PARK CRESCENT, REGENT`S PARK, AND THE SPACES OF BRAZILIAN DIPLOMACY IN LONDON, 1822-1829

Abstract This article explores the history of Brazilian diplomacy abroad during its formative period, investigating addresses, buildings and neighbourhoods where the first agents lived and worked specifically in London between 1822 and 1829, and why they installed the first legation at Park Crescent, Regent’s Park. The objective is to discuss the meaning of local spaces for the history of the diplomatic mission and the representation of the Empire of Brazil in other territories. The article demonstrates that the first legation in London was installed in a new, rich and modern district at the time, presenting itself in a different space from the other legations and embassies. In conclusion, it is argued that this action expressed a policy of seeking legitimacy and fortifying of relationship with a specific sector of that society, namely, bankers, investors and merchants, who had business in Brazil.

Seeking diplomatic recognition of an independent and unitary Brazilian state in a part of South American territory was one of the multiple phenomena that composed the rupture between Portuguese America and the European metropolis.Between 1822 and 1826, this policy was carried out by the dominant political authorities in Rio de Janeiro, who were heirs to the central administration left in that city by the Portuguese court from 1808 onward.Its unfolding involved the organization of diplomatic missions which presented themselves in foreign territories as properly Brazilian and not Portuguese.From August 1822, the authorities in Rio began to appoint other agents to work in London and Paris, without using the existing Portuguese diplomatic structure in those capitals.While these agents sought to obtain diplomatic recognition for a new independent state, they needed to organize the basic means for the exercise of their attributions, such as housing, furniture, office supplies, archives, library, employees and services.Thus, the structuring of Brazil's first diplomatic missions abroad began.This article examines the history of this new diplomacy, exploring addresses, neighbourhoods and buildings where the first two agents lived and worked specifically in London and why they established the first legation in Park Crescent, Regent's Park.The chronology extends from the appointment of the first agent to that court, Felisberto Caldeira Brant Pontes Oliveira e Horta, in October 1822, and extending through the formal recognition of the Brazilian legation in January 1826, with Manuel Rodrigues Gameiro Pessoa at the head, when the mission already was in Park Crescent.The legation remained there until 1829.The article discusses the meaning of local spaces for that mission and of Brazilian diplomacy abroad in this initial formative period.
In recent decades, research into spaces or places of diplomacy have obtained increasing importance, especially in the fields of geography and architectural history, in a recurring dialogue with urban history and diplomatic history.Geographers have investigated, for example, the meaning of the location and distribution of embassies and diplomacy buildings in urban space, as Mamadouh;Mejier et al. (2015) sought, or exploring the typology of places of negotiations and diplomatic meetings, such as stu-dies by Henrikson (2005). 4Architectural historians such as Loeffler (1990), Girardelli (2014), Song;Zuh (2017), andvan Gameren, Tola (2017) have investigated the meanings of projects, buildings and spaces designed especially to serve as embassies, residences and spaces for diplomacy.In Brazil, there is a particular current interest in spaces of diplomacy for the second half of the 20th century, due to the importance of modern Brazilian architecture, projects of foreign embassies in Brasília and Brazilian embassies abroad, as explored by Fisher and Santos (2018), Chiarelli (2018) and Medeiros, Chaim et al. (2019).These studies demonstrate the existence of multiple levels of spaces in which the activities and history of diplomacy took place and the different possible approaches to this subject.Researchers often highlight the representative characteristic of spaces for diplomacy, inside or outside their own territories.For example, Girardelli points to the "inherently 'representative' nature of the buildings involved" (2017, paragraph 2), while Shimazu argues that "The explicit 'localization' of diplomacy by privileging the place where diplomacy physically takes place allows an insight into different layers of meanings that would otherwise elude traditional approaches to the study of diplomacy" (2012, p. 335).
In fact, exploring spaces of diplomacy represents a different problem from the bulk of Brazilian diplomatic history based on more traditional approaches, including those that also examined the initial years of the mission in London.Authors such as Lima (1901), Accioly (1922), Calogeras, (1928), Freitas (1958), Rodrigues (1975), Pantaleão (2003), and Santos (2022) interpreted important questions about the opinions, agencies and contexts of the diplomatic negotiations for the independence of Brazil which occurred in Great Britain in 1824.Additionally, authors such as Melo Morais (1877), Carreira (1889), Barroso (1934), Barman (2001), Shaw (2005), Guimarães (2012), Silva (2012), Summerhill (2015), Almeida (2017), Ramos (2018) studied the financial history of Brazil during the monarchical regime, the first loans borrowed from banks of the City of London in 1824, 1825 e 1829, the relationship between British companies and banks, all of Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 which had, at least, to mention the role of that mission5 .All these studies contribute to the knowledge of the history of foreign policy, international relations and economy of Brazil.Yet, investigating the spatial dimension of the history of the mission itself may raise to the forefront important questions that have been understudied or completely overlooked.Most significant in this respect, is the way in which legations (and the Brazilian ruling classes in Rio) presented themselves in other countries.
