The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-15 00:00:00

FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS
[rIIOM THE PILOTE OF WEDNESDAY EVENING.]
PARIS, MARCH I2.—The Ordinary Cortes, in
their hitting of the 2d, unanimously passed a De-
cree, in which they ordered the Ministry, within
94 hours, to report the execution of the Decree
for the removal of the Government.

By the same Decree the Cortes declare that
neither the Report upon the situation of Spain,
which should be presented by the Ministers at
the opening of the Session, nor any other Report
upon the same subject, shall be heard until after'
the translation of the Government, and then only
in the place where it shall have been established.
The society of the Communeros, by an unani-
mous decision, has united with the Masons, and
driven from its bosom Bertrand de Lys, us
bought over by foreigners, and as occupied only
for some months past in sowing divisions iu Spain.
The Society has profited by the harmony esta-
blished between the Communeros and the M a son.,
in order to reform their statutes, and to write in.
structions to all the Provinces in order to unite
and electrify the public mind.

A courier, who left Madrid on the sth, brings
the following news :—" The. King has signed a
Decree, by which he confirms in their functions
the Ministers of whom he had accepted the
resignation."

A Proclamation, signed Ferdinand VII., tins
been published throughout Madrid. It announces
that war is definitively resolved upon, and that
the Spanish Goverutnent will take all poclible
means to oppose the intended aggression.

A tiother Decree, signed also by the King,
orders the transfer of the Government, the Cor-
tes, and the person of his Majesty, to Badajos.
Sir William A'Court has communicated to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs his receipt of 'par-
ticular orders from the Cabinet of Great Britain
to follow his Catholic Majesty to the place which
shall be chosen for the seat of Government.
New intrigues have been set on foot at
Madrid. Ferdinand VII. is still disposed to
listen to the perfidious suggestions of men who
little regard the overthrow of a Prince if they can
effect the triumph of a counter-revolution. The
firmness of the Cortes has disconcerted the whole.
A Ministry formidable to the enemies of the
peace and independence of nations, by its energy,
its union, and its patriotism, about to abandon
the Government, 'yielding to the solicitations of
true Spaniards, has decided upon remaining at
the head of affairs, at the critical moment that
the Peninsula has the most imperious need of its
information and courage. • The Ministry, at the
head of which we have still Senor de San Miguel,
will acquire a new title to the gratitude of its
fellow-citizens.
The latest news received from the frontiers of
Spain informs us that Mina remained but. a few
hours at Barcelona ; that he asked from the
Municipality of that town 00,000 piastres, and
that-80,000 were supplied to him on the spot.—
This Constitutional General will quickly repair
to the frontier the nearest to Cerdagne, where a

