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Innu merable victims have been banished to the horrib'e deserts of Africa—others have ended their days in loathsome prisons, worn out by cares and sufTerings ; and lastly, foreign countries have been overrun with Portuguese emigrants, who have abandoned their country, compelled to endure, far from their homes, the sorrows of an unmerited exile. EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEB. 8, 1832. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, TRADING to the EAST INDIES do hereby give Notice, That WEDNESDAY, the 21st March next, having been appointed by Royal Proclamation to be observed as a Pub lic Fast, the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said UNITED COMPANY, which has been summoned for that day, will be held at their Hoif:e in Leadenhall street, on THURSDAY, the 22d March next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, instead of on WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of March, PETER AUBER, Secretary. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1832. No. 12.296. PRICE 7D JEW and ENTERTAINING DIA LOGUES, in FRENCH and ENGLISH, on an improved interlineal system, &c. Second Edition. Price 45., in a fine cloth binding. By J. F. GERARD, M.A. London : J. Souter, '75, St. Paul's Chureh-yard. " There is a great deal of good humour in the composition of these dialogues ; the author's plan of giving the English first, after the idiom of the French, and then according to the regular form of the language, we have before alluded to with the appro bation it merits."—Atlas. " A most useful elementary little work, upon the best plan which we have met with, and highly useful for all students of the French language. We know no treatise better adapted to its object."—Metropolitan Magazine. "The mode adapted for familiarising the student with the gen ders by the arrangement of the first and last letters is simple and ingenious, and has the advantage of novelty to recommend it."— Court Journal. In spite of these recommendations, some French masters will not use this work, for the sole reason that it must bring the pupils too rapidly forward. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. THE GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of BRITISH ARTISTS, is OPEN DAILY, from Ten in the Morning till Five in the Evening. Admission I s.—Catalogue Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. tion ; simple facts had been laid before the House, and these would have an effect ten thousand times more powerful than any exaggerated statement could pro duce. This was not a case of a common interfe rence between a master and his servants ; it was a case which loudly called far the interference of the House. He hoped that by some legislative enactment so many thousands of helpless children would be shielded in the prosecution of their labour, which was already an ticipating their strength, impairing their constitutions, in juring their morals, and causing a most fearful sacrifice of hnman life and happiness. Mr. HUME said he certainly hoped that the House would always be found protecting those who could not protect themselves, but the House ought to pause, and duly consider the subject of this petition in all its bearings, both upon the interests of the children and the master-manufacturers. He trusted the Noble Lord at the head of his Majesty's Government would, in order to give due justice to the subject, refer the Bill to a Committee up stairs, and a touch more perfect Bill would be the result. Mr. J. WOOD considered it quite necessary that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee. It was quite impossible to legislate upon the subject, unless the case was completely inquired into. He gave every credit to the humane motives of those who brought forward this Bill, but it was necessary to proceed with caution, lest indiscretion should permanently injure the interests both of master-manufacturers, and the children whom they employed. Mr. WEYLAND would support the Bill, both in con sideration of the interests of the masters, and the protec tion of the operative children. BRAGANZA. MANIFESTO OF DON PEI)RO, DUKE OF The following manifesto was issued by Don Pedro, previously to his departure to join the pa triots at Terceira : " Called by those fundamental laws of the mo narchy, quoted in the Charter and perpetual edict of the 15th of November, 1825, to ascend the throne of Portugal, as the eldest son and successor of the King, my august father, I was formally acknow ledged King of Portugal by all the Foreign Powers, as well as by the Portuguese nation, who, on this occasion, sent me a deputation to the Court of Rio Janeiro, composed of individuals representing the three different branches of the State—thinking, at the same time, no sacrifices on my part too great which might tend to ensure the welfare of my loyal subjects in both hemispheres—unwilling, also, that the mutual relations of friendship, so fortunately established between the two Countries by the inde pendence of both, should in any manner be sub jected to interruption by the fortuitous accumula tion of two different crowns on the same head, I re solved to abdicate the crown of Portugal in favour of my very dear and beloved daughter, Donna Maria da Gloria, who was in like manner acknowledged by the Foreign Powers, and by the Portuguese nation. 