DEARBORN HENRY Autograph Letter Signed H Dearborn as Ministe

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DEARBORN, HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, "H. Dearborn," as Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, to his son ("Dear Henry"), discussing Portuguese politics, mainly the Queen's refusal to swear to the Constitution and the difficulties involved with her consequent banishment. With a two-line Autograph Postscript Signed, "HD," concerning the lack of letters from him. 4 pages, 4to, written on a single folded sheet. Np, 8 Decem[be]r 1822

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". . . [T]he councell of State with the sanction of the King have decided that the refusal of the Queen to subscribe and sware [sic] to the Constitution deprives her of all the rights of a Citizen, and that she must leave the Kingdom, but a large Counsell of Physicians who were ordered to examine the state of her health reported that a journey undertaken either by land or water would put her life at great risk. . . ."