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i "1 MR. PEEL AND DON MIGUEL. CONTRACTS For nipping; PROVISIONS, CLOTHING, LEN EN, COA LS \\\ 1 : ----, -,(,. _ --------:--- / qk - " i tilLT , dik coiswriozxo 4 . TB ll $02 31131 . - v it T 44 . .. N°• 13,411. TUESDAY EVENIN t MARCH 2, 1830. Pm: F. 71, CANDLES, and other ARTICLES, For Convicts rim board Hulks. London. 26th February, 1639. SUCH Persons as ate desirous of contracting with the fh., Superintendent of Convicts to supply BREAD, MEAT, CHEESE, BARLEY, OATMEAL, SALT, BEER,, COALS, CANDLES, OIL, SOAP, CLOTHING, NECESSARIES, WOOLLEN CLOTH, STRIPED LINEN, WRAPPER CLOTH, SHOES, and LEATHER, for the use of Convicts on board Hulks at Portsmouth, Devonport, Woolwich. Deptford, Sheerness, and Chatham, may receive Particulars of the Contracts on applying to the Superintendent of Convicts, No. 15, Lambeth Terrace, between the hours of Ten and Three, where the Samples of Clothing, &c. may be inspected, and on board the several Hulks, and deliver their Tenders at the Commi , sarlat Office, Treasury Chambers, sealed up, and directed to the Superintendent of Convicts, marking thereon " Tender to furnish Supplies for Convicts," on or before TUESDAY, the 16th of March ; but none will be received after Twelve o'Clock on that day ; nor will any Proposal be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the Prices Inserted in words at length ; nor unless the Letter subjoined to such Proposal be signed by two persons of known property, en gaging to become bound with the party tendering, in the sum ex pressed In the Particulars, for the due perfofmance of the Con tract. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, 85, Cornbill„ and 10, Waterloo-place. B RITISH and COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCES glinted. The Dreams have canoed distinct Tables, for Male and Female Life, to be calculated : In consequence of this improvement. The younger Male Lives are insured at Premiums below the ordinary rate. The Female Lives on terms lower than any other °nice. Prospectus, exhibiting this remarkable distinction, may be ob tained at either of the offices of the Society. The East and West Indies, North and South America, and all places of British commercial, military, or diplomatic resort, are included In the plan for an equitable Foreign and Colonial Life In surance, which is now submitted to the Public. Four-fifths of the Profit. are divided among the Assured, whe ther abroad or at home. HENRY P. SMITH, Actuary. G ENUINE PATENT MEDICINES, sold by Messrs. BUTLER. Chemists, Cbeapside, Corner of St. Paul's, London ; Sackville-street, Dublin; and Prince's-greet, Ednburgh. Appointed Sole Agents for Dr. James's Fever Powder and Ana leptic Pills, in the place of Messrs. Newberry and Sons. Anderson's Scots Pills Hooper's Pills American Soothing Syrup Huzbam's Tincture Bark Braithweite's Black Drops Hunt's Family Pills Ching's Worm Lozenges Juniper's Eros. Peppermint Collin's Cep hal ic Macassar and Russia Oil Condelre of Honey 01ley's Essence Ginger Dixon's Anallions Pills Ruspini's Dentifrice, du. Daiby's Carminative Solomon's Balm of Gilead, &c.' De Velno's Syrup Singletott's Ointment : Dutch Drops Steer's Opodeldoc Freeman's Bathing Spirits Stoughton's Bitters Godbold's Balsam Seidlitz and Lemonade Powders Gowland's Lotion Soda and Ginger Beer Powders Godfrey's Cordial Salt Lemon and Scouring Drops Henry's Magnesia Sandwell's Issue Piaster .-----..—. Vinegar Marlin:toss's Balsam And every other Patent Medicine of repute. Merchants, Captains, and others cannot be too careful in the purchase of the above Articles for Exportation, as spurious imita tions are generally in circulation. Medicine Chests completely fitted for all Climates. N.B. THOMPSON'S GENUINE CHELTENHAM SALTS Messrs. Butler are appointed Sole Agents for. BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. AS a mild and effectual remedy fo r th ose di sor d ers which originate in a morbid action of the Liver and Bl Uary Organs, namely, Indigestion, Less of Appetite, Head-Ache, Heart burn, Hatolencies, Spasms, Costiveness, Affections of the Liver, &c. site. DIXON'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS (which do not *main mercury in any shape) have met with more general approval than any other Medecine whatsoever. They unite every recom mendation of mild operation with successful effect; sad require no restraint or confinement whatever during their use. In tropical climates, where the consequences of redundant and vitiated bile are so prevalent and alarming, the are an invaluable and emcient pro tection. They are likewise pbculiarly calculated to correct disor ders arising from excesses of the table, to restore the tone of the stomach, and to remove most complaints occasioned by irregularity of the bowels. Sold in Boxes, at 2s. 9d. 41. 