The National Register.
London, England, 1822-06-03 00:00:00

No. Lae.—vot. XV.]

I no sooner received this singular communication,
than I hastened to lay it before his Majesty, by
whose order I, on the fidlowing day, addressed u
note to 11. Avogrado in these terms:—
" The undersigned Milaister and Secretary of State for Fo-
reign AlLirs, in reply to the indecorous note of Senhor Augusto
Avogrado, late Cii.uye d'Affaires of the Government of Seidl-
transmits to him, by order of his Majesty, passports, in
order that he may lease thih evital within ilia term of ;44 hours,
and the liogilom within eight days.
SILVESIVE I'INREIRO FERREIRA.
" Ofliee of the Secretary of State tor
Foreign Attain', *pill 39."
These facts prove. that the Government, while

PORTUGAL,
MEEMNINMP
LISBON. MAY 11.
CIRCULAR ADDRESSED TO THE MINISTERS OP HIS MOST
FAITHFUL MAJESTY IF.SIDEET AT FOMEI•N COURTS.
M. Avogradu, late Sardinian Charge d' Afaires at
this Court, having by his Majesty's order received
passports to leave this kingdom, it is proper that you
should be informed of the circumstances which have
thereupon occurred, in order that you may be able
to correct any misunderstanding which may arise on
this subject.
As soon as this Government was informed by our
Ministers resident at Vienna, Naples, and Turin,
that those Governments had declared, that while
they did not hesitate to recognize such Ministers of
his Most Faithful Majesty us had been appointed
before 2.1411 August, 1820, they were determined
not to acknowledge any persons who, in virtue of
subsequent appointments, might arrive with the
view of supplying their places; because they had,
with one common accord, resolved not to acknow-
ledge the Government actually existing in Portugal ;
his Majesty then ordered that the before-mentioned
Ministers should not only withdraw from those
Courts, but that the Portuguese Consuls, resident in
the ports of the respective countries, should suspend
the exercise of their functions until the said Courts
desisted from the extraordinary pretension of consti-
toting themselves the judges of the internal govern-
ment of this kingdom, since tho power of the Consuls
could not fail to be regarded 9S null by those Courts,
seein,, that they were derived from a Power held to
be illegitimate. But in order that commerce might
not sutler from these political differences, orders
were issued to all the custom-houses of the linited
Kingdom, not to give trouble te merchant-vessels,
in consequence of their not having papers legally
authenticated by our Consuls, but to treat them as
if they came from ports where no Portuguese Con-
suls reside, in which case the authentication of the
ideal autlanities is sufficient. _ _

At the same time his Majesty determined that the
Sardinian Charge d' A fair's, resident at this Court,
4liould not in future be considered as a diplomatic
agent, but that he might remain as lung as he
pleased as a private individual.
Some months having elapsed after this resolution
was communicated to M. Avogrado, there arrived
from Itiniburgli various packages addressed to him
lie requested an order for receiving them duty free,
according to the usual practice with respect to foreign
ministers. There was no hesitation in acceding to
this demand, because the shipments had been made
while he exercised the functions of Charge d'Affaires,
notwithstanding that he now no longer held that
character.

lu pursuance of the reason here stated, the fol-
lowing order was despatched :
The king orders, by his Minister for Foreign Affairs, that
the general administrator of the principal customs of Lisbon
shall deliver, duty free, to Augusto Avograilo, a box, sod the
accompanying invoice, which have been forwarded to bi s from
iii the ship Casluirea, inasmuch as the said hox had
been shipped fur him at the lime that he exercised the functions
01 elowye d'Affaires fur Sardinia at this Court.
SILVESTRI: PINHEIRO FERREIRA.
" Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Alrairs, April 21, 1a22."
Three days after, M. Avogrado came to my house,
and having asked a servant fin- paper and ink, left
for me the following note, accompanied with the
order which had been addressed to hint according to
ti,e official practice:—
" eutint d'Avagrado regrets that he cannot deliver to his
Escelleuey himself the enclosed paper, which he is under the
necessity of returning to the Secret.iriat of State.
" The total neglect of all decency which appears in this
order tides dm permit the Count trAvogradu to accept or make
sae of it."