That  Don  Pedro  should  have  chosen  Brazil,
niust  have  always  been  foreseen;  for  his
election  was  almost  determined  by  his  pre-
ceding conduct.  He  preferred  Brazil,  where
he  had  bean  the  founder  of  a  state,  to'  Por-
tugal; where  the  most  conspicuous  measures


of  his  life,  could  be  viewed  with  no  more
than  reluctant  acquiescence.  The  next  ques-
tion which  arose  was,  whether  the  inevitable
breach  in  the  order  of  succession  was  to  be
made  in  Portugal  or  Brazil;  or,  in  other
words,  of  which  of  these  two  disjointed  king-
doms, the  Infant  Don  Sebastian  should  be
the  heir-apparent.  The  father  made  the
same  choice  for  his  eldest  son  as  for  himself.
As  Don  Sebastian  preserved  his  right  of  suc-
cession in  Brazil,  the  principle  0/  the  UaU
possible  deviation  from  the  tegal  order  re»
auired  that  the  crown  of  Portugal  should
devolve  on  his  sister  Donna  Maria,  the  next
in  succession  of  the  Royal  Family.