6d. lls. and Hs. by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, corner St. Paul's, London ; Sackvillc-street, Dublin ; Princes.street, Edinburgh :—Savory and Co. 156, New Bond -street, and 220, Regent -street ; and the principal Druggists. N.B. The 65. Boxes heretofore sold are discontinued, and the 40. 6d. substituted in their place, by which a considerable sating will arise to the consumer . DR. JAMES'S POWDER. T - ---- HIS celebrated Medicine is invariably adopted by physicians • and for those who cannot obtain medical advic e , with each packet are enclosed full directions for its use. Its efficacy is most certain, if freely given on the attack of FEVER, MEASLES, SORE THROAT, recent Vold with Cough, and other Inflammatory Disorders. In RHEUMATISM and Chronic Complaints it has performed the most extraordinary cures, when used with perseverance. Dr. JAMES'S POWDER continues to be prepared by Messrs. Newel:sr, FROM THE ONLY COPY OF THE PROCESS LEFT EY DR. JAMES IN HIS OWN HAND-WRITING, which was DEPOSITED WITH THEIR GRANDFATHER IN 1746, AS JOINT I'ROPRIETOR. In packets 21. 9s. and 245. Dr. JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS afford constant relief in INDIGESTION, BILIOUS and STOMACH COM PLAINTS, Gouty Symptoms, recent Rheumatism, and Cold with slight Fever, and are so mild in their effects as not to require confinement. Dr. JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS are pre pared by Messrs. NEWBERRY, from THE ONLY RECIPE EXISTING UNDER Dr. JAMES'S HAND. and are sold by them in boxes at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and 245. at 45, St. Paul's Church- Yard ; and their Agents, J. Saloom 150, Oxford Street, London ; .ind W. Pim, Dublin. The name "F. Newiery" is engraved in cacti Government Stamp. THE PETITIONER. AS Prussia's King Was travelling Tiro' bis domains eztenaive, His orders were That none should near His presence audience have, " For while," be cried, a Incug. I ride, No compliments I have to dread; Nor need I fear Petitioner Refused, to curse me after dead." But one who had In England trod, Said " my petition I will gain ;" And on bis shoes He swiftly throws A bloom that seem'd to smile again. The Monarch saw The lovely glow And his petition granted then— On this condition, That Petition- Er should tell him where and when He got that Jet, So bright that met Bis eyes upon those shoes so grand : The man complied. And 0 Sire" he cried, " At London,—WAsarit's, 30, Strand." This ^ "-as) . Shining and Brilliant BLACK ING Prepared by ( A .z?t 7. I //t;iet.tgi. 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdoen. LIQUID in Bottles, 6d. 10d. led. and 16d. each. Ak.o PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, Id. isd. and Ind. each. rr Particular to uire fro ROB?. W Be ARRE N'S, l inq A STRAND. ALL "UM AU alwrnaram THE AMNESTY IN . PORTUGAL. - . From the Fiyaro. Well, loyal Portuguese, who have fled from the scaffolds prepared by the Usurper, hear you how, in Europe, statesmen comprehend, at once, the cause of humanity, of which they are always speaking, arid that of legitimacy, which they never cease to invoke! Away' disperse yourselves still more. Reach, with all possible expedition, the Continent of America! Every where they are debating the question of admitting your persecutor into the family of Kings. To-morrow, perhaps, he will be saluted on our hemisphere with the titles of brother and cousin. The blood with which he is reddened will dye foe him the royal purple. For, his victims and your pangs, his horror of liberty and thirst of crime are his titles.! You, whom he has mods Mama**, =ld not Jive Amon hie friends. And for this solemn act, for this recognition which he solicits, de b not believe that any thing is stipulated with him in favour of the li. betties of your fellow-patriots. No ! such guarantees are too li. beret : such necessities do not enter into the minds of European Ca binets. Gott preserve them from that evil thought ! Tyranny is a principle upon the banks of the Tagus : arbitrary away is the fundamental constitution of the Portuguese nation. It will undergo no change. He is only requested to furnish