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THORP. MAYOR. A COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber 1 - 1 ' of the Guildhall of the Qty of London, on Tttvrtoor, sie 11th day of January, 1811, Rasotvzo, That this Court having, upon several former occa sions, deprecated the various Injuries sustained by her Majesty the geese, and especially the late unconstitutional Bill of Pains and Penalties, introduced into Parliament by his Majesty's Mi nisters, to degrade her Majesty, and to divorce her from her Illustrious Consort, have seen, with the highest satisfect'wn, the abandonment of that Bill in the House of Lords. That this Court consider those odious measures as contrary both to the spirit of our Laws and the Divine Precepts of the Gospel ; and that they were attempted to be supported by a class of witnesses in every respect questionable, both as to their character and veracity, by bribery, and by the Most undue and corrupt influence; and that her Majesty is, in the minds of an immense majority of the Country, acquitted of all the crimes laid to her charge. That these proceedings, so unjust in their nature, and so un constitutional in their operation, have produced, throughout the Nation, mingled sensations of disgust and contempt against the • parties by whose agency and advice they were originated and prosecuted, and have excited the strongest suspicion that a foul and atrocious Conspiracy has been carried on against the Life and Honour of the Queen. That the discontents which exist throughout the Country upon this unhappy subject, can only be allayed, and the conse quent dangers which threaten it, can only be averted, by an im mediate insertion of her Majesty's Name and Title into the Liturgy of the Church, and by enabling her Majesty to assume and support her Rights and Dignities; and, at the same time, by the institution of such an immediate and rigid Enquiry into those disgraceful measures, and especially into the origin and proceedings of the Milan Commission, as may lead to the pu nishment of these guilty persons by whose advice and counte nance this effort has been made to derogate from the dignity of the Crown, and to inflict an irreparable injury on the best in terests of the Country.. Tbat Petitions, founded on these Resolutions, be presented to bath Houses of Parliament. WOODTIfORPE. AT a MEETING of MERCHANTS, BANKERS, TRADERS, and Others, held at the City of London Tavern, the 11th of January, 1821, Sir ROBERT WIGRAM, Bart. in the Chalr, It was moved by THOMAS ROD, Esq. and seconded by Jous WIIITMORE, Esq. and carried unanimously, That the following Declaration be adopted by this Meeting, be signt..4l by the Gentlemen present, and lie for Signatures at the City of London Tavern, King's Ikad, Poultry, and London CuSee-house, Ludgate-hill. " We, the undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and • others, of London, fed ourserves imperiously called upon in the present state of the country, to declare these our deliberate sen timents, earnestly and anxiously hoping that the evils which threaten us will, under DIVIIit PS.OVIDENCZ, be averted, and that now, when no foreign enemy assails us, we may be permitted to enjoy, uninterruptedly, the blessings of domestic peace. " We declare it to be our firm and unalterable purpose, to . uphold our venerable and happy Constitution, composed of King, Lords, and Commons, against all and every attempt to alter or subvert it, and to maintain, in all its purity, our holy and rever,:d Religion, feeling the most assured conviction that the greatest share of humor happiness is to be derived from the one, and the best and strongest hopes of eternal felicity from the r•ther. a We view with poignant regret and abhorrence the measures • which abound to destroy these sources of present enjoyment, and of future consolation ; and we trust the laws will be en forced, to deter and to punish all who, by their factious or blas phemous proceedings, wish to deprive the subjects of this great and free country of these ineitimable blessings blessings handed d Avn to us by our ancestors, cherished by the wise and virtuous of our own time, and, ,in our minds, suited to the welfare and happiness of the generations which are to follow us." Resolved unanimously, That the following Gentlemen, who are now present, be a Committee fur carrying the object of the Meeting into effect, with liberty to add to their number: J. Alexander, Esq. M.P. John Lines, Esq. 31.1'. Geo. Bridges, Esq. M.P. Wm. King, Esq. Thos. Bainbridge, Esq. Joseph King, Esq. Jonathan Birch, Esq.. Max. Kymer, Esq. Ar.oeas Darkly, Esq. Sir Wm. Kay, Bart. John Blades, Esq. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Geo. Blackman, Faq. ' William Manning, Esq. Henry Bonham, Esq. 'R. H. Marten, Esq. Thos. Bridges, Esq. John Nixon, Esq. Wm. Borradaile, Esq. W. Willoughby Prescott, Esq. Slins. Bosanquet, Esq. Sir Charles Price. Bart. llieronimus Burn-tester, Esq.: Brice Pearce, Esq. Vm. Burmester Thomas Reid, Esq. John Cape!, F.sq. Thomas Roberts, Eaq. James Campbell. Esq. J. A. Rucker, L. Wm. Curtis, Esq. 0. A. Robinson, Esq. Joseph Dowson, Esq. G. Ranking, Esq. Joseph Howson, inn. Esq. I). K. Rucker, Esq. I lugh Edwards, Esq. George Shaw, Esq. James Fielding, Esq. Benjamin Shaw, Esq. Sir Charles Flower, Bart. Joseph Steel, E sq. Alex. S. Gordon, Esq. Richard Twining, En. Lath. Gould, Esq. John Whitmore, Esq. John Howell, Esq. John Wells, F.sq. 31.1'. Quarks Harris, Esq. Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. John Hall, Esq. John Wild, Esq. David Hunter, Esq. Thomas Wilson, Esq. M.P. Thos. Helps, Esq. Robert Wilson, Esq . . Thos. Jameson Esq. John* Winter, jun. Esq. Jahn Inglis, E sq. Resolved unanimously, 'That a Copy of the Declaration be published in the Morning and Evening Papers. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of the Meeting be given to Sir Roamer Wrotast, Bart. for his able, judicious, and impartial conduct in the Chair. (Signed) ROBERT NVIGRAM. The North Pok.—Whilst several of our gallant countrymen have been exploring the Icy Regions of the North Pole, in hopes of finding the desired pas sage, and thereby gain the promised £20,000, some ofour friends here found a passage by a North Pole, •I'hy which they obtained a similar sum, we allude to one of the Lottery Poles, which directed them to SIVIWKIGHT'S Office in the Haymarket, by which they obtained one of the 00,000 he recently sold ; and as there are Poles out now in every direction, £21,000 may be gained, perhaps, by an East, West, North, or South Pole, and that on the 23d instant, when the Lottery begins, and first live Minutes will produce £69,000, in Capitals alone. PI e tyODICAL LITERATURE .- It has been justly ob sery that the taste of the Public for Literary Essays, has for some time been increasing far beyond the means of gratification afforded by the Old Magazines, whose limits are confined to six sheets per month ; .and we therefore bail, with much satisfaction, an at tempt to keep pace with the march of public curio sity, which deserves, and will, no doubt, meet. with the highest encouragement. We allude to the New Series of the New Monthly Magazine, the first Number ((which, just publidsed, has, we believe, agreeably surprised the Public, by assuming an importance not hitherto contemplated or attempted by any Monthly Journal. PORTUGAL. MANIFESTO OF THE PORTUGUESE NATION TO THE SOVEREIGNS AND PEOPLE OF EUROPE ~-- . The Portuguese Nation, animated with the most sincere and ardent4Lesire to maintain the Political and Commercial reNons which have hitherto bound it to all the Governments and People of Europe, and having more particularly at heart to continue to merit, in the opinion of illustrious men of all Na tions, the return and consideration which have never been refused to the loyal and honourable Character of the Portuguese, judges it indispensably necessary to offer to the Public a succinct but frank exposition of the causes which produced the memorable events that have lately taken place in Portugal, of the true spirit which directed them, of the sole object to which the changes tended that have been made, or which it is intended to make, in the internal form of its Government. It is confident that this exposition, rectifying the false idea which may perhaps have been conceived of those events, will merit the kind ' attentions of the Sovereigns and of the People. All Europe knows the extraordinary circumstances which, in 1807, forced his Majesty John VI. at that time Prince Regent of Portugal, to remove with his Royal Family to his trans-Atlantic dominions. It is granted that this resolution of his Majesty was judged then of the most decided advantae to the general cause of Liberty in Europe. Is.obody, however, failed to perceive the critical situation in which Por tugal was placed by the absence of its Prince, and succeeding events proved that this foreboding was not vain or rash. Portugal, separated from her Sovereign by the vast expanse of the ocean, deprived of all resources from her transmarine possessions, and of all the be nefits of Commerce by the blockade of her ports, and governed at home by a hostile force, which was then thought invincible, seemed to have reached the final term of its political existence, never to be re placed in the rank of independent Nations. In such a desperate crisis, this heroic People did not lose its honour, its courage, or its fidelity to its king, which could not be torn from its heart by the force of circumstances, nor by the preponderant power of the enemy. They, in fact, displayed them selves in the most energetic manner, as soon as a fa vourable opportunity offered. The Portuguese, with the assistance of their allies, recovered, at the ex pense of the most painful sacrifices, their political existence; restored with generous loyalty to their' Monarch the Throne and the Crown; and impartial Europe must confess (though this justice is not al ways done) that to them are also in a great measure owing the triumphs which have since been jnined to the advantages of the liberty and independence of Thrones and Nations. It is more easy to conceive than to express what was the internal situation of Portugal, after circumstances so new, effects so ex traordinary, and a convulsion so general. The ruin of its population commenced by the emi gration of the inhabitants who followed