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ara(ti‘ The ateOlnpllihrttest of its avowed object ; but which was ne vertheless arbitrary in its nature, and derived from the Star Chant. beryonealissitutional in its operation, hostile to the rights of • the autjeet, inconsistent with the liberty of the prem. Tne Star tOuetrber bad been abolished on account of its oppressive and un. censtitutional character; but if its powers were to be still exercised front thetench with respect to the law of libel, he saw not what the country had got by the abolition. The learned gentleman had revived the old cry of Whig and Tory, designations which he had hoped were buried in the veldt of all the CApulets—terms which he had hoped were out of date—lie had hoped we should have beard no inore of them ; bin the learned gentleman revived the nt.rnes. and called his learned friend a Whig Attorney. Generel. who had attacked the liberty of the _press. He eon. tesstd lie wished that his learned friend--wh o, be was sure, wished well to the press, though. unfortunately, he thought it woos:my to control and regulate it by ex sailicio informations, had attarained from persecutions by which no public wrong was ever re ti ressed, no man's private character ever vindicated. or caused to stand the better for it. Perhaps no individual in the country had been mad- the subject of such strong, repeated, and malignant libels as bi'i ell ; but he never perceived, or fancied he could perceive, that they did him any harm, and he had only answered them by a re vases upon his character and conduct, which were known to the • country this bad been his vindication. He did not appeal to eourt of justice. Could he believe that there were persons in high stations who wanted , a species of protection which an humble vidual like himself did not require? Of this he was convinced, that a public man could only stand upon his own character as a car defence against calumny and vituperation let him be ern. 'urea as he might, if that were unimpeachable the public would do ultimate jastice to it. Looking m all this, he hoped his learned friend would do one great act for the liberty at the press ; his learned friend's expressed .sentiments were in its tmour. and he thought the old law sufficient to regulate the prose and repress injurious libels : let him put this feather in his 'cap—let him acquire the well-earned fame and ..credit of being the first Attorney-General to put the press upon a footing . I,t • real public utility, abandoning harsh and oppressive nitric. 'tione: in accomplishing this . objetb, he Would do himself great honour, and his country a great service. By the way, when the learned gentleman taunted his lamed friend with being a Whig A ttorney-Getteral, let him look at his Tory Atturney.Generals, and see what they had done—let him look at their proceedings a few •yeate back. The learned gentleman had gone into many recce. tine matters—he came into the hoese loaded with what he had collected in all quarters; laden, not like a bee. with honey, but covered all over with the dust of musty shelves. (Hear.) Let him not overlook entirely, in the midst of his 'laborious, erudite, and remote researches, the page of modern history. Let him recollect the libel prosecutions of Tory Attornies-General (Hear.) Let the learned gentleman remember a prosecution instituted not many years back, when the editor of a newspaper was convicted of a libel for laughing at Paul, the mad Emperor of Russia, for punishing his subjects for wearing shoe-strings, which were considered the insignia of Jacobinion at St. Petersburgh. Let him recollect, that for this alleged libel, ted by a tory Attorney-Generid, the defendant was sea to one or two years' imprisonment, and a fine of 1,0001. Such were the convictions obtained from packed juries by tory Attorneys-General. Here be must return his sincere acknow ledgments to the right hon. gentleman opposite, who was the first minister that had ventured to alter the law ' which enabled a govern. ment to appoint its own jury for the trial of a libeller. Immortal honour had the right honourable gentleman .done himself by abo lishing the infamoussyetem of packing juries, and io.that manna obtain a set of jurors capable of any thing who would find Abel guilty of the murder of Cain. Let the learned gentleman recollect the trials for life, not libel. in 1754, when honest men's lives were sought to be ensnared by the doctrine of accumulative treason; when public acts and newspap er paragraphs of the openest and simplest description were into the service for that purpose, although the authors o them thought no mere of treason than the tory attorney-general, now Lord Eldon, thought of it at the time, and perhaps not so much as the learned lord mlOt think of treason since the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill. Ut the learned gentleman remember bow the then attorney 'general spoke for seven hours, in order to try to make out a case of constructive treason against his