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124 TRAVELS IN EUROPE.London? 'Vho can say that any one of the royal family ever sa.,,, thêdocument wherewith Carvalho favoured the public? It was perfecdyensy for him to keep it from them.side, and see which preponderate.Take the probabilities on eachAt any rate, itis impossible that itcould have happened as he states it; and this falsehood once admittedcontaminates the whole.l\Ialignity will avoid much of the censure it deserves, when not cou"nected with avarice; and Pombal's was not.13ut that aU is on record could not belf>elieved:Takebis documentsagainst his pillar,-and assureclly that is no more than what justice caBsfOf,-he is hirhself the recorder of his atrocity.l\Ien should considerthe use to .be made both of secrecy and precipitation; the one to con..ceal the bJow, the other to prevent ifs being redressed. U ntH the dê.:.cl~rationissued, no one could say. what was,intended. Carvalho d,ùringthe procedure, it may be wen inferred, suffered no more truth to enterwithin the walls of the palace than he did to pervade the ears of thepublic, and he was fully master of theavennes to both.A. degree of reserve and constraint Was always observable upon foreignershere, when these accusations were introduced as a suqject ofconversation. lt was evidently one they wished to get l'id of, evenafter the clay of the minister had ceased *. Perhaps sorne may îhinkthat no motive sufficiently po~verful for an these labours existed. Andwhat powerful motive instigated Cardinal Ricblieu to form his corn ...-1< He was soon taught that friends adhere to fortunes, and not to men. In his hour of triumphand insolence, when he had erected bis master's statoue in the great square, he placed his own bustin relief on the pedestal, implying that he was the pillar and shield of the throne. The comparisonof a lamb-worrying cur, sneaking home after a night of blood, and scowling from between bis master'slegs, would have been more analogous. But, he this as it may, on his disgrace the bIist wasremoved from the pedestal, and offended the public eye np long.