The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-18 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.

Captain YORKE requested the attention of Ministers to
the following paragraph in the Times Newspaper of the
15th instant, announcing the sailing order of Admiral Sar-
torious, as commander-in-chief of the expedition against
the Portuguese Government, set on foot by Don Pedro,
for the purpose of asserting the pretensions of his daughter
Maria da Gloria to the throne of Portugal :—" Letters
from Belleisle of the 10th announce the sailing on that
day of the first division of the Portuguese expedition.
The following order of the day, addressed more particu-
larly to the English auxiliaries, was issued by Admiral
Sartorius on the occasion :---‘ Order of the day. The
Commander-in-chief of the expedition hastens to make
known to the seamen and soldiers of the division, that his
Imperial Majesty has been pleased to confirm the gift of
the equipments which the Vice-Admiral, in his reliance on
the well-known highmindedness of the Emperor, had taken
upon him to promise. His Majesty has, however, not only
ratifi-d the allowance of 555. monthly pay, hut, in order
to testify his high opinion of the English seamen and
soldiers, especially with regard to those who are under the
command of the Vice-Admiral, he, has encreased that pay
Ss. a month, during all the time that the Queen's flag
shall remain hoisted on their vessels. The Vice-Admiral
calls on his shipmates to second his efforts with heart and
hand in a caus.r, which, next to that of their King and
country, is the most noble that an Englishman can serve
—a c.luse laudably undertaken for the purpose of restoring
an august Princess to her throne, of opening the dungeons
of thousands of victims, whose only crime has been
fidelity to their duty and their oath ; and of enabling Por-
tugal to regain that constitutional liberty which has so
greatly contributed in giving to your own country the so-
vereignty of the sea., and placing you among the first
nations of the world. His iilajesty's intentions are humane
and conciliatory, but if they are disregarded, it will be
then for us to prove as true Britons, with the help of
Providence, that reliance has not in vain been placed in
our courage and our arms, for the purpose of succouring
the oppressed and procuring the liberation of the inno-
cent.—Belleisle, Feb. 4." He now wisbedto ask the Noble
Lord opposite, whether this same Admiral Sartotius at
present held a commission in his Majesty's service?
Lord ALTHORP replied, that the officer in question
had formerly been in the naval service of Great Britain,
but he could not at the moment undertake to say whether
Just at present he still happened to retain his commission.
Mr. ROBINSON should have presumed that Govern-
ment, as a matter of course, would follow the rule always
acted on upon similar occasions. There were very recent
precedents, in which British officers had been required to
withdraw from foreign service under circumstances pre-
cisely the same as those in which Admiral Sartorious was
placed by his connection with this enterprise. Govern-
ment had acted very suspiciously throughout this contest
between the rival members of the house of litaganza. He

hoped they would maintain a bona fide neutrality hence-
forward.

Sir J. GRAHAM made answer, that Captain Sartorius
did remain on the balf•pay list, but was at present disqua-
lified from receiving his half-pay, as he was in the service
of a foreign Power.—(Hear, hear.)
Colonel DAVIES trusted lie would long remain upon
that list, and, as a Reformer, was desirous of seeing liberal
institutions introduced into other countries as well as into