The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-02 00:00:00

reeendy made any proposltion for the comilletioa of the
marriage between Don Mignel and Donna Maria, nor had
it ever ma 4??, atly such proposition at any time except with
the cordial concurrence of the Emperor of nazi!: The
moment the Emperor intimated an objection to the ttiarl
riage, all communication on the enbjetit th ti; part of the
British Government et.iteth

Lord PALMEISTON wet glad that the present mo-
tion bad been submitted to the House, because it aft:el-tied
Ministers an oppentunity of rapt iinieg the conduct which
bed been observed towatele Pterthgel, and of removing all
erroneous idea; n'especting the feeling and policy of the
tovernment towards Don Miguel. It could not
be concealed that this bleaker of solemn oaths, this tramp-
er on his country's laws, this violater of treaties, this
etempter of the life of bell leee renneen, !:ad ikeit iitdehted
for the tots:eyes whiolt hid hitherto attended his career to
the be;iaf leTaistriously inculcated by his partisans that he
trosseseed tl.e countenance and support of the British Ce-
bnet. The Noble Lord then expressed his opinion that
the doctrine of non-interference had been carried too far.
He thought that England. was j'Atiireed in interfering in
;he aff tins of POrtitl.gfel in the way of negotiation and re-
monstrance. Such had been the line of conduct which
England had pursued with 'respect to Portugal for a lung
course of years. The charge against our Government, how-
ever, weer, not that we interfered in the affairs of Portugal,but
that recently we had interfered allnays on the rerong side.
Don Miguel, by lettene to hii Sister which were published
officially in the :Lisbon Gazelle, promised to preserve the
laws and institutions of Portugal. Dan Miguel then came
to England ; he was eseorted from hence by a British
squadron, and conducted to his palace by British troops.
Were not these things sufficient to make the people of Por-
tugal commit themselves in a manner which marked them
:Cr the vengeance of the wolf after' he had thrown off his
disgniee ?—( Heir, hear.)—Were not them things sufh-
eient to induce England, cut of just regard for its borrow
to demand, that the oaths which had been taken in the
face of England shoul:l he kept ?—(Elear, hear.)—The
conduct of Den Miguel had been rot leas affronting to the '
King of Enelantl than it had been disgraceful to himself. •
Se'ow what had the English Government done ? They had
first of all intercepted Don Migoel's money ; then they re-
monstrated over and over again ; and, lastly, they recalled
the British Ambassador. Were not ail these acts of in-
terference? Certainly they were, and the Government
then took the same view of the question as lie (Lord P.)
took non-. Since the recal of our Ambassador nothing
had been done,—the last arrow of the British Cabinet
seemed then to have been shot. But our Cabinet had not
eontented themselves with refraining from interference
against Don Miguel. They recognised all his declared
blockades—they had allowed the rights, the property, and
the liberty of British subjects to be violated, as the cases
of Mr. Young, Mr. O'Brien, Sir John Doyle, Mr. Noble,
and Mr. Askoly, and he knew .not of how many more,
proved. The British Cabinet had merely remonstrated,
and Miguel had treated their remonstrances with con-
, temp:mere indifference.—(Hear.)—lle said, then, that
the personal honour of the British Sovereign had been
insnited ; that the rights of British subjects hal been
violated ; that treaties had been broken.; and that Europe
had looked upon all these things with amazementewhite we
had recourse only to remonstrances. What was the cause
of all this ? Was the British Government wanting in a
sense of honour ? No one could entertain such an idea.
Was England so pennyless and weak as to he incapable
of redressing these insults ? No one co:Lid believe
.he was. It must then be that Miguel was the Pet of
the English Government;—(Hear, and a laugh.)—And
that as fore! parents could not find it in their hearts to
chastise an offending child, so the English Cabinet stele-
mined, from Miguel, to what from any other person would
have roused them like a lion from his slumber.—(Hear.)
—He now came to the effair of Terceira. He would con-
tend, that if there was one spot iu the habitable globe to
which the unfortunate persons who sailed from this coun-
try had a right to go, Terceira was that spot.—(Hear,
hear.)—Thither, however, -the jealousy of Spain, and tl:e
vengeance of Miguel, pursued them : their blood was shed
in the harbour of their sovereign, and that, too, by a power
which had ever been looked upon as the protector of the
oppressed, but which on that occasion wls made the
subservient tool of tyranny and usurpation.—(Hear,
hear.)—Perhaps be might be asked, ‘‘ Would you have
England go to war with Portugal on such points as
these?" To suet a question he would answer, that
time was when war with Portugal would have been
no great trial to England.—(Hear.)—But the fact was,
that in his opinion no such trial would have been ne-
cessary. To war with the usurpation of Don Miguel was
not to war with the Put tugueee nation, but in favour of it.
It would have been enough if, instead of blockading, we
had given support to Oporto,—if, instead of cannonading,
we had succoured the refugees : it would have been enough
if, instead of drawing our sword, we had thrown the acab-
bard into the scale, to have made his destiny turn the
beam, and consign his fortunes to utter ruin.—(Hear,
hear.)—The Noble Lord then proceeded to complain, in
very strong terms, of the policy pursued by his Majesty's
Ministers with respect to Greece, contending that though
it was now almost July, 1829, the treaty of July, 1827,
was still unexecuted, and that owing to its non-execution,
the word was on the eve of seeing that very war break
out which that treaty was made to prevent. He maintained
that in limiting Greece to the Morel we were acting a

