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J 3 , - O, DON JOURNALS. [DA L I EA TRACTS FRCAI THE MORNING PAPERS. [Morning Post.] ierne Quitvq.—We. have given copies of the. -preteiided Letters of - Baron' Ompteda (sec our Paper of ne.stcrziag), of which Mr. Brougham has attempted to make so unfair and unjustifiable a. use. Admitting them _to be genuine, our !leaders will see that'they*are mere endeavours to procure information from those who are best , able to afford it—such endeavours as might have been ucod with the utmost,-.publicity, if that would not have, wholly defeated their lawful pur pose. And what was the circumstance that ren dered a secret conveyance of the letters neces 4ary ? Plainly this—that access by other means ! could not be had to the persons for whom they were intended. Why access to them should have been or rendered difficult—why it should not rather -have been:fully permitted, and , that with perfect freedom from observation, we leave tothe Q,neen's Counsel to explain, if they cau.— I appears by these letters (the authenticity of pit hiclr ive must continue to doubt), that a com munication from - Mademoiselle Dumont to her Lister was wished to be securely conveyed to her hands. What were the contents of that letter ao conveyed ? Let them be shewn to be of a criminal or dishonourable character, and• then the means winch were employed will partake of that character. •In the absence of this proof, 'the first alleged letter of Ompteda furnishes a satisfactory explanation' of those means :---". The Princess and her confidants (Messrs. Bergami, Ilownam, and Co., we suppose) 'intercept all the letters addressed to the persons in her suite." Is this a fact, or is it not? If it be,how conclusively it demonstrates the existence of practices in the house of her - Royal Ilightiess- which made it necessary to re sort to so • degrading, so base,. 50. .pertidious a trick, as to intercept and read all the letters ad 'dreSsed to the servants. And: why, in God's 'name, was there any necessity for all this ma riceuvring all these low artifices ? Not a letter could . be addressed to a menial in her Royal Ifi,ghness's household, but first of all it must be opened and read by "her Royal Highness or her confidants !" Does innocence, does virtue, does the - dignity of high station, employ these miser able shifts to pry into the letters of footmen and chambermaids ? Admitting, too, this base prac tice to have prevailed, how completely it justi- . . I ftes and explains what was asserted by Made- Dumont,- in her examination, that she used double entendres, because her real meaning, should not be intelligible to the honourable spies who either intercepted, or inspected; the con tents of every letter that reached the l3aroua or the Villa d'Este. . [British Press.) The Letters written by Baron Ompteda to the , ;Director of Police at Pesaro, which the House Of Lords refused to receive as evidence on Mon, day - last, (see our Paper of gesterday), are ma.. &festly addressed to one who was previously aware of the machinations devised, and then in Course of operation against the Princess of Wales, and consequently they could not be expected to cOntain a full and perfect avowal of the writer's villainy; but they contain enough to • shew by ready inferences the character of the negociation 'which' the Baron intrusts to his worthy friend and fellow-conspirator. The Baron evidently, according to a familiar phrase, " knew his man well:" lie was " convinced" of his " amiable "c6mpiaisance," of which it seems he had already given " decisive proofs ;" and, therefore, he was not deterred by the official situation of the man - from employing him as his instrument, in cor rupting the integrity of the Princess of Wales's Servant. Ilis first wish is, that a letter from Louise Dumont to her, sister Marlette, who still continued,, in the service of her Royalllighness, shoul&be privately delivered, and by the Lands of some trusty agent, who should induce Marlette tb confide her answer to him. The Baron, it dreaded least the letter should fall into the, hands of the PTificess . of Wales, " or some of 'her confidants." This apprehension chews the Character and object of the letter, and impor- tant no doubt it must have been, as it required a Minister of the Kingdom