The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-14 00:00:00

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,NUARY 14, 1821.

to Brazil for the war in Aftteriea, &c. increased the dig.
tress and causer! the salaries of the public servants in
every department, as well as the interest of the public
debt, to be dreadfully in mrear ; and filially (with shame
be It spoken) it was Pt ssible to complete a loan of
only four millions of crrltws.
the Portuguese the heart of their Sovereign.
hoped he would prepare r necessary reforms, a bops
which his Majesty sometimes esteouraged—hat the hope
vanished, and the adnistesi et Rio Janeiro turned aside
the King's mind from It, and were displeased when any
patriot dared to publish his opinions on this important
subject, and showed the neeasaty of restoring the seat of
governmeht to Portugal.
What could the Portuguese nation do In sneh a situation?
Stiffer sad hope ? It did not suffer and hope in rain for
ninety years. Sigh, temoestrate, complaint It did sigh ;
bnt its sighs were not listoedto. Not listened to ? They
were repressed, cruelly ittfled. It rernonstrateJ and
complained ; bat its remonstrances and complaints never
reached the throne. 'rho King was told that his people
were contented and faithful; and the Manifesto protests,
In the face of Europe, the unalterable loyalty of the na-
tion, but observes that content is incompatible with asi-
tuation like theirs. It is, therefore, absurd and unjust to
stigmatize what they have done as rebellions or unfavvfnl.
In emiclnsion, the Manifesto remarks that it would be
most afflicting to the Portlignese nation, if the powerful
Sovereigns with whom it has always been on the terms of
friendship should obese their power to' impose laws on it,
or to repress the noble earls of a nation, incapable by
its geographical position of troubling the peace of other
people, which has never bstarfered In the internal concerns
of others, and which may, depend on the acknowledged
justice of the Princes of &rope, but which, If its hopes
in this respect should be disappointed, it will risk every
thing in the defence of ita jest rights ; that the maxim,
" No nation ever failed to be free which desired to be so,"
Is their eticonragemeat ; and that if unhappily they should
fal in attaining this happinees,the nation will be destroyed
sooner titan conquered, anduto pod cilium will survive
the rain of public felicity.: They, however, anticipate a
more fortunate result.
A letter addressed by the IP/ovhirirsi Juakal Oporto to
his Majesty the King, now Imo pelotialted, coanshis a fell ex-
position of the mums that I tbt revolution, of Use spirit
which had diurnal It, and,
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taken place op to life date reeter.""r 11=rolidils. '
tory furs proof of the invincible loyalty of the Portuguese
to their Sovereigns, and thelf &ranee to the House of Bra-
ganaa, which they continue le maintain undiminished to his
present Majesty, of whose sovereign virtues sbey art perfectly
convinced.
The letter beginning with Otte net of the military council
at °parte, defeats all the proceed*. that had suereasfultrl
taken place, and, referring to documents (which have been I
all before primed), shows hie Mokiesty that remrd for his I
person and dignity lies never beta lost sight of--that oo
measures have been taken bet melt as seemed absolutely us-
cessary—that even the suspension of the Eaglish ollicers,
desired and commanded by the public wish -seed the general
clamour, wits accomplished in the most delicate manner.—
The writers dwell on the unanimity that has prevailed mum%
nll ranks of people, the harmony between the two juntas of ,
Lishoh and Oporto, after their union ; and adds, that nothing
is unwed but the presence of his Majesty. or stone /Niece of
his family, to satisfy the stmaimons is ibileli of the nation :
their only fear is lett his Majesty should give ear to some, '
one, who, under the mask of seal, may infuse suits alarms is
his Majesty's heart, and give counsels contrary to the requests
which, with the same i tweeted loyalty, they lay before
him. The consequence of sack counsels cannot be well fore-
seen, but they will certainly he fatal. The nation dims not
merit his Majesty's displeases& t it desires to he happy, and
to recover the precious inheritance of its ancient greatness—
that the throne of his Majesty amy be grin without the power
of beit,y; unjust, and that they may have the felicity of te-
newhig all the good which his royal beuilicenee premises
them, without boiug able to ascribe to him 4114 (MI.
These are the wishes which they Must in the Dame of all
the Portugstesc who, prostrate before his Majesty's throne,
they n ppeal to thel honour of the atition,dieir public happiness,
and the sentiments of religious piety' which animate his
Royal heart. s.
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