_Pinto_ had spar'd no pains in discovering who were, and the Number of the Disaffected, which he daily endeavoured to encrease; he rail'd against the present Government sometimes with Heat, at other times with Caution, always accommodating himself to the Humour of the Company which he was in: tho indeed so great was the Hatred which the _Portuguese_ bore the _Spaniards_, that there was no need of Reserve in complaining of them. He would often remind the Nobility what honourable Employments their Forefathers had borne, when _Portugal_ was govern'd by its own Kings. Then would he mention the Summons which had so much exasperated the Nobility, and by which they were commanded to attend the King in _Catalonia_. _Pinto_ us'd to complain of this Hardship as of a kind of Banishment, from which they would scarce find it possible to return; that the Pride of the _Spaniards_, who would command them, was insufferable, and the Expence they should be at intolerable; that this was only a plausible Pretence to drain _Portugal_ of its bravest Men, that in all their Expeditions they might be assur'd of being expos'd where the greatest Danger was, but that they must never hope to share the least part of the Glory. When he was amongst the Merchants and other Citizens, he would bewail the Misery of his Country, which was ruin'd by the Injustice of the _Spaniard_, who had transfer'd the Trade, which _Portugal_ carried on with the _Indies_, to _Cadiz_. Then would he remind them of the Felicity which the _Dutch_ and _Catalonians_ enjoy'd, who had shaken off the _Spanish_ Yoke. As for the Clergy, he did not in the least question but that he should engage 'em in his Interest, and exasperate 'em most irreconcileably against the _Castilians_; he told them, that the Immunities and Privileges of the Church were violated, their Orders contemn'd and neglected, and that all the best Preferments and fattest Livings were possess'd by foreign Incumbents.