Star.
London, England, 1831-06-14 00:00:00

" It is certain that a discontent, which had ex-
isted some years, bad deprived the Emperor of his
services of a considerable number of persons who
hed been previously very sincerely attached to his
person antigovernment. The principal cause of
this-alteration in their sentiments was, without
doubt, the frequent changes of the various Minis-
ters and Great Officers of State, whom the Empe-
riir through an injudicious desire of gaining popu-
larity, thought proper to sacrifice, without due con-
sideration, to the least accusation, true or false,
published in the periodical journals ; or to the plans,
very often unjust, of a few designing individuals in
the provinces.
" The continuation of this pernicious system dis-
couraged all •the Ministers who were successively
called to the administration, or to the Governments
of the Provinces, and by these constant changes in
the Members of his Government, the Emperor
created a great number of enemies both to it and
to his person, without acquiring a single friend to
either.
"There existed also on the part of the Brazi-
lians the utmost hatred against the Portuguese,
which was cherished the more from the former en-
tertaining an opinion, and which was industriously
circuleta among them, that the latter were ma-
turing a•-plan again to reduce the Brazils to the
yoke of Portugal; and it was falsely rumoured
split the Empetor's Government assisted the Por-
tuguese in their supposed plan.
" The Journals, by propagating, give force to
These calumnies, so that the members of the Go-
vermitent, 'sad the Emperor more than any one,
wierearmaideirml by the troops and the mob as trai-
tors, to
" Thmi were ooncentrated all the elements of the
Revolutiaitivlll# bai lately taken place.
• "The Ammer, it the close of the year 1830,
undertook a journey,'scrlompanied by the Empress,
to the province of the Mines. This journey lasted
three months, and the period of his absence had
been employed with great zeal by the beads of the
revolutionary party in the capital.
'The' Emperor returned on the 11th of March.—
The evening of the next day, the illuminations,
.haoftres. Old fireworks proved the joy with which
,a part of the population hailed the return of their
Sovereign ; whilst bands of vagabonds, who were
paid for the purpose, came amongst the festivities,
destroying bonfires, breaking the globes of the il-
luminated lamps, and pulling down the frames of
the fireworks. This violent conduct was repelled
by force ; and a few men on each side were killed
and wounded. This was represented by the chiefs
of the revolutionary party as an aggression on the
part of the Portuguese, through whom Brazilian
blood had gown ; and hat it was necessary blood
should now to avenge it. In order to show some-
, something like a sanction for the steps they were
labout to take, twenty-four members of the General
Assembly were found, who were not ashamed to
sign and present' to their Emperor an address,
dated the 17th of March, in which were repeated,
word for word, all the calumnies that had been
heaped upon the Emperor and his Government by
the public prints ; and which also contained the
following paragraph :—" The circumstances are
most. urgent, and the least delay may, in the pre-
sent case, prove most fatal. Confidence in the
Government is almost entirely lost, and if the out-
rages, against which the undersigned remonstrate,
remain unpunished, this shall, to the Brazilian peo-
ple, amount to a declaration to avenge, by every
possible means, their national honour and dignity so
unworthily stained."
" To this the Emperor replied on the 18th,
that measures had been taken, and competent or-
ders given, for the maintenance of public order
and tranquillity, and that all other necessary
steps would be taken for the same purpose. The
Emperor, in his desire to conciliate, and hoping to
tranquilize the city, on the 18th of March re-
solved to dismiss his Ministers, and choose their
successors amongst the Chiefs of Revolutionary
party ; but this measure was only considered by
them as a new proof of weakness, and tranquillity
was not restored. Nocturnal assassinations took
place—crowds of the populace repaired to the bar-
' racks of the artillery, whom they seduced into re-
hellion, and it was• not difficult to perceive that
the new Ministers were betraying the Emperor,
and that the General-in-Chief of the army, newly
recalled to power, was himself the leader of the
rebellious troops. To preserve such a Ministry
was only precipitating the Emperor to his own
ruin. On the evening of the sth of April the
Ministers were dismissed, and were succeeded by
persons decidedly sheozious to the Revolutionary
party.
" It was then that the chiefs of that party need
their utmost efforts to obtain their object. On the
evening of the sth and• morning of the etli cif
April, every means were used to exasperate at d

