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fellers, sad yew ataslieratlon lost Our estritleee are in
• vain. The l'ortsgesse sailicrialiliot reduced Weskit(
ales = noldiers! this lithe asesneitt. Let us Ay to the sel-
Wipe of the country.' Let as Ay la our own salvatioo.
Comrades, follow me! Let us gig with our.brethen in arms
to'.tirpaissa Pa/vaunts, Goeerunseut. Let it all tie
'Cu. ti tttatte i Casaltstian, forth, Wilt of which hrtlis
og4lll of all Sir ells., It .is "eiwwww"ty to *spiels them,
S 04-frs gemeh owe. is is the IMMO sad owns.
evolisg our august Sovereign, Don Jobe VI. that the
• deostry shall be governed. Our holy religion shall
ellgerved, as oar efforts are pure nod willow's. God will
Mesa ties; Elie soldiers ilirr Cuiripose the Iwivt P4tuguese
aril will tissue to embrace our caw*, sloes it is equally
their outs.
Soldiers! force is on, our ride, we nitigt !kronor* avoid
dissrder. If the eerwtei owes its salvation to each of us,
the nation likewise own to ISO its security nod tranquillity.
Cuaide in a Chief whit never taught you but the paths of
Ameter.

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Rbldiees ! Yon must not measure the asignitiode ttf the
cause by the simplicity of oar discourse—learned men will
explain, on n future day, this fatt better than a thousaad vie,
lurk-a—let its acetify this day, and henesfiorth let the cry of
our hearts be, " Live the King, Don John Y1...-Line the-
Portuguese Army—Live the Curtel, and with' them the us-
tional Constitution!"
• (No. 1.) •
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COPY Of THE OATH.
wfiill OHS by the Holy Otespel obedience 11 the Provisional
Istsokly fee the Supreme Govevpmenl of the Kingdom
RA .established, and which, in .the.name of his Majesty
Don John VI. is 4o govern till the institution of the Cartes
which is to convoke fur terming the • Portuguese Coo-
stitution. • •
o I swear obedience to these Cortem slid I. the Conga-.
tution they may form, maintaiMag the Rental, Catholie-4
Religion, sad the dynasty of the -Most &retie Muse Id-
-IBraganza "
Stened by the following Members of the .Providobild -
Government fur the City of Oporto, and the rem of Ate'
Kingdom—
President—Antonio de Sila Pinto.
Ptee-I'vesietent—Combrviran, Colonel of Artillery. •
Serreiaries—Dun Jure Ferreira Eurgcs, Dun Jotk da
Silva Cart-Mho, and Don Gumes de Castro.
Meagher
.for the Clergy—The Dean of the Cathedral:
• Men4her. foi .Wagistrocu—Nlenoel Fernendis Thanes:
NerrbereYb; the Nobility—Cerries and Pedro Lent..
Mentors for the linker:Hy—Friar Francis/co at. Leis.
Member for cowneeree--Francisco Jozede Bairos Lip.
Jifillbere fur tie Prortrre of Minim—Joao da Conlin
Scioto Mayon cod Jose Maria Xavier de itzevedir.
' New hers fur the Province of Tumor lifontst—JOze
Joaquin' ode Mines, and :oak Manuel Ribeiro Ferreira e

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Castro.
Members for the Priifam. netro—Joni •de Mello
Costros e Abres, sod Rope Ribeiro d'Abeanies • Costello
&onto. • . •

EXTRACT OP • ERlTate*ritinlN
"LtittOif, Aveifirf 3o;
The standard or liberty has been raised, avid the
fortes and
.Constitut kin proclaimed in the. dime
Northeriirrteinees of Portugal.

" The first intelligence of this event reached is
no the 28th. Yesterday our prevent Gotornasttst
issued •-proclamation, calling theinsurrection • the
horrid clime of rebellion against legitimate power
trod authority,' desiring the peopleand troops to se.
likain'fiini to their Gi;verimient, and prornising to do
soiw a11...in their power .to ameliorate the condition of
the nation.. But this proclamation haw been.treated
with very little *respect; though•it was posted in
al moat *every Cos-tier. morning the greater
pin of them were found torn, or'sMeared with dirt,
Not even excepting.the, _places where sentinels aft;
always. posted.

. .
Tii,cfay, adi-ICes •from Oporto np to the 27th
"were received.; eve.ry thing remaiurd quiet there.
and they are propitritig., to set on the defenaire, if
• . •
,•qpree.isary.

!--11. If is runtoureil, that Algarve and Mem-
tejo are ready to proclaim, i(they have not already
proclaimed, the constitution : but we have no con-
firmation of this:

There can be no doubt that we are on the eve
of au impottilit 'cliatige. God grata that it mad•
happen without imiy•disorders being committed !
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" Yours, &c.
1" Even in Leiria the Constitution nil been pro.
shtinted." .

lIITRACT OF ANOTHER PRIVATE LETTER.
" LISBON. AVGUST.3I.
16 At last a revolt of the troops has taken place at

