Your lordship will perceive that the moment is not one in which to stir up public indignation against the Portuguese Government.

Once the passions of the mob are inflamed, who can say to what lengths they may not go, who can say what disastrous consequences may not follow?
It is desirable to apply the cautery, but not to burn up the whole body." Lord Wellington considered a moment, fingering an ivory paper-knife.

He was partly convinced.
"When I last suggested the cautery, to use your own very apt figure, the Council did not keep faith with me." "My lord!" "It did not, sir.

It removed Antonio de Souza, but it did not take the trouble to go further and remove his friends at the same time.

They remained to carry on his subversive treacherous intrigues.