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London, England, 1821-09-07 00:00:00

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It is not without great disgust that I have-to communicate to
you, for the 'purpoSeOf making it known to that Government
to which you are accredited, that the envoys of their 'Majesties
the Emperoii of Austria and Russia have received at their own
demand their passports, that they may depart from this Court •
without leaving any person charged with their diplomatic af-
fairs. To enable your Exeillen4-to give a just account of this
event, I proceed to relate..the successive steps that led to it.
The people of this capital having spontaneously illuminated
their houses on the three successive nights of the 29th,_ .
two following of the month of March last; in celebration of the
oath to the basis of the new constitution,, and various Ministers
and Foreign Consuls having thought that they ought not to il-
luminate their houses, happened that on the first night the
populace proceeded to break with stones the windows of the de-
legate of the Court of Rome, accredited to the Regency of this
kingdom ; at which time the Regency made known to that
minister; and to all the members-of the corps diplomatic,, by
means of a circular, how much they regretted so unfortunate an
'event. They -exerted the most energetic foresight, that a simi-
lar-occurrence should not again take place; and- with such
effect, that neither on that occasion, nor afterwards on the 28th
of April; and the two following nights, was there the least dis-
gust of that nature shown towards the dwellings of the Foreign'
'Ministers or Consuls, where the patrols posted there by the
Governnient • complied with the strict orders which had been
given them. As, howevei, the sergeant who commanded the
patrol stationed in front of the house of Chevalier de Berks, the
ConSPI of his Imperial, Royal, and ApostOlic Majesty, under-
stood that he was to patrol to the end of the street, and in that
persuasion left that post, although only for the short time ne-
cessary to go to the end of the street, the distance of from one to
two musket shots; the passing populace, irritated at seeing his
house without lights, threw several stones at the windows.; but
the' patrol having heard the noise,
.came up immediately, and,
the authors of the insult &d at his approach. But as a nume-
rous crowd still continued -walking about, wondering that the
house was not illuminated, the sergeant, apprehensive that they
might renew the insult, waited upon Chevalier de Berks, and
persuaded him to order lights, which was accordingly done.
On the following day, however, he addressed to the Secretary
of Regency for Foreign Affairs the subjoined note No. 1, to
which that minister replied by the note No: 2, relating thefacts
with truth and precision, at the same time that he testified the
natural and just regret which the Government had -felt. But
as, from the inquiry which was immediately set on foot, the real
authors of the insult could not be discovered, 'the Regency
-could afford no other satisfaition for the affair, 'except by pu.
nishing the sergeant, who, by his disobedience,*had given occa-
sion- to so grave a- disorder. With that Chevalier de Berks
seemed satisfied. Great, therefore, was the astonishment of this
Court, when, a short time afterwards, they saw published in the
English papers, the Courier of ithe 19th' of May, . a narrative
(marked No. 3) so falsified, that from that moment they dreaded
what, at the return of the courier from Vienna, has been rea-
lized—namely, the addressing by the Chevalier de Berks to
Count de Barbacena, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, the
note No. 4, conceived in the feeling which the fact naturally
would inspire into the Court of Vienna, when related, not as it
happened in reality, but as it was detailed in the Courier. This
note terminates with a categorical and indecently premature al-
tefnative of an immediate and striking satisfaction or the deli-
very of passports. Count de Barbacena, on account- of justifi-
able and well-known impediments, could not give an immediate
and competent 'reply ; and when I succeeded him in the mi.
niStry, I received from the Chevalier de Berks, a note, No. 5,
which he handed to me during a conference solicited by him, in
which he bad the assurance to say, that the attack was the re-
sult of a premeditated plan, and in which he affirmed*that
many persons of elevated situations were inculpated. But the
more that I asked for ifroofs, which, after so grave a charge, it
was his duty to give me bona fide, and in a confidential man-
ner, which the case required, it was not possible to obtain from
him any thing, except a vague and mysterious asseveration.
