The National Register.
London, England, 1822-06-24 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE CO‘SPIR.ICY.

(Supplement to the G tvrament Gazette, Sandal, Juin 2.)
LISBON.

Irrefragable proofs have at last been discovered of
the truth with which the Minister of Justice ex-
plained to the sovereign Cortes the necessity of the
extraordinary authority which was granted to him
fur the public safety, and for the sacred cause of the
country. Nefarious anarchists and ambitious con-
spirators designed nothing less than barbarously to
stain with blood our happy regeneration, to cover
the kingdom with mourning, to depose the King,
and to abolish the Cortes. But all their atrocious
projects have proved abortive: the conspiracy was
discovered; and in the night between the Ist and .2d
of the month, were seized by the magistrate of the
district (Rua Nova), the principal instruments of
the conspiracy, at the time when they were taking
for distribution from the printing-office in the street
Formosa, called the Liberal, a great number of in-
cendiary and infamous proclamations, in which, and
in the plan of the conspiracy found on the five trai-
tors now imprisoned, it appears that, with a few
slight variations, are contained the following anar-
chic-al and horrible ideas:—To dissolve the present
Cortes, and convoke the old, with some modifications,
such as having two chambers, one of them consisting
of hereditary members and of the first nobility: to
depose the beneficent and magnanimous King John
VI., who has so faithfully and openly adhered to
the cause of the constitution and of national liberty,
and in his place to elevate the Infant Don Michael
at the head of a regency, composed of men the most
conspicuous, who have declared themselves enemies
of the system by which, happily, we are governed :
to assassinate those members of the Cortes and of the
Ministry who are the most able and celebrated de-
fenders of the national rights; in one word, to
throw the whole nation into a state of confusion and
civil war, of bloodshed, disorder, and anarchy, the
advantage of which was to be reaped by these infa-
mous conspirators, and by others like themselves,
who probably will be found engaged in the same
plot.—The persons who have already been appre-
hended will appear from the despatch and list foal-
lowing:—
Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor,—lt not being possi-
ble for me to give your Excellency circumstantial details of the
diligence with which I repaired to the printing office in the Rue
Fur.nosa, by the coinmaw, of his Majesty, that your Excellency
may lay the same belbre him, I shall execute my task as circuit'.
st mees permit, beginning by saying, that on proceeding with my
officers and troop to the appointed spot, 1 apprehended, in Ito.
grante ddkto, the individuals whose names are contained in the
enclosed list, finding on them the incendiary proclamations, of
which I likewise send you copies. Going then to a cellar, I
found the printing press prepared, sntl all the signs of its having
recently printed th proclamations alluded to. I then deter—
mined to remove the prisoners into secret confinement. sealing
up nil their effects, mid piacing tit,:in in good security in the
presence of officers of credit ant the troops, whom 1 continue
litre till the morning, when I propose to draw up the necessary
acts. Having done this. I went to the Aijube (ecclesiastical
prkon), where I seised all the papers relative to Father Mestre
Bratra. I then proceeded to the hectic of the prisoner Francisco
de Alpoim e Menezev, where I acted in like manner; and, finally.
accompanied by my colleague, the eriminal judge of the Castle
ward, I detailed the capture of the paymaster of the Mill regi-
ment of infantry, Bernardino Rodriguez. This was executed
afterwanls by the above mentioned minister, with all due seal
and activity, laving nothing to be desired on this head. He
concluded this act with a search in the house, and a seizure of
the papers which had a reterence to him More circunisautial
details will he afterwards given to your Excellency. God pre—
serve your Excellency.
" Lisbon, June S.
• To the most illustrious and excellent
Senhor Jose da Silva Carvallio.
"JOSE JOAQUIM GERARDO DE SAMPAYO."
LIST.

Francis de Alpoim e Meneaes, a merchant, aged sz, &e.
Jaimerit's de Costa tisses, Knight of the Ori.er of Christ,
Officer in the military Secretariat of the Army, aged 33, &c.
Manuel Ferucila, a servant, aged 19, &c.
Join) Rodrigues da Costa Si:noens, composing apprentice in
the printing office already mentioned, sled th.

On the 10th instant, the King of Denmark, was
invested with the Order of the Garter, by Mr.
Fik-ter, the British minister at Copenhagen, and Sir
G,orge NcyieT.