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It is as innocent as efficsrinus, tending to produce the Teeth with ease ; and so pleasant, that no Child will re fuse to let its Gums he rubbed with it. When Infants are at the age of four months, the Syrup should be rubbed on the Gums ; and Parents should never be without the Syrup in the nursery where there are young Children ; for if a Child wakes in the night with pains in the Gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease; thereby preventing Convulsions, Fevers, &c. The great success of this Medi cine during the last Twenty-five Years has induced un principled persona to imitate it, tinder the name of Ameri can Soothing Syrup, and copying parts of Mrs. Johnson's Bills, &c. Parents will, therefore, he very particular to ask for JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP, and to notice that the Names of Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street, London (to whom Mrs. John son has sold the recipe), is on the Stamp affixed to each Bottle. 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In that distressing state of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of suelt baneful habits, or arising from any other course, by which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, as regularly educated Surgeons of London, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health, Messrs. 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The Court of Session Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord TENTERDEN gave notice that on this day se'nnight he would bring in a Bill for assimilating the pro-. cesa in the three Courts of Common Law.—Adjourned. the have akro !aril the )Ito? ....... 0 _____, ,gh el, an ° rg ,te, E 94 ' lua re, no 0" J. 14. :atrexr►otti :sq., A t", e r, sop. at& -- HOUSE OF COMMONS. Alderman WOOD brought in a Bill to amend the Acts relating to London-bridge and the approaches thereto, which was read a first time. On the motion of Lord SANDON, a Bill to enable the Liverpool Marine Insurance Company to sue and be sued in the name of the Chairman, for the time being, nr of a Director, was read a third time and passed. Lord STANLEY brought in a Bill to establish a market in the parish of Wotton-on- the-Hill, adjoining Liverpool, which was read a first time. Mr. SHAW presented two petitions from Protestants and Catholics in Galway, relative to the Galway franchise, and praying that in the Irish Reform Bill provision might be made for the reservation of the Galway freemen, which were ordered to lie on the table. The floN. MEMBER next presented a petition from the manufacturing paper-stainers of Dublin, praying that the excise duty upon stained paper might be taken off. It ap peared that the whole sum produced by that duty in Ire land was but 1,2501. a year, and tl.•at the expense of col lecting it exceeded that sum. That fact was of itself sufficient to induce his Majesty's Government to accede to the prayer of the petitioners, but the tax bore very un equally upon the producers and the consumers, for it was not levied upon the quality but upon the quantity of paper stained, so that the inferior paper used by the poor paid 100 per cent. duty, while tke best paper used by the rich paid only about 2 per cent. In Ireland there were but few manufacturers, and those so depressed that the Hon. and Learned Member hoped his Majesty's Govern. ment would accede to the prayer of the petition. Mr. O'CONNELL adverted to the absence of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, who had just left the House, and observed that he supposed this petition would be as little attended to as all other Irish grievances. The ques tion was, whether it was necessary to continue a tax which produced nothing, and which preyed se heavily on the poor and so lightly on the rich. _ _ Mr. CRAMPTON assured the Hon. and Learned Member, that when the Secretary left the House be was ❑ot aware of the nature of the petition, and complained that the lion. and Learned Member had adverted to that Right Hon. Gentleman as he had done in his absence. As to the grievance complained of, it was not peculiarly an Irish grievance, because the duty existed also in England. Mr. LEADER stated that the whole amount of the duty in Great Britain and Ireland was but 40,0001. a year ; but the injury created by it was great, becaus. , it operated injuriously upon other trades, in conjunction with that of paper staining. In France there was no such duty, and one of the petitioners, who was in France two months ago, was offered by a paper stainer there to be supplied with stained paper safely delivered in England or Ireland, at the amount of the duty charged in this country. Mr. O'CONNELL, in reply to what had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Mr. Cramp ton), said that his observation respecting the absence of the Secretary for Ireland, was of course made when that Right Hon. Gentleman had lett the House; he would have been guilty of an Irishism indeed if he had made it before he left the House.—(A laugh.) He still complained that this duty was an Irish grievance, and for this plain reason, that in England it was productive, but in Ireland it was not. Mr. SHAW observed, that though this might be a very bad tax in England, it was a peculiarly grievous one in Ireland, for its collection there cost a larger sum than the tax itself produced.—The petition was then ordered to be printed. 