A few texts emphasized spaces (especially, the so-called salons) for the activities and history of Brazilian diplomatic agents in London during the 19 th century.Dória (1923) highlighted a room at Windsor Castle as a place of recognition of Brazil's independence, for this was the spot where the official presentation ceremony of Gameiro Pessoa to King George IV took place in January 1826.The same author alluded to the legation in Park Crescent.Nabuco (1900) dedicated a chapter of his autobiography titled "32, Grosvenor Gardens" to discuss the salon of the legation house of Francisco Inácio de Carvalho Moreira (Baron of Penedo), when the former served as attaché in the 1870s.Mendonça (1942) also wrote a chapter titled "The Salon of Grosvenor Gardens" in his biography of the same Carvalho Moreira.But none of these authors explored the question of spaces in depth.Biographical works, such as Aguiar (1896), Calogeras (1936), Peixoto (2022) and Gouvêa (2010), concerned with diplomats who led Brazilian legations in London during the 19 th century, did not mention addresses and buildings in that capital. 6here did the new Brazilian agents live and carry out their activities before the formal recognition of the mission and why did they set up the first legation house in this particular site?What were the features of the building and neighbourhood of the first legation?What were the addresses of other foreign legations or embassies in London at the time?Did these addresses coincide with the location of the first Brazilian legation?Which people, families and sectors resided in the same building?
Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 What is the meaning of these addresses, buildings, architectures and neighbourhoods for Brazilian diplomacy?To answer these questions, through a large variety and number of documents,7 the first section of this article presents the addresses where Brazilian agents lived and worked between 1822 and 1825 and where the first legation was located from 1826 to 1829.It also notes the buildings where negotiations for the diplomatic independence of Brazil took place in London and highlights the importance of the first loans for the organization of the mission.The second section presents the addresses of the buildings of the other foreign missions in London in 1825, when the Brazilian legation was established in Park Crescent, Regent's Park.It also explores the period of construction of the buildings, mentioning one of the main architects and comparing this information to those of the first Brazilian legation.In the third section, the article reflects on the neighbours of the Brazilian mission, observing that some of them had important links with Brazil and its diplomacy in London.In the concluding section, it is argued that the fact that the legation had been set in the then-suburban, modern, rich and recently built area of Regent's Park and, in particular, at the terrace of Park Crescent, represented a search for legitimacy and the fortification of relations between the new Brazilian diplomacy and a specific group of local private agents.This occurred to the point that the legation was organized (and therefore presented itself in London) in a different neighbourhood and type of building, compared to other embassies and legations, including those of other American countries.

First spaces of Brazilian diplomacy in London, 1822-1826
The British government formally recognized the first Brazilian diplomatic mission after the diplomatic recognition of the independence of Brazil by Portugal, which occurred with the treaty of August 29, 1825, In August 1822, when the authorities in Rio appointed Caldeira Brant, he was already living in London on private business.Caldeira Brant was a high-ranking military official, born in Minas Gerais, but whose residence, marriage, children and business had been established in Bahia since the early 19 th century.He was the owner of a large number of enslaved persons and with links to the transatlantic slave trade in Africa.He was also the owner of lands and mills, a merchant involved in overseas trade, a banker and a political figure in Bahia.(Aguiar, 1896;Calogeras, 1936;Peixoto, 2022).When Brant arrived in London in June 1821, he took up residence in an apartment at Brunet's Hotel, 24-26 Leicester Square (The British Press, 1821, p. 4).More than a year later, when he received the nomination from Rio in October 1822, he was still resident there, for he signed letters to the British Foreign Office from Brunet's Hotel in November, for instance (Brasil, 1972, vol. I, pp. 203 and 221).
