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RIO DE JANEIRO, SEPTE*II4); 26.
We have authority to publish the following
official corespondence relative to the arrival in
this port of the Portuguese brigantine Tireze de
Maio, and corvette VOador, of the sarrie nation.
These docurnentc being as anxiously looked for
as the event which gave occasion to them was
extraordinary, they are inserted in the Mario; in
order that the public expectation may be satis-
fied :

Most illustrious and excellent Senhor,—There having been
presented to the General Constituent Legislative Assembly of
the empire of Brazil, a letter of yesterday's date, from the
Minister and Secretary of State for Naval Affairs, in which he
communicates, that on the 7th current the Portuguese brigan-
tine the Treze de Maio, from Lisbon to Bahia, under a flag of
truce, arrived in the outer harbour of this city, having on
board Camp-Marshal Luiz Paulin° da Oliveira Pinto da
Franca; and that yesterday the same brigantine came into
the port and anchored near the forts, on account of the weather,
and asked to be supplied with water and provisions for forty
days; the assembly has ordered notification to be made to the
Government that it requires, with the greatest urgency, exact
and circumstantial information on the motive of the said bri-
gantine's arrival, and that there be transmitted therewith all
the documents brought by the said vessel, all,communications
or notices which may serve to convey to the Assembly a perfect
knowledge of the ends which the Portuguese Government may
have had in view in dispatching this flag of trued to the ports
of this empire. All which your Excellency will make known
to his Imperial M ijesty. May God preserve your Excellency.
JOAO SEVERIANO-MACIEL DA COSTA. .
Palace of the Assembly, Sept. 9, 1823.

To Senhor Jose Joaquim Catneiro de Campos.
Most illustrious and excellent Senhor,L4lis Imperial Ma.
jesty orders me to communicate to your Excellency for the in-
formation of the General Constituent and Legislative Assem-
bly, that Camp Marshal Luiz Paulino de Oliveira Pinto de
Franca sailed from Lisbon for Bahia under a commission from
his Most Faithful Majesty, In consequence of which he was to
proceed from that city to this Court in order to meet with other
persons ordered hither, as is proved by the subjoined document
No. 1. The said Marshal having touched at Bahia on board
the brigantine Trexc de Maio, is which he sailed from Lisbon
on the 10th of July last, and finding that city evacuated by
the Portuguese troops, which rendered it impossible for him to
act on his commission there, prosecuted his voyage to this city,
and the vessel anchored in the outer roadstead on the 7th cur-
rent wider a flag of true. He addressed the above-mentioned
document to me, in which he referred to general instructions
which he had received, without however communicating them,
in order that his Imperial Majesty might' determine what
should be the imperial pleasure respecting his disembarks.
tion. I answered him by the note, No. 2, informing him that
his Imperial Majesty could come to no determination on the
subject of his landing, until it was first ascertained whether he
was furnished with powers for recognizing in the name of his
Most Faithful Majesty, the independence of Brazil, as his Ma-
jesty was resolved to enter into no negotiations, treaties, or
conventions whatever, with the Portuguese Government, which
should not have for their 'basis the sine qua stun amtlition of the
acknowledgment of the political independence of this Empire
and of his Imperial Dynasty. Ile replied, by the enclosed do-
cument No. 3, that he could give no information on this sub-
ject,. as his commission was limited to the object of bringing
about a cessation of hostilities with Bahia, and afterwards
,to
join persons who were to be sent here on commission; and that
it was only in the' instructions of theie Commissioners, of the
contents of which he was ignorant, that the information re-
quired could be found. Whereupon his Imperial Majesty the
Emperor—it appearing to him that this was an affair of high
importance, and always wishing to demonstrate his intimate
conformity with the Assembly—submits the matter to the con-
sideration of the Assembly, in order that it may resolve on what
may be most proper—whether to order the immediate return of
the above-mentioned brigantine to Lisbon, with the said Camp
Marshal, or to allow his remaining on board until the other
Commissioners shall arrive : since in the present circumstances
the disembarkation does not appear proper, notwithstanding
the bad suite of his health. It remains for me to assure your
Excellency, for the information of the General Assembly, that
when I received, your letter of yesterday's date, I had already
drawn up the note, which would have been dispatched yester-
day had it not been necessary previously to submit to his Im-
perial Majesty the last reply of the said Marshal, as without it
a complete account of this affair could not be .given. I have
finally to inform your Excellency, that the brig:llooe Treze de
Maio brought no letters for the Government; and I transmit
to your Excellency those which arrived from Bahia in the Eng-
lish packet, and which arrreferrecl to in the enclosed dispatch
from the Government of Bahia, N 0.4, relative to the same sub-
ject. These dispatches your Excellency will also be pleased to
submit to the Assembly.
May God preaerve your Excellency, &c.
JOSE JOAQUIM CARNEIRO DE CAMPOS.
Palace, Sept. 10.
To Senhor Joan Severiano Manuel de Costa.

