A Expedição de D. Pedro, ou a neutralidade fingida. [Quotations from Wolf and Vattel, followed by:] Opusculo traduzido do inglez e portuguez por J.J.P. Lopes. (Com huma curiosa Carta de hum Emigrado, por Appendice, contra o Manifesto do Ex-Imperador, etc.). J[oaquim ] J[osé] P[edro] Lopes, trans.

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1832.. First (or Second) Edition in Portuguese. 4°, disbound, laid into modern plain beige wrappers. Small wood-engraved arms of Portugal on title page. Typographical rules on p. 3. Clean and crisp. Title page has tiny hole in margin and another small hole or stain at edge, repaired with paper (1.2 x .8 cm.). In good condition overall. 48 pp. *** First or second edition in Portuguese of Walton's D. Pedro's Expedition or Neutrality in Disguise, 1832. A different translation of this work was published anonymously in the same year: A expedição de Dom Pedro, ou, A neutralidade em disfarce (OCLC 33343316), with 31 pp.; Gonçalves Rodrigues cites this title with 49 pp. Walton argues that Great Britain, which is not at war with Portugal, should not be allowing the Portuguese refugees who support D. Pedro and D. Maria II to be fitting out ships in Britain. He cites numerous treaties between Britain and Portugal that prohibit such violation of neutrality. Page 6 refers to 1776, when Great Britain required Portugal not to support the American colonies, "nesse tempo em estado de rebellião." Pages 24-27 discuss the United States's Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793, with several mentions of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson's interactions with Citizen Genet. The end of the book (pp. 41-48) contains "Carta de hum Portuguez emigrado ácerca do Imperador do Brasil, e do seu chamado Manifesto (Reimpressa da que se imprimio tal e qual em Londres, na Imprensa de P. Thoms.)" In a letter dated February 20, 1832, the author attacks D. Pedro's claim to the Portuguese throne. Judging from the title of the other translation, we suspect it did not include this short letter.William Walton (1783/1784-1857), son of the consul for Spain in Liverpool, learned Spanish and Portuguese to prepare for a career in business. He was junior secretary to the British expedition that captured Santo Domingo from the French in 1802, and remained in South America until 1809. Back in England, he eventually took up political journalism, attacking current policies toward Spain and Portugal. His publications include The Present State of the Spanish Colonies (1810) and An Exposé on the Dissentions of Spanish America (1814). Lengthier journalistic pieces include Spain! or, Who is the Lawful Successor to the Throne? (1834), A Reply to the Anglo-Christian Pamphlet Entitled ‘The Policy of England towards Spain’ (by the earl of Carnarvon), and The Revolutions of Spain, from 1808 to the End of 1836 (both 1837). He also translated Antonio Puigblanch's The Inquisition Unmasked (1816) and Tomás de Comyn's State of the Philippine Islands (1821).The translator, Joaquim José Pedro Lopes, was editor of the Gazeta de Lisboa and a confirmed absolutist, favoring the cause of D. Miguel while opposing D. Pedro and D. Maria da Gloria. *** Canto, Ensaio bibliographico ... 1828 a 1834, p. 68; also p. 177, nº 957 (both translations); pp. 125-126 for other works by Walton. Innocêncio IV, 109. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 4247 (also citing a "2.ª ed." of the same year, Imp. dos Fanqueiros, without collation); cf. 4248 for another edition of the same year, 4.º of 49 pp., printed by T. José Baptista Morando. Not in Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira. On Walton, see C. A. Harris, "Walton, William (1783/4–1857)", rev. Ian Campbell Robertson, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Porbase locates four copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at the Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas. Jisc locates a single copy, at British Library. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase, but should have cited British Library.