[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_. [46] The royal edict for the banishment of the Jesuites is dated on the 3d of September, 1759. [47] Those who wish to be more particularly informed of the military operations of this campaign, and the reforms made by the German prince, count de la Lippe, may consult _L'Etat du Portugal_, _by Dumourier_. [48] The king having no male issue, the infanta Mary Frances Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, born on the 17th of September, 1734, became, according to the fundamental laws of the kingdom, heir to the crown. Several foreign princes wished to obtain her hand; but the king, desirous of pleasing his people, bestowed her on his brother, don Pedro. See _l'art de vérifier les dates_. [49] The marquis de Pombal was on the point of going to London, where a house was already prepared for him; but the queen objected to his departure, and promised to protect him against the power of his enemies. On his death she bestowed all his titles and possessions on his son, together with the commanderies given him by Joseph the Ist. We are happy to find he has not proved ungrateful, the marquis de Pombal having attended her majesty to Brazil. [50] It is a known fact, that the Romans, unable to subdue Viriatus, caused him to be basely assassinated in the year 140 before Christ; and that 70 years before the Christian era, Sertorius was killed at table, by Perpenua. [51] Etat du Portugal, p. 216. [52] This slight sketch of the natural history of Brazil, is taken from _l'Histoire générale des Voyages, par M. de la Harpe_. The letter P. is the abbreviation of _Pison_, and the Letter M. of _Marcgraf_; the figures mark the page in the Works of the said authors, entitled as follows:--_Guill._ _Pisonis de Indiæ utriusque re naturali_, _Amst. Lud. et Dan. Elzev. in fol._ 1658: _Georg. Marcgravii_, _Hist. Naturalis Brasiliæ_, _edit. in fol. Lugd. Batav. et Amst._ 1648. [53] This part of the account of the diamonds of Brazil is taken from Nicholson's translation of Andrado's Mémoirs, read at the Society of Natural History, in Paris. [54] The richest and finest diamond mines, however, are not the American ones; but are situated in Asia, in the kingdoms of Golconda and Visiapour, on the shore of the Ganges, in Pegu, and in the island of Borneo.