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London, England, 1822-10-08 00:00:00

LISBON PAPERS.

LISBON, SEPTEMBER :S.
CORT ES.
SITTING OF THE 20TH serum:Ea.
The Order of the Day wax the debate on ne
opinion of the Committee of the Constitution 0,1
the motion of Senor Miranda. After a convideruli'.•
dehine the first Article was put to the vote, awl
appeared in its original form.
Art. I. Tbe Decree of the 3,1 orlon, loot, convoking Con.
wittiest Cartes la Brasil, is nail.

An addition to this Article. proposed by Senor
Xa•ier Monteiro, was discussed.

Srnor narrate disapproved of it, anyinß it m;glit
lead to fatal courrquencea, thut the
might call the Emperor of Austria to hie aid.—
[Theiie hut word. caused cousiderable not
only in the Assembly, but in the gailerieo, which
nu tint eppeued till the President had several timw
called to order.]
The addition was rejected.

Some Member,' h,vint• spoken nn the 2,i, 3d.
4th. sth, Gth, and 7th Articles, they were approved
as follows:

11. The Minister or Ministers who signed this Decree •re
highly responsible for the illegality of so despotic a 'tete' -
mutation, sod s►all be impeached.
111. The Government of Rio Janeiro, dleobeyirag the Cortes
and constituting itself independent, is • Government de
faclo, and nut • Government de jar., sod the vutui.tary
obedience of any authority will be cr4rossal.

These two articles are rather different from the
form in which they were ut first proposed. In the
third, after the word iNdepentlewt, were the words
aKainst she inclination of the people of Brazil.
which were omitted un the motion of Senor Barret*
Frio, who observed, that. from this it might be in-
ferred that if the Government of Rio Janeiro had
acted thus with the consent of the peopleof Braz,l,
it would be a Government de jure, and Cense-
quently it would follow, that any province of wives
an empire wus couiposq, niight declare itself in-
dependent at its own pleirt,ure—a principle so men.
smut, that no person, however democratical, has
ever yet Maintained it—so alisurd that it cannot en-
ter into any head where there is the smallest k
of reason or common sense.

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IV. The delegated power even to the Prinee being at an
mid, the King is immediately to appoint a Recency in exer
ring the delegated power as decreed by the Constitution.
V. The Prince !loyal is to embark dirscily foe Portugal
witlii• one month after the pi r•rent decree shall be notified ,1/
him; and if; contrary to expectation, he stoiold nut obey this
decisions the measures shall be taken which the Coostittwoo
Iteirtridmii when the King or the Prioee ro out of the boll. iis
without the permission of the Cortes.
VI. Any Cunensamler of the sea nr land force. atm •11,1
obey the amend Government of Ito de Jagicri., shst: be ar
minuted a traitor, voles, eotoorli•d to it by (wee.
111. The Government 'WI by a:I the menus in its pipers
provide for the ties of three te•u;uttooe.

Two opinions of the Committee relative in
refusal of some of the Braz ban Deptitica to s'o.,
the Constitution, was discussed in the siti log ..r
20,11 sod gisi, nllll approved. The Coion.“..+
judged the tessions.allegctl by thaw, Depot f••• 4.• ,•
'lint&'elite IN tif, sitting of the 494, the et.
ties signed the Constitution, 196 were prir..en,, -tr)
were absent. In the next sitting foot °these
At the end of this. sitting, the President amid. that
the Coustitotiore wow now staled, sod furnisliestavob
rgoatures or Oh Seeretaties; sod be propored this
the Social Cnvispet should he now declored to
complete. Tniw woe approved„ and it was theft de._
Glared that 1 U toesobere had um Aped. owe of 1.1""
hod alleged soffit:lent remise
.sod meets loot ie.t
assigned sufficient Komodo. Among the for on
were four froin Lira zil; the latter seven were all from
Brazil. All the other Brazilian Deputies maned.
In the sitting of the 25th the project of decree veto.
brought forward to et este a new order for the tee/art
of merit ; and on the 26th the commercial telat,..,:is
betoteu Portuisl au.4

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