Star.
London, England, 1824-01-27 00:00:00

BRAZIL.

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NANIETSTO OF farrtzJESTY THE EMPEROR
TO THE BRAZILIANS.
rROVIDENCS, which watches over the stability and
preservation of nations, has, in its profound wisdom,
permitted that this Empire should, after the confirma-
tion of its independence, and the union of all its pro.
'winces, even those most remote, continue to advance in
the career of consolidation and prosperity. The Consti-
tuent and Legislative Assembly laboured with assiduity,
discernment, and activity to form a Constitution calcu•
laced firmly to plant the Constitutional System, and
cause it to take deep root in this extensive empire. On
this immovable foundation, the construction of the social
edifice was steadily proceeding, and such was the opi-
nion entertained by foreigners of the Brazilian nation,
that the principal Powers of Europe would soon have
recognized the independence of the empire, and would
even have been ambitious of contracting political and
commercial relations with us.

This brilliant prospect, which nothing seemed capa-
ble of obscuring, was dimmed by the unexpected storm
which overcast our horizon. The genius of mischief
inspired restless and evil-disposed spirits with criminal
designs, and kindled the flame of discord in the public
mind. Some time ago it began to be seen and ascer-
tained that there did not prevail in the Assembly that
uniformity of true principles which distinguishes Con-
stitutional Governments; and that harmony of separate
powers which constitutes their moral and physical force
began to waver. Various and continued attacks on the
Executive Power, and its concessions for the sake of
harmony, enervated the force of the Government, and
silemtly undermined it. The spirit of disunion went on
increasing; the gall of distrust overflowed; parties
were secretly formed ; and a disorganizing faction
suddenly appeared, and acquired a force which began
to alarm the minds of all worthy Brazilians, who,
solely animated by zeal for the public good, and the
purest patriotism, trembled with horror at the pro-
spect of future dangers which they foresaw and expected.
—Meanwhile, those men who had meditated and con-
trived subversive plans, and who continued to practise
then sinister arts, gained over some honest and simple
persons, by holding out the flattering idea of the better
security of liberty—that sacred idol, always adored, but
too often misunderstood ; others by persuading them
that the Government had become despotic ; and some,
perhaps, by the promise of advantages ss hich their own
extravagant imaginations exaggerated. At last they
carried their malignity so far as to propagate that the
perfidious and insidious project of a union with the Por-
tuguese Government was adopted.
The plans being laid, the means of acting on them
arranged and put in motion, and the difficulties smoothed
which were supposed to present obstacles in the way of
success, it was determined that the.conceived and long
premeditated design should be carried into effect.
One of the means chosen as most certain was to sow
discord between the citizens born in Brazil and those
who are natives of Portugal, by the means of journals
written with a dexterous artifice and virulence, aiming
at the destruction of the moral force of the Government,
and threatening my Imperial person with the examples
of Iturbide and of Charles I. and also through emis-
saries who supported and propagated the same sedi-
tious principles.
The fermentation which was to produce the revolt'.
tionary volcano being thus prepared, the faction which
had become preponderant in the Assembly availed itself
for the fatal explosion of a petition from the citizen Da-
vid Pamplona, described as a Brazilian by birth, being,
nevertheless, a native of the Portuguese islands—who
complaint•d of some blows which be had received from
two Biazilian Offices s, natives of Portugal, and mho,
according to the opinion of a Committee, was to recur
to tlx• ordinary course of law. Before daylight, and
with the most criminal forethought, the leaders of this
horrible faction, assisted by their pattizaus, invited a
number of persons to come aimed with poniards and
pistols to support them, by spreading terror among
those illustrious, honourable, and worthy Deputies of
the Assembly who, faithful to their oaths, made it their
:sole endeavour to fulfil the just confidence reposed in
'them by the noble Brazilian nation, and who, conse-
quently, v. ished to maintain the tranquillity necessary
to their deliberations.

On that unhappy day, tragic and frightful scenes
took place. Cries were set up, and supported in a manner
equally extraordinary and scandalous. The illustrious
President, with a prudent vigilance displayed in the
breaking up of the sitting, put a stop to evils which
+would hive burst forth with the dreadful noise of an
immense volcano, fermented by the fury of parties, by
national hatred, by the thirst of vengeance, and by the
most inflated ambition. Such was to be expected from
the great number of persons, who, within and without
the Assembly, were disposed to sustain the projects of
this terrible faction; and such was to be feared from
the great quantity of arms profusely sold in the city on
the preceding days, and from the scandalous acclama-
tions by which the leaders of the wicked party were re-
ceived and extolled by their sateilites when they came out:
of the Assembly, in despite even of my Imperial presence.
This scene of danger was again renewed. Violent
and virulent speeches from those who belong to the
faction continued to fan tl:e flame of discord, and many
of their dependents, both in the galley ies of the Assem-
bly and without, protected the horrible results which
were the necessary consequences of the premeditated
plans. To this end they demanded and obtained the
establishment of a permanent Session, under the spe-
cious pretext that it was not fit it lmuld be dissolved
until tranquillity should be re-established. For this latter
Object, I had commanded the w hole ot tha troops to
march and assemble in,the plain of St. Christovan, with
the just design ot leaving the Assembly in per fect liberty;
and I afterwards acquainted the Assembly with this de.
termination, in order that they might take into conside-
ration the motives by which I justified it, and the ne-
cessity of providing some positive measures tending to
the re-establishment of tranquillity. No such measures,
however,-were taken; but they continued, on the con-
trary, to pursue their discussions with the same warmth
and obstinacy; and under cover of a multitude of spe-
cious pretexts the ruin of the country was aimed at,

