Star.
London, England, 1828-08-28 00:00:00

such a pitch, that they no longer respected the house
of Captain Pezerat and other esteemed Officers, whose
families were obliged to fly. ,The darkness of the night
favoured them, and completed the confwion. The firing
of musketry, plunderinA shops, all the excesses of
rebellion t ok place; it e aspect of the insurtecion
was so threatening, that even the Emperor called out
thegnifd of honour to surround his person, and Air
the national troops received orders to be ready at the
first summons.

Meanwhile, we must do the Germans the justice to
acknowledge that they offended more in consequence of
being deceived and infected by the fury of the II i.ll
than by their own disposition. Some officers were mas-
sacred while endeavouring to allay the mutiny ; others,
seeing their authority disregirded, fled, as did the set-
jeants, corporals, and well-behaved soldiers. The guard
of the Imperial residence on the 9th, and that which
proceeded to relieve it on the 10th, remained united in
their post, preserving themselves free from the contagion,
and showed themselves ready to shed the last drop of
their blood in defence of the Emperor. Even the
Germans who were in the barracks, and who took an
active part in the mutiny, and were intoxicated, dis•
played next day the greate,t horror at their conduct;
and on the morning of the 11th expelled the lush mu-
tineers and the agents most deeply implicated in the
disorder. This expulsion was, however, a new misfor-
tune, for these men returned to the barracks in the
Campo d'Acclamacan, where they contaminated their
comrades, communicating to them all their rage and
turbulent insubordination.

To complete the misfortune, the battalion of the 28th
Cacadores, lately returned from Pernambuco, and
quartered in the Praia Vermellia, being informed of
what was passing, conceived that the moment tot yen-
geance was arrived. The men having for a long time
cherished an extreme degree of rancour well founded
against their Major (whose name we shall not men'ion,
as he has been punished by his death), whom they
charged with malversation in the distribution cf their
allowances, thought it advisable to seize him and carry
him before the Emperor; hut unfortunately this act of
criminal insubordination being attempted in sight of the
Irish, incited them to pursue the unfortunate Major,
who was endeavouring to escape disguised, and they
cruelly massacred' him. Two officers who wished to
save him, suffered for their generosity and gallantry,
and escaped severely wounded from the hands of the
furious islanders.

However, at this period the mutiny ceased, and Col.
11tGiegor gave intimation that his corps was maintained
in a state of the strictest discipline. The rumour of the
events at St. Christoval caused a great confusion in the
city during the 10th and on the morning of the untor..l
tunate 11 th. The burial of the Major of the battalion
of the 28th Cacadores, and the removal to the hospital
of the Misericordia of the two officers of the same bat-
talion, who were severely wounded, increased the alarm.
It was reported that the foreign soldiers stationed at
the two extremes of the city were marching to unite
in the Campo d'Acclamacao ; that the 3d battalion
quartered there had taken up arms, which was en-1
tittly false; and that when they were all united,
they would take possession of the arsenals, and then
plunder the city. These rumours distracted the cith.
:ens, and the conduct of the authorities did nut ap-
pear sufficiently decisive 'and energetic to inspire confi•
deuce, since, either because they were informed cf the
real state of affairs, or because they conceived that there
would be as much danger in severity as in indulgence,
and therefore wavered in the choice of means of repres-
sion, and did not openly show that they were adopting
prompt measures of precaution, but contented them-
selves with keeping the national troops under arms in
their quarters; and certainly nothing more would have,
bees necessary, had the disorders of the Campo d'Accla-1
macao originated between the drunken Irish and the
bandsof Mulattoes who constantly infest that, r.
hood, assumed di more than usually serio
The Irish, in their fury, went so far as to surrrouno,"
destroy, and plunder the police barracks. Being there
furnished with arms and ammunition, they proceeded
to cob some shops, taverns, and houses in the street of
S. Joaquin. They drank to such excess, that they con-
ducted themselves like madmen. They fired on the
negroes, and on every person that passed. After they had
caused some deaths, the militia battalion of Minas Ge•
raes, some cavalry, and two or three field pieces, were
drawn up in front ot their quarters, in the hopes of in-
tirnidating them without bloodshed, but this produced
so effect. In vain also was a discharge of musketry,
loaded with powder ooly, made. At last, the troops
began to fire with ball, and, marching on the quarters,
finally obliged the rebels to retreat into their barracks,
where they were surrounded. On the following day,
recovering from their intoxication, and recollecting the
horrible precipice to the brink of which they had brought
themselves, they submitted and surrendered at discre-
tion. They were immediately removed with their bag-
gage to the forts and armed ships.
We have spared the reads r the picture of the horrible
scenes of confusion and cruelty which unfortunately, in
proportion as our patrician troops gave example of
courage, coolness, and humanity, the drunken Irish and
the oegtoes, thirsting for vengeance, exhibited. We
would wish to draw a veil over those transactions,
which could only have occurred in a nocturnal tumult,
is consequence ot intoxication on the one hand, and
she rancour of the African nature on the other.—
The Government, perceiving that every (thing con-
curred in comuleting a misfortune which became every
Moment more difficult to be remedied,invited the foreign
Ambassadors, who had maritime forces in the port, to
make their men co-operate with our national troops.—
Within an hour and a half after the request was made,
the French disembacked in the most gallant manner,under
the conviction that they were going to enter immediately
into action. The English troops came forward with
equal rood will, and hastened into the arsenal, where
they appeared in the most brilliant manner in the morn-
ing; but, thank Goa, it eras not necessary that the %et•
vices which they so reifdily came to perform should be

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reel Tired. Nowt!. etnhey do not the less Merit ear
gratitude;linoe fix morning of the 11th tranquillity
was perfectly established. We cannot terminate this
sketch without doing further justice to the national
troops. Their coolness, their valour in action, p.tiet►ce
under fatigue, humanity in victory, ate qualities which
they display in tl.e highest degree.
The Gersnans, Whose fidelity and patience under the
most severe discipline have always rendused them
e.teemed among nationbihowedi even in their mutiny,
how much the genius' of their country is docile and
disposed to repentance: Perhaps the number of crimi-
nals will be 53 small, that the sorrow and shamed the
rest at the idea of their character being stained, will be
a severe punishment for their crime, of not for its la-
=eatable conseqoences. With respect to the Irish, we,
have nothing to advance in their excuse, unless it be
the tuttameable, turbulent, krociuus, •nd savage na-

Few days baye passed, since the Irish were grute►ed there,
Without disorders, dtaturbancea,d quarrels, between the MAK-
Wee end thew druukeu