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OF GIL B L A S.
ecn at a vaft expence to put themfelves in a condi-
ion to follow their fovereign, had not even the fa-
isfa&ion of obtaining one private audience. Philip,
it length, tired of being ill-lodged at Saragofla, of
jafling his time ftill worfe, or, if you pleafe, of be-
jrifoner, returned in a little time to Madrid,
i this Monarch finilhed his campaign, leaving
e Marquis de los Veles, general of his troops,
:are of maintaining the honour of the Spanilh
revolution 0/Portugal, and the iifgrace of the Count-
uke.
FEW days after the King’s return, a very dif*
agreeable piece of news fprcad all over Ma-
. It was reported that the Portugueze, looking
upon tire revolt of the Catalonians as a fair occafion
fftered to them by Fortune for Braking off the Spa-
jiifh yoke, had taken up arms, and chofen the Duke
Iff Braganza for their King; that they were refolved
to maintain him on the throne, and were confident
ff fuccefs; Spain having at that time on her hands
nemies in Germany, Italy, Flanders, and Catalo¬
nia : indeed they could not have found a more fa¬
vourable con juncture for freeing themfelves from a
lominion which they detefted *.
* THii revolution, which happened in the year 1640, wai
conducted with fuch turprifing fecrecy, (though the detign
was known to more than two hundred perfons a whole
tear before) that the Duke of Braganza was declared King,
land the Spanifh yoke Ihook ofFin one day, through all the
Portuguze dominions In Europe, Afia, Africa, and America*
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