• No. I.
Moat Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—Raving left Lisbon
on the 10th of July last, on board of this brigantine, in obe.
dience to a Royal brief of his Most Faithful Majesty, whereby
his Majesty did me the high honour to send me in commission
to Bahia, with directions to proceed Immediately to this city to
meet persons possessing his Royal confidence, who were on the
same occasion ordered thither, I have arrived in this roadstead
under a flag of truce, conformable to the general instructions
I had received, and m order to avoid all embarrassment. It
is my duty to make this communication to your Excellency that
you may submit the same to his Imperial Majesty, who will
determine as to what may be his Imperial pleasure respecting
my disembarkation. God preserve your Excellency.
LUIZ I'AULIDNO
FRANCA. DE OLIVEIRA PINTO
A
In.the Roads of*ltio de Janeiro, Sept. 7.
To the Most IlluStrious and Excellent Senhor
Jose Joaquim Carneiro de Campos.
No. If.
The undersigned Councillor, Minister, and Secretary of State
for the affisire of the Empire and Foreign Affairs, acknow.
ledges the receipt of the mote addressed to him under yester-
day's date, by the Camp Marshal Luiz Pauline de Oliveira
Pinto da Fiance, &c. In anatver thereto,_ the undersigned has
to inform the said Senhor Marshal, that in the hostile si.
station in which the Brazilian and Portuguese nations are
now placed, and in their absolute separation, his Imperial Ma.
jesty can come to no determination relative to your disembarka-
tion, until he be previously informed whether .you are furnish.
ed with powers for recognizing, in 'the name of his Faithful
Majesty, the independence of the Brazilian empire; since his
Imperial Majesty has given orders to inform your Excellency,
that, faithful to the engagements he has contracted with the
flee and gallant Brazilian nation jealous anti watchful of the
national digity, and of the respect which is due to his Impe.
fiat Crown, is resolved not' to listen to any propositions which
may not have for their basis the sine qua non condition of the
acknowledgment of the political independence of this empire,
and of hts imperial dynasty.. The undersigned, in declaring
to the Senhor Marshal Lutz Paulino de Oliveira Pinto da
Franca the real sentiments of the Brazilian Government, and
hoping that he will be pleased to give them a categbrical reply,
avails himself of this opportunity to express to him the high
consideration he entertains for him.
JOSE JOAQUIM DE OLIVEIVA. PINTO
DA FRANCA.
Palace of Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 0.
To Senhor Luiz Pauline de Oliveira Pinto da Frage.

No. 111.
Moat Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—At four o'clock this
evening I had the honour to receive your Excellency's note in
answer to mine of yesterday. In reply to what your Excel-
imey requires, I have to state that in my note I necessarily
employed the proper and exact expressions respecting the
object of my mission to this city, and consequently, being un-
able to add any thing thereto, t can only, with the view of
explaining this sort of enigma, observe to your Excellency,
that I do not know what are the principal instructions which
his Faithful Majesty has given to the confidential persons
whom he ordered me to meet here, after executing my mission
to Bahia. That mission being to make a proposition to the

commanders of Imperial Majesty's forces, for the suspension 1
of hostilities, and for effecting the evacuation of that province,:
cherished in my heart the desire thatmy voyage might be ac-
complislied,' if so I May express myself, with tliu,velOcity of
lightning. i thought only of departing, being Assured thait
Within six drys at the latest, .the corvette Voadova would sail'
with-the said confidential] persons for this city. Under these
circumstances the powers`cenferted on 'time were,confined ex-
clusively to the before-mentioned proposition, and- I have re-
ceived no instructions Which do not tend to the same object, and
which I shall communicate to his 3lajesty whenever he may he
pleased to desire it. Thus it is evident, independently of the
restriction whicit'yotir Excellency; on the part of his imperial
Majesty imposes, and whose high virtues 1 infinitely
~respect,
that I have nothing to say or to do until the said persons arrive,
unless it be daily to kiss the hands or' his Imperial Majesty, to
do which I feel myself called by the most weighty motives,
if that august Senhor should deign to permit me to disembark.
I beg your Excellency to excuse my not writing this note with
my own hand, as such is the state of my health that I frequent-
ly think my last moment has arrived; and that your Excellency
will believe that not a day of my life passes away in which
I do not pay you a tribute of the greatest friendship and ve-
neration. May God take your Excellency into his holy keeping.
On board the Trcze de Maio, Sept. 8.
LIJIZ•PAULINO DE OLIVEIRA PINTO
DA FRANCA.
To the illustrious Senhor Josd Joaquin' Carneiro de Compos.

