Bidspirit auction | RELAÇÃO das notícias do Rio

RELAÇÃO das notícias do Rio de Janeiro, decreto, e extracto das cartas do Príncipe Real a seu Augusto Pai. Lisboa, 1822. - Relação das notícias do Rio de Janeiro, decreto, e extracto das cartas do Príncipe Real a seu Augusto Pai. Lisbon, Na Impressão de Alcobia, 1822. Folio (c. 30 × 21 cm); [2] pp. printed in two columns; heading in large capitals (“RELAÇÃO”) with the price (“Preço 30 rs.”) at the upper right-hand corner; roman type. Unbound single sheet; old vertical fold; small marginal chips and tears and a few handling stains, but generally well preserved. The recto carries a long report dated Rio de Janeiro, 10 March on the arrival of the Portuguese squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Francisco Maximiliano de Sousa and on the political and military situation in the city at the height of the Luso-Brazilian constitutional crisis. At the foot of the same page is printed the Decree of Rio de Janeiro, 26 February , in which the Prince Royal Dom Pedro (the future Pedro IV of Portugal and Pedro I of Brazil) announces his decision to remain in Brazil, pledging to defend the constitutional cause and calling for unity between the Kingdom and the Provinces. On the verso appears the official letter read in the session of the Portuguese Cortes of 15 May, sent by the Minister and Secretary of State for the Affairs of the Kingdom. It transcribes and comments on the Prince Royal’s letters to King João VI and presents to the national assembly the political significance of the decree of 26 February, stressing Pedro’s fidelity to the Portuguese Constitution and the need to preserve the integrity of the monarchy while acknowledging the specific circumstances of Brazil. An important political news-leaf, printed in Lisbon in the very midst of the events of 1822, documenting how D. Pedro’s first decisions in Rio de Janeiro were received in Portugal and how the constitutional authorities sought to frame, in legal and political terms, the Luso-Brazilian crisis that would soon lead to Brazilian independence.