Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-04-28
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HORRIBLE EXECUTIONS AT LISBON.

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LISBON, March The day of yesterday will be
memorable IN the bloody aunals of Lisbon The spe-
ciai commission appointed to Judge the unfortunate
men charged with rebellion against Don Miguel on
the 9Th January having ordered them to give in their
written answers IN twenty-fcur hours, concluded its
proceedings on the Goth uIt. On that day the sen
tence was drawnuP, signed and sent to Miguel for his
appreciation. by that sentence Brigadier Moreira
and tour more were condemned to transportation for
lie, and two more to transportation for ten
The remainder ct the accused were acquitted from
oelnonStrance OF their innocence, from want of
sufficient evidence of guilt. But such a sentence
could not satisfy Miguel be therefore, resolved that
another should be drawn, by which the first five CON-
vlcts should be hing. the two next transported for
life, and all the res, for ten years. This met with op-
position from one Or two of the judges, and neyoc
alton took place which lasted some days, but their
scruples either satisfied or silenced and the
tence which Miguel desired was signed on the 18th
INST 1t was read TO the prisoners OH the 5th md
only twenty-four hours We're allowed them to pre-
pare Tor Death This was against all law and custom,
three days for preparation being always hitherto
granted Yesterday accordingly they were executed
A new gaows WAS erected on Sodre square, where
the merchants generally meet in the afternoon on
business, because their loyalty to the eoung queen is
fully established by their expressed sentiments and
their scany charities 20 the usurpers government
The same square is the principal quay and landing
place from the Tagus. There, from the morning. q
great number oftrJops were collecel but it was
By two o'clock that the fatal procession arrived MI,
nerousy escorted. The unfortunate men TO be exc
cGted were al bareooted, with white large slecved
trocks, which covered them all each ofthem had
two priests BY his side. Ihe execution bepan BY :,
youth only seventeen years old; though the sentence
said twenty. lie was mdspnlan, the son of Colo,
mel Chaby. He was led TO the ladder of the ralows.
and obliged to kneel before 1t during ten minutes.
whilst the priests We're praying over him. HAVING
assembled it. he was directed to turn round and TO
scat himself on Of the steps. Whilst the banm-
man who, covering the young mans head with tie
white cap Of his gown, turned him off from the ladder,
and got on his shoulders, riding him and swinging
about with one Of his feet upon the victims hands
(which being tied together made a kind of strrup
another bangman pulled him down by the feet. This
lasted about ten minutes more; and when life was
sdered to be quite extinct, the body was taken down
aud laid the ground. The second was aIso very
young man, cadet in the Corps Of Marines said in the
sentence to be twenty-thrcc, but who was hardly
twenty years old; his name James Ghavis Scar
nichla. The third was said to he enc JOAQUIN Veiez
BarreTOs, but was i'll fact, the gallant Prestvno Iyho
IN order not to injuTe his family. He showed the
greatest courage and resolution to bis last breath
refusing to answer to the priests, who eudeavor,
cd to make him acknowledge MiprrrI Tho fourth
vas Jose Comes Fercira Braga, tbirty-tbres
years OLD, lieutenant of artillery and the last Brin-
adler General Alexandra Manocl Morrira Frsira.3e
They generally showed courage but none Xix, the
brave Prcstvcilo, who had been formerly an officer
IN the army and lately Colonel ofthe Militia in one
ot the northern PROVINCES where he had his estate
for nc belonged TO wealthy and distinguished fami
y. lie bad scryedund Napoleon, and gained from
him the cross of The Legion of Honour. lie had
zone TO England but being ashamed to remain in
active, rcturnedo aid the public cause He landed
the very night Of the 9th Of January; and n few
hour. after he was irons! There he remained six
weeks without Speaking word to n friend seeing
any one, even being allowed to change his linen
When called to give his defence in twenty four hours
he was covered with vcrmin, and nearly in n state o
distraction. After the five luiies were cut dowr
and laid on the ground, the han2man began to chor
Oft their heads with cutlass on a piece of wood
The heads then stuck upon iron points fixed on
the post Of the gallows, and there they remained
three DAYS.
Il Lisbon paper oF March 9th mcuiions that hi.
Majesty had been pleased to dismiss from their sta
tons number Of Professors a. Members Of Literary
ms buttons on account Of 'unsound principles" by
wlch we uDders and pri1cplcsnot entirely subjected
to his odous and detcstable tyranny. The same
paper contains the proceedings against seven ndvd
ua.s accused Of various hurgarles, three Of whom
we're conference.-the be hung, and afterwards hehcadcd
the remainder were sent into Punishment. And VET
this second Nero had announced his determination
20 keep his room for three days as testimony Of his
sorrow for the death Of the Pope, and had ordered
prayers to be put Upin oil the churches f,r 'n rspo
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