No.•IV.
Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—The Provisional Go-
vernment of the provinee of Bahia informs your Excellency
(for the purpose of the same being communicated to his Impe-
rial Majesty), that, on the liith current, the Portuguese brig
Treze de Maio arrived in this port under a flag of truce, having
on board Camp-Marshal Lutz Paulino de Oliveira Pinto da
Franca, who presented:himself to this • Government with a
Royal brief, which empowered him to conclude a suspension of
arms in common accord' With the authorities which were sup-
posed still to exist here, and with three bags of letters for the
saute supposed authorities. He was answered, that there being
nothing to treat of on the said subject, as the province ha
been delivered from its unjust oppressors by the efforts of its I
inhabitants, seconded by the best of Emperors, the Senhor
Don Pedro he might return and follow such; other or-
ders as he mig,ht have; and with respect to the letters which
he had brought, the Government would transmit them to
his Imperial Majesty by the first opportunity. He accord-
ingly next day went on board the said brig, and on the fol-
lowing day sailed, stating that he would proceed to your Court.
On the arrival of the abovementioned Marshal, some agita-
tion was manifested among the people, who began to fear that
.he had come to betray the province, mill to induce it once more .
to unite with Portugal, end that the letters in question certain-
ly contained insinuations, and perhaps positive orders, to that
effect. The Government having expected this, and being more
particularly urged by the obligation which renders it an incum-
bent duty to watch over and prevent whatever may be injurious.
to the independence and integrity of the Empire, so earnestly
recommended by his Imperial Majesty,. and confirmed by the
sacred bond of the oath, it was determined to open the above-
mentioned lettersonerely for the sake of ascertaining the spirit
of the orders which had been transmitted from Portugal to the
authorities who are directing the war here. The suspicion that
had been conceived proved to be well founded; for the letter
addressed to the chief of division Joao Felix Pereira de Cam-
pos, dated the 10th of. June of the present year, contained the
express recommendation that he " should use his endeavours to
induce this:province' to unite with Portugal, acknowledge his
Majesty's Government, and immediately open a correspond....
ence with Lisbon, .on the terms on which it existed before the
last innovations." The Government being thus convinced that
the views of Portugal were the same with respect to' this pro-
vince as to all Brazil, consequently felt the absolute necessity
of securing itself against any aggression. The letters here al-
luded to are now sent for the purpose of being submitted to his
Imperial Majesty.
God preserve your Excellency..
Government Palace, Bahia, Aug. 27, 1023-
FRANCISCLEIMAO PIGES DE CARVALI/0 i AL-
BUQUERQUE, President.
JOAQUIM Joss: Priem:inn DE VASCOXCELLO9,
Scerstary,
JOAUUIaI IGNACIO DE TEQUEIRA BULCAO.
ANTONIO AUGUSTA DA SILVA.
MANOEL GOWCAI.VES BITENCOURT.
FELISSEGTO 00AtEil CALDEIRO.
To the most illustrious and excellent Senhor
Jose Joaquim Curntiro.cle Campos.

