The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-29 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

THE PORTUGUESESL
CONTROVERS

at! on:.

This h fully corroborated by the note addressed to
the Viscount by . the undersigned on the 20th of
14..,y, tWo days previous to bis last conference, in
which h.., incloses projects of two articles on the ques-
tion of piracy, and which concludes with an earnest ap-
peal to the Viscount, ' the Minister to whom the glory
,i due of having, during p
short period of Dictator-
hip, proclaimed the abolition of the slave trade, to
take into his most serious consideration, in the same
philanthropic spirit by which he was on that occasion
influenced, the consequences which will be involved in
thetrejection of his proposal on the part of Great Bri.
tan) to inalce slave trade piracy, which is made a condi-
tion, state qua non of the conclusion of the proposed
treaty, by the loss of which such immense benefits to
be conferred thereby on the human race, and of advan-
tvres to the possessions of the Crown of Portugal in
Africa v,ill be destroyed ;' and by the report made by
the undersigned to her Majesty's Government on the
,),),,i i f May, in which he states that, having had his last
coriference with the Viscount, ' his Excellency having
st axed- ,to him the necessity under which he felt
liiipsilfOf again submitting the project of treaty to the
Coturio of Ministers, and that he was not prepared with
the promised declaration as to the piracy qu:stion ;
and, 'Moreover, that it was indispensable to obtain some
more precise assurance than the undersigned had pro-
pos)ed,''telative to the assistance to be offered to Portugal
• in the'event of disturbances in the Portuguese colonies,
the und;.rsigned had considered that in any longer delay-
inghia departure from Lisbon he should nut be acting
in a iiiatiner suitable to the circumstances of the case.
11,44 thing, were likely to bring the Portuguese Go-
`tlastriztnt to a senze of their present position, perhaps
i
~.nothieg would he more likely to open their eyes as a
v'''''''lno th,:n the undersigned's departure.
lift ' Flee Viscount, on finding that the undersigned was
,' to
i , 1:1'. detained any longer, promised him that he
weisid make . .
'1 thin
a 3
would such a declaration in a note addressed to
" If furthe:atisfY her Majesty's Government.
found in
_conarmation were necessary, it is to be
iI the Viscount de Sada Bandeira's own docu-
pleat, dated the 22d, addressed to the undersigned,
is departure, received after
th.
~,tb
of May
by
Mr on
jtehre. 28th, and forwarded on
explana'tlilonnghtarein whiPortuguesechthe VGios:
I coma' enters into an
I ve„mcnt in a tore very little ino accordance with his
I f, sea' disposition on the departure of the undersigned
pro ~.s
from Lisbo,:t on the 23d of Nlay.
iersigned avails himself of this oppor.tunity
The um
Excellency the assurances of his highest
to renew to his
con,ideration. (Signed)
‘, HOWARD DE WALDEN,
" Cintra, Septen:ber 1.5, 1839."
! ~..„,.....r.
RIIP.,INGAU, OCT.. 20.—Prince Metterniel -1 has
I g'
. . ‘ - .en orders to establh; hon his estates an hospital, in
) which all the indigent poor in the neighbourhood are to
lti he admitted. The direction of the establishment is to
4" Ise committed to four Sisters of Chanty.—Swabian
if Meicury.
tTHE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—On Mon-
: day the mortal remains of the late Duke of Bedford

VE TRADE
Y.