Once the policy of the Brazilian ruling classes consisted precisely in appointing an agent for a new American diplomatic representation, Brant could not reside or work in the Portuguese embassy.The diplomatic mission of Portugal had been located at 74 South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, for over a decade, where José Luís de Sousa (Count of Villa Real), the ambassador of Lisbon, lived and worked.Upon receipt of his nomination, letters sent by Brant to José Bonifácio, the minister in Rio, demonstrate that a house was a matter of immediate concern.Brant complained about the cost of dinners, the cost of visiting local ministers and wrote "about the difficulties of living in London" (Brasil, 1972, vol. I, p. 197).In November 1822, he wrote: "...I won't talk either about the impossibility of living in London with six thousand cruzeiros, without a house to live in, without a secretary, etc. etc. " (Brazil, 1972, p. 197).Brant's personal financial conditions had allowed him to stay in a hotel that served wealthy foreigners, including diplomats from the Americas and continental Europe.What the passage expresses is that there was an expectation of an official residence for the new mission.The reference was the structure of the Portuguese embassy.Caldeira Brant established the following condition to take charge of his designation: "The Chargé d' Affaires of Portugal has a salary of twelve thousand cruzeiros, a house to live in, 2 secretary officers, etc. etc. all paid for by the Treasury, and less than that cannot be." (Brasil, 1972, vol. I, p. 197).
In either December 1822 or January 1823, Caldeira Brant moved to another address, 10 Allsop's Buildings, New Road, Marylebone, where he Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 remained until August of that year. 10In September 1822, he wrote a letter to Brazil, indicating that the reply should be sent to 10 Allsop's Buildings (Correspondência, 1859, p. 414).Therefore, he had already planned a change of address on his own initiative before he received the appointment from Rio. 11 In August 1823, Brant returned to Rio, after having spent more than two years living in London, part of which he spent unsuccessfully trying to be received formally by the British government.
Due to Brant's departure from London in August 1823, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nominated another diplomatic agent to the mission, Manuel Rodrigues Gameiro Pessoa.He had been living in Paris since the previous year, appointed to that capital for obtaining diplomatic recognition of Brazilian independence, similar to Brant's role in London.Gameiro was born in Portugal, but also had personal and family ties in Bahia since the early 19 th century.Gameiro was an official at the Portuguese Foreign Office since at least 1814, having been attaché and secretary of the diplomatic mission at the Congress of Vienna and secretary of the embassy in Paris (Guimarães, 1938. pp. 231-232;Santos, 2022b, pp. 734-735).As with other second-ranking officials in the Portuguese central administration who remained in Rio when King João VI returned to Portugal in 1821, Gameiro Pessoa adhered to the Brazilian claim to independence, becoming one of the protagonists of diplomatic recognition in the 1820s.
10 The address is in five letters, send by Brant, between January and August 1823, to the Foreign Office and which are currently deposited at The National Archives of the UK, at FO 63/2/64.Furthermore, in the British Library's Section of Manuscripts there is one letter send by Brant to the Foreign Office with the same address, at Add MS 89143/2/22/7.Two of the letters found in The National Archives are numbered at 29 Allsop's Buildings, which might have been a mistake by Brant, possibly the number from New Road or from an indoor unit in the building.
11 The journalist Hipólito José da Costa sought to collaborate with Brant and corresponded directly with the office in Rio.Hipólito was living in London since 1805 and had direct contact with members of British political authorities at the time (Lustosa, 2019).He resided at n. 7, Lower Phillimore Place, the terrace on the west side of Argyll Road, on the then Phillimore Estate (Kensington).Although he worked at his residence during the period, writing letters to Rio for example, Hipólito died in September 1823.Gameiro Pessoa also was in London briefly, in January 1823, to help Caldeira Brant, since he had years of experience in diplomatic service while Brant had none.However, the address of this stay has not yet been identified.
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Gameiro Pessoa arrived in London in March 1824, thus opening a second and more formal phase of negotiations for the diplomatic recognition of independence.Portugal had also accepted the negotiations with Brazil in that capital.In April 1824, in an official letter sent to Rio, Gameiro wrote that "so quickly I made the arrangements that will be indispensable for my arrival in this Capital... "; these arrangements included setting up a residence.For the first three months, he took up residence at 45 York Street, Portman Square.12At the same time, Caldeira Brant returned to London, appointed again to work together with Gameiro, to handle the negotiations and obtain a loan for the structuring of a new Brazilian state in what was once Portuguese America.Brant arrived on 13 April 1824, staying once more at Brunet's Hotel, Leicester Square, where he remained until June. 13In this last month, both Brazilian diplomats moved and started to live together in a house at 41 Grosvenor Place, Knightsbridge (Belgravia).They remained at that address until May 1825. 14In an official letter sent to Rio in September 1824, responding to the minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis José de Carvalho e Mello, about Pedro I not being sure on if they were working "jointly" in London, Brant replied that "Furthermore, the jointly that Your Excellence ordinance has been brought to such an extent by us that we live in the same house and ride in the same carriage." (Brasil, 1972, v. II, p. 125).From July to November 1824, that is, during the entire period of formal conferences to obtain diplomatic recognition of Brazil, they lived at 41 Grosvenor Place.In the first days of May 1825, after they had contracted the loan, Brant returned to Rio de Janeiro and, on the 30th of the same month, Gameiro Pessoa moved to 23 Park Crescent, Regent's Park. 15arcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 In addition to the houses mentioned (occupied by Brazilian and Portuguese diplomats), informal conversations took place in two other buildings: the Austrian embassy located at Chandos House on Chandos Street, which was very important for back-channel politicking, and the Foreign Office building, at the time located on Downing Street, where informal and formal negotiations took place.As evidence of the importance of place, one of the preliminary disagreements between the negotiators was precisely about the building in which the conferences would take place.As the press reported, "...a question of etiquette arose as to the place in which the conferences were to be held" (Morning Post, July 24, 1824, p. 3).It should be noted that the question consisted in resolving the contradiction for the demand for a place considered neutral and which would mean reciprocity between the two parties.However, whereas there was an official Portuguese Embassy house, there was not yet a Brazilian legation formally recognized, considering that it was still being negotiated.As a result of this impasse, the Foreign Office offered a room in its building.
