The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1865.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNTAL
HANDEL FESTIVAL.
MESSIAH, Monday, June 26, 1865.
SELECTION, Wednesday, June 28, 1865.
ISRAEL, Friday, June 30, 1865.
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personal applicatim, at the Festival Ticket Offices, Crystal
Palace, and Exeter Hall. It may also be had at the principal
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on Monday next, March 13, for the issue of vouchers wear-
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be open to inspection. Written applications, whether direct
or through agents, containing remittances, and arriving at
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13th, will be attended to alternately with personal applica-
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are recommended to apply for them as early as possible after i
the opening of the Subscription Books on the 13th-of March.
Even the Crystal Palace, with its vast space, has limits of
accommodation which cannot be exceeded ; and the demand
at each of the three previous Festivals for seats in particular
blocks having been greatly in excess of any possible supply,
the necessity for the foregoing intimation must be apparent.

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL TICKET
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On other days they will be open from Ten till Five.
March 11, 1865. By Order.

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THE DUKE OF SALDANHA AND MR.

S ARAIVA.

(From the Weekly Register of Mrcreh 11, 1865.)

. .
Sir,—l am very glad—and I say it without the

least affectation—that Sir John Scott 'Lillie replied
to my letter about Saldanha, published in your
Catholic paper this day last week. It does honour
to the feelings of the gallant General to come for-
ward in defence of his old comrade in the glorious
struggle of the Peninsular war, in which both the
gallant soldiers did their duty with great credit and
high distinction ; but whether his letter will do much
good to the Duke or to the cause which Sir J. S.
Lillie seems to have yet so much at heart, that is
another question, of which your readers will be more
competent judges than I am. I will at once proceed
seriatim to examine and answer the several clauses
of the General's letter in the same order as they
there appear.

He says—" That I blame the Duke for having
,aken an active part in the restoration of constitu-

tional monarchy in his ozvn country, under its legiti-
mate Queen Donna Maria, when the throne of that
kingdom had been usurped by Don Miguel, whose
despotic sway and the cruelties he practised to all op-
posed to him, created euck general dissatisfaction
throughout Europe as to cause a universal feeling
amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty, and of
constitutional freedom for his overthrow."

The points or expressions I took the liberty of
italicising are those I will begin by adverting upon.
Then, first,— "the restoration of constitutional
monarchy" in Portugal. Old Johnson, who knew
some little of the English language, defines
constitutional (in the sole sense applicable to our
which is
"consistentlstau feel
extremely
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obliged
ba
constitutionli g) e dt h
ta
ot
Sir John if he kindly shows me the
legality of which he so triumphantly speaks, of
that " constitutional monarchy" of his in my
country. I absolutely deny such legality ; the onus
probandi is his ; let him bring forth the proofs of his
assertions, and he will then see whether I have some-
thing substantial to say against them. And if he
does not prove what he advances, we shall know
what to think of his words.

Now, for the " legitimate Queen Dona Maria." I
just as peremptorily deny and reject any "legitimate''
(lawful) right in Dona Maria to the Throne of Por-
tugal, my country. Unfortunately, Ido not find
in Johnson the word legitimate in the sense it is here
used by the General, meaning lawful (as if he means
that Dona Maria is the " lawfully begotten" daughter
of Don Pedro, I knock under at once on this point.)
Yes, I totally deny to Dona Maria any right to the
Portuguese Throne, if not before, most certainly
from the 24th day of August, 1825, the date of the
treaty, and acknowledgment by Portugal and King
John VI., of the Brazilian Independence. When
the General brings forth his proofs, we shall see
whether I can discover some little flaw in them ;
and if he wishes at once to refute my arguments, I
will refer him to the article in which I stated them
with sufficient fullness, in your own paper of the
16th of January (I think it is the date), last year.
Until he refutes my arguments there, he must allow
me to beseech him not to speak lightly of what he
has not studied, or does not know.

