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`CONSFIRACY- XT LISBON;

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Ginnes 1,..-ltais de Motirw, prOfe-Sied
in the. order of Ctnist, -Judge ot the Su-
.
-prerne Tribunal of the .Port, with the functitins
' of J.- gel,' Criminal 'Causes, fOt the quarter of
`Rua N and Writer tranied by the Conn of
• Treason (jitize 114,11wOiSidencia), 45tc. certify" ,
thit 'in the .cdwitial acts drawn up its the said
Cocirt,.in cistifOrmity whit the /loyal orders of lii
Majesty itgainst the accused of-High
TreaSon, JoSe joatiniut Pinto da Silva apttothers,
there is recorded at tolio 157, reisd -(i. e.. "on
-12slitagv' of the leaf On folio, the first page being
retii) the sentence of the tenor f011owiog:
'
Re.olved in '1.11:e Court, &c. ; -
Seciiigthese acts, which, in eltecittiOn of the
Royal order's of his said Majesty, were summarily
inst it toed kleaii,st the. accused Jost: Joaquin Pinto
'de 'Ensign of the Regiment of Infantry,
No . 4; Jose tanspello de Mit anda, Jose Itibeiro
Pinto, .Ensiot ot the Regiment of Intaotry, No.
:16 ; • Matoiel Monteiro ,de Carvalho, discharged
Col. ot tne Militia, Gomel Frieire de Andrade,
Lient..Gen , Francisco Antonio de Sousa, Civil
Arrhitr•ct, Pedro Ricardo de Figtietro,
.Capt, of
the Regiment of Infantry, No. 13 ; .Jose. Fran-
eisco da Neves, 'Major of the Batialion of Atita-
ilorelt (perhaps sharp shooters). of Vest .Lisbon ;
flenritpleJOse Garcia de Moraes, Antonio Cabral
talheiro, Furtadoe Lentos, Manuel de Jesus Mon-
teiro. Captain of.the Regiment of Artillery; No.
3 ignacio'de:-Fgoeirerlo, Maximiniano
Dias Riheiro, Antonin Pinto d:A Fonseca Neves,
• second f:ientenatit in the Regiment. of
NO 4 Frederic 6 Baron Ebro, Yitissiom Anto-
nio Ferreira da Costa, Christovao da Costa,
sign in the Regiment of, Cavalry,. No. 10 ; and.
Francisco Leite Smite daCianta ;
,I").onisciations
secrer,•• tail. 6, Verso, 'and fol Vaso,
.i4ichorecedeiltheeicalninatioys annexed ; Inqui-
ries:that were entered into ; Documents annexed ;
Interrog.ityries which were pmt to ,the said ste-
etls'ed in their rt speed-Ye prisons, and their .defence ,
by the Counsel, Who for this end was assigned
them by the Resolution, folio 7 ; it appears that
some of the said 'accused, neglectful of. the fide-
lity due to our lawful Sovereign, and which has
at all times been the characteristic of. the subjects
'of his said Majesty, conceived the detestablF and
horrible design of a rebellion, for the purpose of
changing the Gpverttnienl established try his said
Majesty, and of substitudng for it another revo-
lutionary one; with the tide of Regenerating
Couniii, furnishing themselves for, this purpose
• with diplomas on parchtnent, with the denotttifta-
tion of Credential Card, with. instructions and
method for the aCtrisition of associates, with
'printed proclamations, having the ".sigoature of
Regenerating Council, full of infamous and sedi--
lious -expressions,- with. some -very little tables
in B'o. to note in them the nionher of the persons
convoked for this infamous conspiracy.; as also
with the donations-which they gave.for this end,
and with sheets of pape,r, which woe the mo-
dels tor the tot in of the correspondence,' which -
paps ts were _destined for the ,aothorizatton• of
the. E.nissaties, who were to be sent to the Pro-
v;ticcs for the engaging of associates, and which
were delivered to two bmissaries a fettle before
the 20th of May, this year,,OO Bich' was .given
the first denunciation, with the production of one
of the siid patctimenrs, with r,he said dehouthla-•
tion of ',Credential Card, ttith a,seal of green wax
banging to a purple and White.riliboti, and dated
the 13th of 11tay, :this year.. :Of twenty-tour
Printed proclamations, and the other papers above
mentioned, hick form the corpus delicti for the
examination of the witnesses, some of the said
accused having bought an.Engitsh printing press.
to print the said prockmat ions, -which was seized
on the 14th Jane of.tltis,year, its the finn.whidi
appears horn the Apinoolix No. 4, it beiog•tvi-
dent on the
.whole that some of the said accused
were the authors of the infamous. conspiracy, others
eo-opetating and assistink in it, others associated,
tome with an oath, and some without that Inrmafity,
uthers .acquainted with it more or* less circum-
stantially, and nth:ts-implicAted in different par-
ticulars, as is here below specified. iii respect to
each ot them. It appears ire regard. to the ac-
cused Jose Joaquim Pinto da Silva; in his inter-
rogatories in the Appendix No. :7;: that he con-

