The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-04 00:00:00

"BULLETIN.

" Palace of Quelez. Sept. 24, 1834.
" His Imperial Majesty the Duke de Braganza died this
afternoon at half-past two o'clock.
"GIL GUEDES CORREA,

"Aide-de-Camp of his Imperial Majest

The supplement to the Gazette contains the appointment of
the Ministers by the young Queen. They are as follow :
Francisco Manual Frigoso d'Arragano Morato, Peer of the
kingdom and State Councillor, to be Vice-President of the
Chamber of Peers.
Bento Pereira do Carmo is dismissed from the office of Sc-
cretary of State.
Joachira Antonio de Aguiar is also dismissed. He was the
Secretary of State of Ecclesiastical Affairs, and of Justice.
Francisco Simeos Margiochi, who was the Secretary of State
of the Marine Department, is likewise removed from the Ad-
ministration.
The Duke de Palmella, President of the Charriber of Peers,
and State Councillor, is appointed the Minister and Secretary
of State, and President of the Council.
Don Frei Francisco de St. Luz, is appointed Chief Secretary
of State.
Antonio Barreto Ferraz e Vasconcellos, is the Chief Secre-
tary of State for Ecclesiastical Affairs and of Justice.
Jose de Silva Carvalho retains his office, that of Minister
and Secretary of State of Financial Affairs.
The Duke of Terceira is appointed Chief Secretary of State
of the War Department.
Count de Villa Real is become the Secretary of State of
the Foreign Department.
Agostinho Jose Freire, who was at the head of the War
Department, has been transferred to that of the Marine.

(From the Gazeta of the 27th Sept.)
By superior order it is announced that her most Faithful
Majesty the Queen, as a demonstration of feeling for the me-
lancholy death of his Imperial Majesty the Duke of Bra-
ganza, will withdraw herself from the public for eight days ;
and she commands public mourning to be worn for six months,
the first three of deep mourning, and the last three of light
mourning.
The Government Acquaint the public, respecting the fune-
ral obsequies of his Imperi'.!l klajesty the Duke of Braganza,
that the will of his Imperial Al:tiesty (which was opened on
the 25th inst.) directs that his body :nay be interred without
any other pomp or ceremony than that which is accustomed
to be observed towards General Officers ; !ttl it is her most
Faithful Majesty's desire that this last wish of -;;;.7 Illustrious
Parent may be observed. She has been pleased to at-;:.'t that
the coffin may be supported to the hearse by Generals, and ;;:.
the same way to the tomb, and from thence to the deposit of
the Royal bodies at St. Vincent. Those obsequies her most
Faithful Majesty hopes will be pursued in conformity with the
direction of the deceased Prince.
All former arrangements in the funeral are, therefore,
annulled.

(From the Gazeta of the 26th.)
TILE AUTOPSY.

(Published by super;or order.)
Minute of the Autopsy of the body of the Most High and
Most Powerful Prince and Lord Don Pedro d'Alcantara de
Bourbon and Braganza, Duke of Braganza, made and ex-
ecuted by the surgeons, presided by Paulo Martins d'Al-
meida, Camarista de Servics of the said august Senhor,
and in the presence of the first physician of Her Most Faith-

ful Majesty, and by the undersigned physicians, on the 25th •
day of September, of the year ofour Lord Jesus Christ, '1834.
ABDOMINAL CAVITY.—No fluid. Omentum and peritoneum
rather too pale, appearing to be thickened by effusion of bile.
Gastric mucous, the colour changed in the posterior part to-
lvards the spleen.
Hypertrophy of the great lobe of the liver, and the same Al-
tend in colour, being too dark:
Spleen become very soft, approaching to a state of solution.
THORACIC CAVlTY.—Hydrothorax of the right pleuritic
sac, containing 2A:lb. of turbid and sanguineous fluid.
No fluid in the' left pleura, but a very extensive adhesion of
the pulmonary pleura to the costal, and alteration of colour,
it being much too dark.
Left lung adhering very extensively to the costal pleura, of
a livid colour and fixable • no crepitation on being cut, and
almost without any vesicular appearance throughout the whole;
merely a small portion of the superior part was permeable to
the air, and that portion swam, though the wholepsanli.
Heart a little larger than the regular size, flaccid and dis-
coloured, with some adhesion to the posterior part. The
valves being examined were found in the natural state. Fur-
ther examination prevented by the necessity of preserving the
heart entire.
Kidnies altered, inclining to white, as also in the cortical
substance, which was in a soft state. A .calculus was found in
the left kidney. In the bladder no alteration.
'PAULO MARTINS D'ALMEIDA,
Camarista de Servie,o.
JOAO FERNANDES TAVARES,
First Physician of the Royal Chamber.
FRANCISCO ELIAS RODRIGUES DA
SILVEIRA.
FRANCISCO SOARES FRANCO,
ANTONIO JOAQUIM FARTO, •
Chief Surgeon of the Kingdom.
MANOEL CARLOS TEIXEMA,
FRANCISCO JOSE D'ALMEIDA.
This document is drawn up by me, Clerk of the Fidalgcs
of the Royal Family, as I hereby do certify.
VERISSIMO MAXIMO D'ALMEIDA.
Palace of Queluz, Sept. 25, 1834.

