The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

BOSTON. June 25. 1767.

Monday arrived here the Ship Royalist, Captain Griffiths, in 7 Weeks from Bristol :--By whom we have Bristol Papers to May the 2, from which are extracted the following Articles, viz.

MADRID: April 3.

The whole City is in an Uproar since Wednesday last., when the Jesuits were abruptly seized, and sent off to different Ports of the Kingdom to be embarked to Italy. All their Treasures, all their Estates are declared confiscated to the Crown. The Procurators. Substitutes of these Fathers, are still strictly guarded. and they will be compelled to give in a Detail of all the Possessions of the Society. Yesterday the King's Decree of the Banishment of the Jesuits was made public with the usual Formalities ; and on the other Hand the Pope's Nuncio, dispatched a Courier to Rome, with this striking News.

MADRID,

On the 31st past. between

April 3, 1767.

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11 & 12 at Night, large Detachments of Troops. were sent to each of the Six different Houses in this City : and -the Doors being opened, the Bells were first secured, and a Centinal was posted at every Cell, the Occupier of which being obliged to rise, they were assembled, and the King of Spain's Commands were signified to them. In the mean Time, all the hired Coaches and Chaise at Madrid, together with a Number of Waggons, were properly distributed ; and early in the Morning the Jesuits, to the Number of about 350. were in Motion :

They were allowed to carry every Necessary along with them. They took the Road to Carthagena, where they will embark for Rome.. This Method will be used in all Parts of Spain. and Vessels are. employed for the same Purpose in several Ports of the Kingdom. It is assured they are each allowed a Pension of sixteen Pounds a Year.

Barcelona, April 4.

Yesterday, at one o'clock in the afternoon, began a revolution, which no one expected, the Jesuits church, convent, and college, being surrounded with troops. The Walloon guards entered the church, and seized every one of the good Fathers, with their effects, &c. while the regiments of Africa and Naples occupied the back part of the college, to hinder any one escaping; and last night all the Jesuits were sent to Tarragona, where they will embark,with the rest of their brethren in Catalonia, for Italy, being banished Spain for ever. The King's order for the expulsion of the Jesuits is general, -and was executed yesterday throughout all the Spanish dominions, even in the Indies. It was done with the greatest secrecy, nobody having the least suspicion of such an affair. Spain will be new modelled ; superstition loses ground daily, the King is resolved to bring down the church to a lower power than it is in France, where indeed it is but a mere shadow.