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aid fidelity: and affording a splendid memorial to our latest posterity. Also that this nesolotion be transniitted to the respective Parties. 10. That this Meeting do express their opinion by returning' their beat thanks to those truly independent Members of Parlia ment who have this day honoured it with their presence. 11. That we cordially thank Mr. Alderman Wood fer the conspicuous, active, and zealous part which he has manifested throughout this great national question. 13. That this Meeting cannot adjourn without thanking Mr. Wakeman, the Chairman of the Committee, and the original promoter of the Meeting, and the Meeting itself, for their exertions. THE EVENING STAIt. LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1820. THE FUNDS. Yesterday, Consols left off at 67 1 / 8 for Money, and 67% for the Account. At the commencement of business this morning, those in favour of a rise were determined to succeed, and the purchases made were to an immense amount; and Consols for the Account were done at 67 1 A ; but their success was of very short duration, for before eleven o'clock they again fell to 67 1 / for the Account, and the market wore a most gloomy appearance at that price. The fact is, the public are now aware of those artificial endea vours to bolster up the Market ; and the feelings of the country upon domestic events place but little re liance on the stability of the present price. The Market is evidently kept up by the jobbers, as the men of real property are tenacious of speculating at the present moment. Even bets were made this morning of one per cent. fall against the rise before the renewal of the QUEEN'S business.—Prices at One : 3 per Cent. Cons. 67 1 / s 66 1 / 2 3 / 4 3 / 4 5 per Cent. Navy 103 102 3 / 4 3/ 4 Imperial 3 per Cent. Ann. 66 65 3 / 4 India Stock 214 1 / 2 214—Ditto Bonds 19s. 20s. Exchequer Bills, (2d.) 2s. 4s. pre. Osmium 3;t—Do. Paymt. 2% 3 3 / 4 Cons. for Acct. 67 1 / 2 66 5 /s 7/8. THE QUEEN. We •observed yesterday, that the knowledge of these circumstances, which countenanced a suspicion of criminality on the part of the QUEEN, had been confined to a few obscure individuals, who had, more over, according to their own account, kept these cir cumstances profoundly secret from all but the Milan Commission and their emissaries. The renowned Ma jocchi had never, he said, been in the habit of talk ing about anything he had seen while in the service of the PRINCESS; the equally illustrious Countess Colombier declared, that she had never spoken in juriously of her ROYAL HIGHNESS, until she heard that her ROYAL HIGHNESS had been speaking inju riously of her ; and that was many months, nay, years after she quitted the Princess's service; the .mason, Raggazoxi, who saw such sights in the grotto of the garden of the Villa d'Este, when asked, " if he ever spoke to anybody of the circumstances he had now stated?' answered, " No ; he could swear that!" Barbara Krantz, who got such a fright from what she discovered, took it quite amiss that she should be supposed to have run and told any body of the quandary she was in ; and so, in short, it was with the whole of them ; they never communi cated what they knew to any one till they were sent after by the Milan Commission, and askfcl to tell all that they had observed while in the service of the Princess, and, when nothing immediately occurred to them, were told to recollect themselves; to think again whe ther they could not tell something that might be of use in criminating the PRINCESS ! Since, therefore, the whole circumstances inferring criminality were so strictly confined to the breasts of the few obscure wit nesses who pretend that they witnessed them, we again ask how the calumny of an adulterous intercourse could get into circulation? What other answer can be again given, than that if there was any such ca lumny abroad, it must have been sent forth by the very individuals who affect to make it their apology for taking up the matter, because to them alone the circumstances on which it rests were communicated. We are disposed to lay the more stress on this view of the matter from observing, in the interesting pro ceedings which took place yesterday at Paddington, a statement made by a respectable traveller, which happens to coincide exactly with various other com munications made to ourselves, as to the opinion actually entertained by the Continental Public with :espect to the illustrious object of this cruel prose cution. Captain JENnixs, a Gentleman engaged in the Mediterranean trade, thus addressed the Meeting Let me tell you, where our Queen is said to have been, there are a great many English Gentlemen—.men of honour. Let them be called on, in CUD'S name, and