josé da silva carvalho - DSpace CEU

I have lost my rank and pensión in England, for which I ought to
be remunerated agreable to the contract. I also lost everything as
well as my family in the City of Waterford, so that I am absolutely
ont of pocket. Grants, I observe, have been given to Terceira and
Saldanha, bnt I have been pnt on one side, or rather with the
exception of titiles which have titile valué in my eyes totally neglected,
and indeed had I been consulted I should have preferred remaining
a simple Admira!, for nothing is more ridiculous than a poor nobleman.
Report says there is to be some slight changos in your ministry, do,
my good friend, think of the Navy in that event, you may want it
some day or other, and take my word for it, unless attention is paid
to it yon will have no men 5th of July's. Should yon ever haré a
dispute with the Brazils, unless you follow my advice, Portugal will
be dishonoured, and instead of blockading Rio Janeiro, the Brazilians
will blockade Lisbon. I speak to you frankly for I know you yourself
are frank, and have the honour and glory of your country at heart.
Believe me always your sincere friend.=Cape St. Vincent.
P. 8.—As one proof of the way accounts have been kept the
Purser of the «Cape St. Vinoent» is now in debt to Government 6
contos, which is more than all the Pursers united of the British Navy
ever would be in debt.
DOC. CCXCIV
Carla do coronel Hodges 1
a Silva Carvalho
Pedindo desoulpa das palavras Injustas que escreveu sobre a expediçao
dos Acores de 1832 e acerca do Imperador e de alguns homens
políticos de Portugal, bem como de ter recambiado as insignias da
, Torre e Espada. É urna retractaçao completa e cabal.
London, 7 Upper Soymour Street, West, 26 March 1835.
Sir.—Having heard that Your Excellency was much dissatisfied
with expressions used in a narrativo I published in the year 1833
of the late expedition from the Azores under the orders of His
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Lé-se na Bibliotheca Açoriana, de Ernesto do Canto, pag. 167:
Hodges (G. JAojá)—Late colond in the service of Her Mott Faithful Majesty
íhe Queen of Portugal.
Narrative of the expedition to Portugal in 1832. London, 1883, James Frazer,
vol. 2 in 8.°, com um mappa.