The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-06-03 00:00:00

ROYAL. GARDENS, VAUXHALL.

The Prnyrleton respectfully announce, that the Entertainments.
which received such unbounded applauae on the two Ant evenings,
will be REPEATED TO-MORROW (FRIDAY) EVENING, the 4th
of June. - .

Admission Canis for the season, for one or more persons. may be
had at the Royal Gardens. and of Fenton, and Co. Music Warehouse,
Strand; Clenieutl and Co. Music Warehouse, Cheapidde: at the
Musical Saloon, 136, Regent-street; of the Loudon Genuine Tea Om
pony, Ludgatehill. tu, Charing-cross, and 14d, Oxford-street; and
of tM London Wire Company, 141, Fleet-street.
Supper BoXita may be ensued.
Doors open at Selma—Concert commences at Eight riClock.
Attiniaatun 34.8 d.

The BRITIIR Pima. commenced publishing yesterday morning
at half-past six o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1821.

A series of the Lisbon Gazette, from the 6th to the 16th
of May, reached us yesterday. The details of every a:
currenee of any interest, from the day that Don John, by
the advice of the Foreign Ministers, sought refuge and
protection on board the Windsor Castle, from the attempts
of his wife and profligate son, down to the monarch's land-
ing and return to his palace, on Don Miguel having quitted
Lisbon, will be found extracted and given in our columns.
The Lisbon Gazette of the 14th states Don Miguel's depar-
ture for this country, on board the Portuguese frigate Perola,
commanded by Captain Manuel de Perreira. The Gazette
of the next day, the 15th, however, corrects the statement
of the preceding day, and the error as to the destination
of the Portuguese Prince: from this it appears that Don
Miguel had sailed direct for Brest, on board the Pero's,
accompanied by the English frigate Lively, Captain
Elliot, and the French► brig Zebra, Captain Auguste de
Gonvet. The Prince travels under the title of Duke of
Beja, and is accompanied by the Conde de Rio Major, as
his Chamberlain. Great rs!^ieing appears to have taken
place at Lisbon, on the restoration of the Royal autho-
rity. The King, on the 13th of May, his birth-day,
received on board the Windsor Castle the compliments of
the Court, the Diplomatic Bedy, and an immense number
of his subjects of all classes. The city was splendidly
Illuminated in the evening, and confidence succeeded to,
the agitation and dismay that previously prevailed. Don
John had bestowed numerous proofs of his gratitude, while
on board the Windsor Castle, on the Members of the
Diplomatic Corps, and the British and French Naval
Officers, then stationed in the Tagus. On Hyde de Neu-
ville, the French Ambassador, he had conferred the title
of Conde de Bemposta—on the l)uke of Villahermosa, the
Representative of the Spanish Court, that of Conde de
Monta—on Sir Edward Thornton, our Ambassador, he
had conferred the addition of Conde de Casabas, and a
royal domain for three lives; besides medallions and orders
of knighthood, given to a number of individuals, Portu-
guese, British, and Foreign Officers. Captain Daabwood,
of the Windsor Castle, was named Grand Cross of the
Order of the Tower and Sword, and received the insignia
in diamonds. And Captain Elliot, of the Lively frigate,
who has escorted Don Miguel to Brest, was made Hono-
rary Commander of the same Order, with the insignia
given him in diamonds. The Monarch sent also, on his
birth-day, .500 dollars, to be divided among the crews of
the Windsor Castle ar.d the Lively frigate, as marks of his
gratitude. A plan had been proposed, of the nature of
which we are not yet aware, for making Lisbon a free
port to the Portuguese, including the Brazilians who
had not thrown off their allegiance; but this latter
is a very useless exception. On the 15th, the Monarch
landed from the Windsor Castle at half-past six in
the afternoon, at the marine arsenal. Captain Dasbwood,
with his officers, accompanied the King in his barge,
followed by a boat with the ship's band of music. At his
landing, the joy of the inhabitants seems to have been ge-
neral and sincere. Had the plans of Don Miguel and his
wicked mother succeeded, proscription and ruin would
have been carried into the first families in Lisbon, and
Portugal have been degraded by the most atrocious ty-
ranny, propped by the bayonets of a licentious soldiery.
Though despotism prevails at present in Portugal, its in-
fluence is mild, and it is perfect liberty, compared to the
state of things that would have prevailed if Don Miguel
and his mother had succeeded in their execrable views.

