.1787. a large' antirehaffibe-E,; crowded with'officers^ ^'Qf-
Aagnft. meftics. Herewe were received:by feveral officers belonging
to the IboaafefaoM# amfcthe jfn^o1t^.gej[«f^V|fi .tfefflu'miye. wfep
/poke good Ehglifb, havingnacquired His profefopnaf knowledge
in London. A few minutes after onf arrival, a,<jurtam,
which hung; over tb e d b o r o f .the rpreTeijeenfiliaffiberj \yaf
«draw®« afide andfoty our entrance we- were- ihdjyi.db§fUy
trodueed tto‘the idcefo^by the commodorev -The ceremony
beii>g erided^:'and iBtfilo^t .canv#fatiQft; hayrngtaken
wc were ufliered into another fpacicms room,* where ■ wfc all
slat down. : T could not help 1 remarking'; fth*$ tkq y^gerqy
■ placed himfelf in fuch a manner
on; molt i$w* the officers. I: wasifold afterwards tb%t#b§|apQ--
logized for thife; hut I did not’ hear him, -theuglr ye^y-nearl
.Neither the room we were now, is, - nor that into which w?
were firft introduced, exhibited any marks cffi-magnificence
or. elegance; I acknowledge, that foi\my own pa
-exceedingly difappointed. From the parade without, foch
as the number of guards. See, I was led to fuppofe that 'we
fhottld find every thing within the palace proportionally
magnificent and princely* But this was by. no means the-
cafe* - The only furniture« I faw in the room we were in,
, except
Except chairs«, were fix card, tables^ and portraits of two of "Wgfc
the fovereigns^l^ortugal.4 one’ o f which, was that of King .Aug_uft^
Sebaftian the Fifft, the other o f , her prefect majefly;, the
former placed in the centre, the latter at the upper end of
the rob®. The «viceroy appeared to.he .of -a middle agfj
fomeWhere between forty and fifty; cfhrat, and «corpulent,
with a -ffcrong eaftor defedt in both his eyes. He feemed to be
a p'erfon of few words, but at tbe fafne time civil and attentive.
I cohfcd -not,, however, kelp cebferving the ,v,ery great -differ^
cnee fhere was between his excellency’s manner and ad chefs,.
=and that o f the elegant and* accomplifhed Marquis de Bra®^
«ifort.
: 9th. The contract béing fettled, the commifiary fup*-
Iplied the- troops ^and convicts with ricetfin. lieu óf - bread),
with frefh beef, vegetables, and orangeslf' which foon re*»
jnoved everyfymptom of the fettrvy prevalent among- them.
j i th . -The commodore.ordered fix female convidte,; who
liad behaved well-,«, to be removed from thé Friendship into
the Charlotte-; and at the lame time a® equal number, whofe
condpdt was 'mort 'exceptionable, to- be, - returned to the •
l^ïlehdfoip in. their ftfead. The commodore’s View Was (a
matter not eafily accomplished) • to fepatiate thöfe whofe de-
FI cent