PROSPECTS OF PORTUGAL. 181 



" Senhor Roche Pinto came next, in palace preference, to the Marquis of 

 Rezende. Though a Portuguese by birth, he was a naturalised Brazilian. 

 His description of capacity was just that which rendered him the safe con- 

 fidant of the pains and pleasures of a prince of the house of Braganza. He 

 was a man of prudence and retention ; and, although gifted with a tolerable 

 aptitude for languages, yet, whenever a secret was in question, he could 

 ' Give it an understanding, but no tongue.' " 



At a moment when Paris swarmed with the old Portuguese nobi- 

 lity, who had incurred exile and confiscation by an adherence to the 

 fortunes of his daughter, the ex-emperor was almost daily seen in 

 the garden of the Tuilleries, leaning on the arm of his favourite 

 pandour. But this was not all, Don Pedro, when in England, by a 

 disregard of every moral feeling, of every consideration that governs 

 the conduct of the man of honour and the gentleman, actually took 

 this fellow with him to Windsor, where he had the honour of dining 

 with royalty itself, and of associating with the best blood in the 

 country. 



Almost every page in the work before us contains some glaring 

 proof of the worthlessness of this prince. His conduct on first joining 

 the squadron is thus admirably described by our author : 



" The steam-boat had presently approached so close as to allow of our 

 distinguishing those on board. Immediately in front of Captain Bertram 

 stood the Emperor, wrapped in a warm great-coat, and with a fur cap. 

 Various of his attendants were gathered around him ; but the most pro- 

 minent person on the deck, after the imperial principal, was Senhor Men- 

 dizabel, who looked around, and seemed to contemplate with a proud, but 

 grave triumph, the degree of progress achieved by his extraordinary and 

 romantic efforts. He was evidently moved ; while the gayer style of the 

 Emperor towards him appeared to indicate something of raillery on the dis- 

 play of feeling marked in his countenance. 



" The steamer (carrying, as it then seemed, ' Csesar and his fortunes') 

 dropped anchor close by the flag-ship ; upon which the Admiral got into his 

 barge, and proceeded to receive the Emperor and convey him on board. A 

 guard of honour was formed, consisting of sixty as fine-looking and as well- 

 armed and clothed marines as ever stepped on the deck of any frigate in his 

 Britannic Majesty's navy; and a numerous body of Portuguese noblemen' 

 and officers lined each side of the deck of the Rainha da Portugal, to pay 

 their respects to the royal new-comer the band playing in the meanwhile 

 the Constitution Hymn. On his reaching the deck, all eyes bent on him 



' The office and devotion of their view ;' 



and it was evident that the most zealous attachment to his person was ready 

 to enhance that already felt towards his cause by the assembled multitude. 

 An opportunity, both easy and effectual, was here offered, not only of pro- 

 moting the satisfaction of his Portuguese followers, but of fixing himself at 

 once in the hearts of the little band of generous Englishmen who then stood 

 in his presence. That opportunity, unfortunately, was not heeded. The 

 object of all this warmth of homage wore himself a cold and repulsive look. 

 He merely took off his travelling cap, bowed stiffly on each side as he hastily 

 passed into his cabin, and roughly rejected the beija-mao (kissing of hands) 

 with which a few old followers of his father's court would have greeted him. 

 Excuses were made for this neglect of courtesy, by its being stated afterwards 

 that the Emperor had suffered much from sea-sickness on his passage from 

 Nantz, and that he was otherwise slightly indisposed at the period of his 

 arrival. The excuses were not discredited, as indeed he kept his cabin the 