counmen, wham, fortunately, however, he did not succeed in hangthg ; because, if he had, such was the spirit of the times, that these would not have been the only victims —many must have followed. It was not long since a tory attorney-general had prosecuted Mr. Cobbett, for writing with just indignation of the atrocious system of in the arm y our fel low-countrymen, by Germans and other oeeigners : for this the de. fendant was convicted of libel, and sentenced to either one or two yeas imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 1,0001. Let us look at the conduct of the whig attorney-general of the present day, and at the result of those prosecutions. But hers, with to the ant trial, he must confess he thought, that after his .iaarasd Mad. bad got the oath of Mr. Aka,_ declaring that he did not mean to int. pugn the character of the Lord Chancellor, it wild have been wise in his Learned Friend to have dropped all further proosedinp is reference to a inneection which was almost unworth of no. • tee ; for scandalous as the charge was, it hod been den ied, and Reba) , would believe it. As to the other libels, be thought it unworthy of the distinguished persons attacked in them that they should be so prosecuted. It would have been much better if his Learned Friend, trusting to the good sense and right feeling of the country to dimmer and be gumed by the ma lignity of these attacks, had refrained from prosecuting them. But to come to the result :—Hers was a man convicted by juries fairly chosen (to the honour of government be it spoken)—a man who, if he had any one to reproach for his conviction, was his jurors, for they were the fair and impartial judges of d the ca sea man convicted of three or four libels ; and what I, was the punishment (which rested not with the juries, but with, the bench, on the motion- of the Attorney. General ?) Why, the defendant was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for three or four libels (three or four months foe nth), and he be lieved a fine of 1001. about SO/. a libeL Certainly this was a lenient administration of the law, and the learned gentleman might rummage far enough back into the acts of tory !attar. nies-General without equalling it. It seemed, however, that Tories, when out of office, might turn out good patriots after all : he confessed he thought they resembled *certain quadruped ap parelled in the lion's hide : they could not conceal what was under n, and gave sundry tokens by which it was easy to discover them— 1 " Detrahere et pellem, nitidus qua quisque per ors " Cederet, introrsum turpis." These new-bun patriots could not impose their present conduct on the country as patriotism. When the Learned Gentleman came forward in his character of a patriot, the House would excuse him (Sir F. Burdett) if he lo oked at his conduct with a degree of cau tion, particularly when he saw so great a noise followed by the pro duction of such a slight case, and so trifling a result. He con fessed he had come into the House with fear and trembling, expect ing a grievous and weighty charge ; and, sorry as he should have been to vote a motion of censure against his Learned Friend, he should have been obliged to do so ila cue had been made out. He did therefore feel, on this occasion, great satisfaction and pleasure is finding the Learned Gentleman's charge resolve itself into so simple a motion, which, It was evident, was not meant for any pur• pose, except, perhaps, to— " Cleanse the foul bosom of that perileutstuff Which weighs upon the hon." Now that the learned gentleman had Waked that, he hopett . he would be the better for It. It wad 101; pacticitevei to oppose antra. lion for inquiry, and at the same time, it pee him pleasure to be relieved from the necessity redividing with the learned gent. by the circumstance of his learned friend awning to the motion. It would seem as if the learned gentleman had not made up his mind to any ulterior proceedlup upon the documents which he now asked for ; the motion bad already answered his purpose, in affording him an opportunity of making his statement, and feared it might be inconvenient to the learned gentleman if the papas lwern granted. It would be better for the learned gentleman that' ' the motion should lie dead on the table than to have it revivified in this manner. As to the law of libel, it was mere practice of the ' court originals& in usurpation, depending upon &dm, the curse of the law of England ;—resting on the consdtution and caprice of the Attorney-General, and so vague and uncertain in its nature, that no man could tell whether he was writing a libel or not.' Some men Of desperate fortunes, like this defendant, would proceed reckless whether they wrote libels or not. He was sorry to bear It said that this Individual was the organ of a perry: if so, he was worthy of the party and the party was worthy of him : it was hardly to he expected that a lawyer would have made such an admission. No doubt Alexander's sufferings would recommend him to the justice of 1 y ; he