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II - - - -..- 7 -- • 791 . ,- ere. • i • R, I ,:k6i,t• .11.c....c• i.. ..._ ••‘• A •t, 4 ,AO ' f "•-• '-.---i T ix a t 7 •.. 4,, _..•.N 4 % A . • e 6, .10 • , , t e na-ir-atte ___ lllfr man, 0r13 11112 441 . • r • LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1820. " 7Ae Cau*e for which HAMPDEN fell in the Field, ma SYDNEY died on the Scabld!" N° 4e:i4. PRICE SEVEN PENCE. OFT HIS LODGINGS IN CCHSITOR-STREET, at INCERY-LANE. • crs TVESDAV 10.1.•ING.1111Z 3TIII IF the GF.NTLEMAN . 01 emtnttnieste with 'Widows. ill say he arrneged to his wish. he raised !•great reputation ; he was d by his subjects, and attired his neighbour : and this was due principally to the art with which h• managed appearances, so as to set off his virtues, to disguise his failings and his vices, and by his example and authority to keep a veil drawn over the futility and debauch of his Court. His successor, not to the Throne, but to the so vereign power, was a inert rake, with some wit, and nu morals; nay, with so little regard to them, that lee made them a subject of ridienle in discourse, and ap- rased in his whole conduct inure profligate., if that could be, than he was in principle. The difference between .these characters soon appeared in abousitiabli. effects; such as, cruelty apart, might reval the memory of NERO, or in the other sex, that of sail such as I leave the chroniclers of *caudal to relate. At Oporto, on the 31st Augnst, the discount on paper money lead fallen to 24 per cent. The Junta of the Supreme Provisional liovernment of the Kiser dom had addressed the British Consul ntiepteleffo, lo assure him, that the British snlijects ismilloweipurti would be respected. AFIN* . ..• We have also received a file of Oporto Impels t the 2t4th August, from whim h we make the fulloesiogs . interestierg estracts : Oroavel, Ave.. 2'.—donee persons have thotegist•• that the great-and glorious wolls of our resturatie. m , was caused by the influence of s passion or dl-,' ill . towards the English officers iu the service of Portuital. and that we !Igoe much to fear from tile Elti , ,-;1 nation, offended at our proceedings—we reply to tf.,• first part ley the following document, reserving the second fur our next paper. OIVICIAL NOTE. " MOST !lAA'S fRIOVII ISM—The memorable event whirls restored to Portugal the rank among natiutis which it justly claims, did not permit the Provisional Junta of the Supreme Bovernment iu a moment of such importance, and which required the most prompt and efficacious measures, to express to the English officers who fill posts in the army, how nine!, it dryer t., show the just and well-merited consideration in which it isolds their eminent services, and how happy it would think itself, if it jnelged itself authorised worthily to reward them. Under the impossibility, however, of so doing, it feels it to he one of its time duties, in the exercise of the authority which is con fided to it, to desire that you, Sir, will declare to ail the said Officers, and to each of them in particular. that they are to retain their honours, privilege , , and distinctions, belonging to their posts, as well as tV i .: r pay, which shall be punctually paid theme, till the stallation of the fortes. 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Terms and osier Particulars roac be learnt Crum Mr. Stocker, Apo•he cary to Ouy's Hospital ; who alone is engineered to receive cn , rance money front Pupils fur any of these Lectures de li►ered at 4 ti) a Hospital. TO THE EDIPOR Or Ms arAresmicv. London, September IC Stn,--The proeecution of the Hill of Pains and Penalties against the Queen hat roused the people of this country, to reflect, not only upon the grounds on which her Akjesty is prosecutel, but upon the conduct of the parties on whose account the proceedings have taken place. What effect the evid.nice disclosed in the course of the proceedings will have upon the minds of those to WllOlll it is more inciiediatelY ad dressed, it nimbi be impertinent to antici j pate ; what e ff ect it has h a d upon the minds the people at large, whom it was designed to prejudice against her Alajeety, it is superfluous to spew. The explosion that was levelled at the Queen has re coiled upon those who directed the discharge tjutd in attempting to degrade the character of her Bllalliaty, they bate effectually exposed their own. Prom an infatuation which men in common life can scarcely suppose to have existed, it would appear that those of higher ranks ttttt etinses imagine, whoever their miscon duct might he, they w, re >e or: from all reproach, and exempt from all