BAR 
this city., under the care of-Mr. Maritz, a Svvifs. Bar¬ 
celona carries on an extenfive trade in its own fruits, and 
jnanufafUires of glafs, (words, knives, &c. and foreign 
merchandize. The harbour is fpacous, commodious, 
and always full of velfels, but it is (ometimes dangerous : 
it daily fills up, and requires continual care, and an int- 
r.ienfe expence, to keep the entrance open : the fca vifibly 
retires, and, if the clearing of the harbour was negleited 
for a few years, Barcelona would loon be at a di(lance 
from the fiiore. It is defended on one fide from the winds 
by Montjoui, which runs into the lea in the form of a pro¬ 
montory, and on the other by a mole 300 paces in length. 
The port of Barcelona exports its filks, middling cloths, 
and cotonades, wines, brandies, and other productions ; 
and,.if we vyilh to judge of the part the Catalonians take in 
this commerce, it mult be obferved, that in 1782, out of 
628 velfels which entered Barcelona, 317 belonged to 
Spain. Ir is true that filks from Lyons, (lockings from 
hjimes, -fevcral kinds of fluffs and cottons, notwithftand- 
ing the prohibition, and particularly dried cod, an article 
for which Spain pays annually to the Englifit three mil¬ 
lions of piaftres, pais into Catalonia by the fame port. 
Barcelona was ereded into a county by Charlemagne, and 
became an independent' fovereignty in the year 884. The 
king of Spain is called the count of Barcelona. The di- 
ocefe contains 213 parifhes, befides eight in the city : 
Barcelona is fituated thirteen leagues eaft-north-caft of 
Taragona, and ninety-two eaft-north-eaft of Madrid. Lat. 
41. 23. N. Ion. 18. 45. E. Peak of Teneriffe. 
BARCELONET’TA, a tovvnof France, and principal 
place of a diflrid, in the department of the Lower Alps. 
It anciently belonged to Piedmont, and was ceded to 
France in the year 1713. It is fituated on the right bank 
of the Ubaye, in a valley of excellent pafhtrage : four 
leagues fouth-eaft of Enrbrun, and eight and a half north- 
noith-eaft of Digne. I.at. 44. 23. N. Ion. 24. 18. E. Ferro. 
Barcelonetta, or Cum ana'otto, a town of South 
America, in the county of Terra Firma, and principal 
place of a diflrid, in the province of Cumana. 
BARCELON'NE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Girs, and chief place of a canton in the dif- 
trid of Nognro, fituated on the Adour: it contains about 
two thoufand inhabitants : three leagues fouth-weft of 
Noitaro, and nine and a half weft-north-weft of Mirande. 
B ARCELOR', a feaport town of the Eafl Indies, with 
a good harbour, on the coall of Malabar, between Goa 
and Mangalore. It is the capital of Canara, and formerly 
belonged to the Portuguefe, from whom it was taken by 
the Dutch. I.at. 15. 30. N. Ion. 74. 14. E. Greenwich. 
BARCELOS', a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Entre Duero e Minho, not far from the fea, on the river 
Cavado : eight miles weft of Braga. 
BAR'CES, or Berches ,_/1 were formerly a kind of 
-fbip-guns, not unlike fakers, but fhorter, thicker in the 
metai, and wider in the bore. 
BAR'CHIN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : 120 miles fouth-eaft of Sirgian. 
BAR'CHUL, a town of Spain in the country of Gra¬ 
nada : five leagues from Guadix. 
BARCI'NO, anciently a town of the Terraconenfis in 
Spain, and capital of the Laletani. Now Barcelona! 
BAR'CLAY (Alexander), a learned monk in the reign 
of Henry VIII. He was educated in Oriel college, Ox¬ 
ford ; and after leaving the univerfity he went abroad, and 
continued fome time in France, Italy', and Germany, where 
he acquired a competent knowledge of the languages of 
thofe countries. On his return to England, lie became a 
BencdiiSline monk of Ely. On the diffolurion of that 100- 
naflery, he obtained the vicarage of St. Matthew at Wo- 
key in Somerfetfhire; and, in 1552, he was appointed 
redtor of Allballows, Lombard-flreet, London, which he 
lived to enjoy but a very fhort time. He died at Croydon 
in June 1352. Fie is generally allowed to have been one 
of the politefl writers of his time. He compofed feveral 
original works': but was chiefly remarkable for his tranf- 
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lations from the Latin, Italian, French, and German, lan¬ 
guages. His verfion from Sallufl of the war of Jugurtha 
is accurate, and not without elegance. His lives of feveral 
faints, in heroic verfe, are Hill upublifhed. His Stult/Jera, 
Navis , or ‘ The Ship of Fools,’ is the moll Angular ot his- 
performances. It was printed at London, 1309, in folio ; 
and contains a variety of wooden plates, which are wor¬ 
thy the in (petition of the curious. 