111 r. CHAPMAN, in presenting a petition from the county of Westmeath, praying Government to adopt measures with respect to tithes, with a view to effect the total abo lition of the present system, observed that, as a proprietor of land in Ireland, he trusted Government would not carry into effect those measures of force which it had been stated it was their intention to do. He was not an advocate for the combination that existed, but he was convinced if the pro perty of the Church of Ireland could be properly placed in the hands of the clergy, it would be an adequate remu neration for their services. Mr. BLACKNEY supported the prayer of the petition. If Government expected good to result from the labours of the Committee, he thought they would be very much disappointed. In concluding, the Hon. Member stated that he had not come prepared to address the House on the subject ; this occasioned considerable laughter, in con sequence of the lion. Member having read his speech from a written paper. Mr. SANDFORD presented petitions from different parts of Somersetshire against the General Registry Bill. The Hon. Member presented a petition from two persons of the name of Saxon, silk throwsters at Tiverton, com plaining of the distressed state of the silk trade, in con sequence of the alteration of the law with respect to fo reign silks, and praying the House to take the case into its consideration. Mr. SADLER presented a petition from the town of Huddersfield, signed by 10,000 persons, in favour of the Bill introduced by the Hon. Member, for shortening the hours of labour of the children in factories; the petitioners stated that the greatest cruelty was exercised by many masters of factories towards children. Mr. 11. C. FERGUSSON hoped the statements in the petition, which had just been presented, were much exag gerated. As far as it respected his own county, he could take upon himself to say they were greatly so. Mr. SANDFORD said he had had communications from several of the roaster-manufacturers in England, who did not in the slightest degree object to the Bill which the Honourable Member proposed should be carried into a law. It was, however, necessary that some alteration should be made in its provisions re garding the period allotted to the masters to recover when their mills were impaired by accident. Mr. STRICKLAND had been requested to support th e prayer of thi s petition. In every discussion that took place on the subject, he should abstain from throwing any bla me on the mast e rs, as many of them had, with the greatest readiness, concurred with the labourers in wishing that seine legislative measure should be adopted upon the subject. Mr. SCHONSWAR hoped the House would not suffer their feelings to be led astray by any exaggerated represen tation that might be made upon the subject. But from all he bad been able to learn, there bad been no ezaggera- Mr. C. PELHAM was understood to support the petition. Mr. SADLER, in moving that the petition might lie on the table, begged to know if it were possible that a petition so numerously signed by the surgeon., clergy, and a vast majority of the most intelligent inhabitants of that quarter of the world, could hold out to the Legislature a series of exaggerations ? He could assure the House, from his own knowledge, that the greater part of the allegations in the petition were strictly proved. In regard to referring the petition to a Select Comtnittee, Select Committees had brought the case before the House for the last thirty years, but without any advantage being derived from their reports. The subject of the petition had been considered throughout every part of the kingdom, and the utmost de gree of labour that human nature could undergo had been very accurately ascertained. In the late reign an Act of Parliament was passed, interdicting the Ma gistrates, or any other persons--even the felon, from labouring for more than 10 hours out of the 24. If it were found that adults, therefore, could only undergo comparatively such a period of labour, why should it be that the Legislature should hesitate to interpose to pre vent the cruelty of allowing individuals to work children, mere infants, for fourteen, sixteen, and even eighteen hours out of the twenty-four? The late Sir Robert Peel had done his utmost to have a law introduced on this subject. He was a person who knew perfectly the nature of the employment to which these children are subjected—it was his interest to extract as much labour from those he employed as possible, but still he was found in Parliament stating that it was impossible for any man to appear there who had the common feelings of huma nity, and who had any idea of the great cruelties which these poor children were compelled to undergo, without enforcing on the Legislature the necessity of in terposing on behalf of these helpless and cruelly treated children. Some Hon. Gentlemen had said, let the House not be led away by excited feelings; but he (Mr. S.) would consider it no degradation to the House to allow feelings to interpose and to run high on the pre sent occasion. When the proper time came, he could however, have no hesitation in showing,that it had increased particularly among the youth in the large manufacturing districts in this county, by the excessive and inconceivable suffering and slavery which the children had to undergo. When the proper time came there would be no difficulty in unfolding a tale of suffering and of degradation, on the part of the operative youth, which was unknown to the House, and certainly unknown to the greater part of the country. He certainly should object to a reference of the question to a Select Committee, He hoped the House would not hesitate openly and boldly to take the matter into its own hands, and the Government would speedily introduce a system of justice and humanity respecting the employment of manufacturing children, far which so great a portion of the public were anxiously looking. The present petition was signed by nearly 10,000 individuals, including almost all the adults in the town of Huddersfield, undoubtedly including all those who were most competent to give an opinion, and the voice of the whole was for the immediate interference of Parliament. Sir G. MURRAY presented a petition from a ship: owner whose vessel had been seized by the squ•idro❑ that had blockaded Terceira. The petitioner estimated his loss at 6001., and he prayed the House to take his case into consideration. Lord PALMERSTON stated that the case of the peti tioner had received all that attention to which it w as ea _ titled. He had the opinion of the legal authorities upon the subject, and they informed him that every foreign Government had a right to lay an embargo on any port when they deemed it necessary.