The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-21 00:00:00

LMORNING CHRONICLE.]

The sudden change in the sentiments of the
Journal des .Wbats, with respect to the enter-
prize of Don Miguel, taken in conjunction with
a variety of other circumstances, gives rise to
very serious reflections. Among other objects on
which the Prince dwells, in his Address, is the
recovery of Brazil. We are strongly inclined
to believe that the Holy Alliance are at the
bottom of
.the Counter-revolution, as a step
to tl►e prosecution of their designs on. Brazil,
through which they hope to secure their do-
minion in America. Why-should there be any
hesitation in the French Ministerial Journals to
condemn an act subversive of alt authority, and
in direct opposition to every principle which the
Holy Alliance have consecrated ? One day we
are told that the Corps Diplomalique, and par-
ticularly the French Ambassador, loudly con-
demned the conduct of Don Miguel, and the
next we are gravely assured, that when all the.
circumstances came to be known, it will be
found that Don Miguel is deserving of praise
rather than censure. Our Parisian Correspondent
affirms that Portugal is now the arena in which the
great European interests are agitated, that the
Emperor Don Pedro is waiting for a favourable
moment to unite Brazil to the mother country,
and that Brazil, from its topographical posi-
tion, has been selected as a centre, from which
operations against the other states may advan-
tageously he directed. We do not see how the
English Ministers, on their own principles, can
have any thing to say to this. The counter-re-
volution of Don Miguel has not been produc-
ed by foreign invasion, Portugal is not like
Spain occupied by foreign troops, and though
we may object to an expedition from Cadiz
we neither can object to one from Lisbon, nor
prevent the Holy Alliance from furnishing the
Portuguese Government with the pecuniary
aid of which it may be in want. If the French.
interest at Lisbon prevail over the English in-
terest, this may be a mortification, but does not
form a legitimate ground of complaint. Our City
Correspondent states, that he had been informed
letters have been received a day later than those
which came by the Stanmer Packet, announcing
the return to the former state of things ; but we
confess we entertain great doubts with respect to
the truth of this intelligence. It is clear from
the language of Ferdinand, in answer to the pro-1
position of Ministers, from the language of
the Ultra French Papers, from the Proclamations
of Don Miguel, from what transpires now and
then in the Journals published in the other States
of the Holy Allatice, that the Sovereigns have
not renounced their designs against South Arne-
rica• Hitherto they have never announced any
design which they have not followed without in-
termission. They have one ' object in their eye,l
which they never lose sight of for a moment.

We regret to state that, in consequence of the
general turn out which had taken place among
the working cutlers? the trade in this town has
assumed a dull and lifeless aspect. We hear no
sounds' piercing the night's dull ear"--...n0 clink
of " busy hammers"—no " dreadful note of pre-
paration." Several hundreds of workmen have,
during the present week, been parading the
streets : and we rejoice to state that their con-
duct has in every, way been peaceable.—(Sheifiad
Mercury, May 15.)

A gentleman has just arrived in Cork from
Calais in two days, being a distance of 500 miles.
We believe this expedition exceeds any thing on
record.--(Freeman's Journal.)

PORTUGAL.

BoN, MAY I.—The Gazette of this date contains the ac-
counts of the events of the 30th of April, the Proclamation,
&c., already published.

MAY 3.—His Majesty has been pleased to confide, ad in-
terim, the portfeuillc of the War Dapartment, to his Minister
Secretary of State for the Affairs of the Kingdom, the Most
Excellent Jose Antonio de Oliveira Leite, and that of the Ma-
rine and Colonies to his Minister Secretary of State for Fo.
reign Affairs, the Most Excellent the Marquis Palmella. His
Excellency the Conde da Povoa remains in the Department of
the Finances.

We cannot yet give the Supplement which we promis.ed re-
lative to the late events, lest we should omit important circum-
stances. 'We will publish it as soon as possible.

" LISBON, MAT 4.

(SUPPLEMENT TO NO. 105, OF THE LISBON GAZETTE.)
" DEPARTMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF TINE KINGDOM

" DECREE.