while their first and most decided attacks were directed,
towards my august person, which was treated with every
disrespect that calumny and malignity could suggest.
Nor was revolutionary fury the only feeling which
appeared in these ext: asagant attacks. They went still'
farther, and aimed at an excessive restriction of the at-
tributes which belong, by the very nature of Represen-
tative Governments, to the head of the Executive Power,
and which bad been conferred on me by the nation as
Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of
Brazil. They even went so far as to require that the
%style or a great part of the troops should withdraw to

a &stance from the city ; thus leaving the Government
Without its necessary vigour and support.
The delay in adopting decisions,which is always dan-
gerous in urgent cases, and which must finally prove
fatal in the present melancholy state of affairs—the hor-
rible prospect of some imminent catastrophe—the de-
spair of some—the pride and political fanaticism of
others—the alarm and fear of all peaceful citizens—the
dangerous state of the country, and the dread of the
ruin and subversion of the State,—all imperatively de-
mand prompt and efficacious measures, and remedies
which, though apparently violent, can alone succeed in
producing early and happy results.
And what measure would be the most likely to suc-
ceed in so arduous and perilous a crisis? What dike
could be found to stay the revolutionary torrent, to bear
up against the force of its waves, and to paralyse them
completely? No other was so obvious or so powerful as
Ithe dissolution of the Assembly. This, and the dismissal
of the Ministers, are the preservatives from public disor-
ders in Constitutional Monarchies; this last was put in
practice, and there was then no other resource left than
to carry the first into execution, though to the great sor-
row and grief of my imperial heart. Actuated, there-
fore, by these powerful motives, and by the urgent ne-
cessity of saving the country, which is a supreme law,
and justifies extreme measures in cases of great risk, I
commanded the dissolution of the Assembly by the decree
of the 12th current, at the same time directing the con-
vocation of another, according to the public Constitu-
tional law, to which I am desirous to conform.
In that same decree, as well as in that of the 13th,
which repeated ar►d extended it, irrefragable proofs
were given of the absolute necessity of adopting so for-
cible a measure, and of my anxious desire to reestablish
the Constitutional system, which was proclaimed by the
Brazilian nation, and which can alone ensure the happi-
ness of the empire. If circumstances so difficult and
perilous have compelled me to put in practice so violent
a remedy, I have only to observe that extraordinary
evils require extraordinary measures, and that it is to
be hoped that they will. never be rendered necessary
again. The people, note satisfied of the extent of my
magnanimity and Constitutional principles, and of my
earnest desire to promote the national happiness and
tranquillity, will desist from the commotion caused by
this disastrous event, which is equally painful to myself,
and will continue to enjoy the peace, tranquillity, and
prospet ity,which the Constitution promises 'and secures.
Rio, Nov. 16, 1825: THE EMPEROR.

THE EVENING STA lt.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 99; to 91, but soon afterwards
lowered to 901 for the Account, and 90g, g, for money.

FORF.IGN FUNDS.

At the opening of the Foreign Market the Mexican Bonds were
at and so they remain to the present hour, with little fluctuation.
Spanish Roods opened at 24/, 1, 25, with not much doing in them,
owing to there being no Express from Paris, which seldom sets off'
on a Sunday.
Current l'rices ;-0111 Spanish 241 to 1, Colombian 65, New
Austrian sto 1, Chaim 77 to 1, Russian 901 to 1, New Prussian
891 to /, French Scrip 61 to 7, Mexican na, Poyais si.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.
VIENNA, JAN. 12.-3lrtalliques 84. 11-16. Bk. &h. 965. 1.3.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

/IASIVURC.III, JAN. 20.—0 n London, 36. 6. 36.9.
Purcitssußcn, JAN. 6.—On London, 9. 29-64 ;
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank ,tuck 23:)3/4 239 210
3 per Cent. Reduced 91 JA, 1/4 1/2
3 per Cent. Cons. 90% 1,?, :3 1/2 N.
31/2 per Cents. 100% 1-4 per Cts. Old 1021/4 102
4 per Cts. N. 1061/4 1061/4—Bk. Lg. Ans. 225Ai 7-16
India Stuck '272—lndia Bonds 87s. 84s.
South Sea Stock 103—New Annuities 903/8 1/2
ELLl,eq. Bills of £l,OOO, 58s. 54s.—Small 58s. 555.
Consols for Account 91 9078 91%.

The dispute between the Merchants and the London
Dock Company still agitates the City. The conduct of
the Directors of the Company is indeed calculated to have
a very serious effect on the commerce of the Metropolisf
and appears to us as ill-advised as it is unjust. The es
tablishment of the London Docks has been a very for.
tunate speculation, the shares have become highly
valuable, and the amount of capital is immense, bus' 1
have been the results of a system of Teel procal libet al i ty be.
tweenthe Merchants and the Directors. The moment that
ceases, the property of the London Dock Company must
become deteriorated. Cargoes will in future be landed
at other wharfs, and an application will, we doubt not.
,he made to Parliament to erect new Docks, which, under
'present circumstances, we scarcely think would be re.
fuSed. In d,e STA It of yesterday we gave exclusively
several documents on this subject, and we now insert,
in another celumn, the letter of an intelligent Merchant,
containing some further information on this important
question.

Hamburg!) Papers to the 20th inst. reached us this
morning. The following are extracts:

lIICLEFELD, JANUARY 12.

A few days ago, Commissary of Police came here
from Magdeburg, who, in consequence of supetior
orders, arrested the Conductor of our High School, and a
Mr. L—, a young Clergyman in a neighbouring place.
Report says, that they are arrested for polititsal in-
trigues. They were both conducted to Berlin with an
escort of gene-d'armes.

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