—(llear.) In this case an em bargo had been laid, in the exercise of a right be longing to the Government of Terceira, and in conse quence it was not in his power to lay claim to compensation. This case was very dissimilar to the cares of the captures of Lisbon ; in the latter the Por tuguese Government had violated the law of nations, and, therefore, was compelled to make compensation. To show that no partiality had been exercised respecting Terceira, there was one case in which a ship had been violently and illegally seized, and in consequence satisfac tion was demanded. Sir G. MURRAY adverted to the circumstance of a French vessel having been seized and afterwards allowed to proceed on her voyage, and it was therefore he thought the present case ought to come within the same rule. Lord PALNIERSTON said, if the Government of Terceira did not exercise their rights respecting the French vessel, that formed no ground for the British Government interfering in this particular case.--The petition was ordered to be printed. PORTUGAL. Mr. COURTENAY rose, in pursuance of his notice respecting Portugal. No man who had paid any attention to the history of this country—no man who had attended to the communications which had been made from the Throne during the last four years, and particularly no man who had read the eloquent speeches which were delivered about two years ago by the Noble Lord, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and by the Hun. Member for Knares borough, could doubt the importance of those relations which he had undertaken to-night to bring before the House, or of the propriety of occasionally discussing them in that House. That he should be the individual to bring before them a matter of such moment, was owing to an accidental circumstance, to which he cyanid presently allude. But he claimed the indulgence of the House for one who, although an old Member, after twenty years' ser vice, and probably for the last Session, now for the first time during that period brought an important discussion before the House.—(Hear.) If there had ever existed individual grounds fur inquiring respecting our situa tion with regard to Portugal, at the present time there were peculiar reasons for this discussion. The House would recollect, that for four years, all deplomatic relations with our ancient ally bad been sus pended. From the King's Speech they were told that there were numerous occurrences which might threaten the peace of Europe. There was a third reason for this discussion in the situation of his Noble Friend (Lord Palmerston) opposite. He was not disposed, after having been so many years in connec tion with Governm e nt, to admit the justice of tha t feeling which was stated to give confidence in the Adminis tration for Foreign Affairs. Upon this subject it often hap pened that a Government was so prejudiced by opinions delivered before taking office, as to take from them when in office that presumption in their favour which ought to belong to them. In that predicament it was that his Noble Friend now stood. Let it not be sup posed, however, that he wished to make any c harge against his Noble Friend which was inconsistent with his personal excellence. All he charged him with was an inconsi.tence which was dangerous to the peace of the country,thoughdoubtless creditable to his personal character. Under these circumstances he rose to move for certain papers, and to ask for explanations from his Noble Friend relative to the peculiar state of the relations committed to his change. But before stating what his 'notion was, he was desirous of having it fully un• derstood, what the motion was not. He was particularly anxious to have it known that be was not standing up as an advocate of either of the disputants from the Portugese throne. To him Don Pedro and Don Miguel were alike. His object was not to advocate the cause of any particular dynasty or form of Government, but to take that course which he thought it was his duty to pursue, for the pre servation of peace on the principles of non-interference. That was the system of practice pursued by the old Go vernment and avowed by the present, but which, it appeared to him had by the present Government been greatly departed from.