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bon. The prospects of Portugal under such
a Viceroy are gloomy indeed. Extracts are given
in another column.

The Duke of Kent packet has arrived with a

Lisbon mail of the 30th September. By this
opportunity we have received Lisbon Gazettes
to the 29th of September inclusive, from which
we make the following extracts :—The in-
tended assumption of the Government of
Portugal by the Infant Don Ml9uEi. as Regent
during the minority of his future consort, is de-
clared to be in harmony with the ideas of the most
powerful nations of Europe, and the unanimous
wish of all good Portuguese ; but we are.told in
the same article that subjects have nothing to do
but to obey, confiding in the wisdom of Go-
vernments ; and in the following Gazette we

have a circular from the Princess REGENT
alluding to seditious cries being uttered in dif-
ferent parts of the kingdom, from which we. should
infer that the intended assumption of regal
power by Don MIGUEL is not exactly in
accordance with the wishes of a large portion of
the people. The idea of free institutions 'ln
Portugal is at end when Don MIGUEL arrives:—
LISBON, SEPT. 26.

The official part of the Gazette contains a circular from
the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice to all the
Corregidors and Juiges de Fora in the Kingdom, of the
following tenor :
" Her Serene Highness the Infanta Regent having been
informed that In some parts of the Kingdom seditious cries
have been uttered with a view to influence the people, dis-,
turbing the public tranquillity, and destroying the social tie
on which depends the prosperity of the inhabitants, whose
first duty is to obey the Government and the laws, her
Highness, in the name of the King, orders you to oppyse
with all vigour and diligence the utterance of such cries,
whatever be the motive, or rathei• the pretext for them,
since it belongs only to her Highness to order solemn re-
joicings when it shall be time, determining the
object of them, and the manner in which they shall,
be celebrated ; and as the majority of those persons
who take part in these proceedings are .mis-
led by the wicked suggestions of evil melt, who ,conceal
sinister designs under hypocritical appearances, her High-
ness further orders me to endeavoui to impress on the
people under your jurisdiction, the respect which ought to
be observed towards the Sovereign, towards her High-.
ness herself, the Regent of these Kingdoms, and the insti-
tutions which his Majesty the King, Don Pedro IV. was
pleased to give to his subjects ; all acts contrary to those
sacred objects being highly criminal, and to he punished
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orable towards all those individuals who with increased
pertinacity, attempt again to bring upon the Kingdom .the
scourge of civil discord.
JOSE FREIRE DE ANDRADE.
Palace of Ajuda, Sept. 26, 1527.

LISBON, SEPT. 25'.

In No. 225 of this Journal we inserted in the official
part the news that his Majesty Don Pedro IV. had ap-
pointed the Infant Don Miguel to govern these kingdoms.
This determination of his Majesty shows very clearly' that
the policy of the State, and great changes in the Govern-
ment, are not decided by military or popular tumults, 'or
by the pens of public writers. Portugal has seen and
suffered for these fourteen months terrible effects from kith
these causes, and it is certain that neither of them has con-
tributed, either directly or indirectly, to the present. de-
termination. Military bodies, whose first duty was and'
always will be implicit obedience, raising and deciding politiCat
questions, emigrated to a foreign kingdom, there prepared a
disastrous incursion, invaded their own country,and being re-
pulsed by the force obedient to the Government, carried their
standards, covered with disgrace, which had formerly been
so often displayed in triumph, in the same places. Such
was the necessary result of an enterprise undertaken without
the authority or consent of him who did not need Such.'
means to govern this Kingdom, and with whose dignity
only secure, legitimate, indisputable titles are compatible,
emanating from the principle of true and acknowledged
legitimacy, and guaranteed and maintained by its strength :
titles which the above enterprise could never offer.--,
His Highness assuming the Government of Portugal
according to the most sacred _principles of legitimacy,
recognised and respected by himself; in harmony with the
ideas of the most powerful nations in Europe ; by the
unanimous wish of all good Portuguese, who love peace,
who respect the decisions of their King, the sanctity of re-
ligion, personal property, and security, who cherish a•Well
regulated liberty, but abhor licentiousness, and who, iii
short, never desire the excesses of parties or the violence
of extremes, will find in them well regulated principles; the
only titles worthy of him, and the only ones able to induce
him to accept the Government, during the minority of his
August Consort, our Queen Donna Maria:ll. ; and not those
that may be offered him by the illusions of some people
(ponce), and of some soldiers inspired with erroneous,
principles of religion and fidelity.
The public writers, who pretending to direct the opi-
nion of the King, and the policy of foreign cabinets,' auda-
ciously interfered in the question of the Regency of POr-
tugal—a question which was imprudently agitated among
us till the publication of the decree of 20th June, this
year, which expressly prohibited it; now also see that the
King, in affairs of the greatest importance to the welfare
of the nation, has to guide himself by profound combina-
tions, which often are not in harmony with the amain's
of the publications,' and the opinions of the writers, which
are frequently designated very falsely by the name Of Pub-
lic opinion.
Every one has also an opportunity to convince himself
that it is not by its own efforts that the policy of Porttigal
can suffer changes ; that no European Power can now de-
part, in essential points, from the policy adopted 'by the
other Powers, without disastrous consequences. The con-
viction of this truth renders especially necessary, at this
moment, the practice of that fundamental maxim on which
public tranquillity is founded, namely, that subjects have to
do nothing but to obey, uniting in sincere affection; avoid-
ing private offences, allaying all the fury of parties, de-
spising odious appellations, which perpetuate and inflame
them, and confiding in the wisdom and prudence' f Go-
vernments, whose business it is to consider and. direct
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St. John's New. Brunswick Papers to the 9th
of September have been received. Under the head
of British West Indies they state that, accord-
ing to accounts'. from Barbadoes to the end of
July, they continued to be most abundantly
supplied with all American produce throUgh
Halifax and the Foreign Islands, particularly the
latter, and'at a cheaper rate for some articles than
when they bad a direct trade with the United
States ; that they expected supplies of . flour,
staves, &c. from the north of Europe ; that at
Antigua they had already received a large supply
of corn and meal from France, and that shortly
they should forget that the United States existed
as far as they depended on them for supplies.
The crops of sugar were expected to fall' short
this year.. His Excellency, the Commander Tin-.
Chief, had issued an order dated Fredericktown,
in which he states, that the increased population
of Queen's County has induced him to order
the militia to be divided into two battalions.
. Letters from Miramichi, to the 29th Auguit,
mention that since their last report there is a de-
crease in the number of cases of typhus fever. The