The Sun. — London, England, 1831-09-06 00:00:00

/4 a .%hle Earl where was to be the end of all this ? )7 , tad W ere our friendly relations with Portu,2•al . to In Fe s Ai 7 ureTe' they to remain suspended inilefinit, ly ? la th: Throne, l a l made his Majesty to say in his Sp , ech tuto - ,r - en l' e r uf... ° ,l f , hat he regretted . th at . lie had bet zi siu ;aur jas km • aa e , aud Iliendly relations with ou ig i a l ,- Vhat is it then which prevented the renewal _ ,triendly relations with Portugal? It could to: be , 11 1 1 41 k a rTHIti°4 of Miguel, for that usurpation, if it was a t , i ' o been confirmed by . the proper authorities . of . yo f. r- e atom Was b y the great majority of the nation ; and i f h a n , _as satisfied with the Government we had no right ,w`i'iitertiere? and it was our duty to renew those re'ations lenity we before stood with regard to Portia, al by i ited treaties with that country. Miguel had iof as ,llven the Government on his own authority, bet had to eti th e ancient estates of the count] y, and that as k so Y had unanimously declared that he was not merely d i v i re iga, but the legitimate Sovereign of Pottugal, iai rt t nis decision the vast majority of the natlin had - qtrr e a sr% tin ; cnd In this state things had remained fi i three apte_der dicutnstances of unparalleled di ffi culty. . The a • u ad adhered to the Government Of Dan Miguel, e I:e,ie"sequenCe of an y foreign dictation, but against 'lee a f• re of the principal Powers of Europe. 7he pre- *4 l us urpation, th en , cou ld b e no good ground for re rikZplar rtl a ti ons w i t h P ort ugal. As little was the ai a i t i : character of the Monarch a good reason for re 11, i i . )r a from reaewing our friendly relations with Porto hiedl tha t would be introducing a principle of action 'as ,ilaulst be att en d e d w i t h i nca l cu l a bl e mi sc hief. There id a ,: el ii certainly, in the conduct of Miguel which he le Mt a pprove o f, but then we ought to take into account 'rengeu'itictu in which : his Government was placed. The 'ante ad v i ce was given him by the Government o f t hi s a 'a 4 ° conduct hi s Government in mercy; and then k p - :er was, that it was the anxious desire of 14 t it °- , li g ue 'e Government to act with mercy , . b ut , 4"tild 05 necessary that the Governments of Europe ' ara °'''' the Portuguese Government their suppor t, , t rier s f to enabl e it to act w i t h merc y. The present MI -441411.'41 the policy which they adopted in regard to •ae l i a , wer e in some degree responsibte for whatever her e ' l :: l' 4l been used by the Portuguese Government. tiei g ," e , r e , lie admitted, some acts of the Portuguese So tve ti:tri.which he could not approve, but he could not b 'Plitt k "e had been guilty of all those excesses which ttreon'A attribut e d to him, for be bad been assured by ttne,: ad access to the best information, and ocular e t ., I s , that the published reports of these excesses ae, O e 't grossly and absurdly exaggerated. There was s at n : N ver, which rested on the authority of authentic l 'gii: t ' te , and that was that during the three years since 'Y h, l , h a- been confirmed in the Government of Portugal ' , ta t ; Curt' a and the maim ity of the nation, there had t 'ara 22 executi ons , a nd this, too, while the Govern talq;a't• durin g th e w h o l e p er i o d, placed in circum ive4l of unlr,i a ra 11• Ital d i fficulty. rThis fact was unan- 4 Nts t ' and proved that the Government of Portugal, a i t h 'iguel, was far from being so tyrannical and bloody 'tid e aa been report e d t o b e . This fact stood on too clear oa uiti e l'e either to he perverted or exaggerated, and it lidos not, therefore, be s id that Miguel had been pro a,4 °I blood, Of ome severity he had been guilty, the l a r i al 11e( ilea • fa ' weak Government ; but these ea t i,, s I,a , 1 we o ta, 'it been greatly exaggerated, and there could ~,'; reasonable doubt but that the accounts of his impri gaent' and ill usage o f th e p r i s o n ers had been much ex itil a w,15 uitaiteil. The Nobl e Earl might say that if the title of t cle ar , h e oug ht to h ave been acknowledged g° ; and the Noble Earl might ask why he had been q e ,., ek „ nt 'wledged ? Th e a nswer to this was, that ,-, 'lie"uel returned from this country to Portugal, , i. t hree years ago, he violated the solemn pro , a t i i r wl 'iYh he had elven at Vienna and in this tad t a 7" -- a Promise which, while h e was here, be 'llt V . 'n personally to his Majesty What might be the, tit'a_t''''n of Don Aliguel•wheit he arrived in Portugal could sa3 i cer tairily known. - Perhaps he might have intended to *a ura l ' "gagemente, but found that this would not be sati!- 4 at b to the Portuguese nation, and his engagements did ti t_ tili :;',! the people. But still the Sovereign of this country !ste f i l- , himaell called upon to reprobate this want . of 7 f 0 ,,, 4 on the part of l'ili.uel, and withdrew his Minis- lit, Lisbo n , and prevailed upon other Powers to follow e t ai t a ,'„ 4l ,Ple• When the Government of this country had ', , a C rl 'eated on the subject with the Emperor . o . f the 'ae ke t i whose daughter was considered as the legi . tima e t} a t ,: e. i gn of Portugal, Don Pedro was then apprized of t f t h is State of things in Portugal, and the Government 1 14 r e ,l e° untry left it to him to consider of whatever mea -55tri,,,,'e 'night be disposed to adopt. The Braz ilian . So 'Jtleiii-at'''i 'ti‘ at first resolved to proceed in the spirit of re ''atia en, and renounced all idea of acting in a hostile litt le er a gainst the Emperor's brother, and then much ti ers as consumed in deciding where the negotiations 4 ii at . t o be carried on. Subsequently the fi rst deter -I,'Nii . ., I , e , n appeared to be altered, and in this manner the 'aiv e' ''' n ga were protracted for a long time. Finally, t iala 'v i er, the Emperor determined to proceed by .conc 'tll4„'-!l,d declared that he had no thought of acting in d th at - `,"e manner against his brother, and he propose rf i t , te basis of the negotiations should be the marriage 1 , ti7 44 'laughter to Don Miguel. This . was in the 'Le cg cl ih e la st year. This last proposition the Govern -4i Our think it expedient to submit to Parliament. 'a t , a , tile mean time the Government of this country was l'i,,,P'eli in rue anmending to tie existing Government of ti t „, ,ci u gid to ad o pt salutary measures , and what was chiefly 6;e e 'Tan the Portuguese Government was to proclaim a 14 tl al ia antn eaty- There was no reluctance on the part the 'e rort uguese Government to adopt that measure, and 1' en lY d ifficulty was to the mode and the form in which f,Jl4lca"tre should b e a d o pt e d. A great deal of discussion k r ,,r.‘'ed, but at l ength all the di ffi culties were removed, ,alittilu November last, the plan of the amnesty was pre- 1 ied ,and agreed upon by the Governments of Portuga 140' this country, and transmitted by his Majesty to tra,, en on th e vet y ' day on which he (Earl of Aberdeen) vi e ' :' . rt ed tie offic e which he then held in his Majesty's ser ttraliac S ubsequent events had put an end to that, or, he 'lt ; a id, any other means for attaining the same object. tidy h 4- ' 4d eil particularl to the expulsion of Don Pedro from 11 , - ' 44 liali doniinion y s by his own subjects ; and with re- It o e- ve to that lie might observe, that in whatever mode 4 r' tai P " d4 " might l it t °, :a, e 7 i :s .,a a in n st in i d . i m vidual for he had no right whatever to as Emp eror of the Brazils. This re tf7Pl thc athstac i l l e which st ood in the way of the recognition tare.,, tl Miguel, and now he might be recognised as the Sr 5 ' 1 1 ! ,, 4 de facto of Portugal ; and it was desirable that this t ati u- li e done , if our ancient friendly relations with that tve r l' ,.: l Y Should be renewed. This was highly desirable in , tr re , v i le ly) but it became almost an imperative duty . since the S eto