The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-29 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.

We extract from the last arrival of Portuguese
papers a short paragraph, which we believe to be
connected with matters of much higher and more
extensive importance than the paragraph on the
face of it would seem to imply. The fact repre-
sented is, that " an interrogatory had been put
" by command of the Constitutional Government
" to the Conde dos Arcos, and certain other in-
" dividuals who lately arrived from Rio de
" Janeiro, why the official papers of the Secre-
" tart' of State had not been brought from the
" Brazilian Capital ?" or rather, for that we
take to be the true sense of the demand, why, as
public documents, they had not been delivered
up to the Cortes ? The regular course univer-
sally is, that -.a dismissed Minister .should,.
transfer to his successor all the State papers,
vouchers, records, correspondence, &c., in the
office of which he had the management. Such
papers are public property, and .of the most
valuable kind. A refusal to surrender them,
therefore, can proceed from none but criminal
motives or apprehensions ; at least it cannot fail
to excite suspicions against his integrity of the
gravest kind. That such suspicions actually
exist in the present instance will be sufficiently
manifest when we. state that the following facts,
are asserted in a positive manner, printed, circu4.
lated, and generally believed at Lisbon :—When,
contrary :to the advice 'of the Brazilian Cabi-
net, the King resolved on taking his depar-
ture for Europe, councils' were held" to de-
termine by what ineane this measure might
be disarmed of its injurious consequences to
what were deemed ,the interests of the Crown
of Portugal. The Council resolved. that. it would
be expedient for his Majesty to stop short on his
voyage, at the Western Islands, and to fix his
Court at Fayal. The further object in view was
to transmit a supplication to the British Govern-
ment, praying its assistance towards restoring
the former despotism, or as much of it as might
prove capable of revival. This policy of the'
Brazilian Ministers, with Count Palmella at their
head, was made known to the King, and sup-
posed to have,, received the approbation of his
Majesty. The fact of a sojourn at Fayal being
agreed upon, appears to have been understood
.by
certain Portuguese in London, whom our respect
for the station they fill will prevent us from
designating more particularly- than as parti-
sans of Count Pahnella. Amongst them and
their dependents it was openly talked of, that
the King 66 would touch at Fayal." And the
end of his proceeding thither transpired by means
of a letter from Macial, one of the Council at
Rio, to a Portuguese friend, of whose treachery
to the Constitution he seemed as sanguine as he
was conscious of his own. 'To him Macial ad-
mitted that the names of all who shared in the
revolution would become illustrious, but it must
be on condition of their compounding with the
King, by granting him--1. The initiation of all
laws in the Cortes.-*-2. An absolute veto.-,-3; The
exclusive nomination of the Council of State.--
4. A Chamber of Peeirs.

OLD HOUSES.—Saturday evening an inquisition
was taken in the Board-room of Middlesex Hos-
pital before T. STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the
bodies of Mrs. Elizabeth G lanville, aged 40, and
Eliza Glanville, her daughter, a child is months
old, who were killed by the falling of an old
house at the corner of Maddox and Regent-
streets, on Thursday last. The Jury returned
the following verdict—" That the death of the
deceased persons was caused by the falling of a
ruinous house, and that great blame was attached
to some perso❑ or persons unknown to the
Jurors for not preventing the continuance of the
nuisance."