The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-05 00:00:00

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By EDWARD MOGG

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PORTUGUESE FIDELITY AND PA-

TRIOTISM.

We alluded two or three days ago, to the noble
conduct of the Conde de Linhares, in not only de-
clining to become a member- of the Cortes of the
Usurper, or of the three Estates convoked in the
ancient form, but in remonstrating against the con-
vocation and the abolition of the Charter which they
were called to accomplish. The following is the
letter -which he addressed to the Regent on that
occasion :

" TO THE MOST SERENE INFANT, &C.

" With profound respect I have the honour of represent-
ing to your Royal Highness, in reply to the Royal letter of
the 6th instant, which was only delivered to me on
the 20th, the powerful reasons which prevent me
from complying with it. These reasons are, my oath
of fidelity as a subject of our Lord and King, Don
Pedro I V., undisputed successor to the Crown at
the moment of its demise by the late King, and my
oath to the Constitutional Charter, recognized by the state
according to the order of the King, solemnly sworn by the
Government of the kingdom, and by the three estates of
the kingdom, voluntarily and without any compulsion, on
the 31st of July, 1826 ; and last, my oath as peer of the
realm, which I took in the Chamber of Peers, on the 30th
of October last, voluntarily and without compulsion, when
I took my seat, which oath is couched in the following
terms :—" I swear on the Holy GoSpel faithfully to fulfil
the obligations of peer of the realm; to maintain the
Catholic Apostolical Roman religion ; the integrity ofsthe
kingdoni ; to observe, and cause to be observed, as much
as lies in my power, the Constitutional Charter of April
29, 1826 ; to be faithful to the King and the
Country ; and to promote the general welfare of the
nation ; which oath sufficiently proves that I can-
not recognize the legality of Cortes which are not
described in the Constitutional Charter, nor can consider
as dissolved the legislative body by the dissolution of
the Chamber of Deputies, although your Highness did not
order the convocation immediately of another Chamber tic-
,.
cording to the 4th paragraph of the 74th article of the
Constitutional Charter, which your Highness invokes in
your decree of the 13th of March, in dissolving the said
Chamber. And from it follows, that it is my duty, even
independently of my inclination, oeithe'r personally nw by
procuration to appear in other Cortes than those specified
in the Constitutional Charter, as well as not to acknow-
ledge any other legislative decision which does not emanate
from the legislative body, under penalty of any act which
I might execute being considered as a nullity.
" I beseech your Highness on this oCcasiou; in which
the feeling of my duty obliges me to represent the just
grounds which I have fur not obeying your orders, not to
permit my motives to be interpreted before your Highness
in colours different from those in which mv respect and at-
tachment to the person of your Most Serene Highness, and
my fidelity to the King, your august brother, make me
desire them to appear as a loyal subject and a true Portu-
guese.
" I have the honour of kissing the bands of
your Se-
rene Highness.
"flay 22. (Signed) " Conde de LINHARES."'

Messrs. MOON, Boys, and GRAVES, have
just published a Print, entitled " The Young Recruit," from
a minting of thesomebyTwrs, of Edinburgh. It is full
of character, and does justice to its original. The figure of
the boy standing upright a-la-miiitaire, while a wooden-
legged veteran is giving hint the word of command ; the
appearance of the old woman l;nitting-; the cat in the
corner, making a sly and cautious grasp at a fish which is
lying on the floor; the pipe on the table ; the different
articles hung up from the ceiling, and in short the general
interior of the cottage itself, form an amusing and cha-
racteristic tout-ensemble.

The Dissenters of Salisbury, who had com-
menced a soliseription for presenting a piece of plate to
Lord IIot.LAND and Lord JorN IlussELL, have given it
up in deApair, the whole ntonot of their zeal, after a fort-
night's amounting to no more than thiriy-20-en

TO THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT PEEL.

(From the Times of yesterday.)

Sir,—ln the early part of your speech in answer
to Mr. Huskisson, last night in the House of Com-
mons, you lay down its Fqiinciple that it ill' impossi-
ble to judge corrdtitl:7 ate, rafle Unless the Whole of it
is fair,Y stated. It is somewhat extraordinary that
you should have thought proper to violate this prin-
ciple, in the grossest way, in the very same speech in
which you so dogmatically laid it down'.
You entered. intn tth ehtbaitie statetnent of all that
passed respecting East Retford, arid stated some par-
ticulars, which Mr. Huskisson, you imagined, had,
through delicacy, omitted to state ; but 13/Yen you
came to discuss the merits sf the correspondence be-
tween the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Huskisson,
you took only the first and last letter for your text, and
totally forgettiOg your own princiele, tailed upon the
House to deCide Upon the merits of the case, leaving
out of their consideration all the intervening and
more important part of that correspondence.

Sir, the whole merits of the case rest upon those
intermediate letters, and.s6 'ca-tnt h.e.p thinking
you were ti.4.,,11'r..4,.‘ate; and knowing how those letters
toll against the Noble Duke whom you were defend-
ing, you followed Mr. Huskisson's example of omit-
ting parts of your case—but with this difference, that
those parts omitted by Mr. Huskisson did not mate•
rially affect the case, while on these otiiittk2tl by yob
the whole titraStkli re'stett, and (as you must
have been aware) made against the position which
it was your object to establish, viz. that Mr. Huskis-
son's retirement was his own act and deed. His
were omissions from motives of delicacy, yours from
the less creditable motives of prudende.
But, granting the whole of what you assert re-,
specting those letters—granting that the first letter
was a letter of resignation—granting that the Duke
was right in sending it to the King, iidy granting, for
the sake of argument, that he would have been wrong
tmt to have done so, what has this to do with the
business ?

