary complaisance of Boniface the 3d. to the Emperour Phocas which gave Rise to the present Grandeur of the Holy See But John the 4th the present King's Father who had an undoubted Right to the Crown met with other usage at Rome of which I shall here give a short Account it being a most signal proof of the Portuguese Devotion to the Holy See but withal it has so far opened the eyes of this Court that the Ministers seem to be convinced at last of this truth that none are so hardly used by those of Rome as they that deserve best at their hands This is certain that the Memory of it is still fresh in their minds as the Nuncio's to their great Regret are frequently given to understand and is supposed to be in a great measure the cause why their Conduct in regard to Rome begins to vary so much as it does from that of their Predecessors After King John had been settled in the Throne of his Ancestors by the Universal Acclamation of his People and was possessed of all the Dominions belonging to the Crown the little Town of Ceuta excepted he began to think of sending a Solemn Embassy to pay his Obedience to the Pope which is a custom observ'd by all Princes of that Communion and was thought necessary by this King as well to satisfie his own Devotion as to establish his Authority among the People and he thought he had great reason to expect that this Embassy would be very kindly received for to say nothing of the merits of his Ancestors he relied much upon the Pope's great Partiality to the French who out of enmity to the Spaniards had espoused the Portuguese Interest and solicited their cause at Rome To render this Embassy the more acceptable he made choice of a Person that was of the first Quality and withal a Bishop Dom Miguel de Portugal Brother to the Conde de Vimioso But this Ambassador arriving at Rome found that he had been sent upon a fruitless Errand For the Pope as little as he cared for the Spaniards on all other occasions had so much respect for them at this time that for fear of displeasing them he was content to put the greatest Indignity in the World upon a King of Portugal This was Urban the 8th from whom better things might been expected than from those that usually fill the Holy Chair But his Holiness without having the least regard to the Ambassador's Character or Quality or the obliging Message he came upon refused to admit him into his Presence or suffer his Ministers to acknowledge him for an Ambassador so that after a whole years Solicitation for Audience he was fain to return as he came This the Portugueses thought to be an Indignity that could not have been put upon the Representative of any Idolatrous or Mahometan Prince without violating the Laws of Nations All the Favour that could be obtain'd at that time was That a Congregation should be appoinned on pretence of consulting what was fit to be done in the Case The Congregation consisted of the two Barbarini Cayetan and Pamphilio Cardinal Francisco the elder of the Barbarini was made Chair-man to take care that the result should be according to his Uncle's mind He obliged the Secretary of the Embassy to give him an account of the King his Master's Title and when nothing could be objected against that he began to pick Quarrels upon pretence

Cap upon her Royal Head when suddenly saith Vieira another Jesuit the Tears flowed from her eyes in a copious manner her Countenance being all of a flame and changed to that degree that her Confessor a third Jesuit being present was astonished at the sight and he afterwards asking the cause of this alteration the Queen as he pretended reveal'd to him how that she was certified at the very Instant that the Saint would obtain a Son for her of which she hoped through the Saint's Intercession she should never make the least doubt The Confessor's Words saith Vieira are Vt nihil amplius haesitaret de impetrando quod petebat The Jesuits after this brought the Saint's Image from their Church at St. Roque upon a Visit to the Queen at the Palace and tell the World That her Majesty had learn'd so much Portuguese as to say Meu santo daime hum Filho se Deos quizer My Saint give me a Son if God pleases Her Request was granted saith Vieira and he very profanely applies these words Visitavit Dominus Annam concepit to this Visit that the Image made to her Majesty After this she was made to believe as the Jesuit's pretend at least that the Child she had conceived would infallibly prove a Son Vieira proves that it must necessarily be a Son by this Instance A certain Indian upon the Coasts of Comorin prayed to St. Francis Xavier That he would please to bestow upon him a Son And not many Days after the Wife came to understand that the Saint had heard her Husband's Prayers however it was yet doubtful what the Saint was sending her but when the time of her Reckoning was up behold she was brought to Bed of a Girl The Father seeing it was a Girl in a rage takes the little Creature and away he goes with it to the Saint's Altar and there laying it before him Here says he my Saint here 's what you gave me but it is not what I asked for Had it been a Boy I intended it should have been mine but since it is a Girl e'en take it for your self The Great Miracle-worker saith Vieira was now much in the same Case with a poor Trades-man that hath his Work turn'd upon his Hands And what saith he should the Saint do in the Case As for the Indian he was resolv'd never to own the Girl but to carry her