The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

RAVIN IJ'/t•.
WEDNESDAY. SgrrEmsza 20, 1820.

The &reign intelligence which appears in our
paper this day possesses a very consideralde share
of general interest. The Moniteur of Saturday last,
which, with other Paris Papery of the same day, has
arrived at our office, asserts positively that the Re-
gency of Portugal, exercising the powers entrusted
to them by the KING, have sommoisell the Cortes
of that kingdom, for the purpose of devising the
measures proper to be adopted in the present ewer-
gency. This intelligence is stated by the Mositewr
to have been received from Lisbon tinder date of
the 3d instant, at which time the revolutionary
troops who bail marched front Oporto had not en-
tered the capital. The Regency, therefore, has anti.
cipated their political antagonieta; or. to speak per.
haps more correctly, has yielded to the necessity of
events. without depriving the Revolutionists of
Oporto of one ray of the glory which belongs to
them as the regenerators of their country. The
Regency. therefore, have no other merit in convening
the Cortes of the kingdom than that of having
yielded with a good grace, when resistance was
hopeless, and of thereby saving the capital, and pos-
sibly some other parts of the kingdom, from the
horrors of a resolutioitiry convulsion. This event,
however, completes the revolution in the Govern.
Went ol• Portugal ; for the temper and feeling mani-
fested by the army Val the publiewill prevent this
act of the Regency from bring used merely as a
means of deluding the Mesons of liberty with the
forms of a free cutstitutinrt•without securing to the
nation any sittb3ttiutial enjoyment. if the Cortes
are animated b► the .spirit of the army, the ►esuk,
we fondly hope, will realize the best wishes of the
friends to-rotional freodaM.
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The banishment. of Riil6o from Madrid seems to
he confirmed by .furtlser 'deices from that capital.
This occurretice is attributed to the dangerous teme-
rity of the General in stimulating the passions of
the populace by seditious songs, and language cal-
culated to excite a feeling of hostility towards the
Government: During his short residence in Ma-
drid the enthusiasm of the people in his favour
knew no bound+, the Government were seriously
alarmed, and liars were evidently entertained lest the
factious s;uisit of the populace should be communi-
cated to the garrison. Attempts, it is said, were
made to seduce the soldiers from their duty; but if
the acts of RIEGO were seditious, and if he or his

agents were found to have tampered with the troops,
why was he not punished by the laws of the coon-
tn., instead of by the exercise of an arbitrary and
odious power, which ought never t• be permitted
to reside in any Government which proftss to respect
the public freedom ? A letter, containing • reci-
tal of occurrences attending IttEGo's residence in
Madrid, and his banisln•ent to Oviedo, will be
found in our extracts from-the Moseliettr.

The French Five per Celli*. are 74 f. 30 c.—
Babk St.,ck 1,965 f.

We have receiver! Dutch and Hamburgh Papers,
from one of which we collect the importur►t intelli-
gence 1114 the Emperor of Ilusst*, in a caesium:si-
c:anon made by Its Nliniriter Baron D'A NSTILL to
the Dirt of Frankfort, denies, in express terms, the
right of any power to interfere in the affairs of other
States, on account of innovations introduced into
their form* of Goverunierst, and his Imperial
AJESTY also declares, that his approaching inter.
view with the Emperor of A usTittA has no reference
to any project tending to repress the new order of
things in Spain or Naples.
This solemn recognition, on the part of the Eau-
peror.of RUSSIA, of the right of any State to alter
its form of government, without subjecting itself to
the interference of other Powers, savours somewhat
"of incotssistetteeY when compared with his former
note upon the revolution in Spain. This latter
document, indeed, it may. be said, contained only
an abstract opinion upon the evils resulting front
►evolutions proceeding fron► the people, and upon
the "shalom of checking the progress of the revolu-
tionary spirit, without feeding to any practical re-
sult affecting the independence of nations ; but so
long es Isis MAJESTY does not recognise the right
of soy Power to interfere in the domestic concerns
of the rev-ilutionary State, he may indulge to the
L utmost in the ettpnessi•rnn of his abstract opinions ;
they will be far less effectual than his artillery and
bayonets in checking the.match of freedom.
. . .

