The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-12 00:00:00

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of the papen which had bees produced gee the Charter, to
which- ke wield refer for the purpose of showing
how it had been violated, though it had been car-
ried out by the Duke de Niemen' with general
madsfeetien. Those whose object it was to depress the
popular had ameseted that the Miguelites were the
Crto-hedreaded notwithstanding that they had bean
y the miirdater tor foreign affairs that Don Miguel was
1. Berland, liviag in retirement, and not likely to leave it.
Bat the acts of violence, and the unconstitutional means
to which the Queen's government had resorted, had had the
stet of unitise, the M,gaelite with the liberal party in de-
knee of the national interest ; and, thus, instead of lessening
the difficalty, raising a paribility wriest the retention of
the throne by the Queen, unless she would bend to the con-
stitution. One of the first violations of the charter effected
by Jeri Cabral, and one that gave great offence to
the people, was the practice of striking out from
the list the names of many of the (instilled electors
and inviting others who were not qualified for the purpose of
carrying the elections in favour of the government. The
charter provided for trial by jury, independence of the
judges, and freedom of the press; but every one of those
provisions had been violated—juries had been suspended
altogether—judges had been removed from place to place
and dismissed—no newspaper had been permitted except
such as were published under the sanction and which were
wholly under the influence of the government—and arrests,
imprisonment, and even transportation had been resorted to,
without the semblance of law or trial. but at the will of the
Minister of Justice, in order to put down the popular voice.
He had that day spoken to a gentleman, one of 700 political
prisoners who had been confined in one prison, and who had
escaped in consequence of a political disturbance, in which
the doors of the prison had been forced, and the prisoners
liberated, though eighty or ninety of them were, on
their way to their homes, butchered in the streets.
These political prkonen had their houses invaded, contrary
to the sixth article of the testy 'shish goeranteed that
every man's house should he his asylum' and were carried
off without maculation on trial and locked up with felons of
the worst description. In fact the chief of police seemed to
have had unlimited power of arrest without bringing the
parties arreited before any tribunal of justice. Another
breach of the treaty was to have been erred in the viola-
tion of the teensy of letters ; indeed in no part of the country
was correspondence by litter eoneidered sacred. in short it
was impossible to find a single guarantee, protection, or pri-
vilege that Wiwi been swept away; and when the people so
aggrieved had been driven by desperation to take up arms
in defence of their just rights, as we ourselves had done on
former octagons ; they wore to be pat down by the com-
bined forces of three other nations. (Hear, bear.) But
That was not all. The Queen had declared herself dictator;
pathos an end at once to every court of justice and tribunal
la the country. She had ales, contrary he believed to the
Airier of MO, appointed her consort commander-in-chief
of the army, which, according to the report of our own mi-
nister, had added to the alarm which them prevailed. He
would not weary the house with further details. Besides
bribery, extortion, and the levying alarms without law, the
pmerement had acted most disgracefully in their
Mtsespts to raise money by bonds, and other means, the
mart and the army being in the greatest want, and without
may chance of replenishing their exhausted exchequer. In
that, every act of the government had been unconstitutional
Ina tyrannical—(hear, hear)—and yet such was the eon
duct that this country was called on to support. Prance had
expelled Charism I. for conduct not one twentieth part as
bad—( hear, boor)—and in referees@ to that eat. Lord Grey,
. Os Rowe of Lords ma the 2nd of November,
183thr,"&—
tf remlekeaseald be reeked essammy le any dreseswee,tit wax
readmit ramism by what I meg all sa useustilebte Oak on the
narks Oki mkt& As an kollimas, owing the benefits which
I at present espy to a Wrathy maw% dabs* prembed. I rejoice
la the nehlease at he French meek Is the Mak ups their Wer-
ke : and I 'Melee la the chancre ef Oak white men et frees the
Owl inskek when esektenss hewn sasessem es Vie espolion of
ibe WOE, Malty. la sash a men restsenses wee memsney, was
nolik awl I anwet anestes a name heirtallmtag SSIWS ISM hue of
• simple minks open es holy a manse kik °wasp away af tbe
SIM, est ming *dory, eke skirted, with auk lawarelteled
meierstica.
