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The following is an accurate statement of the po- 

 pulation of Barcelona, including Barcelonetta : 



In 1715 37,000 



1769 51,000 



1787 111,410 



1798 130,000 



1806 160,000 



The number of families amounts to 20,50S, the 

 number of houses to 10,767, the churches to 88, ami 

 the convents to 50. East Long. 2 13', North Lat. 

 ill 26'. See Laborde's View of ' Sjmiu, vol. i. p. 27. 

 Bourgoing's Travels in Spain, chap, xxxiii. Towns- 

 end's Travels, vol. ii. p. 374. Reichard, Guide des 

 I'oi/nqeurs en Europe, vol. i. p. 79 ; and A Tour in 

 Spain and Portugal in 1803, chap. i. published in 

 Philips' Voyages ei nd Travels, vol. iii. See also Ca- 

 talonia, where we shall give a full view of the 

 trade of that flourishing province, as communicated 

 to the editor by a gentleman who has resided in that 

 country. (*) 



BARCELONETTA, the name of a new town 

 adjacent to Barcelona. It is situated to the south- 

 east of the city, between the sea-gate and the light- 

 house on the mole, and was built about the middle 

 of the eighteenth century. It is a complete square, 

 with twenty-four regular streets, each about twenty- 

 five feet broad. Fifteen of these are direct and pa- 

 rallel, and are intersected at equal distances by nine 

 streets. The houses, which are built of brick, are 

 all one story high, and of the same height and width 

 in front. The uniformity of the streets are a little 

 varied by two squares. The inhabitants are chiefly 

 soldiers, sailors, and people connected with the navy. 

 Population 13,000. (*) 



BARCLAY, Robert, of Ury, generally k.nown 

 by the title of the Apologist, was the eldest son of 

 Colonel David Barclay, and descended through a 

 long line of ancestry from Theobald De Berkely, 

 who lived in the time of David I. He was born on 

 the 28th December 1648, at Gordonston, in Moray- 

 shire, the seat of his maternal grandfather. After 

 'being educated in the best schools in Scotland, he 

 was sent to Paris, and placed under the tuition of his 

 uncle, who was rector of the Scots college. He gave 

 early presages of great genius, and acquired much pro- 

 ficiency in al' the learned sciences and elegant accom- 

 plishments of the times. He soon became conspicuous 

 in the college ; and was particularly noticed for his 

 vivacity and acuteness in the public disputations of 

 that seminary, where he gained many prizes. His 

 uncle admired his talents, and offered to leave all his 

 fortune to him, which was very considerable, if he 

 would remain in France ; but his mother, on her death- 

 bed, had strongly enjoined his removal from the col- 

 lege, lest he should imbibe the errors of popery. In 

 obedience to parental authority, he returned home in 

 1664, and thus lost his uncle's fortune and favour to 

 gratify his father's conscientious compliance with the 

 prejudiced, but pious notions of his mother. Though 

 destitute of wealth, he possessed what was more va- 

 luable ; for his mind was deeply fraught with the 

 riches of learning and literature. 



Soon after his return to Scotland, he joined the 

 society called Quakers, and became their greatest or- 



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nament and ablest advocate. Previous, however, to Barclay, 

 his embracing the opinions of that sect, he visited * v~~ 

 his friends of all religious persuasions to canvass their 

 doctrines, that he might adopt a system of faith cor- 

 responding to the truths of the gospel, and by con- 

 viction alone, as we art informed, he was guided in 

 his choice. 



In the year 1670, he was married to Christian Mo- 

 lison, of the family of Lachintully, the grand daugh- 

 ter of the celebrated Colonel Molison, who so much 

 signalised himself in the defence of Candia against 

 the Turks. And about this time, he first appeared 

 as an author, by a work, entitled, Truth cleared of 

 Calumnies, which is an answer to A Dialogue between 

 a Quaker and a stable Christian, written by William 

 Mitchell a preacher, and printed at Aberdeen. A keen 

 controversy then subsisted between the clergy of 

 Aberdeen and the Quakers, relative to the doctrines 

 of the latter, which warmly interesting Barclay, call- 

 ed forth his talents as a polemical writer ; and in the 

 same year he published a postscript in the form of 

 questions. Mitchell replied to Truth cleared of Ca- 

 lumnies, and our author again answered him, in a 

 work entitled, William Mitchell mnmasked, which 

 was published in 1672. In this controversy, Robert 

 Barclay discovers his variety of learning, and that he 

 was well acquainted with ecclesiastical history ; but 

 above all, he shows, with how much judgment and 

 dexterity he could apply his knowledge in support 

 of his religious opinions. 



In 1673, he published A Catechism and Co/ifession 

 of Faith, which is an exposition of the doctrines and 

 principles of the Quakers, supported by an appeal 

 to Scripture testimony. His next publication is the 

 Theses Theological, which were addressed " to the 

 clergy of what sort soever," a>"l contains fifteen 

 propositions, on which he gives his sentiments, and 

 explains them in conformity to the principles of his 

 sect. He vindicated the Theses from the strictures 

 of Nicholas Arnold, professor in the university of 

 Franequer in Friesland, by a Latin treatise printed at 

 Amsterdam in 1675. In the same year he published 

 an account of a disputation between the students of 

 divinity of the university of Aberdeen and the Qua- 

 kers, in which he bore a conspicuous part ; but it 

 seem3 to have terminated without satisfaction to 

 either party. The students also published an account 

 of this conference in a pamphlet entitled, Quakerism 

 Canvasser/, which occasioned a reply, entitled, Qua- 

 kerism Confirmed, in two parts, both printed in 

 1676. 



Previous to this time, he generally resided at Ury 

 with his father; but in this year he went to London, 

 and from thence to Holland, accompanied by William 

 Penn, the celebrated proprietor of the province of 

 Pennsylvania, These religious men travelled in Hol- 

 land and Germany, visiting their friends, and dissemi- 

 nating their doctrines. They waited upon Elizabeth, 

 princess palatine of the Rhine, at her residence at 

 Herwerden, and were kindly received. She seems to 

 have adopted their opinions, for she openly patronised 

 the Quakers ; but her friendship for Barclay was sin- 

 cere and unfeigned, and lasted during life. She fre- 

 quently wrote to him with her own hand ; and al- 

 ways promoted his views at the court of England a9 