the Prince, or endeavoured to withdraw from the distrustful suspicion, or trvo systematic persecution of the enemy ; which was increased by the two fatal invasions of 1809 and 1810, and by the inevitable losses of a long and obstinate war of seven years. Commerce and industry, which can never prosper but under the beneficent protection of peace, secu rity, and public tranquillity, were not only sup pressed and abandoned, but seemed to have been wholly destroyed by the unlimited liberty given to foreign vessels in the ports of Brazil ; by the disas trous Treaty of 1810; by the consequent decline of the national manufactures; by the almost total de struction of the mercantile marine, and naval force ; by the absolute want of all care to protect and en courage these two most important branches of pub lic prosperity. Agriculture, the basis of the riches and strength of nations, deprived of the arms which the army or death took from it; destitute of the capital which supported it, and which had been sometimes em ployed on objects of more urgent necessity ; de prived of the vital strength which it used to receive from the national industry, and from the active cir culation of Commerce, both domestic and foreign, lay in a fatal lethargy, and presented to the astonish ed spectator only the melancholy picture of famine and misery. The sensible diminution of the Public Revenue, caused by the ruin of the Population, of Commerce, and of Industry ; by the irrevocable loss of the great sums which the enemy violently extorted from the hands of the Portuguese; and by the excessive ex penses of the war, obliging the Nation to contract new and enormous debts, for the payment of which its resources were engaged, gave the final blow to public credit, which was already shaken by the scan dalous malversations of the fiscal agents, as well as by the most erroneous system of administration. If the Portuguese did not love and respect their Prince and his august dynasty with a kind of love and adoration almost religious—if they did not wish to receive from his justice and kindness alone the re forms and public improvements which such a sate of things imperiously demands, it would be very easy at that time to fix limits to power, or dictate conditions suitable to such urgent circumstances.— They were not ignorant of their rights : the general tendency of opinion, guided by the light of the age, and openly manifested among the most civilized na tions of Europe, invited them to such use of these; rights which their ancestors had recognized and ex ercised on less pressing occasions : the victorious and triumphant army would have supported such just pretensions, and the Nation would now be free, or certainly less unfortunate. But the character of the Portuguese could not belie itself. They chose rather to hope everything from their Prince than to give to Europe, already afflicted by the late misfortunes, the sight of a tur bulent and impatient Nation, or to appear to abuse the facility afforded by circumstances, to shew a spirit of revolt and want of submission. The silent and peaceful endurance of their evils was the basis of their proceedings—confidence in the acknow ledged virtues of the Prince, the foundation of their hopes. But (it is hard to say it !) these hopes were wholly deceived, and this suffering was carried to the utmost extent to which it seems possible for the patience of a high-spirited Nation, full of the feeling of its mis. fortunes, and not ignorant of the means of remedy ing them, to endure. After this introduction, the Manifesto proceeds to observe that it is unnecessary to paint in ditail the melancholy picture bf the progressive decline of Por tugal in the last six years, as being notorious to all Europe. Referring to the proceeding, it states, as additional causes of ruin, the sending of so many thousand troops to Brazi l to carry on a war, of which Portugal bore the burthen, and which exposed it to the attacks of a powerful neighbour, always its rival, and now offended and provoked. Commerce was without encouragement, and every regulation tended only to the advantage of foreigners. —Manufacturers were equally discouraged; and, while their own manufactures were going to decay, and innunferable workmen reduced to idleness and want, the most insignificant articles of furniture or dress were imported from other countries. Portu guese vessels were taken by friends and enemies, in suited and captured by pirates, in sight of our own forties es. The Portuguese saw and suffered. But why renew these profound sorrows? Even strangers, who profited by the dreadful indifference or coldness of the Portuguese Government, often said, with ho nourable frankness—'" This fine country is worthy of a better fate." Blessed as Portugal is with a most fruitful soil, overflowing with agricultural riches, augmented in quantity by improvident permission of excessive importation, yet the general distress was so extreme that the poor were perishing with famine in the midst of plenty, and the bounty of HEAVEN was blasted by the folly of man. The Manifesto then shews how this distress was still further aggravated by continuing an immense ex. penditure, as if the