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London, England, 1828-08-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France.)
FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA.

"JULY 28.—Mr.Pisani, formerly Russianageut
Jassy, and whom Count Pahlen has placed at Bucha-
rest as sanitary agent, has commenced his functions
in the latter city by expelling all the Jews, who fly
in crowds to Transylvania.
" Count Pahlen is said to have declared, that if the
plague did not cease he would set fire to all four
quarters of Bucharest. The Boyards, terrified by
this threat, which probably was not made very
seriously, took all possible care, and from the 14th
to the 2lst of July no case of plague occurred in
the city.
"The Turks at Kulafat have made a vigorous sally
against Generals Geismar and Gorkzakow, which
was repulsed with great loss of blood. The
second sally against General Geismar, is said to have
induced him to ask for reinforcements. Every thing
is still tranquil in Servia, but in Bosnia the ci-de-
vent Janissaries are in open revolt against the Porte.
PoRT-ar-PaINcE, JUNE 15.—0 n the 10th of
this month the President of Hayti opened the Ses-
sion of the Chamber of Representatives with a
speech, of which the following is the'substance.
Speaking of the attempts to disturb the public tran-
quillity, he declared his satisfaction at the public
spirit which had every where manifested the greatest
zeal to defend the established order of things.
" In making all the exertions which probity com-
mands to pay the debt contracted with France, we
have never ceased to defend the honour and rights of
Hayti. We had constantly acted on the principle
that a really independent people could not be bound
rentrary to its interest to recognize in perpetuity ex-
elusive privileges in favour of the commerce of a
foreign power.
" On this important point it is understood, that
unless further stipulations, necessarily advantageous,
shall be made, the trade of all nations shall be placed
here, after 1830, on the footing of perfect equality.

" The President, speaking of the extraordinary
contribution, says that experience has pointed out
.c.)rne objections and abuses which will be remedied.
"The reception given to the paper-curency has an-
swered his expectations.
" Notwithstanding theidepreciation in the value of
our produce, the deplorable effects of the great
drought and the hurricane which }nave successively
desolated the country, good order and security have
bp.en maintained both in the towns and in the
country. The population has remarkably increased,
and public instruction has made great progress."
The Moniteur and other morning papers contain
A) news.
FRENCH FrtiDB.--PARIP, AUG. 13.—Five per Cents.,
10'7f. 25c. 1071. 107 f. 10c. lO7f. lac. ; Three per
Cents., 72f. 55c. 45e. ; Bank Stock, 1867 f. 50c. ;
Rented de Naples, 76f..25c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 72if. ;
Haytian Loan, 625 f. Exchange on London,one month,
251. 25c. ; thpee months, 25f. 15c.—fours Authentique.

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PORTUGUESE STATE PAPER.

