ve the name of Hebe, who was the darling and mutual care of both.

The king was quiet in his dominion, beloved by his subjects, happy in
his family, and all his days rolled on in calm content and joy. The
king's brother Abdulham was also married to a young princess, named
Tropo, who in seven years had brought him no children; and she conceived
so mortal a hatred against the queen (for she envied her the happiness
of the little Princess Hebe) that she resolved to do her some mischief.
It was impossible for her, during the king's lifetime, to vent her
malice without being discovered, and therefore she pretended the
greatest respect and friendship imaginable for the unsuspecting queen.

Whilst things were in this situation, the king fell into a violent
fever, of which he died; and during the time that the queen was in the
height of her affliction for him, and could think of nothing but his
loss, the Princess Tropo took the opportunity of putting in execution
her malicious intentions. She inflamed her husband's passions, by
setting forth the meanness of his spirit, in letting a crown be ravished
from his head by a female infant, till ambition seized his mind, and he
resolved to wield the Tongian sceptre himself. It was very easy to bring
this about, for, by his brother's appointment, he was protector of
the realm, and guardian to the young princess his niece; and the queen
taking him and the princess his wife for her best friends, suspected
nothing of their designs, but in a manner gave herself up to their
power.

The protector Abdulham, having the whole treasure of the kingdom at
his command, was in possession of the means to make all his schemes
successful; and the Princess Tropo, by lavishly rewarding the
instruments of her treachery, contrived to make it generally believed,
that the queen had poisoned her husband, who was so much beloved by his
subjects, that the very horror of the action, without any proof of her
guilt, raised against the poor unhappy Queen a universal clamour, and a
general aversion throughout the whole kingdom. The princess had so well
laid her scheme, that the guards were to seize the queen, and convey her
to a place of confinement, till she could prove her innocence; which,
that she might never be able to do, proper care was taken by procuring
sufficient evidence to accuse her on oath; and the Princess Hebe, her
daughter, was to be taken from her, and educated under the care of her
uncle. But the