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LONDON JOU ti.NAL`3.. I!) 1 Y 1.; ...X 7' TS.) FROM TnE MORNING PAPERS. [lvierNiiztr - Pcs] • G A L.—:Ei . piAl•!:i3"4 Paper - s, containing ad ices 'from Oporto, to the Ist in; have come to hand. Every thing reinaieed tranquil there; and as We stated tivo days ago, - the whole of the Northern ProvinCet , bad - deelased for the new onstltation. The ariny, which had been render ta.l discontented frainthe neglect of the. Govern ins,sot proviC.iklit - fOr some time 'inth rather pay or .clothing;.had 'bc en . paid ita,arreati; end beco.fie thus staEonelle.d.to., the new order of things. 'This allarenient waSsnlficient fOr‘thedi vision.of General Parnplotia, Wirich,.although des tined to act against Oportd,' joined the revolters on their approach to that city. A V4iitty . of docu snents have 'been pai,lislied by the 'Provisional ..ie.eta of the ? -, tspreane Cleverninent, one :Of Which is. a sort of Manifesto, stating the grievanCeia real or : pretended, wider, :-t'h'ick Portugal labour ed,',,arid which produced the revolutionary ex. • prosidu that-Isas, taken plaCe. It is signed by cart : airs' individualS, as representatives of the Clerp..-J. Nobility, M e rchants, and Magistrates, .ated the `24th of August. An official Declaration 'has been published, expressive of tle regard which the Supreme Government enter tains for Etigland, and the English Officers now serving in Portugal; and our Consul has been officially assured that British subjects and pro will be duly respected. , 17.4.0 - ..trouS FALSEIIO lls.—The fahrh9oas WHIM are. every hour palmed upon the Country by those who call themselves the Queen's friends, fill every,candid mind with disgust. It is knowin t4at they Will- be speedily contradicted; but tivn it Is_ hoped that many may never see tkie : contradiction who : have read the original faiechood, and thus the latter partly answers end. In Tuesday's Times, for exam :it was announced that " M. N l . 7 hitbread"s siaterc accompanied their brother , to. Ban- I.e.saburah House" with the. Mary -le-bone Ad (.lzesa. In the dearth of female society which prevails at that mansion, both on,public and pri vate_ occasions, we are not Surprised that an attempt should he. made to supply the. va.= cuity. , We remember a similar attempt : Was made .whewher Majesty first came to England, : and.the names of four or five of the most distin guished female. Nobility were, : mentioned as having called in South Audl4,stree.t. We remeni= ter, - toe., the eagerness with • whicl! each of those iradividuals: contradicted the•statement. So with respect to the Ladies of Mr. 'Whitbread's fatnily. The following is the unqualified form in which the.denial has been_ made . by the Ladies' rela tions :—" We are authorized to.contradict moat decidedly the unwarranted assertion of The Times of yesterday, that Me. Whitbread's sisters ac companied bins to firandenburgb House, when the Mary.-le-bane 'Address was .presented to her Majesty. Both those Ladies were at a consider able distance. from town on that day." We leave these facts t(iespeak for themselves; and we leave it to.the .Queen's, friends to ex,plain how it hap-. pens - that such an eager anxiety should be felt by all . Ladies---:-except those • 'from,. Whitechapel, Maryfle-bone,&c.--to atinteract the effect which they suppose would be produced by the report of their having visited tiLe. [Mom ,Chron:ck.] PATTIGith4t RF.VDLU'rION. - Bv an arriVal . di xect from Oporto, we yesterd2y received the itirtrio;Arciciringt, and letters to the 3ist ult.-•-- They afford us more correct details of the in ! • •.. . " pnrtant events.. w hi c h ,ave ta..Tc.en place in that quarter.---The ; Manifesto - of the Neiv Govern iii ent is a Docurnent of conside'rable importance, is: it explains the causes which ledd to the heroic determination Of the ,Portuguese Army and Peo ple. From the enumeration o` wrongs and griev ances which it 'contain's, it will be found that we - Ware in,no way mistaken. as to t.l n C ' auses which have long been operatin-g, in' the 'minds of the Pertuguese, and .which eventually them .to demand. . the restoration of their an cient Cortes,', for the. purpose 'of framing a Constitution adequate to . :their wants. This, Dccurnent is a 'plain statement of their corn uts, and an appeal. to-the 'pride of the, GFeat'stresS is laid on the ruin of their : Wav:gation and tornmercc, on .the Manner in ifli . ch they depend OR the Brazils, previously a e.loay, and on the disadvantages which; they labour nntler from only having a delegated power among:them, These axe not imaginary, evils. In Portug'al there was an inqulsition, in the BraiitS none. I ) orti,Tal was .obliged.tO ad anit produce. of the . grazils, -in 'preferente , to other in regard to clUtfeS,,i7liilstrßrazil makes .'to distinction between the prbduce - of Portugal, 'prhicipally -wine's, and :that of Other 'nations. Iyrany instances have occurred latelyOf the Go . vernownt of Braiithavi,ng taken possession'of, - and appropriating to its own use,'Portuguesemerchant vtissehi, which had gone there for the sole purposes Of trade ; and imiriense mirriberS have been taken by , the privateers .of Art:gas, -and' the many Faecaneers; with simulated Papers, .under • his 'fag, against whom and other pir - atesthere•is-noW such, an .Outcry, in all. the'West.lndies, through negiect, of, the Oovernment in making provision 'for of commerce, by granting and affording other means of protection.. 