sentences:  While a member of the Council, he specialized in judiciary matters, such as land right and mortgages and also on ecclesiastical issues.In 1836, after the September Revolution, he tried, unsuccessfully, to concile the positions held by the "Cartistas" with those of Manuel da Silva Passos, leader of the revolutionaries.At around this time he was in the process of negotiating with the Vatican the normalization of diplomatic ties with between Portugal and the Roman Catholic Church.