Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Spain and Portugal, Volume 24 |
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Page 151 - Meanwhile insurrections have repeatedly broken out at home, but have been suppressed by the vigor of the government and the want of concert in the insurgents. In 1830, it was estimated that the number of prisoners confined for political causes was above 40,000, and that the number of persons concealed in different parts of the country was about 5000.
Page 151 - ... defeat towards the end of June, the troops either forced their way to the Spanish frontiers, or embarked for England. Thus terminated the first efforts of the constitutionalists in Portugal, and, with the extinction of that party, the influence of England with the Portuguese government ceased. Don Miguel now turned his attention to the consolidation of his power; severity and cruelty were his expedients; the prisons were crowded with the suspected, and foreign countries were filled with fugitives....
Page 53 - ... rudely carved. Over this basin a smaller one rises, from which a large body of water spouts into the air, and falling from one basin into the other is sent forth through the mouths of the lions. This court is surrounded by a gallery supported by above 100 slender and elegant columns, 9 feet high, and 8J inches in diameter. These columns are very irregularly placed ; sometimes they are single, and sometimes in groups of two or three. The walls, up to the height of fifteen feet from the ground,...
Page 151 - Miguel was obliged to suffer a second humiliation of this nature ; a French fleet having forced the passage of the Tagus, and taken possession of the Portuguese fleet, in consequence of the demands of the French government, for satisfaction for injuries to French subjects, committed by the Portuguese authorities, not having been complied with. The court of Lisbon...
Page 115 - ... have been sabred or drowned; nearly 10,000, of whom 500 are officers, have been made prisoners, and are setting off for France; nearly 1,000 wounded are in the hospitals of the city, where their lives were respected in the midst of the carnage. Three field-marshals and the governor are among the prisoners ; many others among the slain.
Page 115 - The fifth assault, still more vigorous than the preceding, made yesterday in broad day, on the fortification, has occasioned a horrible massacre with but little loss on our side. The terrible example which I foresaw with regret in my last report to your Highness, has taken place, and will for a long time be recollected in Spain. Four thousand men have been killed in the city ; from...