The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-29 00:00:00

THE FRENCH DISPUTE WITH PORTUGAL

(From mien/6j' Monitor.)

The MONII4IW has announced the conclusion of the
Mariam which had arisen between Frame and Portugal
upon the subject of the venal Charles et Georges. The
lirmarcer's government had demanded the liberation of the
captain, the restitution of the reseal, and an indemnity for
the injury caused to the parsons interested in her. These
demands have obtained ea metre atlsfaction. Him Majesty's
government had not premaied them until after, by a re-
peated exmoination of the affair, it had acquired a profoend
oniviatlon that it nal In the right, and a plain statement of
the faota will milk, to notabliah that these demands were
legitimate.

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Breech vend, the Charles et Georges, authorised by the
colonial goverment of the Reunion to recruit for free
=grow by voluntary engagements, la arrested by a Portu-
guese ("delta in the Bay of Conducts, a possession depend-
ent an Mozambique. She had on board her one bandied and
ten wrote, part of them remelted at Mayotte and the Greet
Consorts Island, and part of them at Matibone, on the Portu-
guese meat.

Ravin bean taken to Etossanhiqus, the Charles et Georges
is referred to ahi banal which ocadanse her as guilty of
having carried en the slays-trade; a sentence of two years'
imprisonment is pronounced on the captain • the vessel is
ordered to be confiscated, and the mimested, found ott bawd of
her are pieced at the disposal of the local authorities.

Now, the Aro observation which presents iiselflTthat, ac-
cording to the deckwations made by the captain, and the
verification. of by the Mulder et Marine, the arrest of
the vowel took place beyond the limits of the territorial see,
and things* outside the Forewarn Jurisdiction ; the
Noremtdque anthorithe that had no right to take condones
tithe metter.

But, eves admitting that the arrest was performed in the
territorial sea, as the Portuguese officer pretends it was, the
conduct of the Mosembique authorities is no lase un-
justilable. To thessastrate this, it is stifficieht to remark
that the Gorsivese-f3eneral and the commission &wad to
yea Named ea the Oberlin et George@ did not take into
' secomal deer the awake ppm with which she was pro-
vided, and which proved the legal* at air altilialthir th•
lemma of a delights of the Pence administration on hoard
of her, or Wind any of the circumetiacee which ought to
hew ha ao deubt about the legtheaelesees of her minks,
sad the Satire good faith of the espial.
We may be the rather annisbad at the Portuguese gnaw-
rhise baying canal M vegeed a mite of alaw-trading, tame.
ware white we *idly Islas& and regulated by Preach
leghistisa, is, ea the 11th of November, lei/, that le to
say, more days haws the arrest of the Charles et Georges,
the Goverear-Osearal had addressed to the district governor.
a ciroder, the prelim Sheet of which was to mutate their
ewes°. with mewl le the Preset ?MINIS which might
arrive in say of the Portuguese porta, to order to recruit
for Wearers thin. These lustrushotts Intimate that the
eathethise we to lake the plated owe not to eadowid seat
vends with these which devote themselves to the slave-
trade. After renterkieg that the easels recruiting for
ishowere arnmehtly have on board of then, far the convey.
sacred web 'shower., articles the dadiag of which is re-
garded by the Pertagaess doom of 1836 as widener of the
treat to sieves ; the eiroskr sada, that SeriovA embarrass-
ments aright result from an isomaidemre application of that
decree to vesicle which should be within the 000ditions
dying by the French law. The Governor-General then
recommeadie the district governors to act with much
chatmageotion with regard to the Preach vessels in
question, preweibrag to them, in cam of such vessels
appearing la a Portuguese port, to confine themselves to la.
hunting-to them the ceders probibliory of the engagement
and emberhatioa of outdraws, sod electing from the rip-
tide a writhe promise to conform to those order..

TM trimaran to be adopted with respect to the Charles et
%owes were this clearly fathomed bythe Portuguese authority
itaelf, and we cannot comprehend how ft can have entered
upon a coarse so cootrary to its (Intim
The Charles et Georges was brospht to Lisbon to be
Judged op appeal by a super Lit jurisdiction. The Brim