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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Prudence speaks much in commendation of her Magnanimity and Patience in bearing the Disgrace when the Match was broken off between the Infanta her Daughter and the Duke of Savoy which she had set her Heart very much upon and for her other Vertues he would have her pass for no less than a Saint but he intimates that her Piety was best known to her Confessor and compares it to the Sanctum Sanctorum which was visible only to the High-Priest and indeed I do not find that it was much known to the People it being very little talk'd of amongst them Certainly if it was so very great as this Orator represents it her Majesty's Confessor had a great deal of reason when he us'd to tell those he convers'd with That the Portugueses did not know how good a Queen God had sent them Of the late QVEEN MAria Sophia Elizabeth Daughter of Philip William late Duke of Nicubourg and Elector Palatine of the Rhine by Elizabeth Amelia Daughter of George Lantgrave of Hesse d'Armstadt was born the 6th of August 1666 and Married to Dom Pedro the II. King of Portugal the 11th of August 1687 the day of her Arrival at Lisbon to which place she was conducted by a Squadron of English Men of War under the Command of the late Duke of Grafton This Princess was of a middle Stature exceeding Fair and a graceful Person I do not know whether they that are Judges in these Matters will allow her to have been a Perfect Beauty but no doubt all Strangers will agree that she appeared with great advantage among her Ladies one cause of this perhaps may be her neglect of those Arts which they have recourse to to set themselves off for the Portuguese Women of all Ranks do so discolour their Faces with Red Paint that it renders them a very disagreeable Spectacle in the Eyes of Strangers It was observed That her Majesty did seldom or never concern her self with the Affairs of State contrary to the Practice of the former Queen It is said that her Confessor Father Leopold Fuess a Jesuit who came along with her from Germany advis'd her not to meddle with the Government They tell indeed of one Design of hers which I may speak of in another place which she was put upon by the same Jesuit her Confessor it being a Matter wherein as 't is said the whole Society have concern'd themselves for some time and that was to bring the Conde de Castelmelhor into the Ministry again but if her Majesty ever had any such Design it is certain that nothing came of it for the Conde keeps from Court still and the Duke of Cadaval is since more firmly establish'd there than before But the Principal Parts of her Majesties Character are her great Piety and singular Devotion according to the Religion in which she had been educated she was a constant Hearer of the Fathers of the Cratory an Order of Men who some Years ago were famous for Preaching of true Christian Morality whereby they became and were it not for some very mean Compliances their prevailing Adversaries have extorted from them they had continued still the Glory of the Roman Church nor are they yet so far degenerated but People still take notice that their Sermons are the least stuft with those Fooleries wherewith Preachers of other Orders affect to raise Mirth in the Audience It is I suppose for this cause that notwithstanding the large Share the Jesuits have in her Majesties Favour she honour'd them so often with her Presence and that the Street where their Church stands was every Sunday in Lent crowded with Coaches for her Majesties Example seems to have had a mighty Influence over the whole Court especially among those of her own Sex It is a usual thing to see Ladys of Quality with their Prayer-Books open in their hands as they are carried along the Streets in their Litters and I have observed some of the younger sort as they were going to a Wedding of one of their Companious very hard at their Devotion in the midst all their Gayety I need not I suppose tell that her Majesty is zealously addicted to what is now so commonly called the Catholick Religion it is enough to make the Reader sensible of that to say she is of the House of Nicubourg The Princes of that Family by the very extraordinary Methods they take to promote their Religion have made their Zeal sufficiently remarkable to the World But as well instructed in Catholicism as she was in Germany her Majesty seemed to be much improved since her coming into Portugal especially in those smaller Devotions as the French call them of which good Catholicks are so very shy in Countrys where Hereticks are in sight and so mightily addicted to where they are at their own Liberty But it would be very difficult for one that is of another Religion to give an account of these Matters without being suspected of Misrepresentation or in the present case of disregard to Majesty I shall therefore give but one Instance of the Queens Devotion and concerning that I shall say nothing but what I have from the Jesuits who were her Majesties Directors and are at this day reckon'd among the most refin'd Courtiers in Europe and therefore may be supposed to understand best what is most fit for the World to know From these good Fathers then I learn that above all the Saints in the Roman Calendar the Queen had a singular and most devout Affection for the famous St. Francis Xavier I need not I suppose at this time tell who this Saint is since his Life has been written by the elegant Pen of Pere Bouhours and translated into English by our famous Laureat or 't is enough to let the ordinary Reader know that he was one of the first Set of Jesuits that appear'd in the World and that he is frequently address'd to by such as want Heirs to their Familys and is believed by his Devotes frequently to procure Relief in such cases The first occasion taken notice of by my Authors of the great Friendship between this Saint and her Majesty was this Soon after her Marriage the Viceroy that came from Goa brought along with him a certain Cap that had formerly belong'd to Xavier The greatest Treasure saith the Famous Jesuit Vieira that ever came from the Indies since the Arm of the same Saint that 's now at Rome was brought from thence This Cap her Majesty possibly prevail'd upon to comply with the Bigotry of those about her put upon her Head on the 21st of Nevember 1687 which in the Roman Calendar is the day of the Presentation of the Virgin and she happening to be with Child soon afterwards they would needs have it that she received great Benefit by the Cap but the Jesuits have made strange work of the Matter On which day saith the Jesuit Duarte Her Majesty amidst the sweetest transports of her Heart received for the first time the Sacred