each was the opinionof Lord Grey before he took etain
smejuoction with the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign
Atkin, and the noble lord now at the head of the govern-
ment, upon the principles of economy, retrenchment, re-
form, non-intervention in foreign affairs and peace; and
that opinion he did not fear to reiterate when in office, for on
the 22nd of the same mouth he said, " Now that I am in
office I repeat that the first object, interest, and duty of my-
self and colleagues will be to maintain peace consistently
with the honer of the country, and to observe the principle
of non-interference." Here, then, were members of that
government endeavouring to crush by force of arms the
leaders of • revolution In Portugal, caused by a degree of
tyranny and oppression ten times ea great as that which gave
rue to the revolution in France, while he found acting in co-
operation with them, Louis Philippe, a man who owed his
CIOWR to the barricades—(loud cheers)—and who, he thought,
was too shrewd and too careful of his own interests to be a
party to such • measure. (Hear, hear.) It might be
thought by Os noble lord and his colleagues who bed con-
curred in this interference in the affairs of Portugal, that
because dry had taken Dan Antes and 2 or 3,000 men pri-
soners they Mould thereby further the ends of peace; but
the opinions uniformly expressed by the ministers of former
days did not justify such an anticipation. The Duke of
Wellington, en 3d June, 1833, in moving an address to his
Majesty, Oat be week' be pleased to give such directions is
were WINSIIIINT INS _MAXIS the observance by lie subjects of
his Ithaeoles hominid neutrality in Portugal, aid :
He Mesta mail lbs whin stews kw wee still alles, bat it was
the planks eta nems whew mks was arm mikes& wlllient ex-
siting in eery team mallusals ed neeerass owl elideakm Thu
lediedual bed bed to me Ms siwksite Osshime adepaml by tee
skins 11 wide. as Oa Meat tea pm** hest erg Opt he
mkt Mr Walk Omsk saw lard keelL "Iltrkt (meld
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of power he wseht eftentke eadeb Bs (ths de
inks) apply Ode te Be caw of Den Mosel, ulte bad • pre-
pearkentegpswer, ant he wail Om kg, was It rtglettlk we should
she id, et gat or pesnemsat droll eve be esmstlea to the
Leall. =Li sozglabe
s.deriehmmis hisaber itt
=len oforsfy.livdimeneve.=.theatiebe mak
they wrest be pek=r ast mankyiai le ; and, h key 1=;
Ow mod dee by gbh, ,re, or by dWimailasof wee.
Helen present gownsman Wed on that primal*? They
had ant Even the sada: of kanirence by torte of arms
lTlittl the junta, war not delivered to the president until
fight after their feet had been taken. (Hear, hear.)
Surely the British navy could and to declare what their
intentions were, and not act in so disgraceful and unac-
countable a manner. He did net believe it possible that
such a disgraceful act of injustices could have been perpe-
trated by a nation so powerful as this ; and it was a
stain upon it which he feared would never be re-
moved. If we had even excluded Spain from our inter-
vention, Portugal might have been content to hear injustice
from so strong a power ; but the border feuds of Scotland
did not equal the enmity which existed between the Spanish
and Portuguese ; and the opinion of every Portuguese there-
fore was, that their country was degraded to the last ex-
tremity by allowing Spain —a country that was unable to
attend to her own interests, or to terry on her own govern-
ment—to be a party to the late protocol. (Hear,
hear.) His ban. friend (Dr. Bening) observed to
him that Louis Philippe did it all. He (Mr. Hume)
did himself believe that Louis Philippe was at the bottom of
it all. (Laughter.) He would now call attentiou to a few
extracts fees the papers before him, to still funkier justify
him in the ammosio was adopting, and still further support
his avian otar interievenee Os dossed, gaits of
Mr. Southern, when despreabee be pad read
with great fig, evindeg, rthey did, greet talent
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that troop bed advanced to the &mike,
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et I•ban walla yen ermin et the Mr
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And yet the setae lord seterpamtly searissed end ap-
proved that Mork nines whin Mr. Balser bed estasseerl
sad provided opersi. Leaded to those dessesure Ores
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dog of the irroommat, lie would allew the made lad
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wire altruyen sr Osinsina% web Tarter, nay he able
le make tm me =mita dot purpose, will twelve the ap-
probation ether grwirsoast.
