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ITIFWIRMW. 7 . MP • Queen. lie ctuld not agree that there was any analogy between the case of the Queen and the case of a *Reigate individual, sod that Gent!rialto spe r m.," to have forcutten that that was tint a (peti tion leFtweets the king and the Qneen, it was a question of Stale policy, and the only thing to be considered wet, whether the Mielisters of new 4 0sown had a eight to degrade the Qom', utter the Bid bad been withdrawn by the very permit, who hurl brought it forward. Bat he weld Igniter?, mod Paid, they had no right to antici• toot, the caodoet of the Iteptesentetkves. lied he been ignora•it of what wow going fotwayd; of the internists that were making to get up addressee; the people were Motioned ; that the Minister w a s dealing nut the puhlic money. contrary all law ; that srldres.ea were getting up to support • ' tottering Admirriattation; and that the Corporation Y . l and the people who petitioned were insulted, Hied' branded as disloyal ? The worthy Gentleman then" oviceeded to animadvert on the conduct of those who were skulking int* holes and corners, and genitor! lip w h a t th e y called " Loyal Addresses." They t ones planted of sedition nod the licentiousnens of Our , ' Preys, hut it was quite clear that these Gentlemen wish to do what was done in the reign of Cherie* If. 1 They were endeavouring to put down the right of I , rtition. Vet some of these Gentlemen were ;nixie tins to mpport the right of petition, but thought it ahosild be need wpariogly ; that is, he soppoi.el, it shoold never he need except when Ministers are to hr supported. He whaled to call their attention to a it-lies-of the Earl rif A iiglerey tveliarles 11. in which he complaisand of the interfereoce of the clergy, who, instead of attending to their duty us peace makers, generally slept out of their way to qpildle m This was a time at which the Corporation of London should make a bold stand ; they hail in this, as in all other instance s, been foremost in asorrting tswd preserving the liberties of their email y. They's* that some of 11w first men in the cottony were alarmed, and justly so, seeing thin there were revolutionists in the country ; but the Ithilisters 'KM: the revolutioni•ts, and, in his soul, lie believed that ontliiiig would please them so well a• to see • disturhience in the country, to afford them some pretext to call nut the military, and distract tho attention of the country by Ira_"ii i new Bills. Wes it a tune fur the Corporation of London to slninher, when they saw the first men in the nation come how:ird—the illustrious blouse nl R o pi e ll, wh o , with their Wood, had sealed the libe►ties of their country ? Certainly not. The worthy Gentlemen concluded by &lying, that the Court should not only gate their decided sup port to the Resolution, but that they should never crate to petition until they had actotnplislitd their objects.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. (31110vrtnis supported the Resolution. Mr. SLAVE wished 10 Mil the attention of the Court to a statute of Edward VI. in which it was , not only ordained that the King and Queen Own's, be prayed for, hut penalties ettmehrtt to the clergyman, and even to the congregation, if they neglected joi 0000 ig Ile would pot the question of the guilt or • Tore of the Queen out of the rase; he viewed it in a coustittitional point of view, and lie wished the Corot would do the Paine. Mr. T. WILLIAMS spoke at some length against the Revolution. Ile contended, that erasing the name 4.,f her Majesty from the Liturgy was perfectly conformable to authority, for it was a well-known fact that the King and Privy Council had the ar rangement of these matt, rs. He commented with souse severity on those persons who went up with Addresses to her Majesty, and said that he could name ten persona oho 'presented a Rtquisition to bun, more respectable than the whole cavalcade.— / Loud cries of " Order!") The LORD MAYOR thought the Gentleman was in order. The worthy Gentleman thanked his Lordship for his protection, and renewed his attack. Ile raid a considerable portion of the females who went tip with addresses, were servant maids, &rased up fur the occasion. The worthy Gentleman then enter ed into au elaborate defence of the conduct of Ministers. He thought that instead of censure, the thanks of the country were due to them. for they bath exercised mercy where they should have ex,- ruled vengeance. The joltrogning liatliament was • wise and salutary measure, to allay the popular feeling, and not call them together at that peitort... The worthy Gentleman concluded by stating, that fee could not support a Resolution pregnant with so nitwit evil, and calculated to keep up an irritation to the very hour of the meeting of the Parliament. Mr. Sheriff