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 Miguel’s General having insisted that they should be landed on the southern side, and conveyed up to his military hospital.

“Last night, I received a letter from the master of the Brazilian bark, appealing to my humanity as a British officer to send him on board provisions; stating that he had 92 Englishmen and 26 French on board, and that he had nothing to give them to eat. This application I immediately sent to Captain George, not believing it possible that a vessel having on board upwards of 130 persons, including her crew, could be sent to sea by Don Pedro’s Government without a necessary supply of provisions. The whole of the discharged troops have since been made prisoners by Don Miguel’s General.”

These men were sent over land to Lisbon, and eventually conveyed to their respective countries. They drew up a statement, which appeared in some of the English papers, expressive of the kind treatment they received at the hands of the Miguelites. In the same letter. Commander Glascock says:–

On the morning of the 10th Jan. Commander Belcher was sent to St. Ovidio, with a communication to the Miguelite