a pre. tepee without guarantee or duration ; a motive of pure convenience, a transient hypocrisy, an amnesty in fine, and mulling more. Portuguese . history is fruitful in amnesties with exceptions ; in amnesties full of sentences of death on those who are not pre sumed stupid enough to foolishly return to the hands of the execu tioner. History records a thousand perfidious proclamations, dic tated with apparent kindness, to entice simple people, who have not sense to be afraid, and who, having realized their fortunes, would not surrender them a prize to the despoiling genius of tyrants, as long as they remained at a respectful distance ! The clemency there mixes itself dexterously with rigour, to obtain the semblance of probability. The exception is a trick to gain weft for the rule. It is a trap laid for stupidity. It is an ambush prepared for good faith. There is an anecdote of the reign of terror which you may translate into Portuguese. Where the executioners, impatient at the slowness of the axe which struck off only so many heads an hour, thought fit to avail themselves of grape shot; after the first dis. charge, it was observed that several, of the unfortunate creatures were only wounded, and still breathed. A voice cried out, "those who will rise shall receive pardon." The love of lift re-animated the dying: they raised themselves, and the firing with grape shot was renewed ! Think you, then, that tine convenient benignity, a condition put upon the royal greetings of which his policy has need in his la. bows to increase his treasure and power to solicit money from the bankers of London and Vienna, can for ever bridle his known nature ? • What is this but one instance of hypocrisy more for the model of treachery ? What is this but a promise in air for the per jury-made king ? However, let us admit that he would not strike off more heads ; let us suppose that he should be tired of murders, worn out with crimea, that he should leave you your lives, the light of day, and your property, untouched. In return, think of the thousand and , one tortures that await you, of the multitude of persecutions of which authority is lavish, when It affects the fear of having occasion to inflict punishment. One time it is a spy, who glides into your house, who provokes yew spleen, or interprets your sighs; who makes himself your friend to s late upon your pangs, or sells you his protection at the of selling you when you :hall be no longer able to buy him. Another time it is an Insolent Monk, who points you out from his pulpit, who overwhelms you with invectives in theism:sof Heaven, who renders the sacred place okra horrible than a prison, or who insinuates himself into the confidence of your daughters to alienate them from you, and that they may replace him in your dwelling when he shall be no longer there. Ow day they would send you far, very far, from your homes, for it is necessary to sweep over a distance of ten leagues all suspected persons who might be found in the way of the Monarch, at the risk of making the country a daert. Another day they would quarter in your' houses soldiers, whom you must main tain, for reports of insurrection circulate in the country. Do not murmer, do not allow yourselves to utter a complaint; the land of proscription places you out of the law. Yon would be wrong to think yourselves stronger than your judges. There is no reason that you should ever - have a right to indulge In lamentation—the slightest word of an enemy can compromise you : you are consi dered in a flagrant disposition for revolt. You must be discon tented, for every things done to make you so; though it comes into the country it is you that first caused the disturbance. The populace amuse themselves with insulting you : in their frolics they break your windows, and persecute you with offensive songs. In their fears they are ever on the point of burning your houses and awning you to death. You have no protection to expect. The force is on the watch against you and not for you : and in fine, you must have a spirit as pliant and resolute as that of Epietetus to endure so many wrongs, to swallow these thousands of' outrages without being tempted a thousand times a day to open your body with the poniard, or the four veins, or to fly towards the frontier, striking down the armed cut-throats who make a hell of your country. Portuguese ! listen to one of the advocates for therms. ninon of Dow Mrouter. : Lord Armament himself has said in open Parliament, speaking