fc;Ses in his answers to the second interrogatory,
and declares, under oath, the existence of the As-
soeiation, of Conspirators, in the following man-
ner ;---That visit ing.Colonel Manoel Monteira) de
Carvalho when he was sick, he conversed on:the
plans and new regulations for the army ; the said
Ileponent g. 7, discoursing; on the ' absUrd plicy
of the: division of Potttigal in three parts,
and the influence of foreign nations and of the
_English in Lisbon, the said Monteiro declaring
that it was ,necessary to make opposition
this plan ; that the accused vvithdra wing, and
returning irra fere days after to the house of 'the
said Colonel Montero, the latter propostArtti hint
that he should associate for t;,e prtiposed-end, and
that he should confer w It Jose Whim) Pinto;'
that he ;accepted the association', and that' he
made 'him a-Nina-Wed With-the , associates, Jose
-Campello de Miran,ia; "the Major Jose Francisco
alas Neves, Antonio' Cabral Calheiros, •and Hen-
ricipe Josi. Garcia de i\loraes, and that the said
Colonel Monteno and Jose Riberio Pinto declared
tr) ltit that Gomes Freire was at the bead of the
asociariciu ; that he saw in the house of the said
Be:priyie Jose Garcia printed proclamations sirni-
lar to that which was sliewo hini, and he eon-
fessed that lie was present in the house of the said
Hentiyie-at the reception of two associates pre-
sented by the said Cabral, with the' assistance of
the. said Heurinoti.a.nd of Jose Riberio Pinto ; that
lie proposed to. Col. Monteiro. and Jose Riberio
Pinto, for the society, Nianoll de Jesiis Monteiro,
and; that t he lat ter agreeing; was by hini presented in.
the horse No b I , of the Rua de Saol;into, belong
ingtothesaidHenriqu'e,who,andalsoJoseß iheribi
Pinto y.:t:re regent ; he •sice accused serving as
secretary ifi the act Oladminisiering the Oath in
whk,h.Nial,oil tie .Jestis.A.(onteiro offered Ills' life:,
to the association for the-establishment of a Con-.

sti!w:ional King, and. no Of ‘;Oteriliblit' 5 11);ti
the accused, knew fur "vortitiFiAlliit'ilit: fcilk via

k6re r4iitters of the r.Sticiation —Colonel ,loti-
teiro, Jose Billetlo l'ihtO,M4loriose Franciscieda,
Neves, Jose C:oupello, Anl:Jnio Cabral Callleiros,
Ilearique Jose.Gareia, Man Tems Monteiro,
and two others; that he betz-Vid tolottel Mon.;
te -alio Jose .liiberiO-PintO, that he the acetised
Might be presented to GOilicz Frei've, but that l
never-obtained this; lie declares t.bitt. Cue Frintioii
Press was bought by Antonio Cabral Calhei.r,,s,
trill'. 'money reCeived ,front, Jose- llifrerio
and that the latter worlsed at it with the Said
iietiritit.lejli,the house o 1 this last, No. 5 I V•ila
de Sao ,4ittto i that he, the acctrsed, saw more thin
a hundred proclamations printed to ,be- sent hitt,'
the provinces, to be distributed on the occasion

