Star.
London, England, 1822-06-18 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE CONSPIRACY.

(SUPPLEMENT TO THE 129TH NUMBER OF THE GOVEP•:-
MENT GAZETTE, SUNDAY, JUNE i 2.)

" Lisbon, June

Irrefragable proofs have at last been discovered of
the truth, with which the Minister ofJustice explained
to the sovereign Cortes the necessity of the extraor-
dinary authority which was granted to him for Le
public safety, and for the sacred cause of the country.
Nefatious anarchists and ambitious conspirators de-
signed nothing less than bat barously to stain with
blood our happy regeneration, to cover the kingdom
with mourning, to depose the King, and to abolish
the Coates. But all their atrocious projects have
proved abortive: the conspiracy was discovered; and
in the night between the Ist and 2i of the monde,
were seized by the Magistrate of the dist:ict
Nova), the principal instruments of the conspiracy,
at the time when they were taking for distribution
from the printing-office in the street Formosa, called
the Liberal, a great number of incendiary and infa-
mous Proclamations ; in which, and in the plan of the
conspiracy found on the five traitors now imprisoned,
it appears that, with a few slight Vali:l6°ns, are co::-
tained the following anarchical and horrible ideas:—
To dissolve the present Cortes, and convoke the old,
with some modifications, such as having two Cham-
bers, one of them consisting of hereditary Members
and of the first Nobility : to depose the beneficent and
magnanimous King John VI. who has so faithfully
and openly adhered to the cause of the Constitution
and of national liberty, and in his place to elet ate the
Infant Don Michael, at the head of a Regency, com-
posed of men the most conspicuous and respectablo,
who have declared themselves enemies of the system
by which, happily, we are governed : to assassins:c
those Members of the Cortes and of the Ministry u!:o
are the most able and celebrated defenders of the na-
tional rights : in one word, to throw the whole natila
into a state of confusion and civil war, of bloodshed,
disorder, and anarchy, the advantage of which was
to be reaped by these infamous conspirators, and by
others like themselves, who probably will be leund
engaged in the same plot.
The persons who have already been apprehended
will appear from the dispatch and list following :

" Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—lt not being pos=l-
- for me to give your Excellency circumstantial details of the
diligence with which I repaired to the printing-office in the Rua
Formosa, by the command of his Majesty, that your Excellency
may lay the same before him, I shall execute my task as circum-
stances permit, beginning by saying, that on proceeding with my
Officers and troop to the appointed spot, I apprehended, hi fa-
grante delicto, the individuals whose names are contained in the
enclosed list, finding on them the incendiary Proclamations, of
which I likewise send you copies. Going then to a cellar, I
found the printing-preas prepared, and all the signs of its haviklg
recently printed the Proclamations alluded to. I then chtcr-
mined to remove the prisoners into secret confinement, beeir;
up all their effects, and placing them in good security in the rrr
sence of Officers of credit and the troop, whom I continue there
till the morning, when I propose to draw up the necessary acts•

" Having done this, I went to the Aljube (ecclesiastical prison!,
where I seized all the papers relative to Father Mestre Braga. I
then proceeded to the house of the prisoner Francisco de Alpoiril
e blenezes, where I acted in like manner; and, finally, accom-
panied by my colleague, the Criminal Judge of the Castle.ward,
I detailed the capture .of the Paymaster of the 16th regiment of
infantry, Bernardino Rodriguez. This was executed afterwards
by the above-mentioned Minister, with aII due zeal and activity,
leaving nothing to be desired on this head. Ile concluded this
act with a wank in the house, and a seizure of the papers which

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given your Excellency. Gob preserve your Excellency.
JOSE JOAQUIM GERARDO DE SAMPAYO."
the most Illustrious and Excellent
Ilhor Jose da Silva Carvallo."

crude from the North ari not Pasi,fith' and it is stilt
believed there Will War, because it appears to be
inevitable. The exchange of couriers between' St.
Petersburgh and Parii is very frequent, front whith
at is with reason concluded that import‘nt negocia-
tions are carrying on between the Governmints of
those two countries." On the contrary, the intelli-
gence from Vienna, of the 3d instant, says—" We
are here well satisfied with the news from St. Peters-
burgh. The Emperor ALEXANDER has accepted all
the propositions of our Cabinet, and the affair with
Turkey may be looked on as settled.."-
The French Funds, 5 per Cents. on Saturday,
opened at 91f. 80c. and closed at 91f. PC.
it is said, from Augsburgh, that the Turks have
not subjugated the interior of Chios". Great prepa-
rations to resist them are making in the islands of the
Archipelago. It 'was reported that an enagagement
took place at sea, but the narrators sailed off before
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the battle was decided.