occstconsiderablelaafitiesisooaeAotk,ien_oii:iatzitilu,,ii,aosp.biftlertecijoteraetiless body is concentrated, chiefly,
said, composed of foreigners.
Great numbers; et:ciciastitroll;ii•ttailkhe I
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niglitniiestehlt e:tp;:eiri.,tqfetinlhiitttlllo4o: 1 •
leicotttittoes to be assertki that the Duke 01
A ngou le'ine will depart on Saturday for the stills
before be commences the' Campaign. - ' 1
and that he will review all the troops o _ te lido
th,.,lite:isxcriuepioornteodr
Atltia.tiliCtionuutelit. Mole will Certs34lY
make
rpriceseiftillala.ii,oi propositiongrtt.oa.
.
It is said that a proposition for the re-admill
of NI. Manuel into the Chamber of DePoliiiiwt
be placed by M. Ilumblot Coda on the bar
of the Chamber on Friday, and debated 40'9'
turday. It is thought that if this propositionbe
refused consideration, the Centre Left will
quit
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the ChamberßeiElpiFitEiloci:Tesuaimßs e manner as thi.l4B Sidi
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paper of this evening th PREFECTURE
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"'the request of the Clianiber of Commerce
article inserted in the Courier .-1.- - . i.., .-
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Many journals of Paris have entettaitied their. nAr—foot
a letter which his Excellency the Minister of:dlr....me ''''' ars
to the Chamber of Commerce at Ilavre, and their
allmore or less inaccurate. Having been in a Situnefil:4o- 0.
the 'contents of the letter, we think it a dareel .'',
seniors and the conjectures of the journalists- ' er''' 1111
' The Speech of the King at the openingeflll.l beelegoiligi
'hewn a war with Spain to be nearly ineviteble_,Onkiit 0rit110,..,
same time contained the assurance of his Allidwg'ci;;.oftw'
commerce would receive every protection, the Clumnridiroe te
trerte wrote on the Ist Februar she the :Minister °' i dirt
call his attention to the points,re it was Olt . stf
tation might be most efficaciously rendertil• .„..tio(2ol,"'.
replied, on the 7th of February, communicating 14'' osisee
her the measures already taken, and them wlnelvittrose
posed to take, to preserve French navigation 6011,;_,aieg Out
to which it would be exposed, in the case of over 1"7::
between France and Spain. ' feAle.---thi.
ISO
" It is true,. that owing to motives, the justlete-;,i. pal'
Chamber of Commerce has perfectly appreeiettat nele;le
lency desired that his letter should not 'be tnede Pe:gilts",
!seine printed ; but the Chamber was directed roc 11:101;00.
it to all the ship-owners who might be interested,l°,oloo
The intentions of the Ministrr have been falfaktl4.
he
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jine:quopernnaionyethtit,ifsetprielceoc to hnaiiises:uutnvi:iies.ehnees:::wni,.:lltitolifehalialiaovepowsoluduilonoblindviir..kwito7a.r.
vo_hr"tibOte,' i
tents of his letter, but we can assert that nceWhese ourfele• '
Thus it is a gratuitous scicuthipopontliseti;doiwthineall"trell;;frertiar:ol(l'uf i 4.
nalist, that ships will be assembled in the port of
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be sent under convoy to their deetination. , „..4' ' 001
"It is false that ship-owners have beensavryeitettel 0,
to direct their ships bound to Brest to histeri_joir".nsopsset
irteni,:deei.griasesuatliclyhy, false that they have been diree_rinwn. iotrit
departure of their ships, and every new exPe`O-iii Opt .ft
BR
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sooner able to transmit the advice eOritairicatath_biatia.
followed too nearly the previous stiqestions of 6
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have caused a considerable advance -; o'its t
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of Germany, as well as in otberlctoly jugs
and coffee, in which extensicse'; firgesPeP.c'a:i°ll4:::
made. ~..„01 It 0 .
TRIESTE, F. 20.--S everai' 4tter 1.5 the P°ll. :
Levant affirm that the disposition 1:" -ae o°6
matted
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itself out of the Strait though it i° a withlre-
activity armaments
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talliques, 78 1-16 C Bank Aare's. 1180•-""•'/I •
sues, 787-I6 ; Bank Shares 685 I-10. •
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MADRID, MARCH .- ' 10-
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meta was promulttatecl yesteresileolOß. ,01'01.
' Excellency—The King yesterday lulu" aP 8 '
lowing Decree:— !self, r ellit
btwiari33illehc.ehheesduein very oak's:101 to ibot 1
ritions, have influenced my Royal kind to Vince/0,00
'sires ; hut ere you retire to enjoy reeoo. 11f ceer1",,,,,"1- is
each of you to read to the Cones the reeorl g ti,, 0.17'"
thereby make known to them the state °' 004;
ashde by you prat yeuour ftle
esecrellilrltaNtrieldeSs Tionfl:sl:tratetue;ttilif
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_ ,ions, at the same time manifesting to t 7, they 11 tipee
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and
which you have laboured -in furtherance jr
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(FTtOst THE co N sy r v 'O,P s..pesk. :ottiege
MA Dll 1 ti, 31 ant: K 2.-I'he F.:peteam -00, of,/,...0'
ceived from Frunce by the Junta of 315`,1, ir'Rori:reilt tt'';,
which Bessiereewas to march with all "lei ii '1" fielg;• il'
ma.
teise ildr.tnece(3tntrtSiiewil)gnanfso:taigagreeable
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Unties that Journal, " is in our Winds, ar", itgeo4,,f eri 0
The most Serene Royalist Junta protitir ae %op!
march of Bessieres, the happiest read& I wilil 1.-: 0(
throne. ' But Bessieres fuse been tlisprof.,"b. -.perl'ori
will also be all those who shall dare aloftullifteo,,,, ft
The demands made to the Ministry 4001040050.
marque against the enemies of the tiontuLwa 10 TojOil tho.
received incessantly. It has been mede "I.:if bioltote,st,._
applied for them, that the Government so 411000 rent 0,
taken all proper means to iesue thew ?lied ttiebeft.'ftlA.
earth ; and as the grant of them. is sub.letio set
.1„0111
ties, and their distribution intrusted to Cr:oolic•J!'-' ,tlis
to these competent Authorities that tn. i'' ~,,,,ling.
trade.—(Es peetador.) , 010;;;;II ise
__ed to . „,it •
At Barcelona the guns have been car 110„,00rT
walls. All the city. joined in the ceremgenti their
women showed their anxiety to eneourail 1 ...eitfi
zeal of the liarcelonian patriots.tarots 0
E 'EN Wl* oiPoois
(roost L'E-rott.ti'-% foo to, •
Count Amede d'Escars, Aide.tie-CA Con
_,, Oro
eouleme, set off this morning. Vie
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depart on Saturday (to-day.) Au the
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for commencing hostilities between the ~.... 0•
jo
The Duchess Duchess d'Angouleme will set etti '
of
nesday in Ester Week. itlifta v soor.
hose ..,41 orate
Lieut.-General Baron d'Brolek w,nioi.- -I! of
we have announced, is very acthrell waii,ortsnell'
troops of the Faith, who are in the IV -rei.
,
Pyrenees, and along the frontier line. as oss., 0 it:
trenst THE .1013101* Pd isaitiit ifilitilattel.
*O4 Via le
Extract of
.4 private betters ,„.„,, aipq
" The he in which we hll,O !AI.. 11.- lOW ,
tinues, and, unfortunatelyi it sllr

