The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

1 i. r 7 ff4 f4ti ).__Ationat At o-, 4 ita 10'44 r t t ;' 7ilgr 11 r -~ • i ,~► . 1 -: Our Ring, eottOtitution, ant Kabul. .~ . • • • Iv% 1 r .0 % ~t.~ _ No 1,400 —Vol.. XV. PORTUGAL. LISION, Dec. 4.-011 the Ist instant the Ordi nary Cortes assembled, and opened their first session. The business commeneed.by the deputation, which had been directed to inform the King that the Cortes were installed, reporting that they had fulfilled their mission. A letter from the Ministers was afterwards read, which stated " That his Majesty was resolved to be present at the opening of the Cortes, and had given the necessary orders fin- fulfilling that intention to the officers of his palace ; but that his Majesty felt himself seriously indisposed by the same disorder under which he had laboured for some days past, and thereffire multi not enjoy the satisfaction of person ally participating in that august and solemn pro ceeding." A short time after the President announced that the Ministers of State were in attendance to act in the name of his Majesty. The Ministers were then introduced into the hall of the Cert2s with the proper flirmalities, utter which they took their seats on the lower platform to the left of the President. The Minister for Foreign Affairs rose and read the following communication addressed to him by his Majesty, and entirely written by his royal hand As the session of the Cortes is to open to-morrow, and I tear it will be impossible fin me to be present, I wish you, when my speech is read, to state to the Cungitss sty regret ut not being able to LI& my anxious desire to co-operate personally m the asanony of that national f.sti eat. (signed) THE KING DON JOHN VI." The. Minister then stated to the Congress, that notwithstanding his Majesty bad written the above lettei yesterday, ho liOd this day caused himself to be removed from the Quintu deAlie: \ te to the Palace de Bemposta, with the design of making un effort to attend the Cortes, but that his indisposition had increased, :aid the Physicians opposed his leaving -the palace. The speech of his Majesty was then read, and the .President, • addressing the Ministers, made a reply. Dec. 7.—ln the sitting of the Cortes of the 4th, a report was made on a despatch from the Minister for the Home Department, in which the Congress was informed that the Queen, having refused to take the oath to the Constitution of the Monarchy, the King hail resolved on carrying into execution the decree of the Cortes, ordaining that whoever shall refuse to swear to the Constitution shall quit the kingdom, and renounce the rights of a Portu guese citizen.. But that the Queen having repre sented that her delicate state of health would not permit her to travel without endangering her life, and the physicians of her household having con sulted together, and unanimously declared that her life would actually be endangered, if sho were compelled to undertake a journey either by sea or by land ;—his Majesty issued a decree, commanding the Queen to retire to the Quints de Ramalliso with the necessary attendants, but refusing her request to take along with her the Infants her daughters adding, that this retirement iu the Quints de Ha mania° should continue until the state of her health might permit her to travel beyond the kingdom, The despatch was accompanied with an exact account of all thai bad been done in this business, together with the orders which had been given, the opinions of the Council of State, the votes of the Ministers, the propositions made by the King to the Queen, her objections, and the declaration of the Lenity, &c. • The President proposed that the Cortes should consider of the manner in which these papers should be disposed of. Senor J. Monteiro moved. that they be printed, for the information of the whole nation and that the originals should be referred to a special commit tee. This motion wits carried. In the sittirg of the following day, (the sth,) &nine. Pato Muria read the - tollowing motion:- 1 It Leing indispeusab e that the law should be car ried into effect, as well with respect to the ex- Queen r.f Portugal, as any other person who may refuse to swear to the political .constitntion of the =zaftig ; and its excel:Lieu having been delayed :ONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1822. by the report of tenphysicians, stating that her' life I would be endangered by the severity of the weather if she should travel in the present state of her health; I propose that the Government be required to order, that the some ten physicians do continue to attend the ex-Portuguese citizen, during her residence in the Quinta de Ramilhao, and accompany her up to to the period of her quitting the Portuguese terri tories." This proposition remained over for a second reading. GERMAN PAPERS. TRIESTE, DEC 7.—lmportant rows from Hydra of the 231 of November has arrived here, which will be heard with interest in Christian Europe— The heroic Greek seamen, in their slight mercantile vessels, had followed the great Turkish fleet to the neighbourhood of Tenedos, and there saw, with impatience, the enemy at anchor, with the inten tion of returning to Constantinople as soon as per mission should be received. The same sailors who had caused the melancholy fate of the Captain Pacha off:red in their enthusiasm, to make a second similar attempt. The admiral gave his permission, and 17 brave Greeks, headed by one Meiauly, whose nanie will one day be illustrious in history, approached the great admiral's ship at seven o'clock in the even ing of the 10th of November, with fire ships. The people on board this Colossus already appre hended the avproaching misfortune, when Mciauly, with his own hand, threw combustibles into the lire ships, and hastened the explosion; the success was William. The admiral's 814; with the Captain Paella On board, and 2,500 men was blown up,— Two frigates began to burn, and the Turks were thrown into confusion, of which the Greeks took advantage, and took a frigate of 36 guns, unda maged. Thus in the course of this year, three•Cap ' tain Pachas have perished (ere of them died of the plague); the last us Christian Journals affirm, was very skilful, having served under the celebrated Captain Paella Hussein, is Egypt, at the time of the English expedition, 24 years ago. Extraordi nary rejoicings took place at Hydra tin this occasion —their joy was still greater, because the welcome news was brought by an English corvette, which had hoisted the Greek 11.1 g along with his own. — Lord Strangferd who is now her..., sets out t h e day after to-morrow for Corfu. The policy or the En glish appears to have quite altered ; at least the Greek blockade is at length recognized by them. SLXLIN, Dec. 2.