d dexterity. Besides, the discovery of all the particulars
was founded upon confession extorted by the rack, which at best is a
suspicious evidence. Be that as it will, the Portuguese government,
without waiting for a bull from the pope, sequestered all the
estates and effects of the Jesuits in that kingdom, which amounted to
considerable sums, and reduced the individuals of the society to a very
scanty allowance. Complaint of their conduct having been made to the
pope, he appointed a congregation to examine into the affairs of the
Jesuits in Portugal. In the meantime the court of Lisbon ordered a
considerable number of them to be embarked for Italy, and resolved
that no Jesuits should hereafter reside within its realms. When these
transports arrived at Civita-Vecchia, they were, by the pope's order,
lodged in the Dominican and Capuchin convents of that city, until proper
houses could be prepared for their reception at Tivoli and Frescati. The
most guilty of them, however, were detained in close prison in Portugal;
reserved, in all probability, for a punishment more adequate to their
enormities.

SESSION OPENED IN ENGLAND.

England still continued to enjoy the blessings of peace, even amidst the
triumphs of war. In the month of November the session of parliament was
opened by commission; and, the commons attending in the house of peers,
the lord-keeper harangued the parliament to this effect:--He gave
them to understand that his majesty had directed him to assure them,
that he thought himself peculiarly happy in being able to convoke them
in a situation of affairs so glorious to his crown, and advantageous
to his kingdoms: that the king saw and devoutly adored the hand of
Providence, in the many signal successes, both by sea and land, with
which his arms had been blessed in the course of the last campaign:
that he reflected with great satisfaction on the confidence which the
parliament had placed in him, by making such ample provisions, and
intrusting him with such extensive powers for carrying on a war, which
the defence of their valuable rights and possessions, together with the
preservation of the commerce of his people, had rendered both just and
necessary. He enumerated the late successes of the British arms--the
reduction of Goree on the coast of Africa; the conquest of so many
important places in America; the defeat of the French army in Canada;
the reduction of their capital city of Quebec, effected with