DOCUltrwre iiitiekituEn TO IN THE AUOVE LETTER.
Though the confidence which his Majesty the King our Lord
places in the well-known zeal and activity with which your
Excellency has always distinguished yourself in his Royal ser-
vice would render unnecessary any instructions whatever re-
specting the mode in which your Excellency should settle the
terms of the suspension of arms which his Majesty has been
fleased to order that your Excellency should propose to the
eneral Officers, or any other Commanding officer who may
be opposed to you, until-this province shall be evacuated by
the sea and land forces now occupying it; for your Excellency's
intelligence will certainly enable you to execute this important
business in the most suitable and proper manner : notwith-
standing this, his Majesty thinks that it will be well for your
Excellency to bear in mind-
-Ist. That the chief object of this suspension of arms being to
avoid the efflision of blood, and all the other evils of which
that unfortunate province is the theatre, and which so deeply
afflict Isis Majesty's paternal and humane heart, your Excel-
lency and all your inferior officers must carefully guard against
those contests and disorders which, owing to the irritated state
of the public mind, may take place during the suspension of
arms, and which may be attended by consequences that may
even prove fatal to the armistice.
2. The discipline end good order observed among the crews
of the ships of the squadron under your Excellency's command-
will contribute in the highest degree to this object. For this
reason your Excellency must subject them to the most rigid
subordination.
3. Besides the fulfilment of this most important object, it is
necessary to provide for another, no less worthy of considers-
don, which is—to render the above-mentioned force more re.
spectable and proper,. to serve as a guarantee to all the others
it may be proper to aid and protect.
4. As it is certain that this province was divided into mu.;
tually conflicting parties, your Excellency will admit that it is
of the highest importance to lend all consideration to that
party which, having made common cause with the army that
is ordered to be withdrawn, will become a prey to all the re.
prisals which the spirit of revenge and difference of opinion may
suggest.
6. For this reason your Excellency will, in the convention
for the suspension of arms, obtain the insertion of the following
conditions s—l it. A perfect oblivion of the pasts 2d, the con.
sequent indulgence, and all necessary pardon, for the indivi-
duals who may have professed this or that opinion; fid, a pro.
mise to fulfil the conventions—a '.promise which must be con-
veyed in terms the most expressive and distinct; so that, by
removing all ambiguity, those who may be molested may
appeal to the terms of the convention which stipulates for their
protection.
O. Your Excellency will acknowledge the importance of all
that is here recommended : the relations which have hitherto
subsisted are, if not broken, at least confused. It is necessary
to remove all that may eentribute to aggravate this unfortunate
circumstance, and to endeavour, on the contrary, to establish
the old ties ofi friendship; so that by renouncing dangerous
rivalries, all may enter upon die path of concord and commerce
with reciprocal feeling and good understanding.
7. Since the first step is merely the suspension of arms, and
as the evacuation of troops that are here will depend on the in.
structions which for this purpose will be dispatched by the in-
dividuals in the confidence of his Majesty, who will proceed
to Rio de Janeiro to treat with his august son ; yet it will be
necessary to be cautious that the said convention of the suspen-
sion of arms shall contain no article that may- prejudice the
evacuation of the military and marine objects that may be
there.

B. With regard to these objects, as they are withdrawn for
the service of the army and navy, they. must, on the re.
moval of the land and sea forces, follow their destination. Your
Excellency will therefore endeavour to embark, in anticipation,
all the objects belonging to the military and naval arsenal, that
they may be conveyed hither.
9. Your Excellency will, in conjunction with the Govern.
merit Junta, provide for the support and arrangement of the
troops in the best manner possible, either by the productions of
the province which are now more abundant through the in-
ftuence of commerce, or by the productions of the kingdom of
Angola and other provinces, whence your Excellency may be
enabletl'to derive supplies. •
19. As soon as your Excellency shall have concluded the
convention, you will not fail to make the proper connunica-
Von to this country for which purpose you will dispatch one
of the small ships of the squadron.
11. Doubtless your Excellency will be convinced of the ur.
gent necessity of averting all the sinister interpretations which
malevolence or party spirit usually apply to every thing in or.
der to foster popular discontent, poisoning the most sincere and
cordial dispositions. You are in consequence recommended
prudently to avoid every measure which may tiff'ord ground for
evil interpretation. Your Excellency will be convinced of the
necessity of carefully reserving the present instructions, so that
they may not serve for the object here alluded to, hut! for the
salutary, ends to which his Majesty directs them. Your Ex-
cellency will find the best reward of your services in the advert-
tage and acknowledged benefit of all, and particularly of the
people of the province.

12. Your Excellency will herewith receive copies of the
Royal briefs, which have been addressed to the Governor of the
Province, to Brigadier Madeira, and to the Marshal de Campo
Luiz Pauline de Oliveira.

Heaven preserve your Excellency.
CN DE DE SUB SERRA.