" The Infant Don Miguel, my much beloved and dear Son,
Commander in Chief of my Royal Army,having obtained strong
presumptive proofs that a fatal conspiracy was carrying on,
in secret clubs, against him, against the Queen my highly be-
loved and dear Consort, and against my Royal Person, which
placed him under the absolute necessity of having recourse
to arms ; and the danger of the crisis not allowing him first
to obtain from my Sovereign authority, the necessary resolu-
tions and orders, to prevent evils of a higher degree, which by
their enormity and detestable nature, would not only have shaken
but destroyed, at this juncture, the political edifice of the
Monarchy, of which God has confided to me the government
and protection; and I, learning from arguments which he al-
leged in my Royal presence, the motives that induced him to
prevent, by means of the armed three, such absurd and exe-
crable attempts, I think lit, and it is my pleasure, that the
Corregidors and Judges in criminal causes, in the quarters of
this city and capital of Lisbon, and all other Magistrates of
the white rod ( vara Branca) in the provinces of these my king-
doms of Portugal and Algarve, where there are criminals
arrested, accused of these infamous and pernicious crimes,
shall proceed without delay against them, by summary and
verbal processes, without any determined number of witnesses,
interrogating them judicially, and remitting the documents of
the proceedings to the Courts of Judicature of their respec-
tive districts, with the sentence ( pronuncia ) of the criminal,
that the punishment may follow the crime, without the incon-
veniences of protracted imprisonment. I further order, that
the Chancellor of the Casa da Supplicacao shall appoint a
Commission from the same Tribunal, composed of six of the
Judges, one of whom is to act as reporter, in order to inquire
briefly and summarily into crimes of this description, and also
to nominate Judges ihr the confiscations, &c. The same is to
be done by the President of the Tribunal of Oporto on the
causes in diet district. And lam further pleased, in conse-
quence of the very respectful supplication, which the said In-
fant, my much beloved and dear son, made in my Royal Pre-
sence, to excuse him for the acts beyond the limits of his juris-
diction, which he did without my Royal Authority, and I do
hereby excuse him accordingly. Jose Antonio tie Oliveira
Leite de Barros, my Counsellor of State, Minister of the _Affairs
of the Kingdom, will issue the necessary orders to the compe-
tent Authorities."

(Signed by his MAJESTY.)
" Palace of Bemposta, May 3, 1824."
ORDER OF THE DAY.
" His Highness the Infant Don Miguel, Commander-in-
Chief of the Army, orders it to be signified to the Army, how
much he is satisfied with the promptitude with which the corps
of the garrison of Lisbon assembled on the 30th of last month,
and with the fidelity and enthusiasm with which they were ani-
mated, and so decidedly manifested to maintain the sovereign
rights of his Majesty the King our Sovereign ; and he is highly
gratified by this opportunity of confirming his conviction, that
there is not one of the corps that compose the brave Portu-
guese Army that is not animated by equally honourable and
faithful sentiments.
" His Highness thanks the 19th regiment of infantry for the
good order and rapidity with which it marched from Cascaes to
Belem.

" His Highness further orders it to be made known to the
army, that some of those individuals are arrested who were
plotting against the sovereignty of his Majesty, and that he has
been most highly gratified by the notice which his Majesty has
been pleased to send him by his Master of the Horse and Cham-
berlain, the Marquis de Louie, approving all that his High-
ness has done for the good of the nation.

" MOZINHO, Chief of the Staff.
" Head-quarters in the Palace of Bemposta, May 1, 1824."
The inhabitants of this city celebrated, by a spontaneous
illumination, the happy issue of the heroic resolution of the In-
fant Don Miguel, as well on the 30th of April, as on the Ist
of May, and almost equally on the 20.
On the Ist, in the afternoon, the King, and the Infantas, pro-
ceeding from the palace of Bemposta, by the Roseio, to the
Royal Church of our Lady, every where received die most
unequivocal and lively testimonies of the love of all classes of
the people, who crowded to hail his Majesty, exulting to see
his august person, all the Royal Family, and the nation, deli,
vered from the dark machinations of the irreconcileable ene-
mies of the throne and the altar.