oduce the desired effect. One
result was, however, not a little curious, as originating an offer to
myself from the revolutionary President, of a bribe of 400,000 milreis,
to be shipped immediately on board the English packet anchored off the
port, if I would abandon the Imperial cause, and come over to the
Republicans; this offer alluding, in strong terms, to the "infamous
treatment with which my services had been met by the administration at
Rio de Janeiro, and warning me that, by adhering to it, I should meet
with nothing but continued ill-treatment and ingratitude."

The subjoined is the revolutionary President's letter:

MY LORD,

Frankness is the distinguishing character of free men, but
Your Excellency has not found it in your connection with the
Imperial Government. _Your not having been rewarded for the
first expedition affords a justifiable inference that you will get
nothing for the second._ I therefore use the freedom to assure Your
Excellency the amount of 400 contos of Reis, as an indemnification
for your losses.

The services required from Your Excellency are to take up the
cause of the "Confederation of the Equator," as adopted by the
majority of the Northern provinces, whose limits will be the river of
Francisco da Norte.

I have the honour to be
Your Excellency's most humble servant,

MANUEL DE CARVALHO PAES D'ANDEADE.

The letter contained, in addition, an argumentative justification of the
revolt, but as it abounds in abuse of the Emperor, couched in the most
indecorous language, I will not sully these pages by printing it entire.

The result predicted by Carvalho--as I had learned by experience--was
not improbable, but it did not follow that, because the Brazilian
ministers were unjust and hostile to me, I should accept a bribe from a
traitor to follow his example. I therefore transmitted the following
reply to his impudent proposal:--

_Pedro Primiero,_ Off Pernambuco, Aug. 26, 1824.

SIR,

If I shall have an opportunity of becoming personally known to Your
Excellency, I can afford you proof to conviction, that the opinion
you have formed of me has had its origin in the misrepresentations
of those in power, whose purposes I was incapable, on principle, to
serve.

I have, &c. &c. COCHRANE AND MARANHAO.

His Excellency M. DE C. PAES D'ANDEADE.

On the 19th, the Junta requested the interposition of the