No more conferences took place in London for the diplomatic independence of Brazil from November 1824 onwards.In February 1825, Caldeira Brant and Gameiro Pessoa formally broke off negotiations with Portugal.Due to the standoffs between the parties, the precedence of the United States in the recognition of the new American States, and British concerns regarding the continuity of the customs privileges given by the treaty of 1810 with Brazil, George Canning took over the negotiations, even before the formal breakup, transferring it unilaterally to Rio.These negotiations between London and Rio resulted in the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Alliance between Lisbon and Rio, signed on August 29, 1825.Thus, the Brazilian government could now send renewed documents to Gameiro Pessoa, definitively nominate him as the first extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of Brazil in the British court, when he could be introduced at the ceremony at Windsor Castle in January 1826.
Rental advertisements in the press at the time, collected throughout this study, might bring some features of the houses at Park Crescent, where Gameiro was residing when the ceremony in Windsor occurred.The residences were described as familiar, elegant and spacious.Characteristics of the internal rooms of one of the units appear in the following advertisement: The text above describes an almost identical residence to that of the first Brazilian legation.From 1825 to 1829, this kind of space served both as a home for Gameiro Pessoa and for carrying out the work of the other Brazilian diplomats accredited in London.The secretaries and attachés who would staff the mission from 1826 onwards could or could not live at the same address, although they worked regularly there.João Antônio Pereira da Cunha, the secretary, and Augusto de Paiva, the attaché, certainly resided in Park Crescent.In addition, as the description of the rooms points out, the everyday maintenance of the house required the employment of many domestic workers.The size of the place, the number of rooms and the need for many employees demonstrates well that there was a more consolidated organization of the mission, compared to the beginning of the process, when Brant complained about the need to have a house, employees, a suitable salary and the price of dinners.As already

Park Crescent, Regent's Park and the traditional spaces of embassies and legations in London (1825)
Park Crescent encompasses two terraces located at the south-east corner of Regent's Park.At the time, the park, the terraces, and the villas within it were still under construction in order to form a new, rich and modern London area.This neighbourhood was part of a much larger project of the spatial and architectural reconfiguration of the London metropolis, developed between 1811 and 1830.This process represented the development of a "new London" from the 1820s onwards (White, 2008, p. 24).One of the most important parts of this ample urban reform project involved the transformation of Marylebone Park (an agricultural area, contiguous to the north of the then built urban environment) into a modern "garden city." (Summerson, 1988, p. 164).In short, the most immediate cause consisted of a process of the valuation of rural estates owned by the British Crown in Marylebone Park.It resulted in a simultaneous process of construction, speculation and valuation of nearby estates owned by or leased to wealthy aristocrats.This was still widely favoured by the extensive availability of bank credit, investors and speculators, from post-Waterloo, in 1815, to the financial crisis of 1825.The construction of Regent's Park and Regent's Street, for instance, also led to the displacement of the poorest populations in these places (Olsen, 1976, pp. 37-38;White, 2008, pp. 24-25).Inside the new park, the construction of a Royal house was projected, but in the end it was not done.The construction of the other residences were designed to meet the housing expectations of the "higher ranks of society." (Saunders, 1981, p. 113).In Regent's Park :

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There was a preponderance of men associated with trade.The successful banker, the wealthy merchant, the fortunate stock-broker, sought to make their home in Regent's Park, where they were joined by the most prosperous members of the professional classes -the Church, the Army and Navy, doctors, lawyers and publishers -all of them prizing the rural atmosphere which was still within half an hour of the City and Westminster (Saunders, 1981, p. 114).
