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in the execution. Now this triangle, having a fuperficies of 49 feet and a half, will prefent to the wind a much greater furface than can be presented by the wings of the mill taken fideways; therefore the ftrong will have the afcendant over the weak, fo much the more, as the arm of the lever, that gives into the weather-flag, is expreffed by the interval I M, taken from the point of the itay I, as far as the center of gravity M, which is found to be 11 feet in length. By the help of all these confiderations it will be eafy to calculate the effort of the wind on this weather flag.

A Calculation for discovering the Quantity of Water this Machine can drain

off in an Hour.

To know how much water this machine will drain off in an hour, it is neceffary to confider, that the wheel and the wings,

having a common axis, will make an equal number of turns in the fame time; and that the velocity of the wings taken at their center of gravity, being the thirds of that of the wind in the cafe of the greatest effect, will make but 6 feet 8 inches progress in a fecond; which must be multiplied by 3600 to have their velocity in an hour, which will be 24,000 feet: This being divided by 40 feet, which is the circumference defcribed by the center of gravity of each wing in a revolution, gives 587 turns in an hour; which, multiplied by 36 lb of water, the product will be 21,572 lb, or about this machine can drain off in an hour, ab308 cubic feet, for the quantity of water ftracting from what may be loft. Nothing need be faid of the waste caufed by the friction, which is infignificant, and only takes place in the parts O and P, where the beam DC is fupported.

An Abstract of the genuine legal SENTENCE pronounced by the High Court of Judicature of Portugal upon the Confpirators against the Life of his Moft Faithful Majefty; with the just Motives for the fame.

AGREED by the perfons of the Council and Senate our Lord the King, &c. (after examining the proceedings, which according to form of law and his Majefty's decrees were fuccinctly carried on against the criminals, Jofeph Mafcarenhas, heretofore Duke of Aveiro; Lady Eleanor of Tavora, heretofore Marchioness of that title; Francis-Affizes of Tavora, heretofore Marquis of the faid title; Lewis Bernard of Tavora, heretofore Marquis of the fame title; Don Jerome of Ataide, heretofore Count of Atouguia; Jofeph. Maria of Tavora, heretofore Adjutant of the military orders of the Marquis, his father; Blaize-Jofeph Romeiro, corporal in the company commanded by the criminal Lewis-Bernard of Tavora; Antony-Alvares Ferreira; Jofeph Policarp de- Azevedo ; Emanuel- Alvares Ferreira, Keeper of the wardrobe to the criminal Jofeph Mafcarenhas; and John Michael, attending page to the faid criminal Jofeph Mafcarenhas; together with the reft of the depofitions and papers annexed; allegations, articles, and defences made by the faid criminals, &c. &c. &c.)

And whereas it appears fully proved, by the confeffions of the major part of the faid criminals, and by many witneffes attefting upon ocular evidence and their own deed, That the criminal Jofeph Mafcarenhas had conceived a defperate, facrilegious, and implacable wrath against the auguft and most facred perfon of our Lord the King, on account of his Majefty's having defeated the schemes by which he had art

fully and rafhly endeavoured, not only to arrogate to himself all that pernicious influence, which, by means of the authority of his uncle F. Gafpar da Incarnacao, he had during the latter years of the immediately foregoing reign; but also to cause the important commendams, which had been held as grants for life by the administrators of the houfe of Aveiro, to be adjudged inherent to the crown-lands and patrimonial eftate of the said house. And on account of his Majefty's having likewife put a stop to the celebration of the marriage, which he had haftily and greedily adjusted between his fon, the Marquis of Gouvea, and Lady Margaret de Lorena, immediate filter to the Duke of Cadaval; with the design, in all appearance, of making that marriage the means of blending with his own house the most illuftrious house of Cadaval; the actual Lord being ftill a minor, and liable to the fmail-pox fo fatal to his family, and whom he endeavoured at the fame time to hinder from entering into the marriageftate, by commencing and fomenting lawfaits and executions against him, which might throw the eftates of the faid Duke, in his minority, into a perplexed condition.

It farther appears, that the faid criminal Jofeph Mafcarenhas, being diabolically excited by the malignant fpirit of pride, ambition, avarice, and implacable wrath against the moft auguft and most beneficent perfon of his Majesty, proceeded immediately to clear the way for farther abfurdities, by decoying and gaining over to himself all thofe per

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fons he knew our faid Lord the King had justly excluded from his royal good-liking, or whom he knew to be unjustly difcon tented with his Majefty's most happy government; and by giving into the folly of flattering himself, and approving to be told by others, that there was now no other eminence for him to reach than the throne, by becoming King himself.

