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at Four, in sixteen Lots.

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stable, fore court, and large productive garden, in the occupation of
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Lots 6 to 15. Ten plots or freehold BUILDING GROUND,
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sea, by a depth of 65 feet, and the remaining three in the rear
having 15-feet-6 frontages.
These plots are particularly eligible for building, and entitle the
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had of Mr. Gregson, solicitor, Bedford-row ; Mr. John Greg-
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Thorpe, and Bishop, solicitors, Hastings ; Saxon Hotel, Saint Leo-
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PORTUGAL.

DEATH OF DON PEDRO.
(From the Morning Herald.)

FALMOUTH, OCT. 2.-. THREE P.M.

His Majesty's steamer Africa, Lieutenant West, has
just arrived from Lisbon, whence she sailed on the 28th
ult. She brings the account of the death of Don Pedro,
which took place in the afternoon of the 24th. The me-
lancholy event had much affected the Queen, notwithstand-
ing she was was prompt in commanding Palmella to form a
new Administration, which was done by him in accordance
with the wishes of the people. Lisbon is represented as quiet,
but a powerful and factious opposition is expected to show
itself against the Ministerial arrangement.

LISBON, SEPT. 25.

It now becomes my painful duty to inform you of the
death of Don Pedro, Duke of Braganza, Regent of Portu-
gal, and ex-Emperor of Brazil, which took place at half=
past two yesterday afternoon at the Palace of Queluz. At
eleven o'clock in the forenoon a bulletin was published,
stating that his Imperial Majesty had been attacked by a
fresh paroxysm. and was then bad enough—( se acha has-
tante mal). This was reek,oned tantamount to an an-
nouncement of the agonies; of death having commenced. I
understand he was perfectly sensible and composed to the
last, but that the organs of speech failed to perform their
office at the approach of dissolution. Seeing his case to be
hopeless, he had three days before expressed a wish to be
relieved from his sufferings. Resignation, fortitude, patriot-
ism, and affection for his family, characterised his conduct
throughout on this trying occasion, and excited the admi-
ration of all who approached him. He is said to have di-
rected in a codicil to his will that his remains should be
buried at the fortified convent of Serra do Pillar, opposite
to Oporto, dressed in the uniform of the sth Cacadores, or
according to others, at his favourite battery of Congrega-
dos. For this, I have, however, no better authority at
present than general report.
The Duchess of Braganza has, since the 29th of Aug.
last, never been five minutes from the bed-side of her august
consort; and there performed every menial office for him
with an assiduity and tenderness which induced an eye-
witness, who is by no means a courtier, to call her a per-
sonification of virtue. At eight o'clock in the evening the
intelligence transpired from the British Embassy, but found
rather reluctant belief, having been so often spread without
any foundation. At midnight, however, guns being fired
from the Castle, and Portuguese ships of war, and repeated
every quarter of an hour, all doubts were removed ; and
this morning, at daylight, the Portuguese flag was exhi-
bited at half-mast, and the yards at sharp angles, the sen-
tries on duty having their muskets reversed. After lying
24 hours the body is to be opened. This post nzortenz in-
spection will be in every respect very desirable, first to as-
certain the seat of the malady, and to judge the propriety
or impropriety of the medical treatment ; and second, to
refute or confirm the now widely circulated report of Don
Pedro having been poisoned. The mode in which this in-
fernal purpose is said to have been effected was, if the pro 7
pagators of the story are to be believed, by eggs boiled in
poisoned water, diluted with a solution of arsenic, or other
metallic poison, some minute particles of which would be
absorbed through the pores of the shells, and slowly cause
death six or eight months afterwards, but with fatal cer-
tainty. The perhaps natural swelling of the body has also
contributed to clothe this surmise with an air of probability.
Don Pedro's father, King John VI., is said to have like-
wise died of poison. On the 4th of March, 1826, after
taking a repast with the Jeromite monks at Belem, he felt
suddenly ill on returning to the Palace of Bembosta, was
taken with vomiting, convulsions, and fainting fits, which
increased next day, and continued till his death was an-
nounced in the evening of the 10th of that month.
The identical poison-mixing Jeromite friars, of eight years
ago, may still survive, masters of their craft, and bearing a
far more intense hatred to Don Pedro, for his wholesale
abolition of all monastic orders, than they ever did to his
father, suspected only of an intention to grant a free Con-
stitution, after that of 1820 had been strangled in 1823.
The public are generally too prone to attribute to poison the
deaths of Sovereigns and their connections ; but an inju-
dicious medical treatment, the frequent bleeding, leeching,
blistering, and other weakening remedies, are more likely
to have brought this Imperial water-drinker to a premature
grave, whose lungs appeared to be strong, and his blood
pure, all the incisions and scarifications made on his body
healing up directly, without any festering. Some also think
the excitement and blood-spitting occasioned by the thea-
trical row to have led to his rapid dissolution.
Don Pedro had scarce closed his eyes when the Queen
proceeded to the formation of the following new Ministry,
some of the members of which she, as well as the parties
themselves, well knew her father *could never have sanc-
tioned, for which reason the attempt never was made as long
as the spark of life lingered in him :-
1. The Duke of PALMELLA, President of the Council of
Ministers, but without any portefeuille.

