. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. he only motive thatwe can assign for such baseness, is,tliat they hoped, by so signal an ac-of treachery, to be able to recom-mend themselves to the French, andby these means to preserve theirpossessions, The conspirators have, however, been discovered, and pu-nished in a summary way, by beingbanished, as it is said, to the coast,of Africa. It must be supposed theproofs against tbem were strong, orit is not to be persumed that LordWellington, bred up in a countryrenowned for its impartial justice,would consent
. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. he only motive thatwe can assign for such baseness, is,tliat they hoped, by so signal an ac-of treachery, to be able to recom-mend themselves to the French, andby these means to preserve theirpossessions, The conspirators have, however, been discovered, and pu-nished in a summary way, by beingbanished, as it is said, to the coast,of Africa. It must be supposed theproofs against tbem were strong, orit is not to be persumed that LordWellington, bred up in a countryrenowned for its impartial justice,would consent to inflict a punish-ment so summary and so severe oaa number of persons of the highestrank in the kingdom, with whoseprotection he is specially is supposed that this plot had itsramifications through the whole ofPortugal, and th^t the great explo-sion at Almeida, which occasionedthe fall of that fortress^ was not pro-duced by the fire of the enemy (asthe building was bomb-proot), butthat it was contrived by the niachi-nations of traitors in the garrison. Ihutiol Vol 4. d
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