Cartas dirigidas a S.M. El-Rey D. João VI. Desde 1817. A cerca do estado de Portugal e Brazil, e outros mais documentos ...

London, na Impreçaô [sic] de Mess. Cox e Baylis, n.d. (1821).. First Edition. 12°, stitched, in quarter-morocco slipcase. Some minor foxing. Six lines of print following text on p. 80 crossed out (as in all other copies we have seen). Very good condition. iv, 80 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. A rare and interesting book. Carneiro was a close friend of Hipólito da Costa, and personal physician to D. João VI, many times undertaking confidential missions for the king. Borba comments: "the year 1818 again found him in Rio de Janeiro, where he managed to be appointed chargé d'affaires in Switzerland, but he was never able to travel to Berne because his enemies, the many Portuguese ministers in London, for various reasons refused to grant him the travel allowance. Palmela, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, dismissed him in 1821, and he fell out of favour with D. João. He later joined the followers of D. Miguel, who created him Viscount of Condeixa.... The opinions he expressed in articles in the Portuguese periodicals of London and in these Cartas are those of a sincere liberal and supporter of a Portuguese constitution. He foresaw many political events and gave the Prince Regent good advice. He wrote to D. João in 1817 recommending he establish a constitution in Portugal to avoid the coming troubles and the independence of Brazil.... The Cartas are important and interesting documents for the study of Portuguese affairs in London and Rio de Janeiro before the Portuguese revolution and the independence of Brazil. They are very difficult to find today."Araujo Carneiro (1776-1849), a Portuguese physician, fled to London when the French invaded. There he contributed to every issue of the enormously influential Correio Brasiliense, 1808-1822, and corresponded regularly with D. João. In 1812 he shocked society by eloping with the Marchioness de Alorna's daughter, who died soon thereafter. Although he was appointed chargé d'affaires to Switzerland in 1818, the Portuguese ministers refused to grant him a travel allowance, and he never reached his post. Soon afterwards he fell out of favor with D. João, and eventually became a follower of D. Miguel, who named him Visconde de Condeixa.*** Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 156-57. Innocêncio III, 177; XI, 257. JCB Portuguese and Brazilian Books, p. 698. Rodrigues 219. NUC: DLC ICN.