plete Captivity of the King, The following are some details
which, perhaps, have not reached you :
On the 19th ult., in the Council of Ministers, the King
formally opposed the project of transferring the GoVarnment
and Court to another town. The King demonstrated that such
a measure, partaking of pusillanimity, and betraying the de-
fect of want of means of resistance, would have for Its result
the most fatal disorders. The Aiinisters answered, that their
determination was fixed ; that they were responsible to the
Cores ; and that it would not be in the power of the King to
reject a measure of high policy, decreed by the Cortes, con-
fomiably to the articles of the ,Constitution, which charges
them vigilantly to maintain the security of the State. They
would, then, transfer me against my will ? observed the 310-
narch. Yes, if the Cortes ordain the translation of the'Go.
vernment,' replied the Minister of Justice, ' I would, without
sign the order for them to take you away bound,
in case of absolute necessitY,' The Ministers then departed,
humming the tragala, whilst the ill-fated Monarch Owl tears
of indignation.
" On the 20th, the King summoned the Council of State be-
Yore him, and complained of the outrageous menaces of his
Ministers. The Ministers, far from denying any thing, de-
,fended their language, anti insisted that every individual, the
, not excepted, was subject to the constitutional decreees
of 'the Cortes. The Council of State could only offer the King
one consolation, and that was, to remind him that he possessed
the right of disniissing his Ministers whenever he chose. What
derision was this, when the King was compelled; by the voci-
feration' of the assembled populace, to reinstate at midnight
tut the 19th, the very Ministers whom he had dismissed at six
o'clock in the evening !
" The new Ministry offered to the King by the pure Cons-
tatutsrOs party',was composed of men even snore democratical
in character than the former Ministers. Having only the choice
of. Awn evils, the King first accepted their resignation, and,then
engaged them to continue at the head of the administiation
.until
:after they had made their report to the Cortes on the situation
'of the Peninsula.
" Since these scenes have transpired, the King has been ill,
and seems only to oppose to his tyrants the spectacle of a suffer-
itig prisoner. It was on this account that he refused to open in
person the ordinary Cortes ; this refusal has exasperated the
revolutionist".
" In the sitting of the 2cl instant, a Deputy announced that
he knew, in the most certain manner, that the French troops,
to the number of 35,000 men, would enter Spain on the Atli of
March, at the latest. I demand,' he added, ' whether, in
this, case, the King, being frequently 'ill, can be considered as
being capable of tulfilling the royal functions. The • Cortes
have the right to make this declaration ; and when they have
acknowledged that the King, from any cause, moral or physical,
is prevented from fulfilling his functions, it is then their im-
perious duty to nominate a Reency. This is the text of the
Constitution. I demand that this assembly examine whether
such a case, now exists, and if measures must, in conlip,
quence, be forthwith adopted. I further demand that the Mi•
nisters be summoned to give information respecting the dangers
of the country.
." This proposition was passed over. The Ministers were
summoned in a Secret sitting. They declared that invasion by
3.1,000 French was certain ; that, to repel it, they had adopted
all measures in their power; but that they had found obstacles
to the translation of the seat of Government-
" The Cortex finally decided, that they would this day (3d
inst.) deliberate upon the choice of a town more secure than
Madrid, where the Government could continue established in
cased invasion, and of the first success of the enemy's army.
Cadiz and Corunna arc too far 'moved from the centre, and it
is thought that Badajos will (se selected—a commanding for-
tress, situated, it is true, en the extreme frontier bordering on
'Portugal, but the position of which is not the less central'as
to the provinces of Galicia and Andalusia, which abound in
'defensive works, and the inhabitants are 'especially ardent in
the revolutionary cause. Iladajoz communicates with Corinna,
by means of Ciudad Rodrigo, or through Portugal. The route
from Ilstchijoz to Cadiz is thus out of the reach of an enemy's
'army, although it may be in possession of Madrid. Finally,
even should liadajoz be besieged, the King could with equal
facility, be withdrawn to the fortress of Elvos, within the
Portuguese territory, near Badajoz.
• "P. 8. It appears that the Cortes, without selecting any
mein; have, in a message to the Ministers, expressed their asto-
nishment at not having hitherto received any official intimation
of the translation of the Government ; and have ordained that
a report on this aubjyct shall be made to them within the inter-
val of 24 hours.
" Of the six newly appointed Ministers, one was absent
from Madrid, and three refused office; consequently, only two
accepted parte/milks.
" The Ministers who refused office are MM. del Moral,
Ronal, and; Zorraquin. The two who accepted partefruilles
are MM. Flores Estrada and 110336. The one absent from
Madrid was General Torrijos."

