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

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gret at having sent the, decrees in question, She
ascribes their .present publication to a trick of
the party against Vilikh her siispitions and dis-.
pleastire are ninv so strongly directed.
"'the course of thelate events, and the con-
duct of the party who supported John Carlos
Sandanha, have highly irritated her Mind. She
.
now speaks of the Liberals with a bitterness
which shows how deeply she has been wounded
by their proceedings. The means which they
have employed to destroy liek iitipularity do not
seem to affect her so muck as their alleged in-
.solence provokes her. Though there can lbe no
doubt that her dismissal of the Minister of War
was exceedingly imprudent in the existing cir-
cumstances of the country, she had (making al-
lowances for the temper of Sovereigns, and the
prejudices in which she has been brought up)
an excuse for her conduct, Which the friends of
the-ex-Minister have studiously concealed. Sal-
danha (after she left Bemfica, and postponed the
execution of the decrees for dismissing the In-
tendant, and appointing a Rcgidor of justice)
proposed to proceed to Caldas, to have an inter-
view with her Royal Highness. He therefore
wrote her to that effect, requesting an audience.
On the receipt of his letter, she immediately de-
spatched .a courier forbidino-him to come, and
telling
.him that Santarem, the Minister of the In-
terior, being with her, there was no necessity
.for
the presence of any other Minister, while his ab-
sence from the capital, holding as he did two port-
folios, might occasion inconvenience to' the
public service. This was not all. Having
heard from another quarter that the War. Mi-
nister still meant to come, she wrote to the head.of

the Royal stables, to refuse him horses for the
journey. In the face of this repeated prohibi-
tion, and of these preventive precautions,
Saldanha proceeded to Caldas, and arrived at
the very moment when her Royal Highness was
assuring a part of her familr that he lnost cer-
tainly would not darts to come. -As soon as his

name was announced he was admitted, but, her
pride being mortified at what she reckoned his
act of disobedience, she was very ill prepared for
entering into his views. When, therefore, he
nut only pressed an obnoxious measure, but

gave he; Only the alternative of submitting to his
pleasure or of accepting his resignation, it was
not to be wondered at that in her baste and ill-
humour she should choose the latter. Having
once accepted of his resignation from anger, she
could not, of course, change her purpose for
threats, and was thus thrown into the false posi-
tion in which she has since remained.

" Against those who have adopted Saldanha's
quarrel, or approved of the late riots (as she calls
them), she expresses great indignation. There
can be no,question that General Stubbs will be
the victim either of his honesty or his impru-
dence on this occasion. He wrote her a letter
(inclosing what he called the representation of
her Northern capital), in which he plainly told
her Royal Highness that she must, if she valued
the peace of the country, and meant to maintain
the charter, not only recall Saldanha, but dismiss
the unworthy favourites who now surrounded
her person aira abused her confidence. The mi-
litary Governor. of Estreinadura, the Conde
_de
Sampaio must likewise be displaced, if she ad-
heres to her present resolution. His conduct,
you will remember, made it necessary for her to
appoint Villa for to command the troops in
Lisbon on occasion of the late disturbances, by
telling the soldiers to shout with the mob, in-
stead of dispersing it, " as long as their shouts
were innocent." Sampaio has since waited upon
her at Cintra, but has been refused an audience
—a certain precursor of his approaching