of the crowned monster, whom he wishes to salute with the title of king. " I know be is heartless, that be has violated his oaths ; he is said to be cruel—and I believe it—for cruelty is the daughter of cowardice." Behold the monarch—model of the Apostolic faction ! Behold his letters of royalty ! THE LONDON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM ASSOCIATION. There can be no doubt that the success attending the Associations In France to resist the payment of taxes illegally imposed, has sus. gested the idea of forming associations in this country, by which the cause of Parliamentary Reform may be promoted, and the attention of the Executive continually drawn to the numerous abuses sad corruptions which time and the ignorance or wickedness of bad Mi. nisters, have mixed up with the Constitution. Hence, the Ma. mINOHAM POLITICAL limos . , set on foot by Mr. Attwood, and hence the proposed LONDON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM Asso. CIATION; the plan and rules of which we now proceed to detail...-. We should premise that this Association has already received the adhesion of eleven influential Members of Parliament, and that im mediate steps are about to be taken for its formation. ADDRESS. It is known that there area great number of persons convinced of the evils produced by the present corrupt system of Parliamentary =station, and sinccrdy desirous of procuring as effectual It is believed that those persons, differing from each other, as honest men will, upon the extent to which Reform is necessary, have been prevented from co-operating with one another by such differ. ODOM of opinion. It is desirable to lay down a basis for co-operation so broad, as to include as many sincere friends of Reform so possible, and at the same time so framed as to be capable of assuming a more compact and restrictive or comprehensive form, should discussion and further eon. sickration render such alteration usduL It is conceived that all persons who concur in all or our of the following propositions, may co-operate to obtain an effectual Mann in the Commons House of Parliament, and may so co-operate with out any species of sacrifice of individual opinion, or of any gapers! principle. First--That there should be a substantial extension of the Eke live Franchise. Second—That the duration of each Parliament shoiskl misread three years. Thbd—That all Elections should begin and close on one and the same day. Fourth—That the mode of Election should be mode by Ballot. Those who concur in such propositions, will probably feel it a duty to take measures for obtaining that popular support, without which It Is vain to expect that the House of Promons will consent to any salutary Reform. le It suggested that this support may be best procured by the for. Medan of NM Amodation, to be styled " Taft raaLsaierstwaer 'biome Assocwt tow t^ and to be constituted as fellows s— • irkst—Of every person who will esotrlbute not less that One Perms: aussoolly to the fonds of tbs Ameociation. Second—Of paeans to be amino' by any Public Meeting la any flaunty, City, or Town, not exceeding four for each County. and two for each City or Town. Third—That such Association do hold its -Sittings in London once a Week ;—that is. on every Saturday until an effectual lie. foray In the CAA:onions House of Parliament shall be obtained. r Fourth—That the first duty of such Association shall be to fuel. litate the I...attainment of the public sentiment on the subject of Reform, and the preparation and transmission to Pediment of peti. dune praying for Returns. Fittla.—That the second duty of such Association shall be to arrange and carry into effect a genreal—if not an sorftfersa/ Sub scription, to defray all Expetices and Disbursements necessary to tilvanee the cause of Reform. it Sixtb-.That the basis of such Subscription shall be: l llation, not to accept from any person any sum, save one so s se to be payable by him Without any inconvenience whatsoever. recu t:la resources of the Auociatiou to consist of a ginhiplietty et r er t mat aft secoipts Ind Etpedditdied shall be sailed four times ht the year. and published in the Newspapers. Eighth—That the Funds. of the Association shall be applicable, after defraying the necessary expenses of the Meetings. and of the preparation of Petitions to Parliament, to the relief of all persons and in particular of persons connected with the public Press, rt ho emit be perseculed far advocating Reform ; and also, to the