The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-31 00:00:00

LISBON Dr:c. 13.

An account of every thing that has passed in
consequence of the refusal of the Queen to take
the oath to the constitution, from the 3d of No-
vember to the .4th of December, has been pub-
fished, as have all the official documents con-
nected with this affair.
The Ministers of the Interior, or Foreign Affairs, and the
Marine, repaired on the 22d of November to the Palace of
Queluz, to inform the Queen, by a verbal note, that the term
fixed by law for her making oath to the constitution would ex-
pire on the 3d of December, and that it was necessary for her
Majesty to make known her intentions on this subject. The
inconveniences which might result from her refusal to take
the oath were pointed out to her. [This document is num-
bered I.]
No. 2 is the Queen's reply, which is in the following terms :
" That she had caused it to be stated to the King, that .the
would not take an oath ; that she had made a promise never
to swear either for good or evil during her whole life ; that she
did not adopt this course from haughtiness, or from hatred to the
Cortes, but merely because she had passed her word, for a good
person ought never to retract ; she knows the law ; that she is
aware of the penalty which, the law inflicts, and that she is will-

ing to submit to it."
No. 3 is an ordinance by the King, directing the Council of
State to assemble and give its opinion on the means of recon-
ciling the execution of the law, with the respect due to the hier-
archy, and other circumstances connected with the person of tha
Queen.

No. 4 is a letter from one of the Ministers to the Queen, re-
questing her to point out the country to which she intends to
go, in order that the King may make such arrangements as are
due to the dignity of her Majesty.
No. 5 is the Queen's reply, which is as follows
Yesterday evening, at 10 o'clock, 1 received by the hands
of the Marquis de Vallade, the intimation of Philip Ferreira,
on the part of the King, to which I must reply thus :
" 1. That I have already made my formal and solemn de-
claration that I will not swear. I now ratify it.
" 2. That I am ready to submit to what the King shall
order in virtue-of the law. I find myself, however, under the
necessity of stating, that I am very unwell, more so than is
generally supposed, and of observing that self-preservation is
a law of nature: lam certain that neither the King nor the
Government wish that I should die on my way, for we are now
in the midst of winter, and I cannot venture to undertake a
voyage until the season be past. To prove that Ido not seek
to avail myself of any pretext, I'am'ready to retire to the Pa-
lace
of Ramalhao with my two daughters (from whom I wish
never to be separated) until the season permit me to leave the

kingdom.
" 3. That my intention is to go to Cadiz by sea, the voyage
being, under my privation of heal tit and strength, more suitable
than a journey by land.

(Signed)
" Palace of Queluz, Nov. 28.
" No. 6 is the opinion of the Council of State, dated Nov
29. It states, in substance, that the majority of the Counci
had expressed the opinion that the three powers being distinct
by the Constitution, no one could exercise the authority of the
other ; that as it belongs to the judicial power to determine on
the application of the law to particular cases, the present ques-
tion ought to be made the subject of a regular process, dating

" THE QUEEN."

from the 3d of December, in order that it may be decided, and

that the sentence should be executed when the affair shall have
acquired the authority of a point tried and settled. The opi-
nion of the same majority was, also, that this important ques-
tion should be referred to the decision of the Cortes. The Coun-
sellors Moura and .Braancamp expressed an opinion in opposi-
tion to that of the majority. It appeared to them that the law
was clear and precise ; that there was nothing left for the Go-
vernment to do, but to execute it ; and that the intervention of
the judicial power was not necessary; but they agreed to the
reference to the Cortes, on the ground of the Queen's indispo-
sition rendering it impossible for her to leave The kingdom forth-
with. Finally, the Council determined, that the Queen ought
to be at liberty to choose the place of her future residence, but
that she could not be permitted to take any of the Infantas
with her.

The substance of Nos. 7,8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, may be thus
briefly described
The Ministers, Don Joseph Silva Carvalho and Don Ma-
nuel Gonzalez de Miranda, give their opinion that the Queen
ought to leave the Portuguese territory on ,the 4th December.
Don Sebastian Joseph Carvalho and Don Philip Ferreira were
of opinion, that in consequence of the state of the Queen's
health her departure ought to be postponed. Don Silvestre
Pineiro Ferreiro, while concurring with the preceding opinion,
wished Spain to be excluded from the countries which the
Queen might choose for her residence.
No. 13 is a decree by the King, ordering the physicians to
report on the state of the Queen's health.

No. 14 is a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs to
the Queen, stating that if her Majesty's life would not be en-
dangered, she was to leave the kingdom on the 4th December,
without taking the Infantas with her.
No. 15 is the report of the physicians. It states, that if the
Queen were exposed to the intemperance of the atmosphere,
she would experience one of those attacks to which she is liable.
The Minister therefore notifies to the Queen that she must
retire to the Quinta de Ramalhao, with the persons necessary
for her service.

No. 16 is a certificate of the Queen not having, at the date
of the 3d December, in the evening, taken the oath to the Con-

stitution.

A decree by his Majesty, dated the 4th, purports that in con-
sequence of the refusal of the Queen to take the oath to the
Constitution, she had lost all rights, civil and political, belong-
ing either to her character of Portuguese citizen, or to the dig.
nity of Queen ; and further, that she must depart from the
Portuguese territory forthwith.
Another decree directs that, in consequence of the report
of the physicians, the Queen must retire to the Quinta de
Ramalhao, until the state of health permit her to leave the
realm.

