The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-05 00:00:00

laid aid pswerfal *mei) ink rissirei siring, v..iprons,
aid decisive remedies. So couch far this subject. Me
should now pus to other parts of the Speech. tad las
should, before lie went further, express the eL.4tsfactinit
which he felt at hearing. that the reform of the Orarts of

Law wail ?Iwo to be trarla a eerernrorett ruel4nre.
course whisk bad been pre•iouely rirsued upon
this important, tothinte, 112,1 led to •Pry little benefit,
althougb much time bad been lest, and much expense
incurred ha the iIIII.,IrY. It tilt prOpaiggi investigation
ihould be conducted with wisdom, Tigoar, and impar-
tiality, and should be followed by tie effect of rendering

justice cheap and expeditious. it world tender a most im-
portant terrine to the puling. But this would remedy
nit a small part of the evils under which the counti y was
labouring, and which, if they went on increasing, would
in a short time, delta/ all the a.tachment which the peo-
ple er tertained fir dsose who ought to be their napural
protectors. If the present evil' continued witt out initi-
i {,stion the lower clashes of society would cease to have any
-iinfiderice either in the immediate superiors, or in the
Legislature or the Government ; nor would the Gores n-
m•nt or the Legislature deserve that such confidence
.hor.ld be placed in them if they refund to apply the only
remedy which could in any consider-aisle degree alleviate
the diatreeses under whirl, the people were labouring.
With regard to that part of the King's Speech which treated
of the foreign relations of this country, tome part of it was
satisfactory enough, but there was no great room for ex-
ultation in other respects. The Arlie Lord here entered
into a review of the transactions connect,sl with the send-
ing out of this country of the Portuguese refugees who had
been for some time stationed at Portsmouth, and who
set sail for Brazil in the sours* of the last year. His
Lordship entered at some length into a tonsidtration of

the inetruviona which had keen seat from the Ad-
miralty to Captain Walpole, wile killed several of the
Portuguese in preventing. them frost landing in the island
of Terceira, which was then in poseession of some pers. a
who acknowledged the Queen Donna Maria. The extreme
and sudden variations which took place in the Lord's
voice at this time, together with the almost eminterrupted
awl vehement cheering of Lord Holland, rendered this pat t
of the Earl of Cernarvon's speech inandihle he:ow the bar.
His Lordship observed that the conduct of Don Mignel
since his secession to the throne of Portugal had been
•uch as not to entitle hint to say partiality from the
British government, if it would not even jnetify this Go-
vernment ire taking measures of direct hostility against
The utmost that could be expected from nor Government
in that este, was that they should observe a sty ict and
impartial neutrality between the contending pertios ; in-
stead of which they issued a distinct military aid for Don
Miguel from the ports of this country. Here the Nod-e
Earl entered into a statement of thstoirenntst.toesi eornect-
ed with the debate which took place upou the subject of
the transaction at Terceira in the last sessi.n of Par-

liament, and of some other maw* whirk prevented
himself from being present at the diseu.sion. Its cent-
phtined, that having waited in town Sevond the time wkich
had been appointed for the close of the Seitaion, anti that
the session having been prolonged far a rt sok letyond the
appointed time, and for the purpose of peeling a private
Bill, the subject of Captain Walpole's conduct at Terceira
had been brought before the Hoare is that week so added
to the Sesaio❑ for the passing of a private Bill through
Parliament. Reverting to the subject of Tercei: a, his
Lordship said that the order which had 61144 front the
Admiralty was justified by the perfidy of the Portngnese
emigrant:. lint he (Lord Carsarvon) titso:;ht that the
conduct of the British Government was at.: fr.e flow
blame. Whether these COO men ought to have beets or
not been separated from each other, it was, uadoubtedly,
a cruel measure to separate the mesa from their (lit:eta.

Here the Noble Earl restated the facto sonvected with the
attack at Teiceira, and lamented that the brave officer w! to
commanded a portion of the British navy on that occasion,
should have been plated, by the orders of the Admiralty,
under the necessity of killing brave, patriotir, and virtvona
men, who preferred to riposte themsclvers to itimediate death
from British arms rather than espooe t%sinvelves to the pooei-
bility of being again placed under the moot rotidcait and
savage tyranny that had ever oppressed and afflic,ed a:ss-
kind. The conduct of the Sritish Government, in thus lir lag
upon men who were in the act of endeavouring bu lard in
their own country, had Leen defended on the I;n:tend of the
want of candour which Lad been shown by the Pot tucume
themselves. But the facts of the cam did not wart aI,I Any
such deft nee. The Viscount Ittabayana, Lavin( applied to

the Government for leave to ship some muskets at Ports,
mouth, was informer; that he 4101011 not ie sacred to do
so, except upon his engaging not to attack any part of the
kingdom of Portugal. Now, the Portuguese soldiers
who embarked for Brazil, under the direction■ of Viscount
Itabsynna, disclaimed any intention of attacking Portugal,
and the Noble Duke opposite /ad oonstraed this into a
pledge that they would not send the muskets he any place
where the subjects of Portegal, acknew•iedgiug Donna
Maria for tkeir Queen might he exposed to attack ky the
troops of lion Miguel. He (Lord C.) wail ready to ►d-
rrrit that in the conduct of Itahayana there might have been
something like a manoeuvre, but it tartly was net auffi-
eirnt to justify the Admiralty in oriel iag a rortion of the