On the view of this, I myself proceeded to -make the most
scrupulous inquiry, and not finding the least vestige of such a
plot, laid the whole before his Majesty, and by his orders an-
swered Chevalier de Berks: with the note No. 6. But it happen-
ing that on the day in which I wrote this note, Baron de Stur.
mer arrived at this Court as Envoy of his Imperial and Apos-
tolic Majesty to his Most Faithful Majesty, who immediately
having waited upon me,-entered into: the matter, insisting on
the idea of a plot, Which he pretended to prove by the supposed
fact Of having seen that' the rioters brought with them a mule
with peniers full of stones, and that the attack lasted three full
hours without any interruption from the armed force, I agreed
with him to order the institution of a neWinquiry to verify these
two facts, although the very annunciation Of them shows the
spirit of inconsiderate exaggeration with which the' Chevalier de
Berks persisted in perverting the fact. The inquiry was in fact
instituted, and a transcript of the proceedingi was making out
in the office of the Secretary efState, when_ Baron de Sturmer
addressed to me the note No. 7, founcied in an affect2d comb

,plaint that that department showed itself remiss in giving the
required immediate and exemplalY-sitiifaetion, and concluding
with a threat to our Court of the consequences of alilence whiCh
ihe pretends is as extraordinary as nexplicabre.
t nable to endure that he shOuld talk with haughtiness to a'
Government which I have the honour of representing,
further and still more; that monstrous charges should be- fabri:'
sated to justify unwarrantable threats, I answered to Baron de'
Sturmer in the note No. 8, to whiCh he replied with. a Simple.'
note, announcing that he .thought it his duty to suspend his
functions at this Court, and entirely to withdraw from it, and
for that purpose he demanded his passports, which I immedi-
ately
sent him,, accompanied by a note enclosing them.
On the same day I received from , Baron tie Thuyll, Envoy
Extraordinary and. Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of
all :the Russias, the note No. 9, pretending to consider himself
and his•atigust master as exposed to the infallible insults of the
populace on all occasion," of illumination such as thaiNof the
24th instant, and others of a like nature, in which- he declares
that he is resolved not to illiiminatehis palace.
It was necessary. to repel this pr....nsio,n of a foreign minister
t 3 arrogate the right of judging of the nature of The institutions
of the internal government of a Country, for the purpose of de-
ciding whether he would confer upon them approbation or -dis-
approbation. It was necessary ,to point out to him, that in such
cases The respect of. Foreign Ministers is paid to the authority of
the Government and the nation; and not to the motive of the
particular measure, of which they are not supposed to be cZyg.,,,
nizant and that to omit a compliancealways argues a want of
attention and respect to the nation. and the Government ; but
the Government, disregarding such non-compliance from a
feeling of Ats own dignity, did, nevertheless, consider itself
hound to make the necessary provision, that those Ministers
should neither suffer any inconveniencefrOni their lack of
lity, nor be the means of occasioning an interruption of public
tranquillity. . The Russian Minister had, therefore, doubly
offended his Majesty's Government, both by the indelicate de,
claratidn'that he was resolved not to illuminate his palace, on
the 24th instant, and on other occasions of the same nature, and
by the unbecoming notice with which he thought it necessary.
to rouse the' vigilance of the Ministry,.that they might not Omit
to guard against the excesses of the populace.
'With-eat end I addressed to him thenote Ns. 10, along-with
the passports which he derv_ ands*. - •
After:having considered this' statement, 'his Majesty order*
you to make known to the Court,at which you reside the series
of these events, in order that you may on the one hand prevent
or destroy whatever.errpneons information prejudiced persons
may probably attempt to insinuate, and on the other disclose
the true reasons why these, two Ministers took advantage of so
weak a pretext to desert their posts without waiting for instruc-
tions or orders from their respective Courts. If this ministry
had required of them to illuminate contrary, to their own pri-
:vate opinion, or, leaving it in their own option to illuminate or
not; had given Mein reason'tO dread that no precautions would
'be taken to guard theii hOuseS from insult if they refused com-
pliance with thepublic opinion, they certainly would have had
just reason to withdraw, and in doing so would have acted con-
sistently with their mode of thiniing.
But the Ministiy confining itself to support only this uni-
versal position, that, in case of a -general. illumination, the fo-
reign Ministers are supposed to illuminate from a duty of civi-
lity and out of respect to the Government and the nation, not
less than from motives of prudence to prevent any interruption
of public tranquillity, (without exacting, from those foreign
agents that they should conform to this role; but, on the con-
trary, assuring them in the moit'positiVe manner, that the Go-
vernment would put.in force -all suitable precautions for their
protection), may observe, that persons so circumspect as those
two Ministers, ought not, in-consequence of a panic terror, to
have taken a measure which only is adopted after long, discus-
sions and the abandonment of all hope of preserving peace and
harmony between two countries—a measure, I repeat, which
ought only to be adopted in consequence of positive orders, or
after the commission Of some graVe offence, (not from a remote
fear of one), and as the precursor. of an immediate suspension
of amicable relations.

