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London, England, 1822-07-15 00:00:00

SITTING OF JUNE 28.

Continued Discussion on the opinion of the Special Committee
on the political State of Brazil.
Senor Moniz Tavariz, in a long speech, ,declared his opinion
on the conduct of the Prince Royal and of the Junta of St.

Paulo, Minas, Gerais and Penairibuco. He exculpated the
expressions in the Prince's letters, which seemed too violent,
and even offensive to the Cortes, on the ground of the peculiar
situation in which he was placed. He was convinced he was
a friend to the Constitutional systeni, and to the permanent
union of Brazil and Portugal, nor did he think there was any
expression in the letters or ,in the representations of the Junta
and Clergy of St. Paulo, that could be considered as a real
attack on the cause of liberty. The disobedience of his•loyal
Highness to the decree of the Cortes, ordering them to return,
cannot be called really criminal, when we seriously reflect on
the circumstances which impelled him to act in thit manner.—
Pressed by the representations of several persons to delay his
return, being assured that if he did not that he would leave be-
hind him civil war, anarchy and disunion, which would result
from his abandoning a people, accustomed to have among them
a centre of union from which they obtained prompt remedies to
those evils he described. Mr. Pi•esident, I recollect well the
final words in which he declared his intention to the people—
" As It is fi,r the good of all, I remain." GOD grant that he
may always have this gckid for his only guide ! I have heard
with astonishment some Honourable Members say, that not-
withstanding all this, the Princa must, return. How can it be
imagined, that people ,so obstinate is maintaining their rights

as the people of Brazil, so enthusiastically attached to their
Prince, will suffer him to leave them without opposition ; and
what evils will be the consequence ? The Honourable Deputy
spoke also of the Junta of St. Paulo, &c., and thought the
Congress ought generously: to pardon what was past, and only
endeavour to avert the great evils which threatened to ens:, e.
Senor Robero de. Andrade delivered a long discourse against
.the opinion of the Committee, which, with respect to the Junta
of St. Paulo, he declared to be partial, ill-timed, impolitic, and
unjust ; and breathing throughout the greatest rancour towards
that Junta. It was partial, because it excused the speech 'of
the Vice-President of Alines Geraes, and passed over the letter
of the Junta of Pernambuco, which were almost in the same
terms as the remonstrance of the Junta of St. Paulo, and be-
cause the Committee suppressed the true reason of the opposi-
tion to the new Provisional Juntas. It was impolitic, as it
tended to excite discord and disunion, which did not exist be-
fore; and unjust, because the Cortes had no right to decide
upon, and point out persons as criminal, which was the attri-
bute of the judicial power. That there could. be no rebellion
in the Junta of St. Paulo, which never recognized the Congress.
He concluded by proposing that his Royal Highness should be
informed that the Cortes could not but censure the indiscreet
and unsuitable expressions which he had addressed to them,
and still more the indecorous and violent terms used by the
Junta of St. Paulo, the Bishop of the same province, the Vice
President of Minas Geraes, and the Junta of Pernambucco,
that, for this time, they threw over the whole the veil of obli-
vion, and left it to his Majesty to act according to his wisdom
and discretion; if his Royal Highness, and the authorities
under him, should become sensible how much they had devi-
ated from the true constitutional path, and it should likewise
be left to hiS Majesty's discretion, if those members should
persist in their forbidden course, to have them proceeded against
according to the laws.
Several other Members delivered their opinions both for and
against the opinion of the Committee, but the debate was not
concluded.

Mr. Pereira Borges approved the first part of the opinion of
the prosecution of the Junta of St. Paulo, and of the Bishop,
as well as of the five persons who signed the speech of 26th Ja-
nuary, recommending that the rest should be pardoned ; he
approved of making the Prince's Ministers responsible, but he
disapproved of the recommendation to let the Prince remain in
Brazil till the publication of the additional act of the Constitu-
tion.—(Lisbon Papers, Ist July.)