The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-30 00:00:00

FOR TILE SUN

WOOD'S MYSTERY.

Mn. EDITOR-A mostnefarious plan is now, an d
has been for some time past, in action, on the 'part
of a certain portion, at least, of her MaJEskiy's
Advocates. It remains yet to be seen, whether
Mr. Bitoncuam 'will damn himself to everlasting
fame, by adopting it as the ground-work ei
defence. - .

For some time it was whispered orally, with
an ef and a suppose prefixed—but latterly, in
conversation, it has been broadly asserted. As
time advances, however, the Press is now setting
to work, " hypothetically," as they term it, at
first, to try the gullibility of the public, and.
pave the way for its legal adoption.
Absurd, monstrous, and horrible as it is, yet
there are fools who will believe it, and there are
many who will pretend to believe it, in further-
ance of their own revolutionary designs.

The point of defence to which I allude is, that
Reiterant was hired to assassinate her MAJESTY,
but rook the reward, and then informed her of
her danger, when she took him into her confi-
dence ; and that he saved her from an attack
on the road to Naples.

Now, that there are people who will swear
to this, I have no doubt, although Mr.
Count BERGAMI does not mention it in

his autobiography,even when he records the pro-
phecy of the fortune-teller, that he was to be
lowered and then exalted by a Princess. He
seems indeed to have been much puzzled /.oz to
lower himself; but took a livery, which, I sus-
pect, produced a difference no micrometor can
measure ; and his exaltation, part of it at least,
for nobody can tell what lee may rise to, has arisen
from a Princess!
Whether that Lady has also had her fortune
told, is not recorded—but, if she wants it done
now, she must go further than her own circle—
there are no Conjnrers there !
En passant,l may observe, that great stress
has been laid upon the evidence of the Two Cap-
tains, because they saw no improper familiarities
pass between her and her minion'. No ! Cer-
tainly! on board a British ship of war some cir-
cumspection was necessary—but the cabin doors
cannot be forgotten ! But why did she hire a
polacre for her trip' to the Levant, when she
might have had a frigate to attend her ! Answer
me that, Mr. Ford!
In this, however, I wish not to prejudge—but
where the Press is so active on one side of the
question, it cannot he unfair, for the sake of
public tranquillity, that every hint should le
thrown out which may guard against undue bias
in the minds of the ignorant and misjudging.

Your's,
IGNOTUS.

FOR THE SUN.

RADICAL PUZZLE.

Ma. EDITOR—.I am an honest Radical, and,

though you may not believe it, have something
of a conscience—that is, I don't like to do what
I don't like to do—But, Sir, I have a wife, and.
she is a woman—No ! she is a Lady—a Lady of
the QUEEN'S own making, and reckons herself
quite a match for BARON FRANCINI, alias Count
Bergami, or any other Baron of Her MAJESTY'S
manufacture. Now, Sir, you must know, ttiat
me and my wife, that is my wife and me, differ
a little at times. I wish all things to be ou
level. I don't like to see folks ride in coaelies,
whilst others walk on foot ; and, when I slip.out
of an evening toward the SO Tavern for my
pint of porter, it hurts my feelings to see other
folks sporting their pint decanters close to .the
windows of the London Coffee-house.

But my wife says she likes to:see things ele-
vated—to .see folks bold their ,heads, up in the
world—and to have a ride in,a coach. She would
indeed like best to have it 41 to herself ; but: as
half a loaf is better than ho bread,
be content with a. siN.-th 'part,. like many other
Ladies of.her acquaintance. Lord ! Sir, what-410
you think! The Ladies in our parish have alkloten
conspiring to dress the Q,Cr.EEN,as:theyreall it; but,
efags ! it-seems all a conspiracy-to dress Ahern-
selves ! Why, Sir, what iwith cutting up one San-
day gown to make flounces for ancither--what
with lengthening ,petticoats, and.shor.tening tbo-
dies—what with trying on the wigs and feathers
borrowed from the next parish=and
the rose-pink on their cheeks, the Ladies of our
Parish look for all the world just as if they were
.goihg to perform at Bartholomew Fair, SO that
their owit.husbands don't ,know them. Nityri,
am told that since this plan of addressing-be-
gan, somerof the Ladies even. forget who arettheir
own husbands ! . )
But, t 4 "make a long story short—here, Sir, is
rny.puzzle. You must know that I:have for-
sworn to pay all\taxes—buf if my wifeirides,iii a
glass-coach, ora landau, to Ilantwermithy Owe
must be: post-hpve cluty—wld Orr!, eirOn
in an :Slimy thirosolf s an' t smotOe himself through
a turnpike—at flettttlite;oan't smuggle. rhis,i/tOrPe•
Ti,ey tell me, imleed,-- that. my, Wife •IxTy :get
smugzied,throlig4 io case :no
Geutiernam of the party .shoult,taketthat trouble
—pray, Sir, tell rue, who pays coaahltire And
turnpikes, and 'relieve the doubts of,
;Your's,
P• S. Ms wife biegs you put
the back of the letter .wlien.,.yQ4 answer. thii_
. .because it puzzles nosternal!, and make.;
him wonder wE.c` .nor boor Tripe,,t a etaimint
'butcher, sends him over .to our coal-shed.

REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.

REPRESENTATION OF THE REGENCY OF LISBON

TO THE PROVISIONAL JUNTA ESTABLISHED AT

OPORTO.

