e master of Tariffe, it was besieged by the
Africans. It was during this siege that Alphonso de Guzman, the
Spanish governor of the city, exhibited an example of invincible
firmness and self-command, of which none but parents can form a just
estimate. The son of De Guzman was taken prisoner during a sortie.
The Africans conducted their captive to the walls, and threatened the
governor with his immolation unless the city should be immediately
surrendered. The undaunted Spaniard replied only by hurling a poniard
at his enemies, and retired from the battlements. In a moment loud
cries burst from the garrison. Hastily demanding the cause of this
alarm, the unhappy father was told that the Africans had put to death
his son. "God be praised," said he, "I thought that the city had been
taken!"

F, page 158.

_The celebrated Inez de Castro, &c._

The passion of Peter the Cruel for Inez de Castro was carried to such
excess as, perhaps, in some degree, to account for the atrocity of his
revenge upon her murderers. These were three distinguished Portuguese
lords, who themselves stabbed the unfortunate Inez in the arms of her
women. Peter, who, at the time this barbarous deed was committed, had
not yet attained regal power, seemed from that period to lose all
command of himself: from being gentle and virtuous, he became ferocious
and almost insane. He openly rebelled against his father, carried fire
and sword into those {225} parts of the kingdom in which the domains of
the assassins of Inez were situated, and, when he afterward came into
possession of the crown, insisted that the King of Castile should
deliver up Gonzales and Coello, two of the guilty noblemen, who had
taken refuge at his court. Thus master of the persons of two of his
victims (the third had fled into France, where he died), Peter
subjected them to the most dreadful tortures. He caused their hearts
to be torn out while they were yet living, and assisted himself at this
horrible sacrifice. After thus glutting his vengeance, the
inconsolable lover exhumed the body of his murdered mistress, clothed
it in magnificent habiliments, and, placing his crown upon the livid
and revolting brow, proclaimed Inez de Castro queen of Portugal;
compelling, at the same time, the grandees of his court to do homage to
the insensible remains which he had invested with the attributes of
royalty.

G, page 161.

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