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iron-ware, which it takes from the Englifh ; of mercery, 
from Germany, and more efpecially from Hamburgh ; and 
fpices, cutlery, tapes, and laces, from Holland. It fur- 
nifli.es thofe countries, as well as Italy and the northern 
nations, with wine, fruits, fhumac, anchovies, and oil. 
Its exportation of wine alone amounts to about 400,000 
quintals yearly, and that of raifins to 250,000 quintals. 
The amount of the imports is valued at 1,800,000 piallres, 
or 281,250k fterling; that of the exports at 3,300,000 
piallres, or 515,625k fterling; fo that the balance of trade 
is in its favour. 
The foil in the vicinity of Malaga is fertile and well 
cultivated, producing great quantities of wheat and all 
forts of grain ; and olive-trees are abundant, fupplying 
five hundred oil-preffes in this diftrift alone. Fruit-trees, 
fucli as the almond, fig, and lemon, are alfo very plenti¬ 
ful. The number of vineyards is immenfe, and they yield 
grapes of different fpecies and of delicate quality. The 
fineft grapes may be bought for about a penny a-pound. 
About 300,000 quintals are dried annually; 750,000 quin¬ 
tals of wine are made yearly 5 of which about 400,000 are 
exported. The vineyards are cultivated with great labour 
and expenfe ; the expenfe, as Itated by Mr. Townfem), 
being equal to three-fourths of the produce. In the dif- 
tridl of Malaga there are 14,000 wine-prelfes, chiefly em¬ 
ployed in making the rich wines, which, from the nature 
of the country, is called mountain-, if red, from the colour, 
vino tento, known to us by the name of tent. The manu¬ 
factures of Malaga, which are inconfiderable, contilt of 
one for Ikins, leathers, and foies ; and another of about 
forty looms for filk-lluffs, velvets, taffatas, l'erges, and 
filk cloth. 
The inhabitants, blended with many foreigners, and oc¬ 
cupying a beautiful country, in a mild climate and under 
a fine Iky, are lively, induftrious, and aClive. The men are 
polite and prepoflTdfmg ; the women lively, gay, and al¬ 
luring, and accounted the molt agreeable in Spain. Malaga 
is feated on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of a craggy 
mountain, twenty leagues eaft of Gibraltar. Lat. 36. 51. N. 
Ion. 4. 10. W. 
MAL'AGA BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of the illand 
of Leyta. Lat. 10. 30. N. Ion. 125. 12. E. 
MALAG'MA, / [/*a?va<r:ra, Gr. to foften.] A word 
ufed by fome authors 10 exprels a cataplafm in general, of 
whatever nature, or made of whatever ingredients 5 but 
fome have ufed it only for emollient cataplafms. 
MAL'AGON, a town of Spain, in New Caftile. This 
town was taken from the Moors in 1212; and the inha¬ 
bitants, who fled to the caftle after the reduction of the 
fortrefs, were put to the fword : twelve miles north-north- 
Weft of Civdad Real. 
MALAGRI'DA (Gabriel), a native of Milan, and a 
Jefuit, who was burnt at Lilbon as a heretic and falfe pro¬ 
phet. He had been fent by his general as a miffionary 
into Portugal. As he pofleffed an uncommon fluency of 
elocution, he became the falhionable confeflor, was vene¬ 
rated as a faint, and confulted as an oracle. When the 
duke d’Aveiro was convifted of a confpiracy againft the 
life of the king of Portugal, Malagrida was accufed of being 
an accomplice in the plot. It has been contended, that, 
though an attempt was aftually made to aflaflinate the 
king, fatisfaClory evidence has not been given to the world 
that the duke was concerned in it, or that the Jefuits were 
privy to it; but that advantage was taken of the circum- 
llance of the attack made upon the royal perfon, to ruin 
fome noble families, as well as the Jefuits, who were po¬ 
litically obnoxious to the court. Be the truth what it 
may, on this occafion the Jefuits were baniihed from Por¬ 
tugal, excepting Malagrida and two others, who were re- 
lerved for punifhment. Whether it was owing to the 
king’s not being able to obtain the pope’s confent to Mala- 
grida’s condemnation, or to whatever caufe it is to be at¬ 
tributed, it was not thought proper to proceed againft 
him on the verdkft of the fupreme council of jullice. Re- 
coni l'c was therefore had to another method of getting rid 
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of him, and he was delivered over to the inquifltion, or* 
a charge of herefy; which is faid not to have been with¬ 
out foundation, according to the popilh definition of he¬ 
refy. The proofs of this charge were founded on two 
treatifes, which he is faid to have avowed : one in Latin, 
entitled, Traflatus de Vila et Irnperio Antichrifti; and 
the other in Portuguefe, entitled, The Life of St. Anne, 
compofed with the Affiftance of the blefled Virgin Mary 
and her molt holy Son. From thefe treatifes the inquifi- 
tors colleiled feveral extrafts, which were pronounced to 
be herefy: and among others, "that the Virgin Mary, 
with the confent of Jefus Chrift and all the Holy Trinity, 
had declared him her Son ; and that the three perfons of 
the trinity were father, fon, and grandfon.” They alfo 
pretended, that he laid claim to the power of working 
miracles, and that God himfelf had declared him his am- 
baffador, his apollle, and his prophet, See. As a proof of 
his pretending to the latter character, they gave the fol¬ 
lowing account of his revealing one of his vilions to them. 