fleet had entered the Tagus and in ide prize of the tte at ,l n ese fleet. He did not then mean to enter into . the t he I," of the complaints which the French made against t u 4 er tuettes e Government, but he could almost venture N ab 3 i the Noble Earl had never thoroughly examined the l ive - 1 1 of these complaints, and could not give any posi h t i3 iP' n ion whether they were well founded or not, or taker the French were justified or not in acting with 14 it -e k t i ,to Portugal as they had alone. But it was said %le ( rtnisters meant to lay papers on the table which t hey "Plain these matters ; and before lie entered fur lt%ato thatque stion he would wait toasee what these I , l a Pt i n a ,Wtr e . l'he grievances of which the French coma , I he p eg could not be a violation of any treaty. Perh aps . e abi ren ch had some substantial grounds of complaint, aloe a thought they had proceeded in a very unwo rthy t he Fr o 1 ro cure redress. But whether the complaints o f f t he spelt w ere we ll or ill founded, it was the duty o l 'orL e bic Lulls opposite to have interfered in favour o f 414 ( 1 - sit' by their mediation. That mediation had been te am for by the Portuguese Government, and to that de ' till ii ; the N o bl e L or d s turne d a de a f ear ; and it was not tha t - ' 1 " th e French fleet had left Toulon for ,the Tagus, ;fiv e t 7 advic e was sent to the Portuguese Government to ''irt iti " required satisfaction as to the imprisoning . of two : i 4 ff q€ ,' i s ubjtcts. The French complained of grievances '4 P l ' by them from the Government of Portugal, and Sti ey ' urtuatiese Government said they had no substantial 'tst a , 44e 's to complain of, and the question was, whose N,,, t ,' , lit wbs the correct one ? But whether the tea t;uduts were just or unjust, it was imperative on j'tib,; ° interpose in behalf of Portugal by our inedi -14111,(nd good offices. That was not done, and he i t , s d i tilt present Government for having omitted ~14 a 44 , ,,i ' t , . The facts were, that the Portuguese weraf K ''''let . 'I the ultimatum of the French Government, o '''er, t e pith July, and then, and not till then, our G.ovaru 'l,4ajave tile Portuguese Government the advice, in :`st ' 1 , 141 • 1 0 of which the French subjects were released. ‘ b le L i e Preneb Admiral was not contented with this, but : . t e a ' L t ' t he Tagus, and then, after a high encomium on ‘lt ' k t i ,' ', generosit • 9 he stated that they Betookdemanded no more [I N : te e victor y . ' t a ' l• tie y had done before pos thi:°4 of tliti el P ' or t t u 'a g n . es; fleet as prize of war. Now was 4 ,, 11t1 y , 11 4 !', i stent with the previous dyylar ations of the Admiral ' , tit, ' rrencl i Gov e rnment f He c ontended that it was t, rttii, li e had acte d, h owe ver, as he understood, in con file"st4Yawitli fresh instructions from his Government, and 4 t/ I t. ' hims e lf of the Portuguese ships. lie was in. ° l , i4i . ' that Ministers had declared that they had the 4t titi e : 4 of th e J u d ge Advocate—that under the circum kl'itkP4 - I t h e Portuguese i bhips were lawful prize of war;— p , ; k k ': lc ara from the Ministerial benches)—hut if that f l' i tte r t ,, h ; "Pinion of the Judge Advocate, he hoped Mi lure i,'•uulil la that opinion on , hear, the Aliniet y erial benches.) And although he had a P, it ) the roula ideat lowo if vould ootlis I cost , h he ;shire Junti th the A inks o as a se re. day'• Coal - Wed- ted to bi ee t ; pot .ember ng 310 3 ' eek• oVern . 3 MO' vision , 1 being nat. of; and ok the trongh t ) with- :. ViS" foollo ,!ed , hth be I,oo' F eti ti ° • of tbe great respect for the opinion of the Judge Advocate, yet lie should like to see the case that was laid before him, and on which that opinion was founded-4 Hear, hear, from the Opposition bet4imo—and he hoped that that also *6uld be laid before the Ilomie. if there wtis a fegi-, timate war between the two countries, then certainly ship was a good prize of war; but he doubted whether there was a legitimate war between France and Portugal. There was no declaration of war, and Portugal had done nothing against France by way of retaliation, and there had been no signs of war. He had not yet done with the French Admiral ; for after this capitulation of the 12th of July, he had demanded another convention. Toe French Admiral was not satisfied with the statements published in tome of the Portuguese Newspapers, respecting the candid ms of the convention of the 12th ofJuly. Now that was scarcely a fair ground of complaint against the Government, because a full wive ment of the conditions hail been inserted in the Official Gaiette. But the provincial Newspapers, in which the erroneous stat ment had been publist ed, had no connec tion with the Government ; althot gli he ci rtaitily would admit that they were under its cot trout, as well as all the Newspapers of the kingdom. These erroneous statements were the only grounds on which a new convention was re quired by the French Admiral. The convention took place on the 22d of July, -and the King then undertook that the whole of the conditions al o old be faithfully pub lished in all the Newspapers. He would cow proceed to a subject which was worthy the retention of their Lord ship*, and was well calculated to make even the Noble Earl opposite himself look carefully about him—(Hear) —and here, he could not help declaring his wonder, that Members of his Majesty's Government should have asserted that the French Admiral bad made no attempt to obtain commercial advantages prejudicial to the interests of this `country. He should take care, however, that the country and • the Government should not remain under that mistake. He had there the proof, in the words of the French Admiral himself, who said, that— " Whereas the commerce of France liad been hitherto un fairly treated by Portugal, in comparison with that of England, he was desirous that it should be now under stood, that whenever a commercial treaty was entered into between France and Portugal, the commercial relations of the former with the latter should be placed on the same footing as those of the most favoured nations." What, then, could be said of the King, if he accorded to a pro position so much at variance with the interests of the oldest ally and the best friend of Portugal? And yet, could lie be complained of if he did so ? Had he ever known any thing of our treaties with that Government, except the advantages which they gave to us, and which we always exacted under them ? That convention of the 22d consisted of eight articles, to the fourth of which be had now come, in which the Portuguese Minister, Vis count Santarem, replying to the French Admiral, says, that " in case of a fir tire treaty between France and Por tugal, the latter would be ready to treat on tonditions equally advantageous to both countries." Now certainly he (Lord Aberdeen) would admit that there was nothing in that article so disadvantageous to this country as the proposition of the French seemed to contetnplate.