LIST.
,cis de Alpoiro and Meneaes, a merchant, aged 32, &t.
tuarius de Costa Neves, Knight of the Order of Cilium,
in the Military Secretariat of the Army aged 33, &c.
lel Ferreira, a servant, aged 19, &c.
Rodrigues da Costa Sinn:Pena composing apprentice in
;ing-office already mentioned, aged 11.

11110, 1,1 V ENING STA It.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, ]S2.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCIIANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
No business is doing in the market this morning, and Consols
rvnain steady at sq for the Opening, and Reduced 79i.

rostna Mortrr.—The accounts from Spain rather operate
.ye Spanish Stocks this morning; although heavy, the market
i. ,teaJy, and they maintain their price. The Chilian Bonds
r.main as per yesterday. The Contractors of the above Stock
toe deposited the Contract at the Bank, With other documents
the above Loan. aossian Bonds (New) nothing doing
thcr. All other Foreign Securities remain as per yesterday.
Si,ani:ll New 62i ; Cid 64i ; Russian 83 ; Chilian 80 ; Prussian
s.:l;•Danisb 86 ; Neapolitan T 3 to ; Colombian 101 ; New 84.
STOCK EXCIIANGE—ONF. O'CLOCK.
There is scarcely anything doing, and consequently the market
rmaina without alteration. Consols 80.84

The intelligence respefting Russia and Turkey, re-
ceived by private channels, is by no mean's positive
as to the continuance of peace; and, in the City there
are still two opinions respecting the settlement of the
Turkish and Russian disputes. It is reported that a
letter has been received from Odessa, dated the 21st
May, which states that advices had that day arrived
from Ktchenow, the head•quarters of the Russian
army, by which information had been received that
the Turkish army was in motion, but that it neither
had nor would retire from Moldavia and Wallachia,
according to the agreement made at Constantinople.
—At the date of these advices there had been fully
sufficient time for the retreat of the army, had it been
intended. These advices further state that at present
the Russian army is in no situation to enforce their
demands on the Turkish Empire. It is without pay
and clothing, and is besides badly fed. There is the
best authority farther for stating, that it is just now
in a state of mutiny, there being between forty and
fifty Officers under trial at Kitchenow, at the time
the letters came away, for disobedience of orders and
actual rebellion. The Nobility in that part of the
Russian Empire are also represented as being very
much dissatisfied. This letter from Odessa is at va-
riance with accounts from Bucharest, dat►d the 22d
May, and which represent the Turkish army as re-
tiring. Still the one from Odessa is reported to have
been written by a Gentleman of high character, to
his friend in London.

There is also bat little business doing in the Foreign Secuti-
t.3, and without alteration.

PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
Bank Stock 239% 240
S pet' Cent: Reduced 791/4 1/4
::i per Cent. Cons. shut-3% per Cents. 9014 90
4 per Cents. 96 9.5 —4 per Cent. New 96 4
BAnk Long Anns. 20 3-16
ladia Bonds 48s. 435.
Ilr.cheq..Bills of 3.:1,04.90, par Is. dis. ls. pr. 2s. dis.
Do. Small Ss. .ss. pr.—Cons. tor Act. 803/4 1/2.

Four Bills of considerable commercial importance
were read a second time in the House of Lords last
tight. The first of these has for its object to erase
from the Siatute Book no less than three hundred

Acts of Parliament, every one of which it, specially

repeals. This is a •ery beneficial measure, and we
A' mild wish it pursued throughout the whole of Sri-
;:;h legislation ; for this is but one of the many in-
s:ances in which the law on one particular subject is
scattered through some hundred Acts of Parlia-
ment. Among the Committees that are appointed
every year, we do not think that any one could be'
r.ore usefully employed than in consolidating the
Acts of Parliament relating to one particular subject
into one Act. It would also be desirable that, for
the future, when any alteration was to be made in our
existing laws, that it should be done by substituting
an entirely new Act of Parliament for the old Statute,
and not by repealing mere chapters, clauses, or even
words, which is the case at present.

