The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-09-27 00:00:00

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LON DON,
WEDNESDAY. Sarum = 27. IBM

Lisbon Papers to the 13th instant inclusive have
arrived at our Office. The Committee appointed
to devise the most effectual means of speedily con-
vening the national assembly of the Cortes, proceed
with the utmost expedition in the fulfilment of this
duty, and we now learn that the deputies to the
Cortes are to assemble in LisNor on the 15th
of November. The Cortes will be conveited in
conformity with the ancient forms of the constitu-
tion of Portugal, and will consist of deputies from
the three estates of the kingdom—the nobles, the
clergy, and the people. What share in the distribu-
tion of power, a mode of representation avowedly
formed upon the principles of times long gone by,
when the people were not suffered to possess their
natural influence in the State, will now assign
to the people, can easily be imagined. These
Papers contain several Proclamations, addressed
by the Reg. icy to the troops at Oporto. and in
other parts of the kingdom, carefully distinguish-
ing those who, as they say, deviated from their
duty. and those who, by not declaring publicly
fur the Constitutionalists, are concluded by the Res
gency to have been faithful to the old Government.
In these addresses the members of the Regency
venture to assume a high tone, but their swagger-
ing is not sufficient to conceal the real terror that'
influences their conduct. They boast of the fidelity
of the major part of the army, and tell the de-
luded" few, that if it had so pleased them they
might soon have displayed the strength of the
Kixo's authority, and the irresistible weight of their
vengealice. And yet in the proclamation for con-
voking the Cortes, the Regency acknowledged
that they thus acted in conformity with the
general wishes of the army and the 'ation ! The
Junta forming the Provisional Government of the
nurtherii provinces are acknowledged by a large
portion of the army and several of the provinces.
They hare lately removed the seat of their govern-
ment from Oporto to Coimbra, leaving a Committee
at the former place. The Lisbon Papers, under the
control of the Regency, affirm that the discipline of
several of the Oporto troops has been extremely
relaxed, to a degree dangerous even to their officers.
Accounts front Oporto of the 13th say, that this
army bad then commenced its march upou
An impression preemie(' very generally, both in
Lisbon and Oporto, that the British Cabinet would
interfere bi the internal affeirs of Portugal, and
maintain the old form of government. This belief
has excited ail angry feeling among all classes
of persetis; but, ar it would seem, more particu-
larly muong the troops, for it le to the troops
that the Regency especially address themselves
when they undertake to remove the impression.
They affirm, that not only has no foreign l'ower
offered to lend iii aid to the Government for the.
restoration of the lonrestabli.hed usages, but that
the Regency entertained no desire to receive any

such assistance. P.oglish persons and property con•

tinue to be respected in every par: of Purlugal.

We have received Paris Papers of Friday last.
The accouchentent of the Duchess or BERRY. to
which so much interest is attiched in France, and

probably in many other parts of Euro,re, has nut
as yet taken place. Her Royal Higharss, however,
is said to coin! good health.
Letters have been received in ()iris from Genus,
stating. that a SA,glititti,) ship which had arrived in
the Gulf of Spezzia from hod brought
the intehigenee that the Roglish and Saulntian
Consuls had quitted Algiers and ssiled for Mao.
sedles. The cause of their departure is not men-
tioned.
The Cortes of Spain appear to be extremely
hostile to that portion of the estoblishineut of the
Church of Rome, is hich, in other drys, was re-
garded not only as its proudest °mamma, but
as its best and surest protection--decus °Nue
tatamen—we mean the fraternities of the Mili-
tary Orders and the regular Clerwy. lire fitul
that in the sitting of the gth, that tha Orders of
the Monks, the Convents, and the Colleges of the
four Military Orders of Saint John of Jerwalem,
of Saint John of God. and the Comnittoders
takes. are suppressed ; pensions for life assigned to
the Members of 'these bodies, the regular Clergy
subjected to their diocesan Bishops, aoll their pro-
perties confiscated to the purposes of the State. The
Committee appointed by the Cortes to consider of
the rewards to be granted to General Quittuoa's
troops, have reported Oat the promises held out to
them might to be fulfilled, and the Cortes have
agreed in their opinions, which are :
I. That in the space of two yenrr, reckoning from the
present lime, the army wow to service shall he disbanded.
11. That she soldiers who shall prove eight years service,
shall receive lets acres of land Wien from the waste grounds,
and also 1,000 reals; fur fifteen yesr• service, 1.5 acres and
1,300 real.; fur twenty years, 40 acres of laud and 3,009
rests. •