He would reed sae were menet upon the subject from a
despateh of the nein red to Mr. Dulwer, on 4th January:
Ike* to laelomet *tie* On Spanish government that it Is
now porgly wMI aeeeeseere Net tae Illguelito movement in Portugal
ter hen nin;wlllllll...c.iiar loading persons connected with
no posy In Ord Nat mane persons suspect that
blis assayed Nat who thought it might afford
• gasilort resign tosellesse Os etch dissensiona now misting
Y BMW!: sal emodeady De Monetb movement cannot be
Ire Meneers goverment as forming any justification
w▪
henever to an intedionece by eosin in the Warnel afisirs of
Partapl.
On the 10th of Jen Mr. Southern wrote to Lord Pal-
/*entail
LSO= is pn.* tesegoll, with the emotion of *eastern sea.
'aka mead maws it rear stem by the coationsi prembg for
sirinh ahem 'at awl mem the WNW clam, by the
nomilespasallo Ye* mato tempt tee re
theme:tripe lapiWi• Amalie la bibs. it mom thet assis
gislen bee tens Medea *them la emmennes et ham Ineseespied
• pemenetheep.mdaddrametedem I mheamethey'reace
=teft my sikbeter• ifolelmswels s amok, at pnisatin,
o Ineedie rens tin to wrlntanrs 'weir art ►
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• the PM. akmai OW= le Unser tan
he Prom inapsni este le the prig ar.
gen* me Ma hese bus ermine merry as news pen&
ail esessestionists Y On cr en lohnesslons and lissawase-
Eris. The hone M metinel as Illmele le Ulm
hem Win rport hewzatharolarolam lab="l.
the =en Dem Ms hem to
the ned aspeelehdll7 their depeeteeent.
It Is pails Irlemmee b saw mar ems ann.
hara ettlak brew t eat Men between the ley/ma
me DegemilMt paths egelent the Clem ha I do net beam they
hem lisq esai Fm s& agegaels. Met et lama Wm say gm
la Ow Ito persesetra sinse
la are Dm fine Deka Tear de =a'qeehl:.r.do-
atht.2Omet Theamt latemo DIM
de Tam. mien the Duke eI tLleakal 4abtabb Lis Timm
111 an a/ Oineral dame ; Dm hoe de leasedre. lerether at
theMmie Abeentes; sad Jan Padre de Alhamentle • °mem
Them were the name of ems of the first stehllity who
had hen wrested without erne. He (Mr. Hum) bad
probably failed in stating what be intended, in order
to show what were the owns of complaint by the
people. One of those be bad passed by. In article 15,
sections 8 and 9, it was enacted that in the national Cortes
alone was vested the power of assenting to or refusing the
entrance of foreign forces. But our government, by the in.
troduction of forces supported Queen Doane Maria in the
violation of this article, and gave great additional cause of
complaint to the people. That the Queen should violate it
caused him no surprise. but it surprised him that this coun-
try was so little scrupulous. There was one set of violence
which he had &Totten to state. On 3rd November, by a
decree which was issued, the Queen ordered that all ecclesi-
astics, coley of the laity who should be taken with arms in their
=soy ef the regular officers who joined the in surgery.,
IL
Imardistely tried,and the execution of the sentence
was gland et the disposition of the commanding officer.
Misr the dint at Torres Vedras, 30 officer and a number
non WE down their arms, and expected to be treated with
all the honour' of war; but instead of being taken to a place
of safety, they were sent to the penal settlements, on the
coast of Africa. Our minister represented the injustice of
this, and the noble lord (Palmerton) called attention to it,
but withoot effect, and they wero placed on board a vessel
so confined that disease must have ensued; and the captain
of the vessel refused to take so many persons, who, being no-
blemen and gentlemen, could not but suffer severely from the
want of aecommodatioe,which could only have been endured
by criminals who were accustomed to such confinement. This
captain had been superseded, and another appointed in his
place, merely from this appeal to humanity ; and those
prisoners were now exposed to that unhealthy climate. He
would now quote from a despatch of the noble lord's, dated
April 5. (It was frourViscount Palmerston to Sir Hamilton
Seymour, and appeared in this paper on Thursday lost.)