away presently to the Hospital But he going to take her off the Altar he saw to his Astonishment that she was become a Boy a Boy Upon this the People came thronging about the Altar to be Witness to the Miracle and the Church was presently fill'd with a confus'd Noise of Thanks and Praise to the Saint and Much Joy to the Indian so that saith the Padre if the Indian was Father of the Girl the Saint was Father of the Boy From this Story he infers how well I shall not examine that the Queen since she had conceiv'd through the Intercession of St. Xavier must needs bring forth a Son But to secure her Hopes and return the Saint's Civility she entred they say into a new Course of Devotion which was to visit the Saint at the Jesuits Church ten Fridays in the Year The Confessor kept a kind of Journal of the Accidents befalling the Queen during her Big-belly and pretends that in all Dangers she had so much Confidence in her Saint who had given her this Son that she was sure of a safe Delivery as in effect she was delivered much about the time of their Reckoning of a Prince who dy'd about seventeen Days after his Birth But they pretend that this was not the only Child that her Majesty was indebted to St. Xavier for they will have it that all her Children have Francis or Xavier among their Names because she thought her self oblig'd for them all to the Saint and that among other Marks of her Gratitude she wore the Saint's Colours for some time and in Token of her Affection sent him a new Suit of Cloaths for his Body at Goa of which they believe if we 'll believe them the Saint was not a little Proud but made his Braggs in the Court of Heaven of her Majesty's Favours They that have been in Countries where pure Popery in still practis'd that is such as hath not been blended with Heretical Doctrines as 't is in France and Germany would not perhaps think strange at all this or any thing of the like sort had my Authors to deal only with the People For where-ever genuine Popery is retain'd it is a common thing for the Priests to amuse the gaping Herd with such Stuff as my Authors tell of their Saint but it may deserve one's Wonder to see Men so securely impudent as to abuse their Sovereigns at this rate as if they thought it not enough to have them at their Devotion but out of meer Wantonness they must needs let the World see how they can divert themselves at the Expence of Crown'd Heads and certainly if there be any thing of Truth in their Reports it must move any Man's Indignation to see what use they make of the pious Inclinations of a well-dispos'd but misguided Princess But by this time I fear the Reader may suspect me of misrepresenting them as much as 't is to be hoped they have their Queen wherefore to vindicate my Credit I shall here translate some Parts of an Address made to the Queen by Padre Balthesar Duarte Procurator-General at the Court of Lisbon for the Jesuits of Brazil when he presented her Majesty with the Life of Xavier compos'd at her Request by the famous Jesuit Antonio Vieira one of the greatest Men by the Confession of all that ever the Society produc'd in Portugal Such of the foregoing Particulars as are not mentioned in this Address were taken from the Writings of Vieira himself MAY it please your Majesty then to accept of your Xavier always wholly Yours because your Majesty is always wholly His by such a new and admirable Transmigration of Xavier ' s Soul into your Majesty and your Majesty's Soul into Xavier that your very Names are confounded insomuch that at the Name of Xavier People are in doubt who is meant whether it be the Apostle of the East or the Queen of Portugal this is certain that the same Species do mutually excite the Memory of both Names with such a never-failing Connexion that none can think of your Majesty but must remember Xavier Hence it was that some Months ago a Publick Notary being to write the most August Name of your Majesty by a happy and pleasing Mistake instead of Isabel put Xavier The Credit of that Publick Instrument would certainly be called in question in After-Ages were not all the World acquainted of your Majesty's amorous Transmigration into Xavier which at all times will put it out of doubt that Maria Sophia Isabel and Maria Sophia Xavier stand for one and the same Person And so your Majesty was pleas'd

grounds the Conde is thought to be so inclin'd he was indeed a kind of a Martyr for the French Cause for the League before mention'd is thought to have been in part the occasion of his Fall But his being obliged after all that he had suffer'd for them to take Sanctuary in England where he was honourably entertain'd and had a noble Pension assign'd him should as one would think have inclin'd him another way its true his eldest Son the Conde de Calbeta hath married a French Lady but that was since the Design I am speaking of was set on foot But however this be the Jesuits no doubt hop'd for some extraordinary advantage from his re-admission into Court since they durst venture to offend the Conde's great Rival the Duke of Cavadal from whom they were to look for a most Powerful Opposition But as the Attempt was great the way they took to effect it was somewhat surprizing for the Queen by the advice of Father Fuess her Confessor was to use her endeavours with the King to bring it about It is no wonder that Father Fuess being a Jesuit though a German should desire the advancement of one engag'd in the French Interest yet it is