Some particulars of the last moments of Don PEDRO are
given in the correspondence of the Daily Papers. He was quite sensible to the hour of his death, and appeared to have a clear apprehension of the state of public affairs. On the morning of the day on which he died, be appeared to recover very considerably, but soon sank again. He called the young Queen to his bed-side, and laid his solemn injunction on her to issue a decree setting at liberty all persons imprisoned for political and civil offence': this she solemnly promised to do. He expressed several times his sense of obligation to M. Metenizanar. for his great services • and requested that his funeral honours should be those of Commander of the Forces, not of a Royal personage. The body will be buried at the Convent of San Triente, in Lisbon : his heart, he particularly desired, might be sent to Oporto.
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