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INF.AMOUS DECEPTION. 115on theÎ'l'depa'rtare, the Duke d'Aveiro attheir head, they were arrested.Beit which way it may, thus much isproved, nameJy, that they didnotact like persons under the consciousness of guilt.The arrests toôkplace on the 12th: on the 13th appeared the criminalprocèedings" and the sentence, so long, so laboul'8d, so artfu1, so sophistical.This sentence,pronounc,ed after long and due investigationto be sure, when the livet; of so many were concerned, was promulgatedon the 13th, though the criminaIs were taken into custodyonly twelve hours before it was pu blished in print, in a country wherethe press is torpid, where but one was employed, and where the cornpositors,with,the!r scanty types, proceed à pas crane.Next come theparticulars, as they were laid before what it is customary to caU thepublic, from Carvalho's pen andthose of hiscompilers~" His majesty,sustained most grievous wounds'>'-" rrwo balls took effecti.f!-'~One(of thes~) grazed the outer part of theshoulder; the otberwent between the arm and right side of the body."-" They were slugsheavylead."-" The carriage was shot into behind."-" Six shots penetratedthe king's breast."-" Incisions were made to extract the shot."~-" Much blood was 108t."-" Tbe wounds were considerable anddeallY· d' 1 . 1"1"It ls to be bserve