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tillion ; but the confpirators to turn afide 
fafpicion, haftened themielves to divulge 
the attempt upon the king’s life; and 
came with the crowds whom affection or 
curiofity brought to the palace. ‘The 
Duke @ Aveire was among the foremoft, 
and offered to go arined in purfuit of the 
affaffins. That nobleman was of the 
houfe of Braganza. Crooked in body 
and. mind, reftlefs, inhuman, the declared 
enemy of the government, and capable of 
any thing, he was an object of ftrong fuf- 
picion to Carvalho. The minifter, how- 
ever, bade him be quiet; en'rufted him 
with falfe fecrets, which he entreated him 
not to difclofe; and fent him away proud 
of the fuccefs of his diffimulation, and 
confident of impunity. ae 
The king recovered ; fix months paffed 
away unproductive of any arreft or dif- 
covery ; and the event was almoft obli- 
terated from the public mind. But it 
was not forgotten by Carvalho. He was 
fecretly collecting every information that . 
might tead to a knowledge of the delin- 
guents; and the more his proofs againit 
d@ Aveiroand Tavera acquired confiftency, 
the more his attentions to them were ftu- 
died and particular. He obtained leave for 
‘one to pafs three months at his country 
manfion; for the other an appointment 
folicited long before. At length the 
whole treafonable hiftory was revealed to 
him by a domettic, who was waiting one 
night with amorous views in Tavora’s 
garden, when the confpirators affembled 
‘there anew; difcuffed the caules of their 
patt failure, and laid a plan that promiled 
better fuccels. 
To prevent its execution, and to bring 
the criminals to juftice without farther 
delay, the Marquis de Pombal availed 
himfelf of a ball given in honour of his 
daughter’s nuptials with the Count de 
Zampayo. An invitation from the king 
decoyed thither the whole of the confpira- 
tors, who, inftead of the ** mufick, min- 
ftrelfy, and mafking” they expected, met 
with fetters, dungeons, and the rack. 
A week after, ten of the principal trai- 
tors were executed; their bodies burnt ; 
and their aihes caft into the fta. The 
Duke d’Aveiro, and the old Marchione({s 
of Tavora died as if they had exchanged 
fexes,—he with more than the weaknefs 
of a woman, and fhe with a fortitude 
truly heroic. The young Marchionefs 
of Tavora, the king’s miftrefs, was con- 
fined in a convent for life; and the greater 
part of the nobllity was imprifoned, till 
the death of the king, which did not 
happen till nineteen years afterwards. 
Memoirs of the Marquis de Pombal. 
54, 
Thejefuit Malagrida, generally though 
falfely fuppofed to have been executed as 
a con{pirator, was in fact tried by the in- 
guifition, and burnt as aheretic. One of 
the charges was his having written that 
the Virgin Mary [poke Latin in the viomb of 
St. Aune—words difgraceful to the au- 
thor; aud ftill more difgraceful to the 
odious tribunal, by which they were con- 
ftrued intoa crime. But thefe and other 
theological abfurdities were made the 
pretexts of his death, becaufe there wag 
no proof, although there was no doubt, 
of his being privy to the plot. ‘The ex- 
pulfion of his whole order, fufpected of 
tampering in it, followed; furnifhed an 
example for their deftruction throughout 
Europe; and will ever redound to the 
glory of the Marquis de Pombal, who 
thus ftruck the firft blow at that dark, in- 
triguing, and ambitious fraternity. 
More deeply rooted than ever in the 
confidence of his mafter, the haught 
minifter no longer feared to brave the firft 
perfons of the realm. A brother of the 
king, who was grand inquifitor, delaying 
to licenfe a work, containing fome ftate 
regulations, Carvalho, in the prefence of 
another Infazt of Portugal, exhaled his 
rage in the moft infuiting threats, till he 
raifed their choler to a height {till greater 
than his own. From invective they pro- 
ceeded to perfonal infults ; pulled off his 
peruke; threw it in his face ; and driving 
him out of the apartment, bade him carry 
his complaint to the king. His obedience 
to this farcaftic command, procured. the 
laftine exile of the royal brothers; and 
gave him an opportunity he had long de- 
fired of placing one of his own creatures 
at the head of the inguifition. His bro- 
ther Don Juan Carvalho had the appoint- 
ment ; but did not keep it long. 
When the court removed occafionally 
to the fummer palace of Salvatierra, the 
minifter, detained at Lifbon by public 
affairs, fent thither:thé grand inquifitor 
to watch over the conduct of the queen, 
whofe artifices he feared. Informed of the 
infidious part the prieft was playing, fhe 
fent for him to her chamber.- He went; 
but was never feen to return. According 
to the accounts moft credited, the fhot him 
through the head with a fowling piece. 
It is certain, at leaft, th at Don Juan Car- 
valho difappeared. It may be afked why, 
if capable of fuch a crime, fhe did not 
difpatch the principal inftead of the agent ; 
but the Marquis de Pombal, who diltrufted 
her as well as the grandees, was not eafily 
affailable. He was always efcorted by a 
detachment of cavalry, anda Meet | oui 
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