The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-08 00:00:00

`:C.o',.;!'Jrt“,‘(,,,'V. ,v.ri., CIS 0.14

(ConclnAi:t: Trout Pit per )

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Icrcoeyietc Bo.on Lheii (cooteqesthat lie istAelv
Gotorit`t'?eti. Iti liis retly to liqe rliird interro-
g4tory, ire'cooleSSerl,,t hat in one -his last ill-
tervie7S sVonseca itiives, be Spoke tr) him of
an insurrection itt
.the capital., 'at the ‘bel.t,ll. of
which wasT3ontek, Frine. The licensed said, he
would ask 'Goma Vrie:e if the news deseriol
credit. Meeting IVith Gothet Friere, therefore,
"tind entering into cob versation %vith liitn, lie ques-
tiollcl'hini UpOn'the 'subject, whin the latter said,
" My dear Baron, yon Are not. accinainteii With
LiShon, nor with the l'Ortngnese people ; for
they, 'whet) they ha'ie nothing else to talk about,
dream always of conspiracies. It Was thus 'be-
fore 'the King and his flintily sailed for 1.11-azil.
Lend no .credit to.sttch rornours, which.tae their
origin on the tptay of Stidre end other public
places."' The accused communicated' this reply
to Fonseca Nives, assuring him that the conbpiracy
had no existence. The.eccused. received the ob-
noxious proclamation in a letter through the Lis-
bon post-office, 15 or 20 clays before his arrest,
and was astonished and perplexed at its
lie hesitated what lie ought to do, and went ,to
take couasel of Gomez Freire, who advised him

to show the proclamation to no one. The ac
Cured said, that as to the paper,containing abusive
expressions with regard to the Marstkal.General,
it „as written with-hiS own handi. that it wai
not his composition, but that it came to his hand
in the same way as-the proclamation, and that he
took a copy of it, sending the. origin at to England.
by the .packet, to show the state of public'opinion.
in Portugal. lie declared in .his answers to the
lourth interrogatory, that he picot, the-original to
England, addressed to the Duke of .Sussex, .and
that he did not place its receipt in. his diary, be.
cause be was is the habit 'of not doing so with
many litters of dcsciiptiOn.. lie had
shoWn both the Proclamation and the other paper
to Fonseca to see if be knew the hand.
It appears with respect to the accused Francisco

