I object of your censorships. I implore to my illustrious colleagues that when I am praying they give frequent shouts of approval so to revive me, and even if the people think that I am discoursing well and capably. My attack will be this way...

Bignose. Come from that.

Monkey. (After coughing, he spits, he repairs the throat and he begins.) Mr. President! Sad and melancholic it is certainly the time in that we worked under a perfidious Government, that doesn't cure of the evils of the homeland (general shouts of approval.). The Government only searches its interests, and it leaves in abandonment the most vital needs of the homeland (shouts of approval.). In my County it ran the notice that the Government has in the Capital an army of thousand and so many soldiers: that premeditates a coup d'état, a measure of Napoleon. It is also said that the public safes are phthisical; what costs me to have faith, because immense money has been collecting; therefore, or the employees of the Treasury smoke with the notes, or they are public dilapidators. It is a misery, Sirs. One doesn't take care in the collection of the public moneys. In S. João d'El-Rei there are debtors that don't pay, because they don't want, or because nobody search. There is not larger negligence. Sirs, my chest fills from noble indignation when remembering of the prevarications of these bad employees. The Treasury is my misfortune (shouts of approval.). The zeal of the public goodness is

that encourages me to speak with frankness; I was, I am and I will always be franc (general shouts of approval.).

Lie. Bravo, Monkey! The crimes of this execrating Government are such as monstrous that I don't know how the people still sustains it. The Constitution guaranteed the secret of the letters, turning inviolable this unique means of communication; however, the Government interfering criminaly in the secret of the privates, violating the public faith, that is under the safeguards of a fragile wafer, it opens the letters, it reads them and is instructed about the other people's businesses...

Impartial. Friends, I don't know if this slander can pass! It is very bald.

A lot of voices. He can, he can; continue.

Treble. (continuing) Only an infernal Government, Sirs, could appeal to such a similar will. (general shouts of approval.). The History refers us (I don't remember now the where) that tyrants of all the times appealed to the expedient of to open the letters to oppress the people; and says Jefferson that the violation of the secret of the letters is only met in selfish and perverse Governments (shouts of approval). Our Government however it adds the scorn to the crime, because excusing himself the Administrator of the Mail, he says that the mice gnawed the wafers!