—(Hear, hear.) The next article to which he wished to call the attention of their Lordships, was that which stipulated that French subjects in Portugal should be placed under the protection of a Judge Conservator. That was a privilege of which he thought it scarcely possible to understand why one free State should allow it to the subjects of another. But yet it was a privilege which English subjects pos sessed in Portugal, and, therefore it was claimed also on the part of France. There was another article by which the Government of Portugal was prevented from repairing the fortresses until after the French fleet should have de parted from the Tagus. Here he would again ask, were the two Governments at war or peace ? If they were at peace, what right had the French Admiral to prevent the reparation of those fortresses? He had heard that it was intended on the part of France to render assistance to Don Pedro in certain meditated hostilities against the present Portuguese Government. He had heard of such an in- tention from persons who ought to be well informed. It it were true, and if France should have determined to tosist Dun Pedro, how was the captured Portuguese fleet to be regarded ? was it to be considered French or Portu guese? It it did (and he thought it did) still justly be long to Portugal, what right had the French Government to dispose of it? But if it were to be looked on as a nevelt flset, he would only say what a comment it waled be on her professions of non-intervention, should France place it at the disposal of Don Pedro to be employed in hostilities against the existing Government of Portugal? Could his Noble Friend opposite be so infatuated not to see that any change which should be effected in the Go. vtrnment of Portugal by French means, would inevitably lead to the injury of this country? Did the Noble Earl thick that the French Government bad any regard to the interests of Don Pedro and his daughter, further than that 'in promoting their interests, they might be able to place Portugal in a state of dependence upon France, and lower the influence which England had so long possessed in the former country ? To effect that had been the object of the different Governments of France all along. In that, the Government of Napoleon, Louis, Charles, and Orleans bad been all alike. But he (Lord A.) had always understood that it was the policy of this country to look with vigilance and watchfulness to the external movements of the French Government, and to prevent France from extending too much her power over other countries ; and be thought that if his-Noble Friend pretended to act on other principles, he (Earl Grey) would betray his trust (as we understood the Noble Lord, who spoke indistinctly). He by no means held the opinion that France was the natural enemy of England, as had some times been said, but he looked upon her as the natural rival of this country, and that she would never cease to seek advantage at our expense. In this question, the tran quillity and safety of the Peninsula were involved. It affected the very existence of the Spanish Monarchy ; and he would ask, did the Spanish Government deserve to be placed in the circumstances, in which the continuance of the policy hitherto pursued by Ministers would inevitably place that Government ? He would ask the Noble Earl (Grey) whether he had not had much to unlearn respect ing the Spanish Government since he came into office ? He would ask the Noble Earl had any Government ever acted with greater good faith in respect to treaties, than that of Spain ? It was now time, that what used to be the policy of England towards the Peninsula should be laid aside. So far from endeavouring to make Portugal a thorn in the side of Spain, it ought to be the objeCt of this country to unite the whole Peninsula in friendship to us. Whatever might be said of the present Government of Spain, it was a fact that no country in Europe had, for some time past, advanced further in amelioration, or was at pre sent in more rapid progress of improvement " He understood that plots were in preparation in this country against the tranquillity of Spain ; with which plots (as we under stood) Don Pe 'ro was connected. That Prince might, perhaps, be able to spread civil war over the Peninsula, from one end to the other, and cover the land with blood. But he (Lord Aberdeen) could not believe that that Prince would succeed in overthrowing the Government of Spain, because the people were attached to that Government, and would defend it with their lives.--(Hear, hear.) [laving made those observations, he might, perhaps, he expected to submit some definite proposition to their Lord ships. But he would not take the matter out of the hands of Ministers. lie thought it sufficient for his purpose to have called the attention of the Noble Eatt opposite to the condition of the ancient ally of this country, and through it to the peace of Europe. Having done so, he would leave to the Noble Lord the responsibility for which he must be prepared. He concluded by laying on the table the petition of certain merchants, shipowners, and others, engaged in the Portuguese trade, praying the attention of the House to the low state of that trade, which they attri buted to the interruption of the diplomatic relations of this country with Portugal. Earl GREY said, that when the Noble Earl who had last addressed their Lordships gave notice that he should on that evening present a petition relating to the affairs of Portugal, and that he should take the opportunity of calling the attention of the House to the subject referred to by the petitioners, be (Rail Grey) was left to conjecture to what part of the affairs of Portugal the Noble Earl might think proper to apply himself. But lie was not prepared to expect that the Noble Lord could take a course so unreasonable and unfair, as to discuss the sub jects which lie had now brought forward, without giving notice to his Majesty's Ministers of what his intentions were. The Earl of ABERDEEN begged pardon of the Noble Earl fur the interruption; be wished to explain, that when a Noble Marquis opposite asked him to what sub ject the petition referred, he replied to the political rela tions of this country with Portugal. Earl GREY was not prepared to hear a discussion opened upon that part of the subject, which th&r Lord ships bad understood to be postponed, in consideration of the inconvenience of discussing it until the papers neces sary to place the whole question before the House d shou lbeen d be produced—the production of which papers ha promised there _and in - the other House. Any discussion, therefore, of that subject was premature until those docu ments should have been laid before the ir Lordships, which were most material for their information r especting it. , Much of what the Noble Lord had said gave bins (Lord Grey) very great- surprise.—(Hear, hear, hear.) As to the petition itself, he did not know what rela 'tion it had to the speech of the Noble Earl. I, complained of the ow state of the trade of the pe titioners, and called upon the House to take measures for the restoration of those diplomatic relations, by the which they supposed their trade hid been injured: The Not , le Lord -had not told them whet *ere the persons foam whom the Petition came; but it was not difficult to perceive that they were persons very much interested in that amiable Monarch, whose corvine the Nobi- Lerd opposite himself had described before now in terms of rerrohazion, although he now seemed to have t .hen biro under his protection. He (Eirl Grey) had li-ard that the petition lay for signatures a long time in a coffee-house in the city, and that there were annexed te it the names of n t more than sixteen merchants. Bet the Noble Earl Might to have borne In mind, that no pat t of the proceedings of the present Government had occa sioned that interruption of which the petitioners coni ploined.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Earl, indeed, found fink with the manner in which they bad demanded satis faction for the injuries which tic Portuguese Government had done to British eti!jects. But that demand had been approved by the English merchants connected with the Portuguese trade, who thanked the Government for the course which they hail adopted upon that occasion.— (Hear, bear, he:r.) The Noble Lord (Aberdeen) corn neenced by stating that the injuries suffered by the mer chants in their trade bad been occasioned by the non recognition of the Portuguese Government by this country; and he concluded with a violent invective against every thins which had been • done by Mi nisters respecting the French expedition to the Tagus. That serious injuries had been done by the Government of Portugal to subjects of this Government, the Noble Lord opposite would not deny, as many of them had taken place when that Noble Earl himself was a member of the Ad ministration. Satisfaction -had been demanded by that Administration again and again, but they obtained none. Up to the day the Nub's Earl retired from office, al re chess bad been evaded, withheld, or refused. Since then, other additional outrages upon British subjects and pro perty had been committed by Portugal, and Ministers were compelled to insist on satisfaction in a manner which led to their promptly obtaining ir.