Star.
London, England, 1830-10-04 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR DON PEDRO.

The same of Don Pedro, the Emperor ef Break is esiedeted, la the
mind of an Englishman, with liberal principles of government, and
something like public virtue, in consequence of the part which he took
in attempting to restore a constitutional government to Portugal. It is
also auspicious for his fame in this part of the mid that his brother,
Don Miguel, the usurper of a p desecrated by projtuy and stained
with blood. has, by his tramcm- t acquiesmones in vice, thrown all
ordinary 51erarity into the shade, and Mined ler himself a pre.eni.
/MOO Is kftway, which leaves him, in the est4ese imam tyrants,
without a Ilvieg rival I Even Frodinand of hes end
iMo
salable monster compared with this accomplished pupil if Halm
nish, and Asses champion of ten 44 Apostolic faith, Anse named
ham been trained into fall perfection in a sing of piney
Clirotarkesumble to the development of his via it is
the isibe, with all his ell Meed 11 of shod, awl love for
tree met with a pude, of those qualities by which the
iftustrions Hesse of Brogans' hasbees, *lateyears, disreputably die-
anguished. la the list of the aa Apostolic virtues" of pious Map
which " Holy Shwa' loves mem Boarish, and on which she cantina.
ally sheds the iZating delis of ha miraculous inSurnee,auelty seems
to bare she lust . as the records of the lamileition prove ; and we
are lacNoshis that perfidy comes nest In honour, though generally
the lama peados the former in point of time, and prelims the way for
k, as we emin the instances of the Ferdinand, of Spain and Naples,
Don Miguel and Charles IL who all violated their solemn oaths, and
followed up their acts of perjury by deeds of blood. Whether Don
Pedro is cruel as well as paMions,"we cannot possitively my, but
there are gross acts of political deception of his on record, and sangui-
nary crimes have been perpetrated in Brasil against the advocates of a
liberal system of Government, while engaged in the honest discharge of
their duty to their country,with which, if this Prince had no connection,
It is peculiarly unfortunate for his fame that the sabots have remained
undiscovered. We shall now refer to the proofs et whet we state, and
which we extract from Dr. Wakh's able and intelligent work on Basil
work that gives by far the most interesting, and, we believe, the
meet faithful account of the political state of that country, and of the
seats which most prominently mark its history, both before and
since it took a conspicuous part in the revoluions of the new world.
After the memorable day in the minds of Brasil, of the
12th of October, ass, the anniversary of the birth of Don Pedro, and
the festival of his election as supreme Chief of the new empire--when
the kingdom changed its style and title, having totally tikasived Its exam.
met with Portugal, and 100,000 persons, both skim and salirts,
in the great square of St. Anna, proclaimed "'the Ceasantienel Em-
peror, with the unanimons acclamation of the people," Dr. Walsh goes
en to say what we shall now quote in his own Weds r...
"From the period when Des John proceeded to Lisbon, his son (Don
Pedro) had kept up a constant correspondence with him on the events
passing in the country. These letters were submitted by his father to
the Cortes, who ordered a certain number of copke of them to be printed
for the use of the Members. I saw these letters at Rio, and some of
them exhibit an extraordinary tissue duplicity ; and if one brother
in Portugal has been stigmatised by his opponents as a violets, of his
solemn pledges, the other in Brasil has not escaped a similar console.
In one of these letters he particularly laments the growing anbarraes.
ments and difikulties of his situation, and earnestly solicits his recall.
" Its named your Majesty," says he, " by all that is sacred in
thew .-to dispense with the painful functions you have. assigned me.
which will end in killing me. Frightful pictures surround me cond.
:malty. I have them always before me. I conjure year Majesty to
permit me, as soon as possible. to go and kiss your Royal hand, and m
at on the steps of your throne. I seek only to procure a happy trap-
quality."
The letter bears date the 21st of September, 1821. He Waa, in con-
sequence, recalled. A vessel was sent to convey him, and be would
not go.