After what I have just said, anybody who
knows the name of logic will at once judge
of the delicacy and fairness of calling Don Miguel
something very much akin to a robber or thief, and
me, consequently, his accomplice and abettor.
without being able to prove the charges. I am ready
to hear his arguments, and beforehand promise him
to submit to their cogency, if they have any.
Now, in the " despotic sway," " the cruelties
practised" (by Don Miguel), the "universal feeling
amongst all friends of civil and religious liberty and
of constitutional freedom for his overthrow," there
is only an appeal to the quackish delusions and
sophistic cant with which Freemasons and shallow
Liberals have heen trying to delude and upset
society ever since the first French Revolution. The
Encyclical of the Holy Father is the fit commentary
on all this. I do not wish, however, or want, to
shun any point or charge, and am always ready to

answer all ; but I have regard to your space ; I
therefore will only say, for the present, in reference
to the " despotic sway," first that such sway was
not despotic, nor did I ever admit that it was, or
would ever have submitted to despotic power, which
was not at all the power of the Portuguese Kings,
according to the real and true constitution of the
country, which the Portuguese Legitimists, or the
immense majority of the people, maintained, wished,
and wish restored to this day. If Sir John con-
tradicts this, I am ready to answer him, and to bring
forth my proofs. Secondly, I deny also those
" cruelties practised by him," and assert that they
were for the most part invented by the Portuguese
refugees, who, after having been expelled from the
country by the resistance and energy of the people,
came to England and set about manufacturing all
sorts of calumnious falsehoods--even the most
improbable and absurd—against the King. and
the great majority and best part of the
nation which wished and supported him. These
are general assertions Sir John will perhaps say :
Well, here I am, ready to substantiate them, and
will gladly do so, if you promise to afferd me space
for it.

I leave the gallant General the benefit of the clap-
trap about the " general dissatisfaction throughout
Europe, the universal feeling amongst all friends of
civil and religious liberty, and of constitutional
freedom," &c. This reminds me of the actor who
said he had always at his disposal a remedy against
the slacking applause in the pit : he had only to
bring forth, no matter how, the bubble, " Not the
smallest feather shall be plucked out from the wing
of liberty !" But let me ask—what has all that to
do with, or ho* does it in any way atone for, the
robbery of the Church in Portugal, with its heart-
rending consequences, the principal charge I bring
against Sir John's favourite Duke and his friends?
Sir John makes a great merit to Saldanha (and
of course to himself) for participating in a feeling
created abroad (out of Portugal, he means) by
falsehood and calumny, and for wishing to cram
down the throats of the Portuguese people against
their will his famous nostrum of " civil and religious
liberty and constitutional freedom." The gallant
General who, I think, is no stranger to some know-
ledge of the principles of law, cannot be ignorant of
the maxim, Invito non datur beneficiunz. He must
have heard something of a hero celebrated by Cer-
vantes, one of whose first exploits was to rescue a
farmer's lad from a righteous flogging his master
was administering him for some misdeed; a rescue
which produced to the boy a second and more severe
thrashing. Sir John, I suppose, knows also what sort
of thanks the hero of La Mancha afterwards got from
the lad, when called to testify to the merits and ser-
vices of knight-errantry. Well, I can assure the
General (and I offer to have thething tested by honest
universal suffrage), that nine out of every ten Por-
tuguese would express to Sir John, and his friend,
to Lord Palmerston and his quadruple alliances,
thanks of the same kind as those of the farmer's
boy, for the precious " civil and religious liberty,
and constitutional freedom," which " Liberal"
quackery has inflicted upon us. I feel almost sure,
the Saldanha himself—who has several very good
points about him—would admit the truth of what I
have just said, if the question was seriously put to
him. I can excuse foreigners, who were deceived
by the lying inventions of the Portuguese refugees,
and the lying correspondents in Portugal of most
of the English papers ; but there was little excuse
for Saldanha, who had his friends and relations in
Lisbon (even his brother Francis, now Count d'Azin-
haga, then a great Mig,uelite, till 1839, and the
King's agent at Turin), from whom he could know
the real truth.
How Sir John finds that the fact of a Government

