T COMMISSION ON THE SUBJECT--FALSE
REPRESENTATIONS--BUT PARTIALLY TRUE CONCLUSIONS--MY ORIGINAL PATENTS
NEVER SET ASIDE--UNTRUE ASSUMPTIONS AS TO MY DISMISSAL--MY CLAIMS
FOUNDED ON THE ORIGINAL PATENTS--LESS THAN HALF THE INTEREST DUE
PAID--OPINIONS OF EMINENT BRAZILIANS THEREON--MY SERVICES TARDILY
ACKNOWLEDGED--NO ACT OF MINE HAD ANNULLED THEM--THE ESTATE CONFERRED,
NOT CONFIRMED--PROMISES ON ACCOUNT OF CHILI UNFULFILLED--THE WHOLE
STILL MY RIGHT.

Having been thus unceremoniously dismissed from the Imperial
service--without doubt, by order of the Brazilian Ministry to their
Envoy in London, I was some months afterwards surprised by the receipt
of a letter from the Imperial Government, dated December 21st, 1825, and
signed "Visconde de Paranagua," informing me that His Imperial Majesty
had ordered all my pay and other claims to be suspended till I should
return to Rio de Janeiro to justify myself and give an account of my
commission--this being now out of my power, as I had been deprived of
command, and the frigate in which I came to England had returned, by
order of the Envoy, to Rio de Janeiro.

Without, however, giving me time to do this, I received another letter
from the same authority, dated Dec. 30, containing my formal dismission
from the service--this shewing that Gameiro had previous instructions
to act in the way narrated in the last chapter.

The following is the official letter dismissing me from the command of
the Navy, and from the post of First Admiral:--

His Majesty the Emperor, informed of that which your Excellency has
set forth in your letter No. 300, dated the 5th of November last, has
been pleased to determine that your Excellency shall fulfil the
orders already several times transmitted to you, and further in
compliance with the order of the 20th inst., a copy of which I
inclose, you are to return to this Court, where it is necessary you
shall give an account of the Commission with which you were
entrusted. His Majesty is much surprised that, after having taken the
frigate _Piranga_ to a foreign port, and having there remained in
despite of the Baron Itabayana, you should have adopted the
extraordinary resolution, not only _to abandon that frigate, but also
to retire from the service of the Emperor_, without having returned
to give an account of your proceedings _previous to your dismissal
from the command of the naval forces, and from the post of