The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-22 00:00:00

BRAZIL.

We have received Brazil Papers to the 22d -of
July. Two supplements to the Dinro do Governo
contain some articles relative to the military and
naval operations at Bahia, and the political
.changes at Rio Janeiro.
- A supplement, dated the ,igth,
contains a dis-
patch from the port-captain of Rio de Janeiro,
Joaquin) Jose Pires, giVing an occount of the ar-
rival of a vessel called the St. Jose Triunfante,
which left Baliia with General Madeira, and was
captured on the 6th by the Nitherohy frigate in
lat. 11. 45. south. A letter from the captain of
the Nitherohy is referred to, -which states that
he parted from Lord Cochrane
.oil the 3d, in a
storm which dispersed the Portuguese. fleet. • Orr
the 4th the Maria •da Gloria captured several
vessels, and among them the Promptidito brig of
'twat.. On the 6th, the Carolina took two ships
with troops on hoard. The other Portuguese
vessels with the Don John VI. were then about
40 miles a-head of the Nitherohy, which intended
to follow them to Lisbon. Lord Cochrane was
believed to -be in sight of the Don John VI. The
'Brazilian fleet had five months provisions on
board, and would therefore base no occasion to
return to abandon the pursuit for want of sup-
plies.. A. vessel had also brought news from
Monte Video. The Portuguese troops there are
represented to be in great distress, and anxiously
expecting-aid from. Lisbon. It was the opinion
of the Captain of the vessel, which made this-re-
port, that if a Brazilian man of war were sent to
Monte Video, the troops would surrender, as the
Spaniards would co-operate against them:
The SupplemeW of the 21st contains official
notifications of ministerial discussions and -op,
pointments to which we have already alluded. A
series of decrees sigited by the Emperor, and
countersigned by .Caetano Pinto de Miranda
Montenegro, accept the resignations of Jose Bo-
nifacio Andrade e Sylva, Se-cretary of State
.for
the Home and Foreign Department, and of Mar-
tin Francisco-Ribeiro de Andrade, Minister of
Finance, and appoint in their stead Jose Joaquim
Carneiro de Campos and Manoel Jacinto No-
gueira. da Game ; dismiss Joao Ignacio da Cunha,
Insendant-General of Police ; and Francisco da
Franca e'Miranda, Adjutant of Police, and no-
minate in their stead Estevao Rebeiro de Re-
s:tilde and Andre Alves Pereira Rebeiro e Cirne.

A dispatch from Colonel Jose Joaquim de
Lima e Silva, commanding the troops employed
against Labia, is inserted in the same supplement.
It is dated " Head-quarters, Bahia, July 6. Se-
cond year of independence and the empire." lie
states that he took the command of " the Pacifi-
cating Army" on the 2d of nty, In •consequence
of the deposition and arrest of General .Labatut.
Ile states that the proclamations he afterwards
issued had the effect of causing great desertions
from the Portuguese army, and producing dissbn-
sion between the two parties in Bahia. On the
30th ofJune he received a message from General
Madeira, asking permission to embark. trauquilly,
and refers to the correspondence which took
place for the propriety of his measures.. On the
9.d of July lie entered Bahia, having cm ,the morn-
ing of that day received information of Madeira's
precipitate embarkation. Colonel Lima e Silva,
after describing the rejoicings which took place
on his entrance into the city, thus concludes his
dispatch :

" As soon as
.1 received 'notice of the embarkation of the
enemy's troops, I gave orders for marching. The troops were
es speedy in taking up arms as they were orderly in their march
and steady in occupying the positions which they took in the
suburbg of the city. I directed them to enter it with their two
extreme corps of -Obtervation,, which were temporarily to per-
form the police duty, and in the rear-guard I made my entrance
with a general staff, accompanied by a strong reserve which was
to furnish the city guard.. The tranquillity and order main-
tained by these troops Were beyond description ; and the sob,
diers composing the other corps, who had obtained permission
to come from their positions to the heart of the city to vrocure
'what they stood in need of, behaved in a Way that exceeded
eveiy eoectation. Such was their good conduct, that quarters
,were assigned to them all on the second. day. Their tranquil
deportment, and their exertions to check the least disorder,
excited genersl admiration. It would. seem that Heaven hail
dictated to the Brazilians the course best suited iutheir dignity,
in calmly restraining the infautotts,cobduct of the Portuguese
troops in this fine country. It appears that Healien has de=
creed the punishment of the injustice of the, Cortes of Lisbon,
for Lord Cochrane has already captured four of the enemy's
ships which were assembled in this port, as .your Excellency
will observe from the dispatches and returns which show the
number and quality of the prisoners.

Excellent Senhor—Since I have been. fortunate enough to
complete the liberation of Bahia, by which it appears to me the
independence of this empire is sealed, I beg, as a remuneration
for my services, that his Majesty the Erhperor will relieve me
from the command with which I am invesed, and permit me
to live in the bosom of my family, whose subsistence depends
on my exertions, and I may continue to serve the State at the
head of the battalion with which the Emperor has intrusted me.'
I shall.be grateful during the whole of my life for this favour;
to obtain which I pledge my utmost exertions:
" This, excellent Senhor, is all that time now permits me
to offer to your Excellency's attention for the necessary infor-
mation of his Majesty, whose august hind I kiss in gratitude
for my country's liberation.. • _ •
" Heaven preserve your ExcellencY many years.
"..70SE JOAQUIN DE LIMA E SILVA,
" Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Peacit"

• EVACUATION OF BAHIA.
I VCTRACT OP n ',VOTER, DATED BAHIA, Avla. 4.