of the cxl,losiun he declar.ed further, that Were
a•ere•lhl•ee Comlnissioners,--Anwttio

ireit ro-s for Santarem ninirber for the province, Of
and J Ose ItiOurio Pinto tor Oporto and:its
province; who told to him, the accused, tb:':t
was going to establish new Commissions ; and. in
ibe third examination lie confessed, that the MSS.
libels against the Marshal-General, ciancerning
which he was questioned, Were Made by Jose
Ribeiro Pinto, and fixed up by'Joie Campello de
Miranda, and one by hint the accused, in the

Church of St. Paul; and the aCcused, in his an-
swers.to the fourth interrogatory, said, that the
Association had its commencement in the month
of February this year; and that he the accused
was'informed of it in the beginning of March.
It appeals, in respect to the •accused, Jose
Canipello de Mirand, that he confesses, in his
answers to the first' examination, Appendix, No. 8,
after havirg.at first denied, that on the 6th. day of
May this year he was in the house of Jose Ri-
beim Pinto, = for the reception of - two associates,
which on this occasion' he verified ; and he. de-
clared upon 'oath, that in Easter this year, he re
ceived. a message from Cul. Alonteiro, delivered
by Jose. Joaqiiiin• Pinto.da Silva, Ensign of the
Regiinent of Jilfantry, N0..4 ; in consequence of
"hicll, going to the houseot Col. Monteiro, the
conversation turned-against the Maislial-G.eneral,.
agriinst the , new Military Itegulariott ; the said •
Colonel Motiteiro concluding his usual absurd
declamations by saying,.. that ,it -was necessary
to kill and' get rid
.of- the said Marshal-
General; and, that, for this purpose he.formed.an
'AskoCiatioil of Frieiids 'called the Provincipl
cil, which labouied with the greatest .etiorts to
that end, and that by his efforts be counted
the troops [ihis sentence is to me obscure, T.]
and proposed tO him, the accused, to eni,er into
the Association, Feinting the objections•which the
accused made; that, he,.the accused, tv,ent alto;
• ther time to tlie hoose of the said Colonel Mon-
' teiro, persuaded by Jose Ribeiro Pinto, and mak-
ing thifd visit to the saute house, there beiug
present the said Colonel MOnteito, . Jose Ribeiro
Pinto, and '111;ior;Jose Frandsen das Neves, he,
the accused, joined'the Msticiatinn, not binding
himself by an Oath, but prionising secrecy, and to
engage aSsOciates, .and accepting the mission for
his province ; that he did not invite any person in.
•titis ci:•v, and. he declared to be associates the
said Colonel MOnteiro, Jose RineirO Nolo, Major
Neves; Jose Joaquin! Pinicrda Silva, and Antotti.o.
-Cabral Calbeiro.- He defelarcd in his suni-‘'ers' to
the second • interrogatory, anti by hearsay to the
points related in the first inteiroptoiy, that the,.
Architect and: ntherS, he knew were Associates,
but' that he was•ignorant who were' the Members
of the Regenerating - Society ; that lie saw in the
ham! of Jirseßibeiro Vito.° the Prcielematiou, add
iu that of Antoine) Cabral various papers, anti that
:they recuived'ptipers.forCoMmissioners ; that they
wZieprinted Propclamations'which w; that there
•was the press th.Aight by the Cabral and Ribeiro
Pinto; that they had no certain place of meeting,
but that they usually met in the public walk and
the square vtlial the objects-or the Society were the
death of the Marshal-General, and the change .ot
the Goeernment, to be effected by faking iii a'body
on
_the said Marshal-General; the Governors of
the Kingdom, and the Constittited Authorities;
