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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a letter in Spain estimates over 20,000 Jesuits have relocated to Paraguay since their suppression began after the Portuguese conspiracy, where their leaders hold sovereign power; recent reports from there unsettle Spaniards and Portuguese.
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"It has been computed, that from the first commencement of the last rigorous proceedings against the Jesuits, whose credit has surprisingly declined since the conspiracy in Portugal; upwards of 20,000 of that society have from time to time remov'd to Paraguay in America, where it is well known, the head of them have all the influence of Sovereign Princes: but of late some advises have been receiv'd from that part of the world, which create equal uneasiness to the Spaniards and Portuguese."
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Paraguay
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over 20,000 jesuits relocated to paraguay; recent advices from there create uneasiness for spaniards and portuguese.
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From the start of rigorous proceedings against the Jesuits, whose credit declined since the conspiracy in Portugal, upwards of 20,000 have moved to Paraguay in America, where their heads wield influence like sovereign princes; recent advices from that region cause equal uneasiness to Spaniards and Portuguese.