seemed to be a man who wrote, not so much to in. i ju any body as to eat. Indeed, he believed that this gentleman w Id be greatly benefitted in his own person by these prosecutions, that instead of beceming an example in terrors') as the Auer fart ney.Oeneral wished, be would *rather appear an object to be imitated by others. He thought it must be admitted that the press should Ipe left to itself as much as pole : he would certainly make a die ftetislo between public and private libels, but In no instance of ' personal libel would he recommend an es-qateie information, which was (Actual for punishment, but not for the vindication of cha racter: this was to be effected by an action at law. How could any min's character be vindicated when he brought his accuser 11119 4 c o,rt, gaged, and bound hand and foot, and was not himself allowed to deprave the accusation. He was of opinion that private libels our to be punished; for a man should sot be allowed to injure another with a pen any more than with a sword:. but let g oof or the injury be givelsowlet the Charge be disproved,—and let. character be vindicated. He would sot allow* a libel to be k SUOLbclog lOW. for ash libel.--So. less so by reason of hs truth, but let that be pleaded In ex tenuation. As matters now stood, no person knew what libel was ; the very term libel was vague like the law of libel t and he was satisfied that the existing law, far from repressing the licen tiousness of the press, had a contrary effect. Ex officio proceedings never did good to any man or any government, and the present go. vemment did not need them even if they were useful. True ' dla.l tress was abroad, but distress not brought on by the Duke of Wel lington : let the learned gentleman recol le ct his Tory 'Angolans:howl whose measures had eonduced to its productions. For his own part he would say , that generally speaking, he never knew any admit:is. nation whichbore its faculties so meekly as the present, or promised fairer for the country. Be had not the honour of knowing the Duke of Wellington, except as a public minister, and in that capa city he would say of him, that he was sure, whatever might be the noble duke's opinions as to the cause of the public distresa r -he was most anxious to alleviate it. Mr. PEEL said after the speech of the Right Honourable Gen tleman, he was greatly surprised at the motion with which he concluded. After three months of gestation, and throe hours of painful delivery, the Right Honourable Gentleman only brought forth a motion for papers, every one of which he held in his band. —(Hear.) As the Right Honourable Gentleman had stated that he might make the papers the subject of some proceeding, he should concur with his Learned Friend in not resisting the motion, but would accede to the wish of his hem and learned friend, who in the most manly manner desired that the house should be put in possession of the papers, and judge for itself. With respect to the conspiracy of which the right hon. gentleman accused the govern. meet, he could assure the house that he had never even hard of the libel till he heard of the prosecution. He took very much the same view of libels as the . hon. baronet, whose public life was longer than his own ; but for his stand's be thought he might claim an equal share of the honour of Hear. hear, and a laugh.) He had been six years Chief Keeretary for Ireland, and was made the subject of incessant attack for his opinions on the Catholic Question ; and after the apprenticeship he served there, be was the less sensitive of the attacks made on him at this side the water.a laugh.) He wag sorry the hog and learned radium had said that he belonged to the party of which dlr. Alexander was the ae ri a ;CHARLES WETHERELL denied having used any such ex gr i ITEL was glad to hear the right honourable gentleman disown it. What had always made hun feel easy under calumny was, that be knew, by waiting three months, public opinion would of itself set the balance even, and the calumniated party would stand full as well as well aif be had prosecuted. (Hear, hear.) His boa. end learned ftiend, however, had to attend to the state of the public mind was kept in a state of agitation by publications as. sating that the government would be dissolved, and that the relief bill would be repealed. These paragraphs were copied Into the Irish papers, and did produce the strongest excitement and prevent the return to tranquillity, which was anticipated from the Catholic relief bilL - Lord ALTHORP agreed with the hon. member for 'Westmin. l stcr, that ex.oflicio informations should be abolished. _ . Mr. O'CONNELL said, the Atir;rney.General's defence evinced a determination to exercise a complete dictatorship over the press, without any definition of libel. (Hear.) He bad read with horror of prisoners being kept awake all night before their trial, that they might not be able to make their deience. The next cruelty to this was trying a man for two libels in one day, keeping him in a state of torture. The Attorney-General sail on these trials, he did not wish to punish a newspaper, but to come at the author. Was that his feeling in the use of the King and Baldwin ? had he not Mr. Giffard's letter in his pocket, avowing the libel ? The press of England was at present in a degraded state, and only protected by the public opinion that shields it. He almost wished for a censorship of the press for its protection against the present state of the law. