The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

'shaky ; a bankrupt exchequer; a heedulest, swept, and
perjured administrating ; a eseatre in whisk amemeree mad
it/Tindal» bed meseato mitt, mad whisk wet Made a by-
word theadleseettheirund.neelnetsetthelthter-
renews Y epaia lied ad bass etteedled with happier sestiltn.
as Might be seise hem the ingstek el the =hie kid (Pat-
etismo) he Mr. Behrer, is July Met. The malt et the
roast ieteribresse wield be a new lease of
wrong &deg to the gemeemeet GIP He eassidered
that they was net bedded la out et eight all
that led sneered la Testiest loafers the dth at October.
The Ise of election whisk had been peseaniseasd, sad the
instrustimis whisk had lam pablishel Sa dot law by the
Behest Palasells, were distinguished by greet and
spikes et with appeweel, bent by Lord Howard de Wallas
mid Mr. Borth ere. Bat even It they had been extremely
vaned, be was surprised to hear it said, as it had been said
hee. member for Pomfret Milne.), in the
Sritisk Here of Commas, that justified the military
revolution which had taken Ogee, blue book proved
that the immient of the kali itiDes Autos had been
ehareelseised by great ihellawasse end aseimation, and
&owed le the meet humble IMg !
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simisherMitet of the Moles bear.)
t aillAtde Seidaska iced theteubCabral
to had endeavoured give a aunt to the
preetut revolution; but bent Nis la hie din.
pan* of the 20th et Odes% Saelillia Is kis
of the 23rd, denied that it em eldhser sey aigremation.l
The noble lord (Lord J. Ewell) had rivedlisineemileet
at Mr. CaneinA in 182 S. Why, at that poled M.
said that the Rieftwome should be allowed M simeeseallnia
ewe Word allaim,- language with which the es tee new
puessul by Deem' was totally at variesse. le was easier '
to observe whet metzedietory statements was made in
mimeo te Des Miguel. At one mamma Ship esiers told
that be wee a =easter of atrocity; at enedeer, that the
sational holing of Portugal was so much in his favour that
three powers must interfere to prevent him from
Gbeaia the mown. If Don Miguel were really so
leveler as was represented, how could interference
taustified uniisteutly with the doctrine that the
had a right to select their own rulers?'
t;er odd any hon. gentleman who recognised the princi pies
which had put William of Orange on the throne of Eng-
land, Lash Philippe on the throne of France, Leopold on
the throne of Belgium, reconcile those principles with
the um of areas to prevent a people from placing on their
own throw a prises whom they loved? It the interests of
Pal were stated as the ground of interference, he mdse
t ,sithat the interference should have taken place imY
diately after the first success of the queen's troops ; for maay
of those cruelties and atrocities which had sham
been committed would thus have been
What a spectacle did England present! For Ln":411:
she had been ridiculing, remonstrating. against, cioteesdag,
and preventing the interference ot Spew, end, at the ellemmth
hour, she was driven from her position, forced to ads& that
Spain had the power of interfering, and led to interfere her-
self, because without doing so, she thought France and
Spain would step in witbont her. Such a spectacle was not
creditable to this country ; such a course was not likely to
lead to the future tranquillity of Europe. The noble lord
had maintained that the interference wee called for by a just
consideration of English interests. Could it be for the per-
manent interest of England that, whenever the three powers
which joined with us in the quadruple alliance agreed that
intervention wee right and necessary, whatever might be our
opinion of the particular case, we should interfere an concert
with them ? He would, by way of illustration, imagine a
great revulsion to take place in Spain. Could they then
say, "Let the throne take care of itself "? No, they
would be debarred from taking such a position by
the course recently pursued ; whenever Spain, Por-
tugal, and France decided that an occasion had
arisen for interference in the affairs of the peninsula,
Elegised must use force to carry out what was considered
nout
(Hear, hear.) He agreed with the hon. member
for Rebury, that, as England had interfered, she was bound
to see that the interference was attended with the desired
remelts. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord (Lord J. Russell)
said this must be left to the Queen of Portugal. They could
not shut their eyes to the fact, that the government of Por-
tugal was in the habit of violating its pledgee, and that, in
the direst extremity, when crouching to England for assist-
ance, it was just is false and cruel as it had been in
the hour of full prosperity. Sir George Seymour, in
writing to the Conde Das Antes, in May, had spoken
to him of pledges " based on the unquestioned good faith of
a gracious sovereign." Would it be credited that the noble
lord, the minister for foreign affairs, writing on the 15th of
February, directed Sir George Seymour to say to the
Portuguese government that it would be a breach of faith to
deal with the prisoners of Torres Vedras In " the manner
contemplated," and that they nevertheless were treated in
" the manner contemplated" previous to the Conde
Des Antas being reminded of the " unquestioned "
royal word of the Portuguese sovereign ? Atter such
conduct as this we could not with any reason ex-
pect our conditions to be submitted to; and what, then,
mutt be the consequence? Should we be called upon to
inter Are next year in order to exact the fulfilment of our
stipulations? If there was another national rising were we
=d to Waders to put it down, or were we to set a
in 1847, not to be acted upon by ourselves
Ia OM, =rnat eertain to be followed by almost every other
aatico at say time that it might suit their con-
venience to interfere in the affairs of an adjacent
country? (Hear, hear.) The noble lord opposite had
cited, on Friday night, certain precedents for the course
pursued. Amongst others, he had called to recollection an
intervention which had happened in the affairs of our own
country in 1688, although it was strange how little the noble
lord appeared to see that the particular prece-
dent bore against his arguments. According to the noble
lord's theory, one might suppose that whenever a revolution
had so little hold on the affections of the people that it
could only be sustained by force of foreign arms, then it was
to be described as " glorious, pious, and immortal," whilst
if it was so deeply rooted that it could only be put down by
the armed intervention of three powerful nations, then we
were justified in describing it as impious and inglorious.
