He travelled to Angra aboard the "Princesa de Portugal" arriving on 17 November 1823, where he reassumed his functions two days following his arrival. His reception was apotheosis, with three days of festivities and one day devoted to unceasing honors and oaths of fidelity. Immediately installed in his position the "new" Captain-General began to persecute the remnants of Liberal government and their sympathizers, with numerous arrests and expulsions of the island, creating a reign of terror that only had parallel in the Castilian invasion of 1583.