. . .
2. Don FRANCISCO DE ST. Luiz, Speaker of the Deputies,
Minister of the Interior (Reino.)

3. The Duke of TERCEIRA, Minister of War, with Lou.
REIRO under him.

4. ANTONIO BARRETO FERRAZ DE VASCONCELUOS, Minister
of Justice.

5. JOSE DA SILVA CARVALHO remains Minister of Finance.
6. Conde DE VILLA REAL, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
7. AGOSTHINO JOSE FREIRE, tranferred to the Ministry of
Marine.

From the annexed supplement you perceive that FrigosP,
has been appointed Vice-President of tho Cha'.:":cer of
Peers, that Bento Pereira do Carmo, bitlierto Home
Secretary, Joaquim Antonio d'Ariar, Minister of Justice
and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Francisco Simoes Margiochi,
Minister of Marine, were immediately exonerated from
their respective office;, Mid the Duke of Palmella appointed
President g Colwell of Ministry. These decrees, as
well 4s thy appointments of the aforesaid new Ministers,
were all dated yesterday, from Queluz.
This afternoon the Duke of Palmella communicated the
new Ministerial arrangements to thy Chamber of Peers,

made him repeat the names of the no-iv' Ministers, and pro-
' tested against that of Josda Silva Camillo being at the
head of the Finances, for having attempted to introduce
base and false money into the kingdom ; alluding, I sup-
pose, to the English half-crowns- and crowns, as the Duke
of Palmella said the project had been abandoned. After
Count Taipa had complained of interruption by another
rsso
Peer, and Count Villa Real had said a few words, t]
Ses
sion was adjourned,—the Deputies having . dime re'
aleaidny7.
In the Chamber of Peers the Duke of Palmella rose
and said, that he was called by the confidence of Her Most
Faithful Majesty, placed in him, to the Presidency of the.
Council of Ministers, under such important circumstances,
and charged by the same august Senhora with the selection
or formation of the Ministry ; he, therefore, confessed that
he was doubtful whether his own strength was equal to
this weighty charge ; however, he had obeyed the cora,
mands of the young. Queen, given on this occasion, at the
commencement of her reign. He had obeyed a dying
Prince, to whom Portugal was indebted for its liberty, and
for having shaken off the yoke of usurpation after granting
this liberty in the first instance. The subsequent occur-
rences were known to all ; he begged, therefore, merely to
state what he had done to serve the Queen and country.
He thought himself bound to add a few words on the prin-
ciples which he consented to serve, as the basis of the sys-
tem adopted by the Administration ; namely, to employ
all their efforts in the development of the Constitutional
institutions, and their consolidation, in the enactment of
laws, to give a full operation to the Charter, and in the
urgent measures required by circumstances, principally with
a view to uphold public credit, without which they could
hope for nothing, until the wisdom of the Legislature could
regulate the public expenditure. He also thought it ne-
cessary to state that he was in perfect concordance with all
his colleagues, and that their main object was to unite under
the Queen's standard all Portuguese, of whatever opinions
and parties they might have previously adhered to, to re-
alize the Charter, and gi4:t solid awl durable effect. The
restorer ofPortuguese liberty having, on the occasion of
his complete triumph over the usurpation, called all Por-
tuguese to participate in the same.
The new Ministry is considered the best that could have
been formed under existing circumstances, and it is to be
hoped they will be unanimous, pull as well together as the
Regent's reforming Ministry did, who were supported by
public confidence and large majorities of both Chambers, in
all their bold, necessary, and sweeping reforms.
The accession of the Duke of Palmella, it is supposed,
will prove very acceptable to Foreign Powers, and induce
some, if not all those, who have hitherto withheld the re-
cognition of the Queen, to follow the example of England,
France, Sweden, and Belgium, and recognize her Most
Faithful Majesty forthwith, their objections hitherto to
Don Pedro being of a personal nature, as a Prince fore-
most in the adoption of liberal ideas, and the system of re-
form, a proceeding in itself hateful enough to most of them,
as his own acts ha removed all suspicions that might have
existed against his sincerity, moderation, and absence of all
selfish considerations.

