Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-08-31

They decrerd, moreover, that eve,
ry proyince of Brazil was part OF
the Portuguese monarchy; that every
one If the provinces should receive a
separate government, composed oil
elements newly invented. which was'
that every head of department was
only responsible to the government
at Lisbon, i'm consequence OF which
injured individuals must seek for re-
dress at the distance Of 5000 leagues;
that the oyerplus ofthe treasury from
every province should be sent to LIS
bon to pay their special debt, and lt
was thus decided, when the Brazil
liam bank had an agent at Lisbon
begging of every Brazilian deputy
in the Cortes to offer petition fof
its own relief from debt of Sis..
600, 900, contracted by the departed
government. and for payment o,
which the overplus in question had
been designed by the King; but the
Portuguese party in the Cortes exhl'
bited so tyrannical an appearances
that every Brazilian deputy was ii'
terally afraid of the stiileto. ihey
ordered the remittance of the nett
products of diamonds and other Ell
fects. administered by agents OF the
Brazilian bank in Europe, to the
treasury at Lisbon. They cheated
them of 10000 pounds sterling, de-
posited in English stock belonging to
several Brazilian merchants. They
decreed the regress to Lisbon OF the
Prince Regent of Brazil, and the an
inhalation of all departments created
in Brazil as a kingdom, although
such had existed at Lisbon. and also
in Brazil, all the time that the court
had existed there.
An the appointments of public a.
gents to foreign courts, of secreta-
ries, and counsellors of states. and,
what is still more scandalous, of mi
litary governors for Brazil. not one
native Brazilian was included.
When the Cortes at Lisbon was
administering for Brasil. as it it was
a Portuguese farm, the Brazilians be-
gan to think of their situation.-
They had called for and embraced
the constitutional government with
open hearts; they had sent their de-
puties to Lisbon. The governmen.
had been too much corrupted, and
they expected reformation; but they
were astonished, when they began to
see that it was possible that, from
the reform, some good was to resul'
for Portugal, but that for them no
thing but slavery, recolonization. OF
something similar. was destined. Al
Pernambuco there we're then in gar
rison a European battalion; at Bs.
hia, 5000 men; at Monte Video
5000: and at Rio de Janeiro, 2.noo
I'm spite of those forces, the cry
that the Prince Regent must not de.
part, was general; Il at Rio de janet
70, with the concurrence of ST. Paul,
and Minas' Deputies, the city Corpo
ration, and more than 200 citizens
dressed IN black, went, on the 9th %
January, 1899, to the Prince Re-
gent, and with the most respectful
address. begged him not to depart
and not to abandon country where
the Braganza Dynasty had Away:
been respected, to set of ruiEans
collected at Lisbon, under the sacret
| and prostituted name of Liberty
with no other object than to enslavt
them.
So soon as he pronounced that h,
should remain in Brazil till remon
STRANGE should be sent to Liston, tlit
| shout was universal; the city was il
Illuminated for nine days; the theatre
was opened on three evenings sue
cessively, and every one congratu
lated his neighbor as it public ca
lamity had been ayerted. Those fe
reigners born in countries where thu
people are what they ought to be
| were astonished at seeing for the frs
time, in a Portuguese country, th'
people playing a new scene, and ii
the most orderly manner.
Yet, from the first moment, 1t wa
perceived that the European tro"p
were not satisfied, and on the thirt
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