[Prom the Journal des Debots.l

PAilli,MAßcif 13.—The inconveniencies inse-
parable front a war with Spain are too generally felt, and too
well appreciated, to permit us to announce, without a profound
impression of sorrow, that the last hopes of peace have almost
disappeared ; but our just sorrow is tempered by the convic-
don that in drawing the sword from the scabbard we are ful-
tiling a national duty, and a command of honour.
Every thing has been done to draw from restolutionary Spain
a single proof of a wish to put 'an end to the excesses which
-disquiet Europe, and compromise France. There was no ques-
tion of the sacrifice of liberal institutions, or of foreign inter-
vention, nor, in a word, of any thin which could compromise
the interests or wound the honour of Spain. It was only. re-
Auired of misled men to substitute for a destructive action,
without object and without limits, that independent action of
Royalty which is the life-spring of monarchial society. Spa-
h liberty was only asked to recognize the rights of legiti-
macy, but she refused. She is then no longer liberty. No
veil now covers the hideous traits of anarchy—no considera-
tion tempers its fury—no friendly or pacific voice can atop its
progress,
.Vacts equally disputable and shocking have just established
the, outrageous captivity of King Ferdinand. (See the Journal
Debatt of yesterday.). It is evident that faction is determin-
ed to carry its crowned prisoner in its train, and the propositions
for stripping him even of the shadow of royalty find no longer
any obstacle, except the fear of opening the eyes of the multi.
lade on the real state of things. But what man of sense, what
enlightened Nation can henceforth be deceived by this empty
image of royalty ? "iVho can for a moment doubt that the
King of Spain is now as completely. a captive as if he were al-
ready loaded. with the base chains with which his Ministers have
dared to menace his august person ?
. _