The new Ministro do Reino, which is looked upon as the
highest and most important office, is a man of business, pe-
netration, and comprehensive mind. He (Don Francisco
de St. Luiz) discharged the duties of Speaker in this and a
former Chamber of Deputies with much credit, and will
carry the same abilities into his new department.
The Duke of Terceira is said to have made the employ..
ment of the Conde de Villa Real a sine qua non condition
to his own acceptance of the War Department, in the ad-
ministrative branches of which he will be much assisted by
Senhor Loureiro, who has been long on the staff.
The new Minister of Justice,, Barreto Ferraz de Vascon-
celhos, passes for a luminary of the law and an upright man.
The Minister of Finance, who remains (Carvalho), your
readers know already from reputation. Having only St.
Luiz and Freire, both as well as himself Reformers and.
promoters of the Constitution of 1820, they will find them-
selves in a minority of one in this Cabinet of seven members.
But as the Government can do nothing without money, and as
his administration of the finances has been most successful, his
influence must still preponderate.
Conde de Villa Real was formerly Ambassador in France,
and a short time Minister here. At the beginr.'..lg of Don Mi-
guel's usurpation he threw himself on tue protection of Sir
Frederic Lamb, and emigrated when the British Ambassador
withdrew from Portugal.
M. Friere, who filled the War-office nearly two years, was
complained of because he had no unlimited sums at his dispo-
sal, and therefore could not satisfy all the claims made. Ilis
removal to the Marine was probably only arranged to make
room for the Duke of Terceira. M. or General Freire is on%
of the best speakers in the Chamber of Deputies.
The public tranquillity of the capital has not been in tae
least interrupted by the death of Don Pedro, though some
Miguelite cries and songs were heard at Cintra and Cascaes.
On the contrary, whatever movement there was, appeared to
be in favour of the Queen. When the guns of the Castle
fired on the Queen being sworn in, a Gaitego, at one of the
fountains near it, exclaimed, it was for Don Miguel's arrival,
when some soldiers and volunteers, overhearing it, put him to
death. On Tuesday nigbt a Miguelite Guerrilla chief nar-
rowly escaped with his life by taking refuge in the guardhouse
in Blackhorse-square, where I yesterday afternoon saw the
corpse of a Miguelite of some note, who had been recognised,
notwithstanding his disguise, in Placa Figueira, wbrore a num-
ber of individuals in the garb of gentlemen, 'him with pen.
knives, pocket-knives, and sticks. The body lay almost under
the windows of the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice,
yet none of the perpetrators had been apprehended.
The young Queen has commenced her reign by shutting
herself up for a week, and ordering the Tribunals to be closed
for the same period in consequence of her Imperial father's de-
mise. There is to be six months' mourning, three months'
deep, and three months slight. The interment is to take place
on Saturday, at the church of St. Vicente de Fora beyond the
Castle of St. George. The Emperor's heart only is to be de-
posited at Oporto, according to his last will.
The advocates for the abolition of the punishment of death
in England, will be glad to learn that Don Pedro ever evinced
the most unconquerable repugnance to the infliction of capital
punishment, and that during the whole of the civil war in Por-
tugal, comprising a period of nearly two years, not half a dozen
individuals were executed. The admirers of the old crimi-
nal code in England, and of the triangles and military execu-
tions in Ireland, will think this number contemptibly small.
But, insignificant as it appears, it was only extorted by impe-
rious necessity. During the siege of Oporto, Marshal Solig-
nac had the greatest difficulty to prevail on Don Pedro to sign
the death-warrant of a French deserter, and of two Portu-
guese embaucheurs, or Miguelite agents, seducing Constitu-
tional soldiers 5o desertion. The Marshal insisted, that with-
out some such examples of' salutary severity, he could not an.
swer for the safety of the army or town, when the Emperor
most reluctantly yielded. The brutal practice of flogging men
to death continues in the array, but it was always unknown to
Don Pedro.
The British infantry and other foreign troops are now ex-
pected to be retained in the service, and the Duke of Terceira,
as Minister of War, has already given the most satisfactory
assurance of a prompt settlement of all demands.