111. That these advantages atollf be common to those who
have embraced the cause of the cuuntry in uniting with Abe
national army, or who rag blur iu other instances adopted
the same party.
IV. That the widows and children of those who perished
in the cause shall share thstrante advantage.

The recompenses to the Generals and other Offi-
cers hive been referred toe Committer.
A private letter from Naples, of the 2d of this
month, says positively that Ueu'ral PEPS had em-
barked on the 31st of A ii4ust for Sicily, with 2,000
troops of the line, and 2,000 of the militia. Ile
was to be joined in Sicily by 3,000 men, and to
proceed against Palermo, for the purpo►e of de-
manding the release of the troops who had been
imprisoned at the commencement of the Revo-
lution. It was understood that Gcneral &FAR!s
had died in prison. The further intelligence from
Naples possesses no particular interest.

The French Five per Cents. ore 74 f. 75 c.—.
Bonk Stuck, 1,360 f.

We are desirous of directing the particular at-
tention or our readers to the report of the Meet-
ing at the Freemssons"ravern, which will be
found in our pieceding columns. The interest
that must accompriry the perusal of the üble and
ingenious speeches delivered on that occasion, will
not be by the assurance that the Meet-
ing was not only remarkably numerous, but also
eminently distinguished by the general respecta-
bility of the persons who were there present.

The following intellegence huts been communi-
cated to us frotu LLOYD'S:—

" OPORTO,.

9.

"We are very anxious for letters from Lisbon. The Go-
'eminent there appears to be hostile to what has bees doing
here; but as the Conde de Amara/He, and the whole of
Trot, us Monies and Beira have declared, we should hope
that every thing will soon be settled, and without bloodshed,
if the country is left without fibrosis intriKrelice, for the
voiceef the country appears to be fur a change. It is to be
bored that the English will not interfere, of they du, the
situation of all the Esegl"sh in the country will he very die-
agreeable, and property of course very precarious. The
idea that is entertained of English troops coming to Lisbon,
causes rather an isuplessiost feeling here; but it is Natural to
suppose as the Sovereignty of the King is ark tiowletiged, that
England will nut iaterfeie in the internal affairs of the king.
dots, in which ease we shall have 'tithing to fear for owe
persons or property. The decision of the army ruder the
Conde de fimarante, and of that under Vittoria, for the Su.
prem. Government, strengthens their canoe, and of course
weakens that of Lisbon, thoGaverament there depending on
the'cu•operation of these Generals. Troops from t.yria and
Santarem hove arrived at Coimbra, to join the cause
espoused in the mirth.
" It is confidently expected that the troops at Lisbon
will likewise join, when the twiny IlletVell in that direction,
which it is about to do. We heartily wish things were set.
lest; hitherto every thing has been conducted with great
order, and no person bits been molested."

13.

“ ina army from this and the north are marching upon
Lisbon; and it is to be hoped when they approach the capi-
tal that every thing will be ended, sod without !Woodshed.
We hear that leiter. from Lisbon, of the 7th Matsui, state
every thing to be quiet there, but very little is kernels here
of what is going on there. The Supreme Government more
tn•morrew for Coimbra, leaving a Commission here. We
are all well,Sseid continue without molestation.”

The Aurora, BLACKBURN, a arrived off Dever,
from Oporto, with letters intro thence of the 13th
instant. On the 14th the Prost/110ml Junta of the
North was to be removed to Coimbra. The Conde
d. AIIARANTB, and a:1 the tromps its True o.
Monte., had declared for Ilia Oporto party. The
Isat letters received at Oporto from Lisbon were
of the 7th instant, by which it appeared the Lit-
ho., party hail a strong objection to the Governmeut
remaining in the hands of the people of Oporto.
No fears were entertatued for the British properly
or persons being *twinned, unless. the Brown tater.
fared. All the troops at Coimbra. Lear*, and the
adjacent eirditined the Oporto party, end all
were marching an Lisbon.