It is asserted that Austrian troops are, with the
consent of the PorE, to take immediate possession
of Ponte Corvo and Benevento, states belonging
to the Church, Lltionugh situated geographically
within the territories of Naples. ' These two slates
had, immediately after the revolution in Naples,
thrown off the Papal authority, said leaving in vain
sinight to be v.:incorporated with the Neapolitan
domi ii i 111 l s, finally erected themselves into separate
and independent Republics. A republican form
of wirer 1111 l rill. even in a small state, is, as every
body knows, the most cotnplicatet) machine in prs.
litics, end the least calculated, unless framed with
extraordinary care, to and protection to persons
and property. or tranquillity to the state. A .pure
democracy cannot long exist, for the unfortunate
people will gl.►dly fly to the goverametit of an in.

aid's' Avis their otedl46 hoed spit in of otturrly,
which is the wont of ell *armies. Ths repwislics
of Pottle Corvo End Benevento weie raised too ra-
pidly to posies. the elements of good government ;

which represent these places as being the scenes of
dreadful excesev. We bud front the eel ttttt
meat of their revolutiou sipprelielal,ll this, and ex-
pressed our fears that the circumstance would be
used as a pretext for introducing Austrian troops
into the heart of the Neapolitan States, and thereby
overawing the friends of freedom even in the me-
tropolis. A further pretext will not long be want-
ed to transf-r the Anstrisnithead-rriarters front
nevesito or Pulite Corvo to Naples itself. A war in
Italy is undoubtedly anticipated with coati:fence in
Vienna. and the Au "an Government Securities
have in consequence fallen considerably in value. -

Some of the speeches delivered in Parliament on
Monday evening. were characterised by extreme se-
venty of language against the Miiii,ters of the.
Crown, and all who had participated in the power d-
jugs against the Quite.x. We were sorry to per-
ceive that even the House of Lords (lid not, no that
occstiou, escape the harshness of invective. We are
04 ready as auy persons to censure the Nliuieters of
the Crown for having instituted the present pro-
ceedings against the QUEEN, conceiving that they
must tend to degrade the dignity of the Crown, to
disturb the trangoillity of the country, and to esta-
blish a precedent of a dangerous and alarming
rather ; but even this cannot be fraught with worse
cousequentes than air attempt upon the part of one
branch of the Legislature to degrade the other in the
eyes of the people, and to shake that havis of public
opinion upon which the authority of that branch in •
particular degree rests. The judicial proceedings
having commenced, her MAJESTY'S friends evince
but little wisdom in seeming to anticipate a convic-
tion of guilt, sod nothing but such en anticipation
could ever induce them to ind•lge in violent and
unconstitutional invectives •tatrrst the integrity of
her Noble *nil Learned Judges. For ourselves we
repose the most religious confidence in the justice
of the !louse of Lords, end feel assured that the
Bill of Pains and Nitrifies will never be trod •
second time, unless the majority of the Howie of
Lord) be 'conscientiously convinced of the truth of
the allegations contained iu the preamble. There
are two classes of reasoner. on►ong tier judges, who
would feel it their duty to oppose the Bill : those
who may not think that the evidence amounted to
conviction, and those who yet believing the evidence
so/Et:mot, would be unwilling to establish so dan-
gerous a precedeot as the enactment of such► a Bill.
The proof of adultery with 8E116E4111 will not neces-
sarily conclude Parliament upon the expedielicy of
degrading the QUEEN CoNSoRT from her high
rank, end depriving her of rights with which chic
is legally invrstc 1, so that the framers of the Bill
inu.t 001 only prove her MAJESTY'S guilt to the
satisfaction of the majority of the two Houses of
Parliament', but they inust also prove the wisdom,
the propriety, and the necessity of recurring to this
exticordinary exerci►e of legislative authority. There
are undoubtedly in the /loose some inaiv;duals who
ought to be regarded iu the light of the prosecutors
in this case, and who therefore, in honour and con.
science, ought not to he allowed to Vote as judges.
They are too deeply interested in the event to from
ao unbiassed judgment. It cannot be expected ;
for when the mind is strongly impressed with any
previous opinion, the judgment will even uncon-
sciously distort circumstances and give them an
unnatural and unfair value. But with this excep-
tion, derived rather from nature itself than f
any principle of injustice in the Noblemen alluded
to, where shall we look for pure and unsullied
honour and integrity, if we 'bid it not in the Upper
I louse of Parliament ? To doubt of justice in the
Mouse of Lords, is to doubt of its existence upon
earth.

