Armed Merchant Vessels.—San Domingo, 20 guns.—Restauraçam, 24.—San Gualter, 26.—Bisarra, 18.
[101] The pay of seamen is but scanty. The advertisement of February for seamen to man the Pedro Primeiro is as follows:—To able-bodied seamen 8 mil. bounty; 4 mil. 800 rees to ordinary seamen. Monthly pay, 8 mil. to able-bodied seamen, 6mil. 500 rees to ordinary, 4 mil. 800 rees to others, and 3 mil. to landsmen.—This very day, 13th of March, the able seamen's monthly pay was raised to 10 mil.; that of ordinaries to 8 mil.
Shortly afterwards a farther advance was made, and petty officers received extra pay, which they had not hitherto done. The bounty was also increased.
The pay in Bellard's foreign regiment, 8 mil. bounty, 80 rees per day, 40 rees stranger money, (both together 6d. sterling,) 24 oz. bread, 1 lb. meat, and clothing.
[102] Much was said among the English as well as Brazilians of His Lordship’s high terms. I have reason to think (not from his information) that his pay and that of the English officers is only equal to that of England, rank for rank.
[103] This man is brother to the instructor of Catalani.
[104] Since I returned to England, I have seen the account of the proceedings of Joshua Steele in Barbadoes. I need not add one word on this part of the subject; but I present the reader with the two following statements of custom-house entries at Rio for the years 1821 and 1822.
| 1821. | |||||||||
| January | April | October | ABSTRACT OF 1821 | ||||||
| Muzambique | 483 | Angola | 430 | Angola | 452 | January | 2914 | ||
| Muzambique | 337 | Quilumana | 280 | Angola | 375 | February | 1926 | ||
| Amhuebe | 352 | Cabinda | 287 | Benguela | 510 | March | 3170 | ||
| Cabinda | 409 | Cabinda | 451 | 1337 | April | 1448 | |||
| Cabinda | 348 | 1448 | May | 1281 | |||||
| Luanda | 549 | June | 680 | ||||||
| Benuela | 396 | May. | November. | August | 2578 | ||||
| 2914 | Angola | 342 | Ambuiz | 220 | September | 685 | |||
| Angola | 361 | Benguela | 390 | October | 1337 | ||||
| February | Angola | 231 | Angola | 579 | November | 2567 | |||
| Cabinda | 193 | Quilumana | 225 | Angola | 544 | December | 2634 | ||
| Cabinda | 342 | Muzambique | 122 | Angola | 388 | 21,199 | |||
| Cabinda | 514 | 1281 | Quilumana | 446 | |||||
| Muzambique | 277 | 2567 | |||||||
| Muzambique | 600 | June | |||||||
| 1926 | Angola | 680 | |||||||
| December | |||||||||
| March | August | Angola | 516 | ||||||
| Quilumana | 311 | Luanda | 514 | Angola | 523 | ||||
| Quilumana | 385 | Luanda | 460 | Angola | 309 | ||||
| Quilumana | 342 | Luanda | 734 | Muzambique | 394 | ||||
| Quilumana | 257 | Luanda | 304 | Muzambique | 330 | ||||
| Quilumana | 260 | Luanda | 227 | Cabinda | 562 | ||||
| Quilumana | 291 | Benguela | 339 | 2634 | |||||
| Quilumana | 287 | 2578 | |||||||
| Angola | 345 | ||||||||
| Angola | 433 | ||||||||
| Angola | 259 | September | |||||||
| 3170 | Angola | 685 | |||||||
| 1822. | |||||||
| January | April | September | ABSTRACT OF 1822. | ||||
| Cabinda | 744 | Quilumana | 323 | Angola | 572 | January | 2347 |
| Cabinda | 417 | Quilumana | 203 | Angola | 534 | February | 4273 |
| Cabinda | 459 | Angola | 519 | Cabinda | 466 | March | 4401 |
| Cabinda | 144 | Angola | 418 | Benguela | 524 | April | 2131 |
| Muzambique | 305 | Cabinda | 291 | Benguela | 298 | May | 786 |
| Muzambique | 278 | Cabinda | 377 | 2394 | June | 2418 | |
| 2347 | 2394 | July | 1118 | ||||
| February | October | September | 2394 | ||||
| Muzambique | 421 | May | Luanda | 467 | October | 1666 | |
| Muzambique | 419 | Angola | 398 | Benguela | 428 | November | 1902 |
| Muzambique | 399 | Benguela | 388 | Cabinda | 434 | December | 1498 |
| Muzambique | 520 | 786 | Cabinda | 337 | 24,934 | ||
| Angola | 406 | 1666 | |||||
| Angola | 400 | ||||||
| Angola | 406 | June | |||||
| Quilumana | 436 | Cabinda | 432 | November | |||
| Quilumana | 446 | Cabinda | 533 | Cabinda | 417 | ||
| Benguela | 420 | Angola | 302 | Cabinda | 499 | ||
| 4273 | Angola | 761 | Luanda | 561 | |||
| Benguela | 390 | Benguela | 425 | ||||
| March | 2418 | 1902 | |||||
| Cabinda | 667 | ||||||
| Cabinda | 400 | ||||||
| Quilumana | 504 | July | December | ||||
| Quilumana | 487 | Cabinda | 427 | Luanda | 514 | ||
| Quilumana | 406 | Angola | 691 | Cabinda | 534 | ||
| Muzambique | 452 | 1118 | Quilumana | 450 | |||
| Muzambique | 455 | 1498 | |||||
| Angola | 305 | ||||||
| Angola | 354 | ||||||
| Angola | 371 | ||||||
| 4401 | |||||||
[105] Various ordinances of the 3d and 19th June and the 3d of August, 1822, and of the 20th and 22d February, 1823, had been published for the assembling or regulating the election of deputies from the provinces of Brazil, to form a constituent assembly. Early in April, 1823, the greater number of those who could be collected in the present state of the country had arrived in the capital. On the 14th of that month, the Emperor fixed their first meeting for the 17th. Accordingly on the 17th of April, 1823, the deputies, in number 52, entered their house of assembly at nine o'clock in the morning, and proceeded to elect a temporary president and secretary, when the Right Reverend Don Jose Caetano da Silva Coutinho, bishop and grand chaplain, was elected president, and Manoel Jose de Sousa França secretary.