Barclay (William), a learned civilian, born in Aber- 
deenfhire, Scotland, in 1541. In 1573 he went to France, 
and at Bourges commenced (Indent of civil law under the 
famous Cujacius. He was afterwards appointed profefi'or 
of civil law in the univerfity of Pont-a-Mouffon, then firlt 
founded by the duke of Lorrain. That prince alfo made 
him counfelior of (late, and mailer of requefls. He was 
next appointed profedbr of civil law in the univerfity of 
Angers, where he died in 1605, and was buried in the 
Francifcan church. lie wrote elaborately in defence of the 
divine right of kings, in anfwer to Buchanan and others. 
Barclay (John), fon of the former, was alfo a great 
fcholar, and much efteemed for his writings. He pub- 
lilhed The Hiftory of the Gunpowder Plot, the Argrnis, 
and many trails. He was invited to Rome by pope Paul V. 
and received a deal of civility from cardinal Bellarmin, 
though he had written againft him. He died at Rome in 
1621, while his Argents was printing at Paris. This ce¬ 
lebrated work has (ince gone through a great number of 
editions, and has been tranfiated into mofl languages. 
Barclay (Robert), an eminent writer among the Qua¬ 
kers, the fon of colonel David Barclay, was born at Edin¬ 
burgh in 1648. He joined the Quakers in 1669, and di- 
flinguifhed himfelf by his zeal and abilities in the defence 
of their doftrines. In 1676 he publilhed his Apology for 
the Quakers; which is the mod celebrated of his works, 
and efteemed the flandard of the doftrineof the Quakers. 
The Thefts Theologicae, which were the foundation of 
this work, and addreffed to the clergy of what fort loever, 
were publidied before the writing of the Apology, and 
printed in Latin, French, Fligh Dutch, Low Dutch, and 
Englifh. The dedication of his Apology to Charles II. 
is very remarkable for the uncommon franknefs and (im¬ 
plicit)’ with which it is written. From among many other 
extraordinary paflages, we (elect the following: “ There 
is no king in the world who can fo experimentally tellify 
of God’s providence and goodnefs; neither is there any 
who rules fo many free people, fo many true Chriftians; 
which tiling renders thy government more honourable, 
thyfelf more confiderable, than the acceffion of many na¬ 
tions filled with (lavifii and fuperflitious fouls. Thou.haft 
tafted of profperity and adverfity ; thou knoweft what it 
is to be ban'ifhed thy native country, to be over-ruled as 
well as to rule and fit upon the throne; and, being op- 
preffed, thou haft reafon to know how hateful the opprelR 
or is both to God and man: if, after all thofe warnings 
and adverlifements, thou doft not turn unto the Lord with 
all thy heart, but forget him who remembered thee in thy 
diftrefs, and give thyfelf up to follow luft and vanity, 
furely great will be thy condemnation.” He travelled 
with the famous Mr. William Penn through England, Hol¬ 
land, and Germany, and was every where received with 
the higheft refpect; for, though his eonverfation and be¬ 
haviour were fuitable to his principles, yet there was fuch 
livelinefs and fpirit in his difeourfe, and fuch ferenity and 
cheerfulnefs in his deportment, as rendered him extremely 
agreeable. When he returned to his native country, he 
(pent the remainder of his life in retirement. He died at 
Ury, in Scotland, on the 3d of October, 1690, in the forty- 
fecond year of his age. 
Barclay (Robert), member of parliament for the 
county of Kincardine, and great grandfon of Robert Bar¬ 
clay above-mentioned, was a man of extenfive informa¬ 
tion, and polFelTed of uncommon vigour, both of body 
and of intellect. Mr. Pennant, in his Tour in Scotland, 
vol. ii. p. 132, (peaking of Mr. Barclay, fays, “ This gen¬ 
tleman, by the example he fets his neighbours in the fine 
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