Leit e 'trdre da (lama, that he declared upon oath

that heprestuned that he was•apprehended 'on ac.
count of his having been tor a few days..in posses-
sion: of 'certain papers deliYered.• to hint . by his
brothet-in-law Antonio Cabral Calheiros, who,.
after- an absence of a year, visited them twice,
and on a third-visit left the papers, et the same.
time describing their purport, and explaining the
schemes of himself and friends for overturning the
Government. The accused asserted, that ke ex-
•
pressed the ntmost horror, and dwelt so strOugly
on the shocking nature of the crime, that his
brother-in-law appeared to repent sincerely.; but
before he conlil know .whethei this repentance was
sincere, he was apprehended ; • his brother-in-law
Cabral was, he acknowledged, a man of the
worst conduct, and of the most perverted mind ;
that he, th'e accused, had not revealed the plot
toil to Lint, because. lie. firmly, believed that HS
brother-io-law bad repented of it. This accused
basil concealed all knowledge of the papers, but
•
when they we e taken front his closet itito which
he had the own them, he identified them. •
With resp at to 'he accused Antonio Ferreira da
Costa, Item -Colon t of a reglinentrof the line, he declares
on oath that limit 15 days before histapprehensioa, Cabral,
With whom he was on familiar thuagh not friendly terms,
called upon It Tui a at -began to talk .about the existill-Puli-
tica circa:use aces which, he said, the whole mitten was
disgusted, party on a count of the Soverriga being in Ame-
rica, partly On account of the stagnation of esonmeree; and
when the accused asked him in a decided tone what bis o'iject
was, he answered that it was to produce a change of eitensa-
stances, to revolutionise Lisbon, and to make-an independent
Government; upon Ythich the accused told him that he was
ignorant of the Portuguese character, and of the 'actual' cotb.
ditivn of the kiugdom; for of all the [cations of Europe it was
the most happys-i-happy iu its population; happy in its adlni-
nistration of Government: Cabral appeared to aggree
WM,. all Cr said would desist Irons- his project : Cabral; hose-
ever, asked What, part be (the accused) would take in case of
a revulution : to which he answered,- that being in the com-
mand of men ist the service.. of the-King, he sttoulsl.foll+nv,tbg
same party as his Stildiers did : that Cabral did riot open him-
self further,mut.did 'he-point out anyatarticular persons ;Ihe
mentiorned, as if by accident, the name of Gomez Freire,.but
asserted, that he was not yet au associate, which the accused
believed, nut, thinking it
,possible that Gol,ez Frtire. could
hairCunited himself to such purposes; that the aetaised made
tro.diseloaute, thinking the whole business a foolish- levity of
Cabral, who even protested that he would burn alt tie papers
and rid himself of his insane sehemia,that the accused thought
it a duty to make an exposition of the state of publiC opinitm,
and of the general circumstances of the nation to the Govern-
ment, in order that it might take such measures as it. deemed
Most adequate, and fur •that purpose' drew up a paper to be
presented to the president Souza (which paper, chiefly con-
sisting of military regulations, was found on the accused.)
' The rest of this persoWs deposition went to exculpate
biut-
self both on the scot,' of his zeal as officer, and of his.at-
- tempts to divert Cabral from his mad purpose. lie concluded
.by giting the lie direct to albiliose assertions 'of Cabral which
pretended that he (the accused) knew any thing about the so-
ciety of conspirators.
It appears with respect to the eriminal.Christoyao da Costa,
• that be decl:tred, upon oath, as to the third interrogatory, ip
--his answers to the questioys in the appendix No. ;11, that he
did not imoW of the existence of the society, but only kti...av
so much, thatam one of
.the three times that he ,net with
Antonio Cabral Caliteiros at Pshon. the latter invited him to
Santarein to communicate certain business, which took place
in the following, mannett-4-That the accused being in the,city
tm leave, front time t 2th to the 2nd of slay, on the 15th of the
"same month met with the aforesaid Cabral in the Rocio, and
there also a third person mAde his appearance; all of them
were close tot he Botequint SantaiJusta, and the two attempt-
,ealto learn front the accused the public opinion In Sautarem,.,
particularly with regard to the Marshal-General, and that
after a'discourse on the 'circumstance of the time, lamenting
.that this ;tad other importaaat posts. of the army were.filled
by strangers, which redounded la the disgrace of the natives,
.until at length they fluidic(' the conversation be
to the accused that a Party was formed, to which-they per-
suaded hiin that he ought to join himself, and thus co-operate
With their views; they said that the dismissal of the Marshal- I
General and the English' officers was the only 'made-of gain- I
iug rank atilt the pincer of advanciug themselves; that the
accused; being -amazed at such a proposal, and !icing untie-
titled what to answer, tali) Amu t bat he did not feel disposed
joie stub a party, without first knowing fundamentally the
true objects at which it ;dated : and yet they hi isted
that as these:objects would be hunts u to hint as stem as , lie.•
;Mould join tin: patty alluded to, they would, conduct him that
Same night to a house ill order to be carolled; this also the
accused' objected to; saying merely that he required time tin
consider of it ; that the.tesult (tithe conference ws,s, that he
wa's to trace; them negt day.; and being again urged by Cab-
ral to come to the huase, which, however, he did not name,
the accused, After various pretexts and excuses, at length'
pretended in lit'COMe one of the party; and that having been
sent on the f.4qt h to the *put of the cavalty of Evora, believer
it:tut-tied to Cabral or to his.associates, and this is all that the
aitneSS knows about-the Matter"; that he tvas not haund.
to the party, neither by • tvord loot by oath, as Cabral had
undignaatly asserted, for it teas impossible that lie could he so
iodiscreet as to be sworn to a party whose object lit never
ktitte., and at- whose head was a Manlike Cabrid, without rasik
mid of had character. The accused coneludeit by sitaaa
that he had always tesiSled•the stigge4ions made to him, earl
should of himself hare' proceeded agaisist Cabral,' but for a
just fear of'tiic law; hadAlt:it if -.Cabral had eriminsinieated
these.suggestiims to him tete-a-tete, be would have, suade
hint repent of his rashness ip spite of his own just dread of
'the raw.