" I am happy to add, that the Princess,.
though in this ill-humour against the Liberals
and the friends of Saldanha, still speaks of main-
taining the Charter with as much resolution as
ever. She has, however, no Ministry, and is
left to discuss questions of policy with her two
younger sisters, oi)e of whom is so great a Car-
man!, that she goes about Cintra offering the
portrait of 1)on Miguel to be kissed by high and '
low. Being a girl of great spirit, she even
threatens the poor Regent with her brother's dis-
pleasure when he arrives, unless she demeans
herself better towards the friends of her mother.
See how this poor country is governed ! See
how the interests and liberties of a nation are
surrendered to the cabals and conflicts of three
capricious and ill-educated girls, each with their
set of favourites, their private antipathies, and
political prejudices!
" The friends of Don Miguel among the No-
bility have collected in considerable force at
Cintra. They shun the Princess Regent, but
court the attentions of her youngest sister. The
English, of whom there are now a considerable
number in that retreat, are in bad odour with
these ultras. An English merchant was stoned on
entering the town by the peasants or servants of
one of them. They talk of the coming of Don
Miguel with the utmost confidence ; and the
late rumours about Don Pedro's voyage have left
on them little impression.
" Villa. Flor will succeed Stubbs, if the Prin-
cess adheres to her present resolution ; but I
have not heard who is to be the substitute for the
Conde de Sampaio. The fact is, the Princess,
if she goes on as she has begun, will soon ex-
haust her disposable force for Ministers, Com-
manders of Provinces, and Generals. She is al-
ready tired of her present cabinet (which is, in
fact only the rump of Saldanha's Ministry, with
a couple of dragoon officers to make up.its tail) ;
and, if she were not ashamed of another change
before the change of the moon, would nominate '
another to-morrow. In this state of things, you
may easily conceive with what anxiety Pahnella's
arrival is expected by all those who have any
respect for the honour of the Government, or are
under any necessity of transacting business with
the Administration. The Minister of Marine
will be likely be out before he arrives, as her Royal
Highness accuses him of revealing her secrets to
the Liberal Clubs.

" The gallant Admiral of the British squadron
in the Tagus waited upon her Royal Highness
on Tuesday last, as well as the British Ambassa-
dor. Both were as well received as ever."

*** We shall give the decrees alluded to ill
she first letter to-morrow.

The Quotidicitne of Monday last ways—" The
Infant Don Miguel has followed the Austrian Court to
the waters of Baden. A report has circulated here for
some days, that this young Prince has quitted Baden to
proceed to Portugal. It is added that he has taken the
route of Italy. This news requires confirmation ; yet it is
probable that it will one day be verified, for all Europe
differs from the opinions and principles entertained by
England with respect to the rights of
Don Miguel. It is
evident that the Britannic Cabinet, in sending troops to
Portugal, has given a formal contradiction to its new
motto, Civil and Religious Liberty throughout the World;'
but it has been seen, particularly during the last few
months, that Mr. Canning, to acquire popularity, did,
with respect to politics, what his countryman, Sir *Walter
Scott, does with respect to history--the work never cor-
responded with its title."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PRtNcti isAitrtg.

(F`iom'tlie Gazette de France, dated August 2g.)

CORFU, JuLY 21.—We *know nothing precise
respeeting the plan of Lord Cochrane or the forces
tinder liis •Ccinthiandi Ibrahim )pasha has found in
all parts of the Peloponnesus obstacles Atillich he did
not expect, in the firmness and activity of the Greeks.
He' first attacked Megalospelea, the best fortified
Convent in Greece, and was repulsed with loss.—
HaVitig stnerwrds Marched into the territory of
Heriteas, he met with Vikctas and Gennaes Coloco-
troni. Their vigorous resistance defeated his pro-
jects, which Were to gather in the corn and drive
off the cattle, in order to send them to Tripolizza,
which is in distress for provisions. The unarmed
part of the inhabitants retired to a distance from the
roads at his approach, and all the men whom he
meets are armed. Redschid Pacha has turned
towards the interior' f . Greece ; but there are there
4,000 resolute soldiers, to subdue whom will cost him
trouble, time, and many men. . The Constantinople
fleet has returned the second time to Navarine, and
left the field" 'clear for the four Greek brigs, which
Lord Cochrane has left to blockade the entrance of
the Gulph of Corinth.-7-German Papers.
• PARIS, AUG. 21.—M. Manuel died last night at
the seat of M. Lafitte. •

The 'German Diet adjourned on the 9th inst. for
four months. It will resume its sittings in January,
1828.

An individual, who came to Paris as a rich man,
and MI6 died last year in a situation bordering on
indigence, left a statement of his josses at play, and
declared that persons whom he named, had employed
fraudulent means to play against him, with the cer-
tainty of winning. These two persons; one of whom
was formerly a dentist, were put on their trial, and
the celebrated M. Combo was summoned as a wit-
ness, and 'gave an explanation of the art, or altered
cards, by means of which their frauds had been com-
mitted. The Court of Appeal has this day cdn-
firmed the sentence, by which they are condemned
to eighteen months' imprisonment and a fine.
(From the Constiluaonnel.),

PARIS' AUG. 2l.—We have just heard that M.
Manuel died yesterday, at 20 minutes past five
o'clock in the afternoon.