--(Hear, hear.) In order to elucidate the matters be had referred to, and to show the position of the Noble Lord opposite in particular, and to justify what he had said of him, he must request the at tention of the House to a short narrative of the proceed ings with respect to Portugal for the last three or four years. He would begin with that point of time when the Noble Lord opposite sat in Parliament with the Duke of Wellington and his Right Hon. Friend near him. It was early in 1828 that his Majesty, by the advice of a United Cabinet, withdrew his forces from Portugal. He (Mr. Courtenay) mentioned this to show that at that period there had been no determination en the part of Ministers, to interfere in any way in the internal Government of Portugal. The troops of this country had been sent there at the instance of Mr. Can ning, to repel a foreign invasion, and when those invaders were repelled, the troops were withdrawn. The connec tion of the Noble Lord opposite with the then existing Government continued but a few months after that period. But it continued for some short time, after Don Miguel had gone to that country, not quite until he had assumed the title of absolute King ; but after he had, accord ing to the avowals of Messrs. Huskisson and Lambe, exhibited the most unequivocal marks of his intention to depart from the engagements which he had made with this country. He had removed every officer supposed to be unfavourable to the Constitution. He had dissolved the Chamber without calling another, contrary to the Charter, and, according to Mr. Huskisson, had evinced a disposition to destroy the Constitution altogether. After this the Noble Lord opposite concurred in the order sent by Mr. Huskisson, for a recal of the troops. He (Mr. C.) merely mentioned this to show the position in which affairs stood, when that fatal separation in the Government, to which he had alluded took place.— Up to that time, all those gentlemen who were then Members of Government lamented the elevation of Don Miguel, and the dethronement of Donna Maria, but de termined neither to interfere with the arms of England to support the one or the other. Every thing remained in this state for upwards of two years ; there was not any interference on the part of Donna Maria, or against the individual who had usurped her rights. Government preserved a peaceful neutrality during the whole period.—(Hear, hear.) Towards the end of that period, however, Government, which now sate opposite, began to move. They expressed themselves not quite content with the neutrality preserved, and the then Hon. Member for Knaresborough made a motion representing Don Miguel to have been placed on the throne by the efforts of faction. At that period his Right Hon. Friend at the side of him bad laid down the principles of neutrality, founding them on the same prin ciples as those pursued by Mr. Canning, not departing from, but contending for, non-interference with the affairs of Portugal. On that occasion, the present Lord Chan cellor, differing from the Member for Knaresborough, de clared himself strongly in favour of non•interterence. But upon that occasion the Noble Lord opposite made the first of those celebrated speeches on foreign affairs which had no doubt contributed to place him in his present situ ation. He took a view different from that which bad been taken by the Noble Lord now occupying so important a place in the Cabinet. It was then said that al though actively or by arms we could not interfere, it was our duty, and the intention of Mi. Canning to give to one party a moral support. An expression which, he would venture to say, was not justified by any thing which the late Mr. Canning had ever advanced in that House, and in direct contradiction to the course which he had taken in every similar case; and most par ticularly contrary to the opinion he had given when not hampered by office, and when he coincided with and adopted the rules laid down by the Honourable Gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Canning held that the non-intervention to be adopted should be absoiute and unqualified, unless they were prepared to sit night and day to impose taxes, and exert the whole power of the country for the interests of the party they had determined to support. It was not until the month of February, 1830, that his Majesty had expressed to the House of Commons. But he had not deemed it yet expedient to place on their• ancient footing the diplomatic relations of this country with Portugal ; o❑ that occasion Lord Goderich made this remark as his opinion that the time would soon come ►hen they should acknowledge what was, de facto, the Government of Portugal, for which lie did express his most earnest desire. On the 3d of November, 1830, Lord Grey had made no objections to the recognition on the contrary he considered it desirable, but objected only to coupling it with any measure on behalf of the exiled liberal and incarcerated patriot. After this the new Go vernment was formed, and he charged the Noble Lo.id opposite with acting inconsistently with the principles he had avowed. (LEFT SPEAKING.) There are at present in Rome—that is, since the commencement of winter—about 800 English, a num ber much less than in preceding years. With the excep tions of the Earl of PEMBROKE. Lady CLARE, the Countess of Covertrav, and Lord W. FITZGERALD, there are but few of any notoriety among them. The society, however, although limited, has been extremely agreeable and pleasant this winter. All the Ambassadors, particu larly those of France and Austria, have contributed much to the gaiety of the season, as their palaces are open for the reception of visitors one or two evenings in the week. The house of TORLONIA, to which all the English who transact business in the bank of that firm are invited, has given repeated splendid soirees. Their entertainments, however, are not over select, and on the last " recevi mento" evening, a great sensation prevailed on the en trance of the fair companion of an Irish Nobleman into the rooms. She was unaccompanied by her Lord. Ma n y respectable English ladies instantly retired. The en tertainments given by Cardinal Weer., since his