. The wars of succession of Portugal and Spain, from 1826 to 1840: with résumé of the political history of Portugal and Spain to the present time . stand in the Azores—Dom Pedro joins the Liberals in the Islands and lands at OportoJuly, 1832, to oppose Dom Miguel. Dom Miguel was tlie seventli cliilcl and second son of tlieQueen Carlotta, and was born in Portugal the 2nd October,1802. In 1807 be went with tbe other members of theroyal family to Brazil, and was under his mothers chargeuntil nine years of age. The author of The Civil War in Portugal, &c.,* andwho appears to have had the best oppo
. The wars of succession of Portugal and Spain, from 1826 to 1840: with résumé of the political history of Portugal and Spain to the present time . stand in the Azores—Dom Pedro joins the Liberals in the Islands and lands at OportoJuly, 1832, to oppose Dom Miguel. Dom Miguel was tlie seventli cliilcl and second son of tlieQueen Carlotta, and was born in Portugal the 2nd October,1802. In 1807 be went with tbe other members of theroyal family to Brazil, and was under his mothers chargeuntil nine years of age. The author of The Civil War in Portugal, &c.,* andwho appears to have had the best opportunities to obtaininformation concerning Portuguese doings, says : DomMiguel was educated as a Portuguese prince, ignorant ofeverything he did not wish to learn ; therefore it may bewell supposed that he was more apt at athletic exercisesthan literary studies. It is much to be doubted whetherthe King himself was very anxious on the subject of theeducation of his sons: perhaps he might have a jealousfeeling of their knowing more than himself. Brought up as he was, his own was the only hereditary * By a British Oilicer of Hussars, DOM MIGUEL DE BRAGANZA. WAR OP SUCCESSION OP POllTUGAL. (53 rank. All others were menials. Yirtuo and worthwere only distinguished by him in force and dexterity. The before-mentioned author gives rather a calm viewof Dom Miguels proceedings. Lord Palmerston, whomust have known a great deal about Portuguese affairs,spoke most unfavourably of the prince in Parliament. Dom Miguel returned to Portugal in 1821 with theroyal family. Political confusion was the order of theday, which the Absoluto Uueen fomented and took ad-vantage of. For much of the following I am indebted to the authorof the Civil War. The Queens son, Dom Miguel, wasa fitting tool, and she made use of him. Pie was alreadyCommander-in-Chief of the army. He called upon thetroops, proclaiming death to Freemasonry and Liberalism,and marched to Villa Franca in 1823. This was a merepre
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