pub. lication and circulation of Works favourable to the cause of Reform. Ninth—That the Meetings of the Association shall BE omen AND PUBLIC, and that the attention of the Press be invited to such Meetings. It may not be necessary to pursue this Outline, or to attempt at present to fill up the plan. In conclusion, two observations are submitted. First—lt is known that in the year 1819, no less a number of British subjects than One Million Five Hundred Thousand peti tioned for 'Reform. Now let it be observed, that if each of these persons had contributed the sum of One Shilling only, there would have been no lees a sum than 75,000% accumulated, a sum abun dantly sufficient to indemnify all those who were persecuted at that period and to defray all other expences. Secondly_That the proposed Association may be rendered equally available fur the management of all other Petitions for the redress of public grievances; such for example, as excessive or undue Tusution,expensive, uncertain, and vexatious Jurisprudence, &c. &c. MARY-LA-BONNE VESTRY SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. MARC,' 1, 1830. Sta—The very able manner in which you hare exposed the ne farious practices of the self-eleeted, irresponsible Select Vestry system of St. Mary-la.bonne on the 26th ult. deserves the thanks of the whole of the ratepayers of that much injured parish ; but still, there is one item in the account there referred to so very impudently inserted, that I cannot refrain from calling your attention to it. It may be within the recollection of many of your readers. that in the last Session of Parliament, a Bill was brought into the House to secure the inhabitants of St. Diary-la-bonne from being plundered by the select in the wholesale way they had been accustomed to. The ex penses attending the prosecution of this bill amounted to SOU Se. 7d. collected entirely by voluntary subscription among the rate. payers, hoping thereby to lesson the burden which the vestry had for so many years imposed on them; but the vestrymen having firmly impressed on their minds the recollection of the secrets of office, arising from jobbing amongst themselves, their friends, and relations, and the advantages arising from maxima tar.su xi. TRIES in THEIR 10015, took upon themselves to oppose the pa. rishioners bill, and by the opposition given to it in its progress through the House, incurred an expense of 1,1771. lbs. 6d. which, in this precious specimen of a statement of cash, is charged to the poor rata; thus making the payers of rate throughout the parish pay both ways, for the bill and for the opposition of it ; and as the statement of expenditure is not distributed till after the accounts are passed, and the time of appeal to the laws of the land gone by, it cannot be resisted. Having spoken of the account-keeping of the select, I cannot con dude this letter in a better way, than by giving an extract of the evidence, before the House of Commons, of • gentleman as well known in India as on the Royal Exchange of London, for his adepts and integrity. William 6rawford,'Esq. of Pippbrook Park, Dorking, Surrey, and of Uppa Wimpole.street, called in and examined. Ara you an inhabitant of the parish of Mary-la-bonne ?-1 have been so for the last twelve or thirteen years. Are you a Magistrate ?--Not in Middlesex ; I am in Surrey, •hero I act. Have you had much experience in the examination of accounts ? I have had very much more experience than falls to the lot of most men, from the earliest period of my life. Have you carefully looked over the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the rates of Mary-la-boone, which are generally printed for the use of the vestrymen ?--I have looked over than with a great deal of attention; and I have made myself, with a great deal of labour, thoroughly master of them. In consequence of the opinions I entertained of those accounts, I addressed • let . tel to the vestry of Mary-la-bonne on the 12th of January last, which I have brought with me. I detailed the objections which :ap peared to me to be in them : and some of the principal of them are of the most obvious character. The observations that I have made, unless they can be refuted, which 1 conscientiously believe to Le quite impossible, show that for years put, the vestry clerk and accountant of the pariah, and the various committees and meetings of vestrymen, who have sanctioned and approved their accounts, have not discovered what is properly the debtor and creditor