[36] Quien de la Neufville, author of a well-written history of Portugal, being at that time at Lisbon in the suite of the abbé Mornay, ambassador from France, was consulted on this occasion by his majesty.
[37] Dumourier’s Etat de Portugal.
[38] See Dumourier’s Etat de Portugal.
[39] See Dumourier.
[40] In justification of so great an act of severity, the minister published a work, entitled, A summary Account of the Conduct and late Actions of the Jesuits in Paraguay; and their Intrigues in the Court of Lisbon.
[41] The minister having strictly examined into the state of the manufactories, found wanting more than twenty very necessary ones. Those he afterwards established, of cotton, silk, and glass, occasioned the most violent disputes between the courts of London and Lisbon. See the administration of the marquis de Pombal, vols. 2 and 3.
[42] This affair, we well know, has been differently related; but we prefer following the example of the author of L’Etat de Portugal, and giving the same account of this transaction, which was transmitted by Monsieur Favier to the court of France.
[43] A house of public entertainment, belonging to the foreign merchants, who that evening gave a ball in honour of the marriage of the prime minister’s daughter.
[44] These were the terms employed in the warrant for securing their persons. See administration of the marquis de Pombal.
[45] He was condemned as author of two books, the production of a disordered imagination, which he wrote in the royal prison. The first, in Portugueze, was entitled, The Heroic and admirable Life of the glorious St. Anne; and the second, written in Latin, was called, Tractatus de vitâ et imperio Antichristi.