SPAIN. 



thofe of the crown of Caftile confift of the kingdom of Gi- 

 licia, the provinces of Burgos, Leon, Zamora, Salamanca, 

 Eftremadura, Palencia, Valladolid, Segovia, Avila, Toro, 

 La Mancha, Murcia, Guadalaxara, Cuen^a, Jacn, Gra- 

 nada, and Seville. Although this divihon of Spar, is 

 the moft ancient, and ferves as the bafis for the impolition 

 and levying of the taxes, for the municipal laws, and the 

 nature of privileges, the modern divifion of Spain, with 

 refpea to the adminiftration, is limited to thirteen provinces, 

 kingdoms, or lordlhips, all of which have a captam-general, 

 except Navarre, the intendant of which has the title ot 

 viceroy 



narch's reign, it fuffered a iUU greater diminution, fo that 

 the population of the whole kingdom could not then ha*e 

 exceeded 6,000,000. Under the pacific reigns of the 

 princes of the Bourbon family, the number ot people in 

 Spain greatly increafed. The enumeration made by royal 

 mandates, in the years 1767 and 1768, reported the popu- 

 lation at 9,307,804 perfons ; and by a ;iew cenfus, taken 

 in 1788 and 1789, by order of the king, the returns pre- 

 fented 10,061,478. The lateft eftimate, formed in the 

 year 1797, contains a much higher number, and is faid to 

 have exceeded 12,000,000. 



The ftate of the Spanifh population, in the year 1788, is 

 exhibited in the following table. 



eaft, it received large colonies of Carthaginians, and after- 

 wards of Romans. In the fifth century it was conquered 

 by the Vandals, and next by the Vifigoth.s from whom 

 feveral ancient families pretend even now to deduce their 

 origin. The Mahometan Moors were fo totally expelled, 

 tha° they may be confidered as almoft extinft ; and few 

 families of Arabian extraft now remain. We may, there- 

 fore, regard the modern Spaniards as defcendcd from the 

 African Iberians, the Celtiberian or German Gauls, the 

 Romans, and the Vifigoths. The population of this 

 country has varied much at different periods. In the time 

 of Julius Cxfar it has been faid, that it contained at one 

 period 40,000,000 of people, and at another period 

 52,000,000. This eftimate, though apparently exag- 

 gerated, derives fome degree of probability from the con- 

 fideration of the numerous armies wiiich Spain furnifhed for 

 a feries of years, during the Punic wars, in the time of the 

 Romans and Carthaginians. The population of the towns 

 (eems to give uj a very high idea of that part of the country 

 in which they were fituated. Merida afforded a garrifon of 

 80,000 infantry and lo,ooo cavalry; and at the fame 

 period, the population of Tarragona amounted to about 

 1,500,000 inhabitants. The population of Spain fuftained 

 but little diminution under the dominion of the Goths ; but 

 it very fenfibly decreafed during the Moorilh dynafty, on 

 account of the multitude of viftims that fell a facrifice to 

 the fanguinary fword of the conquerors, and of thofe who 

 voluntarily exiled themfelves, in order to avoid opprefTion. 

 Spain, however, was again repeopled by the Chriftians, who 

 retook from the Moors the lands which they had rapacioufly 

 feized. Navarre, wliich formed a leparate ftate, contained 

 about 800,000 inhabitants ; and near the fame period, the 

 ftates dependent upon the crown of Aragon, which confti- 

 tuted the kingdom of that name, with thofe of Valencia and 

 Cat.ilonia, furnifhed a very powerful army ; and the town 

 of Tarragona alone contained 80,000 famihes, or 350,000 

 inhabitants. The kingdom of Granada, fubjugated by the 

 Moors, had, at the fame era, a numerous population. The 

 city of Granada comprehended 70,000 houfes, occupied by 

 250,000 perfons, and furnifhed 50,000 foldiers. The king- 

 dom, of which it was the capital, reckoned the number of 

 its inhabitants at 3,000,000, on an extent of territory 

 70 leagues long by 30 in breadth. After the union of the 

 different parts of the Spanifh monarchy, in the reign of 

 Ferdinand V. and Ifabella, its population is faid to have been 

 10,000,000 ; but as this eftimate is exaggerated, it fhould be 

 reduced at leaft nne-third. In the year 1688 it amounted to 

 no more than 12,000,000 ; and on the death of Charles II. 

 and accelTion of Philip V., in the year 1700, its numbers 

 were reduced to 8,000,000. During the civil wars, which 

 defolated Spain in the firft 13 or 14 years of that mo- 



BlSCAY. 



Alava 

 Guipuzcoa 

 Lordlhip of Bifcay 



Aragon 



Catalonia 



Afturias 



Gahcia 



Eftremadura 



71.399 

 120,716 

 116,042 



Andalusia. 



Kingdom of Seville 

 Kingdom of Cordova 

 Kingdom of Granada 

 Kingdom of Jaen 

 Sierra Morena 



Kingdom of Murcia 

 Kingdom of Valencia 

 Kingdom of Navarre 

 Mancha . . . 



754.293 

 236,016 

 661,661 

 177,136 

 7,918 



New Castile. 



Jurifdidtion of Cuenga 

 Jurifdidion of Guadalaxara 

 Jurifdiftion of Toledo 

 Province of Madrid - 

 City of Madrid 

 Aranjuez, royal demefne - 

 Le Pardo, royal demefne - 



266,182 



144,370 



334.425 



58.943 

 156,672 



2,655 

 611 



Old Castile. 



Jurifdiftion of Avila 

 Jurifdiftion of Burgos 

 Jurifdiftion of Old Caftile - 

 Jurifdiftion of Segovia 

 Jurifdiftion of Soria 

 Jurifdiftion of Valladolid - 

 S. Ildefonfa, royal demefne 

 The Efcurial, royal demefne 



115,172 



465,410 



74,669 



167.525 



170,565 



196,839 



4.331 



2.453 



Kingdom of Leon. 

 Jurifdic^ion of Leon . . 250,134 



Jurifdiftion of Palencia 

 Jurifdiftion of Salamanca 

 Jurifdiftion of Toro 



112,514 



210,380 



92,404 



308,157 

 623,308 

 814,412 



347.776 



1,345,803 



416,922 



1,837,024 

 337,686 

 783,084 

 227,322 

 206,160 



933.865 



1,196,964 



665,432 

 10,143,975 

 According 