6 Palace, Boa Vista, April 7, 18311. PEDRO.'
Haring completed this act, the Emperor im-
mediately left tho Palace, and, accompanied b 7
the Empress and Queen of Portugal, proceeded
on board on board his Majesty's ship Warspite,
bearing the flag of the Rear-Admiral Baker,
where they were received and entertained with
the utmost respect and hospitality until the after-
noon of the 12th; when the Emperor and Empress,
with their suite, embarked on board his Majesty's
ship Volage, to be conveyed to Europe ; and the
Queen of Portugal, with her suite, embarked on
board the French ship Seine, at the same time,
and for the same destination. The Emperor, od
signing his act of Abdication, stipulated nothing
for himself, and left behind him the Prince, his
successor, and the three young Princesses, sisters
to the Prince. It appears sufficiently evident,
from authentic and concurrent testimony, that the
Emperor, during the events which took place at
the latter part of his reign, was made the vic-
tim of the most base and the most unparal-
lelled ingratitude and treachery.
Immediately on the abdication of the Emperor, a
Regency was provisionally named, consisting of the
Marquess of Caravellas, Brazilian ; Francisco de
Lima, General-in-Chief; Mr. Vergueiro, a Portu-
guese, who took an oath of fidelity to Don Pedro
11. and to deliver up the Regency as soon as ano•
then should be legally installed. 'They then waned
a new Ministry. On the 9th of April, the Re-
gency published a decree of Amnesty to all Brazi-
lians who had been guilty of political offences, and
to all deserters who should return to their corps is
three months.

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This decree, it was said, was very obnoxious to
the revolutionists, and great fear was entertained
tint the government week! be foresdielecall
The troops and armed citizens remained assembled
when this ship sailed, and refused to disperse until,
as they said, the Emperor had left the port. Every
thing like business had disappeared, and confidence
was entirely destroyed. These latter, however, ere
nothing more than the natural consequences of a
revolution such as I have endeavoured briefly to
describe in this letter, and which description 1 hops
will be acceptable to your readers."

The Gazelle, which sailed from Bahia on the
19th April, brings advice that some further distur-
bances had taken place. and several Portuguese
had been killed. It is said upwards of fifty bad
been shot.
His Majesty the young King of Naples, during
his recent inspection of his tro&.ps, was taken ao
ill one day in the field, that if a private in the
Hulaha had not instantly stepped forward, and ap-
lied atlancet to his arm, it is universally believed
that lus life would have been in great danger.
Several ladies of rank are actively and benevo-
lently engaged in aiding the subscription for the
suffering Irish, by collecting contributions of ail-
lingo and sixpences among their friends.
Sunday last, June 12, at St. Mary, Stratford,
Bow, Middlesex, without any adequate notice, the
sum of 25i. Is. 6d. was collected for the distressed
Irish, after sermons preached in their behalf.
Donna Maria da liloria wu not on board his
Majesty's ship Volage with the Emperor and Em-
press; she is expected to arrive in the Seine, French
frigate, at Cherbourg, accompanied by the Mar-
chioness Loule and suite, whither the Volage pro-
ceeded on Thursday with Don Pedro and his
consort.
The accounts from Riga, received yesterday af-
ternoon, are most distressing as regards the ravages
of the cholera neurbus. The letters are to the 30th
ult. and state that, up to -that date, 390 persons
had been attacked by the disorder, of whom 189
had died. Many of the ships proceeding from
ports where the disorder raged, had lost a portion
of their crews ; and vessels from all tie lower ports
of the Baltic, were not allowed to enter Lubeck.--
The utmost alarm prevailed at Riga. The com-
munication with surrounding places had been cut
off, and the cholera was spreading in all directions.
The College of Physicians met at their Hall, in
Pall-mall East, on Saturday evening, by the ex-
press order of Government, to take into considera-
, Lion the best means of preventing the introduction
of cholera into this country. What the result of
their deliberations may have been has not yet
transpired. As one of the steps which it is the
duty of Government to take upon the occasion, this,
dsubtless, is a very proper one ; though it will pro-
bably strike many that the College of Physicians
have more to do with the cure than with the non-
introduction of the disease. _
The following is a summary of the number cf
prisoners tried during the Clare Special Commis.
sion, with their sentences:—Sentenced to dealb,
2 ; death recorded, 11; tranaperted for life, 31 ;
transported for seven years, 1; imprisons! for
twelve months, 20; imprisoned for one week, 2 ;
fined and discharged, 1-68 ; acquitted, s.—Tetal
:lumber tried, 73.
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