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The adoption of very violent measures was the result of this conviction, which could scarcely fail to produce many 142 THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ORDER. instances of individual injustice, as well as to draw upon him the hatred of the attacked order, whose influence at court was still far from inconsidera- ble, and which they naturally exerted to the ut- most in defence of their threatened existence. Public seminaries and tuition generally were the first subjects of PombaPs reforms, which he sought ...to effect by appointing foreign professors to the university of Coimbra, by the erection of new schools, and by withdrawing the censorship from the hands of the clergy, while the Jesuits watched every movement with a silent but a deadly hate. It was not long before a favorable opportunity for coming to an open breach with them, was afforded by the termination of the long pending disputes between Spain and Portugal, respecting the claims of each to the South American colony of San Sa- gramendo, by means of a treaty of peace, by virtue of which, Portugal relinquished the colony to Spain, receiving as an equivalent, that portion of Paraguay which was under the rule of the Jesuits, who not only positively refused to cede their ter- ritory to the crown, but made active preparations for its fortification, and called on their people to arm in its defence.
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