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he only took tbe law as be found it, and did not say It was not capable of improvement. Sir ROBERT HERON said he thou& the Duke of Wellington was extremely ill advised, and could net Uve suffered from the libels if he had not prosecuted. Mr. NORTH said, the house and the public had an interest in the character of the Duke of Wellington, and it was right that the public mind should 'not be abused resslhis character. The SOLICITOR -OENERAL the best security for the liberty of the press was to proem It licentiousness. The libels prosecuted were part of a series of libel., the object of which was Se bring the government into contempt. Mr. SADLER said he should take another opportunity of bring log before the house a motion of which be had given notiis fee this evening, in Coolllllioo with the present debate. Mr.HUME said that the honourable gentleman (Sir C4Wetber ell) had given the atteeney-general a lesson, which be would rscol. Let to the last day of his life. (Hear.) He was certain of this, that the law of libe l, as at present explained and understood, was s disgrace to the country. The attorney by his speech that evening bad dare more to bring his majesty's >e as into con tempt thee al the libels that had been written. Mr. PEEL add he bad been charged with apeetaey, and with laugh ing at the distresses Of the country in the House of Commas; and be did not know that any action had been instituted on that ground till he saw it in the papers, still he concurred in what his right bon. and learned friend bad done. Sir C. WETHERELL replied, and pre notice that be should, at some convenient time, move for leave to introduce a bill, or at least, to take the sense of the house, whether the attorney-geseral could file an ex-officio information after he, had abandoned a private information ? The SPEAKER then put the . question, which was carried in the aftirmative. The other Orden of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at four oieledc. MINORITY Of 61, who voted (on the Ist of March) to refer the Newark Petition to a Committee. Althorp, Lord Howick, Lord Pendarvis, E. Baring. F. Honywood, W. P. Philips, G. Baring„ Sir T. Harvey, D. W. Price, R. Brownlow, C. Heneage, G. F. Protheroe, E. Burdett, Sir F. Hume, J. Roberts, A. W. Brougham, H. Kemp, T. R. Russell, Lord J. Bright, H. Littleton, E. J. Robinson, Sir G. Beaumont, T. W. Lumley, .1. S. Sefton, Lord Calvert, C. Lambert, J. S. Stanley, E. O. S. Clive, E. B. Majoribanks, S. Stoney, R. A. Cavendish, W. Moberly, J. Smith, W. Cave, 0. ' Marshall, J. Smith, V. Denison, W. J. Marshall, W. Taylor, 31. A, Dawson, A. Monek, J. B. Wilson, Sir R. Davenport, E. Morpeth. Viscount Wanender. Hon. G. Eastbope, J. Martin, J. Wood, Ald. Ewart, W. O'Connell, D. Warburton, H. Guise, Sir B. Bert. Osborne. Lord F. Wilbraham, G. Graham, Sir J. Palmerston, Visct. Vebb, Col. E. Grant, Hon. C. Poynu, W. S. Ward, C. Grant, R. Palmer, C. F. MINORITY. Of 47 (to 148) wbo voted on the lst of March, for Mr. Humes Motion to grant 29,610 Seamen and Marines to. the Ist of. Jolt', to admit of inquiry whether the number might, after that period, be reduced. Bernal, R. Gordon. R. Protheroe, E. Benstt, J. Graham, Sir J. Bickford, W. Baring, Sir 7 i Hobkouse. J. Cam Roberto, AvW. ll. " " Baring, B. Haywood, W. P. Robinson, Sir 11 Buck, L. W. Heron, Sir R. Sibthorp, Col. Carter, B. Ingilby, Sir W.: Townshend, Lord'O. Calvert, C. Jephson, C. D. Wrottesley, Sir J. • Denison, W. J. Lobouchere, H. Webb, CoL Dowses, A. : Martin, J. Whitmore. W. W. Dunemnbe, T. - Macdonald, Sir J. Warburton, H. Davenport, E. Moberly, J. Wood, C. Davis., CoL Mona, J. B. Wood, Aid. Narnageres, Lad Morpeth„ Lord Whitbread, W. hates, Lord O'Connell, D. Fsearkerly, .7. N. Philips, 0. Teller. Fyler, T. B. Palmer, C. F. Hume, J. Guise, Sir W. Palmer, N. Lord Gaiao E BERESTOB,D has been returned, by a large majority, for the county of Waterford. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Victoria, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Princess Sophia Matilda, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at her aparuttenes in the King's Palace, St. Jamas% The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner yesterday evening, at Apsley House, Piccadilly, to a party of the Nobility and Gentry. The Earl of Aberdeen visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. The D uke of Clarence cum to town yesterday morn ing. from his residence in Bushy Park. His Royal Hlphness visited the Princess Augusta, at her residence in the 47a Palma, St. James's, and partook of a defetairerish his hater. Hi s Royal Highness returned to Bushy iniSe aftwoom The British government in Upper Canada has notified to the House of Assembly that they will not afford relief to the imams in the late war, Woes the proving* first provide 67,0001. for than ; therefore en hop. of re, dress is at an end. RUSSIAN LOAN OF HIM CONTRACTED BY N. M. ROTHSCHILD. The DIVIDEND tro this Loan, which becomes due on 1410N DAV, the nth of March, trill be paid on that day. and on each succeeding day (Saturdays and Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two. BRAZILIAN 71 OF 18:15. CONTRACTED BY N. M. ROTHSCHILD. The DIVIDEND on this boan,_ which becomes due on THURSDAY, the let April, will be paid on that day, sod on each succeeding dayiSatur&ys and Sundays sicesytod), between the hours of Ten and Two. PRUSSIAN AN OF 1818, CONTRACTED BY N. M. ROTHSCHILD; The DIVIDEND on th is Goan, whkh becomes due on THURS. DAY, the lit of April, will be paid on that day, and on each suc ceeding day (Satur‘ys and Sundays tscepted), between tbs bouts of ten and two. • BRALLIAI 4 7IIr - OAN OF ISM CONTRACTED BY N. M. ROTHSCHILD. The DIVIDENDoo this Loan, which becomes due on THURS DAY, the let of April, will be paid on that day, 'and on each suc ceeding day (Saturdays and Sundays excepted), between the hours of ten and two. Printed forms are to be previously called for at the Counting house of Mr. N. I. Rothschild, 2, New -court, St. Swithio's-lane. CONTRACTS FOR BUTTER. CHEESE, and OATMEAL. rICTUA LLIAG-OFFICH. March 3, 1130. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING his )14JESTFS NA yr. 4e. slo &why gigs nodes, That no Tnvesnar, the 11th instant, they will be ready to re ceive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for Right Tont of BUTTER, Tel Tens of CHEESE; and Forty Tons of New OATMEAL. To he delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, ate half of the flutter and Cheese by the stet instant, and the re nsahtder by the 30th day of April nett; and the whole of the Oatmeal in the month of April-nett. Samples of the Oatmeal must be produced with the Tenders. The Conditions of the Contract may be Seen at this Nice. Each Tender must specify the price In words at Smith, and be delivered before One .'Clock on the day appointed ; and the Per sot who makes the Tender, or some person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. Y WILLER CLIFTON. CANADA COMPANY. Casa& House. &. Helen's-place, Feb. 23, I 130. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the CANADA COM PA NY hereby give modes, that in pursuance. of the provision to that effect contained in the Charter, a General Court of Proprietors will be hoiden at the Company's Howe in &. 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The Speech of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman—considering the high associations inseparable almost from such a theme as the Liberty of the Press, was as alien from all public sympathy and constitutional ardour, as we can well conceive any speech possibly could have been, delivered in such a place, and on such a subject. Instead of upholding the sacred principle of uncoercible popular opinion, it was a vehement party declamation —an elaborate defence of individual transgression — not a vindication of the invaded right and prerogative of free discussion. We never read a speech more contracted in its public views, on so expansive and animating public question. Sir JANES SCARLETT made a much better, and almost as patriotic, in reply; though the inveteracy of that natural—as well as official —enemy of the Press, peered through it with unblushing boldness. Sir Pamlico BURDETT, on this occasion, did not speak to our mind, and in his eulogy upon the Govern ment we must leave him alone. The only sensible and manly remarks in this debate, fell from the lips of the Honourable Member for Clare ; and these were both pertinent and public spirited in a high degree. Mr. O'Cou w gra. is a thrice valuable acquisition—in those times—to a Parliament, where the dearth of moral courage has contributed so much to nahirst/ise degene rate and servile Vial/. A daily paper—one of the abject organs of cor ruption--says that the outcry, which the Radicals thought it good policy to set up against the Duke of Nitric...ll.LE for his Newark outrage, is at length si lenced : that the Housz of Commons—in fact--haa treated " the ridiculous and mischievous" business as it deserved. We deny that the outcry against the Neble DOICII-if by that word is meant the expression of po pular abhorrence and indignation at his tyrausicel and corrupt proceeding—is at all silenced• by the issue of Mr. THOMPSON . / fD011011: on the contrary, the discus sion which ensued thereupon has noceßid to our minds , with impressive vividity each fact aid circuinstanos which signalised that scandalous oppression. But when he says, that the House of Commons treated the ridiculous and mischievous affair us it deserved, we hope that nothing which we advanced yesterday