we may know what we have to trust to ; but, meantime, no more of this Italian nonsense, I have been at Genoa, at Malta, Smyrna, Marseilles, Naples, Constantinople, Ephesus--what is now called Alexandria ; I have been in other places where her Majesty has been; I have mixed with high and low ; and never did I hear one per:;on in those parts speak except in terms of the highest praise and admiration of the British Queen." Strong as this testimony is, it falls even short of similar communications which we have received from other Gentlemen, of equal respectability and vera city. One Gentleman, who, in the course of an extensive tour, travelled as far East as Jerusa lem, and was in every place which the Princes, visited during her long tour, declares to us that he never heard one syllable to the reproach of her Royal Highness; but, on the contrary, innumerable testi monies to her correct demeanour and boundless be nevolence. How is it possible to reconcile such a state of public opinion with a prevailing belief in the existenc„e of an adulterous intercourse disgraceful to the Crown ant national character of England? REVOLt TION IN PORTUGAL ra•mtace ••••• At length the French Journals have Iroken silence on this important subject. The Paris Papers of Tuesday, received this day, contain various accounts respecting the event, not very precise as to parti culars, but agreeing in their general features. The Revolution, according to these accounts, was effected Oporto without bloodshed, but at Lisbon with the loss of many lives; and, if we credit the statements before us, the English soldiers, of whom there were about one thousand at Lisbon, have been the chief sufferers. They had, it is said, followed a different line of conduct from what they did at Oporto, having endeavoured to suppress the popular insurrection. We wait with impatience for farther particulars re specting the occurrences at Lisbon—and especially re specting our own countrymen. It is extremely proba ble that they have suffered severely, but we hope not to the extent stated. Those who survived, we may hope are now beyond farther danger ; for we learn, from the accounts that have been received, that they subsequently evacuated Fort St. Julien (at the mouth of the Tagus), and embarked for Gibraltar. In one particular, some of these accounts do not agree with those before received. The first accounts stated the Revolution to have been effected by the Military. In one or two of the French Papers, it is stated to differ from the Spanish and Neapolitan Re volutions in having been effected, not by the Mili tary, but by the People. This is probably a mistake, for the other Journals say it was brought about by the Military. The accounts, however, may be re conciled ; for it is probable that there was a previous understanding between the People generally and the Army. Indeed, it is inconceivable that the Mili tary would have ventured to engage in such an en terprize without previously ascertaining the senti ments of their countrymen, and being assured that they would be seconded and supported by the popu lation generally. We observe, with disgust, an attempt made in some of the Ultra Journals to give a colouring to the accounts, calculated to induce a belief that the Revolutionists in Spain are actuated by the same motives and desires which influenced the French leaders during the worst periods of the French Re volution. Forsooth the Spaniards are desirous to free the Portuguese from a foreign yoke. Should it prove true, as stated in some of the Paris Papers, that the Spaniards have sent a force estimated at 20,000 men to the aid of the Portuguese Revolutionists, the measure may be accounted for on other principles than a wish to interfere with the affairs of other nations. Are the Spaniards to be supposed blind or indifferent to the avowed purposes of all or some of the Holy Allies? Are they not at this moment threatened to be visited with the utmost vengeance which it may be in their power to inflict upon them ? Are not the Allies acting in "concert ? and is it alone lawful for them to act in concert ? Is it to be deemed unlawful in those whom they seek to ruin— whom they doom to destruction—to make even an at tempt to strengthen themselves by counter-alliances ? and to whom can they apply, in a struggle like the present, but to those who have similar views and ob jects, and who, from a sense of the common danger, may naturally be supposed willing and even anxious 'to co-operate in measures of common defence ? Has not this been ever the practice among the Nations of Europe ? Aye, and it ever will be. Those who are threatened with danger will seek refuge wherever there is the least prospect of finding any. Is it possible, in the nature of things, that