of Hanoyer, and a confidential Officer of the Police of the Papal Coverninent, to unite their power and talents to have it conveyed safely to its destination ! Who can doubt that this letter conveyed an elucidation of the hints contained in the letter produced dur ing the trial, and pointed out with what facility a fortune might be made by," bearing false wit ness against her Mistress ? Louise Dumont, as the writer of such a letter to her sister, must be considered in the light of. One of the original con-• spirators against the character of the Queen, being joined with Ompteda and the Chevalier Bischi in this instance in endeavouring to toy per suade Mariette to follow her example, and by saine means " make " a splendid fortune in Eng land." This circumstance alone ought to "he suf ficient to, taint her whole evidence, even :if it had not been destroyed previously by . its own incon sistencies, or the contradictory testimony of Sir Wm. Gel), Mr. Keppel Craven, and Others. . [The Times.] Tbere,lS:a point which requires some •discus. :Sion on the present occasions It is asked 'why 'the Coniisel have not called more witnesses, par ticularly why they have stopped without the evi dence of Mariette (Dumont's sister,) Schiavini, &c. ? .For.our.own parts, we should as severely •criticise the . Cobduct of the Counsel for the Queen that of her, Majesty's bitterest enemies:_ We, . shall here, however" .briefly state what . We' con .celve to be their reason for stopping where they have done in the evidence, and express •our be lief that the reasons are satisfactory :—First, 'there is testimony sufficient, and more than suffi 4ent, to convince all reasonable men of the Queen's innocence : cc . They have Moses and die, Prophet's; let them hear them." They who are not convincr , d by such evidence as has been produced against, and such evidence as has been produced for, the Queen, would not give up their malignant charges though an angel from Heaven were sent to announce her . Majesty!s • innocence. Next, never men were so surrounded by' treach ery, conspiracy, perjury, subornation of per jury, corruption, and tampering with witnesses, as her Majesty's legal advisers have been. They could not be sure of producing a single man, woman, or child; that might not have been bought over to deceive and betray them by their adversaries. It will be recollected that . Mr. Brougham, at the beginning of his speech, most feelingly .alluded to the difficulties of the situa tion in which himself and his Learned Brethren were placed in this respect; and:happily com pared it to that of the Athenians, in their deal- . ings with the treacherous King Philip. "Against him," says the greatest of orators, " there is but one safeguard and protection : it serves for walls, bulwarks, and trenches, for these are to . be made. with hands, and cost much ; but that which I recommend is one which a sagacious nature \retains in itself—and that is, distrust, suspicion, of him."—(Philippic ll.—This distrust, or suspicion, Mr. Brougluun and his colleagues, knowing the criminal arts of their adversaries—knowing the detestable, un:- principled practicei of the Milan Commission— must naturally have felt on the approach of every' new witness whom they called to the bar.: They , knew that the plague was in their house, but they kne;.v not how many were tainted. CC flow can any one," said Mr. Bronghani, " 44 secure me " against the great probability of Mariette being "all' the while in league with the Omptedas, the cc Grin/ins, St.c.?" Mariette, indeed, they hhd at the beginning determined to call ;, hitt they did not then know so much of the plot, or, the ex tent of its ramifications, as they have since learn ed ; that, plot, which it was determined not to inquire into till after the Bill had passed the House I None of the Counsel for the Queen knew of the bribing of Codani's clerk to 'steal the Queen's papers, and betray the witnesses for the defence, till long after the opening of the cause. Were those Learned Gentlemen, then, to go on (the charge being already sufficiently dis proved), and expose their Royal Client to the very spares which the conspirators had been lay ing for her, by making her Counsel call their bribed witnesses ? .dud now come to light Omp- . teda's letters, which confirm