The reform of London in the late Georgian period was sketched out, first, by John Fordyce, and later by the architect John Nash.It was sponsored by the British Crown, the state and dozens of owners, investors, speculators and contractors, such as James Burton, and was carried out by architects, such as Decimus Burton, professionals and thousands and thousands of unknown workers.In particular, Park Crescent was a project carried out by John Nash himself, who accompanied and supervised the work.Of all the terraces surrounding Regent's Park, Park Crescent was the first to be completed, containing twenty-nine residential units, fourteen of which were located on the east side and fifteen on the west side (Saunders, 1981, pp. 90-94).Construction started in 1811 by the builder Charles Mayor, who went bankrupt, leaving it unfinished.In 1818, with funding from magnate John Farquhar, three other builders, William Richardson, Samuel Baxter and Henry Peto, continued the construction (Saunders, 1981, pp. 81, 85), which was completed in 1823.Therefore, when Gameiro Pessoa moved to Park Crescent in May 1825, these spaces were newly built or even under construction.Other terraces and villas were completed only in the second half of the 1820s.
Two more distinctive features of the terraces surrounding Regent's Park and one specific to Park Crescent also stand out.These features provide elements for understanding how the Brazilian legation presented itself in London in the 1820s.The first of these features is the palatial aspect of the terraces, although Park Crescent had fewer elements of this characteristic.According to Olsen, this feature of "splendorous" buildings and façades (in the author's words) occurred because the construction of that garden city aimed to fulfil the project of making the wealthiest part of London, the West End, and, in particular, the area of Regent's Park, as the capital of a new world empire (1976, pp. 37-39).In the words of James El-Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 mes, one of the main propagandists of the great reform of London in the late Georgian period, the intention was to create "The Rome of Modern History" (Elmes, 1828, p. 2).The second feature of the Regent's Park terraces is the use of stucco, covering completely all buildings which were built in brick.This was unlike the exposed stone or brick which predominated in buildings in London at the time, such as in Mayfair and Westminster, mainly edifications from the 17 th and 18 th centuries.Some authors point out that the prevalence of stucco was due to a lack of resources, while others argue that it allowed greater possibilities for creating external architectural and decorative elements on palatial terraces, even at a lower cost (Saunders, 1981, p. 80;Olsen, 1976 , p. 39;Olsen, 1986, p. 16-19). 16ne specific characteristic of Park Crescent is that it was built in a semi-circular shape, although in the initial plan it was to be a circle.As Zerlang suggested, in relation to the crescents and circles of late Georgian streets, the crescent shape represented a more dynamic visual axis in contrast to the more rectilinear visual axis of the terraces and squares built in the 17 th and 18 th centuries.This more dynamic and modern axis would have been inspired by the then fashionable panoramas of the early 19 th century (2001, pp. 38-40).Precisely the Regent's Park project intended that crescents, circles, terraces and villas, around and inside the park, would articulate themselves visually with the park itself, in a panoramic way, with little visual contact amongst the buildings themselves, giving the impression of immersion in a green area, albeit with amenities of urban terraces, such as new water and sewers systems (Olsen, 1986, p. 19;Olsen, 1976, p. 38).Thus, when Regent's Park and its residences were built they were "the most fashionable part of the town" (Saunders, 1981, p. 106).
However, did these rich and modern residences in Park Crescent or even the other terraces in Regent's Park correspond to places where foreign diplomats lived and worked in London when Gameiro Pessoa moved there in 1825?To answer this question, it is was necessary to research which addresses, neighbourhoods and buildings the other embassies and legations were located in at the time.The sources consulted for the ad-Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 dresses (newspapers and almanacs) may have small inaccuracies, but they provide a generally-accurate overview of which spaces prevailed, whether for taste or practicality, among embassies, legations and residences of diplomats in London in 1825.17Most of the diplomatic representations were located on streets and squares of Mayfair and south of Marylebone, in houses mainly built in the 18 th century.These were older, more traditional areas and, above all, closer to spaces of political power in Westminster, such as St. James Palace, the Houses of Parliament and the Foreign Office.
The Brazilian legation was the furthest from these locations, compared to the others.It was the most suburban and the newest.The other legations and embassies were in different urban spaces in terms of location and architectural style from John Nash's terraces around Regent's Park, in the north part of Marylebone, constructed in the late Georgian period.