WILLIAMS was of opinion, that it would have been much better, not only fur the result but for the decency of the proceedings, if the ques t orti of the Liturgy had been brooght forward. di vested of any other matter. Matters of religicn should be mixed up as little as possible with poli tics. He had before given it as his opinion that if the - Queen had been guilty of all the cruiser imputed to lien, then indeed she would stand in need much wore than ever of the prayers of the tuition. lie regretted exceedingly that politics should be united to a matter of such importance. Mr. OLDHAM hoped the Court would him while he offerer' a few observations in reply to the very boisterous speech of the Gentleman oppo.. rite. It was in contemplation in the Ward which hr had the honour to represent, to put Ministers to the test, and to present an Address breathing se mi_ merits of the strongest attachment to the person of the liing,atid the most profound veneration for the Constitution, but at the same time c lemming the conduct of Ministers, and then they should have au ~ppottunity of seeing whether It would he ►nserted in the Gazette. He deprecated, in the strongest terms, the conduct of a ministerial Paper, which dared to asperse ladies of the first rank, the most exalted reputation, and must unsullied character, because they had visited the Queen. Mr. FAYELL then replied ; on which the ques. bon was put and carried without a division. The Petitions were ordered to be prevented in the usual way, and the City Members requested to support the Petition in the House of Commons. A P. iiiinn was presented from the Inhabitants or hallo., Narking, in Tower Ward, respecting an interrup tion recently gives to the rhea of landing cods at Tower sitret, liy the Governor of the Tower, which was referred is the Special Commiiter formerly appointed. Twenty hoods, of 100/. each, raised under the Coal Market Art of Parliament, were mitered to be paid off, and the Chamberlain directed to give the usual notice to the partite interested, Cm Wee to revive the same, !~:r ~.. _-.= -- - S it FOREIGN INTELLIGEN S . PARIS PAPER!. - 111 I ~ 'met saw The Do l or "festriate Observer of the 151 a 1 N.,...••••••na vvoc ary • a.,V _ 77 " The three Allied Sovereigns have opened the conferences of Troppau with mutual explanations on the point of view in which they regard the revo lution of Molars. From thence results the unani mous conviction that this revelation. framed by fa. statical sects, and c•rtird into effect by soldiers forgetting their duly. that the violent destruction of all the legitimate relations which was the conse quence of this revolntiou, sod the arbitrary sad miarchical system substituted in their place, were not °illy in direct opposition to the principles of justice. morality, and the real happiness of the people, principles which the Monarchs have so often and so loudly procleitned; but further, from their inevitable results, incompatible with the re pose and tranquillity, mid coesequently with the preservation of the 'truce of Europe. " Penettated with these truths, the Sovereigns have taken, with common consent,',the firm resolu tion to direct their united strength to overthrow the ',resent state of things in the kingdom of Naples, destitute of every legitimate basis, brought about only by rebellion and violence, and to make his Majesty also determine the future etuistitut.on of his States, so as to place it in liernmity with the real fled true interest of his people, as well as with the tranquillity of neigh- Imitritig countries. At the same time the High Airworthy, tantioated with the liveliest desire not to come to extreme ttieasnres unless they should be itteltaitelssubJe, have nut wished to neglect soy thing that could answer their pacific and concilia tory purpose, slid have weighed with the greatest care all the means which have presented themselves. After nriture deliberation they hove resolved to 'take for Naples and for the King himself • step which appeared eminently calculated to remove front the one side all doubt of the real senti ments and views of the Allied Powers, if any -could still exist in the minds of just men ; unit, on the other, to save, slider the media tion of their beneficent King, the great majority of the Neapolitan nation, which only looks to trim qiiillity and order, front the oppression which weighs upon it, and host, all the evils with which it is still menaced, and to secure also the - repose of the rest of Italy. " With this intent, their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia. and the King of Prussia, have written the following letter, conceived by each of them in the same terms.