that Colonel iMonteiro told him that 'SPaiii would
soon be in revointion, that it waited for Portugal
to declare itself ;' boe'that he the accused din not
know that there was a correspondence between
Portugal and Spain that to command the trohps
after the death of the Marshal:-General; Gotaez
Freire was ihougift of ; that his relation, Antonio
Pinto da Fonseca Neves', was not of the Assoc:id-,
tion, but that lie knew of it. In his answers to
the 'third interrogatory, the accused recognised
the printed Wroclumation, by having seen another
(ii the sante in the hands of Antonio Cabral ;` that
he, knew of the existence of the libels about whin'
he was questioned, made by Ribeiro.Pinto,'"witich
he, the accused, posted up in the square and other
places, in company With Jose Joaquin) Pinto da
Silva ; that he posted up one on the Church oif St.
Paul's; and he declared iii his'answers to the
4th interrogatory, that the first person who spoke
to him igt the society tvas Jose Joaquin' Pinto da
Silva, whirm With Jose It'ibeiro Pinto, and Colonel
Motiteiro, be considered' as the founders of, it ;
and that Jose Ribeiro Pinto told him that Gontez
Freire desired to figure when they shoilld go to
seek him at his house, in case the nation should
be in datiger..
It ariPearl, in respect to the accused, Jose Ribeiro Pinto, t hat
he declaresopirn oat for what regards-the t hird point, and con-
fesses in his answers to the first interrogatory, Appendix No.
10, that he suspected the cause of his imprisonment to be the
Masonic society into which he entered, and the other of insur-
rection ; that this latter had its beginning in the month of
April this rear, and; that he was installed in it by Jose jOaz.
cinini"Pinto da Silva, by Col. Nlontief o, ana by Jose Canipello,
to who'll be afterwards joined, to promote the extension oldie
society, Antonio eahral Calbeiros. Major Jose FranciSZ:o'
das Neves, Francisco Antonio, architect, Pedro Ricardo de
Figneiro, Benrique Jose Garcia, Manuel de Jesus Montriro,
Manuel Ignacio de Figueiredo, and others; that Antonio
Pinto da Fonseca Neves knew of it, but that he was nut
associated ; that the. Members of the ttegenerating Council
was a fiction of him, the accused, of his ewtsiu, Jut .Joaquini
PintO da SilCa, Col. Monteiroond Jose Ciunpello, IV give more
credit to the Sccietyond to impose on thoS'e who entered into
it ; he, the accused, and the said Antonio Cahral, labricating
under the saute fiction, and according to the ideas of the afore-
said, the instruction's, credentials, proclamations, and 111 the
other papers whiclr they drew up. relative to the said Society,
which reckoned upon (or agreed with) Gomez to ligtire'at his
house whii were acquaintiVwith.the whole of it., and who they:
knew would 'appear at their head wheli they, hail a great party,'
and -they went to seek hint at his house ; that the prOclanni,
lions were printed by. him, the accused, and by H,enrigt4
Jn sI; that Garcia,
Elieali peesir
the house of the latter, in tire strectof
ui
was bought by him, the accused,
and by Airtovii(i Cabral, with Money' given by hini, the
accused,
,and Major Jose ,Fonseca das Neves. hie de-
clared and .confessed farther, in his aiiswers to the se-1
court interrogatory, that he trait two interviews. with Lied-
tenant-General Gomez Friers, being presented the tirst.time
by Col. Monteiro, that MI the.second which took place:ity the
p.eseme of the said Ctilonet Muuteiru and of
,Major