.• Oporto ; thrte regimciata of the line, and -two of
militia. The English cilleers were arrested. but
soon libernted. after. beta ihstiktd for their post
services. ssyiug.thatfa.tiiif affair, wus bet %veil then.
. selves•and the Government. they required their aid
sand assistance noionger. The coustititted anthori-
- tits, with the Itishep,vueechahtii,lit. have taken the
oaths regnired Of them.
•SatnrilaY. Was the. clsaY
-of the explosion. Ail. was 4nixt et .Oporto. The
~advialleed *aard• vies yesterday at •Leiria, al/out
yixt 'ashes kin* .NOthing has been
4404,11:n7;e tr.4.4f.iiiitk but the issuing of
a Pl:oohinalOp. riitlamatiois was
.a spirited :composition. - • The Regency one-. was
torn d',wu -the nth* s.ight, and the Oporto sub.
Stituted in its r het. Yesterday the police-were
'Very busy in OfOlig it.. No letters! were allowed.
tro
.come::, fig*. the „Post-office yesterday ; souse-
,quent am-are all-in the dark.. .. The Creole, they
pay, is to take•PALsrat.t.s k !wrote :this business he.
bad deelitied g6utg in hor. Three:l'6'race are pre-
.. . . .
pormi,•suppased to: Carry Off. they at a
'moment's warning. It is supposed .LIIC
at the bottom of this business, and that Ppitn.
gel will brconne a proyince of that country. • All.
is goiet at present here ; no movement of-troops,
Ind no dependance-on any one.
N 'The Itote.Dcy it allowed 0110-day to. accept
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LONDON,
TUESDAY, H, I 8 211 L

We have collected in another part of our rope! 1
a great Mites of the most interesting intelligence
reopening the revolution in Portugal, which**
announced 'yesterday. We use the tering'. " item;
lotion in Portugal," -without arty quelification,
because 410 doubt can now
.exist of the complete
and absolute success of tire •coirtitutional party.
The conspiracy that preceded the explosion at
Oporto, seems to have been as extensive as the .
_execution of the plan feria iiittdent and decisive.
Nut only did the whole military force at Oporto
concur in the measure, hut no difficulty apecarz: to
lithe been encountered from any of the other classes
in the city. The civil and etcleSisstical authorities
.
readily coneurred in the project of the military, and
took the ottli prescribed by the more active parti-
sans of the revolution. •All the troops throughout
the northern provinces instantly. indeed it would
seem almost simultaneously, pursued 'the save
measurer, and the revolution was effected with as
Much facility and willingness on • the part net only
of the people, but of the Msgistrateast COirobra,
Leiria, mid Abrantes. as
.at
Oporto :Tlieittt}li-
gence of the event was rapidly cdhveyed to 'Lisbon,
where it was received by the people 'with the •Wihleat
enthusiasm. The Regency hoped to control this
by publishing the Iltritioniation which :sp--1
`..peored yesterday its this Paper, Itut 'the people •.j
sidiesled this feeble edlliei of thi.47liibe•ile Govern-
(tient, the. .Proelasmitiens sow Atiteser, covered t• wit h.;
".kuud or..Min* dowie Intl tife...Alttes•ies the Re'--
volutionists to the military;evely.iveirree distriboted.
Betrayed by thi military, and Zespised and hated'
Hy the people, the Members of tie! Regeney could
...Make no vi ort to check theprogrees of event.: In
their deepair of suceen they turned their thoughts.
iolery io';their Personal safety; and ordered'some
ships of war lying in the *rogue to be prepared far
'their reception. 'Private lettets front Liebou stale,
that they were to embark pii heatillisese v'eireelsonf
•
the evening of the 31st., nil)) the.irssea tion of tirtk
jug shelter in the Brazils. _sad *Or:We apprised by a.
telegraphic dispatch frogs •Icsillailss ,sis if it were-the
immediate consequerice of their etternit. that Lisbon':
has followed 'the example of Oporto and the eitfier •
towns in the northern provinces, nod aoknowledged
the revolution. - • - • •
• It was on the 24th of August, as flee oititedyllibe.,
terday, that thie important event Hulk' place 'tot
Oporto. The revolution in 'that, *city was effeeted'
without opp‘sition, and consequently without nay.-
bloodshed or tumult. A Provisional Government
was immediately formed, of which it .'hirpears 'Axe.
701410 DE Stt.yA I'INTo was declated President..
This Government was formed not of 'military men.
only, but embraced several civil nod ecclesiastical
persons, under the denomination of depot-n-4 front
'several district., classes, aed inititutions. •' Prude-
mations were immeiliarelr• issued; ads reed to the
soldiers, only reminding them of the degradation of
their country, of their own service., sacrifices. mid
ttttt neri tedsu (tering:, and demanding their rosistinice
ie establishing a cOnstituticaal form of government.
• They tin-flounce the intention of the Chilli to-nrose
• Cortex of the kingdom immethitely to be satn-
moned, and specify some of the princioni °Nene of
the revolution. " Reform," they soy, 4i is tv...atited,"
and they hope to effect this by eatoblishiug a con.
stitution *nailer in principles to that of the Cortes
of Spain. The King is acknowledged as the head.
of the State, and " their holy religion 'shall be proe
tected.", A body of troops were odeseced from
Oporto upon Lsbon, hot it is probable that the in-
habitauts of the•copitgl•anticipated. their arrival by
adonting the principles of the revolution. it is
:said; hoverer;
.1114 i a few lien were lost in Lisbon.
The southern province., it was supposed, were ready
to follow the example of the north, and as the sante
motives, thei influenced the army in one part of the,
klngdritn teteaFbe equally operative to the other,
Ind ;is ell parts the power of the I:tail:lay omit be
paramount,' there is no rearm-, to doubt the cuereet.
nes* of this Supposition.

A; this revolution is in principle the ameno that
whi.cli has taken place in Spain, it must he regard-
ed with the same feelings of admiration by every
sincere friend to 'liberty and lidnasnity. It is one'
of thole mighty efforts which noinkinsi ussrasionslly