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TRAVELS IN BUBOPE-..Sorne accounts stated that the coaehman, on theshots beingired,turned the horses suddenly round, and went to Belem without anyex..ertion of the king. But a variety ofaccounts circulated,before it was,or could be ascertained, which would go down the best. They wereaH swallowed. Carvalho wished, it is said,with strongfoundatiou, tohave involved the Infant Don Pedro in the plot.One tbing worthyofrernark is the8icrimonyof style which pervades not onl,the sentence,but the whole proccùure..!Compunction is the feehlenessof guilt,notthereturn,ofvirtue.Thatthe delicate treatment whieh the young Marehioness of 'Favora expe...rieneed,whilst her;}1Ushand was, lying on the scaffold, ,vas owing tosorne eornpunctions existing in themindofPombal, there is no doubt.Thus our great poetrepresents Lady Macbeth: "Had he not resembledmy father as he slept-.J)Thedebility of humannature pervades itsvery guilt, and there was unquestiouably a motive in his breastwhichpleaded in this Iadis favour.Jt isto be lamented that the London Oa·zette no less than twiee lentits a.id to circulate thesemonstrousstatemett:ts throughoût Europe. Thei:ngenuity of Pombal in implicating d~e transaction with the downfall oftheJesuits,-then a popular rneasure,-contributed to pervert the publicjudgement on Üle whole transaction; which, truly,passed over for thetime without the execrations i1 deserved.But let it not thence bedeemed to fol1ow, in the present day,that the vOlee of truth was totallystifled. On the contrary, it appealed to Heaven,.-rather Iate it is true,­on the abomination, both in English and in French, in the former partieuIarly,with a most c'reditable degree ofeaol and sound investigation.Carvalho, how'ever, wasa man to have manyadvocates orretainers. Hecourted foreigners, to maintain that popularitythroughoutthe worldatlarge, which he knew hehad no chance of enjoying at home.Edu..