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'ION 7NTEL2 ORNCE.
LISBON PAPSIAS,

Lisbon Crizeticq to the 21th ult reached tts yesterday.
hey are entirely silent as to the affairs et Bor.th America.
't be following are extracts :

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LISBON, APRIL 21.
•.n the Supplenent to out 118th Number, we communicated to the
Public the copy of a despatch from Memo, dated the ilth of
iuvember last year, and of the royal Inters of the if.th of last
i tooth, Pddregsca to the Rev. Bishop of that city, with the measure
tdenh his Majesty had thought fit to seder, for the purpose of es.
mtablishincn that interesting part of his dominions that good order,
tianquillity, and prosperity, which had bzren impaired by the same
djampanning spit* emanating tient the faction which had rained
such troubles throughout the whole monarchy. li-e have NOW re.
raved a 'celesta( the journal of Macao, called the AN-11m du Chien
itaintlisoof Cbina,,, from the 27th September to the Bth December
nth. The Editor of the Gazelk of Lisbon proceeds to observe,
t fbe Macao journal, though published while the Constitutional
sissim still prevailed there (the news of its overthrow in Portage'
rinfoareing readied that remote colony h is distinguished by a too.
deride and incoming style, which proves the inexhaustible loyalty
end 501i...80a to the laws which always distinguished the Poe.
t*gtsese character.
From the 11th of February, he says, when the bases of the Con.
stkation was accepted, the bonds of social order were disaelved by
the ravel and continual innovations introduced, and the relaxations
of all due respect arid submission to the authorities. The Editor
nett makes long extracts from the Macao Journal; which are con.
tkoued in the next number of the Lislxitt Gareth..
The 'first extract is from an article beetled " The Philanthropist
of Mthart," ils Numbers 55 and 57 of the Abelha of the I ith and
Mast October.
It wears from the articles, that it WAS on the Ifuh of February,
1111,4b1a :Ille inhabitants took the usth to the Constitution which
wrioththlhessiog in Brazil. The a ritersheas that the Government
which tithes time existed aid everything to promote the ilitnalue.
thin litho Ossolithefima, sod was therefore to be considered as con-
' Vsilseas of the Corte of the 18th of April ; yet, not-
wi thls, an the 18th of August twelve or thirteen men,
Prennown of the people of Macao. succeeded
In the tabling Governmeot, and establishing a
new MIL
.'" 82117 remulbfilliT eendmine the measures of this new govern-
'any of pee, my dear countrymen, have hither-
'', bum lry thong somaiss of the general good, let thou now
00600 soissit !Maas smell Government is opposed to
11•081110401Zaid gut!,yid lowspoustly illegitimate, useless,
itaagensus, deeptic.He advises them, therefore, to arm the
teal rein of their country, by appilpstneythe legal Urtherities of
the great Portuguese faintly, and to those which are the I
nears.;. namely, the Government Goa. Front the succeeding
ettrur, it appears that the new Government having imprisoned
many perwoos, and banished others, sonic of the Mawr reached
Goa. and by their reprewiiratioe. of the state of things at Macao,
itirdttecti the Governor to despatch the Salamander lEgate, which
..ppeared off Slants on the I lit of June, where it was received as
ari emmy, and the persons holding the Government of Macao
chntintud to prejudice the Chinese against the frigate, so that all
intercourse with it was steady prohibited. In this state it re.
Mail:Mt for two months, so that the crew became short of provision;
end were entirely destitute of medicines for the sick. Some relief
was, however, procured for the frigate, by means of a Coansellor
Arri•ja, who WLS one of the persons banishul, and was then at
Canten.

Atlength a Chinese host wits procuted, which was mat to Macao
with a Lieutenant ltodcriguez on board, wbo was ordered to en-
deavour to find some means of obtaining a supply of provisions, in
winch he succeeded; he repaired to the Senate, where he was
spicily questioned. Paulin° and Gomez, the two chief weathers
of the illegal Government, imonsteated with him on the refusal of
the captain of the frigate to recognise their Government, and the
indepeetlenrn which hz showed respecting the provisions of which
therlencer be wits so much in want.
• The answers of the officer were so prudent, that becoming known
ip ate city, many of the principal inhabitants were encouraged to
think to Means of shaking of thz yoke of this illegitimate Govern.
matt t and the officer, on his return to the frigate, trio able to give
the conanuinder hopes of seeing order aestoendin Macao by the ex-
ertions of the citizens. The Captain thus encouraged, and the
Chinese having been rendered favourable by the representations
of the aboveuientionesl Arriaja, a Chinese Junk was obtained, in
whtth the Lieutenant was again sent on shore, where he made
anamiensents with two deputies flora the citizens (who 'hewed
hip a I,Jper signed by many of the inhabitants) far landing
some dishy.. The plati was put in execution on the night of the
223,0 ?remember ; when, though some eircusuMmoss appear to
lathe excited suspicion in the Government, as acne delay and
misunderstanding arose front some mistake about the 'WWI that
,been agreed upon, the enterprise was happily anerishaffinbad
1111::'0,:t bloodshed. The Chief of the rebels, Paulino, wane mho
Weep in his bed, and on the 23d, the lawful Government re.
cembliebcd.

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