PROTEST OF THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF NB lIAJESTY

THE EMPFROR OF BRAZIL. AGAINST THE USURPATION

WHICH HAS RECINTLY BEEN MADE Or HIS CROWN

AND 'KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL.
W'hen we addressed our solemn protest to the
Portuguese nation on the 24th of last May,-
Ist. Against all violation of the hereditary rights
of his Imperial Majesty and those of his august
daughter ;
.2d. Against the abolition of institutions liberally
granted by that Monarch, and legally established in
Portugal ;
3d. Against the illegal and insidious convocation
of the ancient States of that kingdom, which had
been abolished by virtue of a long prescription, and
by effect of the institutions above alluded to,—
We then flattered ourselves that the horrible at-
tempt, of which the arts referred .to were the sad
prelude, would not have been carried into effect.
We had indeed been led to believe, that ,the me-
nacing attitude assumed by the Ministers of Foreign
Courts accredited at Lisbon, together with the
efforts made by a part of the brave Portuguese
Troops, would have arrested the machinations of a
perjured and rebellious faction, and prevented the
accomplishment of an usurpation pregnant with mis-
chief, and subversive of the principle of legitimacy,
held sacred by all the Powers of Europe.
Every noble spirit, to which treason and perjury
are obnoxious, conceived the same hopes ; but nei-
ther the remonstrances of the Governments most
deeply interested in the prosperity of Portugal, nor
the praisewerthy resistance made by the friends of
legitimacy, and by all those who reverence religion
and respect the sanctity of an oath, could ebeclatlie
fury of that faction, which had resolved, at all ha-
zards, to seal their iniquity by a completion of the
usurpation which they had premeditated.
By mean; of popular tumult, of violent desti-
tutions, of innumerable imprisonments, and of re-
volting proscriptions;--by the arts of seduction and
undermining;—and, indeed, by the employment of
every kind of means, however odious or reprehensi-
ble, they rendered access easy to the criminal object
they had in view : and their progress was so rupid,
the work of usurpation was speedily effeeted, in de-
spite of, and to the great injury of all the potentates
of Europe, who had, in a formal manner, fulminated
a general anathema against it.
On the 23d of June last the assembling of the
3oi-distznE " Three Estates of the Kingdom" was
witnessed at Lisbon; but which, in fact, was no-
thing more than a meeting of the accomplices of an
execrable faction ; and when every thing for this
scandalous proceeding was ready, having been for a
long time previously arranged, it was opened, by the
proposition of the following question, to ascertain
" If the Crown of Portugal ought, on the demise
of Don John VI., to have descended to the eldest
~on, the Emperor of Brazils and Prince Royal of
Portugal, or to the youngest son, the Infante Don
3liguel." submitted, a miserable
On this proposition being
and insidious discourse was delivered in favour of his
Highness's rights to the succession, and against those
of the Emperor, our august Sovereign, whom it was
endeavoured to represent as a foreign prince, and de-
prived of his rights of primogeniture front the cir-
cumstance of his having ascended the throne of
Brazils in the life-time
.of his father.
In this tribunal of injustice and hall of usurpation,
no one dared lift up his voice in favour of legitiilmaancd
y,
with which the cause of the Emperor of B rers
King of Portugal is identif3ed.
din
The honourable duty of defeng those rights
to the Attorney-
belonged, as a matter of course,
General of the Crown ; but he Ives not called upon
to fulfil it, which proves that he ought not to be in-
cluded in the number of their accomplices.
Unanimity was consequently so complete amongst
the conspirators, who assumed to themeelves the
unbecoming title of " The Three Estates," that
they could have decided the question at once without
any adjournment ; but the better to impose on the
Portuguese Ration, and as well on the people of the
two hemispheres, they deemed it expedient to defer
it ; and on the 28th of June, after a few days of
mock deliberation, they prented to the head of
the illegitimate Governmenset established at Lisbon,
the result of their contemptible machinations, con-
sisting of their unanimous and criminal votes in fa-
vour of that -usurpation they had been called toge-
ther for the purpose of sanctioning, and which was
unfortunately consummated in that city
on' the Ist
of July last—a day, the memory of which will ever
be execrated in the annals of Portugal, on account
of the disastrous consequences which cannot fail to
flow from such a deplorable event.
Disappointed in our expectations, we n
rioous
Re.w find
ourselves under the disagree4ble, but impe
cessity, of unfolding to the eyes of the whole world,
all the perfidy of the acts above mentioned, as well
as the fallacies contained in the arguments brought
forward against the incontestable and acknowledged
right, of Qnf august islet thK Ernperoi. Ql Frain,

and Prince Royal of Portugal, to the Crown of that
-
kingdom on the death of the Kin', his father. Pmcits Or STOCKS THIS
k tock
We very well know (and all publicists confirm it), Cent. ..... 8
on the direct and legitimate line of any reigning fa- Gazer Cent Cons 87!1;%M
}ki per Cent.
mily becoming extinct, that- in case there should Ditto Red. I.,Voli;t
appear amongst the . collateral branches several pre-
4ortr,,ciZtti w
tenders to the succession of the vacant throne, whose Bank L. Ann.
respective pretenSiOns may he doubtfnl, it belongs glatuli
ads ll3pln.
to the superior tribunals or authorities of the State
to decide so important a national question ; and the
history of Portugal itself affords two examples—the
one on the death of the King Don Ferdinand, and
the other at the period when the Portuguese na-
tion, throwing off the intolerable yoke of Spain,
exalted the august 1-louse of Braganza on the throne.
Bet as that question cannot be raised where the
succession to a crown is regulated by the right of
primogeniture (and such is the case with respect to
that of Portugal, as it regards his Majesty the Em-
peror of Brazils, the eldest son of his Majesty Dun
John VI., who has beaides been recognised, as well
by his own father, as by all the other Powers of
Europe, in his quality of Prince Royal of Portugal,
both before and since the Partition which was made
of the Crown of Portugal, by a solemn treaty exe-
cuted between the two Sovereigns), the hereditary
rights of our august master could net be rendered
doubtful on the demise of the King, his father—nor
were they.
Before even this unfortunate event which occa-
sioned the important succession was known at Rio
de Janeiro, his Imperial Majesty had been pro-
claimed King in Portugal, and immediately recog-
nisedaS such by all the Sovereigns and Governments
of Europe.
Such, proclamation, and such recognition, as
spontaneous as precise, are of themselves proof so
irrefragable and solemn of the legitimacy of the here-
ditary rights of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazils
to the Crown of Portugal, that we shall be justified
in limiting thereto our opposition to the usurping
faction, which has dared to impugn at the same
time the unanimous opinion of all the Courts of Eu-
rope, and that of the majority of the Portuguese na-
tion itself.

