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116 TRA;VELS IN EUROPE.killed, and postillionwounded.'~Thistook place at eleven o~Cloek.atnight, anhaur when an the .world is stirring in that country and season,.near the royal palace, and neaf Carvalho's house; an admirable placefor the Tavoras to localize theiratrocious arrangements, a horse ambuscade.Ho,v did his majesty aet on heing thusattaeked? sustainingthese deadly wounds?-As one would upon an every-dayoceurrenee, .just in faet in the manner as if it had heen the loss of a shoe to one of hig,llOrses.He lowers the front glass, and bids(the killed),eoachman driv~him to his surgeon~sat La Jonquiera." The baIl strucli. Talgol's brass habergeon,Who straigllt.A surgeon! (cried) A surgeon! ,rAnd it is now to he observed, that, to the 13th of Decemher; no- cinesaw his majesty hut this one surgeon, no addhional advice' ora:ssistanc~heing caUed in to extraet eight slugs from his deadly wounds. Dacs:,not the whole of this stand self-condemned ?The authoritative statement plaearded in the detmllCtation ofthe âtfàir"offering reward for diseovery, says, it wasthe work ofthree conspirators,and three bluuderbusses, onewhereof missed fire, and two made tW()Jlarge holes in the baek of the king's carriage, and wounded the kingh1:1tne arm, of which his majesty is now perfeetly reeovered, without the:least hu'rt remaining.Next eusues the indictment, eharging, that the Duqued:Av~irdfdrivento desperation by being depriyed of eourtfavour, (although stiIla generalof cavalry,) had treasonably used the fol:lowing words, viz.. "It lS'as bad to me as to have my legs eut off to go to c()urt.'~Moreoverhe'"is charged \vith dissatisfactiou onaccount oia disappointrnent relative'to a marriage in bis family.This causes birh fuost treasonably toilJéreeoneiled to his sister-in-Iaw the Marehiouess of~avoxtâ}withw:h()mhehad fonnetly hada difference.(See Se/nteriee~)

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