A_pin be writes-44 They wish. and they say they wish, to proclaim
me pace. I protest to your Majesty I will never be perjured... that
I will never be false to you ; and that, If they ever commit this fait
k shaft not be till after they have tut me to pieces! I Ind an the
Portuguese have taken a solemn oath, which I have written with lay
blood, in the following words swear to be always Mafia to your
Majesty, to the Portuguese nation, and to the Constituden." In con-
Amity (says Dr. Walsh) with the solemn declaration mimes In his
bleed, be threatens to fire on his faithful Portuguese if they ‘e met
sandy Return home ; and shortly after he Is the feet se & laps-
sate legislation for Bradt, to have the country peedined
and he himself acknowledged Sovereign.
OPE Mitigate and ;gross deception, we must here take leave to ob.
eine, Maisid by
honourable
Panes upon any penon, would Met his moral
imam in no very honourable light ; but when we esasialre that this
reiontery taking el. a &demo oath, wines fa his ownag blood, wm con.
Mired for the pewpme of deceiving his tumuspedi htbse, we
N. anew with -more thin the ordinary diessestrew which
hilt bogie& When we alio take into account that be Wee a yriweg
wow, not being shoe 14 yams et age, we most leek on this seism
am as an immoes if precocious, and as It were, inetinedre dieibee•
krtien which his *ibex, Don Iligutd, shaver& Meitsmd seinmegaL
Thoi duel terne Pioveliztich mehe Aid the vises sif mm:
pedant the work of jildce. Hers We bibeld i Miss, bY reri
ample at tnathery, Mingle" Ms. Mh.a deco t sod thea we see,
enethey,Pe.own deughtry„ 44,11 ilate•
epos the Moths, the_ paillikimme opodpoi
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had rpsEl
itionarde th, father 1.-41, WWI an /State air 110,161114.
et Oak she an Enehmege as His wed thellienw
and
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wore &maims', whiels
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hen the 104 Dow,Johe,' bed lift ' EPA of krs,
S:n ban PorpogaL oho .1414wwilielloig61.
of the plot heft,' it vie mitisAfflp.OPlV,
leis timid palsy and diepisides wean y more say easpkioo of hie being the eseartver et it, and make it mere

then rehab'
ds o. le that it had never been communicated to bim previously to
teihan
As Ms heft' (says the same author, speaking of the new Ex.
which had recently been erected) formed a distinguished nra in
if &mil, indicating the great political changes the country
bs unditegonaard the vast influx of wealth it had acquired, it was a
temple wh they attached a sort of .veneration—and- here the first
cheers convened in the cogently were determined to hold their important
meeting. Several of the chisens combined to add to its ornaments on
the ocespion, at their own private expense. One covered the seats with
velvet, another sends silver candlesticks, and every one was eager to con-
tribute to the decoration and display of the first National Assembly of
Brazil. It was naturally to be expected that much irregularity would
moor in a meeting entirely soma so form, and unacquainted with the I
*ant of its own powers. The debates, therefore, were turbulent, and
else of their demands were extravagant. They proposed that the Con.
Iftlikin of Spain should be the model of that of Portugal, to which the
King assented. A rumour was spread that the Portuguese troops were
coming to disperse them, but their Commander, being summoned before
them, assured them that it was not so. It was affirmed the: the King
was about to carry off with him a large unsure from the country, and
had seta* entheekeds qamtlty d puddle property, even the funds of
ISM eltlita6h itiodusdene. It was well known that prodigality and
staposityhed bows the horning WSW of the Government of Brasil, and
this nothiste
_gained I kit aedit. It was owed, therefore, that the
vesselashosid be a ..ww • and orders were net to the Commondere of
the forts at Seats Cruz and Lego to stop the ships of the squadron, if
they attempted to mil.
" It was now past midnight, sod some of the electors had retired—
hut, from the importance of their proceedings, the hall was still crowded,
when the edifice was onatknlv surrounded by a regiment of soldiers,
with fixed bayonets sad loodal muskets. Without the nnollou nodee
if their approach, or any intimation to the people to disperse, dip
wished on the ummeed las. poured a volley along them, and thee
impel with their harms. Nothing could be mere bona& then the
eine et whist hawed—a number of brutal Waists assassi-
whilag dims lo a close up room. Those who wore not kiNd
fill wounded new pad to escape throligh the windows. Some wee
meshed to deeds by the fall, end some fled forward into the sea, and
Mot tionerni Meantime the soldiers deliberately roe to pion.
ter s they vied the dead and wounded of their watdses and valwailm,
and indg the room of the plate and candlesticks ; and, having thee
*ma domehres with blood and plunder, dispersed.