:mist unwise and ungenerous part; and that a larger houin-
darv, defined by a line drawn from Volt) to Arta, was
rendered- necessary for reasons political, commercial, and
military. He believed that there was no man who had
been in that country, and whose judgment was worth
having,—no matter whether he was English, French,
or Russian, military, naval, er diplomatic,—who had
not come to the opinion that it was absolutely necessary to
abandon the notion of establishing as Greece a district
which was not Greece, which contained neither Athens,
nor Thebes, nor Salamis, tint Marathon, nor Thermopylas,
nor•Missolonghi, nor coy or those places which were the
most inspiring record of its national achievements both in
ancient and in modern tunes. He argued that in the
exertions now making in behalf of Greece, Fraoce would
obtain the first place, and England only the second. The
merit of extending the boundaries of Greece will be given
to France—the demerit of contracting them will be as-
signed to England. France will hare the credit of
dragging England reluctantly after her, and England will
have the odium of having clogged the career of France in
the race of liberality to Greece which she was prepared to
run. lie thanght that Government had not exerted them-
selves sufficiently to bring about an accommodation dur-
ing the precious interval of last winter, between the Rus-
sians and the Turks. Had they during that time set their
faces against Russian aggression, and endeavoured to
bring about a peace by mollifying the temper of Turkish
obduracy ? If they had not—if by any want of firm-
ness in their negociations with either party they had
endangered the safety of Europe—if, by balancing
between their wish to assist Turkey and their inabi-
lity to do so, they had deceived Turkey, or had let Turkey
deceive herself into the belief that they wished her to op-
pose herself to all reasonable terms of accommodation, Mi-
-1 nisters had incurred a responsibility to their country, in
which he was happy to state that he had no share. He
thee proceeded to contrast the proud position in which
England stood two
years ago, whilst she acted upon a free
and liberal policy, with the altered position in which she
was placed now that she was conceived to have coupled
her fortunes with all that was hostile to liberty from the
banks of the Tagus to the shores of the Bosphorus. 'He
trusted that when Ministers were in a situation which
would enable them to state fairly to the world the state of
our !elation+ with Foreign Powers, the delusions under
which the world laboured respecting their conduct would
be dispelled, and it would he seen that we had not lost
caste in Europe, and had not degenerated from our ancient
character of being the patrons of liberty all over the globe.
(The Noble Lord was loudly cheered at the conclusion of
a very eloquent speech, of which the late hour (three
o'clock) at which it was delivered, prevents us from giving
any thing but a very short and imperfect abridgment.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that every statesman who had hitherto undertaken the go-
vernment of this country had felt it to be his duty to en-
deavour, as far as in him lay, to contribute to the maiute-
nance of public tranquillity. It remained for his Noble
Friend to pursue a different course. His Noble Friend was
not satisfied with plunging the country into one war for
Portugal,—he was also anxious to plunge it into another
for Greer, and as if that were not enough, he • recom-
mended the military occupation of Madeira by British
troops as a completion of the picture of general warfare
which he had drawn for the amueement of the country.—
The Right Honourable Gentleman, after several obser-
servations of a similar nature, said that he must ad-
vert to an accusation which his Noble Friend had
preferred against the Government,—natuely, , that it
hail neglected to make any remonstrance or inter-
ference with the Portuguese Government, in order to
prevent the infliction of outrage and injustice on British
subjects resident in Portugal. To prove the unfounded
nature of that accusation, he read an extract from a de-
spatch addressed by the British Government in October,
1828, to the British Consul at Lisbon. TLe extract was
to this effect :—" You will take the earliest opportunity
of informing the Goi•ernment of Don Miguel, that British
subjects shall not be injured with impunity, and that if
compensation be not given to them immediately for the
injuries which they have already sustained, orders will he
given to the commanders of his Majesty's forces to exact that