publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759. Excerpt: ... prise, however, miscarried through a want of courage and conduct in the persons employed. This unsair and clandestine conduct was so deeply resented by Columbus, that he resolved to leave Portugal, and that very year 1485, sent his brother Bartholemew with the same proposals to Henry VII. King of England, while he himself prepared to go to Spain on the same account; but Bartholomew being taken and plundered by pirates in his passage, was, on his arrival at London, reduced to such extreme poverty, as rendered him unable to gain an audience of his Majesty, till by drawing and selling charts, he acquired some reputation, and put himself into such an equipage as was neceiiary sor his obtaining access to the King. This honour he obtained in the year 1488, when he met with all the success that could be desired, and actually entered into an agreement with Henry VII on behalf of his brother, several years besore Christopher closed with their Catholic Majesties. Mean while Christopher Columbus met with many dissiculties at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, where his seheme being treated as an idle chimercial project, and himself exposed to ridicule, he was with difficulty prevented, by some who espoused his cause, from coming to England, to see what success his brother Bartholomew had met with. However, Queen Isabella at length approving his scheme, the articles of agreement were signed in 1492, by which Columbus was made V iceroy of the countries and Admiral of (he seas he should discover; that he should have she tenth of all that wasbought, bartered, found or acquired, within those limits, after the charge of the conquest mould be defrayed, together with an eighth part of all he mould bring home with his fleet, in confideration of which he was to be at one ei...

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