—(Hear.) Subsequently injuries were done by the same Government to subjects of France; and accordingly the French Government also de manded satisfaction ; and now he had the authority of the Noble Duke opposite (Wellington) to oppose to the Noble Earl ; the former having said some evenings ago, that after the English Government had demanded satisfaction in the manner in which they had made the demand, it was scarcely possible that they could interfere to prevent France from making a similar demand in the same manner. But then the Noble Earl seid, that Ministers ought to have interfered, by offering their advice—admitting that they had interfered when it was too late. The documents which should soon he laid upon the table, would prove to their Lordships that the interference had not been delayed to the last ; and even at the last moment, he ( Eat' Grey) did not think that it would have,been too late if it had been at tended to. The Noble Earl disputed the right of the French to the ships which they had captured, because, as he said, in order to make the ships a legitimate prize there must have been a legitimate war. But he (Lord Grey) thought that when the war hail once taken place, it was not necessary to go back to the origin of the war in order to decide whether or not the prizes were legitimate; but he (Earl Grey) had no doubt whitever that they bad a legitimate right to those prizes—nor did he believe that the King's Advocate would have given, under any circum stances, a contrary opinion. The opinion which he bad given should be laid before the House, as also the papers upon which that opinion had been founded; in order that the Noble Earl himself might see that his (Earl Grey's) opinion was well founded, and that the case had been laid before the King's Advocate fully and impartially, and that the whole matter bad been brought under the full consi deration of that eminent lawyer. He must express his astonishment at the quarter from which the statement had come, that full information bad - not been given to enable the King's Adviser to give a sufficient answer upon that difficult and painful question. He would remind the Noble Earl of an occasion when papers were demanded in order to show the grounds upon which an opinion of the Crown Lawyers had been given. The Administration with which the Natae Earl was connected gave a direct negative to a motion for the production of those papers; and the Noble Earl himself then defended the refusal of the Government of such information as he was now anxious to obtain. He was not prepared to enter into a discussion, and now briefly called the attention of the House to that part of the Noble Lord's speech which had some relation to the matter of the petition—that was, the situation of Great Britain in respect to Por tugal in consequence of the cessation of our di plomatic relations with that country. The Noble Lori would not go farther than he (Earl Grey) would go in acknowledging the value of our relations with Portugal, nor would the Noble Lord go farther than he in seeking a remedy for the situation in which those relations were now placed, and for the inconvenience which, as the Noble Lord stated, hid been occasioned to our commerce by the long continued suspension of our diplomatic intercourse. But it was not to the present Government, which bad not yet been ten months in office, that that suspension was to be attributed, which had now continued for three years. For two years, therefore, all the responsibility of the inconve niences rested upon the Noble Earl, and a heavy responsi bility indeed did rest upon the Government of which the Noble Earl was a Member, if they were answerable for all the acts of Don Miguel; and if, as the Noble Earl said, the results of those acts were brought about by the Go vernment of this country, but a very small portion of the responsibility could be laid upon the present Administra t'oo. The Noble Lord had ascribed the continuance of the evils complained of by the petitioners to the negocia tions entered into by this country with Brazil, and the attempt of Don Pedro to place his daughter upon the throne of Portugal; and he (Earl Aberdeen)'_ thought that all difficulty which had been occasioned to the English Government bad been terminated by the rejection of Donna Maria by the people of Portugal. He (Earl Grey) would not then follow the Noble Lord in his reasoning upon that question ; but wou'd only say, that that was not the cause of the delay on the part of the present Government to re new its diplomatic relations with Portugal. He was not assisted by the clear lights of the Noble Earl, to understand the distinction which he made between a condition and a preliminary. In 1829, -Spain recognised Don Miguel, there being an under derstanding with Spain, France, and England, that the two latter Governments would also recognise him if he could be brought to perform the obligations into which he had entered. But since that time he had done nothing to enable his Majesty's Government to send him an Ambass.dor, or recognise the title which the Noble Earl thought be had so well established. But in a dispatch of the Noble Earl, dated 17th Sept. it was stated that difficulties, wholly insurmountable by the English Govern ment, obstructed the • renewal of diplomatic relations with Portugal. As is was, in the first place, essential that the person at the bead of the Portuguese Government should fulfil the engagements into which he had entered, and that, were that obstacle removed, there was another, without the removal of which it would be inconsistent with the honour of his Majesty and of his Government to recognise Don Miguel, the dispatch stated that objection to be the refusal of Don Miguel to grant an amnesty to those persons who bad expressed opinions to which the British Govern ment had given its s diction. Had that difficulty been since done away with ? Had the amnesty been granted ? Had the Noble Earl (Aberdeen) been able to obtain it? No ; but on the first day of the last Session he stated that it had not been granted, but that it was promised and was about to be given ; and that upon that expectation the re cognition might take place. Instructions accordingly were sent to Lisbon to Mr. Mackenzi-, but the amnesty being still delayed, those instructions were counter- Mended ; and Mr. Mackenzie's successor was directed to' inform the Portuguese Government, that an amnesty was an essential condition..—(Hear, hear.) But the Noble Earl opposite asked him (Earl Grey) was this state of things to last for ever ? That was a question which he (Lord Grey) might have asked the Earl three years ago.—(Much cheering.) Nut only was that amnesty which the N..ble Earl at that time considered as an essential condition still , refused, but the most horrid cruelties bad been exercised upon those in whose behalf that amnesty was demanded.— ' (Hear.) But the Noble Earl said that the Portuguese Government was not a very bloody Government, inasmuch as only twenty-two persons bad suffered upon the scaffold for political offences. Btit the " Noble Earl passed alto gether over those who bad been driven from their families, and stripped of their property. He passed over those who hail perished in dungeons, and over those of whom it might still too truly be said, clansi in tenebris, cum meerore et luctu, morte graviorem vitam exigunt. Under the exist ing Government there was no security for the people. A wretch at the head of a banditti under the name of a police committed atrocities which it would scarcely be believed evnei.faultarrernud wards ninwith Portugal,the present e n o t o g ht Government to rbe pprepared e for p nt any nation would endure. When the Noble Earl found :ta t n ‘ c v e l e e .