DON JOSE DE CURRADO. 49 
ther Don Pedro, with much greater means, will 
effect as much as our immortal Peter, time will 
show. One of the hopes of Brazil is already 
extinguished by the death of the Empress, who 
in a short time had done much for science and 
the arts. When the sermon was over, their 
Majesties returned to the Palace, amidst an 
uninterrupted firing of cannon. They then re- 
ceived the congratulations of the court, and at 
four o’clock the Emperor reviewed in the great 
market-place, where a temple was erected for 
the imperial family, a body of four thousand five 
hundred troops, formed in a half circle round 
the temple. In their venerable commander, 
Don José de Currado, a field-marshal, of eighty 
years of age, I joyfully recognised the former 
governor of St. Katherine’s, who, on my first 
voyage round the world, under the command of 
the present Admiral Krusenstein, received me 
so hospitably. The observations I had an oppor- 
tunity of making upon the soldiers, before the 
arrival of the Emperor, were not altogether un- 
favourable; though, it must be confessed, the 
good people seemed to have no very high notion 
of discipline ; smoking, and all kinds of irregula- 
VOL. I. D 