—[We have already published this letter.] " A little before the arrival of these letters at Ns. pies, the King received a letter on the part of the King of France. iequesting him to accept the in vitation (If the Allied Sovereigns. The Pope also titbit: sited to him u letter to the same etlirct. " lit a new days after, the King of Naples wrote a letter in these terms to the three Allied .Monarchs: " Sir, my Brother—lf in the present circumstances my heart could open melt to a sentiment of joy, it would as suredly user been at the moment when l received the leiter addressed to nor by your Majesty from Truppau. 1 ant •ffeet ed beyoud the power of expression with the magnanimity which directs all your mew fur the good of the nations of Europe, sad in patient's- fur the interest several times already experienced ninth you lake in my person, and in the people confided by Providence to my care, whose repose and prosperity air the constant object of all my efforts. • " After this ti exposition of my sentiments, your Majesty will rw•ily cone. it e the gratitude with which 1 accept the itivitatiou given to the to repair to Laybsch, to take part in the th liberations which have only for their object to consolidate the basis of the moat Doty Alliance. 1 see in this itivitatiust a new bles,istg of Providence, which opt us to me • way of effectiwg with my au. goat Allies n west• whirls will render their names dear and sacred to the latest posterity; and to ►hare also souse part of the glory that awaits them. Your Majesty must not. therefore, doubt my readiness to accept your invitation. My departoge shalt be as speedy as circumstances will per mit. It will be extremely agreeable to me to see soils the Emperor of Austria, and to make a personal aciptaintance with the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia. It is lit your wisdom and goodness that I owe the peace of my Mate., and my sweetest cares shall be to inspiie all the members of soy Fsmily with the sentiments of gratitude with "'bleb my heart is penetrated. (Signed) " FERDINAND. " Naples, December 11, 1810." " I it these circumstances the conferences at Trop . pau are going to be opened at Laybach." SPANISH PAPERS AND DUTCH MAIL. MADRID. DECEMBER .27. This night many of the inhabitants ur Ir.is city were assembled in the Fund* de la Cruz de Ita, where a patriotic club doily meets, and great discontent was observed to consequence of their being desired In quit the galleries by order of the 11agistrates. The fermentation continued to increase, when, at six.o'clock, sortie notices of the following tenor were fixed up to the pillars of the Ball : a The Marquis of Cerrabo and Almaria, Superior Political Chief of the Province of : " I do hereby give orifice, that by Article 11. of the law of Sth November last, respecting Patriotic Societies, it is enacted, i That those individuals who desire to hold perio dical meetings in any public place, to discuss political sub jects, and fur the purpose of mutual inform/man, may do so, with the previous knowledge of the Superior La gal Authority, which is responsible fur all uhuses, taking for the purpose the measure* attach it way deem proper, out excepting the suppression of the nieettug.'—Those of this kind which have subsisted in this capital have not confined themselves to a strict observance of the law, nor have they taken care to avoid the disorders which base taLea place is theta. I ilwrefore order, that after ibis date, Ow put):ic meet ings whirls exist without my knowledge, shalt cease: which is hereby announced to the public or its information, and that no one may plead ignorance. (Signed) " The Political Chief of the Province of Madrid, The Mairris de CEIIKABO. By his Excellency's Order, " The Secretary of the Political Government, MARIANE VALERO Y AKTETA. " Madrid, December 27, 1820." 'fhe reading of this raised the irritation of she persons prtsriit to its height, an, in consequettre it was resolved to repair to the Political Chief cud re quest his permissson to assemble. While malty citizens were gone for this purpose, others got ittion the table and endeavoured to gestrani the pub lic effervescence. Alter sonic time had elapsed. those who had beau to wait on the Political Chief returned. and stated, that the order was founded on their hiving neglected the forma- r.""'''7sP! .7P^Or . 9 lily of asking" his consent. Ta conselluence the f ir Tribune , ordered to beplairttd, which we done in t tioance of the (Institutional Alcade, who had ar ed int heintereal. One of the orators had before readen . Address made by the Common Coun cil of London to his Britannic Majesty, soliciting the removal of the Ministers, and which he compared to another - whiChliiii been read on iiTsreeiiiiing night in the snine, 4111. b, solieiting the retisoial ,of our Ministers. Many of the persons present desired to add their sign/tared' to the great number already annexed 'to this address, a desire whit!' all repotted with an enthusiasm dilkelt to he described, urging the orator to prtcsett, it. At eight o'clock the meeting still .continued, the final result of which we shall give to-morrow.