. . .
t ley conrersen on the olij:•et. !Ind parpnce of the asshcintion,
there not being' 'at tlitt time the Prochnuatiun which Was
since iriled *OA siane alterations, and after it wits read, the
said Litettioatit-Genetal assured them ill, that..-pi 4 la ease
heleg EiTnicit, and -:heir going to .leis hits
at his won`':' ore at-tie head of the •NieSety, of
the I•S'i.l,lnce of wln':l lit, Lid been. previously. 'informed by
u"1"'" \l"olciroi and:te'hi,id.itiniself•to all at that mo-
nn.int, a, une acquainted with it; that, no Other
tho'ic .alre.itly named by hitH, 'entered into the Cofispi-•
racy; the story of the regenerating Coo neil being a ,ction.
That he' eecogaised all the papers. which were
:presented
stud refeired to, in the art. as 1,614 identically the
same, and that the letter cut credentials was his own
hatitl•writing, purposely illignised, that the note of the.
register was not hy and that. the rubies and
tiaaie which were towel iii it the note) Were apoery-
• Hirai ; that the tildioa teas -Innieht by hint, the ,accused,
Or by his comrade ; and that a G, stitched ivith, blue,
which was at the tap of the Laid t ihlin t, meant.Goveritinent;
and was also made- by' kiint; the accused: as- also there were
'cut by him, the 'oil a piecead %total, three urfoitir let-
ters,'which were found engraved on the seal of green wax,
and which, acciodin7; to his recollection, were C. P. q/ieli
had pi, signification whatever, bentg'unly to inditate
was 0 'particular scat ; that the instructions we:s. drawl') bp,
by ttinty.thc accused, by. the said Cabral, Colonel Monteiru,,
Major Neves, Jose Joaquil. Pinto da Silva, anti J use Compello,
thOs'e which were presented to hint appearing to Into tit be of
the' writing of Major.,Neves; that the printed Proclamations
were coincident in the form and context with those which he,
the accused, printed with Hvnrique Garcia,; being all drawn
up under the superintendence of all the persons named ; that
the little paper which was shewn hint was made by hi., the
accused; and that the two forms of correspdndence he recog-
nised as being written by the said Cabral with his, own hadd,.,
-and the test of the number of ISO or 250 printed Procla,
utitions must be in the hand, and-in the -house 'of •the Said
Heorique .Jose Garcia,. where ,they were made, none being
taken from the nuiaber but those which were delivered to
the said Cabral'-and the others; that he,. the accirSed,
carried papers with when he went out to Lisboa, tritt that
he 'settled • with Major Neves and 'Colonel Mopteiro. that
they.should send him -the proclamations aria 'oilier 'papews
when he requested them ; that no day was, heed 'for posting
up the proc,lamations, nor conlil it be so early,•bee.auso they
wanted a sufficient number of associates Fir the explosion of
the conspiracy; that Antonio Pinto In FonSeett 'Neves WaS
not associated either by word or by Oath, but that be was -.ac-
quainted with answer to the thitil interrirgatory, he
declared, that he told t he. said. Cabral, that' Gomez
and Ifartin _ben entered into the society, anti' others, bat
that this was tti deceive the said Cabral', sifter lie only knew
tbat'Gomez Heirs was au. as4ociate; since others and the.
said Baron. Ebert welle is fiction .of the accused, and that
what the said Cabral said was a calumny,-, and raise: that
the said 'Cabral was he who drew up the ',Proclamation,
kyhich was afterwards •plitited with some ;alterations made
hy him the accused, ',in concert with, Colonel .Monterio
and Major Neves.; and that the said- Proclamation agreed
with that which was shewn him. in, manuscript, 'which
he the accused spewed to Gomez FreireObat-Maior Neves
contrihuted to the expenses of printing ;. nod that the
commissions were only conferred on the said Cabral' and
another. In his answer to tie fourth-interrogatory re-
lative to the answers of . Cabral, in his interrogatory, he de-
clared, that the said Cabral tried to canfound the troth, by
fatfiraiing things that were false and cal omnions, and pet-
verting the truth; that the'two iastructions which were
shewn him were sent by Major • Neves, but are of the
writing of the associate Manuel Ignacio de Figueriedo, who
made I three ctipies at the request of the accused, from an ori-
-ginal winch lie gave him for that. purpose, the two which
were shewn him being' the 'sail-re that were made, he the toe-
cesed baring:destroyed the third as being imperfect ; that
the house of Heurique Jose Garcia served: ,as' the deifit -
for the oaths, -and adher papers ; and that he, the. ac-
cused, was the author •Of the fire 'or six* libels which.
he enticed to he up..by Carepello and' Jose
Joaquin Pinto da -Silva, and related- the context of
them. In the Appeicrlix, No; 11; iti the fifth interrogatory
and Iris answers, be deciaredthat Ban' Ellen never hind tiny
'e,nnection With the soused, nor with any other of tbu So-
ciety, and that he could only obtaininformation.froat Gothez
Freitc, that on the Use of the reception of Manuel. Ignacio de
Figoieriedo, another was admitted, who. might be. the'Aine
pointed out to hiin, Maximiniano Dias Itibeiro, but that this
Might be declared. by ,Colonel Mont eira, mud Major Neves:
that •Anti:nio Novi Fonseca Ni tea only "had knowledge of
the Stwiety by it verreague coennunicatioin made by liiin the
accused, nail by the said Cabral having hip./ pro.
clainatinns ; that those. who had less ioddence, ;Lod who had
co-operated but little, or not 'at all. Wee Franci'sea bon).
Sousa, architect, and Petit o Ricardo !le ;.a!d beiog
confronted. With the above- mentioued Cibrai, hr re4iimed
firm in his answers, which was nut time case wilt% the said
Cabral in-some tltings ; . .
(To be continned