For such anti more-nets, the, accused, Jose Jolquitn Pinto
-da Silva, Jose Campeau de M-irande, Jose, Ribeiru MA-
nuri Alouteito de Carvalho, Gomez, Frejre tie 4kudrade, Lien-
1./clue dose liarcia de Alotaeti 'Jose Franciset)

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antortio ra...ttathi
be d'egi•aded ,ini!'th-iirtved of 'all Linyt:rs,attd dia-
nities which they,..unjoyed Ore
like 'Nile, Lid) iis they have trcrii
guilty t`,f the 'tr..(:t of ...,•easutt, and havo
tberehy iitcnr.red the pe.,altic, imposed h.:the ,tat ate whiclt•they.
hare tcd, and which condemns ,
that the accirsed, tioraez I,rote 'de ..-in•drad.,.., lie carried, with
a :111d by th.e totl.c 4stobet which
is t, 1:0 Cl',.Xft.;ll.llli,:la: tic :rt.sA",4 St, da
-Urhere he imprisoned ; hid IlLit the others ;tlitt've-tuention-
ed he taken to thelzilihet whiol wilt erected tut the plait,
of !•";anta 'Anna, and there stiffu'r dealt) by stranglingfor roe:.:
and utierwards theirheatis lief or, cut Off,•Slial-Gtoget her With
their bodies, be buynt to ;lilies, wit shall he 'cast into the
sea: and they ate et?su condemned to the confiscation and for-
leittire of all their g0,.,14 Ain; prop'el•ty n-tiats,pever to th,.
ltoyal.Treit.sur%, accorti,nt; to the furn.o4rof the statute aid o
the charter ui the

The it'castftri'e;in, niordode. ueiro; Nianuel deJew9 Mon.-
lei ro. url :anacio re4l(,, and N.I:4X Ililatt Dias Ribrt-
nr, ktlai baited then:;clt'es to ilk Iftf2kinoa's-;oleq,qtal criminl3
i•oolkle.raq:arctontionoird to except
that thi!ir buclitta. and Lead. aft.er dilath are trot to be bm at
to ash!..

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The accUSed Francisco Antonio de Sousa is conslentned to •
hanislinier.it for life to the kingd..sai of Angola, and toll= con-
'fiStation of all tits goods. • • .
The accused Antonio Pinto de Fonseca Hives is also con-
denined• to ten years of banishMent to Itiumobiiitii",.and to
the confiscation Of. halt his goods. Francisco Leite Sodre,ths
Gaeta is condemned to five years of banishutent to Angola. •
Frederich Baron d'Ebett is condemned to be banished front
On!' United kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves, being,
on leaving the gaol in which he is now co4ined, direct:y put
On board a ship which is toleoliduct him away. mi•contlitiou
of rics•er again entering any of the dominions us' our said So-
vereign, on pahLor being sent fur °tie of he African
forts m case of contravention. And the accUsvil, Verissinio
Antonio Ferrei'ra-da Co4a and Christi's-au da.Co,ta, are ac-
quitted, being adjudged not guilty ; and thty are bert•by
ordered to be released and restored to their good.
„fame and
character. All the '`accused are condemned to
_pay the cosa
of suit..

The sentence is Gated Lisbon, Oct; 15, 1817, and is signed
by the Judges Gomez Itibeieu;
,Leiter Vehtspies and Game),
Doctors ; Matijo, itibeiru Satatit, and laid,' It).•111,:.
ney-General.
To the 4ntence two clan4es `tire Unmixed, dated Oct. 17i
and signed :is before ; t hey relate to the ditterent exceptions
wbielt had been taken, both-to the punishment f deatt, attd
to the confiscation of property. The clauses confirm the 3elt-
hence in all its p4rts.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPROAINC THE 11..TAVE,
9ATION. OF THE RIVER SAINT LAWRENUE„kNIi
THE COMNIUNICATION WITH THE GREAT
• . • (From the Quebec Get:le/tr.)