The marquis of Tancors, commander-in-chief of the pro¬ 
vince of Efiramadura, happening to die, the caftle of 
Lilbon, and all the fortrefles on the banks of the Tagus, 
difeharged their cannon as a mournful compliment on 
that event. Malagrida, hearing in his dungeon thefe dif- 
charges, and during the night, when they were unufual, 
immediately imagined that they announced the death of 
the king. In the morning he requelled an audience; 
and, being brought before the inquifitors, faid, that God 
had ordered him to give them a proof that he was no im- 
poftor, by declaring that the death of the king had been 
revealed to him; and that he had feen in a vifion the 
punifliments to which that monarch had been condemned, 
for having perfecuted the religious of his order. Taking 
all thefe circumftances into conlideration, they pronounced 
him "convifted of various impoltures, falfehoods, dupli¬ 
cities, impenitent hardnefs, prevarication, and teaching 
many heretical dodtrines;” and condemned him to be burnt 
alive. This cruel fentence was executed on the 21ft of 
September, 1761, when he was about feventy-five years of 
age. Gent. Mag. vol. xxxi. xxxii. 
MALAGUET'TA. See Grain Coast, vol. viii. p. 761. 
MALA'HA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Far- 
filtan : ninety miles eaft of Schiras. 
MALAHFDE. a fmall town in the county of Dublin,, 
fituate on the Irilh fea. There is a well here dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary; and alio a caftle, now the refidence of 
the Talbot family. It is two miles eaft from Swords. 
MALA'I, a town of Arabia: fifteen miles fouth of 
Medina. 
MALAKAR',/ Sellers of flowers. A eaft of Hindoos 
which arofe from the defendants of a woman of the 
Bramin call having had connexion with a man of the 
Chehtree. 
MALAKER'Y, a town of Hindoollan, in Myfore : 
twenty-one miles north-eaft of Seringapatam. 
MALALA'IS, a fmall ifland in the Sea of Mindoro. 
Lat. 11. 18. N. Ion. 120. 51. E. 
MALALE'O, a harbour on the north-weft coaft of 
the ifland of Tappa, in the Eaftern Indian Sea. Lat. o. 
6. N. Ion. 223. 35. E. 
MALAM'BO, or Barran'ca de Malam'bo, a town 
of South America, in the province of Carthagena ; fifty- 
five miles north-eaft of Carthagena. 
MALAMFRIS,/. in botany. See Piper. 
MALAM'BITO, a town of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Carthagena : forty miles eaft of Carthagena. 
MALAMO'CO, an ifland in the Adriatic, with a town 
of the fame name, about four miles in length, and half a 
mile in breadth, near the city of Venice. This town con¬ 
tains about 1100 inhabitants; and is fituated, as it were, 
in the centre of the fliore, on a barren tradl of land. In¬ 
dependent of the cathedral, which is at the fame time the 
parochial church, it contains a nunnery, called St. Maria 
dell’ Orazione, a church, and fome neat buildings. The 
ancient Malamoco was the chief town of the Venetians, 
the 