The Govertiors of the Kingdom to the Junta which fortuea
itself in the City of Oporto, and which calls itself the
Supreme Junta of the Kingdom.

. .
The Governors of the Kingdom, considering
that the most sacred right intrusted to them by
our august Sovereign is that of maintaining peace
between the inhabitants of the kingdom, and pre-
serving untouched the unity of the Crown, top.;e-
ther,with the independence of the Monarchy, have
put in force the extraordinary powers reposed in
them by the King for urgent occasions; and,act-
ing as interpreters of his paternal sentiments,
have resolved in his Royal name to convoke the
Cortes, which are to assemble.
This is the day in which letters are despatched
to all the Corporations of the kingdom, inviting
them to proceed to the election of Representa-
tives, conformably to the usages and customs of
the nation. Let this, therefore, be the auspi-
cious day of concord for all who have the hearts
of Portpguese. The Governors of the kingdom
comprehend in their pure desires, in their well-
founded hopes, the very Junta which has been
established in the city of Oporto, and do not
hesitate to address to it, as well as to all the
other classes and individuals of the nation, the
words of reconciliation. Let our hearts bury in
perpetual oblivion the memory of recriminations
and errors which have been committed either vo-
luntarily or by inadvertence, and let them begin
a new era of harmony and mutual confidence, by
means of the ties that shall be formed between
the Sovereign and the Representatives of the
nation, 'legitimately assembled in the Royal
name.

Penetrated with these sentiments, the Go-
vernors of the Kingdom cannot cease to repeat
the wish which they have solemnly announced,
declaring that the Portuguese of all classes, who
listened to the voice of the Government of Oporto,
and joined it for a short time against the legiti-
mate Government of the kingdom, need dread
neither hatred, nor vengeance, nor punishment,
on account of the late political events.
On receiving the first intelligence of the events
of the 24th of August from the city of Oporto,
the Governors of the Kingdom could not but
characterise with severity the conduct of the mili-
tary, who burst the bands of discipline, and of
a Junta, who, being self-elected, and without
observing the appearance of legal rights—with-
out power emanating from the King, or any ac-
knowledged mission from the People—entitled
itself the Supreme Government, and "arrogated
the right of convoking the Cortes. But, at the
same time that the Governors of the. Kingdom
censured as they deserved acts so illegal and
imprudent, they never ceased to admit that the
greater part, and,perhaps even the whole, of the
individuals who so compromised themselves, might
be excited to such conduct by too great an ex-
altation of sentiments otherwise pure, or by insi-
dious foreign intrigues, of which they were ig-
norant. On this account the Government form-
ed the only resolution which could save the
country from the horrors of a civil war, and con-
voked the Cortes, which receive from the Re-
presentatives of the Sovereign a character of le-
gality which those Cortes never could have which
were announced by the Junta of Oporto.
You are Portuguese ; and this glorious title
which belongs to you is sufficient to assure us
that neither falsehood nor dissimulation have
fogad a place in your breast. Be therefore faith-
ful to your own declarations, and consistent with
yourselves. You proclaimed your attachment to
the Holy Catholic Religion—we all have it en-
graved on our hearts. You proclaimed your
loyalty to the august Sovereign who reigns over
us—and the whole of tile nation acknowledges
his dynasty, and stands firm in its obedience. As
to the Cortes, they are already convoked in the
name of the Sovereign ; as to the Constitution,
the same convocation secures one founded in the
ancient laws of this Monarchy—laws which go-
verned our forefathers in the days of their pros-
perity, in the epoch of their triumphs. If, then,
what you have openly proclaimed be what you
sincerely desired, your wishes are already ac-
complished ; and nothing remains for you now,
but that, divesting yourselves of an authority
which you have hitherto exercised without any
legal title, and which from this moment you must
'exercise without any reasonable pretext, you
should give to the world and to posterity a pub-
• l'c proof that in your past conduct you have
neither been actuated by passion nor ambition ;
that your declarations have been sincere, and
; that you do not desire to expose the kingdom to
the danger which must result from tile prolonga-
tion of a contest between its provinces, nor to
open the way for foreign Powers to attack our
independence in the midst of our divisions, which
they have always respected when they saw us
united.

Consider that there is no time to lose—we are
on the brink of a precipice. Already citizens
are armed against citizens—already the Com-
manders of the troops who are subject to you
threaten our cities and our towns with the loss of
their rights and privileges for their opposition to
their views; they menace the officers and soldiers
who refuse to join them in the trial and the pu-
nishment of traitors! One step farther, and we
• are plunged into civil war—bathed in the blood
of our brothers— and threatened with a series of
Revolutions which can terminate only in the dis,
solution of the monarchy.
To you, and to you alone, will be attributable
such mighty calamities ; on your head will press
to the most remote posterity such an enormous
responsibility, if you listen not now to the voice
which is addressed to you by the Governors of
the kingdom. They have no other ambition but
' that of saving the nation and securing the public
felicity ; nor will they refuse to receive any re-
presentations which may lead to such an impor-

taut, such a desirable object : and they hope that
Providence, seconding their effort, will hasten
the happy day—a day most earnestly prayed for
by them—in which they may be able to surren-
der into the Royal hands of our Sovereign the
sacred and important deposit with which they
are intrusted.

(Signed) Cardinal PATRIARCH%
Marquis di BORBA.
rnride di PENICHE.
Conde di FEIR.A.
ANTONIO GONIEZ RIBEIRO.
Lisbon, Palace of the Government, Sept. 9, 1820.