By the extracts we have given in another place
from the Lisbon Papers, it will be seen that a con-
spiracy has been detected in that capital. That the
Portuguese Minister has for some time been aware of
plots against the public peace, carrying on in the very
capital, is evident from the disclosure he made. to
the Cones when he solicited that the Habeas Corps,

if so it may be called, might be suspended till he
should be enabled to carry into effect certain mea-

The second Bill which we shall notice relates to
an alteration in the Navigation Laws, which will I
allow the importation of our produce and manufac-
tares throughout the whole Continent of America,
not only in British ships, but either in Spanish ships
cr in the ships of the Republics that have been et.ta-
Wished in Spanish America. The Earl of LtvsaPooL,
v.ho moved the second reading of this Bill, very justly
observed, that with regard to the freedom of com-
merce, it was a great mistake to suppose that one
country by throwing obstacles in the way of the
commerce of other countries could benefit itself. No.
thing, he said, could be more true than that the more
ether countries increased in wealth and prosperity,
the greater would be the advantage to our own com-
merce and manufactures.
The third and fourth Bills were introduced for a
second reading by the Earl of Baxnuasr. Their
object is to authorize the trade between our West
India Islands and the United States of America to be
carried on in ships of the United States, as well as in
British ships, and to allow a similar trade between
our West India Islands, and other States on the Con-
kent of America. But in order to protect our own
North American Colonies, it had been deemed expe-
dient to impo'e a duty on the articles imported into
the West Indies from the United States of America,

sum necessary far the safety of the country. The
result has been, the discovery of one of the most hor-

rid plots that can possibly be imagined, with the sei-
zure of the minor instruments for promoting and car-
rying it into effect ; for we do not hesitate to give it
as our opinion, that other persons of more conse-
quence than those arrested, are engaged in it.
The objects of this conspiracy were to depose the
Kinn, to nominate the Infant MICHAEL at the head
of the Regency, to dissolve the Coates, and esta-
blish a new Legislative Body, consisting of two
Houses—the Upper Chamber to be composed of the
hereditary Nobility, and most probably a large share
of the Ecclesiastics, who are at the bottom of every
plot that has been formed in Spain and Portugal since
the establishment of the Constitutional system. The

ast object of the plot is said to have been to murder
all those Members of the present Cortes and of the
Ministry who are distinguished by their attachment
to the free Constitution of Portugal.
Such are the views ascribed to the authors of this
conspiracy. Five men were in custody, all of whom
were seized in the night between the Ist and 2d inst.
and though among them there was not any individual
of superior rank or importance, there is reason for
believing that they were secretly in connexion with
many persons of high station and influence. Their
designs are gathered from a number of incendiary
Proclamations found upon them, which they had taken
ut of a Printing;office for immediate distribution.
Some of those causes which were from the begin.
ning calculated-to produce assaults upon the Spanish
Constitution, might have been expected, ere now, to
give birth to similar results in Portugal, had they
not been exposed to a more powerful resistance from
the greater activity and concentration of the public
sentiment, and perhaps from the greater prudence or
integrity of the Court. The Nobles and High Church-
men of Portugal have, like those of Spain, been
stripped of their ascendancy ; and as it is hardly in
nature that men should acquiesce
_at once in the loss
of all which served to pamper the intoxication of
pride and the abuse of power, so far from finding
reason to wonder at the discovery of a single plot,
we are rather disposed to see an evidence of the force
which freedom has already acquired among the
people of Portugal, in the fact that its natural ene-
mies have been se long discouraged from attempting
its overthrow, even by secret machinations.
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not a prohibitory one, but merely sufficient to place
the trade on an equal footing with that from our
North American Colonies. It had likewise been
deemed advisable to allow a direct exportation from
c•.ar West India Islands to the different States of
linrope, it being found, that in consequence of the
charge which had taken place in the political situa-
tion of the Brazils, Brazil sugar could be imported
into Europe at a much cheaper rate than our West
India sugar, coming, as it did, through this country.
Inimical as we are to commercial restrictions, on a
general principle, we rejoice to see Ministers aban-
doning the narrow policy a their predecessors, and
attempting to place our commercial system on a more
liberal footing than it has been hitherto conducted,
and w•e doubt not that considerable advantages will
in consequence accrue to this country.

The intelligence contained in. the French Papers
of Saturday is excessively meagre. Some articles
from the North of Europe still talk of hostilities be,
tureen Russia and Turkcy as probable; and the sa.
opinion is expressed in accounts which we receive
from other quarters. An article from Leipsic, dated
June 3, in the Nuremberg Gazette, says--". The ac-

MUNICH, JUNE 6.
In the Act by which his Majesty has closed the se-
cond Session of the States of Bavaria, he assures them
that he will endeavour to make good the deficiency
in the receipts arising from the reduction of taxes, by
economy in the expenses of Administration, and that
he has given his Ministers the most precise instruc-
tions to that effect.

