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Second one of tliem abandoned his charge. They had done their 



JoUENEY. 



duty, and had nothing to fear. They bowed with resig- 

 nation to the will of heaven. As soon as they had all 

 reached the refectory, they were there locked up, and 

 never more did they see their rooms, their friends, their 

 scholars, or acquaintance. In the dead of the following 

 night, a strong guard of soldiers literally drove them 

 through the streets to the water's edge. They were then 

 conveyed in boats aboard a ship, and steered for Bahia. 

 Those who survived the barbarous treatment they expe- 

 rienced from Pombal's creatures, were at last ordered to 

 Lisbon. The college of Pernambuco was plundered, and 

 some time after an elephant was kept there. 



Thus the arbitrary hand of power, in one night, smote 

 and swept away the sciences ; to which succeeded the 

 low vulgar buffoonery of a shoAvman. Virgil and Cicero 

 made way for a wild beast from Angola ! and now a guard 

 is on duty at the very gate where, in times long past, the 

 poor were daily fed ! ! ! 



Trust not, kind reader, to the envious remarks which 

 their enemies have scattered far and near ; believe not the 

 stories of those who have had a hand in the sad tragedy. 

 Go to Brazil, and see with thine own eyes the effect of 

 Pombal's short-sighted policy. There vice reigns tri- 

 umphant, and learning is at its lowest ebb. Neither is 

 this to be wondered at. Destroy the compass, and will 

 the vessel find her far distant port ? Will the flock keep 



