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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur of Friday, Sept. '7.)
PARIS, SEPT. 6.—The event surpasses our hopes.
Don Pedro has understood his interest, that of his
character, that of his most intimate ally ; we may '
add, that of Europe. By a single act, he has con-
verted a complex situation into a simple situation.
He has cemented the repose of the Peninsula and of
Europe; he has returned to England more than he
had received from it. We founded the preservation of
peace on the accession of Don Miguel to the Re=
gency, by virtue of the tight which the charter anA
his birth give him. Don Pedro has resolved to
render this double foundation more solid by
strengthening it by his express consent. Thanks to
him, there will be now no pretext for resistance.
Friends and adversaries of the charter, and those
who thought with us that it could not, without de-
grading it, be converted into an instrument of hatred,
and those absolutist liberals who, through enthusiasm
for • the Constitutional Government, attributed to
the Emperor the right of conferring and of taking
away the Regency without other law than his good
pleasure, are united by one act in the same opinion ;
under pain of giving to themselves the most formal
contradiction, they must receive with joy the Con-
stitutional Envoy of the Charter, who is at the same
time the special Envoy of Don Pedro. Ancient
traditions, modern institutions, legitimacy, liberty,
all these forces which might combat each other,
mutually support each other.
Our re;c.ers will perhaps thank us for not having
attempted, at the commencement of this discussion,
to fathom all the difficulties of Don Pedro's situa-

It was one of those new and delicate questions,
which it is impossible to touch without endangering
many interests, and, what is still more to be dread-
ed, without producing openly titles which require to
be covered with a veil. Don Pedro succeeded to

the Prince whose circumspect and periodical policy
had condemned the union of the two crowns on the

same head. He himself had reigned in Brasil during
his father's life-time. He had sanctioned the act of

independence solely by virtue of the principle of
incompatibility. Nay more, he had solemnly recog-
nised this principle in his own charter, which has
been opposed to us as a proof of the contrary. Will it
be denied that the abdication is a consequence of the
treaty ? It was confusedly known that a solemn
act for ever separated Portugal from Brazil ; but few
persons know, or wish to investigate, the natural ef-
fects of this act. There was, as it were, on this point

a tacit convention to abstain from it. But there result-

ed from this very convention an obscurity which was
unfavourable to those acts of the Emperor which con-
cerned Portugal. All these serious difficulties are
reduced to idle subtilties, by the direct nomination

of Don Miguel. A palpable fact is substituted for
problems; every one may, as he pleases, consider
this fact as a homage to legitimacy, or to political
necessity, as the accomplishment of the treaty of se-
paration, of the act of abdication, or of Art. 92 of
the Charter, for in fact it is all those. The Prince,

whom the treaty of separation appeared to render a
stranger to the affairs of Portugal, sanctions that
treaty by delivering the power to his brother—the
Prince whom, in the circumstance of incompatibility,
the Cortes of Lamego would probably have called to
the throne, will ascend it at a later period, first
passing through the regency. Nay more; he will
ascend it without dispossessing Don Pedro, who has
dispossessed himself, nor the posterity of Don Pedro,
destined to share his power; and the rights of the
two branches will be blended in the children of Don
Miguel, as, 350 years ago, the Rights of the two
Roses were confounded in the person of Henry VII.
Let the political Saumaises exercise at their lei-
sure all their sagacity, the cabinets and nations can
only bless the happy issue of a threatening complica-
tion of interests.

We sincerely.congraudate -England on a result to
which it is not impossible that its good advice may
have contributed ; for it naturally leads to the eva-
cuation of Portugal, which its politicians had so much
at heart. What, in fact, should the English troops
do at Lisbon ?
There is no need to protect the Government
against the discontented in the country: it will be
very able to protect itself, England, besides, has
always protested, and still protests, against all pa-
tronage of this kind. Neither is there any occasion
to protect it against the real or supposed discontent
of Spain. The accession of Don Miguel dispels
every cloud. Don Miguel is as a pledge, which the
Emperor of Brazil sends to Spain of the sincerity of
his intentions. It is true that it is through the
Charter that the new Regent makes his entrance to
power : but the author of the Charter himself ac-
knowledges that it is not infallible. He himself offers
the remedy which we formerly pointed out on the Sth
of August, to the imperfections of this law which is ne-
cessary, but susceptible of modification. Besides, it is
too great a calumny on Spain to believe that the mere
word Charter produces on it as it were a fit of hy-
drophobia. It has felt that under the regimen of a
Charter the rights of Sovereigns may be defended
and avenged. We also congratulate our own coun-
try on a result which will be no less profitable to it
than to England—the perfect security of Spain,
whence the inutility of the French occupation,
whence the evacuation and in consequence an addi-
tion to the army of 20,000 tried soldiers, a saving
of ten millions to the Treasury, a greater scope
opened to our commerce, and its relations with the'
new world rendered more free. Lastly, every mo-
tive, every pretext for division between England
and us removed, and this germ of dissension--very
weak, it is true, but which the passions endeavoured
to revive—wholly extirpated.
It is an event by which every body gains, and
nobody loses : and this will certainly be the ease
whenever the interests of legitimacy shall blend
with the interests of the age dint which is in the
nature of both.
• (From the Gazetie de France, dated Sept, 8.)
BUCHAREST, AUG. 18.—Though the accounts
from Constantinople agree in affirming that the
Porte persists in the principles of its declaration,
and that the ultimatum of the three Powers will be
rejected, ?ilany persons think that the Divan intends
to wait till the moment of executing the measures
resolved upon, and that it may then accept the pro-
posals of pacification.
FRANKFORT' SEPT. 3.—A. courier from Lisbon
has arrived at the office of Foreign Affairs at Vienna,
and a report has been immediately spread, that Don
Miguel would remain but a very short time longer
at Vienna, and would set out for Portugal as soon
as he had paid a last visit to the Emperor. That
Prince will not go by way of England, as has

been said.
It is said that the loan which Austria intended to
contract for is finally determined, and that it will be
for 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 of florins.
BERLIN, Auc. 30.—A1l the private letters from
Russia speak of great movements of troops in that
country. It is even affirmed that a levy en nause of
the Don Cossacks is contemplated. The second
army (that of Count Wittgenstein cantoned in Besse- ,
rabia) is reported to have received orders to be in •
y,
readine.;,:s to march. Whatever there tray be in each
of thes `report t4lcen it is certain, add
se aratel
the letters, that all thosep mew.ures indicate warlike
dispositions, which some persons ascribe to the ill
success of tile war with Persia.
(From the Constitationnet.)
MADRID, AUG. 2 7.7-All our Ministers, who had
set out for La Graiija on the
night
of Friday and
Saturday last, and who ought to have returned here
yesterday, did not arrive till to-day. There was
held on Saturday, tit eleven o'clock, a Cabinet
Council, at which the King presided, and at which
the Duke de San Carlos was present. That Council
continued its sittings till nearly two o'clock, which
is the most extraordinary, as his Majesty, who never
puts off his dinner hour, regularly dines at half-past
one, The result of this extraordinary consultation,