Lisbon Regicide Lisbon Regicide The Lisbon Regicide () was the murder of King Carlos I of Portugal and the Algarves and his heir-apparent, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, by assassins sympathetic to Republican interests and aided by elements within the Portuguese Carbonária, disenchanted politicians and anti-monarchists. The events occurred on 1 February 1908 at the Praça do Comércio along the banks of the Tagus River in Lisbon, commonly referred to by its antiquated name "Terreiro do Paço". Some idealistic students, politicians and dissidents were inspired by the founding of the French Third Republic in 1870 and hoped that a similar regime
Letters on a Regicide Peace of the country for the continuance of the war". The fourth letter, addressed to William Fitzwilliam, was written following Burke's reading of William Eden's "Some Remarks on the Apparent Circumstances of the War in the Fourth Week of October 1795". When Pitt's government tried to negotiate peace with France, Burke stopped composing the letter and instead published what became the first two letters, called "Two Letters on a Regicide Peace". Burke attempted to rewrite the letter to Fitzwilliam, but he did not finish before dying. The 1812 edition of his works did include a copy of the fourth letter that