But we will not confine ourselves to this allega-
tion, we will go further, and combat the arguments
with which this perfidious faction have attempted to
attack rights so incontestable.
And Ist. That of an ancient law made ky the
Cortes of Lamego, of which we transcribe the pre-
cise words, viz.—' Sit pea in sempiturnam, quod
prima filia Regis recipiat maritum de Portugale, at
non veniat regnum ad extraneos : et si cubaverit cum
prineipe extraneo, non sit Regina, gain nunquanz
vo-
lumus nostrum Regnant ire fore Portugalibus, qui
reges feeerunt sine adjutorio alieno, per straw forti-
tudinem."

By altering the sense of this law (the existence of
which, by the bye, is very doubtful, but which we
will not now dispute), the usurping faction pretend,
that by his. accession to the throne of Brazils, his
Imperial Majesty has foregone his quality of a Prince
of Portugal, and has become in consequence inca-
pacitated from succeeding to the Crown of his fore-
fathers on the death of John VI.

The misapplication of this law is very evident.—
This law prohibits, it is true, Queens of Portugal
to marry foreigners by birth, but it does not prevent
Portuguese Princes from acquiring other Crowns,
nor from succeeding to that of Portugal, after having
acquired any other sovereignty, and the Portu-
guese history abounds With proofs thereof.
Don Alphonsus 111. was a Portuguese Prince, and
although at the same time in possession of the county
of Bologna, he succeeded his brother Sancho IL
and preserved the sovereignty of Bologna, notwith-
standing Alphonsus V. enjoyed the Crown of Por-
tugal together with that of Castile and Leon ; and
Don Emanuel united on his head the crowns of Por-
tugal, of Castile, of Leon, and of Arragon.
Consequently, if that law did not exclude the
Count of Bologna, Don Alphonsus, from the suc-
cession to the throne of Portugal, it cannot now
exclude his Majesty the Emperor of Brazils and
Prince Royal of Portugal from the like succession.
2d. That of another law, made afterwards on the
12th of September, 1612, by. King John IV. by
desire of the Three Estates, and therefore a ratifica-
tion of that of the Cortes of Lamego.
It is declared by this second law, " that the suc-
cessor to the Crown ought to be a Prince born in
Portugal, and that no foreign prince by birth, how-
ever nearly related to the King, could succeed hint."
Now, as this applies solely to princes born in a
foreign country, it is clear that it cannot be made to
apply to his Imperial Majt,.;ty Don Pedro IV. who
was born in Portugal,
Moreover, as neither the one nor the other of these
laws have provided against the possible partition of
the Portuguese Crown, by a solemn agreement
between the reigning Prince and his immediate heir
and successor (but which has taken place, for the
first time, between his Majesty King John VI. and
his eldest son, the Prince Royal, Don Pedro), these
laws, we repeat, cannot be applicable to the case
now under consideration.

On ratifying the treaty of the 29th August, 1825,
by which the partition above alluded to was made,
his Majesty John VI. promulgated a law, or per-
petual edict, dated the 15th November, 1825, by
which he recognizes his eldest son the Emperor of
Brazils, in his capacity of Prince Royal of Portu-
gal, and expressly revoked all the laws, customs,
rules, and decrees of the Cortes, which might be
contrary to the intent and meaning of such law.
For a new and unforeseen case, it became necessary
to enact a new law.

And as the authority of his Majesty John VI.
was as competent and unlimited as that of his au-
gust predecessor, John IV., the law of the 15th of
November, 1825 (published "in consequence of a
treaty, which is a sacred and inviolable compact,
and a supreme law amongst all civilized nations) is
become a fundamental law of Brazils and Portugal,
and is in fact the only one that ought to regulate, as
it actually did, the succession to the crown of Por-
tugal, at the moment when it became vacant.
Having thus folly proved the illegality of the de-
cision of the ,soi disant " Three Estates of the
realm," as well as the futility of the arguments ad-
vanced by them in favour of the usurpation, there
.only remains for us to fulfil a painful but honourable
duty—that of protesting, and we do hereby protest
most loudly, and before all the world, against the
usurpation recently made of the Crown of Portu-
gal, on behalf of his Majesty the Emperor: of
Brazils, and King of that kingdom, as also on be-
half of his well-beloved daughter, Donna Maria da
Gloria.
And we confide this our solemn protest to the
almighty power of the Supreme Arbiter of empires,
and to the justice of all the Sovereign Princes of
Europe.
Dated London, this Bth of Aug. 1828.
(Signed) Marquis de RESENDE.
Viscount de ITABAYANA.

