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TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEEK RESETER 4
SIR,—I translate for you the following letter rom
an ecclesiastical student in our Portuguese univer-
sity, giving a brief account to a friend in this coun-
try of a funeral service which took place in the
Cathedral of Coimbra, for the repose of the soul of
the late King Dom Miguel. The letter, hurriedly
written as it is, will speak for itself ; and let me re-
mark that, ever since the news of the King's deatlt
reached Portugal, successive funeral servfees have
been equally and spontaneously perfumed in almost
every town and village throughout the country with
nee inivocal demonstrations of feeling, regret., and
affectionate retnombrrnee. The actu tl Government
of Porttu4alappear to take unreasonable umbrage at
sue! manifestations. Why I know not, but there is
no doebt, they eliist! uneasiness to the dominant
powers. I judge this to be the case from the
fact that having myself sent to friends in Pattngal.
several copies both of sonic pm inted poetry eec isioned
by the King's demise, and also some Copi-s of your
paper of the 29th December last, and of the London
Sun of the Ist of January, containing declarations
concerning the young rightful king, Dom Miguel
11., neither the verses nor some of the newspapers
were received by the persons to -whom they were
addressed. All the papers had been properly
stamped here, and most certainly it was not the
English Post-office that suppressed them. As for
the declarations, you know what they were ; the
verses adverted to the mean and hypocritical 20
days' Court mourning, commanded at the Court of

Lisbon, and the announced intention of revoking
the revolutionary exclusion of King Dom Miguel
and his family from his mother-country and their
rightful kingdom. Here is the translation of the
letter :

" Coimbra, February 7th, 1867.
" On the 30th of January took place in this Lu.:4
tanian Athens the solemn obsequies of the la*
King Dom Miguel, ordered and defrayed by Doctor
Rodrigues, M. Lemos, of Condeixa, and by a sub-
scription of the Legitimist party in this city. I did
not, indeed, expect that that party were still to be
found here so staunch and numerous. To me, the
enthusiasm which prevailed at his proclamation as
King, is only traditional, but the feeling yet cherished
towards him, when now, like a martyr, he has ex-
changed a temporal kingdom for a celestial one, is
manifested by ocular and auricular observation. Such
reward he must have earned, if we consider the acts
recorded of him in M. SaraiVa's Dom Miguel en
Roma' (Dom Miguel at Rome), a testimony which I
consider to be insuspect. Indeed, the sentiment
which the lights of the funeral service enabled us
clearly to discern was not inferior in its kind to
that exhibited in the prime of the Prince's life
throughout all the country, from the shepherd's
humble cottage to the dome of the noblest
mansion. The attendance round the richly deco-
rated catafalque would not yield in dignity to that
which surounded the cradle at Queloz or the throne
at Necessidades with the sole difference of intention
and object. Above one hundred ecclesiastics of all
grades in the clerical hierarchy attended as well as
an immense number of persons of all classes and
ranks. The vast and perfumed cathedral could
scarcely suffice to hold the thick crowd of people,
down most of whose cheeks, both the juvenile
ones as well as those withered by time
or the effects of suffering, shining tears were
observed freely to drop. The mournful music was
executed by voices come from Oporto and elsewhere, -
and if some of them were wont occasionally
to enliven with gay strains a public audience they
were not less effective now in modulating the com-
plaints of Job, the tears of David, and the deep as-
pirations of the dying Christian, hallowed by the
Catholic religion. The pious and sorrowful feeling
thus prompted sunk profoundly in the hearts of all
present without distinctio❑ of party, sex, or age ;
and there was cause enough for it, as, whilst some
mourned simply- for a virtuous fellow-man, others
did so fur their unjustly proserib:d king, who, for
More than one reason, was entitled to the tears of all.
The funeral sermon was preached by 1)r. Rodrigues,
who well knew• how to turn the royal diadem into a
noble crown of cypress and everiasting flowers. My
praising his sermon to you would be doing what is
clone here by"everybo•Jy. I will merely cite the text,
viz.—fn regno ;taus, inopia constunpteus. The mas-
terly tact, the conscious delicacy wherewith he con-
trived to handle such a thorny subject, is admired by
all and eulogised in the highest degree, and the
so as everybody felt that he did not utter even one-
tenth of his own ideas and convictions on the subject.
The occasion offered, indeed, great scope to the
pathetic, and the orator knew how to avail hitnself'
of it most fully, .so as to enrapture his auditory.
Twice he sued for attention, and made, as if it were,
two exordiums and a double sermon; still the im-
mense audience accrued as if they hardly dared to
breathe for attention all over the vast building.
Everybody admits that no dead king ever had such
funeral honours, which astonished me so much the
more for their being so purely spontaneous and hav-
ing nothing official in them."