The Gazette U7ziverselle of Lyons is more frank
than some other Journals. It sees no safety for
Spain and for Portugal but in the abolition of Don
Pedro's Charter. It maintains that this Prince had
no right to grant one, and, that he never had a right
to abdicate a Crown he never legitimately possessed.
The Gazette asks, by what mean' England can ex-
tricate herself from her unpleasant situation, as to
the Peninsula? The Powers of the Continent will
have.the generosity to extricate her at their loss,
because they have all. an interest that this enterprise
should cause the ruin of an Administration from
which there is nothing to hope. The Lyons Jour-
nalist argues, that Don Miguel ought to be acknow-
ledged as the legitimate' Monarch of Portugal by all
Europe, which appears to hint more easy, because
Mr. Canning's successors will want his boldness.
We learn from Berlin that a camp of 20,000 men,
consisting of the landwehr, is to be formed, and they
are to manoeuvre against the Royal Guard. It is
not to be an army of reserve, but a good National
Guard; which the King wishes to form, and which
at the end of a month will know its duties.

(EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.)

NAUPLIA, JULY 9.—Since the capitulation of the
Acropolis, we appear to, be at peace rather than at
war. The courage of those under arms is still the
same, and the resolution of the Greeks to conquer
their independence becomes more rooted daily. The
arrival of Lord Cochrane and General Church seems
to have scaled the liberty of Greece. The pru-
dence of the General, and bis influence over the
soldiery, recal the brilliant period of our land-vic-
tories. The genius of Lord Cochrane, and his ex-
perience, will find the means of making the Greek
flotilla capable of contending .against the large
Turkish ships, and carry terror into the ports of the
enemy. Greece is grateful to these two generous
foreigners who have come to embrace her cause at .
moment of difficulty ; their presence, wherever
there is any danger, revives the courage of the
Greeks. General Church is gone into the Pelopon-
nesus to form a camp in the town of Calavrita, to
oppose the Arabs who traverse the interior of the
country.. On the Ist inst. we received the news,
that the Greeks who were in the Convent of Me-
jasipileon, defeated 4500 Arabs, who had been sent
forward by Ibrahim Pacha. The barbarians lost
4.00 men, from an ambuscade formed by the Greeks.
We only require a skilful political Chief, and look
with impatience for the arrival of Coui!t Capo
d'lstria. His presence will put an end to those
disputes which are so injurious to the-eon/mon cause.
In spite-of the disputes in the National Assembly,
the Members have agreed to a Constitutional Char-
ter, which is drawn up in these terms:—

" CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER OF GREECE.

" In the name of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity.
The Greek Nation, met for the third time in a
National Alsembly; proclaims by its legitimate
Representatives, before God and Man, its political
existence and independence, and establishes the
following fundamental principles to serve as a Con-
stitution :

" cirArTryt 1.-.-OF RELIGION.

" Art. I. In Greece ever; niantOprofess freely
his own religion, and obtain for his worship the same
protection; but the orthodox religion of the Greek
Church is the religion of the State.

" CHAPTER 11.--OF THE STATE.

`f 2. Greece is nee and indivisible.

" 3. It consists of eparchates (provinces).
• " 4. All those provinces shall be esteemed epar-
chates of Greece which have taken, or shall take up,
arms against the despotic Government of the Turks.
" CHAP. THE PUBLIC LAW OF TILE lIELLENIANS.

" 5. The sovereign power resides in the nation ;
all power emanates from it, and only exists for it.
" 6. Are Hellenians All the native Greeks
who believe in Jesus Christ. 2. Those who, op-
pressed by the Ottoman yoke, and believing in Jesus
Christ, are come, or shall come to Greece, to take
up arms or to dwell there. 3. Those who are born
abroad, of a Greek father, or those natives and others,
aud their descendants, naturalized before the publi-
cation of the present Constitution, and born abroad,
who shall come to Greece and take the oaths. 4.
Foreigners who come to Greece and are there na-
turalized.