Some of the bakers in this neighbourhood
have raised the price of the quarters loaf one penny ; others
a halfpenny only.— Sherborne Journal.

The wheat-harvest is in active
ivkty
of
rd oi
nggr et re
throughout the county of Devon, anadertwitlistapa
the farmers
,thquantity of grain.
unsettled state of the weather, the
has succeeded in securing a considerable
quickly ; and the ar.
tOo"aincogntsoidtetieblleighesilgich7lasrioeunnodf rt''ihen3stalkes ograssfarrpcpoh
erulinaasi..a.g,:r.,h(e'in..l.
prevents the sheaves from drying
riches, whence the grain has been removed,
ver-
dant no most of the surrounding pastures.
at least be as average one, and farmers anxiously') seizelill
every interval of fine weather for prosecuting the labours
of the field.—Plymouth Journal.
A Morning Paper states, that the negociation
which was going on between Messrs. Kr.mur,E, WIT,.
LETT, and Fohars, and Mr. HENRY IlAants, for the
purchase of Covent-garden Theatre, is at an end, the
present lessees having proposed to Mr. ILkEnts new con-
ditions, with which he could not comply. It is much
to be regretted that something cannot be done to take
this theatre out of the controul of the Court of Chancery,
b
.y which necessarily it is prevented from exhibiting the
degree of enterprise essential tt its own w‘dfar,.., ~nd to
the satisfaction of the public.

PRICKS OF IRISH STOCI
dank Stuck ........ 251
Conbols, 3 per cent. B7
Gov. Stock, 3 per cent 95!4;
Ditto, New 51517
,
per Cent. 10154
Goy. Deb. per cent. -
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock
City Deb. 4 per cent B4O
Ballatt Office Deb. 411. et -

:s.--DUBLIN, AUG. 13.
St. Patrick incur. (per sh.)
Royal Irish Ditto _
National Ditto _
Patriotic Ditto _
Hibernian Batik _
Provincial Ditto ,Z3V2
Royal Irish Mine —
Imperial Mine
Mining Co. of Ireland
1 Commercial Buildings —

PUGH WATE-R, ♦T LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning...sl minutes after 5. 1 Evening ....15 minutes after 6.

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LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1828.

It is said that Mr. PEEL came to town on
Thursday for the purpose of finishing his labours
at the Home Office. Should that Right Hon.
Gentleman leave the Ministry, it will not have
a leg to stand on.

The Gazette de France dated Thursday, and
the other Paris Papers of Wednesday, have been
received. The Morning Papers contain no
news, nor indeed does the Gazette, but a few
extracts from it will be found in another co-
lumn. Count PAHLEN is said to have adopted
vigorous measures with respect to the plague
in Bucharest, which he threatened to set on fire.
The consequence was, that no case of plague
appeared for seven days. The Jews have been
expelled from Bucharest, but the reason is not
stated. Probably they created suspicion—and it
is well known that the Russians have no kindly
predilection for that unhappy class of persecuted
beings. The Turks besieged in Kalafat are on
the alert, and the exiled Janissaries in Bosnia
are in open revolt against the PORTE. Every
thing is quiet in Servia.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 9th inst. has
been received. It merely contains some geo-
graphical description of Bazardjik and the other
fortresses on the present line of operations by
the Russian army

FRONTINRS or TRANsyLvANIA, JULY 28.

Bazardjik, otherwise called Hadschi-Oglu Bazar, is next
to Shounda and Varna, the most considerable place in the
Turkish district of Dobrudsha ; it lies at the first defiles of
the Balkan, and is distant about SO geographical miles
(15 to a degree) from the place where the Russian army
passed the Danube, reckoning from the south side of the
pontoon bridge at Issaktchi ; it is about half way to Edrenchs
or Adrianople, 12 geographical miles from Silistria, and
five from Varna, which last town is in a straight line about
half way to Constantinople. The Russian head quarters
are now in sight of the Balkan chain, that is at Bazardjik,
in which, almost in a line, and between the rivers Varna
and Kamtehi, are the fortresses of Old Shootola, Shourola,
Jenibazar, Pravadi, Aladin, and Varna.

The Austrian Obseruer of the 4th of August
seems to disbelieve in the French Expedition to
Greece, as will be seen by the following corn-