Star.
London, England, 1830-02-19 00:00:00

Portugal weld think of the proceedings of this country towards
Portugal. Government had given their support to the young
Queer* of Portugal. That support, if continued, would induce
other nations to do the same. The nob?c earl rdtered into a de-
tail of 'ehr. condom of l)oo Miguel dltrirt* the life of, his father.
whet, he had been ern to the Brazils and i n took a brief slew of
his ityNcrisy, treachery, and perjury since that period ohlersing
that any other nation in Europe would think that they would
hare acted a ridiculous and contemptible part if they should
have sent an array to Portugal. for the same purpose that we had
sent one in 1226, namely, to act a neutral part, or, in other words,
to protect Don it reply to what fell from the noble earl
(Aberdeen). .6 that we idmold g* to war with Portugal if we at-
tempted to dethrone Do !gigue'," he (Lord Camaro:at) begged to
say that, even the breath of a war would have effected that object.
All the militsry forces in Portugal were in favour of their legitimate
sovereign, and the coffers of Don Miguel were empty. The noble
earl, in conclusion. observed that he would support the motion of
the nettle vircount.

The Alai qui. of LANSDOWNE thought 'hit the hous& should
be put in possession of all the ir.ftoni iti In passible respecting our
relations with Portogal of lase. It wt ii'd b.: hum Bating to the
sovereign, and painful to the feeling/. of the people of this country,
to acknowledge as t.wercign of Portugsl that despot, whose cha-
racter, bad as it was toward& his own subject.. this country could
not take into consideration in recognisieg hitu. The noble marquis
would vote for the notion of his noble Iriebd, in expectation that it
would Ica;( 'o some discovery that might spare its fro,: the painfl
necessity of acknowledging suet a person as sover;ign.
The Duke of %VIifiLINOTON denied, as alleged •Ity the Nalthi
Mast,. that this conntry had any thing to do with the I'ertuguese
Ctwistitution, that is, if Mr. Canning was to be believed ; Sir
Chirke Stuart had acted on that occasion as agent of the Emptr•ar
of the Brasile, • not as an ambatsador from this country. Mr.
Canning took all the pains he .possibly could to convince Pro-
and the °thee Xuropean powers, that the British goverty-
. h to do with the granting of that eonstituti.,:t.
i had
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equally as little to do with the sending of
t• . Don Miguel had been appointee sidpmt
by his berhet, and be was Induced to come to this country previous
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to his ring to Portugal, with Intent to mast himself acquainted with
the cons ti; tt don of this country, and reconcile him to the Portugue,
charter, which he certainly then promised to support. His Grace
denied that the sending of troops to Portugal in 1826. implied n.i
intention to support the charter. (Hear, hear.) The object of
sending the troops was to protect that kingdom from foreign op-
pression. The noble duke euloalsed the conduct of our Am.
baniatior on that occasion, observing that no person could have
meted with more rigour and candour than he had. The noble
duke did not mean to say that our treaty with Portugal would not
justify to to interfere with her to any extent, but for many years
we had ceased to concern ourselves with her internal affairs. Appli-
cation had been made by Don John in 1820, fir assistance to quell
a civil war which his son had stirred up in flit Brazils, and it was
refused on the grounds that we should not interfere with her internal
sales. He could not permit troops to go from this country to ill:
Azores to exercise hostilities against the king de facto without corn.
witting a breach of neutrality ; but had no objection to their going
there from France or any other country. He did not mean to say it
would be a breach of the law of nations to permit them to land there.
Before they had left this country they had notice that they should
not gn to Terceira, so that if they had experienced any inconvenience
after that, they might blame themselves. The noble duke, In con-
clusion, trusted that the house would not see the necessity of acceding
to the motion, or of calling for any papers on the subject, until his
majesty should command ministers to lay them before the house.
Viscount 111 I.: I,BOURNE replied, and the house divided, when
there appeared
For the motion 3l 1 Against it 52
Majority 3l
The House adjourned at a Quarter past Eleven.