" 7. All Hellenians are equal in the eye of the law.
" 8. Every Hellenian shall be eligible, according
to his personal talents, to public employments,
both
political and military.
" 9. Foreigners who come to inhabit Greece for
a time, or for ever, are equal to Hellenians before
the Civil Law.
" 10. The taxes shall be levied from all the inha-
bitants of the State, with justice, and in proportion
to the fortunes of individuals; but no tax can be
levid without a law being promulgated, and no law
for levying taxes can be published for more than one
year.
" 11. The law guarantees the personal liberty of
every individual; no person can be arrested or im-
prisoned, but according to law.
" 12. The life, the honour, and the property of
all those who are within the bounds of the State, are
under the protection of the laws.
" 13. No order to seek for, or arrest persons, or
property, can be given, unless it be founded on suffi-
cient proof, and unless the place of search be pointed
out, as well as the persons and things which are to be
arrested.

" 14. In all judicial proceedings every one has a
right to demand the cause and the nature of the ac-
cusation made against him ; to reply to his accusers,
and their witnesses, and to bring forward witnesses
in his defence ; to have counsel, and to require a
speedy decision from the Court.
" 15. No person shall be esteemed guilty till he is
condemned,

" 16. No person is to be tried twice for the same
offence, nor eiindem.ned and deprived of his property

without a previous trial. A definitive judgment
cannot be appealed from.

" 17. The Government may require a private pro-
perty to be given up for the public good when suf-
ficiently demonstrated, but previous indemnity must
be granted.
" 18. Torture and confiscation arc abolished.
" 19. The law cannot be made retroactive.

" 20. The Hellenians have a right to form esta-
blishments of every description, for science, for phi-
lanthropy, for industry and arts, and to select pro-
fessors for their instruction.

" 21. In Greece it is not permitted to buy and
pen a man : every slave of every nation and of every
religion, as soon as he places his foot on the Greek
soil, his master cam no longer pursue him.
" 22. No person can decline submitting to his
competent judge, not be prevented from having
recourse to him. _ _ .

" 23. No person can be detained in prison more
than 21 hours without the cause of his arrest being
'made known to him ; nor more than three days
without the proceedings against him beginning.
" 21. The clergy, according to the rules of the
Greek Church, can take no part in any public em-
ployment; the presbyters (minor priests) alone
have the right of election.
" 25. Every one %ay write to the Senate and
state his opinion on any public object.
" 26. The Hellenians have the right to write and
publish freely by the press, or otherwise, their
thoughts and opinions, without being subjected to
any censorship, but always within the following
limits:—

"'l. Not to attack the principles of the Christian
Religion.
" 2. Not to violate decency.
" 3. To avoid insults and personal calumny.
" 27. The Greek Government bestow:; no title
of Nobility, and no Helleniau can, without the con-
sent of his own Government, receive a service, gift,
recompence, employment, or,title of any description
whatever, froth any Monarch, Prince, or Foreign
State.

" 28. The epithets, Illustrious, Excellency, &c.
shall not be given to any Hellenian within the limits
of the State, only the Governor shall bear the name
of Excellency, which shall cease with his functions.
" 29. No native, nor person naturalized and
inhabiting Greece, and cnjoyiag the rights of a citi-
zen, can have recourse to foreign protection ; in case
he does, he ceases to be a citizen of Greece.

CHAP. IV.-OF NATURALIZATION.

" 30. The Government shall naturalize foreigners,
who bring certificates from Greek Functionaries, at-
testing,
I. That they have passed. three whole years in
the country.
" 2. That during this time they have not been
visited by •any infamous punishment.
" 3. That „they have acquired within the State
landed property, of the value of at least 100 dollars.
" 31. Great actions, and notorious services,„during
the need of the country, are sufficient claims to na-
turalization. _

" 32. The Government may also naturalize those
foeeigners who found in Greece remarkable esta-
blishments tending to the progress of the sciences,
of arts, of commerce, and of industry. It may alio
abridge the time necessary for naturalization.
" 33. Those foreigners Who have served, or shall
serve, in a military capacity in Greece two. years,
and who have the necessary- certificates of service,
arc by that made Hellenic citizens.
" 34. A. man when naturalized immediately enjoys
all the rights of a citizen, but the rights of repre-
sentation shall be regulated by the law of elections
which the Senate will publish.
" 35. Every person naturalized shall take the
Greek oath.