but too fully all the suspicions - : originally entertained. The Countess Oldi was probably above suspicion, but her evi dence would Lave been chiefly confirmatory ; she would have proved the sleeping on deck, the necessity of her brother's presence, and the liarrn tessness of it. Does any rational mind doubt any part of this now' • As to Non-Ricordo, lorabier, Cuchi, Kress, Sze., they were settled long ago. [Morning licrald.l An impudent and base fabrication, signed with the name of an individual who is in the habit of supplying the Morning Papers with articles .of telligenCe, was sent to us for publication last night. It purported to be a letter from the Duke of Y3rk to the Queen, in which his Royal High +. ness is made to profess, in clumsy terms, his con:. viction that the Queen had " subverted the charges brought' forward against her," and desiring an in= terview 'at Brandenburgh House. 'ibis pre tended letter was accompanied with a string of lies about 'Prince Leopold's having called in•• the' morning and delivered the Queen a letter ; his coming again at a later. hour in a mourning coach, Scc.; and, finally,- to make the 'forgery more plausible, the copy of the letter is stated to have been received from 'C Mr. P. 'Wood," the brother, we suppose, of the Al .derman,- and therefore likely to have a know ledge of such an incident.. We, have good reason to think the fabricators will be discovered, and punished as they deserve. was a circular brought by a person describing himself. as a Ham- Mersmith stage coachman, who demanded and obtained payment for his trouble, and therefore for his own sake would act prudently, as Well as properly, in giving all the information he may possess of the quarter whence he received « this packet. There were copies sent, we have under stood, to•all the Morning Papers but two.. [New Times.] Where her Majesty's personilmnreseeve is not thought an adequate plea, we are.told offoreign manners. This is 'a plea to which a Queen of England should be . very unwilling to resat ;- but make the most of it, it will only serve„to excuse deviations from our national and peculiar notions of decorum, not indecencies, nor incle.cent universally considered as reprehensible. In Mrs. Loveden's case, it was urged that modern Manners allowed a greater latitude of conduct than in the . days of 'oar more rigid ancestors, and the plea was allowed as applicable to some supposed cases; " but," said the Judge " the laxity of modern manners does not extend to justify such conduct as this."—So we may ask, by the cus- : tom of what country is it recognised as decorous and becoming, that a Princess shou4d sleep every night for five weeks in a.closed tent with a courier ? Was there ever Princess—was there ever Lady—, was there 'ever Female, of any rank, that did so, before our own most . gracious,Queen ? Advices were yesterday received that the Rus sian Loan has been concluded, and.. though these accounts are not official yet they . seern entitled to credit. • The amount of the Loan i545,000 . ,000 of silver • roubles, or about 6,750,0001. sterling, bearing an interest of nearly 7 per cent. per an num. Most of the principal articles of import into Russia' are nearly . double : what they were last year in price at the same season. This seems to slew a rapidly increasing. demand, and. may perhaps be regarded as a proocthat the internal prosperity of 'the Country is advancing at a portionate rate.---(md.) [Morning Chronicle.] The Lisbon Packet arrived yesterday ; and. in her came. Lord Beresford, together with several British 'Officers, late in the Portuguese service. She bring papers and letters to the 18th ultimo, of which we publish extracts. The manner in which the new Government obtained possession of the specie and diamonds on board the Vengeur is particularly'described, and of which duplicate bills of lading came to band hi the Phoenix, purporting that the property was to be delivered to the Treasury. It is singular that at firSt a refusal was made to give it up, though the demand was after wards complied with ; but we would ask, if the Phcenix had not luckily arrived to whom was it to he delivered ? The arrival of Lord Beresford in the Tagus, we" always thought would be a moment of great dilemma, considering the relative situation his