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Updated: August 3, 2024
On the 19th of March, a direct insult was offered me by Severiano da Costa, now first minister, by an intimation to attend in the Imperial chapel for the purpose of assisting at the ceremony of swearing to the Constitution, but I was distinctly told that I should not be permitted to swear; the reason no doubt being, that, by a clause therein contained, military officers who swore to it, could not be dismissed without trial, and sentence of court martial; so that the not permitting me to swear coupled with Barbosa's portaria limiting my command to the duration of the war indirectly gave power to the Administration to dismiss me at their option, whenever they might deem it expedient so to do.
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