The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-16 00:00:00

1111 h.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1847.

MANIA. DA GLORIA and her minions are already
evincing a disinclination to comply with the condi-
tions of the protocol, and a determination to relieve
themselves, if possible, from the onerous necessity of
their fulfilment. When the insurgent forces were
reduced to submission by the interference of the three
foreign Powers, we fully anticipated that the Court
faction would, with its accustomed duplicity, assume
that appearance of patriotism of which it is in fact the
direct antithesis. Nevertheless, we conceived it pro-
bable that the hypocrisy of the SOVEREIGN and her
immediate supporters would be continued until such
a reasonable amount of time had elapsed that an
opportunity presented itself for the safe disclosure of
their turpitude. The rashness of the Royalists has,
however, proved this supposition to have been utterly
erroneous. Scarcely is the ink dried upon
the parchment when the solemn engagements of
the Queen of PORTUGAL are one after another evaded.
Nor are her adherents satisfied with cajoling the ple-
nipotentiaries of England, Spain, and, France, but
they are already arranging measures for the resto-
ration to supreme authority of those infamous men
against whose administration the whole nation lately
rose up in arms. Yes! they appear to be incited
by the same spirit of allegiance which animates the
Estandarte; they seem to mock the adulation of that
venal organ, and to testify in intrigue, if not in lan-
guage, the conviction that " the unheard-of pros-
perity which Portugal enjoyed under the Cabral
Administration forms the most brilliant pearl in the
glorious crown of the Conde DE THOMAR 1" They
strew the pathway of that traitorous statesman with the
flowers of their anticipation and sycophancy. They
laugh to scorn those aspirations for freedom which
recently imparted strength and dignity to the in-
surgent Portuguese ; and now, after crowning the
graceless soldiers of SALDANHA with laurel, they are
preparing the way for the employment of those sol-
diers in a suitable piece of villany, by inducing them
to connive at the re-admission of COSTA CABRAL to
the capital, and his ultimate re-elevation to the com-
mand of the government.

In accordance with the third condition of the cele-
brated protocol of the 21st of May, a communication
has been addressed to the Ministerial advisers of
Mama. pa. GLORIA., demanding, in emphatic but
respectful term; the fulfilment of that most important
.of all the stipulations, by the dispersion of the present
Cabinet and the formation of a new one of a popular
and patriotic character. Instead of complying with this
requisition, the schemers of the palace at Lisbon have
transmitted an evasive remonstrance to the Cabinets
of St. James's, and the Tuileries, and, beyond that
have commenced a J eries of secret negotiations,
which, if not worsted betimes, must end in the
restoration of the Count DE THOINIAR to the direction
of affairs, and the consequent endangerment of the
tranquillity of the kingdom. Meetings are already
frequent among those who were originally impli-
cated with the CABRALS, and the impunity of their
treacherous machinations has only rendered them more
audacious in their proceedings, and more implacable,
in their animosities. As a fitting corollary to these
announcements it must likewise be mentioned that
COSTA Caaaap has been succeeded in the Madrid
Legation by the late Envoy Extraordinary at Berlin
(Senhor BARBOSA), and that the former is expected
to make his appearance very speedily within the walls
of Lisbon. What, meanwhile, has befallen the po-
pular chieftain, Das ANTAS, and his unyielding
Lieutenant, Sa ma BANDEIRA Are they prepared
to witness the Subjugation of their countryby
faction which is the abhorrence of its
inhabitants
may be vigilant, but must neees-
Bomnm, at Angola,
neces-
sorily be incapable of aiding in the expulsion
of
traitors, and in the punishment of treasons com-
mitted against the Constitution. DAS ANTAS and
SA DA BANDEIRA are so far untrammelled by cir-
cumstances or position as to be capable of detecting
treachery and of forming plans for its expiation.
GOD forbid that the provinces of Portugal should
be again desolated by the ravages of civil war GOD
forbid that its soil should be again fattened by the
blood of its citizens ! None can be more solicitous
than ourselves to behold the tranquil regeneration of
that country, and to know that dissension is perma
nently banished from among its children. Yet from
our very solicitude in that particular we are prepared
to rejoice in the victory of the insurgent population
in the event of any coup de main in behalf of the
execrable Cabralists. MARIA DA GLORIA has already
deceived her people too often ; another act of insin-
cerity on the part of her Most Faithful MAJESTY,
and her sceptre will infallibly crumble to pieces in
her grasp. She will find herself ignominiously
driven from her palace, and awake an out cast beyond
the frontiers of her dominions, without a title to aid
or commiseration.

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