The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-25 00:00:00

LISBON PAPERS.

DEPARTMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS
AND OF JUSTICE.
" LISBON, FEB. 9.

" The King our Sovereign having been informed that
some highly.criminal individuals have lately made at-
tempts against the security of the State, endeavouring to
corrupt the fidelity of some subaltern officers and privates
of the garrison of the city of Lisbon, and inciting them to
revolt, and not having been able to attain their wicked ends.
always 'audibly counteracted by the unalterable firmness of
those whom they attempted to seduce, dared at length to
carry into effect an attempt to disturb the public tran-
quillity by means of a great number of sky-rockets, whit h
they discharged in the morning of this day; and some of
the said individuals being detected in the fact, who are
already arrested by your orders, his Majesty is pleased to
order that till further measures (such as the public security
requires) shall be taken, you shall proceed to make the
strictest inquiry into these facts, giving the commission to
one of the criminal Judges, who, leaving all other business,
shall make a report without loss of time, and to enable
him to establish the facts you are to communicate to him
the information which you have already given to me, and
any other that you may have received, with such instruc-
tions as you may deem necessary for the requisite accuracy
of the proceedings.
" And his Majesty is farther pleased to desire you to
proceed with all diligence, and with as little delay as pos-
sible, and to send a report to this office to be communi-
cated to his Majesty.

" .10A6 DE MATTOS EVASCONCELLOS
BORBORN LE MAGALHAES.
" To Senior Antonio Germanio da Viega.
" Salvaterra de Majos, Feb. 8, 1831."
Lisnow, FEB. 9.—His Majesty has issued a decree,
the preamble to which recites in almost the same terms
the facts above stated, and " seeing the absolute necessity
of taking prompt and vigorous measures, that justice may
be able with efficacy and activity in prosecuting and
punishing without delay such great and abominable crimes
of high treason, to maintain the safety of the State and
my Royal right, I am pleased to order."
The Decree, which is of considerable length, orders :

" 1. That a Commission shall be fort;ed at Lisbon,
and another at Oporto, each to consist of four Judges and
three superior military officers.
"2. These Commissioners are to try and pass sentence
on the criminals guilty of exciting a revolt, sedition, tu-
multuous assemblages, prejudicial to the security of the
State, and other similar acts of high treason, whatever he
the rank, condition, or privileges of the said criminals
who were taken in the fact (flagrante delicto) in the
said two cities of Lisbon and Oporto, and five leagues
round them.

"3. The said Commissioners being assembled, el one
of the number acting as secretary, the official communica-
tion addressed to it shall be immediately recorded, which
shall serve as the corpus delicti : summary and merely
verbal proceedings shall he commenced, to prove the mere
fact without the legal formalities, of which persons
guilty of such execrable crimes are vinworthy, and
the said criminals being without any interruption
heard in their defence before the said Commissioners shall
be by them successively sentenced conformably to the
laws.
"4. The sentences thus passed shallbe executed within
twenty-four hours, the criminals as usual receiving in such
cases the spiritual aid which they require.
" The authorities concerned to execute this decree, not-
withstanding any laws, decrees, or ordinances to the con-
trary, all which I am pleased to suspend for this pnrpose
only, they remaining otherwise in full force.
" Signed by his Majesty."
" Salvaterra de Majos, Feb. 9, 1830."

We are informed that Lord BROUGHAM ob-
served to one of his radical friends from Yorkshire, the
other day, that he would be surprised when he found to
how great an extent the Ministers proposed to carry the
measure of the Parliamentary Reform.—Morn• Herald.
One clause in the Act now about to be ob-
tained by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Corn-
piny will l to compel those who use cigars in the Com-
pany's coaches to vm;auni,e their own smohe.--Liverpool
Albion.

The following paragraph is from tote Even-
ing POsl of last night:—" In consequence of large assent-
blagec of peoplg, to the amount of several thousavds,
having taken place in the neighbourhood of Kells and
Nobber, who marched through the conatry, demanding a
reduction of rents, particularly of potato ground., a.O ad-
;ranee of wages to one shilling a day, and the threats they
beid out ilainst the Magistrates and gentry, the Govern-
ment leave though,: it expedient to send a troop of the 12th
Lancers and a company of the 92d Highlanders to the
neighbourhood. We Understand Major WARBURTON, the
atipcmdiary Magistrate, had previously. left town id orders
of Goverment. Among other threats held Out" against ,
the gentry, was a circular desiring them to meet at the
peril of their lives, and the safety of their property,
at a place indicated, for the purpose of settling the
'ate of wages, and the prices to be paid for the ca,r-
riage of good's, &c. 411 the usual farming operations are
suspended, mid iu some cases' they insist on spade hits-
bandry and no other." We have, informed, and upon
good authority, that there are inaceuricies'in'thn Rreeed
ing statement. There was, we are told, no threat herd'
o.ut to the Magistrates or to the gentry, nor any denuncia-
tion agai,;-.t them if they should not assemble together.
The people were ri,c;; by Messrs. POLLOCK, GRAINGER,
GERARD, BURKE, WHITE; FrIar.9LERT, and other gen-
tlemen holding the comtnission'of the peace, 1,7L0 e,ntered
into adiscussion with them upon their 'grievaneeti; and
some of wh44,) erlmittrd that their claims were but rea-:
sonable.—p ' *ornh Register of Wednesday.
A yount; gentlernari"nxikied BELL, who
ts,idna„,C liauftrecrtosLie ebty,
cKuetntisnigtightoisn
latcly returned fiom the tontinene,'itta h4'hee4 oio:,e
• .
with a razor' in his bed-ro "n 44-
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on Wednesday last, in. the Parisli'of Claiites
A curious case of " treasure trovol' occurred'
ceseer. A gentleman, on his way to Kidderminster, ob-
served his dog some little tlistc•nce on heore'hini scraping,.
with much eat'aelttnesi, at the foot of a tree. Supposing
'film afror a rati‘or some other vermin, he took little notice
'Of the circumstance, and passed hini. However, finding.
the animal remain at the spot, and continue'scratching the,
earth away, he was induced to go back 'to him, when he.
shortly turned up a leathern bag containing a large quan-
tity of gold coin
near :ivilt"rloillialt