But the revolutionisti out.ofSpain have, by their suggestions,
given to their confederates at Aladrid the word of order for a
blind resistance—for an implacable fury, in order to render
fruitless the efforts made by reason and loyalty to prevent a de.
.plorable war. They sacrifice Spain to the infatuated hope of
reviving the flames of a universal revolution along with a gene-
ral war.

That hope will not he realized. The invisible, and yet in.
contestable, presence of the revolution of 1793 in the Councils
of Spain, necessarily unites all Governments in one common
„wish--that of repressing a known enemy—an irreconcileable
...angrily, whose terrible excesses they well recollect.
Such will be the necessary consequence of the late events at
Madrid : they will have at least the melancholy advantage of
justifying the foresight of France, and the measures which she
Jas taken for her own security.

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PORTUGAL.
[roost TUE COURIER FRANQAISA
LISBON, FEB. 2`2.—The Minister for Foreign
• Affairs has informed the Congress of the conduct
held by the Government since the publication
of the detestable principles of the Allies. He
read ,the following dispatch, which was ad.
tiresso to our Charge d'Affaires at Paris as soon
as the speech of the King of France, ou the
opening of the Chamber, was made known
I.‘ TO5l. JUAN FERREIRA DE COSTA SAMPAYO.
Yesterday Sr. Thomas Wanceller Chief of his Majesty's
Legation in London, arrived here with the importaut intelli-
gence of the opening of the French Chambers.
. ".It is. imos sible to describe the indignation that ha been
excited here pby the manifestation of the projected war against
Spain; and, the imprudence ( decertiertoj with which the Go-
vernment declares to France and to all Europe us intention of
'''croPtotoising the peace of the world, to enable Ferdinand VII.
to govern Spain after his own way, for no other reason than
*cause he belongs to the Bourbon family.
" It, was revolved at The Congress of Verona, that it belonged
to France to decide how far she could exercise an armed inter-
ference in the internal affairs of Spain, admitting the hypothesis
that the state of Spain was or could be prejudicial to the safety
of France. Thus the French Government was fully empower-
ed to declare war, if the evils which it apprehended could not be
otherwise avoided.
" So long as the French Ministry could deduce its principles,
'whether true or false,. from the internal disorders of Spain,
these disorder' formed its motives for opposing a barrier to the
torrent with which it believed France to threatened : the re-
ality of the fact might then have bees doubted; init no one dis-
Ptited the principle of the right.
" But now that the ?ten& Ministry proclaims as the ground
of, the war, the fact that Ferdinand Vii. received from the Na-
- tlO4 thsConatitutios with which he accepted the Spanish ()TOWN