'Years haveelapsed I%afore it has beim definitively set, 'fled towhat Tribunal certa'in,-Pidicial cases -be long ed, and few are'decicled . without the parties ailti:n4t,ely. appealing to 'Janeiro, where the ' recision iS.' Sure to be in favour. of him who can fee .best. , These are'notorions facts' -known to eVery practiCal merchant on 'exchange. of ' l 4:ondon.. these.grieVinCg,.6.a44a,io 'tire many nt iers,lln g . K which de termined d'' d the - Portuguese to'cieriiand . tedtess, ifi'emost legal and efficacious manner that ili - eywire;.abfe, and with a Moderation that could scarcely be ex- ected from the sta.a* -cisociety in that country, and ttla great hardships the people have endured. Hitherto nothing further bas reached us from Lisbon, except a copy of the Proclamation or Address to the Peoi.le, posted up in the capital on the 9.3 th ultinth, of which a translation is found annexed. The late events in the South of Europe seem to have deprived some of our cbntemporaties of their senses altogether. One of there bdstows the most unqualified praise on the principles of Prince Metternkh's circular, Which calls on Princek to " maititin that which exists,'' and " to ptTevent deviation in any manner - from the existing erd,er'of things, from whatever origin it n'av among." And Oita the,nex.t moment tens.us, - We have. never contended that Spain, or Naples, or Portu4al, did not present occasion .for great and salutary change." But we would have the writer to recollect that he cannot serve both Goa and Mammon, that he must renounce ahanae altogether, or renounce Prince Metter nich. " But," says ti^ same writer, " the mode in which th , s recent changes haVe been wrought is Most alarming." Admitting for a moment thiS to be the case, ,why did not the Governments make these necessary changes themselves, when they would,have hat the choosing of the mode ? Timely ReforMS prevent Revolutions: But,per sons like• Prince Metternich drive men into Re volutions; by setting their faces against. any change vinttever, however necessary. When the people see that they have no hopes of a remedy for their evils, but from force, they will at last. be compelled to have recourse to it. It is Prince Metternich, and those who set themselves against all Reform, who are the true . Revolutionists.— (Itria.) [Morning Herald.] AFFAIRS OF t i ORTT:GrAL. - It does not appear that the new Government is yet established at Lisbon. No c mmunication even , _ it is stated•, existed betweel the capital and Oporto.—Mar shal Ilimpluni had marched with some troops upon Oporto, by command of the Regency; but his troops deserted, and many of them joined the insurgents: The Utmost attention continues to be shown to British Officers, who still hold their rank, pay, and honours, though removed from command, and replaced by Portuguese Officers. A communication has also been made to the Bri tish Consul at Oporto by the Provisional Go .vernment, pledging . the utmost security to Bri tish subj'ects and. their property. At the Theatre also, upon the p:n•forrnance of a piece gra up for the occasion, expressions of gratitude to the English echoe I from the audience. In some towns where the. Constitution has been pro .claimed, the Clergy _hold back,' but without the leaSt opposition. Their pretence is, the non reception of orders from' the Archbishop. Not .the least disorder has any where taken place. It somewhat singular that •no communication has ,taken place between the Regency and Insur gent Authorities. [British Press.] , QutEx.—The House of Commons has denounced the proceeding against the Queen as " derogatory from the dignity of the Crown, and injurious to the best interests of the Ernpire."