The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON', SEPT. I.—Since last mail, public tran-
quillity has not been disturbed, while the public
mind is not only checked, but crushed, by what the
Government calls energy. By a decree of the 14th
of this month, which reached the Dezembargo do
Paco only on the 256, and appeared in our Gazette
Of the 27th, that tribunal is directed to withdraw the
commissions of all the censors of publications which
have lately abused Government, attacked the rights
of her Royal Higlinvis the Infanta Regent, and dis-
seminated dangerous principles, ordering the same
tribunal to :,elect and appoint other censors in their
place; in Lisbon as well as Oporto. This decree is
evidently directed against the Portuguez and Gazeta
Onstitucio:rial of this city, and against the Borboleta
and the Iniriarcia/ of Oporto—newspapers which
certainly have done their utmost to justify the ex-
ceases of last.-month about General Saldanha's dis-
...miasiomfrora .the. Ministry ; but,.however they may
be to. blamefor -it, they are not so dangerous as the
publications of a Padre Jose Agostinho de Macedo,
tho most immoral and wicked trumpeter of the Je-
suits, and of all their crowned associates; still, this
fellow is unmolested, and publishes with impu-
nity the most violent abuse against the Liberals
and the Charter, in letters addressed to one
Lopes, a deck of the Foreign-Office, who was
formerly the redacteur of the Lisbon Gazette.—
_ In this manner, by being rigorous, and blaming,
the constitutional prints, without using the same se-
verity with their opponents, Government appears to
throw itself under the protection of the latter, and
to approve of their scandalous principles. Such is
the miserable state of our rulers, although they were
considered as men of sound and moderate opinions

before they entered the Ministry, but their narrow
intellects and total want of political experience make
them the blind tools of an intendant of Police, and
of some base female court intriguers. What does
all this prove ? That—as it has been stated—there
is no Government; that there will be none, if the
Marquis of Palmella does not come soon to take the
direction of public affairs, selecting for the Ministry
men of talent as well as private integrity, who have
been constantly kept away from the Regent's selec-
tion by the infamous intriguers who fatten on the
labours of the industrious classes : nay, the poor
Princess herself, ever since the death of her father,
lass been most cruelly duped by her private advisers,
whether ambitious quack doctors, or cowardly but
conceited pedagogues. It is stated with every ap-
pearznce of correctness, that her Royal Highness
lately; not knowing whom to believe, after having
discovered that she had been misled and falsely in-
formed by her sycophant advisers, burst into a flood
of tears, and complained bitterly of her unhappy fate
throughout her government with respect to her
advisers ; observing, that hardly one or two had
proved honourable or true to her or the country ;
she had been forced to remove them on account of
:false reports and abominable calumnies spread in
public, or sent to her in the police bulletins for that
very purpose! Her Royal Highness alluded evi-
dently to a Minister of Justice ad rnterini,and to one
of Foreign Affairs ; but now that she expects daily
the Marquis of Palmella, what can she do ? Things
had much better remain as they are a few weeks
longer, provided our expectations be fulfilled and
we see such Jesuits as Bastos and Santarem sent at
least to oblivion.

With regard to the great question of the Re-
g
erwv2 although the Infant Don Miguel was prepa-
ring to appear here suddenly in October next, accor-
ding to .the advice of his political preceptors, we are
informed it)y the most respectable sources from
Paris, that your government, on being aware of this
holy trick that might throw the whole country into
confusion, interposed once more, and obtained an
engagement that no step or movement should be
made by Don Miguel until the arrival of his Royal
Brother's final resolution on this or other important
questions, solicited by your Government. May it
prove true and may the decision of the Emperor
Don Pedro be worthy of the giver of the Charter;
fora Charter without a Government, and with all
sorts of miseries, is quite void of sense!
P. S. General Stubbs arrlwo4 yesterday. from
Oporto by the steam-boat. His departure, com-
pared with the arrival of his successor, the Count of
Villa Flor, presented a very sensible contrast.—
Tbe entrance of the Count was without attendance
at all. The General's departure offered an immense
crowd on the hills and quays on both sides the
Douro to the very mouth of the river, where the
people remained till they lost sight of the vessel.—
They accompanied the General from his residence
through the town to the vessel, in the most pro-
found Anne. When on board, the waving of white
handkerchiefs, and repeated z.sivris echoing from the
mountains, afforded an unequivocal display of the
gratitude of a large town to a friend of the new in-
stitutions.