The point at issue between the Duke and Mr, I
Huskisson is this:—Did the Duke unnecessarily
catch hold of a mere pretence to dismiss Mr. Hus-
kisson from the Administration ? Mr. Huskisson
says he did, and appeals to the correspondence to
prove it. You say he did not, and, instead of ap-
pealing to the correspondence, appeal to the charac-
ter—yes, the character ! of the Noble Duke: Now,
if by character, you mean to go back to former con-
duct—and that conduct too to the very same indi-
vidual—l am content to judge by that criterion.
Last year, the Duke's object was to embarrass Mr.
Canning's government by throwing out the Corn
Bill—he effects it by misconstruing a letter of Mr.
Huskisson's, and persists in misconstruing it, in spite
of Mr. Huskisson's explanation of it. This year the
Duke's object is to throw out Mr. H., and he effects
his object in the same way—he misconkrues a letter,
and doggedly refuses to accept any explanation of it.
If these are misconstructions, it must be confessed
there is, at least, some method in them.
Sir, it is impossible to read that correspondence
and not to see that it was the Duke's object either
to turn Mr. Huskisson out of the government, or to
make him take a step which would degrade him, for
the purpose of remaining in it. Mr. Huskisson,
from motives of delicacy, tendered a conditional re-
signation to the Duke. Had the Duke said, I ac-
cept that resignation, because, after your csiiduct, I
think it necessary to do so for the well-being of the
government, Mr. Huskisson could not have had one
word of complaint to make against the Duke ; but
he' has a right to complain, that when he found the
Duke had misconstrued his letter, his Grace obsti-
nately refused to admit any explanation of it.
But, Sir, the very arguments yen use to show
that the Duke could not have wished to get rid of
Mr. Huskisson, are, iry my opinion, the strongest
possible proofs the other way.' No human being
can read the correspondence, and lay his hand upon
his heart, and say, that it was a necessary conse-
quence after Mr. Huskisson's explanation of his first
letter, that the Duke should have persisted in con-
sidering it as an absolute resignation; and, accord-
ing to your own showing, the cause of that'first let-
ter being written, viz., the vote against the Govern-
, ment upon East Retford, was nothing like a cause
for his dismissal. The great inconvenience, there-
fore, that you say was likely to arise to the public
business, and embarrassment to the Government,
from a change at such a moment, must have all
operated to induce the Duke to retain Mr. Huskis-
son, if other reasons stronger than these had not in-
duced him to desire to get rid of him. The Duke
never could, nor would, have exposed himself to
such inconvenience and embarrassments, if the in•
convenience and restraint imposed upon him by Mr.
Huskisson's presence in the cabinet bad not been
intolerable to his haughty and dictatorial disposition,
and had not Mr. Huskisson's opinions been at va-
riance with his own.
Thus much for the case between the Duke of
Wellington and Mr. Huskisson.
Now for the far more important one between the
Duke and the country. Whether his Grace be-
haved ill to Mr. Huskisson, tsr Mr. Huskis4on to his
Grace, is a thing of very secondary importance. But
what is of importance to the country is, the feelings
and the opinions of the present head of the Govern-
ment which are betrayed by that correspondence—
feelings which are echoed, exposed, and vaunted by
the papers which are the organs of the Government
of which his Grace is the head—feelings which were
openly avowed by the Duke at the Bacchanalian or-
gies of the Pitt Club--a Club which, by presuming
so to call itself, at once profanes that great man's
name, and belies his principles.
It is impossible, I say, to believe, after reading
that correspondence, that the Duke wished Mr.
Huskisson to continue in the Government; the ne-
cessary inference from which is, that his principles
and measures were, disagreeable to his Grace. What,
then, is the country to hope from such a Premier ?
What are they to hope from such a man as Lord
Aberdeen as a substitute for Lord Dudley--a man
who notoriously is an admirer of the Machiavelian
policy of Metternich, the author, the controller, and
the dictator- of the Holy Alliance-crafty and clever
in the extreme, and able to dupe fifty such men as
Lord Aberdeen, even if they were not his professed
disciples.
Sir, we might have some confidence in your pru-
dence and foresight, and your avowed admiration of
Mr. Canning's policy and principles-7but alas! what
hope.can we have from you ? How, with all the
accumulated labours of which you complain, and
with the impossibility of finding time to attend to
all the cases that come before Parliament, can we
expect that you will be able to keep a vigilant watch
over the Foreign, the Colonial, and the Commercial
policy of the Empire ?.
What, then, has not the country lost by the re-
tirement of those Who before presided over these de-
partments ? Let not the people be deceive'. The
foreign policy of this country is in the hands' of the
Duke of Wellington and Lori Aberdeen. .The
foreign policy is, at this moment, of the first import-
ance to this country. One false step now, may in-
volve this country in a war. The want of foresight
and firmness shown in due season, may place this
country in the difficulty of being obliged to choose
between war and degradation. Much mischief in
domestic policy cannot be effected in a short time.
Its details must come before Parliament,' who can
control- them ; but the very essence of foreign policy
is confidence, and any inquiries into it are met by
the inconvenience of making premature
,disclosures.
The mischief is done before it cart be controlled, and
the public only find it out by the consequences which
result from it.

'Whatever may be the public opinion of some
of Mr. Canning's measures, I believe that their
opinion is in favour of his foreign policy by a
majority of at least one hundred to one. Let
all those, then, who approved of that policy
know that the object of that policy was to de-
f('at the plans of Prince Metternich. Let them also
know that the Duke of Wellington always dis-
approved of that policy, as well as the Earl of Aber-
deen. What, then, are we to expect from those in