It farther appears, in purfuance of this infernal fyftem of infamous hatred and fedition, notwithftanding the implacable averfion which fubfifted between the aforefaid criminal and the Jefuits, during and after the miniftry of his faid uncle F. Gafpar da Incarnacao, that, as foon as the Jesuits were univerfally forbidden all accefs to court, on the most juft and preffing confiderations of the fchemes they had laid for alienating certain foreign Courts from the friendship and union they had with his Majefty, and of the formal rebellions and open wars whereby they disturbed our faid Lord in Uraguay and Maranhao; the criminal, who was in duty bound, by reafon of his office and vaffalage, to fhun the fociety of the faid Jefuits, artfully patched up a re-union and intimacy with the aforefaid people; paying them frequent vifits at all their houses, receiving them in like manner at his own houfe, and holding very long conferences

with them.

It farther appears, that the execrable effects of that reconciliation were, an unanimous combination and agreement for contriving the death of our Lord the King; the fame Jefuits giving it as their opinion, that whoever fhould be the parricide of our faid Lord, would not fo much as fin even lightly.

It farther appears, notwithstanding the innate and ancient averfion which had always fubfifted between the Marchioness of Tavora and the faid criminal, that the art of the faid Jefuits on one hand, and the art of the criminal on the other, wrought fo effectually, that in fact they gained their point of drawing the faid Marchioness into their infamous confederacy.

It farther appears, in confirmation of the foregoing facts, that, the faid Marchi onefs being engaged in the aforesaid confpiracy, both he and the faid Jefuits fet about perfuading all perfons of their acquaintance and friendship, that Gabriel Malagrida, a member of the fame fociety of Jefuits, was a man of great felf-denial and a Saint; and that fhe, by thefe oftentations of her faith in the faid Gabriel Malagrida, and of her fubjection to his spirit, caufed the following grievous and pernicious mifchiefs:-1. That he held a daily

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affembly at her own houfe, in order to ex cite averfion and hatred to his Majesty royal perfon and moft happy government 2. That the ordinary conversation at th faid houfe was one continued cabal of trea cheries and plots against the royal perfon o our faid Lord; it being agreed therein, tha it would be very useful that our faid Lor fhould cease to live: 3. That the fame Mar chioness entered into confederacy with the Duke of Aveiro; being prefent with him a the plottings in his houfe to deprive ou Lord the King of his most precious and mof glorious life: 4. That the faid Marchionef did alfo confederate with the Jefuits, befides the faid Gabriel Malagrida, her conftan and abfolute director: 5. That the faid Marchioness fet herself up for one of the ringleaders of this horrible confpiracy 6. And, laftly, that she affociated herfell with the facrilegious perpetrators of the execrable infult on the night of the third of September of the last year, contributing fixteen moidores in part of the reward given to the deteftable monsters who fired the facrilegious fhot, which produced thofe most enormous mifchiefs we all deplore.

It farther appears, that the faid Marchioness, having arrogated to herself the defpotic direction of all the actions of the Marquis, Francis Affizes of Tavora, ber bufband; of her fons, daughters, fon-inlaw, brothers-in-law, and other perfons, did impiously and inhumanly decoy and infnare them into the aforesaid confpiracy; ufing, for the inftruments of this infernal work, not only the opinion the affected to have of the pretended fanctity of the aforenamed Gabriel Malagrida, but also the letters which he frequently wrote to her, to perfuade all her relations to go and join in fpiritual exercises with him the faid Malagrida.

It farther appears, that the faid Francis-Affizes was one of the affociates in the aforefaid infult; it being above all things especially proved, that he concurred towards it, and perfonally affifted at it, in one of the ambushes, which were infamoudy laid in that most unfortunate night of the third of September of last year, in order that our Lord the King, efcaping from any of them, might fall into the others; and that he was alfo prefent at the meeting, on the day immediately following, beid in the houfe of the faid Duke of Aveiro; where fome of them reproached the affaffins for not having ftruck the blow fo as to work all its most mischievous effects; while others bragged that they should have done it, had our Lord the King paffed by the ambushes in which they were pofted to way lay him....