FRANITORT, JUNK 10:—On the 4th, the Metalliques were 77%;
Bank Shares, 719 7-10.

Letters received in the City, direct from Algiers,
confirm the distressing accounts, which had previ-
ously reached England, by way of Genoa, of a plague
by which Algiers has been nearly desolated. We
lament to say that the later accounts are even more
disastrous than the preceding. They state that incal-
culable numbers of the inhabitants had already fallen
victims to this dreadful disease ; the survivors, as
many of them as possessed the means, had shut them-
' selves up in their houses, all business was of course
at a stand, the streets were deserted, and a silent hor-
ror pervaded the whole town.

The following extract of a letter from America,
brings the important intelligence of the Congress of
the United States having formally recognised the in-
dependence of the countries which lately"tonstituted
the Spinish Empire of the West.
_

" Boston, May 19, 1822.

" The seal is put to the termination of Spanish power in South
America ; and those fine countries which constitute the southern
portion of this hemisphere, have received, at the hands of our
Government, a complete Act of Recognition of their entire In-
dependence. This is no half measure on our part ; provision be-
ing nude for carrying the Act of Congress into full effect, by the
appointment of Ministers to three of the Governments—Buenos
Ayres, Colombia, and Chili; and in a letter received this morn-
ing from Washington, it is said the Ministers are already named'
and will depart without loss of time. I am Informed that
official dispatches are sent to all our Ministers and Consuls in
Europe, announcing this event. What may be the sentiments
of European Powers on this subject is little thou& of here
(though it is believed they will concur); and it can be of no
consequence to the New Countries themselves; they have pro-
gressed too firmly and steadily through every difficulty to the
situation in which they now find themselves placed, to leave
room for doubt as to the maintenance of that independence
they have so nobly fought for and gained. To the United
States, as one of the last acts of the Session, belongs the honour
of first solemnly admitting them to the full rights of nations—
and Spain, by a horrible and unvariesl system of misrule through
ages, has for ever lost some of the finest, the most fertile, and
most extensive regions of the world, whose immense Commerce
and varied productions are now laid open to nations of more en-
terprize than their ancient masters ; and of which I hope we
shall have, as we deserve, a very full share."

Yesterday his MAJESTY tonk an airing in his private
carriage in the Parks, and called at his Palace,Pimlico.
Yesterday, the Duke of YORK transacted military
business with the KING.
Yesterday, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited his
MAJESTY.
• The Anniversary of his MAJESTY'S Coronation
will be commemorated by variousfetes and rejoicings.
Yesterday, the Earl and Countess of HAREWOOD
gave a grand dinner to a distinguished party, among
whom were Lord and Lady GRANTHAM, Lord and
Lady HowueN, Lord G. SOMERSET, &C.
Mrs. N. HOPKINS gave a splendid Quadrille Ball
last Friday, at her house in Gloucester-place.
Lord and Lady GWYDYR have issued cards of in-
vitation tor two parties, one on the 22d, and the other
on the 27th inst. at their house in Piccadilly.
Earl FITzwILLtAM has again made a liberal abate-
ment of rents to his tenants at Iligham Ferree,
lingborough, Finedon, Little Addington, and Chel-
veston cum Caldecott, Northamptonshire ; the abate-
ment has been from twenty to thirty and forty per
cent. although several deductions had been made in
1 1816 ; and the rents of several other farms have not
Ibeen raised since the year 1796.
At the Hon. the Ladies Fl'l ZPATRICKs' audit, held
on the sth instant, for their estates, deductions were
made. on a most liberal scale.
, G. P. Jenvoiss, Esq. M.P. has again reduced his
j rents, making them now fifty per cent.less than they
I were seven years ago.
I We understand that Counts MARTINENGO and
Frankfort Papers of the 11th inst. reached us this
FLAMBURIARI, and Dr. Roast have left Paris for this
forenoon. An article from Vienna of the 3d inst. country, to lay the complaints of the lonian Islanders
states that M. de TAxiscuare will return to that infirm the Throne and the British Nation.