— Experience. has 'confirmed the truth and justice of their censure. The country is degraded in its own estimation, and be the result of the present investigation what it may, it must be attended with internal danger and. difficulties. If Mr. Hunt and I;.is followers excited the slightest alarm in the breasts of Ministers, they cannot contem-, plate the present state of public opinion without dismay. • HoWever deplorable the , effect, it would IN fortunate for the. country were it confined to our own shores. This, however, is `not the case : the country is fallen in the estimation of foreign nations. To her moral character England owed her elevation, more perhaps than to the energy of her arms. In France, we are as sured,, the proceeding against the Queen has made . a great sensation. Int.liat country, the Englieh have been always considered a grave, se date, prudent, and .reflecting people,; but the French can trace no prudence nor discretion in a measure so 'eminently. calculated to , degrade - Royalty, at. the very mornent when the revolu tionary spirit is in full activity abroad, and the change•of Governments proceeds with unexam pled velocity. At such a moment the throne cannot divest itself of the veneration of the sub ject with impunity, nor can its lustre be tarnished without ?impairing its strength. Yet this is the moment ci:osen by Ministers to blazon the frail ties of the 'Court, and degrade the Crown of Eng lo:nd in'the eyes of 'Foreign Nations. . [New Times.] While the ".I.eading,rournal"desca - hts at great length on the " ARMY 'OF ANDAL'OSTA,"' it care fully 'avoids all remark on the TRIALS AT YORK ! We therefore feel it our duty to call public at tention more particularly to - the' latter subje ct. It is now, alas ! too clearly proved that 'Creason hks 'existed - in Great 'Britain. Some time ago we were vilified and scoa - ed at for venturing to assert, that treasonable plots existed among, the Northern Radicals, as we now are for denounc ing to publi'c indignation the' projects of Rebel lion, for which the Qi;r.Es's naMe . is made the pro::ext. II;my does the fact turn out ? d-t curly Bills 'of Indictment are found 'against the tame number of Prisoners' in custody for High Treason ' • and every one of the criminals pleads Guilty! But is this all? -Far from it.. To say nothing of TlListlew . cod's gang, -or of .the Rebels convicted three years ago at DerbY, the follow ing is a statement of the manner' iu which the different persons were disposed -/- of, ag ainst ivhom bills fort high treason were lately foUnd in Scig land Tried .and condemned Tried and acquitted.. 2 Acquitted by conietit of prosecutor 2l Absconded, and to be outlawid —9S• • "1I re is an end, then, •tO :the impudent assertion, so-Often..azia' so: louthy , ,repeated by the factious Press, that there was no such thing as treason country ; that there were none but" Green Bag" blots ; and that these were only invented by Co vernment to give a colour to some projected 4130. 7 sions of civil liberty. Do we then expect that the auth9rs of these falsehoods will evince any shame at their detection ? Oh, no. They will, on the con trary ,redouble their efforts to divert the attention of the public from the truth by some new and equally shameless deception. They know perfectly well that the Queen's name is used as a rallying cry by the very same wretches who before endeavoured to plunge the nation in civil war. They know this, and yet they wLald rather play second fiddle to Cobbett, Hone, Wooler and Co. than lose the custom of the Radical pot-houses among which their productions chiefly circulate. Can any man of sense doubt that the machinery of Addresses and' Processions, which for the last two mouths has kept London in a ferment, is directed to the very same end, as the secret mamma ores were, which are now proved to have taken place in Yorkshire and in Scotland ? Yester day the Sailors of the Port of London were' in vited to interfere with the course of justice. To-mofrow perhaps we shall see the Dustmen, the Scavengers, the Nightmen, moving in solemn order to Brandenburgh House to declare that her Maje Sty is " as White as unsunned snows."— These matters would be farcical in the extreme, if we could divest ourselves of the knowledge that they are meant to involve the whole nation in a bloody Tragedy ! PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. The Aekertizer, a Cork Journal, characterized by loyalty, good sense, and decorum, contained the following judicious citation on the 31st ult. THEODORE MAJOCCI and Sir W. CUSACK SMITH, Bart. The junction of these names, in the heading of this article, may appear strange : and it will be eagerly inquired what connection can there be between them. Majocci, has been assailed by all the Papers in the QUEEN'S interest as a per jurer and conspirator , because, on one of the longest, most' able, and ingenious cross-examina tions to which a witness ever was subjected, he did not give hi's answers with that self-possession which, it is said, is ever attendant on truth. Hear what Sir Wm. SmiTn ; one of the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer; says on the subject of cross-examinations—and by all Who know Sir WILLIAM, it will be readily conceded, that. there never sat on the -Bench a more upright and con- stitutional Judge : For the defaults of memory, says he, " nine allowance should in every case be made. • seems to be most, frail, and (if I may so call if material of our mental faculties. It is