The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-11

The minister thanked him aud said
that measures would be taken to protect
the life Of his maj ssty.
AS soon as his visitor was gone Pom
balls face frightened considerably.
Yes, ! will pr tect his majesty's life,''
he said to himself, :but nothing would
suit me better than to have the conspira-
tors make some attempt to kill the king,
whom my detectives shall closely watch
and protect
King Joseph Emmanuel went on an
other love expedition, in disguise, during
the night of the Sd to the 4th of Septem-
Der. He wss alone, and went to the
rooms of a very handsome miliiner with
whom he had become previously ac-
quainted. He knocked at the door,
out there was no response. Looking
through the keyhole the amorous king
perceived that his inamorata was
IN the arms OF young man. Joseph
Emmanuel uttered cry of rage and
forced open the door. The milliner's
paramour angrily conf nted him. The
King drew q dagger and rushed at the
young man, who drew q pistol and fred
at bis sovereign, but missed him.
A moment latter three officers of the
Hermandad rushed in and seized the
man, who proved to be the young Mar
cheese de Tavora, the only son of one of
the most distinguished noblemen in the
kingdom.
While the king hurried back to the
royal palace the young prisoner was
taken before Count Pombal, who, howev-
er, was unable to elicit anything from
him.
The prisoner was searched. and On his
person was found a curious list of names
embracing all prominent men known to
be hostile to Count Pombal.
The latter laughed triumphantly as he
glanced oyer the list.
"Ah, Senior de Tavora," he exclaimed,
"this seals the doom of all your conspira-
tors"
I'VE are no conspirators," exclaimed
the prisoner.
my men, said the prime minister to
the officers, stake the nice young man to
the Boadiason the executioner's house,
and have his throat cut there. When he
is dead let me know it,
The prisoner begged for mercy, but
the officer violently dragged him away.
Ten minutes afterwards he found him
self in large wooden chair with his
hands firmly tied. The executioner bent
his head back and drew a very sharp
knife across his throat. Then he broke
the poor fellows back by jerking his head
violently back. The, young marchese
was dead.
Next morning Pombsl laid all the
facts before the king, who was greatly
frightened, and gave his prime minister
full power to deal with the alleged con
spirators.
Pombal did nothing until the 18th of
December, when he gave banquet to
the Portuguese nobility, a magnificent
banquet, in honor of the wedding of his
only daughter.
The old marchese Of Tavora was there.
He did not know the terrible fate that
had befallen his poor son.
During the banquet fifty soldiers enter
ed the hall. The captain commanding
them read the following paper to the
astonished guests:
by order of the King: Arrest the
duke de Aveyro, the marchese de Tavora
and the Jesuit Maragrida."
The three prisoners were rudcly hustled
out Of the hall and flung into losthsome
dungeons.
Pombal constituted peculiar tribunal
for their trial. It consisted of himself
md of one member of the supreme court,
known to be his submissive tool.
The duke &c Aveyro and the marchese
de Tsvora, both aged men, made partial
confessions. Although they revoked
them afterward they were found guilty
Of high treason, and on the 18th of Jan
uary: 1859, they were publicly broken
on the wheel.
The sons and soa-in-law of the Duke
were strangied, and the wife of the mar
cheese de Travora was beheaded.
Every man on the list taken from young
ravora was incarcerated and secretly
killed.
Malagrids, the Jesuit, was handed over
o the 1nquisition, which was hostile to
lis order, and caused him to be burned
It the stake.
Then royal decree expelling the Jes-
tits from Portugal was promulgated.
The Fathers" we're thrust into the
lOld of leaky vessel and sent to Rome.
IF 1872 only "a survived the trip.
Thus Pombal had achieve great
riumph, but that triumph was not of
ong duration.
A few years later he WAS hurled from
,ower and finally died in poverty and