IFrorn the Lisboa Cezette of Alsy f to May 16.1
Max 0 and 7—Nothing relative to Portugal.
MAY B.—An Order of the Day, issued by Don Miguel, as
Canmander.in-Chief, announces that, ennformrbly to his Ma-
jesty's orders, soldiers who have been discharged may be received
into the corps which are to form the expedition ioliaded to go
beyond the sea, if they wish to re-enter his Majesty's service, dated
fith May. Another 'Order of the Day, of the 7th, [elates to the
organization of the Royal fluent of Police.
Alai- 10—Contains a short notice of the events that took place
till the embarkation of the King on board the Windaortastle ; also,
the King's Proclamation to the Portuguese, and other documents
already published.
MAY 11, 12, and 13.—Nothing front Portugal.
MAY It—To-day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, his Majesty's
frigate the Perola, commanded by Capt. Manuel de Vssconcelhsa
Perraira, sailed from thin port for England, having on board his
Royal Highness the Infant Don Isliguel. The reciprocal tender-
ness on taking lease, between his Majesty and his august son, was
evident to all present, and their regret can only be softened by the
flattering hope, that his Royal Righness will meet in this voyage
with all die satisfaction and the acquisitions which he promises him-
self frau it. To-day (the Elth) being the anniversary of the
birth-day of his Majesty, the Royal standard was hoisted on fort
St. George, and the usual Royal salutes were fired both from the
forts and the vessels in the harbour. His Majesty received on
board the Windsor the compliments of the Conn, the Diplomatic
Body, and an immense number of his faithful subjects of all
classes, who on this occasion, as on the precnling days, emulated
each other in manifesting to their beloved sovereign their unshaken
fidelity, submission, and attachment to his sacred person. Their
Royal 11 Winesset. the Infantas, Donna Isabella lllaria and Donna
Maria d'Assumpuao, were in company with their lather, and his
Majesty received with the greatest affability the loyal sentiments of
his subjects. The sea was covered with vessels, and the fineness

of the weather
was splendidly illuminated in the evatiov atsd at the theatres, as
gave a great effect to this soknaled Woe. The thy
well as everywhere else, it is impossible to describe the estbusissm
shewn by the loyal inhabitants, fur 'behests the tart Ilmaaa, and
most just of Kings.
The following documents were published on this co-with :
Accounts of the distributions and ormolus conferred by his Ma-
jesty on the members of the Diplomatic Body, and Officers of the
tallish sad Frew,' ships of war at anchor in the Tag" on the
lan May, 1924, the annivermry of hi. birth-clay :—To Baron
' Hyde de Neuville, the title of Conde da Bemoans ; to the Duke
of Villahermosa, the title of Conde da 3lonta ; to Sir Edward
Thornton, the title of Conde de Casilhas, and a domain of the
Crown for three lives ; to the Archbishop of Nanzeanzo, the Grand
Cross of the Order of NIANI Senhoro dc Concercno de Pi-
cots ; to Baron Binder, the Grand Cross °ldle same Order; to 31.
"pet Honorary Commander of the Tower and Sword ; to
Chevalier Francis de Bore', Baron de Palates to Chevalier
Dal Iloilo di Primo, Honorary l'omir.andet of the Order de Con-
, ceimo ; to Viscount de Quaker, Honorary Commander of the
Tower and Sword ; to General Henry Dearborn, a Medallion with
his Majesty's Portrait set in Diamonds • to Captain Charles
Dashwooi, Commanding the Windsor, Onnil Cross of the Tower
•and Sword, with the insignia in Diamonds • to Captain Elliot of
the lamely frigate, the Honorary Commandant of the Tower
and Sword, with the insignia in Diamonds; to Samuel Edward
Cook,the Ist Lieutenant, the badge of the said Order in Diamonds;
to Major Thomas Adair, Conimander of the Marines on board
the ship, the badge of the Tower and Sweet! in Diamonds ;
to the Commander of the French brig Zebra, the Honorary Com-
mander of the Order of the Tower and Sword; to all the other
officers of the crew and marines of the three ships of war. English
and French, at anchor in the Taxis, medallions, fastened to a rib-
band of tha Royal colours, with his Majesty's portrait set in dia-
monds, according to the clasaification which will be made.
A Decree, dated the 11th, on board the Windsor Cattle, appoints
D. Francisco Patricia Archbishop of 1:11111, to be Minister Secre-
tary of State fur Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice.
Liaison, Mar ift.