—Direct accounts relative to the latest events at Constantinople have not yet reached Belgrade : the Paella has no fresh couriers from that city, but has received news, by way of Nissa, re specting which he observes total silence. Private letters from Nissa, of the 30th of November, are however here, which say that a Tartar had arrived, who had brought accounts stating, in general, that there were great disturbances at Constantinople and Adrianople, that the party of Wet Effendi was overthrown, and the Janissaries acted as masters. — It is remarkable that, according to these accounts, the enraged Janissaries at Adrianople had murdered the Muhl Ayan and all the adherents of Halcb, but no Greeks. . FRANSFORT, DEC. 14.—As the decision of the question respecting peace and war is to be expected from Paris, where, it is well known, there is a pow erful party disposed to war, it is no wonder that the funds of various states are so unsteady in our market. It is now affirmed, in letters from Vienna, that the new loan, which has been frequently doubted, will, however, be made, and that the con tractors ate the bout., of Rothschild, in Frankfort ; Gaymuller, in Vienna; and Parish, in Hamburgh. The amount of the new loan is to be SO wiihons of the standard of 20 florin::, or 36 millions of the standard of 24 florins. New Metalliques will be created to this amount. ruiEsTE, DEC. 9.—Seventeen Greek vessels have arrived trout Missulongo, in the Morea, wi.ll some thousands of soldiers. They found three lOILIA corvettes, which they took, and they only wait fur a fair wind to pass the Dardanelles nod Lepanto, in order to accelerate, by sea, the capture of Corinth. The Turks, us it has been already nut:minced, have PRICE 9ID. been completely beaten, and only some cavalry ears themselv- had to coin wa ly 0.. _ _.J7 were there among the persons engaged several indi viduals whom it was necessary to exclude on account of their bad characters, and who, angry at this, en deavoured to mislead others; not only did certain persons at Marseilles succeed in persuading some of the adventurers to join the Spanish Defenders of the Faith, instead of going to Greece, but the repre- • sentations of several officers who had returned front Greece excited despondency in many. If these offi cers in the moment of general alarm, when the Greeks, attacked on all sides;ted from the valleys to the mountains, considered the cause of that unhappy people as desperate, and returned home—who will blame them if they painted the moral, the military, • and economical state of Greece in gloomy colours?— who will accuse them of falsehood, since we know that despotism every where, and consequently in Greece, tends to debasement? But that some of these officers did their utmost, and used the -basest means to tuna aside the assistance, which it is to be hoped will contribute to make the Greeks free, and consequently more moral, is inhuman and unchris tian. All these difficulties were at length overcome by -the good sense of the better disposed, and the in defatigable exertions of the committee, consisting of Messrs. Kephallas, Sieocking, Hoffmann, Captain Dittmar, and Deutsch. It is• true only 150 men embarked. out of the 200 that Avare.intended ; but, however, the wheat was thus separated from the cleat: To the great joy of the expedition, it was joined by five of those who had returned, and -who are convinced that a corps well provided with all necessaries, and well organised in every part, may be of infinite service in Greece. If preceding expe ditions were not so well organised, it was not owing to a deficiency of good will or of judgment, but of money. However, the exertions of the Societies fee the aid of the Gr4,L ks have been so successful in this respect, that at the beginning of the next month another ship will be dispatched for Greece, which will have some men on board, but be chiefly laden with arms and stores." (EXTRACT 07 A YRIVATE LETTER.) ULM, Dc. 19.—1 t is confirmed, by several let ters from Upper Italy, that, since the departure of the English Atubassa'dor, Lord Strangfeld, Prince de Metternich has received very important despatches relative to the uffeirs of Constantinople. It is af firmed, that these despatches coesist of the reports of M. tPoAefels, Austrian Internuncio at the Porte. Nothing is yet known as to the contents of these despatches; it is only known that they have occa sioned several very long conferences, and that a - courier has been despatched to Lord Sttangford, who had not then left Trieste. These tkspatc:ies must be relative to new events, or at least to overtures made since the change which has taken place in the Ottoman Ministry, for the change was known pre vious to the departure of LerdStrangford. It is even known at Veroaa, that it was this Minister who first, and betUre M. de Metternich, received advice of the fall of flaleb Effendi and his party t it was in, despatches front M. Chuper (Coucillor of the BMA' Legation at Loudon, and provisionally filling. the. functions of English Charge d'A if:tires at Constanti. nople) that the event was transmitted to him by an extraordinary courier, who travelled with incredible/ rapietty. Lord Strangford, without delay, commu nicated the intelligence to the other Ministers. It appears that only two days afterwards the same news reached Prince de Nlettettich The missieri that Lord Strangtord received previously to his de. parture from Verona was, therefore, given to . hint T at a moment when the change in the erLish Mi. uistry was already known. it results from this, that the new despatches which have been sent to Trieste relate to other events which have subsequently transpired at Constantinople, and the knowledge of which reached Prince de Metternich by dellateheS which lie lately rticeived from 11. de Stunner.ll,:r is a Vast field fur all sorts M conjectures! themselves. AUGSBURG, Dec. 17.—The new. Gazette of Zd rich, after Fiving un BCOGGIt if 4, 1101111 1aP *- lam expedition to Greece, which glint& . en the 22d of November, adds---" The expedition had to contend with many difficulties; not only I J "". • 410 1, • 1A...1,4