THE QUEEN.

ANSWER In the ADDRESS from the FEU/ILES of
PADDINGTON, prernnted to HER MAJESTY ow
Monday :
My heart has been lonelier, by this loyal sod affectionate
Adiress from the Married Females or Pori'', or Pad-
dington.
In my return to Eitclaaii, I felt the sacred cause of in-
sulted honour and la' calniniiated innocence. To have
remaintd abroad after evicts acesonirlated iardignilits and
wrongs a+ I had experienced, *field have bees to resi-
ft-vs ifirelf guilty of every crime laid to my charge. awl
to hive probtrated my character at the Get of my en. twits.
Blot whirr I wee teiscournsous of RCN, I was inacrernible to
(cur. IVhili• I was asrung io integrity, I Eft it ionefoavili:.:
to he weak in cowardice.
I was deeply grieved tfitringtbe late titarninationa before
the Douse of Lords at the monstrous MUM of indecency
Shat was dilly elicited from the months of such wil,irooe•
wind(' key, !widowed a IC wr4l loathing in any Curt in
tiitisterffloin. Modesty might well hang its head .
ginoing recitals, and even pairioriaro noirht Irrn ft 1., think
that the highest iudieattare in lists great !lox loin shout 4
slitter itself to be homitisted, in the eyes of Estope, by ii•
ninsofte attention, to ribaldry, init• grossest salts, and to
iibilcesilly in iis moat offien•ive pariieuhrities. No pilfered-
tug torn, perhaps, ever leaded so Muth to lower the cha-
racter of England, sod to lessen the dignity of Euglish-
Well in the telineste of other nations.

ANSWER to the ADDRESS from We INHABITANTS
of PADDINGTON, preseated to HER MAJESTY it
Monday
I am particularly retitled by thin loyal and affectionate
AiUrea" from the I ahabitauts of the Pariah of Paddiogimi.
I ■m not unmindful that I was neysplY once a resident in
this pari►h; and Ibis circumvent,, thong's combined with
►rime painful as well as pleasurable recollection:a, trod• to
place toe iu a State of closer proximity so the interests of ibe
tahahitaot■ thaw if I had bent a twill stranger to the lot:ail).
As the people of Paddinytoa have mace been my nrigh-
hours, I ►till consider myself as Oil It'll in I brill by the
charities of neighbourhood. The iota of fliendsliip, *lieu
tome lonised, might, if irossihle, to be indissolnlxe; sail e..•ts
those relatioas, which arise riterely nit of local contiguity.
are apt to spread the fine net-work ..1 a thousand nam►less
as.tst•iatiuur over the memory, mod is a aarwiy,,y way.,
to become iniertwitir.l with the uffer twin.. Life has na-
turally so many dark istervalr, that it is our duly not to
oierliank any amounted eireannyaueas, or to reject any
polustile sumliarieli that can O&M to aching to the number
of Its sunny hours. •

The sympathy which the . iishrhitants of Paddington ca-
pers.. for the sad variety of my domersie afillictioas, is vary
acceptable to my heart. Th►re arc circumstances is whirl
a seism of obligation is hermit attog to the individual; hot
gratitude to lbose whom we esteem is rasher an elevating
thaw a depressing sentiment. A■ Mersy blesses hulls him
who gives and loud who tater., au ratttode, wteast it la ■ dr.
loss (celiac in the bears IA hint who Inv received the In..
otflt, ►etldts a pleasurable sensation on hius by shshun it
ass conferred. I owe more to the peeper elf 19ighst.,1 than
I cin4ver repay; butt they ate a people also many amiable
and so cony noble tharacteri• tics, that I sus eousitteed they
will ever (sounder a gralefal consciousness of toe Jen as a
discharge from the obligation.