The noble lord, moreover, had described the junta u inca-
pable of maintaining order amongst their own followers,
and as having absolutely lent their sanction to a reign of
anarchy in Oporto. A more ungenerous cruel, and unjust
accusation than this surely never had been made. Agate.
sated as the people of Oporto were at seeing the
flower of their troops captured by a most disingenuous
manoeuvre, their conduct was not only tranquil and peace-
able, but towards the English in Oporto—towards every
stranger whose nation had taken part against them—they
conducted themselves with absolute kindness, and displayed
wise, humane, and even conciliatory conduct. A merchant
who had resided twenty years in Oporto wrote to him that
morning that the statement reported to have been made by
the noble lord the other night was utterly unfree. He rad
that during seven months that Oporto had been crowded
with troops only one instance of insult had come under
observation as having been offered to any individual during
the entire period. Any thoroughfare in London would, he
declared, exhibit in one night more scenes of turbulence than
had occurred In Oporto during the entire seven months.
(Hear, hear.) "Oa a review, therefore, of all the Mecum-
stances," said the noble lord. " I gannet arrive at any other
conclusion than that the conduct of the Portuguese govern-
ment was such as justified the Portuguese people in an at-
tempt to secure their lives and liberties. The whole conduct
of that government appears to me to have been most extra-
ordinary. Thu Parturiss• might say of them, as one of our
poets said of a gwoleemeat of his day—
. What well tbase madam banns!
Testa Idle us salmi peter peace,
aselso es either* enswee ram
ad wined power mewsm r
))lase as ream* epee the premises et this government for
Se!atmret Ide wiliness we ma trot them ; and it is he-
m.. I believe this internmeme ea our part not to be for
the interests of Portugal, beam*. I believe that the interests
efla iewassaist ke the disgrace attending the transie-
nts, imee le be AIM prosellag pens, I believe it will pro.
dese a thorned resew aretees thee that it was intended to
eseppene—it is for then name that I give my support to the
besi.mmeher's prom Aim erademordery of thin interrention.
(Seer, lure.) The Jfeet, Indeed, is beyond our recall ;we
0111111114 will *ON Ifitie suffered la the fatal exile to Angola,
we surd Tema ilasse who have perished in the tumults
whisk ham eseenred • hat, sir, there is one thing the Com-
mons lisalead poi is. de--the future is still before us ;
we ma siendiate the president which has been set
by the overaiment a our country; we can tell the
pewees a Europe that we will not be bound by
this est, last we protest against it, condemn it, and will not
men it to be drawn into • precedent! That is a constitu-
tiael course for a House of Commons to take, and I trust
that by the mei epee this question we shall affirm the pro
=of fad position, and declare that this inter-
feron ref to the country, nor in out opinion
likated. pawto the interests of Portugal and
edit we dia. it calculated to disturb the tran-
ifaity of Bereps cad the world." (Much cheering.)
Mr. T. DIINCOM3MsouIii not help expressing his regret
Nat the house had est earlier in the present session heard
km the opposite Wean those expressions of deep affection
gtrwaYlgtlosalhedseawhich bad been enunciated that
dOiLr. (Red, beer.) He was much mistaken if on a pre-
date weeder, this vary year, he bad not heard from those
ewe lair an emphatic declaration that the most perfect
blessing wee the most perfect despotism, and that the Em-
perors of Russia and et Austria deserved the gratitude of
,mankind for extinglisithig the independence of Cracow.
(Hear, hear.) lie said not help thinking that there was
more the met OS eye in the support which those
noble lose and hoeserable gentlemen were giving to the
emetics Oahe bee. member ter liketrase. Friends as they
prelim& themedvm if Meek% mooarchy, perhaps they
we emboss& *lithe MUSS' pursued by her Majesty's
acereenuat leaud, rather than otherwise, to promote the
came etmmiktdieal airs. (Hear, hear.) But, far
above the Jessie of parties, there was one consideration cou-
nseled with this subject, which, in his opinion, it was spe-
cially *portant to keep in view. Now that interference
hod talum place, our chief object ought to be, in Lis opinion,
to seem Insquillity to distracted Portugal, and to see her
people plead In the enjoyment of their constitutional rights,
and of all the advantages the intervention could afford to
them. It was with that view that he was now anxious to
propose the resolution of which be had given notice. He
must frankly say, that, after reading the papers which had
been placed in their hands, and after attentively considering
the speech of the noble lord (which was the best possible
commentary upon those papers 1, he had Geese to • aeselusion
very different heaths views he had beetled toentertain when
he Stint heard of this interference. Throughout thus ppaappGSnG
he must confess that lashed found a desire and a -lion on the part of the British government to protest the
Tighe of the people who were to arms. The 'overeaten
here, as all who read the papers must confess, were
placed in a difficult position, and had a moot difficult duty to
perform. The consequence was that they were abused by
both parties. (A laugh.) There was one plea, to
be sure, set up in their justification, to which it
was impossible for him to subscribe. It had been