— n l(iCeeditstocodnedfeuncdt the course which be himself had pursued towards that Go vernment in oHffieceeEnunder Grey)• neo more favourable greed w ith that Noble Lord that this Government had no right to inter fere in the internal affairs of another kingdom. If the person de facto at the head of the Government in another country placed himself in a condition to maintain diplomatic rela tions with other States, it was not for us to look so nicely te cis internal mana g ement of hie kingdona Bfit he had heard with surprise the Noble Earl charge Ministers with having :nterfered in the internal affairs of Portugal, and with having endeavoured to force a Co istitution upon the cople. Government had interfered only by advice which the circumstances called fdr, and by such re •nonstrences as they bad a right to make. He agreed that it wes the duty of ibis Government to attend to English anterests, hut he could not divest his mind of the principle of his early life, that a Gavel - me! k funded upon Orin eiples of justice was more to be trusted thin one which deeended on the arbitrary will of an individuel. Yet he did not thick that we might nut ent.r into diplomatic, ind even into amicable relations with a country, although its Government was of a different form from ours. He did not know that it wag necessary for hire: to go fuitber. Indeed the Noble Earl; in the last sentence of his speech; might hive appeared to Make, even whet he (Earl Grey) Intl said superfluous, fur the Noble Earl said, that having cone so far, he did not consider this a cage in which it was necessary for him to interfere, or to make any further re- presentations to their.' Lordships. The Neble Earl con tieed himself to simply presenting the petition, and the only question now before their Lordships was, that the petition, hating been read, should lie upon the t able. He (Earl Grey) therefore; did not feel it necessary to go into the case further until all the documents were before their Lordships: but the Noble Eirl might be assured, Vtat when the day came for the discussoa to come on re gularly, when the necessary information was before the House, he should be ready to meet the Noble Earl or any body else who arraigned the conduct of Ministers, and to show that in what they had done, or in what they had it in contemplation to do, neither the honour nor the interests of this country would hare suffered by any act of his Ma jesty's present Ministers, or from any c!reurnstaeces but such as it was not in their lower to controul.—(Cheers.) The Duke of WELLINGTON said, it was hardly ne cessary for him to justify his Noble Friend in the course he had taken on presenting this petition, because the peti tion itself related specially to the British interests in Por tugal, and to the interruptions, which, it gave him pain to state, those interers laboured under, in consequence of the existing state of our relations with that country. It was a mistake on the part of the Noble Earl (Grey) to state that this petition was signed by persons interested in the person of the Monarch now on the throne of Portugal. He did not deny that they bad an interest in Porttigat, but it was a mistake to say that they bad any personal interest as regarded the Sovereign. It was a mistake likewise on the part of the Noble Earl to say that the petitioners were only fifteen, and those persons of little importance in this great city. There number was thirty-two ; their Lord , ships might read their names, and they would see that they consisted of some of the principal merchants in the city of London, and that every one of them was interested in the trade between Portugal and Great Britain.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that the topics urged by his Noble Friend were peculiarly those topics which ought to have b ee n pressed in calling the attention of their Lordships to the petition. There was one topic which his Noble Friend had deferred to a future time, as it regarded the wine trade, and as there would lie another opportunity for its consideration. But his Noble Friend might have told their Lordships—and told them with truth, that in the question of the wire trade, not only Portugal, but the whole Peninsula—not only the whole Penin sula, but also the Powers of Germany and Italy, were interested. The trade is ith France, which was in amount nut one-fifth of the trade with Portugal, was to receive equal encouragement. Government were about to put the trade with France and the trade with Portugal upon the same footing—the wines of Portugal and the Peninsula were to be placed in the same situation as. the wines of France —that is to say, to favour France, which desired no intercourse or traffic with us, except for her own advan tage, we were to put down the trade with Portugal, and at the same time to discourage the trade with Spain and other countries. His Noble Friend had not touched upon this p int, because he was unwilling to detain them, as there would be a future opportunity. But it he had detained them still longer, he would have done rightly, and would further have shown the partiality of the Noble Lords .opposite to the trade of France. But his Noble Friend had confined himself particularly to that part of the question which re ferred to the political relations between Portugal and this country. The Noble Earl, in replying to his Noble Friend upon this point, had availed himself of an admission of his (the Duke of Wellington) respecting the conduct of Minis ters, in not interfering in favour of Portugal, on the invasion of that country by the French. He must confess, that when he made that admission, he was not aware of the circum stances as they had occurred. He was not aware at that time, when be made that admission, that we had followed the ex ample of France, instead of setting the example. Tke truth of the matter was this-that the Fr ench brought forward new claims on the 18 thof March, and we, in imitation of France, advanced our chitin on the 18th of April.._ Now, he bad imagined that we made our claim first, and having made it, he thought that we could not turn round upon France, and say, " You shan't do that which we have done." But, the truth of the matter was, that we followed the ex ample of France, and it would almost appear to have been a conspiracy between the two Powers to ice which of them could mow down the fastest that poor and defenceless country.—(Hear, hear.) Commodore Le Baudrier came before Lisbon on the 18th of May, and he then repeats his claims and says—and, by tile way, be carried into execu tion his project—he says, " I w ill seize your merchant ships, and your ships of war." And in consequence of that seizure of their ships of war, they lost the island of Sr. Michael's. But, what became of his (the Duke of Wellington's) admission as to •the impossibility of inter ference, when it appeared that our act followed, instead of preceding that of France ? The Noble Earl stated, that though we were bound by treaty, still, having acted in this manner, we could not interfere to prevent a similar line of conduct on the part of the French. In answer to that, he had only to repeat, that our interference followed that of the French, and tho Portuguese Government stood in need of our assistance at the very time when they asked for it---namely, when Commodore Le Baudrier was before the port. The war did not commence until the 18th of July. Was there not time then, he would ask, for a report to have been made to this country of the state of affairs, and for this country to have expostulated with France, and point e d out to her the inconvenience, nay he would say the indecency, of proceeding in such a manner with re spect to affairs which were under discussion between the two countries? He came now to the particular conduct of the French Admiral. He did not speak in his capa city as a Member of their Lordships' House, or as an officer of the army, but as an Englishman, when he said that he had never known an act which excited so much indignation in his mind as the conduct of the French Ad miral.