Court were still at Lisbon, while the revenue was sensibly diminishing by the above causes, as well as by the negligence and peculation of the officers. The sums sent to Brazil for the war in America, - Ac. increased the distress and caused the salaries of the public servants in every department, as well as the interest of the public debt, to be dread fully in arrear ; and finally (with shame be it spoken), it was not possible to complete a loan of only fool millions of crusadocs. The Portuguese, knowing the heart of their Sove reign, hoped he would prepare the necessary reforms, a hope which his Majesty sometimes encouraged ; but the hope vanished, and the Ministers at Rio Janeiro turned aside the King's mind from it, and were displeased when any patriot dared to publish his opinions on this important subject, and shewed the necessity of restoring the seat of government to Portugal. Hence the Portuguese began to lose their confi dence in the sole remedy which remained. The idea of being reduced to a colony affected them ; and all saw it was impossible for the affairs of a monarchy to go on regularly at such a distance from the centre of its actions, frequently impeded by the malignity of men, the violence of passions, and even the effects of the elements. What could the Portuguese Nation do in such a situation? Suffer and hope ? It did suffer and hope in vain for many years. Sigh, remonstrate, com plain ? It did sigh ; but its sighs were not listened to. Not listened to ? They were repressed, cruelly stifled. It remonstrated and complained ; but its re monstrances and complaints never reached the Throne. The King was told that his People were contented and Faithful; and the Manifesto protests, in the face of Europe, the unalterable loyalty of the Nation, but observes, that content is incompatible with a situation like theirs: it shews, that the late events have not their origin, as had been intimated, in the false prin ciples of an absurd and disorganizing philosophy, or by the love of unbridled chimerical liberty, but in the conviction of the public distress and the desire of remedying it. It shews, that government is essential to society ; but that, whatever may be the species of government establi , hed in a Nation, and by whomso ever exercised, neither force, nor habit, nor the lapse of time, can deprive a Nation of its inalienable right of revising its fundamental laws, and introducing such improvements as may be necessary. The Por tuguese acted upon these principles ; they wished to place the Throne upon the solid bases of justice and law; they did not desire to introduce an innovation, but a restoration of the state of things which for merly existed in Portugal, when in 1139 they gave the Crown to their first Monarch, and made the first fundamental laws of the Monarchy in the Cortes of Lamigo; when in 1385, they gave the Throne to John I. on conditions which he accepted ; when in 1640, they gave it to John IV. who also respected their liberties ; when the Portuguese had their Cortes through a long period of five centuries, when they reached the summit of glory and greatness. It is, therefore, absurd and unjust to stigmatize what they have done as rebellious or unlawrul. Philip IV. in the same manner denounced the glorious rising of the Portuguese, in 1640, as rebellion. It is equally absurd to attribute the late events to a faction.— Taking everything into consideration, the Portuguese cannot doubt but that their patriotic proceedings must merit, not only the most favourable consideration, but just praise, both in the public opinion of en lightened Nations, and in the Cabinets of the Euro pean Sovereigns. In conclusion, the Manifesto remarks, that it would be most afflicting to the Portuguese Nation, if the powerful Sovereigns, with whom it has always been on the terms of friendship, should abuse their power to impose laws on it, or to repress the noble efforts of a Nation, incapable, by its geographical position, of troubling the peace of other people, which has never interfered in the internal concerns of others, and which may depend on the acknowledged justice of the Princes of Europe ; but which, if its hopes in this respect should be disappointed, it will risk every thing in defence of its just rights ; that the maxim, No Nation ever failed to' be free which desired to be so," is their encouragement; and that if, unhap pily, they should fail in attaining this happiness, the Nation will be destroyed sooner than conquered, and no good citizen will survive the ruin of public feli city. They, however, anticipate a more fortunate re sult.