126] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



army. On the following day this 

 Older was to be put in execution ; 

 and the prisons were thrown open 

 for the reception of the most de- 

 termined leaders of the intended 

 conspiracy. Of these, the Brazil- 

 ian officers of the regiments of 

 Olinda and Recifr were the most 

 distinguished. Several of these 

 were ai)prehended ; but a colonel, 

 going first to the barracks for tiie 

 purpose of executing the order, 

 was killed by one of his own cap- 

 tains. An aide-de-camp of the 

 governor met with tlie same fate 5 

 and the whole of the regiments 

 sided with their officers. The go- 

 vernor with his pergonal staff and 

 a few other officers quitted the 

 town, and retired to Fort Bran, at 

 a short distance. On the follow- 

 ing day tlie fort was delivered up 

 without resistance, and the go- 

 rernor with his officers were made 

 prisoners, and shipped for Rio 

 Janeiro. 



This insurrection was limited 

 to the district of Pernambucoj 

 and its triumph only lasted till a 

 body of troops could be drawn to- 

 gether capable of resisting it. On 

 May 12th, intelligence reached 

 Serinhaem that the insurgents in- 

 tended to attack the advanced 

 guard of the royal army, posted 

 near the works of Civiro Caval- 

 eante. The army in consequence 

 marched, and took up its positions 

 in tlie works of Pendoba Grande 

 and Peguena. On the 15th Major 

 Salvador marched with a force 

 destined to occupy the Pojuca, 

 which he accomjilished, but was 

 exposed to all the P.re of the ene- 

 my. At half- past five in the after- 

 noon the main body of the army 

 arrived, and came to action in a 

 place called Guerra. The firing 



began with the artillery, and th 

 action lasted till night., in the 

 course of which the insurgents 

 dispersed, and were pursued by 

 several royal detachments. In the 

 morning were found on the field 

 of battle five pieces of cannon, a 

 carronade, quantities of ammuni- 

 tion and provision, and the mili- 

 tary chest with nearly a million of 

 reis. Many prisoners were taken, 

 and great numbers were killed 

 and wounded, of whom a con- 

 siderable part were officers. 



After this action, intelligence 

 having been received that the in- 

 surgent Martins was advancing at 

 the head of a column on Serin- 

 haem, a body of troops under the 

 command of a captain of militia 

 was sent against him, which com- 

 pletely routed his force, taking 

 many prisoners, among whom was 

 Martins himself, the celebrated 

 leader of the rerolution. 



Not long after the intelligence 

 had been received of the entire de- 

 feat of the insurrection in Brazil, 

 a plot was discovered for effecting 

 a revolution in Portugal, the pur- 

 pose of wliich was to make an 

 entire change in the government. 

 On the first of June, Lisbon was 

 made acquainted with the nature 

 and extent of this conspiracy, 

 which we shall communicate in 

 the words of the public paper in 

 which it appeared. 



"The go vernor of Portugal havnig 

 been informed that there existed a 

 cons[)iracy in the country, whose 

 object was to overthrow the go- 

 vernment, and to substitute for it 

 a revolutionary government ; and 

 that, in order to attain their 

 object, the conspirators employ- 

 ed such means as they thought 

 most calculated to mislead the 



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