Charles Napier, a naval commander who fought under Pedro's banner in the 1830s, remarked that "his good qualities were his own; his bad owing to want of education; and no man was more sensible of that defect than himself."
Charles Napier, comandante naval británico que loitou baixo o estandarte de Pedro na década de 1830, afirmou que "as boas calidades eran as súas propias; as malas debíanse a súa falta dun desexo de educación; e ningún home era máis consciente dese defecto que el mesmo".