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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...series of miscarriages and defeats. The Dutch seized Brazil; the French, after driving the Spaniards out of Piedmont, invaded Artois; Catalonia revolted to France; and Portugal shook off its yoke, and became an independent kingdom. 3. No revolution was ever effected with such ease and celerity as that of Portugal. The people were disgusted with the rigorous and impolitic administration of Olivarez. The Duke of Braganza, descended from the ancient kings of Portugal, had at this time the command of the army. Instigated by the ambition of his Duchess, and seeing the spirit of the nation favourable to his views, he caused himself to be proclaimed King at Lisbon. The Spanish guards were attacked and routed, and the chief partisans of the government put to death by the populace. All the principal towns followed the example of the capital, and soon after all the foreign settlements; the Dutch even joining the new king, and restoring to him what they had wrested from the Spaniards in Brazil. From that acra, 1640, Portugal became an independent sovereignty, after having been for sixty years an appanage of the kingdom of Spain. 4. The government of Portugal approaches to an absolute monarchy. The consent of the states or Cortes, consisting of Clergy, Nobility, and Commons, was formerly necessary to the imposition of taxes, and the settlement of the succession to the crown. But this assembly, never convoked but by the royal mandate, has now for a long time ceased to meet. The ordinary business of government is transacted by the King and his council of state, which is appointed by himself. The crown's revenue arises from its domains, including the family-estates of Braganza, from the duties on exports and imports, from the taxes, and from a stated proportion of the gol...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130865349
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 286
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130865347
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 513 gr

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