SEPT. 28.
His Majesty's steamer African having been ordered to start
at the early hour of nine o'clock this morning with the mail,
generally despatched only twenty-foUr hours afterwards, I
have but time to add that Lisbon remains perfectly tranquil,
and that the Ministerial arrangements are expected to work
well. Many regret, however, the exclusion of the Marquis
Saldanha. British influence receives credit for the introduc-
tion of the Duke of Palmella, whose admission into the Ca-
binet the late Ministry appears to have resisted to the last mo-
ment of Don Pedro's life, under the pretext that political
amalgamations of opposite principles seldom prospered.
Don Pedro's funeral will take place to-night. The fretful
scene of life has closed, and he is now regretted by all parties.
Born to the throne of Portugal, he emigrated in his infancy
to Brazil, established the independence of that vast empire in
manhood, and voluntarily descended from his Imperial throne
some years after he had abdicated the Crown of Portugal in
favour of his daughter Donna Maria, whose rights he sup-
ported, through good and evil report, with unflinching since-
rity, though frequently suspected of ambitious views to recon-
quer Portugal not for her, but for himself, which every act of
his life disproved. By an almost romance-like heroic perse-
verance, he regained that throne for her at the sacrifice of his
own life, and now descends into the tomb, justified and immor-
talized in the eyes of posterity. The post mortem inspection
in yesterday's Gazette establishes the fact of his death being
occasioned by water on the chest, which saves the reputation
of his physicians--though, perhaps, without justifying their
treatment. It also removes the suspicion of poison having
been administered. Yet the state of the stomach is not satis-
factorily described.

This-day's Gazette containing the funeral regulations—
mourning orders, &c., has but this instant been published,
which prevents my even perusing it, before the close of this
letter.

The African takes back to England a quantity of sove-
reigns not wanted by the bank.
Another Miguelite was yesterday morning umssipated by an
officer in the corn-market.

In every other respect-the most profetind tranquillity reigns
in the capital, and is likely to coutmue with every prospect of
the Charter enduring. A. M.
LISBON, SATURDAY MORNING,
Half-past nine, Sept. 28.
P. S. I have just learned that a new large British steamer
of 1,100 tons, and 12 guns, said to have been built, armed
and equipped for the Pacha of Egypt, a ndto be bound to
Alexandria, which put in here yesterday, is strongly suspected
to be one of the Carlist squadron, destined to act on the north
coast of Spain, and that she came into the Tagus merely for
supplies, and for the purpose of picking up a number of Bri.
tish stragglers, officers and men, discharged from the Con-
stitutional service—some of whom were known to be engaged
for Don Carlos service by his secret agents in this place.
An intimation of these surmises (for they cannot as yet be
called facts) has been just forwarded to Rear-Admiral Sir
William Gage, and to Admiral Napier, with a view of their
seizing the vessel, or at any rate frustrating her hostile inten-
tions against the quadruple alliance. But the result of this
application I cannot await, for fear of the African dropping