the mighty Opposition he hath met with he having been heard to say soon after his having receiv'd the Cap from Rome That he never set his Heart upon any thing but in the End he found ways to accomplish his Desire And in effect he hath rais'd himself to the highest Dignities that either Portugal or Rome cou'd bestow upon him for his being a National Cardinal excludes him from all Pretensions to the Pontificate In Alphonso's Reign he became suspected to the Court by his associating himself with the disaffected Party and was therefore order'd by the King to his Residence at O Porto of which place he was Dean When Bishops were restored to Portugal he was advanc'd to that See and from thence he was afterwards translated to the Arch-Bishoprick of Lisbon and at last viz. in 97 received the Cardinal's Cap from Rome Tho' the two fore-mention'd Ministers have the principal Management of State-Affairs yet they say this great Prelate will take care that his Vote shall have its due Weight in the Council especially when he hath occasion to promote the Grandeur of his Brother's House I cannot pretend to tell how far he is concern'd in Foreign Affairs but we may suppose considering his Profession that those relating to Rome may if any be his Province But notwithstanding the great Favours he has received from thence his Publick Conduct hath not made him suspected of any mean Compliance with that Court on the contrary he has endeavoured so far as the Genius of his Country will permit to reform many of those Abuses it hath introduced particularly he hath on several Occasions shewn himself a great Enemy to Exemptions by which that Court hath establish'd its Tyranny in the World and ruin'd the Discipline of the Church He hath had many Clashings with the Nuncio's whose Legantine Courts he thinks incroach too much upon his Episcopal Jurisdiction In short he seems to have much of the same Spirit and Character with the late Arch-Bishop Harlai of Paris nor has he any more than that other great Prelate escaped the Lash of malicious Tongues I have never heard that he hath shewn so little Complaisance to the Court of Rome in order to gain the Purple tho' as all agree he hath been aiming at it for these many Years and considering the servile Temper of those at Rome no way seems more likely to succeed but Dom Verissimo de Alemcastro the late Inquisitor-General had put more signal Affronts upon the Holy See than ever the Arch-Bishop either did or could and was possibly for that Reason promoted before him When the Pope attempted as several of his Predecessors had done before him to break the present Constitution of the Holy Office whereof the Holy See bears all the Scandal and reaps none of the Profit The Inquisitor supported I suppose by the Court whose Creature the Inquisition was set them of Rome at Defiance stood all the Fire of the Vatican and remain'd unmov'd at their Censures tho' they proceeded so far as to interdict him Ab ingressu Ecclesiae insomuch that his Holiness was oblig'd at last upon a slight Composition to desist from the Enterprize and at the next Promotion the Rebel-Inquisitor was rewarded with the Cap the same Cap which as the Arch-Bishop pretended had been promised to himself Had this been under any other Pontificate than that of Innocent the Eleventh the World would not have been to seek for the Reason of the Inquisitor's Promotion but there being something more generous in this Pope's Nature than in theirs that usually fill the Holy Chair 't is not unlikely but he had some regard to the Merit of the Man for all give Dom Verissimo the Character of an extraordinary good Man tho' they say withal that he was none of the wisest and he may therefore be supposed to have been but an Instrument in the hands of others when that vigorous Opposition was made to the Pope's Design of reforming the Inquisition It is said that this Promotion of the Inquisitor did not a little disgust the Arch-Bishop and that he spared not to make most grievous Complaints against those that had deceived him and that it was not on the Court of Rome only that he laid the Blame of his Disappointment By this Promotion the Court of Rome gain'd some very considerable Advantages for thereby they took off one great Adversary gain'd him over to their side and by his Means disarm'd another putting it out of his Power to do them any great harm For after this the Cardinal and the Arch-Bishop were never in good Terms together and the Nuncio's found the Cardinal the fittest Man on all Occasions to make head against the other whensoever he was about to give them any Trouble For tho' there was no Comparison between the Abilities of the one and the other yet the Cardinal was so highly esteem'd for his Innocence and Probity by the King Nobility and People that as weak as he was he was able to make his Party good against the Arch-Bishop who is far from being so much or so generally beloved But the Nuncio's have not been wanting on other Occasions to raise up Enemies against this Adversary of theirs Monsignor Nicolini was so happy in the time of his Residence as to set the main Body of the Fidalgo's upon him The manner in which he effected it does not indeed make much for the Honour of the Holy See however he did not a little gratifie a certain Passion which they of Rome are no less ready to indulge when a fair Opportunity offers than they are to Court an Enemy that 's too mighty for them The Fidalgo's were much set upon it to have leave for a Company of Spanish Strolers to Act in the Town and were as much opposed by the Arch-Bishop who perhaps might think that the Licensing of a Publick Stage was in effect to Authorize the Corruption of Manners that it is apt to cause Not that his Lordship was apprehensive least the Players should expose Religion or turn it into Ridicule to make Sport for the hair-brain'd unthinking Youth of the Town For possibly there may not be two Nations in the World where the Audience it self to say nothing of the Government wou'd be very patient at so horrible an Abuse should any thing like it be seen upon the Stage at Lisbon by these very Fidalgo's who were so earnest for a Play-House their Religion would put 'em upon chastising the Offenders upon the Spot in such a manner as ours will not justifie It is not long since they gave a terrible Instance of their Zeal upon a Servant of the French Ambassadors who being but a French Papist could not be perswaded to pay the like Reverence as others did to an Image brought upon the Stage which made the People fall upon him with so much Fury that he was carried off the place for Dead And there is this to be said in behalf of the Spanish Poets that their Plays have