In the sitting of the Cortes on the l lth inst. the affair of the
Queen was again discussed, upon the following motion hrougnt
forward by Sr. Acursio das Neves ;
" The constitutional rights of Sovereignty have been scandal-
ously violated in the august person of Queen Charlotte. With-
out the forms of legal process, without the sentence of any ju-
dicial authority, she has been depriVed of her privileges, civil
and political, of her apportioned revenue, and even of her li-
berty—since she is not permitted to keep her infant daughters
with her, nor to retain any one about her but those personal
servants whose ministry is indispensable. What mire could be
done if she stood convicted of the highest crimes ? The motive,
alleged by Ministers for these proceedings is, that the Queen
has not sworn to the constitution as settled by the law of the
14th of October. It is not clearly shown that her Majesty

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stands in the situation provided for by that law ; but a° it
she did, who has qualified Ministers to set themselves up asthe
Queen's judges, sustaining themselves in so doing Nvit.l t-11!"
name of the King who has not authority to judge his own e°l'-
sort? To show more fully the precipitate character of theme
measures, let it be recollected that the law in question fixes the
3d of December as the time for taking the oath; and that Yet'
so early as the 22d of November, injunctions upon the subject:,
are given to the Queen—on the 2Pth of the same month
Minister of Marine is ordered to prepare a frigate to carry bet
out of the kingdom—and on the 2d of December (a day berme
the expiration of the term fixed by the law for taking the oath)'
the Minister replies that the vessel is ready. Such is the 1,3°
with which they would expel from the kingdom a Queen why
wises have more than once echoed through this hall (the
Hall of Assembly), for her attachment and adherence to tir
constitutional system. And why this eagerness ?
eager to part the King from his -Royal Consort, to Pltutte
the whole Royal Family into affliction, and to give the 'lt.
most pain to the nation at large, which would have haPPe43.
ed if the Queen's physician's had not declared her health in
danger.

" This encroachment of the executive upon the judicial ariii
—this violation of the Queen's personal and royal rights--thy
want of deference which Ministers have shown towards the
Cortes (for the Cortes, as proposed by the Council of State,
ought in the first instance to have been consulted)—these
facts would scarcely be credible, if they were not stated ue
the report furnished to the Cortes by Ministers themselves. It
is clear that the Queen cannot properly be deprived of her rigb
of her dower, or of her personal liberty, except under senteacl
pronounced by competent authority ; and, as actual outrage de-
mantis actual reparation, I propose—
" 1. That the Queen, ante amnia, shall be restored to free-
dom, and to the full enjoyment of her rights, in the sat
manner as she held them previous to the decree of the 4th of
this month.

" 2. That process be afterwards instituted relative to this id'
fair before such authority as the Cortes shall point out, or be•
fore the Cortes itself in assembly, in the same form of pro'
ceeding which was adopted in England in the case of the late
Queen of that country,—seeing that the Queen, participatif
in all the prerogatives' of her august spouse, has no fixe4
judge.

" By these means national honour and national justice v(111
be satisfied : and the country will be brought back from thst
erroneous course into which the conduct of Ministers. had pee'
cipitated it : for foreigners will say that our good sing- is in t'
state of bondage if they hear that a Monarch so renowned for
tenderness and goodness to his family, instead of seeding thif
affair to the Cortes, as was advised by his council of state, has
been drawn by his Ministers into a hasty deterrnination—_a
termination which must be repugnant to the feelings of his oivils
heart.

This motion was presented, signed by six deputies; and al'
though some members proposed its rejection, it was leelarell
that the Cortes should constittite themselves into a peimaneo
sitting, to examine it with more attention. The urgency of
the motion having been declared, it was read a second time;
and the assembly ordered it to he sent back to the specal coo'
mission appointed to examine documents relative to this affair•
—( Paris Paper.)

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PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, Dec. 31.
AT ONE O'CLOCK.
i Five per Cents. 89.
(Six per Cents. 00.
Russian -1 Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
(Ditto New 84. • , .
Neapolitan
f Five per Cent. Bonds, 77.
1 Scrip, 78.
Austrian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
Five per Cent. Bonds, 64.
Spanish New Ditto, 54
Scrip, 8i disc.
Prussian f Five per Cent. Bonds, 87.
( Ditto New, 80k.
Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 91.
Chili 75.
Old Bonds, 00.
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 70.
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Ditto Scrip, 00.
New Loan, 78.
(Bank Shares X2l 10s.
American ) Six Per Cent.. 92-93.
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kThree per Cent. 70j.
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SULEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1822.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

S roCK EXCHANGE, Half-past Twelve o'Clock.----
Owing to the non-expectation of an express frota
Paris this morning with the French Funds, the
above Market remains steady at 8O to 81, the
price Consols opened at, and little business
doing. The Public in general expect that the
negociation with Spain and France will be of 11
long, duration, as each party will have to gile
way in some point or other, diiring which pe
riod the Funds will have their different fluctue
tions. Up to this hour Consuls are at the above
price.

FOREIGN FUNDS.—New Spanish Bonds open'
ed this morning at 5634:, done at -I I, at which
price they remain steady, with 'WIG doing. TII
day being Account day for all Foreign Securi•
ties, we do not hear of ally defaulter, as most of
the business in this account has been done Or
money.

The Moniteur of Sunday has brought a Rol}
Ordinance, appointing the Viscount de CO-'
TEAUBRIAND Secretary of State for the Foreig°
Department, in the room of the retired Duke de
MONTMORENCY ; and a second Royal Ordinang
conferring on the Duke de MorrrauntENcy fag'