the Spa niards could feel indifferent as to the occupation of their weakest frontier : that they would let slip any favourable opportunity that might present itself of rendering themselves invulnerable on that side ? And if the Portuguese are, not only willing, but desirous to receive their aid, and make common cause with them, would they not have been fools and madmen had they put the opportunity away from them ? The Legitimates, as the Holy Allies delight to be called, may fret, and grumble, and pour out their abuse as lavishly as they will; but this will not avail them. They have already shewn by their Circulars that they mean to use other weapons than words; and, in truth, the question at issue is not one to be settled by talking. The Holy Leaguers have avowed their intention to keep up all the established abuses, in spite of all opposition ; and the Revolutionists have avowed their intention to put them down, in their respective countries, in spite of all opposition ! How can water coalesce with fire? The fire will devour the victim, the altar itself, and the water in . the trench that surrounds it. The following are the accounts which appear in the Paris Papers A letter from Bayonne, dated the sth September,' announces that important news have been received at Madrid, of a Revolution which burst out in Portu gal on the 28th of August. It differs, they say, from the Revolutions of Spain and Naples, inasmuch as it has been effected by the people. As to the rest, the rights of the legitimate dynasty have not been for mally attacked, and it is in the name of the King of PORTUGAL and the BRAZILS that the constitution of the Cortes has been proclaimed. , If we may believe the letters from Madrid, another disastrous difference between this Revolution and the two that we have alluded to, is, that it has cost the lives of a great many persons. The number of per sons killed or wounded at Lisbon, in this popular movement, is computed at two thous and. The Eng lish, who bad endeavoured to *oppose the insurrec tion, have suffered most. A letter from Madrid, put into the Post-office on the night of the 30th of August, at the moment of , the departure of the charier, adds to these lamenta ble details, that a t Op ort o, an d in the Other towns,' the Revolution had taken place w i thout any disorder. Ulterior advices respecting this : event are expected with impatience. May they bring us the assurance that the fist accounts have exaggerated the number of victims of a Revolution which has commenced under such ruinous auspices. —Journal de Paris. A Correspondent at Bayonne writes us, on the sth instant, as follows The Portuguese have broken the yoke, by adopting for themselves the Constitu tion of the Cortes. The Spaniards are going to their succour : they have dispatched troops from Seville, &c. to the estimated amount of about 20,000 men, who are to enter by the Alentejo and the Algarves. At - Oporto, everything passed off well; but it was not so at Lisbon, where there were 1000 English.— Fifteen hundred persons were there victims of the insurrection. ;The Spaniards proclaim that their object is to fi ee the Portuguese from a foreign yoke. These details, brought here by an extraordinary courier, require confirmation ; what is quite certaio however is, that the Constitution has been proclaimed at Oporto and at Lisbon, and that the Revolution broke out on the 28th of August. " According to a letter from Badajoz, which con firms the reported events in Portugal, the English had evacuated Fort Saint Julien. This fortress was an important point, as it could prevent the inhabit ants of Lisbon from procuring water. It is said, moreover, that the English have embarked for Gibraltar." We give this news as we have received it from Bayonne; it is in need of further confirmation. The last Courier from Lisbon which arrived here, left there on the 26th August. We would only remark, that news of the complete success of the Revolution in Portugal has been current in Paris far these three days past.—Gazelle de France. A Supplement to the Madrid Journal r Universal, of the 31st August, contains the following article: " A Courier Extraordinary from Corunna, which place he left on the 28th of this month, brings the following news of a Revolution which has burst forth in Portugal. It is at Oporto, and in that province s that it was begun, by the Portuguese troops, who proclaimed their august Sovereign, Don JOHN VI. the Nation, and the Constitution, and that a Cortes should be established. Several other garrisons fol lowed the example. General WILSON, who com manded the Province of Minho, has been superseded by the Colonel of Infantry D. N. BARROS. All the public situations occupied by the English have been given to Portuguese; in short, the liberty of the Na tion has been everywhere proclaimed, and the Autho rities established, but with a great effusion of blood. We know also that these accounts have been confirmed by other extraordinary couriers, who have arrived from Ciudad Rodrigo and .Radajoz."