The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-16 00:00:00

(From our own correspondent.)
London, Saturday Evening.

We have full particulars of the revolt of the troops at the
Cape de Verds, and their proclamation of Don Miguel, re-
ceived this evening. The insurrection appears to have been
of a most sanguinary character, and the atrocities practised
clearly prove that the sole motive was plunder. The number
of Portuguese troops was 225, being part of an expedition sent
out to be dispersed among the islands. On the 21st March
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they rose, however, and confined all their officers except one,
a subaltern, and the Ist and 2d serjeants, as well as those of
'the garrison and several residents, and placed their field-pieces
in various parts of the town, one in front of the governor's
quarters, and stationed soldiers at various of the houses, par-
ticularly at the governor's, which was thronged with fugitives,
and commenced sacking the place, which took place on the
Saturday. On the Sunday morning, having gained entire
possession of the place, they commenced playing Don Miguel's
march, and on the following day they imprisoned the families
of the officers. At night they bound all the officers together,
and drove them to the cemetery, and then inhumanly butchered
all except two ensigns, who were pardoned on condition of
joining them. Those not immediately killed were beaten with
the but-end of the muskets till they were broken, and in some
instances life not being extinguished even by these means, the
horrid deed was finished with large stones, with the exception
of one of the intended victims, who was miraculously preserved.
On Thursday the widows and orphans were removed into the
country, Don Miguel was then proclaimed the legitimate King
of Portugal, to which the few remaining inhabitants were com-
pelled to assent, even the Spanish and American consols being
included, or they would have shared the fate of the murdered.
The commandant of the revolters then issued orders demand-
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ing money and provisions in the name of Batellion, and re-
quiring various articles of European. luxury within a certain
time, on penalty of a forfeiture of life. This was done at the
point of the bayonet, and, in consequence, all.the families, with
the exception of five, fled from the place.
The enraged commandant upon this addressed a letter to the
governor, requiring him to cause all those released from prison
upon his guarantee to appear on the Wednesday at 8 p.m. in
front of the battalion to suffer the penalty of martial law. This
,savage was, llowever, pacified by the governor pledging-himself
that they had left solely to oppose the entrance of the country
forces. During that evening many of the soldiers embarked on
board a Sardinian polacca, which they had previously seized,
and a small American schooner belonging to the Portuguese
government. On the Thursday guns were heard in the vicinity
of Praga, which caused much alarm among the revolters, who,
however, united their forces, and with a field-piece dispersed the
small force assemliled against them, by which the soldiers were
enabled to effect a final embarkation, after pillaging the place,
spiking the guns, and emptying all the powder and ball they
could get into thelea. Their intention had been to raze the
town on the Saturday, and massacre all in it, particularly the
governor who was to be shot in the great square, and .this act
of barbarity was only prevented by the want of provisions, and
by the unprecedented coolnes s displayed by the governor in at-
tending to their demands.

The vessels with their murderous savages left the port about
eight o'clock in the evening of this day, and the day after were
seen from the tops of the mountains on their way to the island
of Togo, probably to obtain provisions and plunder that place,
when it was their intention to proceed to the United States. The
booty consisted of plate, jewels, and money, which were on
board the schooner, and the polacca was considered so leaky
that it was expected she would founder at sea. One of the two
pardoned officers succeeded in escaping, but the others was car-
ried off by the revolters. The amount of property destroyed in
five days was upwards of one hundred thousand dollars.