The opening speech of the KING'S ATTORNEY-
GENERAIq cooteiuiog charges Hgniind the QUEEN.
pruned in a haridsoine and expensive style, and
wholly unaccompanied by evidence, has been for
some bore gratuitously circulated in the neighbour-
hood of Leeds, by persons holding 'Acts under Ins
ISlny.sty's Government.—(Leeds Mercury.)
Mr. BROUGHAM arrived at Bmugham-hall on
Monday afternoon. We are glad to inform our
readers that the lady of Mr. BROUGHAM, who was
very seriously indiepobed 184 week, is now fast re-
covering to a state of convalescence.—(Corlisk
JuarnaLf
The titimlver of persons slitting the establish-
ment of Mr. OWEN, at New Lanark, is unusually
great this season. 'There are often forty or fifty
strangers in II (lay.
The Aripiversary of the Badenoch, N. B. Farm-
ing Society bring on Friday week, a highly respect-
able meeting was held at where the Gen-
tlemen dined together ; and in the evening a grand
ball won given to the LarFes. It was rittende4l by
a &side. of fashion and beauty. such as no Si-
milar occasion had bronglit together in Bodenoch.
Among the Ladies were—
The Marchioness of Hiently, Lady Louisa Cor awattis,
Lady Nightingale, lady Ruarel, Lady Isabella Flay, Mrs.
and Mow Macpherson, Cluny; Mrs. and Miss Grant, It collie.
morellos; Mrs. mid Miss Macpbcrson, Belleville; Mrs. Raw.
don, der.—Tbere were present, besides the Gentlemen of
the country, Lord W. Russell, lard Lyneduck, Sir Miles
Nietniugaie, Colonel Ponsouby, dcc. &e.
The crops of onions this year are described as re-
markably great; Mr. Ong. gardner, near Bath,
from a bed of seventeen poles In extent. has had a
produce of seventeen sacks fit for market, and many
of the onions nvasured from 12 to 14 inches iu cir-
cuas rcuce.

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Furth from the horit•ia see the Queen of \•g',t
Full orb's! witted► is silver bonnets !nigh' ;
When, lo! ►he sickens, and her rash ru IN
Main of its light, rmita a fainlir 'lrani;
Till all ber disk is one vast o'ersprtad,
• In dusky ins.,oity she veils he► head.

iss the shades of death, the vital ;pa.
Wbir6 once Mased height, becomes rettisisssl and dark
Rill then the anus, like Cynthia's In.ams resell's],
Emerge; with reduiddrul light eagle. d ;
And like lu thine, Eamelsia, wing, its way
To bluffed mansions and rums{ slay.

J. N. W.

FJAIIIONAHLI? MOEN.IIEN7S.

The INite of Norfolk has heft his seat, Fernhem, fhvg;,!k.
on a grunt to the Fart of Albemarle, at hit neat, Qui.itathaiu,
Nnsfolk.

The Esti and Couniess of Keninare left Mivasts Hotel,
Lower Ilkoi.k.street, yesterday, on a tour.
The Eai I sad Connie's of Darlineiou hire tif it hone
in Si. James's-4404re, £w Ilvionegate.
'l•he E4rl of Alai rgaveuisy has kft town, fur his seat,
Erick, Castle, Sesaaez.

The 1:4r1 of Ilisprtuwa has arrived at his bowie in Alb..
merle-vtri el, from a tour.
The A.iiliauador of the Netherlands has left his In ue
is Whairliall-place for Sradgete.
Baron Fagel it arrived at hi‘ briitheer, the Am-
bassador of the Nrtheilaud• hum
Brixhtua.
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Lord Ca.tlereath left town yesterday, for his scat, Norili
Cray, first.
Laird Melbourne left WWII yesterday on a •isit to Earl and
Countess Cowper, al their seat, Pinssenter, Herts.
Departures front Warren's Hotel, 4.1 reel
Munragn, (or his seal, Dalkeith, *waned ; Lady Momatn,
for her seal, Dillow Palk, Beaks; Load Closes', Her.
Captain and Miss Illostlas„ for his Lonlship's seat in Sem-
land ; lion. Jobe Coventry, for Isis west near lithans ; bur
IVilliani Houston, Hart. for his seal, Avisforil. NOI.OWX ;
anal Mr■. Hawkins, for their seat, Hognor Park, Prtorsith;
sisal Culooolel avid Mrs. Campbell, for lire Colo 'scoot.
Mrs. Lout has left bey home isa Upper roook.strect, fur
her scat, Spixworlh Park, near Norwich.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lane Fox have left their.hunre in
Clevelstistmquart, for Brighton.

Lard St. lieleii;s bas lea his honor- in Gitifion.street. bowl-
street, for his mot, Newport Pepin'', Beaks.
Lwd River. Is returosil to Thomas's Hotel, &Arley-
square, from his seat, Harepaik, Newmarket.
Thomas Itaikes, Esq. is arrived at his house in Greaseless,-
square, from Ludlow, Shropshire.
Colonel Brood is arrived at his house in Slrallos•street,
Piccadilly, from Hastings, X 00000 .
Alm. It. F. Thumpaun kft the London Hotel, Albemarle-
street, yesterday, for Saudgiste.
Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:—Lord
Francis Osborne, Y.P. from has seat, tiugmagog
Camhridgraliiie.
Captain Grey, 11th Hessen, at ditto, from a tour.

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