The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-24 00:00:00

with plots and cabals, he would open the window
and cry out for the' Constitution. Daring the
time of the Cortes, he enjoyed the popularity (Ind
security of which. he was so fond. Wherever
he went he .was cheered—till he really began to
consider himself a prince of some distinction.—
After his triumph at Villa Franca, the citizens
were more sparing in their homage, and the Fi-
dalgos more troublesome in their
.demands. The
shopkeepers were required, in an _order of the.
police, to turn out from behind their counters
and salute him as he passed.. It was easy ,to
persuade him that a people so sullen, and cour-,
tiers sb selfish, would favour any design upon his

security or his authority. •
The Princess still continues at Cintra, where
she is expected to remain a week longer. The
escort of English cavalry, who accompanieil her
from Caldas to Cintra, have not entirelY left her,
though she has now obtained, as an Witional
liody-guard, a detachment of Portuguese lira`
goons. A good deal of dissatisfaction has ii,!'ert
expressed by some of the violent Liberals, at the.
preference which her Royal Highness gave to
the English in the selection of her guard. Some
of the more unreasonably auspicious and igno-
rant among them, have even begun to infer that
an English intrigue must have been at the bot-
tom of the late Ministerist,7-eliange : otherwise
why, they ask, is a 'party- of English soldiers
called in
_to protect her Royal Highness against
its apprehended consequences? It would be
vain to argue with reason'ers of this stump, . whose
logic i assumes as premises the dictates of their
caprice.
" A Council of Ministers, at which the Print
cess Regent presides, is held to-day at Cintra,
in consequence of the receipt of despatches front
Rio de Janeiro, by a brig called the Apollo,
which sailed from that port about the middle of
June, and reached the Tagus in fifty-five days.
The intelligence received by this conveyance,
combined with the news brought by the last
packet from England, has produced an universal
conviction that Don Pedro will be in Lisbon in
two months, and has therefore fully indemnified
the Constitutionalists for their tate defeat. No-

body doubted for a moment that the Emperor,
as soon as he received accounts of his brother's
refusal to proceed to Brazil, would prepare for a
visit to Europe, if the state of his western em-
pire permitted him to undertake the voyage
with safety ; and, in repeating so often as I have
do'.e, my belief that his presence in Portugal,
to settle the question of the Regency in person,
was the only means of saving the Charter, I but
expressed the general 'opinion. The conclusion
of the peace with Buenos Ayres relieves him
from all anxieties in that quarter, and allows
him full leisure to attend to the state of his

ancient family dominions, connected with the 44
security of his daughter's title. The publica-
tion at Rio, of the decrees brought to Europe
last spring by Dr. Abrantee, the execution of
which was resisted by the Government of the
Princess, shows that his Majesty has not abated •
one iota in the pretensions which they implied,
not only to settle the great question of the Re-
gency,
but to regulate, during, pleasui3, the in-
ternal administration of both countries. These
decrees are dated the 29th of January, and they
are published about the middle of 'June, (be-
tween four and five months afterwards), when the
Emperor must have heard from Europe that his
sister had been advised to consider the two Go-
vernments distinct, and that she really possessed
some independent, though delegated power, as
long as she was allowed to remain. at the head of
affairs. The terms in which his Majesty ad-
dresses his sister are as absolute as those which
she herself has been accustomed to address to her
Ministers. She is allowed no personal discre-
tion—no deliberation with her Cabirlet—no
power to modify the imperial orders according
to unforeseen circumstances. She is commanded
to bold them (nssimintendido, cfaca executor)
as understood in the plain sense of the language,
and to cause them to be executed accordingly.— '
The same authority which regulates the rank of
her embassies at Foreign Courts, that appoints
her councillors of state, and nominates her
private secretary, may nominate a Juiz de fora
in the remotest village, or send an order for
drawing out an ensign's commission. The
Princess has been acting as Regent for the last
twelve months,—signing decrees—and even
making treaties. If she is thus a mere execu-
tive agent of the Emperor of Brazil as King of
Portugal, none of the acts which she has done
in his name are valid without his approbation ;
and the treaty of Brighton which brought the
British to Portugal must be null and void with-
-1 out his ratification.
" It is needless, however, to dwell upon the
inconvenience of governing an European king.
doin at the distance of 2,000 leagues ; and I
only alluded 'to the tardy publication of these
decrees which had been deemed obsolete, as a
positive evidence that the Emperor means to
come and order
is the light in which they are viewed here, and
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ipnaernt parties sL
Liberals,
sacNchordlintglly
citrembledmnged s iadte st.li e,voaey
paroxysm of joy. They look forward .to it as a
security for their civil existence—as a reward for
their political sacrifices. They may ultimately
be disappointed in many of their views ; but
they are, at least, active in preparing incense for
their idol, and raising their loudest pavans in his
1 honour. The army-I—even that part of it which
was ready a month ago to join the standard of
Don Miguel—will welcome their • gallant Sove-
reign with a unanimous burst of enthusiasm. I
heard an old soldier declare to-day, that he would
sell his shirt to get drunk in honour of the .
Em-
peror's arrival, if there was
Lisbon. The middling clisses of society in the
chief towns, who are all friends of the Charter,
fiidreial.guodsi,cev‘sh
wine ,to be had
. in
and whose enthusiasm in its favour has been
hitherto repressed by their fears for its durability,
difficulties, the consequence of
will surrender themselves to - boundless re-
the Court, and who,—involved in
gambling and mismanagement, can only shine
by, the light which they borrow from the
againstae
liberty to the hereditary rage ithe •
Throne, vnTllhesancroibfiieliety .tlaineldr
or favours
and distinctions of Royalty. There '
is probably
which . will - bane-
no class of the nation --
jdcoreeibcatsititTresas.ndof
youth-
ful and spirited- Sovereign.'
Lisbon will witness
back in testifying joy
at the arrival of their
in the Tagus ; and
a day to which it has not
seen a parallel since the entry of. John IV. in
1640, on the restoration f o the monarchy. The