rts of the constitution as might be applicable to the state of
Brazil, the following persons:--

[Note 30: Some have imagined that a paper published at Rio, written
by a Frenchman, and supposed to have been in the pay of the then
ministry, desirous of keeping the king in Brazil, had great effect on
the subsequent events; and that greater still had been produced by the
revolution of the 10th of February, at Bahia; but the motives of action
were the same in all Brazil; the event must have been the same at Rio,
whether Bahia had stirred or not, though, perhaps, it might be
accelerated by that circumstance.]

Marquez de Altegrete--_President_
Baron de St. Amaro.
Luiz Jose de Carvalho Mello.
Antonio Liuz Pereiro da Cunha.
Antonio Rodriguez Velloso dc Oliviera.
Joa[)o] Severiano Maciel da Costa.
Camillo Maria Tonelet
Joa[)o] dc Souza de Mendonca Costa Real.
Jose da Silva Lisboa.
Mariano Jose Pereira da Fonseca.
Jav[)o] Rodriguez Pereira de Almeida.
Francisco Xavier Pires.
Jose Caetano Gomez.

_Procurador da Casa._

Jose de Oliviera Botelho Pinto Masquiera.

_Secretarios._

Manoel Jacinto Noguerra de Gama.
Manoel Moreira de Figueiredo.

_Secretaries Sustituti._

O Coronel Francisco Saraiva da Costa Refoios.
O Desembargador Joa[)o] Jose dc Mendonza.

These persons were all anxious to retain the King in Brazil. Most of
them Brazilians, they had felt the advantage of having the seat of
government fixed among themselves, and though the King's foreign allies
and his Portuguese subjects had pressed him to return to Europe, his own
dread of the Cortes of Lisbon, together with their natural desire to
detain him in Brazil, produced on the 21st a manifesto, describing His
Majesty's affection and relianceon his Brazilian subjects, and stating,
that he was resolved to send the Prince Don Pedro to Lisbon, with full
powers to treat on his behalf with the Cortes, whom he seems to have
considered as subjects in rebellion.

The Prince was also to consult with the Cortes concerning the drawing up
of a constitution, and the King promised to adopt such parts of it as
might be found applicable to existing circumstances and to the peculiar
situation of Brazil. This manifesto appears to have produced an effect
very different from what was intended. At four o'clock in the morning of
the 26th, all the streets and squares of the city were found full of
troops. Six pieces of artillery were planted at the heads of the
principal