Transcribed from the 12 September 1828 edition of The Newry Commercial Telegraph newspaper, by permission of The British Library: Return of the Irish Emigrants. Cork.--Yesterday the Moro Castle, Captain Lenox, arrived at this port from Rio de Janeiro, after a passage of 64 days. She brought over 312 of the persons who emigrated from this part of the country in the months of August and September last year. It is already known to the public that there have been discontents and disturbances in the Brazils among the German and Irish emigrants, and the causes, as explained to us by Captain Lenox, are those which have been already assigned, namely, that the parties considered that the engagements which were entered into with them were not fulfilled. They insisted that they were sent out as settlers, at a certain rate per day; but on their arrival they were told they were to be soldiers, and at a diminished rate of payment. This engendered angry feelings, which broke out in mutinies, when it was determined, at first, by the Government, to send a considerable number (450) of the Irish to Bahia as settlers; but this resolution was subsequently altered, and the wishes of the parties being to return home, arrangements accordingly were made by the Government, and the Moro Castle is the first arrival. She sailed on the 3d July, and was to have been followed by the Phœbe, which was to have left on the 5th with about 190; the Henry Arnott, Captain Stein; the Highlander, Captain Stutt; and the Swedish ship Hobbett, amongst which the remainder of those who were to return were to be distributed, amounting to about 1200. There would then be left at Rio about 450, who wished to remain behind, and these united numbers composed the survivors of those who left the country, amounting to over 3000. The Moro Castle was taken up by the Brazilian government, and the expences [sic] also paid by it; but the entire was under the superintendence of the British Ambassador and the British Admiral, by whom every attention was paid to the shipment, and Lieutenant Coffin, of the Ganges, was appointed to inspect the vessels. The condition of the persons returned is represented to us as being a very wretched one; they have no means, not as much, we learn, as would subsist them for a day. They behaved well on the passage home, and were still on board to-day at Cove, no arrangement having been made for landing them, and the Brazilian Consul at this port being absent from town. Several of the Officers who went out with the Emigrants were to have come over in the Swedish ship, the arrival of which may be soon looked for. =======================