the firs to give way under the pressure of malady, or caducity, of age. Whether we recollect or re member past . events —whether we search for them in that marvellous repository which lurks withinus=or they come forth unsought. and of their own accord, we feel as if there were some thing corporeal in the process. Let us beware then, how we mistake, for a violation of moral truth, the mere effects of some deficiency or-unsoundness of this faculty—and condemn a man as perjured, who is perhaps labouring under a degree of mental pa ralysis which, though not perceptible in the symp toms of tremor or indistinct articulation, may have 'attacked - dick delicate and latent organs of which memory makes use, and impaired a faculty which it has not utterly destroyed. A state of alarm, flutter, or abashment, is notoriously unfa vourable to the exertions of memory; while unfor tunately these emotions are most easily. excited in those very cases where the faculty, already some what deranged, requires aid, instead of being ,sum. moved to overcome anew obstruction.. But the mare circumstances attending the situation (especially if it be a novel one) in which a person called on to give evidence in a crowded Court is placed, are suffi cient of themselves, and without supposing any extraordinary excitation in the witness, to make any impression on the nerves., not calculated to assist the memory. Some of the scenes which a Court of Justice occasionally present, half pro voke one to exclaim with Cicero, c Übit suet qui aiant, =ides phones Y' When we see, as we some times do, confused or narrow intellect, irritable temper, nervous timidity, and embarrassment, send an honest witness off the table, over whelmed in inconsistency and - self contradic tion, while another, cooler and ' more col lected, retires after the perpetration of in trepid and consistent falsehood—we cast an eye to the practice of our Courts of Equity, and sus pect that such matters are ordered better there. My own temperament is not a nervous one, and my forensic habits have, besides, tended to make me, if not callous, at least firm.--Some time ago I was, with these advantages, produced te give evidence before an almost 'domestic tribunal, where I was treated with kindness and respect, and my testimony received with entire and manifest 'reliance on its truth. lam aware that nothing in my deportment was calculated to be tray trepidation, .nor perhaps did my sensa tions amount to this ; yet, I felt conscious of a-degree of latent einbarrassment and mal-wise, which more or less interfered with the perspicuity of a narrative, that (luckily for me and justice) was neither complicated nor long. But suppose the witness to be one whose nervous system is disordered, Who appearS for the first time to give evidence in a Court of Justice, and the subject matter of whose evidence is in its nature tedious and perplexed ; and let us reflect upon the ap pearances which may be likely to ensue," &c. W. Smith's Tracts, London, 1-811.) A cm:no - N.—L.on Saturday last Mr. CLIFTON youngest son of Mr. BAKER, surgeon, 'Thames Ditto'', went out with his gun in com pany with another young Gentleman.. On step ping over a ditch he .:. saw a snake; and on giving it two blows with the butt-end of his gun a sprig of the hedge is supposed to have• caught the trig ger ; the .-un, went off, and lodged the whole charge.of shot in his left side. He was taken to the nearest public-house, and every assistance from the Medical Gentlemen round the neigh bou-rlfoOd 'afforded hizi, -but - he died late on the same evening. COUNTRY NEWS. KEN'!'. - Major-General Betttson, on a farm of for hundred acres, at Knowle, Tunbridge Wells., since the year 1813, says he has proved, that bY light or shallow ploughing, on a stiff soil with one horse, without lime or dung and without fal -IA, he can raise crops of wheat and other g rain, at the expense of 5/. an acre, equal or superior to those of his neighbours, in expeuce, in lime, and labour of cattle, of 161. an acre ! ! The inhabitants of Ramsgate have established a Dispensary for the relief of the Sick Poor in their town and parish, a measure which must tend greatly to mndioratd the condition of that meritorious class in the present time. IRELAND. CORK, SEPT. B.