The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-06 00:00:00

THE QUEENN-0-1z PORTUGAL.

TIATa, SATURDAS NIG itT.--Yesterday the young Queen
of Portugal paid a visit to Bristol. Her Majesty was ac-
companied by the..whole of her suite, and reached Clifton
sooaiitter 12 o'clock, where she. alighted, and took re;
frtsiliment at the hotel. She was soon after conducted
to the different points of the picturesque landscape of that
agreeable neighbourhood, with which the young Queen
expressed herself particularly pleased. The weather was
fine, and the prospect seen to advantage. After spend-
ing an hour or two in the contemplation of this scenery,
the young Queen was conducted to. the Observatory, and
afterwards to the city of Bristol, through: the principal
streets of which she drove in an. open barouche, and was.
everywhere received with popular respect. She was dressed
quite in the English fashion, with'a white silk hat, and ac-
knowledged, by the constant motion of her head and hand,
the marks of respect Which *were invariaby paid her by all
ranks through whom she passed. She returned to York
House (Bath) to dinner, between six and seven, and ap-
peared quite delighted with the bustle of her journey.

About eight o'clock on the same evening (Friday), the
Marquis of Barbacena, who is especially charged by the
Emperor Don Pedro with the' care of the young Queen,
returned to York House, from • London, ,where be had
interviews on the previous day with the Duke of Wel-
lington on the subject of his important visit to this country.
The Marquis has full powers from Don Pedro to act under
any emergency which can arise in the affairs of his young
and interesting daughter. His first interview with our Pre-
mier could only have for its object the arrangement of the
mode of reception which his Majesty is prepared to give his
.rOyal guest. She asks, like Napoleon in his adversity, only
air and water," placing implicit confidence in the
generous sympathy. of, the King and hospitality of the
British nation. The Marquis de Ilarbacena was quite.
satisfied with !his reception from 'the Duke of Wellington,
who was authorised by his Majesty to congratulate the
young Queen upon her arrival, and to offer her all the at-
tentions which are due to her high rank, and a suitable re-
sidence while. she sojourns amongst us. For the present,.
her abode in the metropolis will be at Grillon's hotel,
where she will arrive on, Monday night; her Majesty's
future • movements. will .be entirely governed by circum-
stances. She is au extremely tractable child, and the
principal personages who surround her are wise and
prudent men,
,who appear to watch over her destinies
with affectionate solicitude. Her evenings;
.at the
hotel are mostly spent in music ; •one of -the officers of
her suite is 4 finished musiciap, and. generally plays
on the , The constitutional hymn, a fine air !corns
posed by Don Pedro himself, is one of her favourite tunes.
The Cenntese of Itapagide is her chief preceptress, and
amid the inconvenience of state formalities, the young
Queen's . education is carefully attended to, principally ill
the mornings, as she is a very early riser. Though of
course unVereed,in politics, the royal child is perfectly ap-
prized of her peculiar and-affecting situation. She knows
of,LtosaAgoeDsperfsdy
.to her father; and hr affected when
the critrigo perpetrated by the former are alluded to.—
Pails are properly taken to spare the feelings of infancy;
hut sometimes these allusions cannot be helped, as in the
instance of the presentation of the Portuguese soldiers at
Exeter, who plaintively alluded to their only remaining
possession—their swords and their honour,—and upon pre-
senting our own gallant soldier, Sir John M. Doyle,
who informed the young Queen that all the devoted and
loyal friends of her Majesty's family who had not escaped
from the, grasp of Don Miguel, were pining in his dun-
, geons. On these occasions she evinces the artless sensi-
bility of her years, and in an affecting tone of voice ex-
presses her regret.
The young Queen has been throughout this day (Sawn.
day) visiting the principal public buildings of this city
which she had not seen on Thursday. She was particu-
larly pleased with the Abbey Church: On Sunday she is
expected to hear divine service at the Roman Catholic
chapel.
This is the first day since her Majesty's arrival in Eng,
land that she has been without a guard of honour. The •
21st Regiment of Infantry, who have had this duty since •
her sojourn in Bath, got the route for -Ireland last night,
and marched at six o'clock this morning for Bristol, where
they will embark at twelve o'clock (at least as many as can
be accommodated) in the steam-vessel which sails at that
hour for Cork. The Mayor has sent constables with orna-
mented staves to keep the passages clear for her Majesty,
now that the military centinels are withdrawn.
While alluding to the Queen of Portugal's affairs, it may
be right to mention a very curious occurrence which has
just taken place in Plymouth. It iS universally known
that the, Brazilian Ambassador Ins established a depot in
that town for 2,000 or 3,000 Portuguese soldiers who
have lately escaped from the fangs of Don Miguel. This
depot is under the command of M. Xavier, who is a careful
and prudent Officer. • •
By the last packet from Lisbon, there came to Falmouth
a certain Portuguese Marquis Lavradio, who is Don
Migners Ambassador to the See of Rome (at least, so he
represents himself), and who is charged with a special mis-
sion to the Pope, which is supposed to have reference to
his Holinses's assumed power of granting bulls for dispens-

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ing with marriage contracts. Miguel, it is now thought,
finding the poor child whose destinies, in the faint hope of
his observance of. the sacred obligation of an oath, titre
linked to him in marriage, safe out of his power in Eng.,
land, where she is more likely to be a thOrit in his side,
than the partner of his bosom, contemplates a Papal Bull
to annul the contract with his niece Donna Maria,. and has
despatched this Lavradio to Rome to try his hand at
marriage-breaking in St. Peter's.
There is good reason for supposing such to be the object
orthis mission, for the Marquis Lavradio, according to the
Lisbon Gazette, while lately speaking as a Deputy of one
of the Three Estates of Portugal, is represented to have
strongly urged that Don Miguel should marry a Princess
who was likely to give stability to his Government by
bringing an immediate succession to the throne : where any
Princess is to be found ready to consign her person to the
tender care of an usurper, whose constant relaxation is in
the beating of his own mother and sisters with a thick cane,
it is for the Pope and this Marquislo discover; but by a
singular movement very unlikely to be accidental, Lavradio,
instead of proceeding, as might have been expected to London,
or to any road leading to Dover; bent his steps to the very
last place in-which one would think such a personage
would, under present circumstances, sojourn. He went,
in fact, from Pahnooth to Plymouth, where, to make the
movement complete, he took up his quarters at the Clarence
Hotel, a house and neighbourhood much frequented by
the loyal Portuguese refugees. Whether he intended to spy
upon these poor soldiers, and see if their conditon was so
helpless as to afford hopes of tampering with their allegiance,
or whether he thought (what was most likely) that his pre-
sence would induce them to kick up a row at the intrusion
of such a visiter, arid commit themselves in some breach
of the peace, which might possibly lead to their being sent
out of .the country, nobody , besides himself can entirely
solve ; • but the natural consequence of such a visiter's ap-
pearance at the depot happened7.-he was insulted by come
of the Portuguese officers who remained true to their oaths,
•—he was annoyed by letters and squibs, and prints, and
the daily receipt of the orders of the day •of the Constitu-
tional party, so' nnielt so, that at length, after affecting
great forbearance, he made a fQrrnal complaint to the Mayor