" I have conversed with several persons who were regent on this as.
amnion, Who Informed me of the fate of some of their ftkeds. Onion
was a Brazilian, doing business in an English house. Hearing aline*
wear the door, be stood up to see what was the matter, and was ahsl
through the heart by a soldier, who put his musket close to his usual—.
Another was a young man, who, tired with the length of the debate, hell
lain down and fallen asleep ; in that position he was pinned to the limb
by a oaths, who stood over him, and thrust his bayonet through Ids
back. An Englishmen, of the neared Barnes, hod been employed ss OM
taker of the hall; he was attacked by a fellow who thrust kb
at his belly. Providentially he had in his waistcoat-pocket •
• said-box, and the point of the bayonet passed through the lid,
t not the bottom, so his life was saved. About 30 pesos were killed
bu
or wounded, and were found deed or dying are the gm. hoshlii ahem,
who bad disappeared, some of whom woo supposed to be awes& Mil
easnLothers were hurt more or less severely.
• "The next day the event was es unnoticed es if it had never bop.
paned; such was the debasing terror of the people, that no inquiry woo
alsompeed to be made as to the Instigators of tie measure, or the num.
bar 'lvied they had socrillced. Th. Wag has been acquitted fall
Yin Imblis red feelings were acknowledged as have been altogether Mr
=se sub a deed of blood. Some emeldered it an act el the Coeds
est , whom nordembaneverity bed bees already malted es the
Promembows. lie was some time after
teem the
=lke held r the Clownitoot, and sent boon to PorWlOr nod so
eine nerd he become ft the pssplar shat they woad not him to
lad at Bahia, whores dot *mobile he bad'stas papaw. Others
tawa die greeter samba: Odom I have convened wilt) neilbute toDoe
raimatinelt Irmo apprised al the Otis electors, he has.
they say, to the Clops St. Anna, at sod, taking with
Idle die regions of Cassano, he sat them by the Etta d'Al.
Ilmises, sad etbritatnets, which led to she Ctemimishenes, with oils
as Algona the along. The maw eiredmi k was their own
nary act. Tie Ammo it is to be attributed, yea will agree
as that a mess base sad cowardly essassimsiss Dever MS poi.
irasuL"
• We do.ldwd, ogre, In that optnios g and mast at the some drni
observe that, if Don Pedro wee the person who gave team to de, ado
dins merely to disperse the assemb/y, it was very strange the WON
Ova gave them any other notice to disperse than by charging then
with the Wenn, and shooting them on the spot and odd muse MIPS
that woe et them were ever tolled to account for the, _wens ass et
Mader and robbery, which, In violative of their orders, they
Woken this blackountectioa and its lostiptere to the enemies l
heave, and shall only, in conclusion, express war wander that aleeke
Z. did not take a hint from this med. at ilieskis silleasell
nobly If he had known bow to profit by the mumq* be inside
leneed.of issuing hie premature Winston., have waited for the mph,
dthe Member of Deputies, and then sent Idarmont at the heads,
and Swiss Jsnhaeries, with flied bayonets and loaded mats.
Mialtrrinish the Session by a grand bathes, and thus earn an ib.l
salute sceptre while living, and the homers of Roguish canedmilow
Am death !

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PORTSMOUTH, OA i

His Majesty's brig Mosquito, 10, Commondsr•Gborla Bentham. err.
rived this morning from the Mediterranean; 674;101 Malta as far
back as the Bth August; we have mere recast wawa than she
beings of our apneas in that sea. She has ban to Tripoli, where
she was. detained till the 16th nit. by thalitidsb Cans), Is consequence
thdematmeocs of a Frisch squadron,. the C4F2: which had
i tribute of 33,0016. fa various "committed by
that State spinet the French interests; with ths Dry at gist he.
