The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-15 00:00:00

AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF lIER IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE DUCHESS

OF BRAGANZA TO HER MOST FAITHFUL MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

" Madam—Your Majesty having done me the kindness to
communicate to me that you have just sanctioned the project
of law, by which the two Legislative Chambers, in conse-
quence of the proposal made to them by your Majesty's Go-
vernment, have in so delicate a manner corresponded to the
noble frankness with which your Majesty's august father and
my lamented husband recommended me and his dear children
to the generosity of the Portuguese nation ; my first feeling is
to thank your Majesty, your Majesty's Government, and
through its medium the two before mentioned Legislative
Chambers, for this new royal and national demonstration of
affection so solemnly given to the memory of the Duke of
Braganza, in the endowments conferred upon me and my be-
loved daughter, still an infant, the Princess Donna Maria
Amelia.

" Another feeling, not less natural, and which appears
to me proper in the widow of the Commander-in-Chief of
the Liberating Army, prompts me also on this occasion to re-
quest of your Majesty the necessary permission, in order that
the Governor of the Asylum of Military Invalids, founded in
Runa, and opened in the first days of the reign of my august
husband, by the Princess Donna Maria Francisca Benedicta,
your Majesty's august aunt, and, like myself, widow of a
Prince idolized by the nation, and so prematurely snatched
away from the love of the Portuguese, a princess whose
Christian resignation, enlightened piety, and genuine philan-
thropy, I shall much desire to imitate; may be authorized to
receive the annual sum of two contos of reis, of which, from
the present time, and during my life, I make a donation to
that equally useful and patriotic establishment, for the purpose
of gaining admission for some of the military invalids who
have served in the liberating army, and are in such circum-
stances as the judicious regulations of that asylum require.
" And if, in addition to this authorization, your Majesty
should also approve of granting me that of exercising the
functions of Procuradora Officiosa of that useful and pious
establishment, I shall have farther to thank your Majesty for
the opportunities which this situation will offer me of testify-
ing in how lively a manner I participate in the gratitude of the
country towards the well-deserving companions in arms of my
regretted husband.—l am, Madam, your Most Faithful Ma-
jesty's affectionate mother, sister, and cousin,
" DONNA AMELIA, Duchess of Braganza.
" Palace of the Necessidades, Dec. 17, 1834."

THE DUKE OF LEucHTENBERG.—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Leuchtenberg and suite visited the
Tower yesterday morning. The troops were under arms in
the quadrangle, and on the arrival of his Royal Highness the
band struck up the Portuguese Constitutional anthem, the
men with presented arms. His Royal Highness appeared
highly pleased with the armoury, which is considered the
finest in Europe, containing upwards of six hundred thousand
stand of arms placed in different devices. His Royal High-
ness also visited the Horse Guards, the British Museum,
Westminster Abbey, the Thames Tunnel, the St. Katharine
Docks, Messrs. Storr and Mortimer's, &c. His Royal High-
ness returned the visits of the Cabinet Ministers, and of all the
noblemen and gentlemen who have called at the Clarendon.
The various Ministers of the corps diplomatique have called at
the Clarendon to pay their respects. Among them were the
Spanish, French, Austrian, and American Ministers. Yester-
day his Royal Highness received an address from the POI Ill-
guese residents in London, headed by M. Vanzeller, the Con-
sul, to which his Royal Highness delivered an answer in Por-
tuguese, in which language he is a proficient. This day the
Duke of Wellington and his Royal Highness leave town for
Brighton a visit to their Majesties, and at the latter end of
next week his Royal Highness will take his departure for
Lisbon, to join his Royal Consort, Queen Donna Maria.