INPRoTEcTED CHILDHEN.—Ou. Sat.tirday last,
Lewis. TrOughton, the :WatileOf -Christeburot,
Southwark, ing .alO.og. 111;tekeris, rS,r6l4,
and observed two boys dressrd•in the Frencb.eos.-
tome, surrounded by a great monberciipo-_-ions.
One.was' about 12 years Of age, and tli'd'ot her be
tween 9 and 10 ,years; the, tat ter
.s4t. upon the.
grpmtd- crying, :his brothers %vas leaning over
be,gging him to walk ort'; lick satitf .the.:l)6 cotdd
not walk any furth'er; for ltrs feet were co%;ered!
with blisters, and his legs (as were those of the'
other boy) badly swelled: Troughton-aske'd-them
,how they came to be in the situation in whicb he
found them, ilia from their answers was induced
to take them before a Magistrate for the comity
of Surrey (Mr. Evance), where theY inatle the
following statement elder boy. said tirit his
name was Alexander IValker, and his brother
nanfed Williatn; that his father lived in the county,
ofTyrone.,. Ireland, and was .an officer in a dra-
goon regiment. About four months ago his fa-
ther and mother received a letter Irom'Abe wife's
father, a Frenchman residing near Amiens, stak-
ing that he was dangerott'sly ill, and wished Co
see his daughter before he died. His mother took
hint and his brother. over to •France,,and the
grandfather died a few days after their aryiyal.
A fortnight afterwards their mother was raked
and expired about a Month. ago,. 4 Punch lady,
an acquaintance. of the ohl'gentleman's,-sold Abe
clothes left by she mother, and-after clothing
them gave them a small sum,
'the Whole of the property retnaining, and directed
them on the road to 'Boulogne. When they -ar-
-
rived at' Boulogne they were entireiy'destitute;
and on a representation of their 'forlorn.cottilition
to -an' English Captain, were received onboard
Dover packet, and gratuitously .o.ot-it-eyed to Thx-,
yet-, where they arrived about 'a week ago; ;allO
walked from thence to London, beg,gißg their
way., Their money was all gone, aid theirvee(
were so sore that they conld not proCeed.anyjetr.:,,
ther. The eldest (a rematkably inteliigent lad)
said that his father-was still in Ireland, "and it, he
and his brother could- only get tO Dublin, they
should there find friends, who would•letid them as-
sistance to -get hoMe. The Overseers,ofChrist-
chnrch-ttiok the• little travellers immediately, into
their.protection, all(MindenlOOk to assist them on
their journey when they were.sufficiently, reco-
vered to proceed.

EXECUTION AT GLANCiJw.-7-IYednesday after.
Preelmirn Janzevill',Cormick, and
aceoraiirg-to /he.. sentence of
tite,last Gjasgpwtirenit Court, ‘vere e.xecitted
!iti.fr.oot.of the jail. initehill was. etinvictud of
robt)ing the ;31arnanatt carrier, on. a warket-day 5
and M'Cortnick and N.V.Kci.mie were tonodgiliity
of break:log into the shop•of welotii-merchant. iii
Greenock, and of stealnlg theretrom nearly •400/.
of goods. ,

The prize=ntotiel tier the .sailois and matines
ernpinyed'on,the cost of America, will shvrtV be
in course of payment.

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