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Updated: June 28, 2025
All which I communicate for the information and execution of your Excellency. God preserve your Excellency. Palace of Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 30th, 1825. To the Marquis of Maranhaõ. From this extraordinary document it is plain that Gameiro had written to the Imperial Government the same falsehood, as he had used when endeavouring to seduce Lieut.
Gameiro did not venture previously to apprise me of the act lest I should resist it but insultingly sent an order to the officers of the Piranga to "disengage themselves from all obedience to my command." The subjoined is the order alluded to: To Captain SHEPHERD, commanding the Piranga, still refusing supplies whilst I held the command.
On receiving the above-mentioned intimation to proceed to Rio de Janeiro without my intervention, Lieutenant Shepherd very properly forwarded the Envoy's letter to me when, of course, I apprised him that he was under my command, and not under that of the Chevalier Gameiro.
Without, however, giving me time to do this, I received another letter from the same authority, dated Dec. 30, containing my formal dismission from the service this shewing that Gameiro had previous instructions to act in the way narrated in the last chapter. The following is the official letter dismissing me from the command of the Navy, and from the post of First Admiral:
Dated London, 7th November, 1825. As this was done without the slightest motive existing or assigned, there was no doubt in my mind but that Barbosa and his colleagues in the ministry had instructed Gameiro to dismiss me from the service whenever peace was effected; indeed, he had so informed Lieutenant Shepherd by the letter before quoted.
There are only two ways to account for their not having been delivered, if such be the case. 1st, that Gameiro on the delivery of the frigate to the legation obtained possession of the chest in which they were deposited, and withheld them to justify my dismissal by casting the reproach upon me of having appropriated the amount an act of which the Brazilian Government may judge whether he was capable; or, 2ndly, that from the same reason they were purposely withheld or destroyed by the ministers who had been so inimical to me.
The men being also without fresh provisions or the means to procure them, were beginning to desert, I advanced £.2000, in order to keep them together, giving the Chevalier Gameiro an order for this amount on my bankers, Messrs.
As soon as the compulsory deprivation of my command, by the Envoy Gameiro, became known in Rio de Janeiro where, doubtless, it was expected a great outcry was raised against me, as though my non-return had been my own act.
In all this, Gameiro acting, no doubt, on instructions from the Portuguese faction at Rio resorted to every kind of falsehood to get the officers to renounce my authority and to accept his! Of the character of the man and his petty expedients, the following extract from Lieutenant Shepherd's letter of the 8th of October, will form the best exponent:
Finding that I refused on the following morning he called again, and told me that he had seen Gameiro, and had heard that the misunderstanding between your Lordship and him was at an end, but that Gameiro wanted to see me. On this I waited on Gameiro, who after some conversation told me that if I had any regard for His Imperial Majesty's service, I should never have acted as I had done.
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