Star.
London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

was pelfectly tranquil and devoted to the Coostitu-
tion, and that Minho was protected by the arrival of
the brave General Luiz do Rego.
After a short- discussion, in-which M. 11€1...-ROIS CAR•
NZIRO observed that there was no reason to fear, as
they could depend on the valour and fidelity of the
Portuguese army, but proposed to suspend the for.
=Aides of, legal proceedings according to Article
211 of the Constitution, and M. GYItAO declared that
these intrigues originated with the Holy Alliance,
the Minister retired as usual.
The PRESIDENT then proposed—

lg, Shall a Committee be immediately appointed tio propose
to the Cartes, conjointly with the Minister of State, an opinion
on the measures necessary to be taken?—Decided affirmatively.
9.dly, Shall the Sitting be declared permanent till the Com-
mittee delivers its opinion?—Decided affirmatively.

Messrs. Marciano de Azevedo,
,Aloura, Xavier,
Monteiro, Barreto, Feio, and Jorge de Aviles, were
named by the President Members of the Committee;
who immediately withdrew, and in about an hour
presented a Project of .a Decree, which being unani-
mously declared urgent, was read a second time, and
each article discussed and approved; on which it was
read by M. FELQUEIRAS, jun: as follows

" The Cortes, taking into consideration the Rebellion that has
been declared at Villa Real, and considering the necessity of pre.
wending any ill-disposed or imprudent persons from following
that infamous party in any part of the kingdom, provisionally
decree as follows :

" 1. All formalities relative to the arrest of delinquents are
di,pensed with, according to Article 411 of the Constiturifin.
g. 2. The inviolability of the houses of Citizens is suspended.

" 3. The Government may reanove or replace,orlinterins, any
Eccle,iastical, Civil, or Ali Wary Officer, who may be suspected
of savouring, directly or indirectly, the plaus of the crumb., of
pablic liberty.

0 4. The Government may send out of the kingdom, or re-
move to another place, those persons, whether natives or fo.
rviginri*, %%ion& residence may be dentrous to the Constitu-
tional Sy-teni.

44 5. dispositions of the present Decree shall be lit force
for three mouth; only.

" Lisbon, Palace of the Cortes, Feb. 27, 1st:1" Approved.
It was resolved that it should receive sanction
of his .Majesty in twenty-four hours.
M. JOSE de SA thought three hours were sufficient;
and M. X. Nlownetao said they might leave it to the
Xing, %%hi, certainly would not delay a moment.

The French Papers of Monday ate warlike, and
such, indeed, is the general' aspect of France. The
culinary evipages of the Duc X.lNGout.Ems (a very
essential portion of the materiel of 4 Bourbon cam-
paign) were dispatched from Paris on Friday, and the
departure of the Duc d'Arrommung remains fixed
for Saturday next.

&tract of a letter from the Agents to LLOYD'S at
Marseilles, dated March 4:

" The Jam, French frigate, of 44. guns, arrived here yester-
day from Toulon, for the purpose of convoying the French Trade
through the Straits, and sailed this morning, with the following
vesseis, via.—Troia Cousins, Jean Baptiste, and Victoire, for
; Minerve, for Bayonne ; Eugene, fur Brest ; Ainta-
Ne for St. Valery ; Achille, for Dunkirk ; and Nep-
tune, tnr Grandeville."

We hear much said of the conduct of the British
Agents in Spain. It is, according to our war faction,
everythhig that is detestable. They have, it teems,
sounded the tii..thish Government on the possibility of
Laving the new Constitution modified in someway or
other.: for, let the faction change the verbiage how it
may, the i,ffnice of Ministers resolves itself into this.
Now iu what other stay would the opponents of Mi-
nisters have them to act ? How could they proceed to
negotiate at all without even touching on the subject
which gives rise (:o nutter how groundlessly) to the
complaints of France? Bin the Chronicle would have
this country iiind 'herself as an Ally to Spain—that is,
pledge ourselves to maintain that Constitution, and
yet expect France to listen to our mediation ! As to
the Constitution itselt—ls it laui:iess ? Is it such
as this country can heartily approve of? No:—it
is far otherwise, as every one well knows ; witness
the article which Prohibits the exercise of every
Religion except the Boman Catholic. Should Mi-
nisters, unfortunately, find themselves, contrary to
their wishes, obliged to take part in the threatened
conflict, it will not be for the maintenance of the
Spanish Constitution, as such, but to avenge some
act of aggression levelled directly against Britain, or
against some Ally that she is bound by Treaty to
supp,rt :—and this is perfectly consonant to what the
Chrouick, when pressed, has been pleased to admit—
"that a country ought not to go to war merely from
sympathy with the situation of another."

It seems to us but too plain that the opposition of
tert.iin Journals has respect to men—not to measures:
ours, on the contrary, when excited, has respect to
measures, and not to men.—On this principle has Taxl
STAR been conducted ever since its commencement.
in 1788. We have often, in such a long series of
Yeas, had occasion to raise our feeble, but not al-
'way unavailing voice against exceptionable measures;
1/04111equently—though not so often as we could
hive wished_have we had ground for praising the
slivasures vursued by the Ministers of the day ; but
"er, during the whole of that period, have our cen•
sures or praises bad respect to the men in office, but
on)), to their proceedings.

Mr, CANNING, we are happy to say, is recovering
from his indisposition..
Yesterday, the Duke of Yoftx received a visit from
qucliet4 tt .GLOUCESTER and a number of
61'41014 a2;ters. His Royal Highness walked
isittalealatai 14 the first tiascainte his indisposition..