—(Hear, hear.) On the Bth of July he states his terms, which were the same as before, with four addi tional articles, and informs the Portuguese Government that if his terms are not adopted, war exists in fact. The Government of Portugal rejects the articles on the 10th, and then we were to suppose war existed in fact. On the 11th of July be enters, and states that generous France— la France trap genereuse—grants nothing except com pensation to those who had suffered from the hostilities. And these, he believed, were only two seamen who who bad sufferel by an explosion of one of the ships.— The terms were agreed to on the 12th July. He could not take upon him to say exactly whether, by the law of nations, there was war in fact between the day when the Portuguese Government sent its answer to the demand and t he day on which the agreement was finally signed.— But of tbis be was certain that after the 11th, when there was pe w, no hostilities were committed. The Portuguese sh i pp i n g never fired upon the French fleet ; it was the Fiench fleet that fired upon them. The Portuguese only fired when they were fired upon, and then struck. Seeing, then, that the demand having been made on the 11th, the hostilities did not commence on the part of the Portuguese fleet, but on that of the French, and that they were not actually in possession of the fleet after the demand was made. H e doubted whether the opinion of the King's advocate was worth so much as the opinions which the Noble Earl found fault with—those at his (the Duke of Wellington's) a for not having produced on a former asan o e f tli ti er )eir important Lotdsh ips. I fact, t t o whichgbt be he side e u a l so r i l of n c t a .h l el There rsew attention disputed whether or not the Portuguese shipping had fired upon the French ; but the Portuguese Government called upon the French Admiral to say what Portuguese ship had fired, if any had ; and, therefore, if it were the cause, it a dmitted or proof. He said that, according to the law of tiations, the Portuguese fleet was not a fair prize of war. ft might forum a fair article in a capitulation, but he firmly believed that it was not a fair prize of war. After the treaty af the 12th of July, containing the articles upon which the made, and in which there was one important pence was le,et ipidatirl that the French fleet should go away within a certain time, it turned out that since that there was another treaty— the former consisting of twenty, and this was one of six articles. In the first treaty was claimed the cession of fort St. Julien: in the second, there was a demand that the forts on the Tagus should neither be reinforced nor repaired. This was alter the peace—the t r w e p h a i p A er d s— mir o a n l e d e e t ro C at o id irt e r d br t t art of St. Julian was not to b e repa i re d. A n d i t se emed that this dispute arose a b out an art i c l e published in two ie a b , at th tb e e o s t u h bm e subject should s O bo p u o l r d to be . The Fen er =ideated to the public in the manner which suited his judgment. Th s was not complied with ; and on that ac• eount this nation, under our protection, was to be called upon for fui they concessions. 'there was another demand ' to which lie would beg particularly to calf the attention of their Lordships, as it related directly to The subject of the petitiof: ; namely, 64 French subjects rradin„et to Portu gal should lie placed upon the same feoting as those of the most favoured netioa—the:t ?s !o ?ay, the subjects of his Majesty. When he saw the-e ueeeine3's made; and saw (I..ecrnsivent do nothing, and when he sate fhis conduct edepted tonne :'e a country with which we were tinder treaties--(fur that We iCefc un de r such treaties could not be denied; and we ha 1 made &Arendt under some of ebeee treaties)—he felt that we wed treeted in a manner to which no great and independetre cation ought to submit. —.(l-Riari) His opinion had always been end he bad stated it before, that the cause of the uneirtu n are situation in which the Severeigri fif that country was ! pleeed, was to be attribeted to his having no reliftiont with the other Mates of Europe. Portugal lid not belong to tie family of Europa; &el it was the duty of Government t • remove her from the situaiiistf in ;IMO' she stood in that respect as soon as possible. The Nen!! Eterl threw the Maine open the former Government, a nd asked eel.) , they had not made the rrangement? His Noble Friend had already stated, in the first pleeei that the late Government was bound by engagements not etifeted into by themselves, fit by a preceding Government, to recnghige flee Queen, Donna Marie, and the Sovereign of Portugal. The Pince who went to that country as Regent broke his engage ments; and there was no mart amongst their Lordships, Who more lamented the violation of those eugatemente, or had done mote to prevail upon the personage in question to conduct himself properly, as he thought it would have united his Government and his interests. But he after wards felt it to be his duty, as the King's servant, to en deavour to restore the relations between th?e country and Portugal, by a reunion of the different branches of the House of Braeattie. It was not our business to support a civil war in Portugal, or by farce of arms to re-establish matters i-a that country, but we Wt te bound to do every thing thet we could, by conciliation and teltiee, to restore amity between the two branches of the House of Draganza, and to try to bring back rortngal to the family of nations. The former Government had made eurious efforts with those views, and they had found Don Pedro desirous of carrying on the war, or rather that this country should carry on the war for him—sometimes desirous of settling tie a ffeir by amicable negociation, and et others wishing to make war against his brother by means of which he (the Duke of Wellington) could never .approve--hp revolutionary means, and by assistance privately and clandestinely given to rebels against the Government de facto.—( Ilear, hear.) Of such measures he had no doubt Don Pedro himself did not now approve, for they had lost the empire of Brazil. Don Pedro was afterwards dtsireus of con ferring his daughter in mairiage upon his brother; but he accompanied that concession with a demand that we should be answerable for the conduct of his brother. Con sidering all that had passed, the late Government felt that they could not enter into such a conditions, and they there fore broke off the list negociation. Then the Noble Earl had reed a paper, signed by his Noble Friend on the 17th of September, 1630, in uhich the Government of that day suggested other measures to be adopted by Don Miguel, assuring him that those ix eastires would lead to a recognition of him by this country, and that an Ambassador should be immectiaaely sent to Lisbon. He confessed be (the Duke of Wellington) had often doubted about that recognition, and he never would have agreed to such a measure as a condition of any act to be done by Don Mi guel, as regarded the people of Portugal. He never would have agreed to make this country an arbitrator between Don Miguel and his subjects in Portugal; but he thought that before the Government of this country could recognize him, and ask the other Powers of Eu rope to follow its example, it ought to require that he should offer a general amnesty to all his subjects who had been concerned in the service of the Cortes. What the Noble Earl had not told their Lordships was this :.....Was the Noble Earl willing, in case that condition had been fulfilled—.would he not have sent an Ambassador to Portugal.