change of residence to his new palace, have been particularly splendid. He supports the dignity of his station with the greatest credit to his country, and is universally respected here for the great politeness and urbanity of his character. Regardless of distinction in religion, he receives at his palace all the respectable English visitors at Rome. In the absence of an English Ambassador, he is, in many respects, of f i us t n h fid e rasy g t rsleaeasrttme theotn s ervice furoo mn. a t o acn hadti Catholic Rev.ocountrymen it to r Na o c oad very h p r m r e a . v c preached audience, in the church of Gesu e Maria. His manner of delivery reminded the much of his brother, Lord ALTHORP. He appears most zealous in his sacerdotal vocation, nor spared he his Protestant brethren. The remains of the late Mr. CHRISTOPHER DAVIS were interred in a vault belonging to the Smoot family, in the chancel of the parish church of Shepton Mallet, on Thursday last. A considerable number of the respectable friends of the deceased attended his remains to the grave. Mr. DAVIS was a native of Shepton Mallet, where he possessed some property. Reports have been in dustriously circulated of his being a professed infidel, and of his having roasted a Bible, which reports are totally false. The body of CLARKE was removed to his place of residence, and was buried on Thursday morning, at seven o'clock, in Bedminster church-yard. GREGORY was in terred ori Thursday afternoon in the burial ground of Christ Church ; and the body of KAYSE was taken to Cardiff for interment.—Bristol Mercury. The celebrated " Canterbury Tales," by SOPHIA and flanatxT LEE, are now printed in "The Standard Novels," the whole five Bvo. volumes of the ori ginal edition being comprised, without the least abridg ment, in two, the first of which, just published, contains the following stories, viz.:—The Traveller's Tale, Mont ford ; the Poet's Tale, Arundel ; the Frenchman's Tale, Constance; the Old Woman's Tale, Lothaire ; the Young Lady's Tale ; the Two Emdys ; and the Officer's Tale, Cavendish. These beautiful fictions have been the esta blished favourites of the public fur many years; they elicited from Lord BYRON the warmest eulogies, and even furnished subjects for his muse. Mrs. HARRIET Lee, who wrote the greater number of the Tales, has re vised the volumes expressly for the Standard Novels. " At the time of my abdication, both my duty and my private feelings towards the country which gave me birth, and the noble Portuguese nation, in duced me to imitate my illustrious ancestor, lion John IV., by availing myself of the short duration of my reign to restore to the Portuguese nation, as he had done, the possession of its ancient rights and privileges ; thus fulfilling, at the same time the pro mises made by my august Father, of glorious mt— mory, in his proclamation of the 31st May, 1823, and Charter of the 4th June, 1824. " To further this object, I promulgated the Con stitutional Charter of the 29th of April, 1826, in which the ancient forms of the Portuguese Govern ment, and the Constitution of the State, are vir tually confirmed; and that this Charter might truly be considered a confirmation and sequence of the fundamental law of the Monarchy, I, in the first place, guaranteed the most solemn protection, and most profound respect, to the sacred religion of our ancestors; I confirmed the law of succession with all the clauses of the Cortes of Lamego; I de termined the periods for the convocation of the Cortes, in the same manner as it had already formerly been practised in the reigns of their Ma jesties Don Alfonzo V. and Don John 111. lacknovv ledge two fundamental maxims of the ancient Por tuguese Government, viz. that laws could only be framed by the Cortes, and that in this assembly alone, and no where else out of it, should any matters be discussed relating to the imposts and administration of the public revenue and property ; and lastly, I determined that the two branches of the State, No bility and Clergy, should be united, so as to form one Chamber, composed of the great dignitaries of the kingdom, ecclesiastic and secular, experience having demonstrated the disadvantages arising from the separate deliberation of these two branches. " I added some other provisions, all tending to consolidate the national independency, royal dignity and authority, the liberty and prosperity of the people; and anxious to preserve these blessings from the hazards and inconveniency generally at tending the minority of a Sovereign, I thought that the best means of securing so desirable an object would be to unite my august daughter to a Portu guese Prince, naturally supposing, that, both in consequence of the identity of religion and birth, no one could feel a greater interest for the complete realization of all those benefits with which it was my intention to felicitate the Portuguese nation ; persuaded also, that the good examples of my vir tuous relation, the Monarch in whose Court he had resided, must have rendered him worthy of esti mating the great confidence placed in him by a bro ther who did not hesitate to intrust to him the des tinies of his beloved daughter. " This was the origin of the choice I made of the Infante Don Miguel. Fatal choice, indeed, which has made so many innocent victims join their sighs to my lamentations, and which will hereafter be looked upon as one of the most disastrous epochs of Portuguese history. " The Infante Don Miguel, after having tendered to me his oath of allegiance, as his natural Sove reign, and to the Constitutional Charter, in the ca pacity of a Portuguese