Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-05-17
EXPEDITION OF DON PEDRO: CRU
ELITES OF MIGUEL THE SLAVE
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we have received the following interest.
ing letter from a highly esteemed corfespon
dent
A friend who left the flores two months
nirce. has communicated TO me somc item:
Of Information, of winch you may, il you think
proper. make use.
Don Pedro had at st. Michaels 10000
troops. OF these 5000 were regulars. hired
bv the government. and paid 10y a general
Contribution of the Islands, 1000 are voiin
teers. chiefly young nen of education, re
spectahiiity, aud property These receive
no pay, and they clothe and equip mem
selves. One volunteer corps OF SOD, - com
posed wholly Of students from the University
Of Coitrbfa They are fine young men. MI
the volunteers choose their " officers, VINO
are DIS in g1ished from privates by no other
Ladye than an additional strip OF gold lace
e,lleon round the cuff lheIr boards have
groveA 50 long az to reach their breasts, Tor
fhe, have made a yow not 10 shave until the
tyrsDt is hurled from his throne.
Gen Count villa FboR IS brave, but has
moi the conf ience OF he people. They think
he is patriotic and hberat by circumstances
one evening Al the theatre in Terceira, he
rave the riuas Of Donna Maria" and the
Regency hut omitted the Charte coisltta-
tioanI Upon this the audience chatcd aud
became enraged. They rushed 81 the often
der, tore bis box all 10 pieces.and broke eF
cry thing which came III their way they
would not have spared his person, IT he bad
NOT timely made his escape. The theatre
WIS Immediately surrounded Ivy troops, bat
there was nc doubt bat they would take sides
with the people. VILLA FLOR to appease
The storm. came into the House & apologi2ed
saving that it was an inadvertcncc that he
Omitted the charter. and then ciedied It three
timss, in which The people united, and be
came quiet and orderly again
Don Pedro was expected to bring 1000
good troops from England and France; max
ing 10000 10 the whole. TIL volunteers are
expected to fight with uncommon bravery.
aud ,f necessary with desperation. Because
they are almost all fugitigcs from Portugal,
whose fathers have been murdered, o: their
families and friends in some way persecu-
tel, gr themselves put in danger by Migu
ell aud his unions. They fight for their
lives, their homes. their fortunes, or to re.
venge murder.
The ramonr that General Saldanha, was
not going with Don Pedro is not true On
The contrary he is the most popular com
maDder they have. The young Marquis OF
Louie, who married Misuel's sister, and
whose father Hl-uol murdered, IS also ex
tremely popular He is p republican In prln-
ciple and has written and published IN Paris,
a political work. which IS unlyersally read
and admired at the Islands.
NV friends estimates tie executions and
banishments to Africa by order Of Miguel at
500 For many days after the Instruction
OF the fifth and sixteenth regiments at Lis
bon, from 20 TO 50 executions took place dai
" The people became horror stricken, and
Miguel himself deemed II a prudent measure
TO prosecute his further buteheues privately.
So the prisoners eeFe sent on board ge Don
Sotn vi. II, and there at the latest a6vices
his miscreants were continuing 10 hang and
sink by tying cannon balls 20 their heels. from
10 to ID men per day. A sailor from the
Don John, escaped 10 the Islands He had
been on hoard three months, and every day
there was hanging gong on. 'Beautiul
young men, he SAID, 'Fwere brought OH board
that dreadful ship; and IN some instances,
they looked aslftheT eyes would start out OF
their heads, with terror and despair" These
sights, were more than this sailor could bear.
The victims, he said, would call upon God;
but Miguel's officers would reply You vii
lain you call upon God! yOn Mason! you
Repubiican,n
J ~ ulOsl &idtitY lux BaNt ~ 1
from Inv friend, is the entire p~L0titioa Of SID
eegY in the domini0ns whIchSre, or are to be
under the government of Donna Maria. STA
very was abolished before, when Pedro first
established the ChGrte Constitutional cut up
on the usurpatiou Of Miguel, 1t was restored
Now the slaves Azores are all free a
gain. and that too without any compensation
TO TIER masters. The restora ion Of The Con-
stitutiou, it rs supposed, will have a most i'm
portant bearing upon the slave trade IN Airl-
sca. The Portuguese now carry on that trade
through Inc medium OF the Cape de Ferd Is.
lands psrtIcularl, Bona jiSio There, the
slaves ships1ake The orders oil the great slave
dealers and then proceed 30 Cochen Or some
other Portuguese place on the Coast, where
they are Immediately supplied, and then pro
coed to The Braz'ts A young man with whom
] have became acquainted, has made one
voyage lately, and bis oni, orc. He assures
me that no consideration would induce him
to make another. That 10 see so~much hu~
man misery, and to hear such waiting, was
al injury TO him greater than all the gain OF
the traffic, even if it we're ten times as lucra-
tive a. tits For slaves at the coast being
between the ages OF Il and %, he gave $50,
and sold them foI $3.50 10 Brazil.
] must now state a remarkable and most
interesting fact, which ought TO be trumpet
ed throughout Great Britain and America
A slave vessel was fitted out sometime ago
at Baltimore. Tier nominal captain and own
er was A Portuguese. but the real was a cltl-
zen of ,he United States. She was called
the .fficaio; and had a crew Of so men
She arrived ou the coast, aui took m 4 car