no Government in EurOp* can authorize by its silence a principle
so subversive dell States. , '
" In consequence, his Majesty commands you, as soon as you
shall have received this tliaPatch4 to address to the'Frioch Mini-
Ory a protestation, conceived in the most decorous, but at the same
time energetic and positive terms, against the above principles,
specifying that his Most Faithful Majesty hopes that the Go-
vernment of his Most Christian Majesty will renounce them,
since it cannot escape its penetration how incalculable would
be the effects of a war which would tad in setting all Europe
in a blaze. . • •
" But if the hopes of his Most Faithful Majesty be frustrat-
ed, and the French army is to enter the Spanish territory, your
Excellency has orders to withdraw immediately from that king-
dom, in order to make .it knOwn to the whole world that the
Portuguese nation and its august. Chief hold in abhorence prin-
ciples as contrary to the safety of Gorermnents, as they are de,'
structive to the tranquillity of nations. •
His Majesty, however, not wishing to contribute by- any
positive act to the disasters of the freih'coMbustion which is
about to blaze throughout Europe, unless the'safety of the na-
tion should be directly compromised, wishes to leave, the,com,
mercial relations in existence between the two 'nations.
' " Consequently, even in case of the diplomatic relations'being
suspended between the two COntts, M. de Leittleps will remain;
notwithstanding, in quality of , Consul-General ; the other
French Consuls'will alio remain • In their respective poste, 'as
long as that Government does not order them to. auspend the
relations of commerce, nor does not oblige them to adopt mea-
sures which will place his, ajeaty's finvestiment under the iris-
agreeable necessity of embracing the cause of Spain.
" Therefore, as long as the, principle declared byhis,Most
'
Christian Majesty is not put into execution, his Majesty con-
fines himself to a simple protestation In his Royal namet and
in that.of the nation : but in case of the aggression taking
place, his Majesty orders you initnediattly to demand your
passports, and to quit the kingdom with all your official agents,
bearin.g with you the archives of the embassy, and forward-
ing directions to the different Consuls to continue to exercise
their functions until they receive ftirther orders from his
Majesty.
(Signed) " SILVESTRE PINIIEIRO FERItEIRA.
" Lisbon, Feb. 13, 1823."
Copies of this dispatch have been transmitted to the Charges
d'Affaires at London, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, with di.
rectiens to make known to those Governments the disapproba-
tion eXpresse4 by his Majesfy to principles so contrary to the
imprescriptible righti of all nations.
On being questioned afterwards en the state of one alliance
With Spain, the Minister said, that "Since his entry into the
Ministry, he had given orders to our Charge d'Affaires •at
Madrid, to ask of the Spanish Ministry a note of the means
possessed by Spain for the defence of the Peninsula, since the
Government of 'hie Moat Faithful Majesty did • not doubt that
the army of the Pyrenees, which was at first called a-sanitory
cordon, was destined to carry on a war. Our Minister con-
formed to these instructions, and applied to the Ministry for
the necessary inforination ; but it happened unfortunately 2 that
a series of administration, of short duration, rendered it im.
possible for the Gevernment of his Catholic Majesty to furnish
that information. After the events of the 7th of July, the
sanitory cordon was transformed into anArmy of Observation,
and then the intentions of France could no longer be doubted.
The Government of his Most Faithful Majesty proposed to that
of his Catholic Alajesty, a project of a treaty fur an alliance
which should determine the minimum of the succour tb he af-
forded in case of an invasion ; not hesitating at the same time
to furnish to Spain all the assistance which .should be in our
power, hoping that Spain would he equally ready to render us
assistance, in case we should be invaded. Sonic difficulties
arose in the manner; but not in the' sithstance, of this treaty ;
and I am persuaded that those difficulties will disarmer the mo.
tnent that assistance shall beCome necessary."
• After some Patriotic speechew froM several Denudes, the pre-
amble of the decree..relative. to the extraordinary measures of
safety which circumstances render necessary was, put to the
vote. This preamble,itin which an amendment had been pro-
posed, was adopted in the followingforM :
" TheCorres,./44,,,, considering the importance,of sustaining
the national Independence,` mid of regaling every foreign at.
tempt directed' against the tildditiCatlons end changes which the
nation has legitimately made in its political system, and consi-
dering, further, that any invasion made in the Peninsula under
the pretence of destroying or of modifying the institutions
adopted by Spain, cannot tail to be also an aggression against
the independence and the political system of Portugal, decrees
as follows," &c.