13, itish navy to attack a leuly of me* who had nothing to
de with the arrangeotents er engagements entoreil ;ato by
Viscount Itabayana with the British Geverninent. It war
asherted that these six hundred toes, unarm:oil, were wills
with the intention of attacking Terceira, or sons* other
island, hut the Government well knew that Terceira was
only sought as a friendly statics to which they Delight reti,
as to a shelter when no ether asylum cEtred.. It rsas tle
fore a subte: fuge for Gover meet to my that s►ck was their
intention ; for it was is the grit place ■ot i❑ their lower,
nor had they ever entertained nay hostile views whatever.
They only attempted to laid there, as a friendly station,
which was not under the :sovereignty of Don Aligned, but
of theirlawful Queen.—( Hear, hear, from Lord Holland,)
We had not acknowledged Miguel as Sovereign of Portu-
gal, but only treated him as a King de facto, and ke Lisa
no right to expect that we should interfere: to prevent a
descent of the Queen's subjects on a spot whirl: utterly
disclaimed his authority, alai was ander the tovei•eigaty
of their legitimate Queen. They had a tight to land there,
and we had no right to prevent theme net to make them
prisoners under the pretence of giving them a convoy.
'I he Noole Duke was sufficiently conver►ant with attacks;
but when did he ever see or hear of an attack on armed
fortifications by a small hand of six kaosired men, with
no other arms than these with which netute had

furnished them ? They had made no attempt to at-
tack any of the other islands which remained mailer the
dominion of Dna Miguel; and yet if they had gone to the
Brnails they might leave beer pet on V 142.1,1 a vesed of war,
a d sent to attack Lichen itself. We knew Miguel oil,
as a King de pet° ; whereas the Queen of Penns) vv,,',3
Qaeen of Terceira, both tie facto tad de istre. He
expected a distinct explanation ef the foliewrag sircurn-
stance from the First Lord ef the Treesury 1--Tt eir
Lordships had, before them a espy of e €7;.apatela from the
Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Aboaeen. frem which
it appeared that the Noble Duke teseesietosi the htleirae-ei of
the Noble Earl's office for hloia and said " Sae what I
have been tieing for yoga this least week." The Neiii!et
Duke, it appeared, ionic the whole busleose of the
Foreign °flier, add pomilely ef the Admiralty, and
other departments of Government, on Mr,
me, adaum qui fed, in me coat:crate ferrunt. Tlta
Noble Duke in this respect resembled what on tee
stage they called an actor of all work. 11. e teak
every thing on himself, and perhaps aietate...:' the Ad-
miralty Order for our inteeferenee; sail would have
had no pretence to ineputv any blame V Gar Goerrnment,
if we had sutured them to ge wherever they pica:ter'. It
wee litteenteli)e to see the eacilleting poliey which the Mi.
nieters had adopted on this sniajeut, ehowitee n diepoeition
to interfere, and yet half afraid to do co—wilich pave oc-
casion to this unjesti eenguiaery, nisi illegal attack on the
noble little hand who at %.4apte4 to laud at Tepee ira—( Hear,
heir, front lorei Ilollund)—and thireloy supported by au
armed force the cause of their friend W-guee We hed tie
eight, by the law of nature er ef nations, to interptese.—
Theee Was no necessity for lending tie British arretr to
Miguel to support his usurpation. Had et net ken for
this, the Queen's troops asecabled at ()pert. ritielit have
dethroned the Usurper, and treed their ecentry. Tikey
mire superior in force to tke erieray,, sad A:Intel:I *ily v.,
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ryas sensor or not.
It heti been field that thuse of the uea,rwho adhered
to their Que.(); and their country were lukewarm in their
ewer cause, But this Was not tie; twee they ouly wasted
a real neutrality bn the pert 0; this orautri, and ascribed
their failure to the want at it. Eat owl. 11141 .sera were
employed in makitat 'avr on the raeourcee of their even
country, and cce.l,tA tent take a decilitre part in the etreira of
Portugal, it teas high time to have recourse to the proper
mean* restoring this country to eta former prosperity ;
but if the Ministers petstrered in the team they had
begun, the star of Britain would aink fast in the poli-
tire' galaxy. But the first atop to relief moat be a step
in retreat. Ile had nn greet hope* freest a Parliamentery
inquiry on tlis suWeet. The remedy, to le effretual, wrest
come frsem Govetrit:ewnr, and it.tst he prcuiptly rlll itd
an] our c,nly hop:• v,.:4 ire baying, a Guvernuieut which
would speedily adopt the tv-3rs of relief. W 5 had un-
hope from a Government which not only was out 63.p...ea
to apply a remedy, bat did act feel tlat the ovL eitistede