The New Hampshire Gazette

Lisbon, Sept. 8. The kingdom has been again threatned with a very dreadful accident in the person of the King. On the 3d inst. his Majesty going out in the evening to take the air, in a carriage attended only by one domestick, was attacked in the passage of a solitary place, near Belem, by three men, one of whom fired a carabine at the coachman, and wounded him very dangerously; the other two discharged their fusees, called baccamartes, loaded with slugs, at the King, and wounded him in the face, and several other parts of the body, but chiefly in the right arm, of which it is feared he will lose the use.

His Majesty had his wounds dressed immediately. He was let blood seven times, and, God be praised! we are assured he is out of danger. But as he cannot for some time make use of his arm, on the 7th an arrest was issued, by which he gave the reins of government to the Queen, with an absolute power. No body has access to the King but the first minister, his majesty's physicians and surgeons, and Cardinal de Saldanha.

As that monarch is beloved and in a manner adored by his subjects, we cannot think this attempt was personally intended against him: it is more probable that they were three robbers who waited for some booty in that place where his Majesty had the misfortune to pass at that time. Be that as it will, none of the villainy have been as yet discovered.