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)
LISBON, SEPT. 27.—You are already prepared by my
former communications of the 18th and, 20th for the event
of Don Pedro's demise, which took place at Queluz on the
24th, at half-past two P.M. A marked improvement in
health, the general precursor of death in such maladies, was
visible to most of his attendants early that morning, and
even the Empress indulged a hope that he might get
through. The Royal sufferer himself thought differently,
because about eight o'clock A.M. he sent for the Queen,
and told her as a dying father he had a request to make to
her, viz.—that after he should have paid the debt of na-
ture, a decree should be issued, setting at liberty all priso-
ners confined for political and civil offences, without excep-
tion ; which, of course, she faithfully promised to do. He
was quite sensible nearly to the last, and appeared to be
perfectly resigned to his fate, and happy in the actual
position of affairs, and tranquillity of the country. He
seemed anxious to take leave of every one of his at-
tendants, Ministers, &c., and very particularly so of M.
Mendizabel, who remained in his bed-room the whole of
the night of the 23d to the 24th, and whom he embraced
several times, and thanked for the essential services which
he had rendered Portugal. He requested that his funeral
might not be that of a royal personage, but simply that of
Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese armies, and that
his remains, or at all events his heart, might be conveyed
for interment to Oporto, the scene of his glories. It is not
yet exactly ascertained whether the Queen will agree to
the former part of this request, or cause that all the ho-
nours of a Sovereign shall be paid to him ; but we shall
know it positively about noon this day, as, in any event,
the funeral is reported to be ordered for this evening. It
will go from Queluz to the convent of San Triente, in this
town, where his father was buried ; if as a military hero,
then it is intended that his body shall be borne all the way
by generals, officers, and men alternately, of those who
served with him at Oporto ; and a steamer, escorted by
some ships of the Portuguese navy, will convey the heart
to Oporto. It i 3 to be accompanied thither by all his aides-
de-Camp, at his own particular desire.
It now appears that ever since the 29th of August (I
have seen him in his carriage many days after that) he had
a presentiment that he would not live the month of Sep-
tember out, and that most likely he would expire on the
21st ; so much so, that he communicated it to the Empress,
and made her promise that she would not leave him a
minute, and that she would attend him as his only nurse,
which Her Majesty has done with exemplary and soothing
assiduity.
The people seem to regret him much, and well they may,
because at this particular moment it is no easy matter to
govern this country without much firmness of character.
Every respectable person whom you meet is voluntarily
attired in mourning. The Gazette of yesterday, which I
enclose, contains the post mortem examination of the body.
The new Ministry was not formed until the evening of
the 24th, although ever since the 21st hardly an hour passed
away without assertions being made that it was arranged ;
great difficulties no doubt stood in the way ; the object
was to have the Duke of Palmella and another of his