—lbid. The revolutionary pestilence continues its ravages. —We learn, by an extraordinary dispatch from Ma drid, that events similar to those in Naples and Sicily, have taken place in Portugal. A Revolution broke out there on the 28th of August. The Constitution of the Cortes was proclaimed, in the name of the Km of PORTUGAL. With the exception of the City of Lisbon, all the kingdom has peaceably accepted the Revolution; but in the capital there had been, ac cording to these accounts, resistance and massacres. The number of killed and wounded is reckoned at two thousand. Letters from Badajoz, received at Bayonne on thel sth instant (September), confirm these accounts. They add, that in the disorders at Lisbon, the Eng-' lish have been the worst treated; they have been forced to evacuate all the forts, which were com manded, it is true, by English Officers ; but these Officers had under their orders only a small number of soldiers of their own nation : it is said besides, that the English soldiers and merchants, had taken alarm and thrown themselves into the shipping, to take refuge in Fort St. Julien, which defends the entry into the port of Lisbon. N't ; e wait with impatience further details respecting this event. It was at Oporto that the Revolution commenced ; it was not opposed by the troops ; but it appears to have been the work of the People. The event was prepared with a long arm by the Liberals of Spain. An article in the Journal of Corumsa leaves no doubt on that point. , If we may give credit to an on dit, Spanish troops, to the amount of twenty thousand men, have moved from different points in Spain towards the Portuguese frontier, to aid the Portuguese Insurgents. At the moment of the courier's departure, a report was current at. Madrid, that Fort St. Julienliad been abandoned by the English who had taken refuge there, and that they have, repaired to Gibraltar.— Journal des Debats. We have received from Madrid the following let ter, dated 31st August, ten o'clock, P. M. _ _ _ pie letter quoted agrees in every point with the extract given above (from the Universal), till it 'speaks of the disturbances at Lisbon, when it pro ceeds as follows :]--" Lisbon has been the theatre of a similar Revolution, but the triumph of the Inde pendents was for a moment doubtful. At last they got possession of Tort St. Julien; the public func tionaries were, for the most part, ciillaced or ar rested, and new authorities immediftteV instituted.' To the contents of these dispatches we have to add, that letters from Badajoz, Alcantara, Ciudad Rodrigo, and from all pasts of the frontiers, confi•m the accounts brought from Comma. Very active communications have been established between the two nations (Spain and Portugal), and a federative and intimate alliance is already spoken of.—Con stitutionnel. We are assured that the Quotidienne has been placed under interdict, for having announced in its columns the news of a Revolution in Portugal, not because that news (which the Censorship had pre- vented us from giving) was false, but because it had not submitted the article to the Commission.—lbid. Beside the accounts from Portugal, which we have given above, the Paris Journals of Tuesday contain some other articles of considerable interest, respecting the present troubled state of continental affairs, which we subioin. DENUNCIATION OF THE CARBONART. VENICE, AUGUST 29. An Ordinance of the 25th of August, signed by Governor C. C. d'lnsaght Vice President Ch. Mar quis de Mazo, and an Imperial Councillor, bears in substance as follows : " The Society of Carbonari, which has spread itself in the neighbouring States, has endeavoured to make proselytes in the Imperial provinces. From the investigations which have been made, a knowledge has been obtained of the pernicious views of that Society, which are not communicated by its Chiefs to all the Members. They are now made publicly known, for the information of all the subjects of the Empire. “ The precise object of the Carbonari 'is the overthrow and the destruction of Governments. " As persons who are in the knowledge that such is their in tention, and who nevertheless associate with the Carbonari, render themselves guilty of• High Treason, and as those who have not prevented the progress of that Society, or who have neg lected to denounce its Members, are accomplices in the same crime, and as such liable to the pains of law, it is ordained that, from the day of the publication of the present