The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZZThACTS FROM THE DkJ Lit MORNING PAPERS,
Octobcr 14, 18`t2.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
THE KING.—MS Majesty has resumed his
usual exercise during his retirement at the Cot-
tage in Windsor Great Park, where he intends
to continue during the whole of the present
month. His visitors and associates, male and fe-
male, are the same honourable and noble per-
- sons, who, when it has pleased his Majesty to
withdraw from the fatigue and turmoil of State
etiquette, have for a length of time enjoyed the
exclusive privilege of Royal smiles and favours,.
The idle stories, relating to Royal caprice, and
the exchange of one favourite for another, are
, defeated by this fact. The week before his Ma-
jesty left town preparations were actually made
for a journey to Fonthill, to which the king was
induced by the warmly coloured representation
given to his Majesty by the Duke of Wellington,
but the awkward and evaen stormy posture of
state affairs at the time prevented the visit. The
nrst week in November is the earliest period
when his, Majesty intends going to Brighton,
where the workmen are busy in preparing to re-
(eive him. Neither the Duke of York nor the
Duke of Cambridge resided in the Pavilion
whilst they were at Brighton, but in v. house in
Marlborough-row, contiguous to the Palace.
Lord Francis Conyngliam, who, has been indis-
posed, is the only inhabitant at the Pavilion.

Danrrisli paEssa
Advices frOm Rio de Janeiro to the 13th of
August clearly establish the important fact that
Brazil has -finally shaken air its dependance on
Portugal. A decree has been issued by the
Prince Regent, in which he declares as enemies
all Portuguese troops sent to Brazil, from what-
ever motive that measure may have originated,
unless his approbation and consent- have pre=
viously been obtained. If they shall dare to
land in Bfazil he invites the people to oppose
them en masse. lie further orders, that if, not-
withstanding such resistance, they shall succeed
in setting foot on the shores of Brazil, that the
inhabitants of the place in which they may land
shall retire into the interior, carrying with them
all the moveables and provisions they'can collect,
and, by laying waste the country, deprive them
of the means of subsistence.

[TnE TIMES.)
The public attention will naturally direct it-
self to a long Manifesto, followed by a Decree,
from the,Prince Regent of Brazil to the people.
The first remark which we have to make upon
the former of these documents, is, that it appears
to us to contain a large proportion both of ability
and spirit. It treads a !Treat extent of dangerous
ground ; and the Royal Personage whose senti-
ments it professes to display, extricates himself,
in our judgment, with skill and delicacy, from a
series of embarrassing considerations. It-- has
long been apparent- to reasonable men, that
-Portugal could not permanently enforce her
claims to absolute dominion over a country so
'extensive, so populous, so rich in resources, so ex-
posed to the contagion of successful revolt, as the
great Brazilian continent—that, in fact, Brazil had
outgrown her parent—and that, in strict justice,
as well as in common prudence, Portugal ought
to relinquish gracefully a no longer maintainable
power. But if, speaking in the abstract, such
,would be the part of wisddm and virtue in the
body of the Portuguese nation, where has ever
exited the nation so virtuous or wise as to per-
form it ? However we may lament the weakness
through which men and communities are prone to
construe long possession into indefeisable right,
we cannot be harsh enough to blame a weakness
so invariable and universal in its operation.
k‘rom one passage in the Prince's manifesto, it is
plain that his Royal Highness discerns the
lull bearing of the argumentam ad hominem,
as between Portugal and Brazil. If Portugal,
says the' Prince, denies the Brazilians the right
of asserting their own independeace, and of
framing a Constitution- for themselves, she re-
nounces her own right to the recognition of her
own Constitutioti by foreign Powers. This is
an argument which cannot, indeed, be refuted ;
but it does not imply a degree of moral censure
upon Portugal proportionate to its unquestionable
truth. England, with regard 'to its Western
Colonies Spain, as well to her detached Pro-
,vinces under Philip 11. as to her trans-Atlantic
ones under Ferdinand—France, in relation to
St. Domingo—all have set a vicious example,
which for the Portuguese nation to follow to
wards Brazil, is rather deplorable than dis-
graceful. "