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London, England, 1817-11-05 00:00:00

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PROCEEDINGS ON THE TRIALS.
It appears, as far as concerns the accused Manuel
Monteiro de Corealho, that he confesses to the last
charge, and deposes on oath as far as respected the
third in his replies to the first questions of the Appen-'
dis No. 12, to the existence of the society, his know-
ledge of it, and his being associated with it by being
introduced into it by Ensign Jose Ribeiro Pinto ;
that the society began "about the end of February in
the present year, and that the mid Ribeiro was the
person who in conversation disclosed to him the plan
About the subversion: of the Government ; that the
accused joined it Without taking an oath, and only
by giving his word o 1 tumour, the principal author'
i,f the' plan being the said Ribeiro Pinto ; that Fran« i
cisco Antonio de Sousa was one of the associates,,
being invited by the said accused,. likewise without
an oath. Major Joie Francisco das Niles associated:
likewise by the said Ribeiro Pinto, witliosit any for-
mula, Jose Joaquim Pinto da Silva, invited by Ri-i
beiro Pinto, Henry Jose Garcia, associated by 'llsie
same accused, and by the said Jose Ribeiro Pinto..
who gave the use of the house which he possessed in,
St. Bento to the meeting of his associates, and for
the'printing press: being certain that they conducted
their operations in the same house, and that there
likewise was associated Jose Campello,, and an indi-
vidual, Manuel, invited by Jose Ribeiro Pinto, who
took the oath, the said accused being present, toge-
ther with said Ribeiro Pinto, Major Nives, the said
Ribeiro Pinto being president, and Henry Jose Gar-
cia, master of the house, being secretary ; that, like.
wise, there were initiated Antonio Cabral Calheiros,
aid another, the former sent as a commissioner to
Santarem, and the latter to the province of Beira,
°who received inthe library Of Francisco Antonio del
:Sonia, architect, it two different nights, their confi-
dential instructions, tablets, and other papers, the'
following persons .being present at the delivery of
them, :timely, the accused, the master of the house,
joie Ribeire Pinto, who- brought them along with
Flint, front whole hand they passed into that of the
seemed ; that there was no President of the society;
that the denomination of the Regenerating Council
lig,a fiction, Jose Ribeiro Pinto being the author of
.eill'ilte pipers which were the grounds of the accusa-
tion a. brat the said architect agreed with the accused
'that the deli Very ot the 'credentials should take place
et his house, because It wet better than that O the
accused ; that the' Rrgenrrating assail 'never 1
bacapt sn the imagination of the said Jose
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Pinto ; that the plan was to stiririo, the Governors
of the kingdom and the Mershal-General, and on :
the following mOriiing, part of the trotips being 4. A
tered and part •united. svnuld call for's. Geueral, who
should name 'a Provisional Government to prevent
disorder!, which Government airmail administer pub-
tic affairs till the convocation of the Cortesytlywhich
should be elected a constitutional King ; that the
General meant was Gomez Preire ; th it the press
should ha arranged by the said Antonio Cabral and
Jese Ribeiro Pinto ; and that in the•house of Henry
Jos- Garcia, in the street of St Benedict, should he '
printed 180 or 280 proclamations. In his replies to
the second interrogatories, he declared. that Ribeiro
Pinto was not the first who notified to film the society,
but Joaquin, Pilon da Silva first, then Canspello, and
thirdly, the said Ribeiro Pinta; that the first inter-
vistiv,whio he had with Pinto da Silva took pl•lce in
January of this year, the accused then being indi,-
posed *; the said accused denied tharbe spoke first to
the two persons, 'Pinto and Compel'''. but that thov,
as lie formarly said, mentioned the association first to
him, and took him to it; he afloat d that he commu-
nicated to Lieutenant-General Gomez Freire the
plan for the change of the Government, and men•
tioned the society formed with that object ; to which
the General replied, that:priideece and mature deli.
beretion would be necessary ; that he did not offer
I.imself for that purpose; that he introduced to the '
said General Gomez Wreire, atter Easter of this year,
Major Jose Francisco des Nives and the said Ribeito
Pinto, as associates; that the latter read in the pre.-
sence of them all, a proclamation which he brought
along with him, and which was afterwards printed
with s'me alterations, the said General Gomez FfSii C
giving it his approbation, particularly in what relied
to the Marshal-General, (13eresford), in respect to
whom he said any machination was justifiable, es be
was a despot who arrogated the power of contending
with the Government ; that he comniunicated to the
said Gomez Freire the mission of the two emissaries
to Santarem and the province of Beire, who replied
to the accused that the missimi with such papers was
hazardous, if confidence could not Le placed in the
parties intrusted with them.