In those principles he (Mr. Hume) agreed, and he regretted
that there had been any change with respect to them. Fort
fit. Julien, at the mouth of the lapis, was the place ap-
pointed for the reception of the prisoners, and the Por-
tuguese government sought to have authority there ; but
Admiral Parker landed some marines, took possession of
it, and insisted on good accommodation being afforded to
them. He might have wished to have the tole superin-
tendence of the prisoners, and his motives might have been
good, but still it was an interference. In his (Mr. Hume's)
mind, the conduct of this country was a gross violation of the
principles of non-intervention, and he sate no prospect of the
peace of the world if those principles were not respected.
Suppose that Austria, Russia, and Prussia, marched an
army to Paris, and re-established the old dynasty. could
England say a word against it? Looking to the effect of inch
intervention on different countries and the world at large,
he could not see where it was to end. If we wished to inter-
fere with other nations why did we not interfere to prevent
the lamina of Mexico by America? We would not at-
tempt each iaterventies. with Austria, but we did with
that poor country, Portugal. He was one who highly ap-
proved the recognition by the Doke of Wellington of the
governments of France and Belgium after the revolutions in
those countries, and he thought we were only actiag consist-
ently with the tenure of our liberty in the country in ac-
knowledging the right of a people to dispose of their own
government. If we approved of that disposition in the eases
of France sad Belgium, and suffered them to maintain their
liberties seamtheies what should we say to Portugal?
Might net SIM gdeKeae m well interpose in the affairs of
Ireland, or bogus's soy parties in this country ? The prin-
ciple of kallmarention appeared to him fraught with danger,
sad he swan limits to it. lie lamented what had taken
plies, sad bared it could not end there, and he hoped
the WIN read slow to the world that they did not concur
hi Y. lie dead =Ore the resolution of which he had
elm ailloo. He soopottod having been, compelled to make
aellea► beds asseamt of ita cause, and became it
feed Ma to sea Name m tins with whom be wished to
sl BM tie war potty question, lout a national and
unbilluld sae. and
le should expect that all them members
she viol Ilieliwaiw it the liberty they enjoyed, would
wee viik him lie jta, reeks amluded by moving
Int is she julligarelleilliebeeee his mused interference
alibis gotromme between politieol rodeo in Portugal is
enwermeldb b piedhis, and likely to red to serious and
stisobienss
Mr. B. 08110="Lossended the motion.
Loyd HARRY VAISB contended that the einem:Mantes
which hod been stated. sad which were known from the
illealiMida en the lad", tally justified the intervention
of rib onostrf (Star, hear.) He entertained the con-
lima that her IL away'. government had acted right in ,
steps to WNW a disastrous state of things to
otherwise Hay mold not see any termination. It
bailed to bin that • sin of justification against a chatrge of
resin intertwines was completely made out by time docu-
ments la the ponied= of every ben. member ; end, under
ensit eireumstences, he should give his decided epposition to
tall desolation moved by the bon, member for Montrose.
Alter a long pause (during which no Iten, member pre-
sented himaelt to address the house), a partial wry of
Divide," together with loud calls for Lord Palmenton,
was raised. The noble lord relented his seat ; and, after a
continuance ef the demands for a division for a few seconde,
Mr. B. ESCOTT observed that there were stranger+ in
the galleries.
Strengen were ordered to withdraw ; hut, almost on the
same instant,
Mr. M. MILNES proceeded to address the house, urging
at some length his reasons for objecting to the motion of
the her. member for Montrose. He was clearly of
opinion that this interference was due in honour to the
Queen of Portugal; and he believed that it would be justified
by its practical results. It was impossible that the ceoten
*lad have been put an end to in a more pacific way. Das
itatas and his party were now prisoners in the hands of the
British forces; and where could they he sorer ? (Cheers,
and laughter.) It had been hinted that this traivecion
would entail great disgrace on this country, if full warning