Star.
London, England, 1822-10-19 00:00:00

ROYAL SITTINO, OCTOBER 1.

MINOR TRIGOON PRESIDICNT.
At ten minutes past eleven a salute of Artillery
announced that his Majesty was approaching the
Palace of the Cortes, and at a quarter before twelve
the President stated that his Majesty had arrived, and
proposed that the Deputation should go to the bot-
tom of the staircase to receive bim, which was done.

At twenty minutes past twelve his Majesty entered
the Hall, preceded by the Chief Officers of his House-
hold, the Nobility, the Corps Diplomatique, the
Council of State, the Secretaries of State, the Corps
of the Patriarchate, General Officers, and a very nu-
merous suite, his Majesty being surrounded by the
Deputies whom the Cortes had named to receive him.
The Infant Don Miguel was conducted, with the ce-
remony due to his rank, to the gallery reserved for
I the Royal Family and the other distinguished per-
sons, to the seats prepared For them.
Meantime the sovereign Congress was standing,
and his Majesty ascended the throne accompanied by
the Deputation, shewing to them and to the whole
assembly the most evident signs of the great delight
which overflowed his Royal heart.

His Majesty having taken his seat in the magni-
ficent chair placed on the throne, the President and
Deputies also sat down, and his Majesty read the
following Speech:

Gentlemen, I have examined with attention the
Political Constitution of the Monarchy, which, in the
names of all the inhabitants of the United Kingdom
of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarve, was offered me by
its legitimate Representatives, united in these Gene-
ral, Extraordinary, and Constituent Cortes of the
Portuguese Nation : and I have considered with scru-
pulous attention the conditions of this new social com-
pact—Placed by PROVIDENCE at the head of a vali-
ant and magnanimous nation, and convinced that the
general will is the fountain and the medium of all
political power, it is my duty to identify my will
with the general wish, as I was always sensible that
my own happiness is essentially connected with the
prosperity of the Portuguese people.
" Faithful to my principles, I flatter myself with
having offered to the nation, even in the most diffi-
cult circumstances, decisive proofs of the love I bear
it, and of the uprightness which becomes my own
dignity. The Portuguese acknowledge it, and this is
the recompence the most worthy of my labours, as
well as the sole object of my ambition.
66 The new social cotnpact being therefore the ex-
pression of the general will, and the fruit of your
wise meditations, conformable to this enlightened
age, and founded on a reciprocity of interests and
sentiments, which make my cause inseparable from
the cause of the nation, I come to-day, in the midst
of National Representation, to accept the Constitu-
tion which you have just made, and to confirm, by
the most solemn oath, the inviolable promise to keep
it, and'cause it to be kept.

" Yes, Representatives of the heroic Portuguese
nation, your magnificent work, the fruit of so many
enlightened and patriotic labours, will be respected
and maintained. I swear it by the probity and firm-
ness which you knoiv me to possess. This sacred pro-
mise, as spontaneous as the resolution which brought
me from the New World to the cradle of the Mo-
narchy, to co-operate in this your glorious enterprize,
cannot have a surer guarantee than this same firm-
ness, with which I have maintained the bases to which
I swore, and which appears in all the acts which cha-
-1 racterize my promises as sincere, and my intentions
as pure.

4, I congratulate myself on both meriting the con-
; fidence and love of the Nation, and on the arrival of
this happy day, twice celebrated in the annals of the
history of Portugal. It will shew to posterity the
perhaps unparalleled example of a Nation regenerated
without disturbing the public tranquillity, and that
the first Constitutional King of the Portuguese, know-,
ing how to make himself worthy of.the confidence of
Ithe People, knew also how sweet it is to reign over
their hearts. Such, Gentlemen, is the glory to which