—A letter addressed by the Provisional Junta at Oporto to his Majesty the King, now first published, contains a full exposition of the causes that led to the Revolution, of the spirit which had directed it, and of all the proceedings that had taken place up to the date of the letter. It appeals to history for a proof of the invincible loyalty of the Portuguese to their Sovereigns, and their devotion to the House of Bra gattsa, which they continue to maintiiu undiminished to Ms present Majesty, of whose sover•s 4 . ! gri t : ; they are perfectly convinced. Unwilling to afflict the paternal hear r,r N o jesty by a minute description of the dread...l s i t of his faithful People, they generally a l;., j e to loss of their ancient glory and prospe r i ty . ruin of commerce, agriculture, and m aalti r a the destruction of public credit and indivi t ! va i • piness ; all which evils arc greatly aggr avated Majesty's absence. This unhappy state of things was borne aid ' 1 tience for many years. The patience o f mot above all, that of Nations, has a limit, and i t w ; length evident that there was no altetnative . expect a general convulsion and popular disot,• which would expose the Nation to destruction.,,,, prevent it by giving the People the bend : of art. lic regeneration. The letter, beginning with the act of the M • Council at Oporto, details all the procee,:ing%. had successfully taken place, and, referring to ,! ments (which have been all before printed), d, e , 4 Majesty that regard for his person and di!;nitt never been Wit sight of—that no measures hm e taken but such as seemed absolutely necessarr...l even the suspension of the English Officers, d o " . and cornmandeJ by the public wish and there,,, clamour, was accomplished in the most delicate a ,„ nor. The writers dwel. on the unanimitr 4 ; :: „ ' prevailed among al ranks of People, ri, e i i ,,, r ; •• between the two Junt..s of Lisbon and Opcno„ . e . ; their union ; and add, that nothing is want e d i n , 1 presence of his Majesty, or of onie Prince of :.. mily, to satisfy the unanimous wishes of t h e N,,, • their only fear is lest his Majesty should give e a: some one who, under the mask of zeal, ma,' it, vain alarms in his Majesty's licaft, ,:nd giv c counsels contrary to the reqii...sts u high, ssifli , same respectful loyalty, they lay befure him. T.': consequences of such counsels cannot ly, wel:f . seen, but they will certainly be fatal. Tile does not merit his Majesty's displeasure; ii .:.;:„ be hippy, and to recover the ! recious ilfheritaQ' its ancient greatness—that the Throne of his Ma* may be firm %% idiom the power of being uiljiht, a that they may have the felicity of renewing a ll a " good which his royal beneficence pi-mists si t without being able to ascribe to him any evil. These are the wi,hes which they utter in there l of all the Portuguese, who, prostrate before hi s )1,0. jeity's Throne, appeal to the honour id - the.' their public happiness, andthe sentiments of • veneration know n to subsist in his Majesty's. heart. THE EVENING. STAR, LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1821. TIM FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE &ma: Bank Stock 223 223 1 ,4 3 per Cent. Reduced 70 70'4: 70 S per Cent. Cons. ex. div. 69% 1 /, 1 % Si per Cent. 79 79 1 / 4 -4 per Cent. 87% %1 5 per Cent. Navy ex. div. 101 , % 10. Long Annuities 18 1 / 2 Imperial , 3 per Cent. 68% India Stock 223 1 / 1 34—Bonds 335. 345.3 1 15 it South Sea Stock 76 3 / 8 Exchequer Bills ss. 4s. 6s. pre. Cons. for Acct. 70% 71 70%. The Right Hon. C. B. BATHURST now oceepi the place of President of the Board of Central lately filled by Mr. CANNING. The Chairman zr. Deputy Chairman of the India Company yester paid their personal congratulations to the 110 Honourable Gentleman on his appointment. Yesterday the Common Council of the City i fta... London met for the purpose of taking into considert ' tion a variety of public and private business. A disposing of some other matters, the LORD Mod called the attention of the Council to the Requisitis sent to him, and which principally gave rise tots present Meeting,—to consider the expediency '., petitioning Parliament for the restitution of tit• QUEEN'S name to the Liturgy, and for the full icw ration of her MAJESTY'S rights and privileges. ra particulars are detailed in another part of this Papa for the Resolutions see a preceding column. 4 There was also a Meeting, but of a more privuL A " nature, of Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and oho' , held at the City of London Tavern. The Meetiogiv rather of a private nature, though, as to the purr of the Declaration voted, it might have been hail the most open manner possible; for it is so cautious! drawn, that it may be interpreted either as a coo or an approbation of Ministers—but more logical] as the former, though we imagine intended to b construed by Ministers in the latter sense.—(mo d Advertiaement.) irbt 01l •—••• Under the head " NAPLES,* we have given, R'' some other particulars, an extract from The "Naio Observer, which we need hardly inlet m our Readr is published with the sanction of the Austrian Gc vernment, which seem pretty plainly to indicate what we have constantly expected, that the fate ° Naples, so far as that may depend on the will a s ' the power of Despotic: Kings, is settled ahead! But " the race is not always to the swift, nor tio battle to the strong." The Portuguese Nation has published a Manifesto addressed to the Sovereigns and People of Eur°l l on the causes which produced the memorable evelo that have recently taken place in that Kingdom , 6 , the spirit by which they were directed, and the* ject aimed at by the changes introduced into the G►, v‘inmvut; It 4 ilk be read with lively interest 101 an