YORA (U. C.), Jun' small Steam Boat is.rtow bailde •
ing at Prescott, intended to pass between that Port and King-
ston,.and another at Ernest Town for the Bay of Qutiffle • .
is said that some Steam Bouts argil also building on Lake E. re
We may confidently expect that the. period is not. (ar dititnut
when there shall he a continued chain of Steam Boats, from
Quebec to Queenston, and thence (except the Portage by the
Falls of Niagara) to Druniumod Island on Like 1,-Ittroo. The
impedimenta to the Navigation of the St. Lawrence, may,aue •
we hope will, stoutly be removed at ;t comparatively small ex-
, pence, when the transport of Merchandize and Produce haae' •
be effected at so moderate et price, and in so short a tin
6.lll:llVnanCe to any etfairts the Americans can make, by nitetes
of their long projected Canal, to divert the natural chant.) •
of commerce of the whole of ttte country bordering on
Lakes': that portion of the States, situated nearest the Mce
hawk River, will, of courseefind the Canal the cheapest ;node
of conveying thelrproduce to Market hue t ;fuse more distato,
will prefer, fur the same reason, the old channel, as we do not
feel disposed to give thenteredit for so much patriotism as to
prefer the general bcnefit of their country, o.r. rAlber of tilts
citizens Of Alhany ;viol New York, to their own immediate a -
vantage. The seilhnd e.iimate of Upper. Canada tal:.ert
titer, are ut least eye"( to any part of the United• States tti•p
rights and privileges of the people are certainly not it:fill-tie.
and as respects tvetation and the price ofelanis, the differenci;
is iimnensely in our favour, in fact, we leeee no direct
whatever, except the ,district assessments. for repair of.tayett;s
and support Of gaols aunt court lrouses ; yet with all the :iii•
eamages. we Toss, _', the country has been kept, until vet!'
lately, completely in the shade most people in Great Britaia
being induced to 'believe that the soil itati climate of this Pro-
duce are similar to the efinntry rtnind the gulf of :it. Lao-
, rence,smil it has generally' been represented to them as al
impervious forest, more than half the year buried tinder se ve-
ell feet of snow, and scarcely habitable front intense culyt,
tinting the shorteremainder of• the year suffeeitte from ' into •
lerahle heat; and with a small and scattered eopWatitta
loyalists and their deseendantS,2-even these thry• t.iiuild
• privems of—a late Londcn " Times." a,,ert log, t hal the le,- •
pulation was congtantly, nay daily decreasing by mute rattee-is
to the States: which is -sototally-devoid of truth a ism thes)';--
rect. reverse is the: fact, ;t$ there is a very-great andinereasitee,
infinx of Americaus, and were any encouragements held ferkit
to them' they would come by,thousands. Of the Loyal'isls
• or their Descendants, we believe that very few, if any ihst•sll-
- (lambs) given of their quittiog this country for the States.
Many of the soldiers serving during the fir,ft American we
at its conclusion received grants of land, but from the habil-,
of inumperance andeidleness too irequeatly• prol truineat
amongst soldiers, they with some few exec/Aimee merely pet.-
misera.bte existence: and an idea the:lry PreVi6leil
that Europeans were utterly unfit for settlers, and that twee
• but •Americans could succeed the:ebildrt if of those Lteyalisis
and Soldiers are now grown up, and have proved.thernse;tee -„
to be as fine a race of brave, hardy and loyal men, as any in tl.c. ;'
British Etrepire;. the parts of time country they inhabit' are -
rising very fast in wealth 110 importance, and they are to;
dexterous in the use of the axe or the gi], as any Alum-it:2-A
backwoodsman. The late European settiersetrrivcd here'-3
of a different 'character to the first settlers ; being for Or
most part men early inured to patient acid persevering
in-
diistmy, what they want in skill they will make up by
• accordingly, wherever they have settled they have astoltisltZet
the old inhabitants with the unexpected progress made by
them in a.short tithe, and from their acquaintance with mare • •
Anodes of lessenine human labour, have introducedssome
luable knoWledge to the' country : even of thase arrirsexi this '-•
season, we are Informed that some have already cleared and
planted 2or 3 acres of land each. Four hundred and twets',y
with passports from our Consul ,at New York, have already •
arrived at this place., and several hundreds more are expect-
ed;—indeed tber6 are many.tbousands of British. Eli:lige-ants •-•-•
who have been decoyed to the back States, that would kittss
gladly join their countrymen here if it was in their poivets
but they are entirely/at the mercy of the unprincipled writehe=
by whom they have been doped; many have come in wit unmet
• passports, and a great number have found employment on the
road ; we are sorry, lion ever, to observe, that having brais
reports of the very high price of !shoos in ~this Country, thief
very mush weaken tin: interest excited in their favour, a-be's
upon-their arrit'al inretitter, there is not itilinealte • ,
carplament. fur theism all in this toe 4.. and although they ace
koowiedge themselves completely destitute, yet they ask even
more.ekorbitantewages than have hitherto been given, and
bin Many of them When disappointed in their nfoljnst demands,
torn, their abuse most ungratefully upon the. Government-,
that has been at so very great an expeaCe to prevent Omit- •
starving in a foreign) country and has offered to give -Meet
lands that.would sell in the States fur at, least from I)2 ter al
dollars per acre.