who robbed the Church, reducing to beggary and

starvation hcrmost respectable ministers—a Govern-
ment which has done all which the Holy Father most
reprobates (vide Encyclical and Syllabus)—having
appointed their Ambassador to Rome just the man
who chiefly contributed to the ascendancy and pre-
servation of that Government—that this should be
a forcible reason more for the readers of the TVeekly
Register holding such Ambassador in higher estima-
tion—is above my comprehension.
The General is mistaken in thinking that I know

he had been appointed to command a division of
the rebels against us, &c. I never knew it. The
fact of the bill about his dfference with the public-

house-keeper in the Strand is all that I knew, for he
must remember how unwarrantably I was incom-
moded on that account. I shall not tire the readers
with this story, but have no objection to explaining
it fully.

The General still persists in calling me a "partisan
of the usurper," he will see that this makes it more
incumbent upon him to prove that the King had no
right to his crown.
He further says, I have " favoured him with va-
rious marks of my hostility," &c. That is possible,

as I cbuld not much like those who, having no busi-
ness with the internal political affairs of my coun-

try, did all they could against us ; but I give him
my word of honour that I do not remember where or
when I ever showed that hostility to him personally.
Of late Sir John cannot have forgotten how we have
been very friendly, and so I am still towards him),
when he was most zealously trying, in combination
with me and others (the late General Gomez, for
instance), to find means and support for the
triumph of Don Carlos (Count de Montemolin) in
Spain. Now Don Carlos's principles and interests
were brotherly enough with those of my King, his
uncle.

The General wrongs the Duke of Wellington
and Lord Beresford, in accusing them of " advo-
cating despotic rule in Portugal ;" and with them
he wrongs Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Aberdeen, Sir
Robert Peel, the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord
Fitzroy Somerset (since Lord Raglan) Sir George
Murray, Sir Henry Hardinge (lately Loid Har-
dinge), and several more of such small fry, who
_ _ _ _ _

sided in the Portuguese question with Wellington

and Beresford, and unfortunately differed from Sir

John Scott Lillie in this and other respects. He

wrongs them, I say, because instead of "advocating
despotic rule" in Portugal, they advocated the

real Portuguese constitutional Government. Lord
Aberdeen and the Duke did not listen to us with
favour, or began actually to prepare for reversing

the unjust policy of Canning in regard to us, until

they saw laid before them the authentic documents

and proofs incontestable of the perfect legality of

the lawful Cortes of 1828—the real national Par-

liament, who declared the legal right of the King to

the Portuguese throne. I know this too well, as
I had in my quality of Secretary to the Portuguese
Mission, to translate into French the above-said
documents, and the parallel ones of the great Cortes
or Parliament of 1641, in order to show the

Government here the perfect constitutional legality
of our late proceedings in Portugal. And it

was only after Lord Aberdeen had scrupulously
examined all, that he at last admitted our being
in the right. It was since then also that,
being pressed, on the strength of his admission,
by Viscount d'Assecca, my Minister, to recog-
nise formally the right of the King, he used to
reply :—" Bien fait ou mal fait, 31. le Vicomte,
c'est fait : nous avons reconnu le Gouverne-
ment actuel en Portugal, et vous ne devez
pas attendre quo le Gouvernement d'une grande
nation comme la Grande Bretagne puisse si facile-
ment rebrousser chemin." Such was his reply,
and then the British Cabinet pressed our Government for
an amnesty to the refugees ; the want of the ready grant-
ing of which was the greatest fault of our Government,
and what prevented the Wellington Cabinet from acknow-
ledging the King before their fall in 1830. I hope this sort
of digression will be forgiven, as the facts there mentioned
are not without interest, and they do justice as well as
honour to such statesmen departed as England would be
very glad to get back, in exchange even for Lord Russell
and Mr. Layard.
Since they left power, what the Duke of Wellington, and
Peel, &c., contended for in opposition was, honest neutra-
ltit towards Portugal—the now fashionable non-interven-