Lordship so long and so lately held in Por tugal, and the momentous changes which had been effected during his absence ; but he must have known little of the state of public feeling in that country to suppose he would be allowed to exercise an authority that had no superior but one person, and he at some thousands of miles distance. We think it a most happy and for tunate event that Lord Beresford did not land, as this circumstance might have been attended with the most fatal consequences; and, though the act of an unauthorised individual ought not to implicate the relations of the country in which he was born, and which he gives up for the ser vice of another, yet any broil or bloodshed that might have ensued, and for which his Lordship alone could be deemed responsible, might have done us a temporary injury in the opinion of the Portuguese nation, and not answered the end which the Marshal in Chief had in view. We are free to confess that we felt as much surprise on reading the expostulations of his Lordship, and the menaces appended to them, as he himself did oil hearing that the Portuguese had risen up, to a-man, broken the unnatural bondage in which they were kept, and demanded the restoration of their invaded laws. We say surprise, be cause we cannot conceive lrow his Lordship could expect, under the new order of things, to be received in the incongruous character in . which he came, receiving his orders from and being only accountable to the King. To have received his Excellency as Marshal in Chief, the Portuguese nation must have undone every , thing they had lately done, reinstate the Re gen cy, and again sunk into that abject and debased state from which they had just emerged. This sur prise was, however, increased, when we found me- laces attached t 6 these remonstrances menaces put forth, not only in the name of this country, but of Europe ! We can make great allowances for- eve feelings and opinions of one coming from such a region, as the Brazils, and for - his being imper fectly informed of what had happened during his• absence; but Lord Beresford was acting in the character of a Portuguese Officer only, and at least he knew before his departure what had tv.kett place in Spain, where a Constitutional Go vernment had been established without bringing down the vengeance of either England or Europe, and it must have been evident to him that the ob jector Portugal was precisely the same. We, there fore, cannot help thinking that the Supreme Go vernment did right in entering into no explanation of the views, and late cOndUCt of the Portuguese nation with Lord Beresford; their reasons for demanding a change of Government had already been proclaimed to the world, and no doubt they have communicated them to their distant King, to whom they faithfully and cordially adhere, though the unanimous and unalterable voice of the nation has declared that he must restore the ancient charters of - the kingdom, and hencefer ward govern in a more equitable and enlightened manner. • AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-111011- day afternoon, as ChristopherSplitt, Esq. a Rus sian merchant, and who had been Colonel of the St. George's Volunteers, was coming , in the Strat ford stage from his country seat, at Stratford green, to his town residence at Splitt's-fields, St. Georges in the East, he was seized with a vio lent lit of sneezing and coughing, while the coach was going along the Mile-End-road, which caused a rupture of a blood vessel, and he died almost immediately after. SII6CKING ACCIDENT.--About five o'clock yesterday evening . a Gentleman's servant was siding a spirited horse in the Curtain-road, when the animal took fright at some abject, and ran air with the utmost fury across Worship-street, into Crown-street, where it was attempted to be stopped by some men, several of whom were thrown down and seriously hurt. The horse still continued its course across Finsbury-square,, when the rider was thrown oil, and his arm broken. Unfortunately a nurse-maid was going along at the time with a young child in her arms : they were trampled upon, and taken up in a senseless state. The child was taken to the Hospital, and is not expected to live. Sutcrnr.