Ordinance, no person can elcuse himself under the pretest of not having had knowledge of the object of the Society of Carbonari. " Whoever, therefore, shall enter into the said Society, or who shall neglect to prevent its progress, or to denounce the Mem bers of it, shall be judged according to Articles 52, 53, 54, 55, of the first part of the Code des Dellis. Article 53 imposes the punishment of death on those guilty of High Treason. Article; 54 and 55 imprisonment for life en those who, having know ledge of the plot, have nut denounced the guilty." FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER 4. We have just received from Rastadt important news—viz. that the orders which had been given for the passage of a body of Austrian troops through the Bavarian territory, have been countermanded : whence it is inferred that Bavaria has made urgent representations to the Court of Vienna. French Five per Cents.—Monday, 73fr. 90c. A Flanders Mail arrived at a late hour last night. An article from Stockholm, of the 25th ult. has the following mysterious paragraph Reports of a very singular nature are in circulation here. They speak of the formation of a Camp towards the fron tiers of Finland." We know not whether it is con nected with this subject, but the Berlin accounts of the 2d instant state, that the Marquis DE BO NAY, the French Minister to the Prussian Court, and the Baron DE LAGERGEIM, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires at Berlin, had set out for Dresden. It is added, that the motives for their journey were not known. A Dutch Mail, received this morning, brings ac counts of some heavy failures in Rotterdam. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A report prevailed last night among the Shipping Interest that upwards of 300 Transports would be taken up immediately, for the purpose of conveying home from Portugal all tho English. subjects and property. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 12.—Wind S.S.E.— Arrived off this port she American brig Lady Monroe, PULLEY, from Baltimore for Bremen, out 28 days. PLYMOUTH, Strr. 13.—Wind E.—Sailed the Carl August, NISEA, for Ukaborg. Posersnotrrn, Suer. 14.,—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Godmltt Haab, Coot, from Christiana; his Majesty's ships Exoroix and Hum, from a cruise; and Weymouth store-ship, from the Cape. Arrived o 6 the Wight, the. Meridian KNUDSON, from Santa Cruz for Copenhagen. Sailed the Albury transport, for Cork; and his Majesty's ship Cosclexana, for Sheerness. Dram Sire. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, ;he Lord Castlereagh, THOMPSON, from St. Domingo; Preston, Fiscus, from Montserrat; Maria, TAIT, from St. Lu cia; Pacific, Tarim", from Miramichi ; Columbus, A ism, from Jamaica; Mary and Eleanor, DAVIES, from Bristol for Hamburgis ; and several more, names not known. Hammen, Seer. 14.—Arrived the Leicester paFket, with a Mail from Holland. • Baionvon, Surmises 13.—The Hound Revenue cutter, Captain KIIIOIIIIY, captured at sea, on Tuesday, a smuggling lugger, seventy feet in length, with contraband property on board to the amount of upwards of £l,OOO, and a crew consisting of ten hands. The lugger has been run into Shoreham Harbour, the goods have been deposited in his Majesty's Custom House at Shoreham, and the men sent off guarded to Portsmouth. New York Papers have arrived to-day, but not of a tater date than those last received. By the Leeward Islands packet, letters have been received from the Island of St. Thomas, dated the 2d August, which mention -the receipt of intelligence from the Spanish Main, that an armistice had be n concluded between BouvAn and MoRiLLo. La duration, however, was limited to one month. [From the Sierra Leone Gazette of June is with melancholy and painful feelings we, notice the sudden and accidental death of Assistant Commis sary-General LINEVRE, from his fowling-piece. His remains were interred on Thursday last, and attended by Sir GEORGE COLLIER, the Officers of the Navy and Army, and the whole of the Europeans and re spectable inhabitants. Coax Excnamor, Altax-Laxs, Sere. 15.—We have had no arrivals of Wheat since Monday, but the demand being .cry trifling sales were heavy, and Monday's prices were with difl► cult , " sustained. , We continue to receive large supplies - of Oats, yet the trade is brisk, and the prices of last market-day are fully maintained. In Barley, Beans, and Peas, little or no variarkm. MARZIT, SZIPT. 15.—Beef, 4s. Od. to Ss. r stone of Bibs.; Mutton, 4s od. to Ss. Od. Veal. 45. Cod. to Ss. 100. Pork, 4sAhL to goaod. Lamb, 46.6 d. to ss.44l.—Cattle at Matt et Beasts, 600 ; Calves, 220; Sheep and Lambs, 6,900 ; Pip, s2t) Hay, 3/.los. to 41. 41: Clover, a. us. to 61. Os. Straw, 11. is. to 11. 12s.