subject; after having soli cited me to invest him with the Regency of the kingdom of Portugal and Algarves and its domi nions, which I effectively conferred upon him, with the title of my Lieutenant, by the decree of the 3d July, 1827 ; after having commenced the discharge of such important functions, tendered his free and I spontaneous oath to maintain the Constitutional Charter, such as I had bestowed it, on the Portu guese nation, and to deliver up the Crown to her Majesty, Donna Maria 11., as soon a' she should become of age, dared to commit a crime un paralleled in history, from the circumstances with which it was attended. "Pretending to decide a case which, neither de facto nor de jure, was contentions; violating the Constitutional Charter, which he had just sworn to maintain, he convoked the three States of the King dom, in the most illegal and illusory manner, thus abusing the authority with which I had entrusted him, and treading under foot the respect due to all the Sovereigns of Europe, who had acknowledged her Majesty Donna Maria 11. as Queen of Portugal, he had it awarded by the mock representatives of the nation, who had assembled under his authority arid influence that to him and not to me the Crown of Portugal ought to have passed at the death of his Majesty Don John VI. Thus it was that Don Mi guel usurped for himself that throne with which I had intrusted him. " The Foreign Powers stigmatized this act of re bellion by immediately withdrawing their diplomatic agents from the Court of Lisbon, and my Ministers Plenipotentiary, as Emperor of Brazil, at the Courts of Vienna and London, entered their two solemn protests, of the 24th of May and the Bth of August, 1828, against all and every violation of my heredi tary rights, and those of my daughter; against the abolition of the institutions spontaneously granted by me, and lawfully established in Portugal; against the illegal and insidious convocation of those ancient States of the kingdom, which had become obsolete, and ceased to exist in consequence both of long pre scriptions, and of the new institutions above men tioned ; against the aforesaid decision of the mock three States of the kingdom, and the arguments on which they grounded it ; expressly against the false interpretation of an ancient law, framed by the Cortes of Lamego, and of another passed on the 12th of September, 1642, by his Majesty Don John IV., at the request of the three States, and in con. firmation of the said law of the Cortes of Lamego. " All these protests have been sealed with the blood which, since, has almost daily been shed by so many thousand victims of the most spotless fidelity ; and, in truth, this treacherous usurpation, placing the perpetrator in the path of illegality and violence, has brought upon the unfortunate Portuguese an ac cumulation of misfortunes greater than any nation ever suffered. " In order to continue a Government, boastingl ) said to emanate from the national wish, it has heel. necessary to erect scaffolds, on which have perishes a grea t many of th ose w h o attempte d to res i st the atrocious yoke of the usurper. The dungeons " Thus it was that the land of my birth was over whelmed with all the horrors that human perverse ness can excite. The people oppressed by the out• rages of their rulers—the pages of Poi ttuueso hit tory defiled by the lowering apologies with which the frantic Government of the usurper has been compelled to atone for some of its arts of wanton atrocity against foreigners, in spite of their respec tive Governments—all diplomatic and commercial intercouse with all Europe totally uninterrupted—in short, tyranny polluting the throne—misery and oppression stifling the most noble feelings of the nation. This is the pitiful picture of unhappy Por tugal for the last four years. Nevertheless, afflicted as lam at the existence of so many dreadful evils, I still feel a consolation in discerning the visible pro tection which God, the dispenser of thrones, grants to the noble and just cause which we defend. " When I cast my eyes on Terceira (the refuge and bulwark of Portuguese liberty, already illus trious in other periods of our history), and see how, in spite of every obstacle, Portuguese loyalty was enabled to preserve in that island the slender means with which her noble defenders not only have pre cured the obedience of the other islands to my august daughter, but also to gather together the force. 0' which we now depend, I cannot help acknowledgi' g in all this the special protection of Divine Prortdence. " Trusting on its aid—and the present Regency, in the name of her Most Faithful Majesty, the Queen, having represented to me, by means of a deputation sent to the presence of her said 'Majesty and myself, the ardent wishes of the inhabitants of the Azores, and other faithful subjects of her Ma jesty residing in those islands, that ostensibly taking upon myself the par; which belongs to me in the affairs of her Most Faithful Majesty, as her Father, Guardian, and Natural Defender, and as the head of the House of Braganza, I should take on so im portant a crisis those prompt and efficacious mea sures which the circumstances imperiously call for; and lastly, moved by the duties irapo.ed on me by the fundamental law of Portugal, I resolve to aban don that retirement, to which my presetit circum stances would lead me, and, leaving on the Conti nent those objects which are dearest to my heart, I depart to join those Portuguese, who by the greatest sacrifices have made their valour triumph over all the efforts of the usurper. " When, after my arrival in the Azores, I shall