responsibility. When Alexander Weilderburne, afterwards Lord Roselyn, was Counsel for Lord Clive, he boldly affirmed, in extenuation of his client's conduct in India, that " the actions of great two are not to be adjudged by tdux,f morality." This du..tritie may be very palateable to governors and courtiers, but will not be acceded to by the nation at large. Even kings themselves are deemed amenable fur their conduct to the people they govern. " Reverence for tiovernifient," says Bolingbroke in his Essay on the Idea of a Patriot Kinm, "obliges to re verence governors, who for the sake of it, are raised above tie level of other men ; but reverence fist gover nors, independently of government, any further than r tice would be due to their sirues if they were private men, is preposterous and repugnant to common sense." " Our constitution," says he afterwards, "i s brought, or almost brought, to such a point, a point of perfection I think it, that no kia who is not, in the true meaning of the word, a patriot, can govern Bra tii,e with car-, ar••nrity, k nw i r , fli 4 ,”ity, or indeed with sorffiricut power and uzgh. - -This considera tion is of great importance, especially at the present season, to the parties her.• referred to ; and as his Lordship has pursued it at e nisiderable length, and with distinguished ability, I offer no apology for an nexing to nay present letter soiii.• further extract< from the valuable Essay which I have inoted above, and am Your humble Serl ant, ••• • s • TIIE IDEA OF A PATRIOT KING. From Lord Holingbrokr's Eshxy.l " A man of sense and virtue, both, still not fall into any great impropriety of character, or 'indecency of conduct; hat he 'nay slide, or be surprised into small 0 It's, from a thousand reasons, and in a thousand manners, w It I shall not stay to enumerate. Against these, therefore, even men, Cot are incapable of into the• others, una•t still be on their guard, and no men so much as Princes. The elevation in which they are placed, as it gives them great advantages, gives them great disadvantage* ton that often coun tervail the former. Thus, fur instance, • little merit in a Prince, is seen anti felt by ;timbers: it is mul tiplied as it were; and in proportion to this effect, his reputation is raised by it. lint then, a 11111 e fail ing is seen and felt, by numbers too : it is atoitiplieil in the same manner, and his reputation siuls in the same pro/notion. " Ilefeet may he eimeealed muter the blaze of remit and shining- qualities. The fAilli• Ur drivels tlfiA be thus covered or compensated, are, I think, those of the man, rather than those of the Kin::: Inftit as arise f constitution, and the onion,/ rather th3n the mural character ; such as may be dental starts of passion, or aeridental Offilissess sonic unguarded hours ; surprises, if I may say ro, of the man on the King. When these happen seldom, I and pass soon, they may be hid, like spots in the sun, hot they are spots still. Ile who has the 'twills of seeing them, will See them ; and he who has not, may feel the effects of them without knowing precisely the cause. When they continue (for here is the danger, because, if they cum/in/se, they will increase) they are spots no longer ; they spread a general shark, and obscure the light in which they were drowned before. The virtues of the King are lost in the vices of the mast. " Alexander had violent passions, and those for wine and wometa werepredominant,after his ambition. They tirre spots in his character before they prevailed by the force of habit: as so in as they began to do so, the King and the hero appeared less, the rake and bully Inu re. Persepoli. w.as burnt at the instigation of Th.ais, and I llytus t► as killed in a drunken brawl. He repented, intleed,• of these two horrible actions, and was again the King and hero upon many OCCI• sions ; but he had not been enough on his guard, when the strongest incitements to vanity and to sen sual pleasures offered themselves at every moment to him ; and, when he stood in all his easy hours, sap-- rounded by women and eunuchs, by the panders, pa rasites, and buffoons of a voluptuous Court, they who could not approach the King, approached the man, and by seducing the man, they betrayed the King. •' Lewis the XlVth. was King in an absolute mo narchy, and reigned over a people whose genius makes it as fit perhaps to impose on them by admi ration and awe, as to gain and hold them by affection. Accordingly he kept great state; was haughty, was reserved ; and all he said or dial appeared to be fore thought and planned. Ilia regard to appearances was sash, that when his mistress was the wife of another man, and he had