In the replies of the accused to the third set of in,
terrogatorics, he declared that ke had invited Pedro
Ricardo de Figuetoo who did Rot take the oath, but
that he was cognizant of the greatest part, if not the
whole of the papers of the association ; that the meet-
ing for conversation took place in the Promenade, the
Rocio, and other public places, and that the house
for the reception of the associates was that of Garcia,
in the street of St. Benedict; that the printing-press
before being carried to this house was in that of the
accused for two days and a night; being ordered
there by ,Inse Riblike) Pinto. In his answers to the
fourth set of interrogatories, he declared' that Gomez
lireire was acquainted withethe whoieconspiracy, but
Ow Jig, had not hit:matt joined -it ;-its this, he Agreed
with Francisco das Niers in being confronted with
him, but was contradicted by Antonio Cabral in
saying that the Regenerating Council Was chimeri.
cal, and that the enumeration Of the persons pointed
1r oat by the said Cabral was false. He ultimately de-
:dared, in his replies to the fifth interrogatory, that
i besides the associates already mentioned by hies,
'there was an Officer of the. flying artillery introduced
:by' Pinto de Silva, and that lie had been di.lectiee in
'his aaswers on the first interrogatory in not declaring
th.:t on the occasion in which Manuel Ignacio de
Figueiredo was introduced, Maximiano was likewise
introduced, being invited by the accused. to whom he
explained the object of the society, to which the litt-
ler entirely lent himself, offering forthwith four moi-
dares. which'were not received; that the state of de-
spair in which. the accused was suffering for want of
, the, means of subsistence as an officer discharged by
the despotism of the Marshal-General, while thirty
months' pay Were due to him, and he was borne
down by a wife and family, gave him power to coo-
' ceive projects against the author of so great evils, and
that the architect and Pedro Ricardo were scarcely
privy to the society.
It appears that, as to the accused Gomez Friere de
Andrade, he confesses and declares on oath, in his
replies tb the questions which form the Appendix
Nu. 15, (in which replies there are contradictions and
inconsistencies):that he knew Colonel .Manuel Mon.
teiro deCarvalho, with whom lie was on visiting ha-
bits. without any particular intimacy. and that they
conversed together on military affairs, and against
the English; that he knew Ribeiro Pinto, Antonio
life Sousa, and Baron Eben intimately ; that he was
entirely; unacquainted with the existence •of the con.
I spiracy, although he allowed that he was a freema-
son; that he had no knowledge of any papers; that
he avoided appearing in public in military uniform,
because he was afraid that some soldier might cry
out .4 There goes oar General." He goes on to re-
ply to the second interrogatory, that he was visited
in April last by Colonel Monteiro, vibe introduced to
him Major Francisco das Nivea, and Ensign. Ribeiro
Pinto, whom he -received into his private cabinet;
that Ribeiro Pinto came a teconclaime to his house,
and that Colonel Monteiro and the said Ribeito Pinto
came to him to talk of the plans which the-accused
'had in his house. as likewise of a manuscript Procla-
mation which the said Ribeiro Pinto brought with
hint on one of' the date of April. They then spoke
of the misfortunes of their country. saying, that there
were good Portuguese, that they endeavoured to pre-
vent the ruin of Portugal, and represented to the ac-
cased the favourable opportunity ; to which the latter
' replied, that the affair was difficult, attended with
much risk. and required mature deliberation, but
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soonafterwards requested ter know to the bottom the
"project they had in view for the accused, provided
a sadden explosion took place, and provided his pro
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pulerity could give it a useful direction. to preserve
the kali/dein to the'' Sovereign, to prevent anarchy,
nd to cite his country.; that he knew other conspi.
t
; ators Itgeinst the Royal Authority and the public
rasiqUillity. naming— the Marshal-General (Beres
uil), because he had before him A rouse which he
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On the third intnrogatory tlie scented replied.
that Caslove! Moneero, alter tire stay in which he
came to his house along v. i',ll MaiOr N'ves ana-.4,:-
beiro Pinto, to invite him to take p trt in the rebelhori
assured him that the Criminairdant of the 16'1, regi
ment of infantry calli'd nprin him to ask him his lose:
tive for his delay in the city ; that theh pri ited Pros.
,elamation was the same, he believed, which had heed
strewn him by Itibeiro in manuscript; that he
the parchment which Colon'.! Motiteiro p'esente!,
with the appended seal i'nd tiband selt:ch was to be
the sign, and that he disapproved of th.• words—.