CHAP. V.-OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERN3IENT.

" 36. The sovereign power of the nation is di-
vided into three powers—the legislative, the execu-
tive, and the judicial.
" 37. The legislative power makes laws.
" 38. The executive power sanctions them,
agreeably to article 74, and carries them into exe-
cution.

" 39. The judicial power supplies them.
"'S9. The legislative power belongs in particular
to the body of Representatives of the people, who
will take the name of Senate (bode.)
" 41. The executive power belongs to one alone,
who will take the name of Governor, and who has
under his orders different secretaries.

MOTHERBANK, ISLE OF WIGHT, AuG. 23.

The Duke of York steam-packet, from Lisbon to
London, arrived at this place on the 23d, but owing
to the rigid manner in which the quarantine laws
were enforced at Plymouth, she has not been allowed
pratique, and the passengers must receive the per-
mission of the Piivy Council, or perform the full
term of quarantine, before they can land. Such
an unexpected prohibition has produced the greatest
inconvenience. Had there been any sufficient
grounds for it, one would have submitted more
willingly, but as it arises chiefly from the most rigid
construction of the Quarantine Laws, mixed, per-
haps, with a little insolence of power, the imprison-
ment to which the passengers have been subjected
is justly regarded a wanton and unnecessary stretch
of authority, and consequently borne with im-
patience. A few boxes of silk goods had been
shipped ,it Gibraltar, unfortunately without a
certificate, yet for this mere informality, and
though the vessel had been allowed pratique at
Lisbon, had remained there for two days, there
were no sick on board, and there were sufficient
proofs that Gibraltar was quite healthy, she is treat-
ed like a vessel coming from the moat unhealthy
town ip the Levant; and what renders the case still
'more provoking, because it shows the absurdity of
the Quarantine Officers, they actually received the
ship papers from the Captain without the least Puri-
fication, and kept them in their possession nearly an
hour, and then gave orders to hoist the yellow flag.
Englishmen are apt to rail against the conduct ofother
nations in many respects ; but I will defy them
to find a greater instance of inconsistency than this,
and it was deservedly reprobated as such by all fo-
reigners on board. One family were obliged to
provide themselves with a yacht at Plymouth to per-
form quarantine in, and all the goods, &c.tfor that
place were carried forward to Portsmouth. The
loss to the proprietors must be considerable. As
some compensation for this visitation, the weather is
delightful, and the passengers, though not allowed
to touch the shore, seem to feel great satisfaction
in contrasting the temperate atmosphere and green
fields of England with the scorching heats, parched
hills, and filthy streets of Lisbon.—Morning He-
rald.

A melancholy accident occurred at Gaywood,
near Lynn, lately. The labourers of Mr. Dye, farmer Of
that place, were engaged in stacking corn, when one of
them fell from the stack, and alighting on the shaft of a
fork which was stuck in the rround, it penetrated his
bowels near the prostrate gland.° He survived
several
hours in the most excruciating agony, before death put an
end to his sufferings.
SINGULAR FROLIC.—An old woman, re-
siding at Penwortham, met with a serious accident under
very unusual circumstances, on Saturday night last. It
appears that the old lady, who is upwards of sixty years of
age, took it into her head, whimsically enough,
to play the
boggart, and with that intent actually left her house for the
purpose of interrupting a young woman, who had just be-
fore departed on an errand to the public-house at the bridge.
The girl, however, returned without having met any in-
terruption ; but the old lady, who had gone forth in such
merry mood to scare the lass, came not. After waiting
anxiously till a late hour of the night, her friends thought 1
it high time to take measures for ascertaining the cause of
her absence. Accordingly they went in the direction of
the road along which the girl had passed, and after a little
hunting about, sure enough, the poor old lady was found
lying in a ditch contiguous, with one of her legs broken.—
She was instantly conveyed home, and it was soon ex-
plained that the fracture had been occasioned by the frolic-
some old danie having witlessly leapt into the ditch with
the intent before-named. Medical aid was promptly pro-
cured, and the aged sufferer is doing remarkably well,—
Manchester Herald.