Star.
London, England, 1831-08-26 00:00:00

LETTER OF ♦ LIBERAL IN LISBON TO HIS FRIEND

PORTUGAL.

IN LONDON.

Idszow, JULY 23, 1831.
I have received your letter, dated the 10th inst.
and confess to you that, notwithstanding the many
good things you tell me regarding our cause, I
begin to bo more and more undeceived, and that
from thence we have nothing to hope for : all that
comes from London and Paris, and which is cir-
culated here, is reduced to lies and acknowledged
falsehoods, by means of which, unfortunately, the
authors have succeeded in increasing the number
of victims, animating and dragging our friends to
attempts and projects from which have resulted
imprisonments, trials, and other misfortunes,
which you know. We already cannot bear the
weight of the impositions and contemptible plans
contained in the correspondenct with the libe-
rals, which we receive by every packet, who, to
persuade us to believe in them, tells us that they
are in communication with certain influential
personages of the English Cabinet, as also with
many members of the French Government.
That the Government of Don Miguel proceeds
against us, and closely watches us, I can perfectly
understand, because we are opposed to him, and
every man of sense will understand the same ; but
that those of our communion and of our own pro-
per party, who tell us they profess principles of
justice and humanity, and make those principles of
their liberalism only consist in stud3ing day and
night in stratagems which hurl us to the brink of
ruin and disgrace, sacrificing us without mercy or
remorse, is ‘...11.1t cannot be understuod, and it is
what we cannot tolerate ; it is also that which
makes the Government of Don Miguel the more
supportable, and in fact excites our complaints
against our soi-disant friends of London and Paris.

Of the many flattering promises held out to us,
we have not yet seen one realized. Renduffe has
written to say that Candido Jose Xavier, the inti-
mate friend of the Minister Sebastiani, had ob-
tained his pei mission that troops for disembarkation
should be put on board the French squadron, to
establish the Liberal Government, independent of
the revolution which our friends in London wished
we should make without means or force. But what
have we seen by the coming of the French squa•
dron ? We see by the result that the Government
of Dou Miguel has gained more moral force and a
greater degree of political consideration, while our
Liberal party has sunk in general estimation, and'
given the world to know its weakness, and the
degradation, more or less, of those who informed
us that they influenced the hostilities of the French
'squadron.
Padre M. in his correspondence with the Snra.
da Travessa dos Ladroens, where 1 always go to
know the news by the packet, wrote that the
young Queen was daily expected in London, and
every arrangement perfected to receive and ac-
knov.ledge her as such, and that the Queen of
England had prepared a part of Windsor Castle
for her residence. A letter from Ida, S. C. ad-
dressed to Roque Ribeiro, speaks still more posi-
tively of the acknowledgment, assuring us that he
had just quitted a Cabinet Minister, from whom
he knew it oflici :Ily. I refer
.you to all these things
that you may koow how we are deceived by those
liberal friends of ours, whose object, by their tin-
! worthy and discreditable cernadoi dence, is to in-
stigatt.i us to sonic daring enterprise: but it is in
vain ; for, besides not being able to attempt any
thing, we a.ready give no credit or belief to their
communications.

the next packet I will write more fully ; and
in the mean time tell our friend . . . . not
to write to Campelio, who has no wish to be ac-
quainted with what is passing, and he does not
write by this opportunity on account of indisposi-
tion. O. 1. P. wishes also that no more letters
may be sent him, and so does Jorge Rei, who says
that he will hand them over to the police the in-
stant he receives thorn. Such is the disagreeable
and calamitous state iu which we at present find
ourselvee. f.

Lisncx, Auo. 6—Since I wrote you bv '
last mail nothing scarcely worthy of communica-
tion has happened. A Council of State was assem-
bled this forenoou, at which all the Ministers were
praent, bat nothing of their deliberations has trans-
pired. At the French Admiral's hallno Portuguese
wns present, very few Englishmen, and none
of the Foreign Consuls. There is not a day with-
out the arrival of some French vessel, and what is
remarkable is, that it generally sails the next,
which naturally causes the circulation of many
reports ; but a f: igate that came in a few days ago
with 279 passengers, in company with another;
large vessel with 100 sailors, the former reporting
that she came fl um To.:Ion in twenty-seven days,
with convicts ja board, and the other from Gibral-
tar, looked very suspicious ; however, the Govern-
ment, by good management, succeded in obligieg
them to leave the Tagus without their having had
eny communication whatever with the shore, and
it now ascertained that those vessels had not
sailed from those ports, and that the pretended
exiles and sailors were no other than Emig,rants.
The whole nation is anxious that the remainder of.
the French squadron should quit us, until which'
it is impossible that perfect order and regu-''
Jai ity cm be restored, so indignant are the people
at the late aggressiou of the French, and at those
who encouraged the greater part,of them
beipg well known, and on tile appearance of any
of them in the streets they,camagt well escape the;
vengeance of the lloyaiios.. Thp _elver/al:neat
have Adopted measures that such distottneuges and
pimis:hments should cease, but not So.ke,w9-
dered at, under the present excitement p£ the:public
vial thaf.lhe ,authorities Amkgrokes can be sue-;
ietthe. Obedience of their °yds s on _every
occasjeis,,The euthushon for pop 414yel daily
increases here as well as in the provinces, the ac-
counts from which assure us of the g eatvst ban-

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