—(Hear, bear.) Had he told Don Miguel that he would or that be would not, under any circumstances, recognize him, because when he challenged the miner Government for not having made the arrange• anent, he ought to have followed their example through out, if be followed it so far as he had done ? And it was more incumbent upon the Noble Lord opposite than upon the former Government, to take measures to bring back Portugal to the family of Europe, to protect her front such misfortunes as had happened within the last three months; for this reason, because the Revolution in France had made a greater progress since that time, than when the late Government made the proposition to Don Miguel. All these topics specially related to the pe tition presented by his Noble Friend, and it was impos sible to enter into the consideration of the petition with out adverting to these points. The petitioners told their Lordships that until the political relations of this country with Portugal were renewed, they carried on their trade at a loss.—(Hear, hear.) The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had received a letter from an officer residing in Lisbon, who had been attached to the cavalry in Portugal under the command of the Marquis of Anglesea, on the subject of the conduct of Mr. Hoppner, the British Consul. This gewlemati gave a very different opinion of Mr. Hopper's mode of pro ceeding to that which had been expressed by the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woulsack. Tile Noble Marquis then read an extract from the letter, the substance of which was as follows:—The writer stated, " that great misrepresentation bad gone abroad as to the amount of disaffection existing in Portugal ; and he conceived that it was at the instigation of the French Ministers at Lisbon that the two armaments had lately been sent against that place. He stated, that out of SO British residents, only 65 had signed the memorial forwarded to this country.— He complained of the behaviour of Mr. Hoppner, who, he stated, seized every opportunity to show his enmity to Don Miguel, and frequently told the Pcrtuguese that the only way for them to ingratiate themselves with England, was to get rid of their King." The Noble Marquis said that the opinions of this officer were worth being attended to. He would not then go into the general question, but lie hoped that when the subject should come before the house, Ministers might be able to answer the unanswer able statement—(A laugh)—of the Noble Duke. The country would expect something more in reply to that statement than an attempt to evade it by gibes and jokes. Ministers would find themselves much mistaken it they thought they could preserve the peace of Europe by an alliance with France. It certainly was no wise step to begin by truckling to France in her policy with respect to Portugal and Belgium. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE would put it to the Noble Marquis himself whether it was fair to bring publicly a charge of this kind against a public officer, on in formation which, as far as the Noble Marquis had gone, was anonymous.—(Cries of " hear, hear.") The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose to explain,— (Loud cries of " Order" from the Ministerial side, in the midst of which the Noble Marquis continued fur some moments to press himself on the attention of the House) —at length the Noble Marquis said he rose to order.— (The cries of " Order" were still continued.) The LORD-CHANCELLOR rose to order. He said the Noble Marquis had the right to rise to order if any thing disorderly, which he certainly had not heard, had fallen front his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Lansdowne), but he had no right to interject a speech by way of expla nation between an unfinished sentence of any Noble Lord who toes addressing the House. It certainly was often a convenience to allow of interruptions, where the itrerrup. 1 tion was to set the Noble Lord speaking right as to a matter of fact; yet even in that case it was only by the courtesy of the Noble Lord who was speaking that any other Noble Lord could be heard ; but it certainly was not in order for any Noble Lord• to rise to explain in the middle of the speech of another Noble Lord.—(Hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE proceeded. He could assure the Noble Marquis that he meant no discourtesy to him in pursuing his argument without giving him an op portunity of explaining ; but if the Noble Marquis had heard him to the end of his remarks on that part of the subject, he would have found that while he meant to ob ject to the unfairness of charging a most respectable public officer on anonymous information,—he admitted that though the Noble Marquis bad given the statement anony mously he had offered to submit the whole letter to the in spection of any of his Majesty's Ministers ; but then it was on the condition that the case should be inquired into and the Consul be dismissed, if it should turn out to be correct. (The Marquis of L O NDONDERRY—OnIy that the case should be inquired into.) However, the Noble Mar quis had put the case before their Lordships anonimouely. Now it appeared to him that if the Noble Marquis thought the case of such importance, he ought to have laid it before the Government. He (the Marquis of Lansdowle ) bad no personal knowledge of the very excellent individual (Mr. Hoppner) to whom the Noble Marquis had alluded, hut lie must say, that from all lie bad heard of him, he be lieved him utterly incapable of such conduct as the letter read by the Noble Marquis had tattribeted to him. He telt convinced that he would never not only be guilty him ,aelf of such conduct, but that he would not in any way countenance it in others. If the Noble Marquis should miring it forward in a regular way,—and he was sure that no person would be more desirous than the respectable in alividual himself that it should be brought forward,—lit ad no doubt tbat it would turn out to be the reverse of what the Noble Marquis's letter_ ba4l stated. Ministers had not shown themselves disposed to sheltc: , th niselves under the opinion of the King's Advocate. Tar y were willing to prodirce that opinion, and they were willing also to prodnce all the mere to which the Noble Eirl had alluded. Ile woultl not nay that those?' seri were 0...4ted for in the expectation that they would ha-: - • fused, hut Ile could not but think that Noble Lords opposite were rather 46yr:rinted that Ministers were ready to produce them.Heword not enter into the que sti o n of t trete, referred to by the Noble Duke, farther than to state th It the 1444 e Duke teas wrong as to the inference be drew from those dites. The Noble Duke said, that we bad only followed the el:ample of France, but the Noble Duke left wholly out of his view whether the case which J t owe had to urge was just or not.--(liear, hear.) If the Noble Duke would look to the circumstances under which we had eatight the redress- of our grievances, he would have found that we had sent our fleet to Lisbon in Aptii, and the French ft et had not arrived there tll June. There was one point on which he would say a word. Ile uronhl admit, that in claiming redress for any particular grievence, tee :should not look with any' presli lection for any particular form of Government, —we eliould look to the I resent and future relations between the two countries. This was the course which the twe e, nt Government bsd taken ; but when the Noble Earl (Aberdeen) talked of the protection to which Portugal War. entitled from u', did lie mean to say that the ormsic. Lion was tee be extended to MN of iajost'ce as well to the subjects of Portugal, so many of whom were imprisoned at home Or sent to exile to distant • and burning climates, ' as to the subjects of foreign States? Re hoped that Por tugal, would be tioght to know that we gave our sanction to no injnetice of tither kind, and that whatever branch of the House of Breganza might be at the bead of the Go vernment, the people of P.irtug el should receive that protection to which they had a claim at our hands, if they i acted with honesty and fairness towards us. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, in explanation, had offered to lay the whole of the letter before any of his Majesty's Ministers; but as the Noble Marq is had called it anonymous, he (the Marquis of Lendonderry) had no objection to state the name of the distinguished officer came if: name, Sir m in : Johnwh ae h d:Tme, except mt t Ficame.inobjectioni the h. e The wfiateyo .t teas ihaese officerhad mention w . ta unwilling s fi Brigad ier - Gen eralroaft to hosl name.n pro po se d en tit . bh ni He he must say that the galluat o ffi cer from whom the letter must stand excused, thirefoke; if be relied upon such in formation. • The Duke of WELLINGTON, in explanation, had not entered into the cause of the quarrel between France and Portugal ; he spoke only of ,the acts of France, and of what he considered the inconsistency of those acts, ae.cord iog to her own showing. The Duke of RICHMOND said that his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Lansdowne) was perfectly justified in applying the term " anonymous" to the communication made by the Noble Marquis opposite. The Noble Mar. quis had now mentioned the name of his correspondent, and he must say that Brigadier-General Sir J. Camp bell was married to a Portuguese lady, a Miguelite, and it was not , improbable that his opinions had received a bias on that account. But there were two parties Involved in such a charge as the Noble Marquis had brought, and before their Lordships could come to a correct conclusion of the subject, it would be but fair to hear the - ,enswer to the charge. The Noble Marquis had read it part of the letter ; now he should like to put a question to the Noble Marquis, which he hoped he would have no objection to answer. He should wish to ask him, what number of his subjects that excelirnt King Dan Miguel, to whom the Noble Marquis and lit correspondent bad iven so good a character , had now im p risoned. He bad heard that they were at least six thousand ; but he should like to hear from so good an authority as that of a friend of Don Miguel, what number he would admit, because in [ th a t way their Lordships might judge whether Don Mi -1 guel wait entitled to the praise which had been given to him. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not feel called upon to answer the question of the Noble Duke, because the Noble Duke-leaned to assume in the outset that a British officer of rank -would in consequence of his as sumed prejudice, state that which be did not believe to be true. He would nay that no British officer of rank would -tate what Ire did not 'believe to be true. He would not give any farther explanation to the Noble Duke than this, that he was ready to submit the letter to the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and the Noble Duke might get from the Noble Lord any information he could on the subjtct. The Duke of RICHMOND would repeat that the cite cumstances in which that officer was placed made it pro . bable that he was biassed in the communication which he made. Farther than that be would not say on that point ; but be must observe, that if the Noble Marquis attached such importance to this information, he - should have-put it into the bands of Ministers. It was not a fair way of putting it, to give half a case to their Lordehips, and,to suppress the other half, which perhaps might make so much,* hie' purpose. As the Noble Marquis bad the whole case before - him, he would wish to ask him whether there were not 6,000 of Don Miguel's subjects in prison, from their supposed hostility to him. He should like, t 9 know the whole particulars, and not a partial statement of them. The Nob'e Marquis had said that a British officer high in rank could not be supposed to state that which he did not believe, but he (the Duke of Richmond) bad just as good a right to suppose that an officer of the ' high rank and character of Mr. Hoppner would not be guilty of the acts attributed to him. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was willing to put the whole of the document into the hands of his Majesty's Ministers, awl the Noble Duke might get what infortua tiun he could from them. Viscount MELBOURNE asked to whom the Gallant Officer had addressed his letter ? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY replied, that it was addressed to him. The petition w is then ordered to lie on the table. Adjourned at Nine o'clock. FRENCH PAPERS. (F.om the Journal du Commerce of Saturday, Sept. 3.) Pants, Seer. 2.—There was a report on 'Change of a new revolution said to have broken out in Brazil, in which the Europeans were massacred. The accounts from Lon don of the day before yesterday mention nothing of the kind, nor du the letters from our seaports ; it must be sup posed that the news was brought to Brest by a man-of war, and transmitted by the telegraph. It is nevertheless true, that the state of Brazil is such as to excite apprehension. M. da Rocha, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ple nipotentiary front the new Brazilian Government, arrived at Paris on the 31st of August, accompanied by his son, who is attached to the legation. The Brazilian Consulate-General at Paris has just been delivered to M. D'Annin, a Chief Clerk in the Depart ment of Foreign Affairs at Rio de Janeiro. The Dey of Algiers has been to-day to pay a visit to Marshal Clause!. We do not know whether this visit has any connection with the projects which his Highness is supposed to entertain respecting hie former dominions. (From the Quotidienus of Saturday.) PARIS, Sm. 2.—The members of the diplomitie body have been observed to be all in motion to-day. Several were to have taken part in a hunting excursion, which has been put off in consequence of the receipt of despatches by several legations. A Journal has announced, that 30,000 men of the French army, on leaving the territory of Belgium, will take up their position in an entrenched camp before Arras. The Courrier du Pas de Calais says, it has no know ledge of this fact, which it thinks has been stated on the authority of very vague rumour.. The Milan Gazette of the 25th, gives an account of a riot in the theatre on the 23d. The people, on pretext of disapproving the performance, openly resisted the armed finer. The Austrian soldiers came front all parts of the city to the scene of the disorder. The soldiers at first fired in the air ; but finding that the tumult was not al layed, but that the affair was becoming serious, they at length tired un the mob. Several persons were killed and wounded, and it was with great difficulty that order was restored. At eleven o'clock at night the streets were still full of troops. Numerous patrols were on foot all night. A morning Journal gives a letter from Be'graile, of the 15th, which says that the suburb of Pera, at Constan tinople, is destroyed. A dreadful tire broke out at eight o'clock in the morning of the 2d of August, which tn tirely consumed it. The palaces of France and England, and all the other legations, fell a prey to the flames. All were consul, ed except the palace of Austria and the Russian Chancery. The damage is immense : above sixty dead bodies have already been found among the ruins. Some European merchants voluntarily threw themselves into the flames, after having lost every thing : n othing was saved. The tire broke out in several places, and the storehouses to which the goods were removed were con sumed as well as those of wood. Pera is nothing but a neap o' ruins." (From the Messayer des C:hsatzbnrieschileateintit,Sriuuliidoaty We have not to-nay airy nen , s,iw later than that i vhiti EAVe eet. May. The Rus sian corps d'arrnee, it -appears, are to occupy the vicinity IVar,aw in all nitecto,ns, upon the two blriks of the Vistu/s. It. is to be remarked, that Matishal l',.tkovitych cos' e the