In Mayfair, the Russian embassy was at 30 Ashburnham House, Dover Street; that of Portugal, at 74, South Audley Street; that of Netherlands, at 1 Bryanstone Square; that of Sweden, at 27 Orchard Street, Portman Square and, very close to the latter, that of Saxony at 23 Portman Street.The Sardinian representation was on Hill Street, Berkeley Square; that of Bavaria, on Queen Street; Baden and Hesse, at 7 Cork Street.In Marylebone, the French and Spanish embassies and Colombian legation were located on Portland Place, respectively at numbers 50, 14 and 33.The Austrian embassy was on Chandos Street, immediately parallel to the beginning of Portland Place and very close to the previous houses.The Austrian embassy was also practically in front of the Prussian embassy, which was located at 8 Mansfield Street.The legation of the United States was at 41 Edward Street, Langham Place, close to the previous ones as well.Still south of Marylebone, the Danish embassy was on Hinde Street, Manchcester Square (where it was since 1823, replacing the house at 17 Portland Place).It was close to the Wurtemberg legation at 15 Thayer Street.The Two Sicilies were at 84 Gloucester Place.The Hanover representation was the only one off the circuit, farther south, at 32 Grosvenor Place, Knights- In addition to these sites where the embassies, legations and residences were concentrated, the construction periods of their buildings can prove that there was a contrast between the foreign diplomatic houses in London in 1825 and the first Brazilian legation.The other embassies functioned in buildings erected between the 1660s and 1810s, but mainly dated from the 18 th century.The oldest was Ashburnham House, built in 1660, where the Russian embassy was located.The Portuguese embassy was in a house built in the 1730s.In the buildings on Portland Place, where the representations of France, Colombia, Denmark and Spain were or had been, edifices erected from 1770s to 1790s predominated, the same period of construction of the Austrian and Prussian residences.It should be added that some streets and buildings near Portland Place were being partly or wholly altered by John Nash's renovations, though not those of the embassies.The most recent houses were the legation of the Two Sicilies on Gloucester Place, built from 1810 onwards, and the embassy of the Netherlands, which began construction in 1812. 19  Furthermore, an important part of the diplomatic missions (that of France, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Russia and Colombia) was in buildings designed or refurbished by the architect Robert Adam.He was responsible for the architecture and interiors of Chandos House, built in 1770-71, the houses on Mansfield Street, in 1770-74, and the houses of Portland Place from 1778.Adam had also designed the main renovation of Ashburnham Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 House, in Dover Street, in 1773-79 (cf.Colvin, 1995, p. 57).None of these places were built for the purpose of serving as embassies or legations.But, for a relevant part of the diplomatic corps in the mid-1820s, a taste for housing represented by the British classicism in architecture, from the 18 th century, built mainly in stone, prevailed. 20The projects by Robert Adam were preferred for their particularity and aesthetic value at the time, according to researchers, were in the interiors of the houses (cf.Harris, 2001).
It should be mentioned that Leicester Square, where Brunet's Hotel was located, dates from the 18 th century as well.The square and its buildings were constructed around 1750 and by the first decades of the 19 th century it was already a fashionable commercial area with a large presence of French people and owners (Mars, 2013;Carpenter, 2013).The Allsop's Building and York Street buildings date from the 18 th or early 19 th century and are clearly shown on Mogg's map (1806).The house at 41 Grosvenor Place, although it was much further south of the others, in Knightsbridge, on the Belgravia part of the Grosvenor Estate, had been erected in the mid-18 th century (Sheppard, 1977, p. 30-33).The first three were spaces closer to diplomacy in London at the time and to political power areas.It should also be added that, unlike other foreign diplomats, Gameiro Pessoa had a possible preference for suburban spaces, adjacent to large parks and green areas such as in Grosvenor Place and Park Crescent.

The Neighbours of Park Crescent, Regent's Park (1820s)
Finally, this investigation sought to identify the residents of the two modern terraces of Park Crescent for the second half of the 1820s, in addition to the house and office of Gameiro Pessoa.The documents demonstrate that there were residents living there who had business in Portuguese America and with the new independent Brazilian state and its diplomacy.The immediate neighbourhood, therefore, became one of the main reasons why the legation was installed on this site.From the twenty--nine Park Crescent house numbers, with the exception of No. 21, where Marcus Vinicius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy in London, 1822London, -1829 Gameiro Pessoa's house was located, this study identified thirty-one tenant-residents for the second half of the 1820s, 21 including members from the same family.It was not possible to know the exact street numbers of the houses for all of them, because the sources (chiefly newspaper and fire insurance records) do not always provide this information; as well as there may have been the eventual departure of one tenant and the entry of others.The number of people who resided there or were there every day is much higher, because, in addition to the families of the names collected, there were hundreds of domestic workers.