—(Miscellanea, Decem ber Si B, being the latest date received.) It appears that General Alava is hindered by his infirm state of health from accepting the oil ce of Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Court. It is said that the General is disposed to go to Malaga, the mild air of which will be more favourable to him titan the severe climate of Vittoria. VALLADOLID, DECEMBER 24 The late unpleasant emus at Zunora, have had no further consequence, bi the vit 4 ilinice of the Political Chief, who , e admirable dispositions sit Ifices to disconcert all criminal moment/rev, . ORENSE, DECEMBER 21. A few days since the subaltern Political Chief was informed pf suaalarm towards the frontiers of Portugal, 1 - 4 9 r whirls reason troops went from this place to reconnoitre the whole neighbourhood ; they returned yesterday with fourteen prisoners, among whom are one or two ecclrsiaitica, whose declara tions do not throw any light ou the affair. To night it is affirmed that advice has been receives' of the arrest of the chief leader of the commotion, which it is hoped will be of little importance. This leader, it teems, calls himself Baron de S in tiyonme, who, it is said, imad formed the project of snaking Itiinself master of this city with some peo ple whom he hal is his pay, and to fall upon all the respectable people. The arrest of this robber, who figured likew ise in the affairs at Tuy, has tran quillized the inhabitants, the best-informed among whom appear to attach some importance to these events. CADIZ, DECEMBER 18. We learn by letters from Mogadore that the Emperor has permitted the export a tio n of wool and oil, and much diminished the expOrt ditties on other articles.—( Miscellanea, 261/, to 2811 i December) AMSTERDAM, JANUARY 6. By accounts front Arithetin, of the 4th, we find that the rivers in all that province are hard frozen, so that the !thine is passable in some places by heavily loaded waggons. The accounts from other places state either that the rivers are hard frozen, as as to be passed in safety, or full of fluatiug ice.— (Amsterdam Courout,Jassayry 6.) - T ~.,._ ~~ wholly destroyed by the unlimited liberty give to foreign vessels in the posts of Brasil ; by the diss serous Treaty of 18101 by the consequent decline of the national manufactures; by the almost total destruction of the mercantile marine and naval force ; by the absolute want of all care to protect and encourage these two most important branches aTtioblic preolterit;::: _ • Agiiculture, the basis of the rides and strength of nations, deprived of the arms which the army or death took from it ; destitute o f the capitals which supported it, and which had been sonittiincs em ployed on objects of the more urgent necessity ; deprived of the vital strength which it used in receive from the national industryoull fram the ac tive circulation of commerce, bath domestic and foreign, lay in a fatal lethargy, and presented - to the astonished spectator only the melancholy picture of famine and misery. The sensible dirniuution of the public reveum., caused by the ruin of the popil'ation, of commerce, and of industry ; by the irrevocable loss of the great sums which the enemy violently extorted from the bands of the Portuguese; and by the excts , ive ex pe,tives of the war, obliging the nation to contract new and cumulous debts. for the payment of which its resources were engaged, gave the final blow to public credit, which wars already shaken by tLc scandalous Linalversations of the fiscal . agents, as well as by the most erromous system of admit& stratiott. If the Portuguese did not love and respect their Prince and his august dynasty with it knid of lore and 'duration almost religious, if they did not wish to receive from his justice HMI kindness alone the reltitlDS and puldle which such a at ate thingt imperiously dein:tools, it %ould be very easy tat that Mae to fiN. h1:11111 to power, or dictate conditions suitable to aucli urgent circumstances. They were not ignorant of their rights : the general tendency of opiciun, guided by the light of the age, and openT installs eil among the must civil:zed nations cf invited them In such use of three tights which their ancestors lied rtrognazed and exercised 04 if Ti pressing occasimis, the victorious and tiitimpliatit army would hare supported such just and the nation would he now free ur ccrtaiuly less troforttniair. But the character of the Portuguese could not bely itself. They chose rather to Snipe every thing Isom their Prince than to give to Europe, silierify filic:ed by the late misfortune', the sight of a tur buletat and impatient yahoo, or to appear to abuse the facility afforded