The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-25 00:00:00

THE bin% LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIING, MARCH 25, 1865:,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SHAMEFUL CRUELTY.—Henry Field, a carman in the
employ of Mr. K6nd Allaire, dyer to her Majesty, of No. 1,
Conduit-street, Regent-street, and 72 and 73, Mortimer-
street, Cavendish-square, was charged before Mr. Knox,
at the instance of Mr. William Love, chief officer of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
with cruelly torturing a horse by working it in an unfit
state.

The horse was brought to the mews at the back of the
court for the magistrate's inspection, and its appearance
was truly shocking. Besides having scars nearly all over
its body it was so lame in one leg through disease of the
hoof that it could only hop along.

Simeon Sell, an officer of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, said that while in Conduit-
street, Regent-street, he saw the defendant in charge of the
horse attached to a van. Seeing the horse was standing
on three legs he examined it and found it suffering from
disease of the hoof of some standing, and to be besides
totally unfit for work. _ _ _

The defendant said the van had only about one hundred
weight in it at the time.

Mr. Knox, after viewing the horse, said he would remand
the defendant, and a summons could be taken out against
the owner.

A person attended on the part of the owner of the horse
and said he was willing to have it killed at once, and the
horse was taken away for that purpose, the officer of the
society accompanying it to see that it was put out of its
misery.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

RUGBY RACES—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
These races were -postponed until Monday. Snow very
deep.
FARMERS' MAIDEN PLATE (Yesterday).
The winner of this race objected to.

Freemason Government in Portugal.

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Tablet : ,

Sir,—Many thanks for the insertion in your proto-
Catholic paper in London of my letter of the 22d
last. Thank God that the Catholic organs at last
begin to listen to the voice of truth and real fact in
regard to my country's just cause and lawful king—
both so deeply wronged by England ever since 1826.
Against such truth the generality of the British
public have kept their ears hermetically closed for
the last 39 years, and the columns of almost all the
British papers have been denied to its assertion, all
through prejudice, the effect of most scandalous
and calumnious Masonic representation and false-
hood.

The British Catholics in particular owe my coun-
try—that is to say, its great Catholic and legitimist
majority—a great debt of reparation, by reason of
the .mistaken support given (as I mentioned in my
last letter) to the freebooters who accompanied Don
Pedro to Portugal, with the deliberate intention and
prospect of plunder and profane robbery. I have
somewhere (though I cannot put my hand upon it
at the moment) a decoy song, which was stuck up
on the window of a crimping shop at Greenwich,
where ragamuffins were recruiting for the Pedroite
army in 1831. In some of the stanzas or verses of
this precious composition (if I am not mistaken,
and I think my memory serves me tolerably well),
one of the inducements offered to the braves
(ruffians) invited to assist in the holy cause was,
that they would be able in Portugal forcibly to
enter convents, rob them, &c. The burden, or
refrain, to be repeated after each verse, I remember
well, It was this :

Then who shall stop Our hands
At what we like the best—
From plunder or from gold,
When we are in foreign lands?

Such were the noble aspirations of those knights
of liberty and freedom (to themselves) whom the
British Catholics formerly so much contributed to
let loose upon my pooi country, to rob, to profane,
' and to destroy its most sacred and noble religious,
civil, and political institutions ! We, therefore,
Portuguese Catholics and
.Legitimists, have a
claim upon our fellow Catholics in Great Bri-
tain to help us, with their sympathies at least,
in redressing, in any possible way, so many
wrongs. As they have for so many years given
a willing and mistaken ear to calumny, let
them hear at least now with some attention
the truth. They ought to know well now from
its fruits what sort of tree they helped in importing
and planting in the Portuguese soil. I will try to
help them in this knowledge, if you allow me to do
it in your columns, by adducing authentic facts, past
and present, that I hope shall leave no doubt in any
upright mind about the real character of the self-
styled liberators of Portugal.
When our revolutions, in 1829, 1830, &c., were
bamboozling the British public here, and through
the British press the rest of Europe, so as to get
from John Bull's pocket the millions wherewith
he helped them in ruining their most ancient and
faithful ally, they magnified and exaggerated to the
utmost the riches and treasures of the Church in Por-
tugal, especially of the convents and regular Orders,
as being ample security, when the patriots should
have triumphed, for the repayment of capital and
interest of the ruinous loans and contracts they were
making in this country—in the first loan some 22
per cent. was the real value they received for each
£lOO borrowed from the Jews here, and a good por-
tion of such value was received in bad stores, ac-
coutrements, &c. The Portuguese Church was to
pay for all that ; I remember how the correspon-
dent of the Times, when on one occasion he was re-
lating some festivity at the Cathedral at Lisbon, on
describing the mitre worn by the patriarch, which
the said correspondent had been contemplating
with covetous eyes, on account of the jewels shining
upon it, he observed that it would go a great way
to pay a large portion of the debt made
here for the masonic restoration of Portugal.
This happy restoration was at last effected,
thanks to the Jews, to Lord Palmerston, to
Louis Phillippe, and to immaculate Christina :
the property of the Church, secular, and regular,
was taken, and confiscated, and sold ; and the
Morning Chronicle in 1834-35, &c., published long
lists and accounts of the sales, and the immense
sums realised at the auctions. Stupid John Bull
was delighted and was clapping his hands, on read-
ing of such results, at the arrival of each Lisbon
packet, and applauding himself for the excellent
speculation he had made in lending his sovereigns
to the Portuguese liberators. But the property of
the Church soon disappeared, and not a farthing of
the so-called National Debt was paid out of it. It
went by hook and crook into the hands and pockets
of the patriots, who were laughing in their sleeves
at Mr. Bull's simplicity ; and trusting to him and
to their delusions for new loans upon loans, which
they have not been stingy in contracting, whenever
their purse was emptied.

