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The enemy also abandoned the four gun-boats, with
which they had protected the landing. The loss sus-
tained by the second column must have been very con-
siderable, from the impossibility of saving the people in
the launches which were upset and destroyed. Finally,
I learnt from the prisoners that many had been
wounded on board ship, and among others Lieut.-Colonel
DOUTEL, Commandant of the second brigade, who was
wounded by a splinter on board the man of war. The
wreck of the launches, and a great number of bodies,
have been cast ashore by the sea along the bay of Villa
4la Prays and the adjacent coast.

Our loss consists of 9 men killed, including three
officers, and 25 wounded, as your Excellency will see
circumstantially in the list I enclose.
Such is, Most Illustrious and Excellent Sir, to us the
happy and transcendent result to which the enemies of
her Majesty's throne have brought their first and probably
last attempt against this bulwark of fidelity.
All the garrison of this Island, officers and soldiers of
all ranks and degrees, conducted themselves, according
to the position they were in, as became the defenders of
our moat holy and generous cause—the principal glory of
this day, however, belongs to the corps of volunteers of
her Majesty the Queen Donna MARIA the Second, and
the correct narrative of their behaviour, which I have
just submitted to your Excellency is their best praise ;
and when such facts proclaim the glory of a corps, every
other expression becomes weak and inferior.

Lieut. D. ANTONIO DE MELLO, my Adjutant, whom
I send to your Excellency, and recommend to the benevo-
lent consideration of her MAJESTY, will have the honour
to lay at the feet of that august Lady protestations of
love and submission from this garrison, and will inform
your Excellency of particulars which it is impossible for
me to insert in the present dispatch. May Go n preserve
-your Excellency.
Conde os VILLA FLOR.
To his Eicellency the Marquis de Palmella. Ste. /se. tsc.
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MANIFESTO

OF HIS EXCELLLENCY THE MARQUIS OF BA RBA-
CENA TO THE FAITHFUL SUBJECTS OF HER
MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL, DONNA
MARIA 11.
" At the moment that I am about to carry into effect
the positive orders that my august master the Emperor of
the BRAZILS has been pleased to direct to me, in the
quality of Tutor of her Majesty DONNA MARIA
Queen of Portugal, viz, that I should re-conduct her
MAJESTY to the company of her Imperial Father, it is
my duty, in obedience to the instructions with which I am
furnished, to declare to the loyal subjects of her Faithful
MAJESTY the intentions of his Imperial MAJESTY—that
to all may be known the true motives of his Imperial
determination, in order that they may not permit them-
selves to be deluded by unfounded fears or malignant
insinuations.

The separation of her Faithful MAJESTY from the so-
ciety of her august Father, became a necessary conse-
quence of her MAJESTY'S exaltation to the throne of
Portugal ; and her coming to England, and temporary
residence in the kingdom of the most ancient Ally of
Portugal, was occasioned by the unlooked-for and odious
usurpation of the Crown of this kingdom in violation of
the most sacred oaths ; scandalous to the Governments and
nations of both hemispheres.
The return of her MAJESTY to her family is the ne-
cessary effect of the contest existing for legitimacy
against usurpation ; and the tender paternal care of his
Imperial MAJESTY requires that he should be the de-
fender and guardian of her MAJESTY until the desired
moment shall arrive when she may be placed on the
throne that HEAVEN has destined for her.

Far from abandoning, therefore, the cause of his much-
loved daughter, his Imperial Majesty persists in his un-
alterable resolution to protect the cause of her Majesty
by every means in his power, and never to treat with the
Usurper or his partizans.
Whatever may be the difficulties or obstacles that may
retard the triumph of the cause of honour, justice, and
legitimacy, the subjects of her Majesty Donna MARIA
the Second ought not to be dismayed, nor vacilate in the
glorious defence of the cause in which they are engaged,
as the justice of it insures its final success—but if any
one during this contest may prefer an asylum in Brazil
to that which some of the Powers of Europe have afforded
them, they may calculate on, and I hereby engage for
them, by express orders of the Emperor, that generous
hospitality that they are justly deserving of from their
unmerited misfortunes and proved fidelity to their Ma-
jesties Don PEDRO IV. and Donna MARIA II."

_
On board his Impetial Majesty's ship Insperatris, August 27,
1529. MARQUIS OF BARBACRNA.

INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND OF TzßczlßA,
The vessels in the offing appear to belong to the Usurper
of the Portuguese throne, and threaten a descent on this
island, which has faithfully maintained its sacred duty of
alone obeying its legitimate Sovereign. To me, people
of Terceira—to me only, it appertains, to direct the ne-
cessary steps for your defence, through the gallant and
loyal military garrison confided to my command by her
MAJESTY, and upon which alone devolves the duty of
defending the island. I shall watch over your safety,
and the officers and soldiers of this garrison Will know
how to make the enemy repent the temerity of an at-
tack, should they dare to attempt it.
People, I address myself to you in the name of your
legitimate Qu zzx, to call to your mind that it is your
.duty and your interest to preserve tranquillity—shut your
.ears to the voice of sedition, and to every clamour that
may discourage you, in the certainty that on your conduct
in compliance therewith will depend the enjoyment of
concessions that our gracious Sovereign will one day con-
fer on the country that served as the bulwark of fidelity
--hut to those who shall swerve from their duty, I pledge

myself that the severity and rigour of the law shall take
its course, and exemplary punishment shall serve as a
warning for all who may violate their duty as subjects,
_and renounce the sacred obligations of an oath.
Cunt of VILLA FLOR.
c Uwe of Governmest, at Aws, setts lay.lBllo.