—An Inquest was held fast evening at the Ship and Whale public-house, Wapping wall, pn the body of Mr. Jonathan lleseltine, who shot hirnielf with a pistol, at his lodgings in that houe. it appeared in evidence that the deceas ed, who was Captain of a Leith trader, had been . for some time in a desponding way, in conse quence of the death of his father and two bro thers. _Verdict—Temporary Insanity. The revenues of the Waterloo Bridge Com pany were . defrauded the other day by the fol lowing queer stratagem :—Two - young chimney sweepers wanted to pass over the bridge, Ui4 having only one penny between them, the thing appeared to be impossible. They were not long, however, in contriving how to manage it. They tossed up which should get into the soot-bag; and the one upon whom the chance fell instantly enshrouded himself in that sable envelope, was taken up on the shoulders.of the other, and, car ried, without discovery, through the bar. lie then as instantly emerged from the•ba,, and they both ran off together with a loud horse laugh at the toll-keeper's want of vigilance. LtSBON PAPER 3.. Limos; , OCT. 16:— Lord Beresford,. cor 104. ": from Rio de Janeiro on board the English 61 Vengeur, arrived unexpectedly in the port ° this capital on the 10th instant. 'rile Govcr' l l l merit desiring to avoid any interruption his presence might cause to the public peace °' this capital, and to provide at the same fag for the personal safety of Lord Beresfordr taken the most decisive and energetic measure; to make him depart from the port of Lisbon 0 the shortest time possible, communicating to thr Captain of the ship the weighty reasons will' ) call for those measures, and that they are 41 n ° , manner directed to impair the relations of 0(1 3 7 existing between the Portuguese and Biitish tions, nor to deprive the Captain or crew '1:0 ( P /4 vessel of any assistance which they may requlr e f , and which will never be denied to the ships. °f war of friendly and allied nations.—(Diane r' Govern°, Oct. 16.) The Marshal Genetal Marquis of Campos. 1‘1• yor sails for England in the Arabella pacV /7 which is to sail on the 17th, in the moral The English ship Vengeur, which brought h t Excellency to this port, is to accompany hire 0 " 1 1 of the bar. Captain Maitland, commander this ship, agrees to deliver to the Chief Tr' 3 a' surer of the Exchequer the sum of 106.95`2 ha' f r , piastres, which ,he carries by order of his I\ l3 . jesty, requiring from the Government for h i ; security of all contingencies, a bond, which granted him, by which the Government engag e the revenues of the State to restore the said in case his Majesty should, contrary to expec t s ; tion, disapprove of its delivery, or order it to °I demanded back.—( Diario (to Govern° 0ct.,1711 OATH OF THE NOBILITY. "Ors the Ith of ()dotter, 1820, in this Palace of the Gc vernment, and before the Provisional Junta of the'titlint, Government of the Kingdom, appeared the persons- here b e . low mentioned, in order for themselves, or as aut h o rised!, presentatives of others, by virtue of full powers which tn:11, s-hewed, to take the - oath which was announced to them notice of the tith instant; and each _of them having laid d,s• right hand on the book of the Holy Evangelists, sv7ore. ►r'e form which was first read by me in a loud voice in the P settee of all, saying— " I swear on the Holy Evangelists obedience to the ri.c,;", sional Junta of the Supreme Government of the King which is now installed, and which is-to-govern, in- the 13 31 ;i, -of the King our Sovereign King Dun John VI., till the ii 01 :1,- F lation °film Cortes, which are to be convoked to organize id poftu g uese constituti,.. I swear obedience to the 5 : 0 King Don John VI. to those Cortes, acrd to the C ons titun a , which they shall establish, maintaining the Rotivin C alb of lic Religion, and` the Dynasty of • the Most Serene House Braga-Etta. [Here follow the names-of the Noblemen.] t "Of all which I, Man-uel Fernandez Thomas, Nlerlw,g'Js the Provisional Junta of the Supreme Government 0 , Kingdom, charged with the affairs of the Kingdom and 0 . 