The scrupulous care with which this Court has always acted
to preserve with all Governments the relations of peace, friend-
ship, and reciprocal interests, authorizes us to hope. that this
proceeding of the two abOve-mentioned Ministers; even though
it may have been in complianee `with-their instructions, will
have no ulterior consequence-. capable of , altering the good
intelligence which happily subsists with the states which they
represent. • • •
In conformity with this, his Majesty has been pleased to di-
rect me to recommend to your Excellency,
•yon should
communicate these' facts to the Government at which- you re-
side, and endeavour to convince it of their. truth ; continuing to
inform ithow much he has at heart to draw closer those politi-
cal and commercial relations which are best calculated to con-
solidate the union between the two countries. •
SIINESTRE .PINHEIRO: FERREIRA.

Palate of Queluz, Aug. 21, 1821.
. Then follow the notes referred to in the above circular. The
only important paragraph in the first note, or that addressed by
the Consul of Austria to the 'Foreign .Minister of Portugal, re-
fers to his trembling. apprehension of what Prince Metternich.
' might think of his illuminating in honour of a Constitution
winch- the Austrian troops hid just then overpowered in the
Kingdom of Naples. " border to exculpate myself with my..
august Court," says the terrified Chevalier, "-I must beg
your ExCellencY'tOr be so good as order a -courier's .passport to
be made out for Baron Louis de Vassinion for the place at
which his Highness the Prince de .31etternich-Winnebourg-
Ochsenhausen, Minister of State of Conferences and Foreign
Affairs to his Imperial Majesty the. Emperor of Austria may
be residing, in orderto accelerate the supreme commands which
my august Master may judge it consistent with his dignity to
send me, in consequence of an event of such' a- nature, and of
the step which 1 took on the 30th of March to prevent it." •
The Foreign Minister of Portugal replies to this letter with
great dignity ; and, while he giVes the requested passport, en-
ters into such an explanation as might have rendered it unne-
cessary. He tells the Chevalier, that the Regency regretted
the breaking of his windows, but•aSsures him that the•f.oolish
act was entirely to be ascribed to- popular effervescence, and not
.to studied insult ; that means which were . thought sufficient
had been taken to protect him ; and that the failure-could be
attributed only to the negligence of the patrol : he reminds him
that on such an occasion it should not excite wonder though the
Portuguese should be a little enthusiastic, and should testify
some dislike at those who appeared, by the gloom of their
dwellings amid a 'general illumination; to repine at the univer-
sal jubilee ; and that even one of the Members of the. Regency
who had been in the 'previous part of the day the object of pbpu-
lar applause, had one of his windows broken because:it was ca-
sually left without lights--a sure proof that. the Consul's unil-
luminated house, and not his ultra politics, was the cause' of
the outrage of which he complained.
To No. 3 it is unnecessary to advert. In the 4th note, the
Consul havingheard from his Government, which,had then ob
tainea possession of all Italy, returns to the charge, talks big
of the insult which he had - received, and demands loudly the
punishment of " the persons who had permitted thisviolation
of the rights of nations."
In note 5 the Consul again write. s and repeats to the new Mi-
nister for Fore4th.Affairs " his demand of signal and imme-
diate satisfaction to the Emperor of Austria, justly indignant
:at ;the deplorable event of the 28th of April." The Minister
of Portugal gives,- himself, in his circular, a sufficient account
of'the contents of his note; No. 6. Then comes the note Of. the
Austrian 'Envoy, Baron Stunner, which demands satisfaction, in
virtue of the rights of nations, for the.grave insult offered to the
Emperor of Austria in. April last," and declares the. conse-
quences to which a tardy offer of reparation may lead, without
at all taking into-account what the Portuguese Ministry had
already done, and how much more they offered to do.
In note 8, Savestre Pinlitiro Ferreira, the Portuguese Mi-
nister foi Foreign-Affairs, replies, " that an. inquiry had been
ordered—that the exaggeration of the charge into a three hones
siege of the Consul's house (that house being in a public street,
the town' blazing with a general illiimination, and the hour be-.
ing early in-the evening) rendered it necessary to examine mi-
nntely the authorities as to the possibilityof such an improbable
„ pccurrence without interruption froth the civil or military
power appointed to guard the public peaCe—thar a report had
just been drawn.up, and was about to be sent, to the Envoy
when his note arrived. The Minister then reads the Baron a
lecture on the duties and privileges of foreign agents :—" M.
de Berki," he says, prejudging • the-Opinions of his Court,
" thought proper to affix, by his refusal to illuminate, a formal
ilis :pprobatien of that object, which filled with joy and exul-