Miasa/
PORTUGAL

OR,

Who is the lawful Successor to the Throne ?

BEING

AN ENQUIRY,

INSTITUTED WITH A VIEW TO AID IN REMOVING THE FALSE IMPRESSIONS
CREATED IN THE PUBLIC MIND, FOUNDED ON A

CAREFUL EXAMINATION

OF

The National Laws and Historical Records,

APPLICABLE TO THE CASE IN QUESTION;

OR LIKELY TO ENABLE THE ENGLISH READER TO FORM A

JUST OPINION ON

THE RELATIVE RIGHTS

OF THE

TWO COMPETITORS TO THE EUROPEAN THRONE

OF THE

BRAGANZA FAMILY.

De minoribus rebus, Principes consultant, de majoribus, omnes. Tacit.

Os Dereitos das Naçoens, saō mas velhos que os dos Reis.-

BY A WELL-WISHER TO THE PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE
OF BOTH PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL.

PORTUGAL;

OR,

WHO IS THE LAWFUL SUCCESSOR TO THE EUROPEAN THRONE OF THE BRAGANZA FAMILY?

AMONG the many novel and perplexing questions, affecting European interests, which have grown out of the Independence and Separation of the Southern division of the New World, perhaps there is none so singular and important, in its immediate consequences, as the dispute, still apparently maintained, respecting the right of Succession to the Throne of Portugal; nor any on which opinions more varied, contradictory, and erroneous have been offered to the British public.

It will be remembered that the invasion of the Peninsula by the French, towards the close of the year 1807, compelled the Court of Lisbon to pass over to Brazil; and it was quickly perceived that the head of the Braganza Family, from the moment of his arrival in a new Empire, intended to bid an eternal