by circumstances to !dim a sprit of revolt and want of 'submission. The silent and peaceful elitism:llnm of their evils was the bisis of their proceettitigs—conlideece in the acknowledged virtues of the niece, the foundation of itself hopes. Bust (it is hard to sly it !) these hopes were wholly deceived, and .this •utfermig was carried to the utmost extent to which it seems possible for the patience of a high-spislluil sadism, full of the feel ing of i:s misfortunes, ■nd not ignorant of the means of vemetliog them." After this introduction, the Manifesto proceeds to observe, that it is unnecessary to paint in detail the metrocholy picture of t h e progress:ye drchise of Portugal in the last six year', as be.ng notoi Sous to all Europe. Referring to the proceeding, it states, as additional muses of min, the rending so minx thous:tad troops to Brazil to carry on a war of which Portugal bore the buiden, aiul which ex posed it to the attacks of a powerful sseighhour, always its rival, and new offended mod provoked. Commerce was wittiout encouragement, sod every regulation tended only to the advantage of fn. tripe's. Malturgettlrer4 were equally discouraged, snit while Voir tie's messufactuies were going to decay, and innumerable workmen reduced to idle nese stud waist, the moat ►iirigguihrtut articles of filename or niers wart: imported frotu other coats ! tries. Portuguese vessels were taken by friends wad essesniee, tusulte•d and captured by pirates, in sight of our own fortresses. The Portuguese saw and suffered. But why renew these prohnind sor rows? Eves' plungers, who profited by the dread rut indifreienee or coldness of the Portuguese Go velment, often said. with Isnionutalf!e frankness— " Thin fine reunify was worthy of a better fate." Blessed as rostogol is wish a must fruitful sod, overflowing with agricultural richer, eugme•atert in quantity by the improvident permission of excessive 'importation, yet the general distress was so extreme that the poor wee perishing with famine its the midst of ',kitty, and the bounty of [leaven was blasted by.else lolly of moo. The Nlassilesto thin 'thews how this iliitress w►ss still further aggravated by COll , llll/111e 5111 immetme expenditure, as if the Court were still sit Listens, while the revenue was sensibly diminishing by the shove causes, ••rig well as by the negligence and pe culation of the officers. The sums sent to Bs tail for the war In America, &r. lucre - ailed the distress, and caused the salaries of the pa hhe tits iu every tirpati.nrilt, as well as the interest of the public debt, to be dreadfully in arrear ; and finally (with shame he it spoken !), it was nut pneoble to com plete a Ivan of only four indlions of t rusattoce. The Portuguese knowing die heart of their So vereign, hoped he would prepare the necessary re forms, a hope winch his Majesty sometimes rucuu• raged ; but the hope vanished, and the Ministers at Rio Jasiciro tinned aside the King's mind front i., and were displeased obeli tiny pati tot aired to pub lish his GI/1111011S 01l this importa n t subject, nod sliewtd the necessity of restoring the seat of Go vernment to Port ugal. flence ►he Portuguese began to lose their confi dence in the sole remedy which remained ; the idea of tieing 'educed to a colony affected them; and all saw it was impns•ible fur the affairs of n monarchy lii go on regularly at such a distance from the crate of its action, frequently impeded by the ma lignity of well, the vioiern:e of passim% and even the (fleets of the elements. Winn could the Portuguese tuition do in such a situation ? Suffer slid hope. It did stiffer and hope in vain fur many y Carr. Sigh, remonstrate, tutu plain ? It did sigh, hut its sighs wire not listened to. Not listened to ? • They were repressed, cruelly stifled. It remonstrated and complaia , cd. but its remonstrances and complaints never reached the Throne. The King Wes tuld that his people were contented and faithful, and the Manifesto protests, in the face of Europe, the un alterable horsily of the nation, but observes that content is incompatible with a situation like theirs ICES! PO li7TICA L. MANIFESTO OF THE PORTUGUESE NATION TO TH E SOVEREIGNS AND PEOPLE OF EUROPE, The Portug uese natio n , a n i ma t e d w ith th e most sincere and a rdent desire to maintain the political and connnercial relations which hive hitherto bound it to all the Gov.