It farther appears, that the Marquis,
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Lewis-Bernard of Tavora, was perfonally prefent at the most pernicious cabals of facrilegious calumny, and the infamous confpiracies, held at the respective houfes of the Marquis and Marchioness, his parents, and of the Duke of Aveiro; and that he perfonally affifted at the ambushes.

'It farther appears, that Don Jerome of Ataide, Count of Atouguia, fon-in-law to the aforefaid Marquis Francis- Affizes, and Lady Eleanor of Tavora, with the Countefs, his wife, almost every night affifted at the feditious and abominable cabals held in the houfe of the Marquis and Marchionefs, his father and mother-in-law; that he concurred with eight muidores towards the moft worthiefs reward of the affaffins who fired the facrilegious fhot; and, finally, that he was an affociate in the way-layings which were pofted against his Majefty in the fame moft unfortunate night.

It farther appears, that Jofeph Maria of Tavora, Adjutant of the military orders of the Marquis of Tavora, his father, not only entered into the confederacy with the reft of the affociates in this horrible crime, but alfo was perfonally prefent at the facrilegious ambushes; and that he was likewie prefent at the other meeting, which, on the day immediately following the infult, was held in the houfe of the Duke of Aveiro; this criminal being the perfon who (alluding to the prodigy of his Majesty's efcaping with his most precious life in fafety) uttered thofe favage and hocking words, "Alas! The man ought not to have efcaped.

It farther appears, from his own confeffion, that Blaize-Jofeph Romeiro was prefent at the facrilegious ambushes; he being the very affociate who accompanied the Marquis Francis Affizes of Tavora.

fword from the fide of the notary LewisAntony de Leiro, when he honourably and efolutely stopped the faid Jofeph Mascarenhas, in the escape he was attempting to make.

"It farther appears, that Antony Alva res Ferreira, and Jofeph-Policarp de Azevedo, brother-in-law to the fame AntonyAlvares, were the favage criminals who received, from Jofeph Mafcarenhas, 40 moidores, for perpetrating the horrible parricide; and that it was these two most outrageous moniters, who fired those shot from which the royal perfon of his Majefty received the facrilegious blows, which the honour, the fidelity, and the filial love of all his vaffals throughout this realm bear to him, have caufed them to deplore with an unfpeakable redundancy of tears.

It farther appears, that John Michael was one of the affociates in the infult in queftion; his faid matter, Jofeph Mafcarenhas, afterwards declaring this very criminal to have been the very identical, John who was affociated with him when he fired upon the poftilion, and milled his fire.

It farther appears, that Emanuel- Alvares Ferreira was the perfon who brought to the faid Jofeph Mafcarenhas the cloaks and wigs, with which he disguised himself the night of the infult; and that it was he who made the refiftance, by fnatching the

It farther appears, that the ringleader of the confpiracy, Jofeph Mafcarenhas, letoff, against the coachman who drove his Majelty, a demi culverin; which miffing fire, and warning the coachman with the flash from the pan, obliged him, without declaring to his Majefty what he had feen and heard, to push on the mules, fo as to avoid the repeated difcharges which he apprehended.The miscarriage of this firing againft the coachman was the first of the apparent miracles with which the Divine Omnipotence, in that moft fatal night, fuccoured this realm, by the prefervation of the inestimable life of his Majefty; it being impoffible he fhould have escaped, had the coachman fell dead by that infamous difcharge.

It farther appears, that, on account of the hafty pace whereby the coachman endeavoured to fave himself from the farther difcharges he faw himself threatened with, the two most savage malefa&tors, AntonyAlvares and Jofeph-Policarp, who were pofted in the ambufh immediately following, could not, with all the facility they wanted, make their infamous difcharges at the back of the carriage which conveyed our faid Lord, fo as to take a steady aim at the spot against which they fhould fire; wherefore, galloping after the faid carriage, they fired, as they poffibly could, upon the back of the fame, the two facrilegious and execrable fhot, which caufed in his Majefty's molt auguft and moft facred perfon thofe moft grievous and most dangerous wounds and dilacerations, which, from the right thoulder along the arm, and down to the elbow on the outfide, and alfo on the inner part of the fame, occafioned a confiderable lofs of fubftance, from the largenefs of the cavities and the variety of the contufions; fix of which went fo far as to offend the breait; a great number of flugs being extracted from them all.