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We have to rectify an involuntary error into which se have
fallen, respecting the destination of the voyage of his Royal High-
new Don Aliguel. NVe now learn that his Royal Highness goes
directly to the port of Ilrest, on board the Penile, accompanied
by the English frigate Lively. Capt. Llliot and the French brig
Zebra, Capt. Auguste de Bouvet, which are in this port. His
Highness travels under the title of Dtake of Rene. and is accom-
panied by the Conde de Rio Major, his Chamberlain.
Amorg the acts of Royal solicitude for the welfare of his sub-
jects by which his Majesty has distinguished his birth-day, at
have particular pleasure in ennouncirg the order which he has given
to his Ministers, to propene to him a plan for the regulation of the
free port which he has resolved to establish at Lisbon [here follow ob-
servations on the wisdom of this measure, and advantages it promises
to all his subjects, including the Brazilians, that is, those who have
not thrown off their allepancej. His Majesty, desiring to mark the
anniversary of his birth-day by an act of liberality to the crew of
the Vi-indsor Castle, sent to the Captain WO dollars, to be distri-
buted among the crews of that vessel and the Lively. Their Royal
Highnesses the Infantas made presents to Lady Thornton, the con-
sort of the British Ambassador ; and gave to the lady of Captain
Illmihisixtd a magnificent present of precosits stones.
His Majesty landed to. day from the Windsor Code, at half-
past six in the afternoon, at the marine arsenal. On leaving
the vessel, his Majesty was complimented by a salute, which
was repeated by all the other vessels in the harbour, and the
crews who manned the yards gave the usual cheers. The Captain of
the Windsor Castle, with his Officers, accompanied his Majesty in
the barge, followed by another boat with the ship's band of music.
No expressions can paint the enthusiasm which the immense crowd
of inhabitants of this capital, of all classes and ages, and both
sexes, manifested towards their august and adored sovereign at the
moment of his landing. The air resounded with acclamations,
, the people embraced each other, tears of pleasure bathed their
' cheeks, and nothing was heard from every side but cries of—" Our
King—our Father." What an interesting sight for every one who
has a truly. Portuguese heart! What a happy sign of the unanimity
of our sentiments ! In the evening the city was splendidly illumi-
nated, and the greatest satisfaction prevailed.

Lord Lauderdale altered his proposition, with respect to
the capital of Chartered Companies, last night, and pro-
posed that, instead of four-fifths of the capital being sub-
scribed, as the Noble Lord had at fitst proposed, three-
fourths should be advanced. The Marquis of Dovrnshire
wished Lord Lauderdale's motion to be so revised that it
might not affect Ireland, the Mining Companies of which,
the Noble Marquis stated, would suffer materially from
it. Ile then proposed, as an amendment, that Mining
Companies should be exempted from the operation of
the Bill, which on a division was lost, by a majority
against it of 23. Thirty Members only having been pre-
sent in the House of Commons yesterday evening at six I
o'clock, the adjourned debate of the night before dropped,
and no farther public business was entered upon. Mr.
Rrottgballeo motion. to be again discussed, must now, we
believe, be brought on anew. It is a subject only for
declamation, and will not most probably be revived: the
country at large feels no, sort of interest in it whatever.