Presenting each resident individually would exceed the introductory purposes of this article.The study identified that there was a group of families from the traditional English and Scottish rural aristocracy, including some of them with participation in politics and the armed forces, such as Luísa Gordon (Marquise of Cornwallis at no. 12), George Irby (Baron Boston at no. 17), the Countess of St. Germains, William Henry John Scott, George Stewart (Earl of Galloway) and his daughter, Louisa Duncombe, as well as John Thornton Leslie Melville (Earl of Leven at no. 27).But, in Park Crescent at that time, there was predominantly English, Scottish and Jewish (from English, German, Dutch and Iberian origins) bourgeois families of bankers, financiers and international merchants.Among those were William Fairlie (at no.9), Thomas Hudson (at no.6), Charles Hammersley (at no.25), Thomson Bonar, Henry Porcher (at no.10), Ralph Bernal, Mayer Davidson and Jessy Barent Cohen (at no.14), Samuel Moses Samuel and Esther Barent Cohen (at no.29), Abraham Samuda and members of the family of Lion Abraham Goldschmidt (or himself ). 22In the first group, there

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were also bankers or people from bankers' families such as Leslie Melville and William Scott.All these bankers, brokers and merchants had businesses throughout the British Empire, Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
As mentioned, an important part of these individuals had business precisely in Brazil and with the new Brazilian state and its diplomats in London.In the latter half of the 1820s, Samuel Moses Samuel and Esther Barent Cohen; Mayer Davidson and Jessy Barent Cohen; Henry Porcher; members of the Fairlie family, of the Goldschmidt family, of the Shaw family and Leslie Melville lived in Park Crescent as well.Some of these relationships with Brazil have already been alluded to or briefly described in works of economic history cited at the beginning of the article, for example, in Barman (2003), Shaw (2005), Guimarães (2012), Silva (2012), Summerhill (2015), Ramos (2018), and they also appear in the letters sent by the legation to the government in Brazil.But no researcher has identified that there was a spatial relationship between the residences of those agents and the Brazilian legation house, i.e., that they were neighbours precisely in the same buildings.This information is important, because it allows for more in-depth knowledge about how Brazilian authorities and its diplomats presented themselves publicly in London.As was noted, the legation was constructed in a different neighbourhood and type of Brazil due to the Treaty of August 29, 1825. 24B. A. Goldschmidt & Co. was also a member of The Imperial Brazilian Mining Association (Morning Herald, Dec. 10, 1824, p. 2), the first foreign company to obtain a mining concession in Brazil after independence (Silva, 2012).The chairman of that company, Edward Oxenford, did not reside in Park Crescent.Living for some time in Brazil, Oxenford had offered himself to the Brazilian government to be the negotiator of the loans in London.Having failed in his attempt, he sought to provide the loan to Brazilian agents in May 1824 (Brasil, 1972, vol. II p. 19).Another partner in the mining company was Moses Montefiore (Morning Herald, 10 Dec. 1824, p. 2), a great London banker, who also did not live in Park Crescent, but was the brother-in-law of Samuel M. Samuel, Mayer Davidson, Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Cohen sisters.He was married to Judith Barent Cohen.The Goldschmidt family was also partner with Mayer Davidson, Moses Montefiore and Leslie Melville in other companies (Morning Post, 21 January 1825, p. 1).
The firm of magnate William Fairlie, who died at his home in Park Crescent in early 1826, was mentioned in correspondence from Brazil's agents to Rio, as seeking to obtain a mining concession in Brazil, along with the company by Robert Farquhar (Brasil, 1972, vol. II, p. 168), who did not live there.The Farquhar firm was one of the partners in one of the three firms involved in the Brazilian loan of August 1824 (Bazett, Farquhar, Crawford and Co.)At another firm, Farquhar was a partner of Moses Montefiore and Leslie Melville.In "Farquhar House", Brazilian agents also made government purchases at that time (Brasil, 1972, vol. II, p. 132).The Farquhar family was largely responsible for financing the construction of Park Crescent from 1818 (Saunders, 1981, p. 81, 84).In view of the relationships mentioned, the Shaw family who resided in Park Crescent was very possibly that of Gabriel Shaw (or himself ), a partner at Thomas Wilson & Co., the third company involved in the 1824 loan (Carreira, 1889, p. 100;Ramos, 2018, p. 52) merchants who resided in the two buildings and can provide an overview of the connections with Brazil and its diplomats, in particular, with Gameiro Pessoa. 25  It should also be noted that even if a small part of the loans had been used to structure the new Brazilian missions abroad and especially in London, as mentioned, the simple contracting of these loans from that bankers' network, neither commissions or even possible corruption, cannot explain why the legation built by Gameiro Pessoa was located in Park Crescent.He could have chosen a residence in a more traditional diplomatic area in London at that time such as Mayfair or southward of Marylebone or could have remained in Knightsbridge, Belgravia.What the research points out is that the correlation between the address of the Brazil's first legation and the aforementioned individuals in Park Crescent, Regent's Park, represents a common space of certain sociability, articulation, identification and social and cultural reproduction.