children by her every year, he en .deavutirecito cover her constant residence at Court by a place she filled about the Queen ; and he dined and carped, and cohabited with the latter in every appa rent respect as if he bad had nu mistress at all. '1 has " Our F.lisabeth was Queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being at tacked to their Prince and to their country, by a more geLerous principle than any of those which prevail in nor day by affection. There wasa strong prcrogeli••. then in bring , and the Crown was in posses4us, of Ereater legal power. Popularity was, however, then, as it is now, and as it :mist Ile always in mixed go ' vertiments, the sole true foundation of that sitlfii* authority and intlitence, which other constituti give the Prince gratis, and iialtioradratly of the people, hot which a King of this nation must arleire. The wise Queen saw it, and she saw too, how notch popu larity depends upon those appearances that depend upon the decorum, the decency, the grace, and the propriety of behaviour of which we are sneaking. . warm concern fur the interest and honour of the nation, a tenderness for her people, and a confidence in their affections, were appearances that ran through her whole public conduct, and gave life and colour to it. She slid great thin..., ; and she knew how to set then. off according to their full value, by her manner of doing them. Though a w ttttt an, she hid all that was womanish about her: and if a few equivocal marks of coquetry appeared un some occasion., they passed like flashes of lightning, vanished as anon as they were discerned, and imprinted no blot 1111 her chararter. " Iler successor had no virtue.: to set off, lint he had failing. and vices to conceal. Ile would nut conceal the latter, and void of the former, lie could not row primate fur them. His failings and his vices therefore sanding full in view, he passel fora weak prr•.on and al ill than ; and fell into all the contempt wiierrill his memory remains to this day. " A King who lives out of the si ;: lit of his subjects, or is never seen by divot; except on his throne, can scarce be despised as a man, though he may he hated as a king. But the king who lives more in their sight, and more under their •dsservations. ma) lie despised before he is hated, and cv. a n;thou: belay hated. " Let not Princes flatter tlsentselvs^. They n ill be examined closely in p,i,nl, as well as in psth!...• life and those who can pierce further, will judge of them by the appearances they give its tooth. To obtain hit , I,..pularity, that which i• founded in este' sis and :tr ies thin, thssy must, theref sre, maintain their characters in both ; awl to that end neglect appearances in nei ther, but olsserve the fleywrens necessary to preserve the e.teros, whilst they win the afflictions of mankind. Kings, they must never forgoit they are m. ; they must never forget they are Au 's. The senti ments which one of these reflections of course inspire , give a humane and affable air to the winds. beha viour, awl snake them taste in that high elevation all the joys of social life. The sentiments, that die other reflection suggests, will he found very compatible with the former: and they may never forget that they vie kings, tl gli they do not always • • the crown their heads, fluor the sceptre in their Itamla. I "gaily and jdlg must entrench themselves in a constant affec tation of state to preserve regal dignity: a trims: prince will know Low to preserve it when he lays Isis majesty aside. tlr w ill dare to appear a private mass, ass& its that character he will draw to himself a respect less ostentatious, but more real and pleasing to him, than any which is paid to the monarch." REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. By the fly(le, arrivAl from' Oporto, off Falmouth, we have account% to the :11st August. Every thing remained perfectly quiet. All the norilirrn Pro vinces had declared for the new eoustituti tttt . The army hail been paid their arrears. Marshal Pam plona hail marched with a large detachment of tro.y, upon Oporto. At Micro he learnt the occurrences that had taken place, when the soldier immediately delterted, and the greater nuinher had arrived at Op.,rio. The I Ith regiment was at l.eira, and had sworn to thr Cunstitutisin. By the above conveyance, we have also received a great variety of official down nerds and proclamations:, for which we have nut space to-day. It appears, that no intelligence has been received at Oporto from Lisbon. since the new Constitution had been proclaimed. Two of the above documents are proclamations from " the Provisional Junta of the Supreme Go vernment of the Kingdom to the Portagnese," and from " the Governor General of the Arsenals of the division of Oporto to the people of the Wile divisior, and the troops stationed in it, and the nation." The former is a sort of Manifesto, stating the griev4ces, real or • !leged, ■nder which Portugal laboured, and which are enumerated as the reasons, which, called forth the revulutionary explosion that has taken place. It is signed by certain individuals, an representative+ of the clergy, the nobility, the magistrates, and the merchants, dated the 3dth .