This letter, addressed to a young friend of the
writer, is indeed most significant as regards the feel-
ing evoked in Portugal by the death of King Dom
Miguel. It is most remarkable that such a body of
the clergy in the third city of the kingdom, that the
members of the University, graduates and under-
graduates, of all sorts of opinions, the population of
the town of every class in society, should thus as-
semble and mix together for the purpose of paying
honour to sueh a "monster of tyranny and cruelty"
as King Dom Miguel was once represented to be by
the British press, Parliament, and the public, and
(prop dolor !) by Mr. O'Connell and the British Ca-
tholics at the time. It is well known—and even the
2 Imes was fully confessing it recently—that Dom.
Miguel would not have lost his throne, nor the Por-
tuguese nation been put under the yoke of a rapa-
cious minority of " Freemasons and Infidels" with-
out the scandalous underhand intrigues and inter-
ventions of this country. England it is that Portu-
gal has to thank for the destruction of her best in-
stitutions, the robbery of her Church, the desecra-
tion of her temples and sanctuaries, the utter cor-
ruption of her morals, the hostile division of her
people, the immense and over-increasing debt which
crushes her. The " prosperities," the " power," and
" greatness" which 36 years ago were daily promised
here to Portugal by almost every newspaper, every
Liberal member of Parliament, as certain to flow
upon my poor country when Dom Pedro's charter
and his followers should have sticceeded in imposing
themselves upon it, have been transformed into such
astate of things asl have pointed out Dr. Rodrigues
(the Prime Professor of Divinity in the University),
a most learned, gifted, and eloquent orator, knew
piousno d
praiseoub doubt that D
t at everyom
igsueeint,:. nrce
real
+he was uttering in
audi-
tory were contrasting his words with the false de-
scriptions and imputations in vituperation of the
King, with which the revolutionary press and tri-
bune had teemed for many years.
That they could not but be comparing in their
own minds and recollections the real state of things
and popular feeling in the country before the revo-
lution, and those new prevailing, when, with the
exception of a few material improvements—like rail-
ways, telegraphs, &c.--which would have b,:en
effected (and better and more cheaply too) if the
King's Governmeet lia,l not been crushed by Eng-
land and the " Quadruple Alliance." Poor Portu-
gal gained nothing save quackery, verbiage, stiper-
!Hal knowledge, presumption, smoking, immorality,
irreligion, tenfold taxes, reckless expenditure, ever-
sWelling debt, probable bankruptcy in the end, loss
of Portugal's glorious colonial possersions, and in-
dependent nationality at last. I hope Dr. 1,01-
rigues's sermon will be published, and feel sure it
will not be inferior, both in thought and lan-
guage, to any of the others already published
of him,
genera!ly inferior to none, both as to matter awl
elocution, of the best moduls in ecclesiastical
oratory, without excepting the
.Bos,atets, the
Flechiers, and Buurdaloues.—l r, main, always, sir,
faithfWly yours, " A. R. SAIZAIVA.
" 21, Nottingham-street, Marylebone,
" Feb. 13th, 1807."

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