A reply to two pamphlets, entitled 'Illustrations of the Portuguese question, by a Portuguese lawyer', and 'The last days of the Portuguese ... by an English civilian [W. Walton]. - Softcover
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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...Cabinet of Rio de Janeiro, in the administration of its Portuguese affairs, had inflicted upon Portugal. " These men, indeed, expected that the successor of Don John VI. would have rendered his accession to the crown memorable by issuing sanguinary denunciations against every one of his Portuguese subjects who was known to entertain liberal opinions; and as their hopes of discord were founded upon some misunderstanding which existed between the leading members of the Cortes of 1821 and Don Pedro, relative to the Brazilian empire, their disappointment was rendered still more mortifying, when, instead of decrees commanding the erection of gibbets in Caes de Sodre, and Praca Nova,--instead of persecutions, proscriptions, and confiscations,--a general amnesty, and the grant of a Constitutional Charter, marked the paternal solicitude and merciful spirit of Don Pedro, in his first act as King of Portugal. Then it was, that his inherent rights, and the rights of his daughter, and of his Portuguese descendants, became obnoxious to the admirers of absolute rule, and were first questioned, then disputed, and ultimately disowned. Then it was, that the cant of Don Pedro's forfeiture of the throne by the act of Brazilian independence which made him a foreigner, was sounded as the tocsin of rebellion; then it was that the Prior of Christ, and the Silveiras leagued with the mischievous intriguers from Spain, by whom the various treasonable coteries of Lisbon were influenced; and that civil war commenced which has ruined Portugal by the destruction of her riches, her commerce, her agriculture, her population, and her morals. And, in the promoters of such disasters, we are doomed to recognize the men who endeavour to extenuate their treason by pretending that they were...
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