In 1826, D. João VI died, and the emperor was summoned to Portugal, absorbed by the complications of the Portuguese politics. And the unpopular war in the South, the origin of so many brutal recruitments, and resulting in the loss of the Cisplatina Province, gave rise to violence. The House was going to be closed and could not remedy it. Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos, however, worked hard and already in January 1827 announced in "O Universal" "at 1$600 per copy, the draft Code of the Empire", a criminal code that would perpetuate his name.