%ognst. We shall give these, and various other important documents, to morrow. "The Junt.t desires, alto), that you nil give them to umlerstand, that conformably to the general will of the Porttignese nation, whose desires, regulated by its generosity and gratitude, are ithilitt.;ip.it, it wi'l cause to he afforded to such of those officers who d,- sire it, the menus which are necessary for them LP remain u ith all decency and comenience in the coe•t• try, unless they should take the resolution to retsio..e to their own or some other. ti That the Junto, however, hnprs that they willc- o duct themselves In the present circumstances with that delicacy and circumspection which beseein sewn, se.o (rout edleation have learnt to appreci..te the respezt due to the wish of a whole nation, which has so so lemnly declared its tirm resolution to maintain Its rights. I tod preserve your Etteelleney! " FR. NI GONIF.Z '` Palace of the tiovertneol, Aug. ell. , "To the most, Mosul:to-, Melamine Ltrneo, Velt-ate Britt: eitbriera, eoemuseader-in-Chief of the ursned force of this DITIt-otn." " We can assure the public that thw sacred calve fa: whirl' we have declared, has been genera ay etisbrat.! I with t ntlittsia• w and unparalleled joy in shr Norther o Provinces. In that of 31inho, they have not proclaim ed Ihoi John VI. King of Portugal by the t turtito tion of the Fortes, but the whole military force is :th ready mrtilated aunt organised frith Port:Igo: ••• girt vers. limier:Os Bleat and Wilson -hove con.tritord the:to:elves with that circumspection which it as to be eepes le.! from their principles, their education, eel their circumstances. " lie artily in the province of Alinbo,is catantsnl4A4 'oy iajor-Getteral tisoper Pereira. " he briguif.• 9th, I Ith, and cbrtenr: Hth, is • cotnindndell by Antonio Lobo Teseira tie Kato!. " .!outtint Teller Jordaolt4lllllllnnils the 15th, and cliAssems t;th. anti the whole tilt ~it :a mailcr Alajor.thmerall Atrottio de Lacerif4 Pinto is. ronsica. " hen N4'll4'll b the Supreme 11;•ete.rtutegt. emtfirnt the above. " The first despatch is from N. Ant. tle Enet,s, dated from Point. de Lula, :Nth of A Trit,i, and ststeN that the Cimstitntiun was proclaimed ou the t!‘th, with trreat joy, in presence of the Civil Autheeitirs, &c., but that the Ecclesiastical Anthorities declined attending, as they had no orders from the .Archbishop: hot did not make any opposition. All was dta , :e in the hest order, and doe respect paid to the 041ieers. " The second despatch from Fianna, 27th Autenst, • is of sitti;:ar tenor t General Wilson retains his •eidi lie's, and the same respect is shewn to tirneral Blunt. "The third despatch is from Braga, Ytith Auett-t, whet,. the Constitution appears to have been pros claimed with inure solemnity. The authorities hatirt been called together by the Archbishop, tranquillity every where prevails. "At Oporto, a piece suitable to the occasion w a s hastily got up, anti loudly applauded by the tinumerous spectators. " At the recital of some verses the whole audience rose and cried out, ' Long live the immortal Spamar.i• our iseitthltotirs, who set au example to us sod a, z • wim:e utirl4l:' •• 'Fite President of the Supreme Oovermsient ra . •••J his voice, and announced the following King !—The Portuguse*.—The l'itizens of Oporto 7-- The Garrison of Oporto he generous Km.li h Nation, from whom w•e Kaye re,•eirrd benefits des.rv- • Mg of gratitude, and which we will pumtuaify repy wheti "No language can express the pleasu • 4: the r.,r tnruese ou this enchanting night. Tear. duw•ed every eye. Such is the public spirit of a ci.y wht. WAS always distinen;shed by its patriotism and it. 1 io Nat-loos/. Aug. 28.) . - AT rIMPT AT ROllll :1' • XL, MI:RDSR.—Ou Toe4day oi z i,i, about ten o'clock. an Mr. C.D. Ho µa4. pir•i‘ing over the fields leading over to liturrtuar. was most brutally attacked by a band of ruffian% skin :saber : one of them was armed with a pistol, *hich be presented at .b? head of Mr. H., and, -with horrid epithets, demon led his property. We are happy to state that Mr. sustained nu material injury..