We abstained from offering the observations which'
eurred to us on the case of the missionary Smith, till
the adjourned debate upon it had concluded. We trust
we shall never be found to undervalue the rights of any
British subject, whether resident here or abroad ; nor ever
speak lightly of any sentence that may be unwarrantably
passed in any British Court of Justice, however composed,
whether civil or military. We have already confessed that
we thought the public discussion of this subject pernicious,
and we think so still. Not all the lustre which the elo-
quence of Mr. BROUGHAU can throw over the case, can
change our opinion of it. Much may at all times be done;
by artifice to excite unnecessary demur ; and thus much
we must be permitted to say, that we have known many an
event, involving consequences of infinitely greater import-
ance, which have failed in Parliament to call forth any
thing like invective from Illr James lac„kintosh, or of
invective from Mr. Brougham. On the present topic
their language is lofty and their minds implacable ;
bat we cannot help wishing that both their anger
and their eloquence were more prudently as well as
more profitably employed. With respect to the heathen
condition of the negroes in the West Indies, and the
value of every exertion which can be made 'to enlighten
and improve, there can bis but one opinion. How far their
conversion is to be effected by missionary means is another
question, and a question which, if we were called upon to
answer it, would take us some time to deliberate. The
change from bad to good—from ignorance to intelligence—
from coarse and savage feeling to a kind and cultivated
henevolence,—is a reform of no common kind, and to be
attained by no common means. To attempt it by mere,
114trina! eJhortation of any kind is ploughing the rocks.
Regeneration is no mystical process. Negroes, in the Co-
lonics, must be educated, as vicious and stupid people,
everywhere else must be educated, tot by being made to
reliestrse theforinada of any Mission ary creed as the articles
of their belief; for this will-never sink much beneath the
surtace, nor will ever much mend the conduct or change
the heart. The task, moreover, is a thousand times
more difficult when you have a grown-up West India
population to contenil with. You have here, as it
were, the Ethiopia* Ain to change. You have a savage
lase to deal with, whose habits are ingrained, and who
cannot be made even to comprehend the metaphor of
" putting off the old man," much less to exemplify it.
Under a civilized government a people are trained in the
moral habits, feelings, and sentiments of their forefathers;
they are edueSted first by their parents, afterwards by their
masters, and throughout life by theitintercaurse with the
world. But to catch up a negro to train him for another
world., who has never been taught any thing worth learn-
ing in this, and whose enslaved condition has tended from
his birth to turn all the passions and powers of his mind
out of their natural course, we really suspect this to be a
very hopeless project. It may do credit to the religious
good intention of a missionary, but no man who knows
any thing of the world or of human nature, can hope any
real good from it. Even in the younger branches of the
negro population, the experiment is not more promising.
An intelligent writer on education has well observed,
that the time which we usually bestow on the instruction
of our children, on principles the reasons of which
they 'do not understand, is worse than lost. It is
teaching them to resign their faculties to authority. It is

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exercising their memory instead of their ..1-iderstandings ;
it is giving them credulity • cad of knowle:l4;e ;it is pre-
paring them for every hi every that call be imposed
Is
upon them. Whereas, i 's ' em ivertfaking ex-
perimects on themselves, . •ced to attend to Me
euefcquences of every action, to adjust heir little devia-
tions, and fairly and freely to exercise their powers, they
would collect facts which nothing could controvert. These
k.
facts they would deposit in their memories as • re and
eternal treasures: they would be ,n,derials fIl diem,
and in time be formed into pint-44es of conabet, 'h no
circumstances or temptations could remove. This would
be a method of forming a man who would answer the end
of his being, and make himself and others happy. Now,
this we hold to be a system of education which will pro-
duce all the benefits of moral civilisation, without forcing
us into any warfare with the present state of affairs in the'
West Indies, or exciting any of that insurrectionary spirit 1
among the natives, by which they inevitably will, in the i
end, entail ruin on the colonists and misery on themselves. ;

WINDVOR, Jr NE 2.—His Majesty took his accustomed
ride this morning in the Park, and called at the Royal
Lodge. Yesterday afternoon the Russian Ambassador and
his Lady arrived at the Castle, on a visit to the King, and
had the honour of dining with his Majesty. This morn-
ing, soon after breakfast, his Excellency and the Countess
left the ('astle for London.