somewhat strange that a Daughter of the Palatine Family should so far forget her Father's House as to concern her self in such a Cause But they that are acquainted with the Intrigues of the Society will not wonder to see those carrying on their designs who in appearance should have the greatest reason to oppose them My Author who seems to be a very intelligent Person and who as I had it from a good hand was both a Countryman and a Servant to her Majesty saith that the Business was brought so far to a head that the Queen waited only for the time when her Confessor should think it proper for her to break it to the King How it came to miscarry I know not but it seems to be now wholly laid aside for the Conde has not yet appear'd at Court and it was about 1691. that this Business was in Agitation since which time the Duke of Cadaval hath by the Marriage of his Son to the King 's natural Daughter establish'd himself at Court more firmly than ever The French then having such Powerful Agents at the Court of Portugal as are the Ladies and the Jesuits tho' their Interest there be very consideraable yet it is some wonder that it is not much greater as without doubt it would be were there not so wise a Prince on the Throne as his present Majesty It cannot be denied but that the French Artifices in representing the late War as rais'd and carried on upon a religious account have prevail'd much and that not only among the common People but with them likewise that are in a much higher Station and have had in a great measure their design'd effect in byassing Peoples minds to the prejudice of the Allies It is reported of a certain very great Lady that when the News came to Lisbon of a great Disaster likely to befal some of the Allies upon the Coasts of Portugal she could not forbear expressing her satisfaction in a most unusual manner That the Hereticks were confounded But there are not wanting among them some so much wiser than the rest as to see through the French Artifices and perceive that all this trouble that they give World hath some other end in it than the advancement of their Religion and there are those that will not stick to give our King his just Titles of Europes Deliverer and the Restorer of Liberty to Mankind As for the King himself he is certainly not insensible of his own true Interest I have good grounds to believe that the Levies he was making in 1693. were design'd to help forward the common Cause and had actually march'd towards Catalonia had he not been assur'd from his Ministers abroad that the French were earnestly soliciting for a Peace and that the Fortune of the War had not turned so much to the disadvantage of the Allies as to make them want his Assistance And few I believe doubt but that the Forces now on foot have been rais'd upon a like design should there be occasion for them this Court being by this convinc'd what little account is to be made of French Protestations of Friendship and where they are like to end of these they have had as great or a greater share than any other People and they find themselves now to be first mark'd out for Destruction for while they are caress'd by the French Ministers at Versailles and Lisbon those of the same Nation are again making a Sacrifice of them at Madrid at least if the Author of the Paper concerning the King's Pretensions to Spain supposed to have been written by order of this Court be rightly inform'd for there we find among other Conditions offer'd to the Spaniards in behalf of the Duke of Anjou the Re-union of Portugal to the Crown of Spain proposed for one so that the Portugueses find it high time for them to look to themselves and in all appearance they will leave nothing unattempted to bring about that Re-union though in a different manner than is propos'd by France OF THE INTERESTS OF PORTUGAL With Relation to the Emperor Holland the Northern Crowns c. TIll of late Years there hath been little or no intercourse between Portugal and the Court of Vienna the reason of this strangeness was the cruel Treatment of Dom Duarte Prince of Braganca and Uncle to the present King This Prince at the Acclamation of his Brother King John the 4th had been eight Years in the Emperor's Service and was in the Post of a Major General under Piccolomeni and as it is said he had signaliz'd himself with great Courage in the War against the Swedes but he having no notice given him of his Brother's design the Spanish Ministers at Vienna assoon as the news of the Revolt came thither procured a secret Order from the Emperor Ferdinand the 3d. to have him arrested by way of Reprizal for what his Brother had taken from them and to please them this innocent Prince was by a manifest violation of the Liberties of the Empire and the Honour of the German Nation kept Prisoner for sometime at Grats and afterwards sold to the Spaniards for the summ of Forty Thousand Crowns and was by them carried away to the Castle of Milan where he was shut up for the remainder of his life he ending his days there after eight years of Confinement This dishonourable Act of the Emperor begat such a coldness between the two Courts of Vienna and Lisbon that there had been no Communication between them till of late Years the first advance towards a Correspondence by all that I can learn was not made till the Year 1683. when at the Pope's instance King Peter contributed a large supply of Money towards the Expences of the War against the Turks But his Marriage