-minins and people of Europe, end having more particularly at heart to continue to omit in the opinion of illustrious men of all nations the return awl consideration which have never been refus,-al to the loyal aid honourable character of the Portuguese, judges it is indispriitia bly necessary to offer to the public a succinct but frank exposition of die causes which produced the memorable events that have lately taken place in Portugal, of the true spirit which directed them, •f the sole object to which the change' tended that have been made, or which it is intended to make, in the internal form of its Government ; it is con lidetit that this exposition, rectifying the false ideas which may perhaps have been roliceived of those events, will merit the kind eitentioes of the Sove reigns and of the peo p le. All Europe knows the extraordinary circum stances which in 1807 forced his Nlajesty John VI. at that time Prince Regent of Portuguf, to remove with his Royal family to his transatlantic domi ;noes; it is granted that this resolution of his Ma jesty was judged then of' the most decided inivini tage to the general cause of liberty in Europe. Nobody, however, failed to perceive the critical si tuation in which Portugal was placed by this .h -briber of its Prince, and succeeding events proved that this froieboding was not suite or rash. Portugal. separated front her Sovereign Ity the vast expanse of the ocean, deprived of all resources from her transmaitue possessions. and of all the be uefits of coininerce by the blockades of her ports, and governed at home by a hostile force, which wfs alien thourlit invincible, scented to have reached the final term of Its political existence, never to be re placed in the slink of independent nations. In such a desperate crisis this hero i c people did ' not lose its honour, its courage, or it. fidelity to its Ring, which could not he turn front its heart My the force of circumstances, nor by the preponderant power of the enemy. They in fact displayed tlicni selves in the must energetic manner as soon as a favourable opportunity (Alerted. 'the Portuguese, with the assistance of their Allies, recovered at the expense Of the must painful sacrifices their political existelice ; restored with generous loyalty to their Monarch the 'throne and the Crown ; and im partial Europe must confess (I bough this justice is not alwuys done) that to them are also in a great measure owing the triumphs which have stare been joined to the advantages of the liberty and independence of Thrones and Nations. It is more easy to conceive than to express what was the inter nal situatioa of Portugal after circumstancem so new, effects so extrisordivary, and a convulsion so general. The ruia of its population commenced by the emigration of the inhabitant* who followed the Prince, or endeavoured to withdraw front the dis tiustful suspicion, or the rystetuatic persecution of the enemy ; was increased by the two fatal invasions of 1809 and 1810; and by the inevitable losses of I a long übistitiete war of seven years. Commerce sod industry, which can never pros per but under the beneficent protection of peace, security, sod public tranquillity, were nut only de venal anti abaudoued, but stewed to hare [sects ~• • thews that the late eventhave cot the it origin as has been intimated in the fall" principles of an absurd mid distirgati , sing philoio.phy, or the love rf anbriillell chimerical lihetty, lint in the ronvietion of tha I übtic distress, sml the de-ire of remedying ir, It chews that government is ernminil in society ; but that alt.ever nimy hr the species of govern ment establi.hed in a tint;oo, sod whomsoever earl ei.ed, neither force nor habit, nor the hip.e of time, can deprive a nation Of its ioali.a,ahl r right of revising 11* flimiiirtienlB.l laws, sod intrinlnt•- tug 1:11(.1i improvetteeots as may lir. neresvary,—. The Portuguese oiled upon th.se•princinks ; they wished to pliace the throne on the solid basis id' justice mist laws ; they did not desire to iiitrodure tiq innovntion,, but A frt.fOrkltioll of the state of Ilen ea r hi c h formerly exi-tril in Portugal, when in 1131 they give the crown to their first Alonarch, mod wade the first ftwithimental laws of the Monarelly is the Cortes of when in 1385 they gore the tin,we triJohn 1. icit conditions whirh he itcrep•et! ; when in 1640 +buy gore it to John IV. whe :11.. P pet ted Iliei, !Annie.; whew to 'Portuguese had •ot it Corti 4 through • long perinsl flee irrurnsi e ., t'iry reached ihe siiin•oil of glory owl greaim , .. It i., an I to StlgAltlt whit tliry have (1 , .t1t. a". /lb, klij ur r in h a v o l I p in the same nt.nutr de iiiiiii iced the gin. nuns rising it t,e i 1610, aseelsellion. It is equally ainur.l to aitirhate the late events to :s f.ctior. - Totting every thing into consideration, the Portuguese cannot doebt bar that their patriotic proceedings most merit not only the moat Granta ble consideration, Ist.t just praise, h. 4.11 in the puts. tic opinion of enlightened nations and in (ha Coln. nets of the Ear peen Sovereign.. I ti conclusion the Mainfesio r , .rn It kw, that it wool.' be moat alifirtiog to the Port ug :tom station. if the powerful Samereigos with tsbrou it hat always bunt on the terms of friendship, should