Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Although some of the unusual spellings of the original have been retained (i.e. Cotemporary, Portugueze, encreases, Uraguay, vinilla, recal), several typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. (etext transcriber's note) THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF PORTUGAL. BY THE ABBÉ VERTOT. CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT TIME, _With historical and critical Notes, a chronological Table of the Kings of Portugal, and a Description of_ BRAZIL. BY LOUIS DE BOISGELIN, CHEVALIER DE MALTHE. _Hos Viriathus agit, Lusitanumque Remotis Extractum Lustris, primo Viriathus in ævo Nomen Romanis factum mox nobile Damnis._ SILIUS Ital. _de Bell. Pun._ Lib. 3. LONDON: Printed by and for R. Juigné, No. 17, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. Sold by LONGMAN, HURST, REES, and ORME, Paternoster-row. 1809. PREFACE. The study of modern history has been, during a long course of years, greatly neglected in the generality of public schools; but it now begins to be regarded (as indeed it ought always to have been) as an object of the greatest importance. In England, particularly, it constitutes one of the principal branches of both public and private education.