—One of the principal cause% of complaint in this country, and one which oIW rates so powerfUlly against. its improvement, we are grateful to find, about to, he removed by - the public-spirited exertions of a ,great English Nobleman=the Duke of Devonshire, who pos sesses valuable and extended estates in this guar' ter of Ireland. Mr. Abercrombv, hiS Grace's confidential friend, is at present in Lismore; and has recently brought over from Cornwall an able English miner, who is now employed in exarniiv ing his Grace's estates on the coast, in order to discover Whether any coals or minerals are 9i" teat® there ; so as immediately to work thosi, mines, and give employment to a great portion or our population, if he should be so fortunate as to, succeed in his . search. What an advantage to Ireland if he should succeed ! When pa' trotism and an ample fortune are thus liar pily combined, and directed to such use'. ful objects, may we not anticipate the, most, beneficial results for the country ? Thus: though his Grace's residence is not among: us, yet from the liberality of his disposition' to wards us, seconded by able and intelligent agents; we have not much cause to regret this circuit y stance . ; and his useful and well 7 directed effort s form an example to other absentees. A large proportion of the revenues he, draws from thi s Country, is directed to its improvement and ad` vantage. The town of Dungarvan, we under` stand from a gentleman who lately visited it, 15 flourishing in a'great degree under his Gra.c.e'S, 'auspices. Since the recent encouragement to Of fisheries, by the bounty of the Legislature, that has not been backward in Making the Tie .cessary exertions. The take of fish there he been immense. Last week. fine hake were Vl' ling there at 3-1(1. per c9uple, and every other species of fish in proportion. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, SEPT. I I.—Tuesday last being th f ,, birth-day of Robert Ferguson, the Poet, the annt a "` anniversary dinner of the Fergttscm Club O s held in Hepburn's Tavern, Iligh-street, w hen* numerous' company , sat down to an exceilell dinner. The 'evening was :Tent in the uttpc o harmony, during which.a variety of the most aP' propriate songs and toasts were given. Ti le band played several favourite Scottish airs in handsome manner. The company, broke up at late hour with the strongest marks of friendship' Yesterday, a little past four o'clock in tl' afternoon, a most distressing accident o ccur off Portobello. A party. of fifteen left. that 0 365 for a pleasure sail to.Jnch Keith. On returning/ when about a mile from the shere, by some nli v managenKnt the boat, upset, and the whole we re . thrown into the yea. Luckily some bOats dye r !. Jo. near, which picked up nine of the party, u• on being carried to the baths, were all recovere except a boy who died shortly after. The otbeit six were unfortUnately drowned, and altheug e persons have been•dragging for the bodies, torl t of them have been found up to . this. morniag, ten o'clock. One of 'the sufferers has left f ' widow and nine children. MELANCHOLY EvENT.----On Tuesday evenigi a young Lady of the name of RITCHETT, visit to a Mrs. BLOOMFIELD,. of Hatch-pWI Lambeth, accompanied that Lady and a ' , a rty friends to the Cobourg Theatre, and on their I', and turn Miss RITCIIETT being left in the pro ie alone, her shrieks alarmed the house, and on t i servant. going n, her clothes were 4511 her hair vas literally burnt off .her head. • J i . servant promptly threw a table-cloth she hau' '• 1/ her hand around her, but the sufferer, 1010 1 : 5 4 ,, re years old, is not expected to survive. The "g. must have caught her muslin dress in 'front) 'the lower part was not burnt. OF ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURDER. 0 , Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, as Mr- C' d, Hor.LoRON was passing -over the fields . l e: e j ing to Ifornerton, he was most brutally attacr' by a band of ruffians, six in number : one of l l ,' ea, was armed with a pistol, which , he presence 4e, the head of Mr. IT., and, with horid epithets/ ts,`' manded his property. We are happy to s that Mr. H. sustained no material injury. /e ft A considerable timber of lads and woale li fo ic Covent-gt,rden Market in the return in giur carriages for Kent, to be employed in the I' grounds. BIRTHS. ,vec' On Tuesday last, in New Bridge-strclt, Mrs. Mar tin •- of a son. • B o hn''_ e l REMARKABLE BTRIII.—A woman, residing tO, Moors, was lately d.!livered of a child with' T - Wo REA°2 d lived for half an .hour. It is preserccd .iu spirits, 0 ; it; parents are making a. rapid fortune by t h e exhibition M: 3 ..111111 1 '1. • 94',' On 'rnesday la,t, at Clerl;e7mcil Church, Win• f Wood-street, Cli,!ariqifie, Elizabeth- r.l4leSe' widow Of the late Alex. Pentland, Esq.,.of,Actott, --,--- . i DED. I ' Il On Tnes(lay last, at Gu i.+ II rd, Charles , son 0 at dPi Joshua Platt, &Ai., of Burton-crtscent, in tbe.th Ye_ • :ige. —0 . qq' ONDON: Printed Ity 3. B. CARSTAIRS , tt ro l;; rect. Queen-stinare; and Mibliin e : Tog ~{ll CltiliPS, of Nn. 7, Sou th Molton.sp'eett, a 1 OP' (Mice, No. 112, Strand ; who., Adcettlientrnll, ,•tters, &c. (pmt-paid) most be addrcised. (; ..____._,_ ''--,..... It that the Tu.,, Cto c k * 4 d OL Arm s I-3-1 rir e En "d Pie, Votrds r The pritteip4 1?" ..Val 104,, r, 2 i ia,, -,SOn, ~H or Gitt 01 the e zltl4l Er (3 Vnk I, k " 41 0EI; —4 ` l l , tsil Pur pose L c"rer NC e k , -4 ' t esc at 4 1 the 4 4 ( rgh. • t t l1: Y P 1 41, , 4 1. Ott