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On the 17th, we paid our respects, with a large party of officers, to 

 the civil governor the Baron de Lordello, field-marshal in the army, 

 and administrator-general of the Province of Madeira and Porto 

 Santo; and also to the military governor Jose Teixcera Rebello, 

 colonel in the army, and commandant of the district. 



The civil and military governments were formerly united in the 

 same person, but since the restoration after the reign of Don Miguel, 

 they have been divided. The military governor is now obliged to 

 consult, and is under the control of the civil governor. I was 

 informed that on the appointment of the military governor this was 

 expressly intimated to him, and that the arrangement was made in 

 order to avoid placing too much power in the hands of any one 

 man. 



His Excellency Baron Lordello resides in the government house or 

 palace, which is a large quadrangular building, occupied in part as 

 barracks. His suite of apartments fronts the bay, and enjoys a 

 beautiful view of it; they also have the enjoyment of the .inbat or 

 sea-breeze. They are very large, and but meagerly furnished. 

 Around the large anteroom are hung the portraits of all the civil, 

 ecclesiastical, and military governors, which form an imposing array 

 of hard outline, stiff figures and faces, with a variety of amusing 

 costume. Those of later years which have been hung up, are not 

 calculated to give very exalted ideas of the standing of the present 

 Portuguese school of portrait painting. 



His Excellency the Baron Lordello received us very courteously. 

 Our audience, however, was extremely formal : the whole furniture 

 and appearance of the room served to make it so. We all found 

 it difficult to school ourselves to ceremonies, having been ushered as 

 we were through dilapidated and impoverished courts and vestibules. 

 His Excellency the Baron speaks English remarkably well, which I 

 understood he had acquired while acting as interpreter to the British 

 staff in Portugal, during the Peninsular War. He had been no more 

 than a week in charge of the government, having just arrived from 

 Portugal. After a few monosyllabic questions and answers we took 

 our leave, and he did us the honour to see us through the anteroom to 

 the hall of entrance, where we parted with many bows. 



Our next visit was to the military governor, Senor Rebello, who 

 occupied a small apartment at the opposite end of the building. 

 This was not large enough to accommodate us all, and chairs were 

 wanting for many. The manner and ease of the occupant made 

 full amends. Ceremony and form were l.iid aside; he seemed to 



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