Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-02-17


| OF the house Of Anjou, and by the kings of
| Arragop, the legitimate heirs of Alphonso the
| fifth. Then the famous expeditions Of
Charles VIII. and of Ictis X II. took place:
tue latter conquered Naples in concert with
FerdIuahd the Catholic, and these after
wards had contest for the spoils, whenthe
king OF Arragon remained sole master. At
the death Of this prince thetwo Sieilies fol-
lowed the fate Of the Spanish monarchy, and
Tell, by marriage, to the house of Austria.
Under this house, Naples, oppressed with
taxes, broke ont into the famous revolt of
l6f1 and Sicily, pushed to extrc nifty by the
proihgacy ct the government, did the same
| in 1914. The resurrection of Naples is par
ucuiar!y celebrated by the origin and fate Of
its Chief: his name was Mazanieilo. who.
from wretchcd fisherman rose, all at once.
the commasd Of more than tsv hundred
thousand men, who were blindly obedient to
ms most extravagant caprices He soon, how
Fever, became the victim of the prevailing dis
orders. The duke of Grise, prohting ofthcse
| troubles. repaired to Naples and endeavorcd
to establish himself there; but his enterprize
was unfortunate; he was made prisoner, and
| his party was externinated AS to Sicily,
she implored the aid of, France, who assist.
cd her Tor some time with men, with ships
and money, and concluded by entirely eva
I-cnatiug the island in 1873, suffering it again
to- tall into the hands of its masters. On the
extinction of the Spanish branch, the treaty
Utrecht gave Naples to tho German branch,
and Sicily to the duke of Savoy but in 1719.
by new arrangement, the duke Of Savoy
| received Sardinia in exchange. and the crown
oil Sicily was once more united to that Of Ma
pies. Finally, In 1875, the treaty of Vienna
wrcsted the Kingdom from the house of Aus
IRA, In order To give it to Don Carlos, son
OF Philip V. Don Carlos having arrived, by
the death of his brothers, to the Spanisi,
throne, and the terms of the treaty not adj
! uniting the union of the two kingdoms, he
de!ivered.up the kingdom OF Sicily to Fer
oiaand, his second son, who, occupies it at
tbs time, The air fSiciiy is very good, and
the soil so productive that the Phenicians
gayeit the. name ofthc perfect island; and
at TINS dayit is called the Garden of italy.
| The following provinces, exclusive of Ma
| pies, were the acquisitions of the Spanish
crown under Ferdinand and Isabella.
| i RonssHto7. John the second, king of Az
ragon, ernbarrassedby the revolt of the Cat
| atans, mortgaged this province to Louis XI.
ior considerable sum. Ferdinand the Ca
thollc profted of tho expedition of Charles
| VIZ. into Italy to regain it. The treaty os
the Pyrennees annexed it to France by whom
1t had been conquered.
z Grenada, was the last possession the
Moors occupied in Spain, of which they were
aispossessed in 1892, by the united arms of
Ferdinand and Isabella. seven hundred and
eighty years after their invasion, having at
onetime subjugatcd nearly all Spain. The
air OF this province is mild, and the soil We
ry fertile In corn, in wine, in oil, in pome-
GRANTEES, in citrons. oranges, silk-worms, &c.
g. .haparre. This province, which, like the
rest, was subjected 70 the Moors after their
INVASION, was freed from them, as we'll as
dragon and Catalonia, by the victories of
\ Charlemagne: Under the turbulent and fee
Die reign OF Louis Debonnairc, his son.; Ma
varre selected for its chief lingo Arista, count
| OF Bigorre. The sovereignty of Navarro.
which reckoned Arragon among its depen-
dercies, remained in the family of Bieorre
until its extinction. The last princess of this
iliustrious house, which gave kings to all the
thrones OF Spain, brought Navarro TO the
house OF Champagne; this latter transmit
ted IL to the Capetians in the direct line, from
| 1t passed successfully 70 the families of Ey-
reux, Of Arragon, of Folk, and of Albrct.
when Ferdinand the Catholic, profting of n
favorable occasion, seized upper Navarro
and united it to the crown Of Spain
Inc Kingdom OF Spain, before the recent
INVASION at Napoleon Bonaparte, consisted of
fourteen provinces (inciuding the Balearic
islands, of all which Madrid was the metre
poils. These provinces were Gallica, Astu-
rias, Biscay, Navarro, Arragon, Catalonia,
Leon, Old CASTLE, Estremadura, New Cas-
,he, Valencia, Andalusia, Grenada, and
Murcia.
The present condition of Spain forms a me-
lancholy contrast to her former reputation
10 arms and the spirit of freedom which the
opanlards manifested against the encroach-
of fIa,r =,
t'oths, who overturned the Roman power in
Spain, established form Of government, and
introduced customs and laws, perfectly sim
liar to those which were established in the
rest OF Europe by other tribes of Barbarians
Society advanced there by the same steps &
seemed to hold the same course as in the other
nations OF that quarter of TIC world when
. sudden stop was put to this progress by the
invasion ofthe Saraceps or MOors from Afri-
ca, a. ID. 712, when, having subdued tie
greatest part of Spain, they introduced the
Mahometan religion, the Arabic language
the manners of the East, together with that
taste for the arts, and that love OF elegance
and splen9or, which the Calphs had began
TO cultivate among their Subjects. The Co
THO MOBILES who disdajned 20 submit 10 the
Moorish yoke, Aed for refuge to che jnacces-
sibie mountains OF Asturias, whence, salIyinc
forth, after the most pcrscvering efforts for
nearly eight centuries, and fighting about
three thousand seven hundred battles. the
Moors were driven out 4. y. 1922 AS the
several provinces Of Spain-were wrcsted from
the Moors by the Christians at different
times and hnderdiferent leaders, almost e.
cry province was formed into a separate
kingdom, and the capitals Of these several
Kingdoms could boast Of throne and the
presence pf a monarch By conquest, mar
rage, and succession, however, the petty so
vercigp'ies we're gradually diminished. until