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After the first Brazilian diplomats had lived in temporary homes, Manuel Rodrigues Gameiro Pessoa established a new official residence and workplace from May 1825 onward in the modern, new and wealthy Park Crescent, Regent's Park.First, he occupied number 23 and, in January 1826, moved to number 21, where he stayed until August 1829.The London mission was supported mainly by the loans contracted in 1824 and 1825, and with the organization of secretaries, attachés, domestic employees, carriage, services and other basic facilities, similar to those of the other diplomatic representations of the period in that capital, with its own urban and architectural histories and its own contemporary elite tastes.However, the Brazilian legation was not installed in a similar urban space 25 Guimarães points out that Samuel Moses Samuel was connected to the slave trade from Africa to Brazil (2012, p. 233).Another Park Crescent resident and Member of Parliament, Ralph Bernal, had farms in Jamaica and hundreds of enslaved persons.Other possible connections to be investigated are that of Thomas Hudson who was a major importer of Portuguese wines; Leslie Melville had worked in the British Army in the Peninsular Wars and Abraham Samuda was from a Portuguese family.
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for the housing and work of the diplomatic mission as the other powers.Therefore, the Brazilian legation presented itself in a different way from its counterparts in that metropolis.Park Crescent and the terraces of Regent's Park did not correspond to these spaces, for the other embassies and legations were concentrated in Mayfair and south of Marylebone.
The difference is proven too by the period of construction of the buildings, architects, architect designers and even types of material.Additionally, it is not a question of a difference between embassies of old European powers in contrast with those of new American powers.The addresses of the legation of Colombia and the United States in the same traditional areas verifies this.
An important reason why the legation was established at this address might be found in the neighbours of Park Crescent: a group of bankers, investors, speculators and large international merchants who had begun or intended to have business with the imperial court in Rio and in other provinces of Brazil as well as with its diplomatic missions abroad, particularly in London.Therefore, Gameiro Pessoa's choice of Park Crescent as his residence and the location of the first Brazilian legation expressed, firstly, the need to organize a new diplomatic project in London, which presented itself as Brazilian and not as Portuguese.Secondly, it expressed Gameiro's expectations of good housing and representation of the state and of himself in that metropolis, based also on certain prevailing tastes.Thirdly, the choice of Park Crescent expressed the experiences of the agents' previous residences in that capital as well as Gameiro Pessoa's possible preference for more suburban places.Most importantly, it fundamentally expressed a search for legitimation and fortifying of relations with a specific sector of that society, based on the sociability and social and cultural identification and reproduction that the modern space of Park Crescent, Regent's Park, provided and represented.These characteristics arose in the Brazilian mission in London in the context of its formation during the 1820s and perhaps beyond.
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Basement -Housekeeper's Room, with Water laid on; Butler's Pantry, with Closets, and Water laid on; Servant's Hall; capital Kitchen; Scullery, with Water laid on; Cleaning Room, Knife Room, Coal, Beer, and Wine [Cellars], Servant's Water Closet, and Pump of excellent Spring Water.Large Garden at the back of the House, Planted with Shrubs, with a communication to the Portland road(Star, February 23, 1828, p. 1) London, 1822ius Correia Biaggi Park Crescent, Regent`s Park, and the Spaces of Brazilian Diplomacy inLondon, 1822London,  -1829alluded to inCastro (1983, p. 29),Cervo and Bueno (2014, p. 30)andAlmeida (2017, p. 275), part of the loan that Brant and Gameiro borrowed in London in 1824 (contracted, in fact, in two parts, in August 1824 and January 1825, in the total amount of 3 million pounds sterling) supported the material structuring of that mission in London as well as its counterparts in Paris, Vienna and Washington, for instance.As stated by Ramos, there were around eight thousand pounds sterling available to that legation in 1826 (2022, p. 326).On that occasion, that mission became the centre for the payment of the others.
. Now, though it is not an exhaustive survey in this case, these are examples of the network of bankers, investors, speculators and large 24 Without referring in this case to Brazil or the Brazilian legation, Dawson mentioned that the main partner of B. A. Goldschmidt & Co. died in 1826, at Park Crescent, Regent's Park (1998, p. 164), as was widely reported in the newspapers of the time.