CORREA DA SERRA, JOSE FRANCISCO (1750-1823)

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CORREA DA SERRA, JOSE FRANCISCO (1750-1823) , Portuguese politician and man of science, was born at Serpa, in

Alemtejo

ALEMTEJO (i.e. " Beyond the Tagus ")

, in 1750. Educated at Rome, he took orders under the protection of the duke of Alafoes, uncle of Mary I. of Portugal. In 1777 he returned to Lisbon, where he resided with his patron, with whose assistance he founded the Portuguese Academy of Sciences. Of this institution he was named perpetual secretary, and he received the privilege of publishing its trans-actions without reference to any censor whatever. His use of this right brought him into conflict with the Holy Office; and
2 Nothing caused more offence to Liberal sentiment in France after the Restoration than the spectacle of King Louis XVIII. walking and carrying a candle in the procession through the streets of Paris.
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consequently in 1786 he fled to France, and remained there till the death of Pedro III., when he again took up his residence with Alafoes. But having given a lodging in the palace to a French Girondist, he was forced to flee to England, where he found a protector in Sir Joseph Banks, and became a member of the Royal Society. In 1797 he was appointed secretary to the Portuguese embassy, but a quarrel with the

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

drove him once more to Paris (18o2), and in that city he resided till 1813, when he crossed over to New

York

. In 1816 he was made Portuguese minister-plenipotentiary at Washington, and in 182o he was recalled home, appointed a member of the

financial

FINANCIAL

council, and elected to a seat in the

Cortes

CORTES
CORTES, HERNAN

. Three years after, and in the same year with the fall of the constitutional government, he died. Correa da Serra ranks high as a botanist, though he published no great

special

SPECIAL

work. His principal claim to renown is the Colec4ao de livros ineditos da historia Per/ugueza, (4 vols., 179o-1816), an invaluable selection of documents, exceedingly well edited.

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