There was, however, still remaining a little pro-
perty, which, without being precisely Church or
convent property, was still in some way attached to
churches, and administered and dispensed under the
Church supervision, as being in the main the patri-
mony of the poor and helpless. Several times the
Freemasons have been casting longing eyes upon
this property—that of Confraternities, Misericor-
dists, hospitals, &c., as I mentioned in my first
letters, published by you on the 4th inst ; but they
had refrained from seizing it, for fear of the indig-
nation of the people, especially in the provinces of
Minho and Beira. They remembered that the wish
of the notorious Costa Cabral to interfere with
such property had already greatly contributed to
the celebrated Revolution of 1846, which would
have cost the good Queen de facto Donna Maria
her unlawful throne, were it not then for the
Citizen King (not long after Mr. Smith), who,
in some manner, forced England to sign the pro-
tocol of June, 1847, and to co-operate through
Maitland's squadron, with the Spanish army, in
putting down both the Junta of Oporto and the
Legitimists. In justice to Lords Russell (then
Prime Minister) and Palmerston, it must be said,
that then they were for non-intervention in Portu-
gal ; but (through the interference, I was told, of
Prince Albert) they were outvoted in council on the
point, and forced to interfere, as Mr. B. Osborne
distinctly stated in Parliament, without being con-
tradicted, in the magnificent and celebrated speech,
by virtue of which the electors of Middlesex were
induced to invite him to stand for the representation
of the metropolitan county, after the resignation of
Colonel Wood, in the same year, 1847.
That, however, which Costa Cabral failed in doing
by at once treating the charitable institutions as the
Church had been treated (that is to say by despoil-
ing them sans facon), the present Freemasons in
Lisbon want to effect by deception and humbug.
Reversing the practice of the old alchynaists, who
tried to convert all sorts of things into g2ld, the
Lisbon Masonic Paracelsuses wish to turn every-
thing valuable into worthless paper (and to
turn the valuables into their own pockets), as I
formerly stated. The Masonic Chamber of Deputies
has already approved "in the generality " the
spoliating project of law, but petitions and re-
monstrances against it, written in energetic terms,
are being sent from several congregations to
the Chamber of Peers, imploring them not to
allow such disastrous measures to pass into law.
Had I not been these last days very much engaged
with indispensable work, I would have sent you some
extracts of such petitions ; illustrative at the same
time of the value to the nation, and especially the
poor and miserable, of the institutions which will be
ruined by the perfidious law now proposed, and of
the crying injustice of such law. Not having had
leisure, however, to prepare such extracts, I will
send you the translation of my own protest, which
I wrote, had printed and posted by the Brazilian
and Lisbon packet, on the same day of the date :

PROTEST.
(Translation.)
"In the name of the lawful sovereign of Portugal, King
Don Miguel 1., by the powers I have from him, and in my
own name, by my own right, as a Portuguese citizen,
asserter and maintainer of the sole true and lawful consti-
tution of the kingdom, which could not bo validly altered
or revoked but by the legal forms and means, historical,
well known, and used, in itself established; in the name
of all the true Portuguese who agree with me and

with these principles, who do not hold themselves
as ' conquered,' but as oppressed by the infamous
Quadruple Alliance, and its wicked consequences ; who do
not understand their true right to national liberty, inde-
pendence, and legitimacy to have become obsolete in 30 and
some years, any more than it had in 60, previous to 1640
—I protest loudly against the spoliation and disguised rob-
bery which is being proposed and discussed in the impious,
Masonic, and anti-national assemblies now sitting in Lis-
bon.

" And should it happen at any time (which is far from
impossible, or even improbable) that the true Portuguese
people shall recover the power, as they tenaciously pre-
serve the wish, of restoring themselves to their just liberty
and authority, they will hold as null and abusive all that
may have been done by virtue and in execution of the pre-
sent spoliating project, should it pass into a revolutionary
kw. And from the buyers or purchasers in auction of such
properties now belonging to the corporations threatened
with spoliation, shall the same properties be duly and un-
flinchingly claimed, by virtue of this protest, as of the
scandalous injustice and rapacity which call for it.
" *To this end, all true Portuguese and Catholics are re-
quested to collect, preserve, and sedulously authenticate, in
the best manner they can, all the notes, memorandums,
documents, and proofs, whereby in proper time and occa-
sion, may be identified and recognised the properties of
which now so infamously and perfidiously it is endeavoured
to defraud poverty, sickness, misery, the orphans, the
nation. A. R. SARAIVA.

London, March 8, 1865,
21, Nottingham-street, Marylebone.

P.S.—Of course, the Freemasons in Portugal,
and their compeers elsewhere, will laugh at my pro-
test. Their laugh will not disturb my sleep; and,
as truth is really beginning to recover its rights, and
the world cannot fail to receive a great impulse in
that direction from the admirable and providential
Encyclical of the Holy Father, I shall merely reply
to the cynic Freemasonic laugh.—Rira mieux qui rira
le dernier.
March 15, 1865. •