Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-02

war. some of the transports were Ia
ken. This brilliant deed OF arms
was not achieved without intrigues.in
the Brazilian army; the French Bri.
gadier Labatult was arrested by his
own troops, and sent for trial to Rio
de Janeiro.
I'm August, there arrived from Lis
bon, in a government brig, by way Of
Bahia or ST, Salvador, an agent
from the Portuguese government.
He had been sent there to suspend
the war, if he should meet with the.
Portuguese troops; xnd to re-unltei
himself at Rio de Janeiro to two o..
ther Portuguese agents sent directly
from Lisbon. The brig entered the
port under Parliamentary colors. a
few days afterwards, arrived IN
sloop of war, the two aforesaid a.
gents, she passed the bar under Por-
tuguese colors; she was declared a
prize, and the agents we're detained
ON board. A correspondence took
place between them and the govern
ment, in which they delivered their
dispatches to the Imperial govern
ment: but, as they were not autlo-
rised to recognise the independence
of Brazil, the correspondence was
broken off. and they were ordered to
Lisbon in the Parliamentary brig.
The sloop Of war remained to De
tried in Prize Court.
As soon as the two Paulistas were
| dismissed from their places. they put
themselves at the head of the opposi-
ton; and the same persons who had
maintained the dignity of the crown,
became it's enemies. Every govern
ment act was debated, opposed, and
scoffed at; and 50 earnest were they
to be, once more. Secretaries of
State, that they employed themselves
in hunting an occasion to attack the
new and spiritless administration. by
forcing the Assembly to intermeGdie
in matters that, i'm every we'll regn-
lated government. belong to the ex-
ecutive or judicial power.
Two military men struck an indi-
vidual. surprising him to be the au.
thor of libel printed in the papers
against them and some other officers.
The man, supported by the party,
presented himself to the Assembly,
where the question was strongly de-
bated, and something like mob
appeared in behalf Of the two de-
posed Ministers. On that day. the
Speaker was obliged to adjourn the
| Assembly. Whom the two Ministers
came out, they were presented by
their frieads, with great huzzas, to
the Emperor, who was in window
near. He appointed a new Minis
try, but excluded them. The pee
pie felt great anxiety; something like
uncertainty appeared in every face.
The military, against whom great
insults had been uttered in the course
of the debate, went in body, in the
afternoon, to the Emperor, and beg.
ged redress. lie ordered them un-
der arms in the night near his per-
son. The civil war was prevented
by this very timely resolution.
The next day the Assembly de-
cIared itself in permanent session,
and remained thus for two days.
At twelve O'Clock on the second, it
was dissolved, and another conveked
by the same decree.
The two Ministers. with one
brother, the most eloquent man in
the Assembly, one priest, their cou-
sin, one other man, the warmest of
their friends, and a very unprinci-
pied creature, who coveted power,
and was always ready to unite him-
self to every innovator, all Depu-
ties in the Chamber. were deported
to Europe-the married men were
allowed to receive in France seven
thousand FIVE hundred French livres,
as an annual pension, and the single
ones half that sun.
While those political questions for
power were in agitation at Rio de
Janeiro, Maranham, aud Para, were
united to the empire by some of the
ships under Lord Cochrane. The
Portuguese troops found there were
Skinned off to Lisbon.