hare returned my sincere thanks to those indivi duals who composed the Regency (which I had ap pointed in consequence of my absence) for the patriotism with which, in such arduous circum- Stances, they discharged their functions, I shall reas sume (for the reasons already mentioned) the au thority with which the said Regency was invested, which I shall preserve until the period when, the lawful Government of my august daughter having iieen established in Portugal, the General Cortes of the Portuguese nation (which I shall immediately convol*) shall have decided whether it is conve. nient that I should continue in the exercise of those rights, expressed in the 92d article of the constitu tional charter ; and when resolved affirmatively, I shall take the oath prescribed by the same charter for the permanent exercise of the Regs,cy. " It will be then that the oppress) Portuguese shall see the end of those misfortunes which so long have weighed upon them ; they shall not hare to fear any reactions or acts of revenge from those of heir fellow-countrymen, who hasten to deliver them from bondage. At the moment of their meeting, those who for so many years have been far away from their native soil, will deplore with them the calamities which they have endured, and will bury them in eternal oblivion. With respect to those miserable beings whose guilty conscience makes them shudder for the overthrow of that usurpation of which they were the instigators and abettors, they may rest assured that, if the law can punish them by depriving them of those political rights which they so shamefully misused for the perdition of their country, no one of them shall be deprived either of his life or his civil rights, or of his pro perty (without prejudice to the rights of others), as so many honest men unfortunately have been, whose only crime was to have defended the laws of their country. " I shall publish an amnesty clearly defining the limits of this act of oblivion, declaring, in the mean while, that no impeachment will be received respect ing past events or opinions ; avoiding, by appropriate measures, that no one may in future be molest e d under such a plea. " On these bases I shall apply myself with the most unremitting zeal to the furtherance of many other no less important objects for the honour and welfare of the Portuguese nation ; one of the most uppermost in my thoughts being the re-establishment of the political and commercial relations which ex isted between Portugal and other States ; religiously respecting their rights, and scrupulously avoiding any compromise in matters of foreign policy, and which might in future disquiet the allied and neigh bouring nations. " Portugal shall enjoy all the advantages resulting from internal peace, and consideration abroad. Public credit shall be re-established by the acknowledge ment of all public debts, whether national or foreign, legally contracted, and, together with this, means shall be provided for their payment, which must ne ces,arily have their due share of influence on public prosperity. " I insure to that part of the Portuguese army, which, having been artfully deceived, gat present upholds the system of usurpation, that it shall be welcomed by me, if, renouncing the defence of tyranny, it shall spontaneously join the liberating army, an army which shall lend its aid to the main tenance of the laws, and shall be the strongest support of the constitutional throne, and of the welfare of their fellow-citizens. I equally guarantee to the officers of the militia, who shall refrain from sharing in the defence of usurpation, that they shall not be molested, and that they shall be immediately allowed to retire from the service, in order that they may re turn to the bosom of their families, and to their domestic employments, from which they have for so long a time been drawn away. " Not entertaining the least doubt but that these frank expressions of my sentiments will find an easy way into the hearts of all honest Portuguese, lovers of their country, and that they will not hesitate in joining me and the ranks of their loyal and fearless fellow-countrymen, who accompany me in the heroic enterprise of the restoration of the constitutional throne to her Most Faithful Majesty, my august daughter, it behoves me here to declare, that I am not going to carry to Portugal the horrors of civil war, but peace and conciliation, planting on the walls of Lisbon the Royal flag of the same august Sove reign, in accordance with the mandates of eternal justice,and the unanimous voice of all civilized nations. " DON PEDRO. Duke of Braeanza. " On board the frigate, Raynha de Portugal, Feb. 2, 1832. You will observe that among the crowd of Carbide taken into custody within these three days wets some half-dozen cooks of the exiled family. The taste of this class of persons for blood and tumult is extraordinary. The massacres of September, 1792, were perpetrated by a gang of villains, not more than two hundred in n umber, of whom a full third were cooks ! It was not with the knife, however, that the fellows of this dies arrested yesterday And the day before are charged with intending to eff cc their ~hject, but by poison ; for, however arrange it may appear, hey are said to have entertained hopes or employin. nt in the Royal kitchen—with what view it if not nem esary to state. The plot is, however, at an <nd ; but I look anxiously for more c onciliatory measures at the hands of Government than those lately and hitherto adopted to pre vent the outbreak of other and more dangerons eon. ,piracies.—Paris Correspondent of a Mornise Paptr.