side of an account; and those accounts are constructed on erroneous prin ciples, which defy human ingenuity to balance them in their pre. seat form ; that those abstracts furnish the clearest evidence that the accounts of Mary-le-bonne. having an expenditure of 150,0001. a year, have not been balanced for many years, because indepen. dently of the errors in construction, I have detected entries, which if the test of trial balance could have been applied, would have shown that the balances carried forward were incorrect. Thirdly, that in consequence of :so regular balance having been made, facility has been given and freely exercised (I say this under great mai deration of the subject) of so interpolating entries, that expenses on one account have been made to appear' as charged on another, as an example of the effect of that I may mention, that by this jobbing in the entries, the expenses of repairing the streets was to year 1V.4 made to have cost 6,003/. less than was really disbursed de that account. After these observations, I need only add, that no man belonging to the vestry, or in any other situation, eats pre nal to say whether the cash brlanees in the lest of their accounts, hi right within 10,000/. le it your opinion that if the parochial concerns of Mary-la. bane were differently rnansged, a very considerable sum might be saved to the parishioners ?-1 have not the least doubt in the world of it; beaus', though I am nut prepared to give it in evidence to I know parts of the present system of management that are extravagant beyond all measure whatever. Do the accounts that you examined bear any certilleates of hee led been examined by any persons ?—Celt' they do not • the accounts I hays seen, and from which I have spoken, are th e abstracts which are annually printed for the infant/Alen of the po tful' On,Park& have not bad access to any of the detailed accounts of Awes accounts so made up and balanced as to enable any use tier of the 'staff, or any person, to detect any improper entry t sr all Oils= IL-Certainly not; I conceive very Sew men eau owner sine deer accounts. With all the experiment I have had in is nowelh It cost me a great deal of khan, Wore I solid 10 whet they *Wm. They hare none of the right rinalploa of extMting "aimemis about them. Z. Jams. TO THE EDITOR OF TliE STAR. Sta,—Should any other example be deemed neces sary to support the truth of the assertion with which my last letter concluded, Alfonso V. in his second marriage, will afford it. When he took for his bride Queen Donna Joanna, the espousals Were celebrated in the city of Placentia, and there they 'rere proclaimed sovereigns of Castile, of Leon, and of Portugal. N-ter we would ask, whether Don Alfonso V. was, perchance, deemed a foreign sovereign, because he was at the same time King of Castile and of Leon ? Don Alfonso V. did not cease to be considered a Portuguese, after he was proclaimed King of foreign kingdoms, and is Don Pedro to be considered a foreigner because lie was proclaimed Emperor of Brazil ? Don Alfonso V. could possess other estates, reside out of the kingdom, and dispatch from thence his royal mandates t.) Portugal ; while the minions of Don Miguel will deny this inivilege to DJit Pedto Credite posteri ! Whence is, or whence springs the dif ference? If it exists; it is undoubtedly in favour of Dan Pedro, both as to his legitimacy, as well as to his acts As to his legitimacy, because Don Pedro did not, as did. Don Alfonso V. leave his country to become the sovereign of a foreign one. Brazil was a Portuguese estate, and coqpidered an integral part of the Lusitanian .monarchy, until the moment of its independtmce ; and even after that epoch, no one will assert that it became so com pletely separated from the mother country, that Don John VI. did nct retain the right of domain in this empire. As to his proceedings, because Don Pedro, I,y the act of his abdication, in favour of Donna Maria, re• cognised Queen of Portugal, clearly showed that he had no idea of uniting the two crowns. Far different we-J the circumstances attending the conduct of Dan Alfonsa V. In the first place, because of his accession to the crown of Castile, and of Leon, which, when he assumed the sovereignty, were foreign kingdoms; in the second place, because although he re-united three crowns, he never abdicated the government of Portugal. Many more examples could be produced from every page of history, but two more will suffice. It was resolved in Cortes, in the year 