'flw rood wishes vi hick this 'Address tvinveys to me from
the people of Padditigton, su l which I am daily treetimig
from ■ll parts of the kingdom, Sr- not empty sounds or any
professions, bit the mobbed of affection and regard.
The oppressor and the tyraut stay be grveteJ with the
fulsome inewsoe wf eatravagant praise ; hot its very estrava-
esnee will prove its insincerijy. Very different is that tone
of approbation which i. pereeevahle, and that cheerier Wo:re
of sympathy which is heard when the feelings of the p-opte
unfeignedly harmonise with the joisor the sorrows, with the•
good or the had fortunes of their genuine frioads, and thtir
utodisserabled benefactors.

Answer to the Address of the Inhabitants of the
Town of Stroud, ut Gloucestershire:-
1 receive with cordial satisfaction this loyal and afire-
lionale Address from the loleibitalits of the Town of Stroud
and its vicinity, in the county of Gloucester.
The sympathies of the people wi:li my sarongs and my suf-
ferings have been au universaily mauifested, as to make my
adv irs pause in their
cally to hesitate when they du mot morally relent.
I have experienced adversity in many of its most distress-
ing calan3itier, and in sonic of its darkest hours; hut
have always found that it
leaving. some mural benefit behind. Adversity usually cekt•
peusates its Immediate evils by its subsequent good, and its
uses are, in mimeeous instances, so prerions, that it mry
often be regarded as prosperity under another name.
I have been at times sunk to the depth of affliction ; but
from those depths I have been raised by lbe invisible hand
of the itti.Merriful, to rejoice in the dawn of happier days,
and to contemplate a futurity of hope fur myself and lee
mankind.
Whatever may have been the will of Omnipotence wills
respect to my destiny in time past, I acknowledge it to have -
beer, both wise and good; and I trust that my safety will be
protected by the same wisdom, and my happiness be pro-
moted by the same goodness, iu the time to come. Those
eenliguotals are my cheering associates during the slay, and
at night they smooth the pillow of my repose.

I .11m•••••

A meeting of the Inhabitant Householdera of the
parish Of St. George, Hiroo er.square, in the Liberty
of IVesintinster, will take place ow a few days, fur
the purpose of addressing her MAJESTY.
A ',ollie meeting of the Journeymen Printers of
the Mttropooli.; was held at the Crown and Auchur
Tavern, Strand, on Monday eveniog, for the pur-
pose of addressing her MAJESTY. Several Resolu-
tionv, and an Address founded thereon, were moved.
and unanimously agreed to. The meeting then
broke up.
In consequence of the tide answering so very- late.
on Thursday, the Loghtermen and Wateruien have
requested to be allowed to go to BrAtideaburglo
H..uee on Tuesday, the 341 of October, with their
Address to her MAJESTY. Therefore, the other
Addresses which were fixed fur Thursday next, will
be deferred until Tuesday also, when they will be
presented in the following order:—Liglotennen and
Watermen at one o'clock; Parish of St. Lake's
and Pariah of St. Pancras at half-past our ; Parish
of Eoltnomon at t*o.
A paragraph in the Gazette de Few:re says, that
M. Lisnossit is now at . Locator,. to the Italiaa
Switzerland, to the north of Lake Maggiore.
The Doke of DEVONSHIRE wiltetliti.•..i la •rle.(t
party of loos distinguished friends yr sterd:,3 , at
Chiswick.
The Duke of NOREOLK is arrived at his seat,
Furuham. Suffolk, from Arundel Castle.
Prince CZARSTZSILI son suite left Ilia Clarendon
Hotel, Bond-street; yesttrday, fur the C'ontioiesst.
Viscousit lintsaLeY is arrived at his hou e in
Stanhope-street; May-fair, fr..on a tour.
Enid USAUCHASIP has kit town, for his Peet.
Mader.field. near Worcester.
Miss S. BooTts.—This fascinating actress, after
having concluded a grent.variety of engagements
in Ireland wood Scottatui, returned to Liverpool,
to fulfil an rogigement 'with the Manager of that
Theisen.. Alas Rom!, next proceeded to Shrews.
bevy, white she preformed daring the race-wg.A.
to orriliswing and delighted boosts; and con-
cluded I.er engagement there nu• Saturday last with
bet own bioelit, which was a bus per.

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