will be found to militate against our full acquiescence in this opinion of our Contemporary. No doubt, that Honourable Haus, treated the thing as it supereminently deserved : and we trust that it will only continue to treat after thi, fashion every successive appeal, which the Peoett under similar circumstances—shall be found sufficiently obtuse or idiotic to prefer. Why—confound the block heads—do they know whether they are living now under an inherited constitution, the once boasted birthright of F.nglishmen, or absolute military power ? Are their eyes open, and yet they cannot see the chains which comiption has forged for the limbs of civil freedom ? Are they not aware that the right of petitioning for a re dress of grievances —once a substantial benefit secured by the Constitution—is become a formality and a shadow : that it is no longer a right exercisable ad libitum populi. and inherent in them—but a custom tolerated by oligal• chat sufferance, and perilous and precarious to exert : that it is converted, in fact, into what the Duke of WELLINGTON termed County Meetings—an empty mockery, and a melancholy farce ? trii to bow long, then, will the inconsiderate and doltish niufilthde slumber callous and subjected, or vainly mur mur and repine over their miseries in disunion ? It is not the. lonely sorrower whom Power compassionates, and the discontent which is poured in solitude never paled the cheek of the Oppressor : but when a people, justly indig nant at their unregarded distresses, arse VP TOG ruts a and demand—instead• of supplicate—the reparation of their common injuries, then overawed AUTHORITY be comes complaisant, and oven OPPRESSION consents w see justice done. The House of Commons has fixed its character too unequivocally with the People—if they wilt but reflect an instant —for them ever to miscalculate it 4 certain line of conduct, whenever the public interest* are brought into collision with its own. As for the very large majority," which our venal contem porary cites with such an air of triumph, what doe+ it prove, except that the MAJORITY puts virtue down? What does it prove, except that the majority who sit in that House represent the Proprietors by whom they were nominated, and not the PEOPLE, of whom they are falsely styled the Representatives ? The People have nothing in common with these majorities : they are slaves, who sit there to do the bidding of the CLE VE LANDS and the Gaosv ENORS—the dirty work of Jews and Jobbers—the behest of the LowsDA Les, the H E RT roans, the RUTLA 14 DS, the NEWCAITLLS, and the MAN Assess,. The decision of the House of Commons is the fiat of an Oligarchy, not the sense —u it via* constitutionally intended to be—of the People. Ask, then, such an Assembly as that, to reform itself! Ask --just u soon—the felon, to furnish evidence to his own erimination. No, no: the thing is coming to be better understood, and the federative principle is already branching forth, strong to conserve and redintegrate. The.facts which we yesterday stated relative to the de parture of the Marquis of PALMEtLA and M. Gnat am°, are fully confirmed by an article in the Paguete de Portugal. According to this statement, it would ap pear that the Regency has been named by Don Panto as the natural guardian of his daughter DONS A MARIA. It consists of the MARQUIS, as President, Count Vitt 4 Ftoa, and M. Gyeaastao. Once installed at Terceira, we are informed that a manifesto will be issued, and ad dredged to the respective cabinets, to be followed by such measures as are best calculated-to secure the rights of tEe legitimate Queen, and liberate her subjects. A distin guished patriot, the Count de At eA, whose estates have been confiscated by MIGUEL, has accompanied the Ms It etas, as a volunteer, having left his family at Paris. The sacrifices which have been made by so many of the Portuguese Nobility, are no proof—as so often alleged by the apostolical faction—that those who are dissatified with the usurpation, are composed of rebels and republicans. Senhor D. THOMAS DE MASCARENHAS, whose ar rival from Rio we lately announced as being charged with a special mission by the EMPEROR, is left to con duct the affairs of the embassy. This diplomatist is de scribed as being of all others, calculated both from h.s talents and affability of manners, to do justice to the high charge with which he has been entrusted. The article in the Paquete thus concludes : " Those patriots who groan under the tyrant's lash in Portugal, may now see that they are not abattdonad to their cruel destiny. They will co operate with their brethren who are assembled at Teretels, to put down the usurper. Terceira is the land of fidelity : it is from thence that the brave mea destined to save their country will embark. Although a small island of the Azores, as Lord ABERDEEN says, Terceira is the bulwark where the flower of the Mi guelite forces, both naval and military, were taught a leison which they will not easily forget. 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