friends in, so as to secure the support of that party, and
thus be able to cope, in every event, with Saldanha's or the
opposition party.
M. J. A. de Magalhaes was proposed by M. Silva Car-
valho for the Department of the Interior, and opposed by
the Noble Duke.
Count Villa Real was proposed by his brother-in-law, the
Duke of Palmella, as well as by the Duke of Terceira, and
opposed by the Silva Carvalho or ultra-liberal party, unless
he previously agreed to certain conditions. It is next re-
ported, I know not how truly, that the Emperor had pe-
culiar objections to one of the new Ministers, and that until
he actually expired, out of respect to him, the Administra-
tion was not declared to be formed. Be this as it may, it
is now settled, and it stands thus :
Duke of Palmella, President of the Council of Ministers,
without a portefeuille ; Bishop of Coimbra, for the Interior
an ultra-liberal, and President of the Chamber of Deputies
A. Barreto Feraaz, for Justice, an ultra-liberal ; J. da:
Silva Carvalho, for Finance, the Chief of the ultra-liberal
party ; Duke of Terceira, for War, supposed to be an
ultra-liberal generally ' - Conde de Villa Real, for Foreign
Affairs, exceedingly moderate ; Agostinho Jose Freire, from
the War to the Marine Department, an ultra-liberal.
The whole of these appointments saving that of Count
Villa Real, who is a very clever man, have been at the sug-
gestion of Silva Carvallio, and have given general satisfac-
tion in Lisbon. The Duke of Terceira is beloved by the
army ; if not a very clever man, he is a very upright and
honourable one, and with his former chief of the staff,
Loureiro, as first under-secretary, he will prove a very
efficient Minister. The Bishop of Coimbra is generally re-
spected, and likely to have considerable influence over the
mind of the young Queen. M. Barreto Feraaz is, accord-
ing to all accounts, a man of unimpeachable character.
Whoever has paid great attention to the affairs of this
country, particularly since the Cortes met, will have re-
marked that the Duke of Palmella was friendly to the
march of affairs, and consequently cannot.be surprised at his
joining M. Silva Carvalho, and a highly desirable event it
has been. As to this latter gentleman, it was found utterly
impossible to form an Administration without him, with-
out the risk of a general break-up. The bank of Lis-
bon made a communication to the effect that if that
gentleman left office, their accounts with Government must
be closed. M. Mendizabal did the same. The majority of
the merchants, as well as of all the other inhabitants, both
friends and foes of that Minister, took the alarm, and had
it signified that it was for the good of the country that he
should continue at the head of the Finance Department.
Count Villa Real has few friends amongst his countrymen ;
he certainly is a very moderate liberal ; he is even acccused
by some of being a -Migxelite at heart, which I am con-
vinced is not the case. Some say that owing to his family
connection with a favourite of Louis Philippe, the French
Count Flahaut, who married Baroness Keith, he will be no-
thing more than a tool in the hands of the French Govern-
ment ; others go so far as to say that he is very partial to
Stock Exchange operations, and that consequently he is not
a fit person to be a Minister of the Crown ; and last of all
they say, that being one of the six who voted the other day
against the Queen's being declared of age, his appointment
must have been forced upon her Majesty, or she never would
have consented to it willingly. Now, in counterposition to
all this, I can venture to say, that this nobleman is a highly
honourable man, whose word may be relied on—no common
thing here—and who will most faithfully do his duty
to his country, according to the principles which
may have been agreed upon in the Cabinet. He cer-
tainly is a sort of guarantee to the moderate party.
The Duke of Palmella will continue in the Presidency of
the Chamber of Peers, but a Vice-President has been
named in the person of the highly respected Councillor of
State Trigoso to supply his place, whenever his absence
may become necessary, either to attend as a Minister in
the Chamber of Deputies, or on other accounts. It is sup-
posed that the Vice-President of the latter, M. A. Marciano
de Acevedo, will be the President in place of the Bishop
of Coimbra, and in the mean time he has already taken the

chair.
On the Duke of Palmella acquainting the Peers on the
'cth of the formation of the Ministry, the Count de Taipa
ambling and violent speech told his Grace

got up, ,^nd in a u...,violent speec__
that it was Wite evident that the present Administration
was the same as the former one, if not worse, excepting
that it was likely to last longer ; which he proceeded
to make a violent attack on M. Silva Carvalho, in the
course of which he called him a thief and coiner of base
money, ney, &c. Although most likely you ill not see any
thing of this in the public papers, yet it is no less a fact.
It is as well that you should know something of this Count
de Taipa ; he is a very gentlemanly and honourable man,
well instructed, has read and reads a deal, and has a good
memor , but he is very wild, visionary, and obstinate in his
opinions, considering that he is only one who knows or who