It farther appears, that his Majefty reflecting, with an enlightened and fteady judgment, that every ftep he should advance would throw him wider off the chief Surgeon of the kingdom, who refides at Jon

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ca, Afia, and America; have repeatedly attempted various projects of an execrable nature, in order to excite feditions in the very heart of the Court and kingdom, and that they were afterwards the perfons who devised the infult in question.

It farther appears, in fuller confirma

queira, and that the great quantity he was lofing of his royal blood would not allow him time for delay, oregoing on to his palace, and fending from thence to Junqueira to fetch the laid chief Surgeon; his Majefty took the wonderful resolution to order the carriage to return back immediately, from where he then was, to the house of the faidtion of all that has been faid, that the said chief Surgeon of the kingdom: By thefe means his Majesty avoided the other dangers, which he could not have escaped, had he continued the route he was accustomed to take in returning home to his palace; for, by going that way, he muft inevitably have paffed through the feveral ambushes of the other favage affociates in the crime (all guilty of this heinous and horrible infuit;) they being posted on the said road, ready armed to way lay our faid Lord, in the cafe (which happened) of his faving himself from the two foremost of the faid ambushes..!

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It farther appears, that the aforesaid criminals affeciated for this deteftable and most enormous villainy, inftead of fhewing any fymptoms of their hearts being rent with grief, in confideration of the most enormous, mifchief they had just perpetrated, very much bragged of, and gloried in it, one with another; the criminal Jofeph Mafcarenhas, then Duke of Aveira, heating on the tones the demi culverin, which had miffed going off against the coachman, and faying in a paffion, demi-culverin, than angry with the infernal words, "Damnation seize thee! when I want thee, thou art of no ufe to me ;" and the faid eriminal expreffingbalfor thofe other infernal words, No matter; if he is not dead, he shall die and another of the affociates and aggreffors taking up thefe words, and replying with the moftrimpious threat, "The point is, that he do but go out ;" and others in foothing, or rather pampering their cruelty with the reflection, that his Majefty would not have escaped with his life, had he continued the road by which he was wont to return home.

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It further appears, în confirmation of the above premiffes, that not one, but many have been the iniquities, these ringleaders had meditated against the auguit perfon and moft happy government of our Lord the King, by a feries of facts continued from the very commencement of his Majefty's happy government.

It farther appears, with regard to the Jefuits, that they finding, that the fuperio rity of lights, and the incomparable pene tration of our faid Lord, deprived them of the hopes of preferving that defpotifm in this Court, whereby they covered their ufurpations in the Portugal dominions in Afri

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Jefuits were the criminals guilty of this execrable crime; principally when it is confidered, that only an ambition fuch as theirs, of making a conqueft of the dominions of this realm, could bear any proportion and parity with the infult unhappily committed in the night of the third of September of laft year.

It farther appears, in ftill fuller confirmation of the proofs, found in the proceedings of this cause against the said Jesuits, that they publicly bragged, that, the more the Court threw them off, the more the Nobility clung to them; and suggested from themfelves, and by their adherents, till the very latter end of August last past, that his Majefty's moft precious life would be short; fending fuch notices, by feveral pofts, to different countries of Europe; going fo far as to explain, that the month of September laft paft was to be the final period of the fame moft auguft and ineftimable life; and Gabriel Malagrida writing to different perfons of the Court the faid moft wretched prognostics, in tone of prophecies: And, on the other hand, in contradition of all this, when that horrid attempt mifcarried, and when they found themselves difcovered; and those who had confpired with them, ruined, and on the point of being punified; all their chimerical structure of pride and arrogance, neceffarily finking into that abject faint-heartednefs, indifpenfably annexed to the convic tion of guilt, and the want of means to cover and fupport the diffimulation with which it was committed.

All which confidered, and the rest contained in the procefs, the Tribunal of Juftice condemn the criminal Jofeph Mafcarenhas who is already unnaturalifed, and divested of the honours and privileges of a Portuguefe, to be conveyed with a halter about his neck, and proclamation of his crimes, to the square upon the key of the town of Belem; and there upon a high scaffold, after he has been broken alive, by the rupture of the eight bones of his legs and arms, to be expofed on a wheel, for the fatisfaction of the prefent and future vaffals of this realm: And, after this execution, the fame crimi nal to be burnt alive, with the faid fcaffold on which he was executed, till all be reduced by fire into afhes and powder, which shal

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