Senhor Joao Felix Pereira de Campo.
Palace.of Ilemposta, Lisbon, July 0,11323.
Luiz Paulin() de Oliviers- Pinto'-da Franca, Marechal de
Campo of my Royal Army, I, the King, sends you many. greet-
ings. .1-laving resumed the exercise of the imprescriptable
rights:which belong to the Majesty of the throne, the principal
objector my paternal solicitude is to remove and cure the evils,
of every kind which the faction that has risen up in Portugal
has violently and atrociously created. Among the most fatal
of these evils, are the hostilities and mutual aggression which
prevail in the province of Bahia, thus rendered the theatre of
cruel and destroying war, which has always been repug-
nant to my Royal wishes, Trusting that you will serve me well
and faithfully, as I have every reason to expect you will,
I have thought proper to intrust to you the important commis-
sion of proceeding to the city of Bahia, where, in concert and
understanding with the Chief of Division, Joao Felix Pereira
de Campos, commanding the squadron stationed in those
seas, and with Brigadier Ignacio Luiz de Madeira, Military
Governor and Commander of the land forces, you shall procure
a suspension of arms, which by the orders that I have dispatched
to the commanding officers by sea and land, is to be imme-
diately proposed to the admirals, • generals, and commanding
officers who may be opposed to you, thus putting a period to
hostilities, the effusion of blood, and the other evils of war,
though the differences which past occurrences have unfortu-
nately produced, should not be definitively adjusted, and
though the confidential individuals whom I now send to Rio de
Janeiro, and whom you, after the conclusion of your mission
to Bahia, will immediately join, should not settle the condi-
tions of the total evacuation of the city of Bahia by the sea and
land forces that occupy it, which at all events will be kept on a
footing of the most rigid discipline, to avoid the conflicts and
disorders that may arise out of the 'irritation which naturally
pervades the public mind. I hope that you willfulfil this coin-
mission with the utmost zeal and prudence, so that it may be
attended with a good result. This I strongly recommend to you.
Given at the Palace of Bemposta, Lisbon, July 6, 1823.
[llere follows the signature of his Faithful Majesty.]
(True copy.)
To Luiz Paulino de Oliveira Pinto da Franca.

N.B. This is accompanied by three Royal briefs addressed
to Brigadier Madeira, to the Chief of Division Joao Felix, and
to the Provisional Governor of Bahia, directing them to act in
concert with the above Marshal Luiz Paulino.. These, how-
ever, we omit, as their purport is the same as that of the pre-
ceeding.
A letter from the Secretary of the General Assembly to the
Secretary of State,.Carneiro de Campos, authorizing the land-
ing of the Portuguese Commissioner from the Treze de Maio,
at any point which the Government might think fit, it he
should be found really unwell. This letter is followed by an
order for the visitation of the brigantine by the head imperial
physician, for whom, however, Dr. Amaro, Baptista Pereira
is finally substituted.
His Imperial Majesty orders, by the Secretary of State for
Foreign.Afrairs, that Dr. Amaro Baptista Pereira shall, upon
the receipt of this, for the sake of humanity, proceed imine-
diately on board the Portuguese brigantine Treze de Maio,
lying in this port, and on examining the state of health of
Camp-Marshal Luiz Paulino de Oliveira Pinto da Franca,
residing on board the said brigantine, communicate, through
the Secretary of State, whether the disease of the said Camp-
Marshal requires that he should be landed, in order to afford
him the necessary succours. It is otherwise provided, that
competent notice, should be given to the Minister of Marine, in
order that he may cause to be prepared in the naval arsenal a
suitable barge for communicating with the said brigantine.
• JOSE JOAQUIM CARNEIRO DE CAMPUS.
Palace, Sept. 11.

The General Constituent and Legislative Assembly having
resolved, that in the case of real illness Camp-Marshal Luiz
Paulino may disembark from the brigantine in which he arriv-
ed from Lisbon, and it being recognized by the examination of
the physician who visited him that he is really indisposed, his
Imperial Majesty orders, through the office for Foreign Affairs,
that the Minister of Marine shall give the necessary directions
in his department for the landing of the said Camp-Marshal,
he being accompanied by a naval officer, and conducted with
due decorum, on the footing of hospitality, to the house of his
brother-in-law, the Dezeinbargador Antonio Garcez Pinto de
Madureira, in other to be there attended during his illness.
_ _ JOSE JOAQUIM CIARNEIRO DE CAMPOS.

Palace, Sept. 11.
(Under the same date intimation was given to the Minister
of War to issue the necessary orders for placing the said Mar-
shal on his debarkation under the necessary guards, to prevent
his communicating with persons unconnected with his family.)

Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor,—Your Excellency
having directed to me a letter, communicating to me for his
Majesty's Information, that the General Constituent and Legis-
lative Assembly had agreed that in the case of Marshal Lutz
Paulin° being really indisposed, the Government might permit
him to land wherever he thought most proper; I have to notify
to your Excellency, for the information of the Assembly, that
Dr. Amara Baptista Pereira was ordered to go on board the
brigantine and examine the said Marshal's health, and having
found that the indisposition which he really sustained was the
effect of snore or less constant sea sickness, and which was the
router in consequence of its continued operation on a morbid
constitution, such as that of the said Marshal, who has for many
years suffered from c/ironical dyspepsia and hemoptyris, the
most proper remedy for which is change of air, his Majesty has
thought fit to order his disembarkation, &c. (in the manner
described in the preceding article.) God guard your Excellency.
JOSE .10AQUIM CARNEIRO DE CAMPOS.
. Palace, Sept. 12.
To Senhor Severiano Maciel du Costa.

[The next articles are, 1, a letter from Ilanoel Pedro de
Carvelho, Commandant of the Treze de Maio, dated Sept. 10,
addressed to the Illinister of Foreign Affairs, in which he re-
peals a request he had made in a former letter, dated the 12th,
to permit him to sail from Rio Janeiro, as he had executed the
business on which he had been sent; d, the answer of the Fo-
reign Secretary', Carneiro de Campos, which states that the
Brazilian Government had not forgotten that the brigantine
remained in the port of Rio de Janeiro, and that, when it came
to a definitive decision, notice thereof would be given to the
Commander.]
Most illustrious and excellent Senbor—The General Consti-
tuent and Legislative Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, having
under consideration the report of the united committee of consti-
tutional and internal policy upon your Excellency's letter of
the 10th current relative to the arrival of the Portuguese bri-
gantine the Treze de Maio, and first of all approving and ap-
plauding the just intentions of the Government as manifested
by the measures adopted on this subject, orders that the Govern-
ment be informed that in adbition to the communication made
on the 10th relative to the Marshal Luiz Paulino, described as
commissioner from his Faithful Majesty, the assembly has re-
solved to admit no further negotiations with the Portuguese
Government (whose capricious and Alachiavelian designs are
well known) without the indispensable preliminary basis of the
authentic and express recognition of the independence and in-
tegrity of the empire of Brazil. Of this your Excellency will
be pleased to inform his Majesty. God preserve your Ex-
cellency.

JOAO SEVERIANO MACIEL DA COSTA.
Palace of the Assembly, Sept. 17.
To Senhur Jose Joaquim Cameiro de Campos.
Most Illustrious Scnhor—His Imperial Maiesty, wishing to
communica
te to the General Constituent and Legislative As-
sembly, the details of the. arrival of the Portuguese corvette
Voadora, and the correspondence received, brought to this de-
partment by the Conde do Rio hlaior, arrived from Lisbon in
the before-mentioned vessel, on a mission from his Faithful
Majesty, it is my duty to inform the Assembly, that it raving
been proved to his Imperial Majesty that the said corvette
entered this port under the flag of its nation, and without any
mark of a flag of truce, his Majesty was pleased to proceed to
the Custom-house, Port of Villagaignon, where he soon caused
to be drawn up the note No. 1, and tranafcrrred himself to Santa
Cruz, whence was soon written No. 2, from which it resulted
that orders were sent to the Governor of this last fort by the
Portaria, No. 3, that the corvette should haul down the hostile
flag under which she had entered, and that her rudder should,
be removed.. This the corvette obeyed, hoisting a flag of truce,
which she confirmed with a salute, and s. 11 presents. Majesty, on returning on land, received the letter No. 4, which
was delivered to him by the office of the Custom-house fort o the part oldie Conde do Rio hlaior, which his Imperial Ma-
jesty ordered to he answered by the
officialnote N 0.5, and this
answer having given occasion to the reply by the said Count,
marked No. fl, his Imperial Majesty was pleased to order note
No. 7 to be addressed to him, which completes the whole of
the correspondence, the contents of those difl'erent documents
will completely inform your Excellency respecting the conduct
which this Ministry has followed, who flatter themselves to
have, on this occasion, duly supported the dignity of the Bra-
zilian nation, and to have acted in accordance with the senti-
mentsp already expressed by the General Constituent and Le-
gislative AjEsosestnblio. God reserve your Excellency.
Palace, Sept. 21.AQU1141 CARNEIRO DE CAMPOS.
To Senior Joao Severiano hlarciel da Costa.
, The Conchtrion to.morrutv.)