Copy a note addressed by Lord Howard de Walden
to the Portuguese Government on the 15th alt , imme-
diately upon receiving the Baron da Ribeira de Sabro-
sa's long official note of the 116, which has already ap-
peared in The Sun :-
11
1 "'rite undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has had
j the honour to receive this morning a note addressed to
him, under the date of the 9th inst., by the Baron da
Ribeira de Sabrosa, &c., entering into various arguments
intended as answers to parts of the notes presented by
the undersigned to his Excellency, by order of her
Majesty, on the ?Bth of April and sth of May, relative
to the breaking off of the late negotiations for a treaty
between Great Britain and Portugal, for the effectual
abolition of the slave trade carried on under the Por-
I toguese flog.
I "As it may be the intention of the Baron da Ri•
1 bairn de Sabrosa to publish this note at once, without
giving the undersigned time to enter into its details,
and as his Excellency would thus be enabled to send
it forth to produce effect on the public, as was done in
regard to the note of the Viscount Sada Bandeira, of
tile 6th of October, 1838, which was published officially
hi the Diario do Governo, without the reply to it, a pro-
ceeding strongly contrasted by the loyal proceedings of
the British Government, by whom all the papers con-
nected with the slave trade negotiation were laid before
the British Parliament in the most comprehensive
form, the undersigned must defer, from press of time,
the general analysis of the note of his Excellency, and
reply at once to the point on which his Excellency
f seems to have worked most (for what object it is diffi-
cult to understand), as it does not tell in the least upon
the two questions on which the Viscount Sada Ban-
/ doira and the undersioned were at variance, viz., the
I qu, stion of piracy and the guarantee, and respecting
which he has called in aid of misrepresentations (the
undersigned cannot believe them intentional) private
and confidential letters from himself to the Viscount,
)
and a letter from the Attache of her Majesty's Lege-
' tiou to a clerk of the Foreign Office.
The undersigned has now, however, only distinctly
to deny, once more for all, that he had ever consented
to sign the treaty, as it stood on his departure from Lis-
bon on the 23d of May.
" The undersigned is now a little astonished at the
Baron da Ribeira de Sabrosa's renewing the attempt to
ascribe solely to his precipitate departure the ' non-sig-
n nure' of the treaty, as said to have been consented
to by the Viscount Sada Bandeira, the undersigned
. hiving personally made his Excellency acquainted with
tne tenor of the proposed joint declaration, under which
alone he had consented to affix his signature to the
treaty, as likely to stand, even if, firstly, the promised
dederetion as to piracy, and, secondly, the stipulation
for the proposed guarantee, had been brought forward
simultaneously in the more satisfactory shape, which he
I Ives induced by the Viscount to expect, to the last mo-
ment, would be done.
" The undersigned now begs to refer the Baron da
Rtheina de Sabrosa to the draft of the document which
was delivered by the undersigned to the Viscount, which
W.:3 as follows :---‘ At a conference held this day, be-
tween Viscount Sada Bandeira and Lord Howard de
' Walden, Lord Howard declared that he did not feel
1 authorised, under his instructions, to affix his signature
to any treaty for the abolition of the slave trade, which
! did not contain a provision for makine the traffic piracy.
The Viscount, on the part of the Portuguese Govern-
!
1 went, stated that force of circumstances alone prevented
his acquiescing in such a stipulation in the proposed
treaty, but having declared in the name of the Queen
of Portugal her most faithful Majesty's willingness
to
Ibecome party, by either a joint or simultaneous act, to
any general measure adopted by the European Powers
for the above object, and the Viscount Sada Ban-
deira and Lord Howard having both also weighed
I the various inconveniences which might arise from a
&ey at this moment in the actual signature of the
treaty, containing important stipulations so entirely in
! coeformity in so many important respects with the
' other principles and details of project as presented to
the Portuguese Government, have agreed to affix their
signature to the treaty, sub ape rati, under the mutual
ph (Igo that, in the event of the treaty not being accepted
as it stands by her Majesty's Government, the act of
its signature shall remain secret, and that the documents
shall be cancelled, and be considered, to all intents and
purposes as null and void in all its parts as if the said
signature had never taken place.'
" This establishes the basis on which the undersigned,
acting in the most conciliatory spirit, and determined
' to put the real disposition of the Viscount or the party
he represented to the test, would have consented to
affix his signature to the treaty, distinctly not pledging
her Majesty's Government to the adoption of it, on re-
ceiving at the same time a satisfactory declaration (in-
stead of a patent article) as to a future engagement to
proclaim slave trade piracy, and the demand for a gua-
rantee restricted within reasonable limits, based on the
cfl'er made by the undersigned.
" It was on these points, on neither of which the
Viscount had consented to meet the propositions of the
undersigned, when the undersigned left Lisbon, that the
signature of the undersigned was under the special con-
dition above recorded, had depended.
" With regard to the private letters collected and
quoted by Baron da Ribeira de Sabroso, it is hardly ne-
cessary to remark the first. Mr. Craven's was an
answer to the pretension ofa clerk in the Foreign Office
to alter, without the authority of the Plenipotentiaries,
the text of articles which had been conditionally agreed
upon, and which were in the course of copying, appa-
rently in a most dilatory manner, creating the impression
of a disposition on the part of persons under the Vis-
count's direction, not to further even the manual labour
of preparing a document for signature. The second, a
letter from the undersigned, some time previous to his
departure, is evidence of his own desire to adopt, as far
as was possible, the Viscount's proposed amendments,
though it is unfortunately no evidence of the subsequent
success of his endeavours,
" The third letter, from the undersigned, tells upon
ti-e dilatoriness of the Foreign Office, stimulates the
Viscount do Sa, by stating to him that some sheets of
the Portuguese text were still kept back.
" The fourth letter made use of, and a confidential
one, also from the undersigned, only proves that on the
Senility previous to his departure, the question as to the
pheesy declaration was still unsettled, although the un-
dersiened still entertained hopes that the Viscount de
‘-',e de Befell, ra might be induced to render it satis-