Tuesday the Duke of Sussex gave a grand entertain-
mett, at his residence in Kensington Palace. The dinner
party consisted of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester,
the Princess Augusta, Prince Leopold, the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Clarence, the Princess Sophia, the
Princess Sophia Matilda, the Prince of Leiningen, the
Princess F's adore, the Prince and Princess Lovenstein and
their daught..r, &c. His Royal Highness had also a nu-
merous and sFlendid evening party, who began to assemble
between nine arid ten o'clock. At half-past ten o'clock a
grand concert commenced, under the direction of Sir Geo.
Smart, in the Hord Duke's library. The vocal performers
were, Miss Goodall, the Misses Cawse (pupils of Sir Geo.
Smart), Messrs. Hawes, Terrail, llorncastle,
'Goss, &c. Sir George Smart and Mr. Attwood presided at
the grand piano-forte. The performance was a judicious
mixture of English and Italian mnsic. The concert con•
eluded at a quarter before one o'clock. The company were
supplied with the most choice and excellent refreshments.
The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince
of Leiningen, and the Princess Feodore, paid visits to the
Duchess of Clarence yesterday.
Yesterday, between one and two o'clock, Prince Leopold,
attended by Baron Stockmar, left Marlborough House for
Claremont.

On Tuesday evening Prince Liropold, attended by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera House'
with his presence.
Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, a Cabinet Council
assembled at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which
was attended by the greater part of the Cabinet Ministers.
The Cabinet sat in deliberation for math- all hour.
The Cabinet Ministers dined with Viscount Melville
yesterday, at his residence at the Admiralty.
The Directors of the King's Concert of Ancient Music
have granted the free use of their Concert-room, in
Hanover-square, to Master Aspull, the musical child, for
a concert, to display his talents on the grand piano-forte in
I public.
We understand that the sittings of the Brazil and Por-
i tuguese Commissioners have commenced, and that the dis-
cussions Lave turned, in the preliminary meeting, on the
point whether the differences of the two countries should
be settled by mediation, or by the arguments of the respec-
tive Commissioners without any mediation. The latter
course would be preferred, it is said, by that country which
has most reason to Lope that the influence of England will
be exerted in its favour, but is, on the other hatxl, so im-
pressed with the importance of a speedy decision, as to de-
precate any course likely to cause much delay—a circum-
stance inseparable from mediation.—Star.
TII SATRE ROYAL, DRVIT•LARE.—Mr. Harley last
night had his benefit, and it was a bumper. On benefit
siobta we are not prepared for criticism, and we shall say
boroare of the performances than that the audience was
pleased. The performances did not conclude till one o'clock.
A serious accident occurred to Madame lionzi de Begnis,
on Tue•dat night, at the*King's Theatre. After the first
act pf the Opera was concluded, a scene fell on her head and
cut ber severely.
In noticing the proceedings in the Court of Delegates in
our Paper of Monday last, we erroneously stated that a
snit had been instituted by Sir ‘Vastel Brisca against his
lady for adultery. We should have said that this long de-
pending suit was instituted in the Consistory Court of
London, so long ago as Hilary Term, NI f ; and was pro-
moted by Lady Sarah Brisco, against Sir Waste] Bnsco,
Bart. her husband, for a divorce and separation by reason
of adultery, and cruelty committed towards her.
Yesterday about two o'clock, as one of the drays of
Messes. Gotfing and Broadwood, ale brewers, of Broad-street,
Goldeosquare, after delivering its load, was standing at the door
of the Jolly Miller, a public house in Webber-row, St. George's
Fields, the drayman got up to arrange the casks, which alarmed
the horse, who immediately started oft' with all the courage of •
"high mettled rseer " and running swiftly to the end of the row
towards Waterloo-road, leaped the toll bar, which he cleared with
all the ease and agility of a hunter, and the shafts of the dray
falling upon the gate, completely demolished and broke it down,
but the drayman still kept his place among the empty barrels. The
horse finding himself impeded by the wheels of the dray coming in
contact with the gate post, reared most tremendously. There was
no further accident, and the drayman escaped with merely • fright
and a roll with the empty tubs.