abuse their power to impose laws on it. or to reprem the motile ettosts of a nation, incapable by its get. graphical irmition of troubli ng th e peace of oil it which has *ewe intetferesl ut the intent. ual concerns of other., mid which oily d.pend on the sektiow!edged imoice of the Princes of Eur.oar ; but which, if its hopes iti this respect should be &so:pi:Ord, it will risk every thing in ibe defence of at just yields; that the maxim. " No natina ever failed to be free which deored to be so," is their encouragement; and that if whoop pily thty should fail in attiiiiimg this happiness, this ninon a ill be destroyed mailer than conquered. and no good citizen will survive the ruiu of pith. lie felicity. They, however, anticipate a more for tunate re sok. A letter addressed by the Provisional Jouta at ()polio to lino Majesty the King, now first pa co:dents a full exposition of the cans • that led to the retro/union, of the spirit who h had directed it, and of al: the ploceeditigs dirt had, taken 'place up to the date of the.letrer. It appeal* to history fur the proof of the invitictbie loyalty of the Portuguese to their Sovereigns. auto their devotion to the House of Mistime, which they . coutinue to maintain undiminished to his present filajewy, of whose sovereign virtues they are per. ft et ly co •ei owed. Unwilling to afflict the paternal heart of his Ma. jrs y by a usiuute desesipilun of the dreadful situa tion of his faithful people, they generally ullstle to the lons of their attempt glory and prosperity, to the runt of cotututreeogrieulture, and utaimfacturet, the destruction of public Credit and individual bappi ll , to , all which evils are greatly aggravated by his Majesty'. alootice. This unhappy state of thi•tgs was borne with pa.. tietiee many yeast. Tilt ptiletlee of Men, atid above all, thst ' n : notions, hiss is 111110. and it Wad at length evident that there Ras uo alternative but to expect •a general convulsion and popular disorder. ',welt would expose the ration to destruction, or to tot -veld it by giving the people the beta fit of at bi lc negesera . ion. The letter begitimio; • iii the act of the Mili:ort Council at Opaiti, deUui. all the proceetbitgo that ha! succrs.fully taken place, and retesting deco melds (which have hero sill before prints.!) soews Is a Nhajt tiy that regard for los prison' and dignity has never bees) lost sight of, that no measures have beets taken hut such as eretattl absolutely necessary. that even the sutpewiou of the English officers, desired and r oinniooded by the public wish and the geeeral vettaccomplished in the most delicate man ner. The writers dwell on the utianimity that has presailed among all ranks of people, the hannotty between the two Juutas of Lisbon rod Oporto, after their unioit, sad add, that nothing is wanted hut the presence of his Majesty, or of acme Prince of his family, to sit isfy the unattimotes wishes of the nation; their only fear is lest his Majesty. should give eat to souse one who, cooler the mark (slue!, may Witte emu alarms its lit. Majesty's heart, and give him commis contrary to the requests which with the sante respectful loyilty they lay before him. The coteltviences of such counsels cannot be well foreseen, but they will certainly be fatal. The nation does nut turret his Majesty's displeasure : it deti es to 1w happy, and to recover the precious in heritatire of its auarut greatinos—that the throne of Ina filajes:y linty ha firm without the power of bring unjust, amid that they may have thcofelocity of leitewing till Cle good which his royal beneti ernee promises thr to, wart Mat being able to ascribe to tout any eel Three are the oi :Iles which they utter in the haute of all she Prringnesf, who, prostrate before his Alajeary's I ban IC. aopeal to the honour of the nation, their public happiness, and the itentimei.! • of religiose piety which animate his Royal hear!. - - • - At a meeting of tie- Wnrcestetshire Agricultur.l Association, for ti.e pr,,ttc:iuu of Agriculture, the 30th ult. ResGiultans were entered into, stat ing—That the distress under which the Agricul tural Interests of this country has long been labour ing, has during the la►t 3 ear must rapidly and alarmingly incrritstiti—Thut there seemed no pros pect of relief till the catiae of the present distress under which the whole community is suffering, be fully ■scertainedl—That n is the l i n ty of Parlia ment immediately to e , itt r into a full inquiry, with u view of applying an adequate remedy, as longer delay must produe t}:e total ruin of the Agricul tural Interest, rod put it out of the power of Par liament itself to avert the impending danger— That Petitions founded upon the Resolutions, he drawn up, and that another meeting be held for the Foveae of taking such Petitions into cousideratiow n. • i .