The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Madrid Gazette publishes, from the Diario do
Governo of Lisbon, the following proclamation, addressed
by her Majesty to the Portuguese people:—
" Portuguese,—Our country has presented to Europe
the deplorable spectacle of the effusion of Portuguese
blood, the destruction of property, the dissolution of
social ties, and all the evils caused by civil war. Love
of country and of liberty could not triumph over those
fatal illusions which have been inspired in the design of
leading Portuguese to arm themselves against my royq
authority and against the constitution of the state. In
order to obtain the submission which is due to me, and
to re-establish public order, I have resolved to adopt
every measure dictated by humanity and the public
safety, such as according a very extensive amnesty, and
the restitution of all employments and of all honours.
I have also resolved to convoke the Cortes, and to
proceed to the elections, after submission shall have
been duly made, and public order restored in
every point of the kingdom, in maintaining in
all its plenitude the liberty of elections, the free
exercise of all rights, and the scrupulous and im-
partial execution of the constitutional charter, in
all its provision 3. The Governments of Spain, France,
and Great Britain, decided on the adoption of efficacious
means to assist me in puffin.- an end to calamities so dis •
astrous, and which set such. a dangerous example, not
only gave notice of those measures to the chiefs who pro-
voked and directed the resistance, but secured their ex-
ecution by demanding the immediate submission of those
chiefs to my royal authority. The chiefs refused to
submit, feigned to doubt the stability of the guarantee
offered by the allied powers, and preferred combatting
against the laws of their country to relying on my
royal word, as well as on the faith and power of my
august allies.
" The true motive of illusion has now ceased, and the
impossibility of prolonging the civil war is evident, after
the services which the foreign powers have commenced
to render me. My sentiments of generosity, however,
remain unchanged, and I have resolved to grant to all
persons implicated in the fatal dissensions, without any
exception, the same benefits, the same extensive amnesty
up to the period when the publication of this royal decree
begins to produce its legal effects, assuring equally the
execution of all our Royal decisions for the observance
of the constitutional charter of the monarchy. Portu•
guese, it is impossible that you can misconceive the
kindly sentiment which dictates these measures, and the
necessity of a prompt re-establishment of peace, concord,
and obedience to the laws. Whatever may be the
difference in political opinions, the first duty, the first
want, is the due observance of the constitution.

" My most sincere desire is, that all my subjects
should profit by my kind intentions ; but when they
shall be known to all, justice, the necessity and the
safety of the state, demand that those who should refuse
to submit, and should attempt to prolong the evils now
agitating the country, shall be subjected to the action of
the laws."

This proclamation is followed by a decree, proclaiming
a general and complete amnesty tor all political crimes
and offences committed since October 6 ; the whole to be
buried in oblivion, and stating that all persons deprived
of their honours and distinctions shall have the same re-
stored to them.