1 7 nance, caused by order of the said Junta this act to be dr° o a up, which I signed, together with the other Member s, had aer ' an authentic: entry made Of the whole, alsp signed to be delivered to the Royal Arelifyrs of the Torre do 'rd., " -„f to be there preserved, the original remaining in the off-c' the Secretary of State for the*Affairs of the Kingdom. (Signed) " Manoel Fernandez Thomas. " G. Principal Decano. " AntoniO da Silviera Pinto da Fons ec" • .4' Conde da Pcnafiel. " Mathias Jose Dias Azecio, r e 103' " liernianolbne Britaincamp Do -,('- " Frei Francisco de S. Luit. 0 " Juseph Joaquin' Ferreira de 1110.111.. PORTUGUESE DECREE. " The Provisiona'r Junta of the Supreme Government , • 5 'tog into consideration that - the regulations of the Arrelet the force of law, given in the Court of Rio Janeiro on 30th of May of the present year, are not yet in excel' titill x o cording to the tenth paragraph of the saute Arrete,which 31,;1 the Ist of January next year to begirt the execution of it; consitlering also the uncertainty which since the pro Y;o' lion of the Arret4 of .25th April MS, has attended the 57 ' j ;•s• tion•of the 13th paragraph of the same, 'dative to the I , 7it , lation in the Custion•houses of those kingdoms, of the ins and papers of ships-and their cargoes ct;ming from for t r ports— t a rtans " Orders—That in the Custom-houses of these kitig'.olo, shall be admitted to unload all vessels of friendly nal' er p which, bringing lawful merchandise, shall ptesent their ra.P conformably to the style anterior to the above-men ti° os Arrete of 1818 ; the regulations as well as of the said paragraph of the Arretd of 1818, and of the 9th of the A.4r:`,o of 30th May this year, remaining meantime suspeodeulast well as all others which have been published in these years on the sante subject, every thing, however, rigour which has been determined for the admission vf. 11- iA chandise of the produce or manufacture of Great Brit:tilt:pi consequence of treaties and arrangements made wit h tl nation. The Council of Royal Finance has notice' (14 a IJ above, and will immediately send the necessary orders t' the Custom Houses. d M. rf t he Jun"' riignek y seven 4,aq-tubers o " Palace of the Government, Oct. 13, I 8,20" (Lisbon Paper, Octulter 17.) Sr. CalseiN's aty.—Yesterday being. the niversary of St..Crispin, the Society of Shoe l ' i- t , kers of Edinburgh having resolved on celeb .i ra c i ing the day by a procession,' about six hto ur ,-e members met in the palace of Holyrood - W; ' o , in the morning, and after marshalling, they P'te ceeded in grand regal pomp up the Cantw ell; .and High-street, where the crowd of people W.op so great that it was with difficulty the prec essi d could move. Ou reaching the Cress, it was f O o f impossible to proceed further from the 1 1135 1 0 1 C people collected ; the procession therefore of iuto the Royal Exchange, until a guar', it the thirteenth foot arrived from the Castl'' e then proceeded along the Mound to the 1 ,4 Town, and after traversing different streets, el ,it l) to York Place, Picardy Place, turned up Walk, and went on to the Calton Convel' l fte r house, where the members were to dine, ► , r e which the multitude quietly dispersed, an u e il• havinghave heard. of no accident occur:bt The day being remarkably fine, and the 91 7 be novel, it having been forty-four years sill" 0 , 1 0 last procession, the assemblage of people o g immense. L it was seen to great disadvall from the want of a strong military go r `. ( Edinburgh Courant, BIRTH. of 50°C On the 9. 9 th ult., at WatfOrd, Herts, the Laui Ntorris, of a daughter. . 'Lately, at ton l ( I torcli, Mr. Giimersall, Piaobv Milli-street, to Miss Beauchamp, of Norfolk-place) r ruttgli-road, Brompton. DIED. r o t3i " On Thtirsday, Oct. 26, at Mount-row, Lambeth, w 3. James Sanders, aged 75. Orli" On the 29th ult., at Leamington Spa, J a rnes 17irg.° 1 ? 0 ,0 F- 5 (1• , of .Montagu-square, Lonth.n, and late of 1' Jamaica. ___,,, .......- _ v0rmi.......* —_.---------- - roe s' LONDON:. Printed by J. 11. CiXiirmits, of No. 10, o', tit's SCRIPPS, Ormond-street, Queen-spare: anti pu b li shed by . St' SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Alolton s t ree t, at q' ,'„,l ) Office, No. 112, Strand ; where Adreaisements, Letters, &c. (post-paid) must be addressed. /r / \~ ~~ 1 ri ce 2 r 7 earl for Rn~ . 7' o 6, to cekly. rk e Cret ar.y Ar o ; 0 011 r I. `` ."ered (la - Y, ti, '"Qhe (01,, er ....____.__ rtif - F:ro. 4,1? c ' t) or b o rrot Ith ici a ti I'll lA\ N,:. a t kil l 4 Jan, And AEI 'Pc t . .