1498, that Don Manuel, who was married to Queen Donna Isabel. heiress to the crowns of Castle, of Leon, and of Aragon, should proceed to Castile with his wife, to be there sworn, as in fact they were, heirs and successors to the crow of Portugal. How was that ? Were the Cortes so ig norant of the Laws, that they not only thought Don Manuel retained the rights of a Portuguese, by inherit ing the kingdoms of Castile, Leon, and Aragon, but even entreated him to adopt all the necessary measures to in sure to himself the legal possession of so rich an inhe ritance ! Another example, and let it be the last. The Prince, Don Miguel da Paz, was born at Saragona, on the 24th August, 1498, and was immediately acknow ledged on oath by the kingdoms of Castile, Leon, and Arragon. What did the Cortes of Portugal decide when assembled at Lisbon on the 7th of March, 1499 ? Dill they declare that prince, because born in Aragon, a foreigner, and incapable of governing? On the contrary, they unanimously swore allegiance to him as heir to the king dom of Portugal and King ; Don Manuel his father, by an autographic letter of the same month, prescribed the manner in-which he should govern when he succeeded to the crown of Portugal, as well as to the ethers of the three kingdoms. It is, consequently, clearly demon strated, that neither the possession of other realms, nor being a subject of another king, nor even being born in a foreign country, were in the opinion of the Portuguese, and in the eyes of the laws of Lamego, deemed circum stances by which a Prince should lose his prerogatives as a Portuguese ; and that the fact of not having Portu guese blood, alone constituted him a foreigner. There fore till it is proved that Don Pedro is not the first born son of Don John VI. and that in his veins no Portuguese blood flows, be cannot be considered a foreign Prince. Enough for the undisputed rights of Don Miguel, and let us now proceed to investigate if he exercises his sway quietly and without opposition. Facts will, in the present instance, bespeak volumes. Are the Portuguese people quiet and happy ? No man will dare to answer yes, even the venal scribblers of Asseca. Disturbances every where ; assassinations ; the scaffold continually covered with the innocent blood of Donna Maria's faithful subjects ; all the prisms of the kingdom crowded with the tyrant's victims; men of the greatest respectability tied to the chain of the galleys with the assassin and the highway robber; public misery at its summit; and, finally, scenes of misery and devas tation everywhere. Such is Portugal under Don Miguel's sway ! By a very moderate calculation we may say, that two-thirds of the existing population oppose Don Miguel, and are only constrained by oppression. Resides those, we can enumerate the following disparsed mass of the most wealthy people : Portuguese Emigrants actually in England, France, and the Netherlands _. _ - 3,000 In Terceira, emigrants, not including the popu. lotion of the Island . - it 000 In Eustis - 5,000 - In different parts of Europe, and in the United _ States . - 2.000 In the prisons of Lisboa for political Ipi dons, in the Lima*, and Cidade - 3,051) Item in Lisbon Castle - 1,005 Item in the Ecclesiastical pesos called Aljube 1,000 Item in the fort/seas o' St. Julian,Bugio, Tea faris, and C4llOllOl l / 2 Item in Peniche Item at °pond Item at Coimbra and Absanty Item at Elvis Item at Chary, Braga, and Almeida, Item in different ports of the kingdom Convicts sent to the Coast of Afrka Item ea board the hulks Persons absconded through the kinFilotn Total - 61,500 If, on an average, this enormous number of victims is multiplied by 4, allowing to each, four persons connected directly or indirectly with the sufferers, the reader will find more than two-thirds of the useful male population of Portugal suffering under the tyrant's sway, and waiting an opportunity to put an end to the reign of terror. — Every day the atmosphere is dark and gloomier ; the signs of a crisis approach—they are portentous and alarming even to those unacquainted with the tyrannv, inconsistency, and imbecility, of the present ruler. The island of Terceira, defeating his warriors and braving all his power, has shown his impotence, sad be would'have folios long ego, bad be not met decided protection and interference in Ms behalf. With such elements is Millera Way quiet end without oppositiOn?—Dicant P~tritif - Maw IS ♦ C. 3,W0 COO 4000 1,100 1,200 . 2,000 .000 61)0 500 10,000 . • . ' • -