Preparations to abandon the town have been for some time
actively going on, and the streets of Bahia have presented scenes
. , •
of cottaternatum not .easily descnbed. Gen. Madexra appeared
dejected and care-worn. He cematintly attended at the Naval
Arsenal during the shipment-of the public stores and other pro-

.perty. Indeed, his ineffectual but .strenuotawesertionaittoito-`
port; the Orivernment and authority of Portugal h 144cPuntrfr,
have on all occasions been .conspicious ; but had 'he'possealied
all the means that his country-could have afforded hirireitittia-
sonable hope of ultimate success could not • lutrobeen encou-
raged. HIS greatest error has been in defending and retaining
possession of the Place too lOng; and exhitusting..bir,teseuzces
in a fruitless:endeavour. to invigorate an egpiriag Ooverrpitonie
until the provisions were reduced to 30 days consumption,
which was not sufficient to victual If:ern:during their!voyage to
Europe. The mutability of .popular feeling was particularly
observable in the caseof Oeneral'Madeira t Owe* WhO, tifew
weeks ago, would have licked, the dust from his sliptari
treated him with the utmost contempt, which I have often; wit-
nessed when he has been riding.through the, town- -fleaseestd
conscious of this ungenerous treatment, and of the insolence
of conduct manifested toward his,departed authority. Ozttlte
22d instetbe whole of the amps, stores), and the subjects and
property of Portugal, being embarked, •at noun, thelltet avid
the merchant vessels, consisting of about ninety seilegeit unOler-
way, with a favourable breeze, and at two teey were all seat
of the harbour. Lord Cochrane was thee off tho port), at so'
suitable a distance, that it had •the. appaaranee of tha Pon
Pedro, hearing his Lorfffibip's flag, being the convoying ship:
I cannot convey to your tuitid an adequate fdea Of the initiati,
that was manifested by the lookers- on at this critical moment.
The prevalent opinion wax, that kis lordship had instructions net
to molest the convoy, but from the circumstance of his not halving
been, for two days, absent from the mouth of the harbour, it was
reasonable to presume that his object was to prevent their
escape, or harass them as much as, possible on their voyage -
for, as every vessel of the Portuguese fleet was armed, and the
whole constituting an overwhelming force, it could not he
reasonably expected that the fleet under his Lordship's emu--
mend, consisting of a few ships only, could be successful in
making many captures. Several captured vessels-of tire Con-
voy, however, have'since arrived at .this port : -and five zithers,
with troops on board, at Pernambuco, where dispatches have been
received from his Lordship, stating, thathalf the convoy hid fallen
Into his hands : but 1 have not beard that the two fleets t'a'rt: come
to action, The Portuguese htig Dear da Gtiarde, 0 days from.
Lisbon, with dispatches for Buenos Ayres, hav also been cap-.
tured, and taken into Pernambuco. She' was irrantdlately
fitted out, and proceeded to join Lord. Cochrane; whose inten-
tion was to follow the enemy's fleet to the Tagus. Ills .I.4orchthip
not being able to spare men to take the prizes into port, cut
away two of the masts of the ships and ono of the .brigs, start-
ing. all their water, except a sufficient quantity. to last for a few
days only, which stratagem obliged them to put into Bahia or
Pernambuco for the personal safety of the crews. • The Im-
perial flag was hoisted in Palace-square so' early as fl o'clock
on the morning of the 2d, and the town was; shortly after occu-
pied,by the Brazilian troops. The goods and'speeie belonging
to the English merchants had previously- bean shipped •arid
placed in deposit on .board the different vessels riding-at this
anchorage ; and many families also embarked to secure their per-
sons from any violence that may be expected, in conseqtrencenf
the tumultuous state of affaire. Every shop wax closed, and
all business suspended; but the change of government, how-
ever, was effected with very little turmoil. On the 16th ult. the
Briton, Sir Murray Maxwell, -arrived, from Rio ;:and on the
12th, the presence of the whole squadron being no longer ne-
cessary here to protect the Prinsh mercantile interests, the
Creole, Commodore Sir T. M. Hardy • Doris.; • Capt. Vernon
and the Briton, Sir M. Maxwell, sailed for Rio, leaving the
Tartar, Capt. T. Brown, which ship contains the specie of the
merchants. The Mary, from Liverpool, has arrived here with
British seamen for the Brazilian. service. The . trade of this
place is reVrVIIIg ; hot as yet no great quantity of goods has :tr.:
rived for the country for shipment. The same commercial re-
gulations exist as under the old government."

APPOINT MENTS.—Lieutenapt Iroste, of the Doris, to the
Tartar, vice Lieut. Mathias to the Doris • Lord Wm. Paget.
of the Briton, to be Lieutenant of the norm, vice Arthur
Morrell, promoted to the rank of conunander. Died, aged 15,
at Bahia, on the ind of June, Mr. Horatio William Pitt Lee,
Midshipman of his Mn,j.esty's ship Tartar,, son. of J. T. I,
Esq. of ttis Majesty'stetualling Office, .London • -his remains
were interred at the Protestant burying-ground, Bahia, attend.
ed by Sir Thos. Hardy, Capt. Brown, J. F. Jessop-, Esq.,'lrecre.
tan?, and ail the Officers of the Tartar..!wed 15,. at.
Bahia, Mr. Alexander Ogilviy., Midshipman, of his Majesty's
ship Tartar; be was interred in the same grave with Mr. Lee.