Calomar'de

Calomar'de, DON FRANCISCO TADEO, DUKE, a Spanish statesman, was born in 1775 at Villet in Aragon, and becoming Minister of Justice under Ferdinand VII., persecuted the Liberals with cold-blooded cruelty, recalled the Jesuits, reopened the monasteries, and closed the universities. He also secretly favoured the party of Don Carlos, and in 1832, when Ferdinand was supposed to be on his death-bed, prevailed on the king to reintroduce the Salic Law, by which Christina was excluded from the throne. This excited the hatred of the nation; and Ferdinand, recovering, abolished the law. To avoid imprisonment, Calomarde fled to France, where he died at Toulouse in 1842.