pirated to comply, but ultimately agreed to the maks, and was
compelled also to make an apology for an Malt offered to the
French Canal, Baron Boma, in some matters relative to die
papers ot the late Major Ling,. width papers by the way its M
smugly suspected were in the possession of itosassau, though be
dada the fact. It is presumed thst from these papers Going has
Ml,published his work of Africa. The ,31noqolto Bled at
Algiers, and Oran. At Tunis no tribute .had. been
metal by the French, atosoufactes had been uniataripmdly given to
the French army from that At Algiers, the ?mash army was
found en be reduced to 9, men, who were concenapied in tbs city,
and dared not venture a musket shot's length from the walls, doeptift
ins strong body. It was stated that not lees than 160,060 Arabs and
othaonstiks are in the vicinity, vowing halal to the Preach. The
=wars moth respected, on instance of which was recently surn.
try an Arab Chieftain, into whoa power the crew of a vessel
was wsesk.4 about two milts from Algiers MI, and viho, apprehaxling
fatal to them if they dor, their nstkinotatal they were=age Arab Chieftain, doubting the truth of their assertion,
sanowanicated with the British Consul, desiring to know if they were
oshisms of England ; if so, their lives should bri lwareeted—hat if
Awarey their heads should be cut off in five minutes. ra says Ada
insomae, the Consul Is represented to have persuaded him their relation
• was site. Oast numbers of the French troops that had sickened hod
been sent to Minorca to recover, and the garrison of Oran bad been
withdrawn. The Mosquito left Gibraltar as the lath sit with the
Bereft', VI, Capt. the Hon. C. 0.. Bridgman. from which ship she
Parted rwo days after, of Cape Trafalgar. She may be therefore hourly
alb schooner Pickle, Lieutenant Hardy, arrived at
Plymouth, on Sunday, from Falmaith, which pore she racha on Sa.
*sudsy, with Jamaica and . Colombia nails ; she lift Jamaita on the,
14th of August; Crooked Isload. the ,brinllll6l an freight 30,000,&Mari. On the 6th of Aura ' August maks wai risked by a severe bur&
tioasirl which the amp antated sera*. injury, and snail vessels
foundered. The Pickle was,soot haw with the mails, in %pawpaw&
iv the Carideo packet habit received some damage by striking against
satesiocks, not oorretoly laid Aiwa fn dos Aim, mar.
which will oblige baits be hove doom nt„.regalas, and a friCaalltilria,
lariat tag: Jamalci sisia. Tlii Shea* log arrived fraari
Irallesa , 140 10 g et her. Were , dijoelero Walrjk dthllt ere spalet. and
r lUbsrampr woo living spa that raw. DerislOS Pixels% 107
is wait vishid brivehloissapoiand as alkali with a talkie Mistame;
=4l* 101401714 ta ttkia.derseaL Die seam*,
or save", karatowt at the PopoOewhiels Captplom
idliesselitSietthsthis worifirritig, ab *vile thi •poi .t
ko AHoehod Se_ kik*
Ice eirlitirlLeoddilitatoo oh* Mama, IS,
isompfasy•tha% the iffir thi pool: eT *Ole the
ADEVrtiObbi 4 A! tblesi *Ow et 4011 •salle Op 41 I
MUM warthog' WS funs, tits Ammo W Phial spa bar ahem
four miles to wisdward. Ships at Port loyal t illataaoa. blowy

hoed Hill, the General Commanding.M.Chief of his Majesty's forcel,
arrived at the Albion Hotel. Chester, with his private secretary, Colocri
Egerton, on Friday lam, and reviewed the depot of the 55d Regiment
stationed there, of which he is Colonel.
The lst Royals enjoyed excellent health at Bangalore on the 20th et
The 30th Regiment have Rift Weedon barracks for Manchester.
Major R7an lies joined the 50th Regiment at Waterford.
A soldier of the 56th Regiment deemed been hospital this week, end
carried off three watches, the property of his conies.
Friday night three fellows, with reaping books, pursued a soldo-r
to the detachment of the 74th Regiment. stationed in Tippe.
rabe4g:gwilg having overtaken him, lacerated aim terribly. After cutting
his hamstrings, the brutes leaped upon his body, and left him for dead.
The perpetrators of this outrage are in custody.
A considerable reduction will take place in the excise department.
As Colonel in Chief of the Rifle Brigade, the sum drawn by the
Duke of Wellington from the Treasury is only 2381. annually; but as
Colonel of the Grenadier Guards be receives every year 2,6951. Ti.e
total income his Grace derives annually from offices under the State is
13,1791. 9s.