Venze.inte ant! ()rots; that as to the oltns ,chich he
allowed he saw in his house, he now &doe s tit?! he
revel altcrwards saw these plaro! ; thou o'er referred
to a project for a geerral revolt of the Na•ien, and
for inviting the accused to participate, who lied sera
no partisan, nor any instructions for a cont trition,
nor any arrangement of the society relative to the
said plan ; for when Colonel Isloeteiro requested to
appear on the event of the explosion to give his or-
ders, the accused replied, that his appear 'nee was
not necessary, that the confederates should come td
look for him at his house and to quicken his motions;
for that such dispositions were like those of a battle,
which, although concerted with as much skid ac pos-
sible, might-fail in the execution. That the accused
thus remained ignorant of the day and the heur of
explosion, although he believed that it might be very
nears. that such was his impression, that several
times in the night hearing a noise, he started,•tli'clb:
ing of the event ; because he was doubtful irtitthite
the conspirators had come to call hitn;• evert thidi
beiog.ready. and they wanting nothing elsebtr the
ptesence of the accused. That Colonel Nlonteirq wat
the first person who spoke to the acciesed about the
conspiracy in the beginning of April last. That the
above-named conspirators spf.ke to him on the same
subject on the 6tll of that ofonth, and that Colons'
M.,nteiro was the channel of commtnication between
the accused and the society ; that the pre ect of the
accused was to appear if the explosion broke out, and
if the associate came to invite him to join them, and
that he expected success through the absence of the
Mar,hal-General, who was said to be g&eg away oo
the 6th of April ; that in this else the accesed ex:
pected, by means of his poeularity, ii lie combated
at the head of an armed force, and thus succeeded int
bringing about some politied err ingemtnts, to see
himself in a sitti2ti,to to convoke the Boh••ps, trio
Grandees of the tinedom, and the Nobnity, to
compose thus a kind of junta of the three States to
regulate the affairs of the nation, provided the exist.'
ing Government were anniltilatrd by the conspirators,
and then aft.rwartts to give his M :qty the benefit
of this success ; having rye- Aimed aleo torineventint
anarchy, the propering of :s Council created rm.
sinnally, in Muth chile should be Deputies from
every one of the Provinces; that, by this form, par-•
tial juntas might he prcareoted 'as dangerous to good.
government ; but that the Marshal General having'
delayed, and it being impossible to tibial) with'
promptitude tl;e accessinn of it force necessary to-ae-'
cornplish the premeditated explosion, the transpire.'
tors had communicated to the accused that it would
he necessary to seize on all the Civil and Military
Authorities of the S•ate, to which die accused assent-'
ed, as he did to all their other proposals, that he
might pin a more comelete keowledge of their proL!
jeers ; and strepowig the said •captinirs had heel! -
Made, and the tumult.. which they were:promoting
had taken i lace in this second •tatie, the aeceSta'
would hove come forward to make the sernearrrinßej
meats for the orgenization of the kiet..eten as iea'ttf.4
first. Being asked it it would not have haettivimeeP
easy to free the Governors and the Constituted-Ain:l
thotities of the kingdom from chains• ancl.'dialevul;'
lent projects, than to establish a new Govesninent ail
his own arbitrary pleasure, be replied, that oti 1114;1
point be bad to Consult circumstiMeee and-theitevi
tional temper. ft the peoplt. on 'a-et-omit of 113 't
easeentents, should:reject the contintratibiii of' der'
existing Gavernmente the project of creating anew
junta was necessarily fre'tse executed ;• if the peep':
should insist on thevontinuatidn'or the Goveroneurt,
rod should not 'srppote this measure, the 'accrued
would then be obliged to re-estahl sli it an its firmer
.oating ; that in thisecase, his Crinscietree told' itim• it
would be no crime to overturn-the Govern-Mint; as •
he thought it would be the' wily means of again
the popular tumult ; that,he comiffitted no Welkin/0
in entering into this plan) that he nevet
rated it; that he invited-no person Acoldpellrf Wll
and that he never obtained:any-certain knihrtedte•hf
to who were the rasping mesa kekvepetcolonel•MMlef
teiro, Major Nives, •and Rihiehlis ,Pinth, skid' thetaillta
only resumed on the Architect% .ethg ',4ttriE;Ptirl
t,i4; being the ftiuenpd-of Monteitife' b
the fourth into rrogatosies flu '44'lhra Baron Ebe
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