1824.] 
liis aid-de-camp. M. A. returned to 
Paris, in 1789, and was dislodged 
thence by the events of the revolution. 
In 1790 he returned to Spain, whence 
he again took shipping for Acapulco ; 
there he took up bis residence for some 
time, and afterwards made travelling 
excursions into the interior of Mexico. 
This collection of facts relative to M. 
A. exhibits the whole of what has been 
communicated out of an immense 
yariety. A larger narrative would be 
admirably calculated to instruct as well 
as please. 
; ABRANTES, THE FATHER. 
-Abrantes, Don F. J. Marquis Dd’, 
President of the Council of Regency 
of Portugal, when invaded by the 
French, was one of the members of the 
deputation sent to Napoleon in 1807. 
Being detained in France with several 
other lords, members of that deputa- 
tion, (a disgracefal and malicious con- 
duct, for which the loudest censures 
were pronounced on Bonaparte,) the 
virtues of this good man were exem-~ 
plified by the unshaken fortitude he 
displayed in adversity ; when, with the 
cheering smiles of generous friendship, 
he made it his business to soothe the 
anguish of his sorrowing fellow-cap- 
tives. Though poor and solitary, far 
removed from his friends, and the 
relief which his family could have ad- 
ministered, he shared every boon, that 
happened to be in the sphere of his 
contracted means, with the companions 
of his exile. Fame has not been 
backward in braiding the wreath 
round his brow; and his sovereign, 
counteracting the injury of such unjust 
conduct in Napoleon; has rewarded 
the generous and humane sentiments, 
the disinterested virtues, and genuine 
patriotism, of the marquis, by placing 
him near his person, and by honouring 
him with his utmost confidence, and 
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43 
the sweetened endearments of friend- 
ship. 
ABRANTES, DON JOSE. 
Abrantes, Don José Marquis D’, son 
of the preceding, was born in 1782. 
His family being in high favour at the 
court of Lisbon, he entered early into 
the military service as an officer in the 
guards. , 
When the Prince Regent departed 
with his court for Brazil, Don José 
d’Abrantes received orders to remain 
in Portugal, in aid of the national 
cause against the French. From the 
political events of the times, finding 
himself prevented from serving his 
sovereign in a public capacity, he de- 
voted himself, in the dignified conduct 
of private life, to studies useful and 
ornamental. His merit and perspi- 
cacity, which might otherwise have 
been concealed aad lost to bis coun- 
try, were thereby discovered and dis- 
tinguished. - 
As a true votary to the genius of 
science, his endeavours were effectu- 
ally exerted in animating, encouraging, 
and protecting, the interests of agricul- 
ture and botany. To this object he 
contributed greatly, by a number of 
tracts which he published in the Por- 
tuguese language, from the very accu- 
rate. information he had been enabled 
to obtain on the above subjects. 
In: 1814 he was constituted Presi- 
dent of the Socicty of Agriculture, 
established by the Council of Regency, 
and he is now colonel of a regiment of 
Cuirassiers. 
It should have been observed, that the 
Marquis D’Abrantes, the son, accom- 
panied the deputation sent to France ; 
and it was there that he commenced 
those studies which will best speak his 
praise, and from which much benefit 
has been derived to his country. 
STEPHENSIANA. 
NO. XXX, 
MILITARY CONTROL, 
HARLES XIL. on being thwarted 
by the Senate, transmitted a let- 
ter to Stockholm, in which he threat- 
ened “ to send his jack-hoot to preside 
over their deliberations!” 
WONDERS FOR HISTORY. 
Bonaparte, sovereign of Europe, 
was a lieutenant in the Artillery when 
M. Minibus, one of the L’reuch masters 
of the Royal Military College at Mar- 
low, was captain. : 
The son of Joseph Bonaparte, for- 
merly an attorney at Bayonne,was con- 
verted by the magic of Bonaparte into 
a sceptre, which, after ruling Naples, 
commanded Spain. 
JAMES II. 
While Duke of York, he Jay under 
considerable obligations to the Earl of 
Halifax, 