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city in ten Jays, 'when the time tor the meeting
Congress hill 14 axe& h **KUM! that it
take place ttlwai•di the end of September, in some
city of Italy-ander the Isestilart Obvernmentt the
following are extracts :
MILAN, JUNE
Her Imperial Highness the Archcluiess,Vice-Oneen,
has been delivered of a Princess. Her IMperial
Highness and the new born Princess are doing Well.
BERLIN, JUNE 2.
it is said that the Committee appointed to investi-
gate the revolutionary' intrigues lately discovered,
has proposed, after examining the revolutionary tors.
respondence now laid before it, to review the papers
relative to the former investigation of similar in-
trigues, because, in the papers lately foipttd there are
various references to those seized three years ago.
The documents also relative to Dr. Jahn, which have
been long in the hands of the Superior Tribunal at
Breslaw, are to be required back. Jahn has had for
some months Colonel Von Bulow as Commandant at
Colberg, whom he found as Commandant at Custrin,
when he was conveyed thither from Spandau, and
who kept him under great restraint. He, however,
still receives his pension of Iwo dollars, and conti-
nues to employ himself in writing the history of the
thirty years' War.
The sentence of the Heigh-forester, Hiedemann, in
the Tribunal of the Second Instance, has not yet been
made known ; eh generally believed it will be the
same as in the First Instance, by which he was con-
demned to be shot.

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ferent Compknies of the Guards. Who wetebil Any; 4ivotts their
medals, and laurel in their caps. The colours of the KING."
Guard, as well all tfia even Regiment" 11? eh.. Royal Flora
Unarda, were surmounted with a Lute Mani* if Satre!, and the
Nandi played several select pieces ot music uptin the occasion,
on the Parade in St. James's Park., _ •
Tuesday, about three o'clock in the afternoon; arrived at the
Pigeon-house, Dublin; In the Intrepid transport, three tompa;
ides of the Royal Artillery, front Wooliticb; Dover, and Ports;
mouth. Two companies of them came tia Island bridge; and the
other remained on board until Thursday, when the two compa.
nies that are relieved this day embark With than; Mbjor 17.
CANIMILL, with two companies, Will sail for Gibraltar, and
Major Ill'Loutiotts for Corfu: The men appeared to be in en-
tellent health and 'plats.
• Thursday the first division di the 43d Light infantry marched
Mint Limerick for Galway, where they are to be 'taloned.

NA FAL INTELLIGENCE:

Vi'airatoueu, Jinni 17.—:Arrivtd thill Morning dui Farde
schooner, of London, U. MILLEN Masier, from Meuina,
days passage, all well; remains in Chiiiel Bay, Portland, wind
Fast. The Captain and crew have been on short allowance for
nine days. As soon as provisions and water can be 'put on
board, the Captain will immediately put to sea again. Arrived
the Countess of Livezpool P.ist Office packet, R. Wachs Mas-
'ter, front Jersey and Guernsey, with Mails and passengers.

Poarsamovs, Jugs S.R.—Arrited La &mune,
Mosaic, from Havre ; and William, Lams, from Oporto.—:
Salted the Brand, Srucaus, for Rochelle.
Facmouvw, Joss 16.-.. Wind S. to S.E.-...Arrived the Diana,
Coca, from Youghal. Arrived off this port the Abeam; Lows;
from Altnelra • Fortune, Dowituo, from Galipulit and received
orders to proceed to BristoL Sailed the Hope, Btryvtanom,
for London ; and Duke of Kent packet, Lawson; for Lisbon.

Ptirwoosu' Jour 116.—Wind E. by S.—Arrived the Rose,
liourttatas, from Malta: Arrived off this port the Commo-
dore Hase, Ccalzacx, from Bengal for London, in six months
and three days.
Drat, Jess' 7.-.-Wind N. E.—Came down from the Diver last
night and remain, the Lord Wellington, Batt, for Quebec ; also
this afternoon and sailed the Nelly, Daces, for Quebec. Arrived
and sailed fur lisdßiver the Speedy, ANDRZWIb from Valencia.
The only English ships of war the late Emperor of FranEe
(Bosareasz) was ever on board of are now lying in the River
Medway, viz. the UNDAUNITD, Bitt.mtaornox' and Noaxstostera-
cs.zo. In the first he was conveyed to the Island of Elba, in
April, 1815 ; In July following he surrendered, and was received
on board the second, at Rochefort, after the battle of Waterloo ;
and in less than a month afterwards sailed in the third for St.
Helena, where he died on the Sth May, 1821.

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