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THORP. MAYOR.
A COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber
1-1' of the Guildhall of the Qty of London, on Tttvrtoor,
sie 11th day of January, 1811,

Rasotvzo, That this Court having, upon several former occa-
sions, deprecated the various Injuries sustained by her Majesty
the geese, and especially the late unconstitutional Bill of Pains
and Penalties, introduced into Parliament by his Majesty's Mi-
nisters, to degrade her Majesty, and to divorce her from her
Illustrious Consort, have seen, with the highest satisfect'wn, the

abandonment of that Bill in the House of Lords.
That this Court consider those odious measures as contrary
both to the spirit of our Laws and the Divine Precepts of the
Gospel ; and that they were attempted to be supported by a
class of witnesses in every respect questionable, both as to their
character and veracity, by bribery, and by the Most undue and
corrupt influence; and that her Majesty is, in the minds of an
immense majority of the Country, acquitted of all the crimes
laid to her charge.
That these proceedings, so unjust in their nature, and so un-
constitutional in their operation, have produced, throughout the
Nation, mingled sensations of disgust and contempt against the
• parties by whose agency and advice they were originated and
prosecuted, and have excited the strongest suspicion that a foul
and atrocious Conspiracy has been carried on against the Life
and Honour of the Queen.

That the discontents which exist throughout the Country
upon this unhappy subject, can only be allayed, and the conse-
quent dangers which threaten it, can only be averted, by an im-
mediate insertion of her Majesty's Name and Title into the
Liturgy of the Church, and by enabling her Majesty to assume
and support her Rights and Dignities; and, at the same time,
by the institution of such an immediate and rigid Enquiry into
those disgraceful measures, and especially into the origin and
proceedings of the Milan Commission, as may lead to the pu-
nishment of these guilty persons by whose advice and counte-
nance this effort has been made to derogate from the dignity of
the Crown, and to inflict an irreparable injury on the best in-
terests of the Country..

Tbat Petitions, founded on these Resolutions, be presented to
bath Houses of Parliament. WOODTIfORPE.

AT a MEETING of MERCHANTS, BANKERS,
TRADERS, and Others, held at the City of London
Tavern, the 11th of January, 1821,
Sir ROBERT WIGRAM, Bart. in the Chalr,

It was moved by THOMAS ROD, Esq. and seconded by Jous
WIIITMORE, Esq. and carried unanimously,
That the following Declaration be adopted by this Meeting, be
signt..4l by the Gentlemen present, and lie for Signatures at the
City of London Tavern, King's Ikad, Poultry, and London
CuSee-house, Ludgate-hill.

" We, the undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and
• others, of London, fed ourserves imperiously called upon in the
present state of the country, to declare these our deliberate sen-
timents, earnestly and anxiously hoping that the evils which
threaten us will, under DIVIIit PS.OVIDENCZ, be averted, and that
now, when no foreign enemy assails us, we may be permitted
to enjoy, uninterruptedly, the blessings of domestic peace.
" We declare it to be our firm and unalterable purpose, to
. uphold our venerable and happy Constitution, composed of
King, Lords, and Commons, against all and every attempt to
alter or subvert it, and to maintain, in all its purity, our holy
and rever,:d Religion, feeling the most assured conviction that
the greatest share of humor happiness is to be derived from the
one, and the best and strongest hopes of eternal felicity from
the r•ther.

a We view with poignant regret and abhorrence the measures
• which abound to destroy these sources of present enjoyment,
and of future consolation ; and we trust the laws will be en-
forced, to deter and to punish all who, by their factious or blas-
phemous proceedings, wish to deprive the subjects of this great
and free country of these ineitimable blessings blessings handed
d Avn to us by our ancestors, cherished by the wise and virtuous
of our own time, and, ,in our minds, suited to the welfare and
happiness of the generations which are to follow us."
Resolved unanimously, That the following Gentlemen, who
are now present, be a Committee fur carrying the object of the
Meeting into effect, with liberty to add to their number:
J. Alexander, Esq. M.P. John Lines, Esq. 31.1'.
Geo. Bridges, Esq. M.P. Wm. King, Esq.
Thos. Bainbridge, Esq. Joseph King, Esq.
Jonathan Birch, Esq.. Max. Kymer, Esq.
Ar.oeas Darkly, Esq. Sir Wm. Kay, Bart.
John Blades, Esq. Lewis Loyd, Esq.
Geo. Blackman, Faq. ' William Manning, Esq.
Henry Bonham, Esq. 'R. H. Marten, Esq.
Thos. Bridges, Esq. John Nixon, Esq.
Wm. Borradaile, Esq. W. Willoughby Prescott, Esq.
Slins. Bosanquet, Esq. Sir Charles Price. Bart.
llieronimus Burn-tester, Esq.: Brice Pearce, Esq.
Vm. Burmester Thomas Reid, Esq.
John Cape!, F.sq. Thomas Roberts, Eaq.
James Campbell. Esq. J. A. Rucker, L.
Wm. Curtis, Esq. 0. A. Robinson, Esq.
Joseph Dowson, Esq. G. Ranking, Esq.
Joseph Howson, inn. Esq. I). K. Rucker, Esq.
I lugh Edwards, Esq. George Shaw, Esq.
James Fielding, Esq. Benjamin Shaw, Esq.
Sir Charles Flower, Bart. Joseph Steel, Esq.
Alex. S. Gordon, Esq. Richard Twining, En.
Lath. Gould, Esq. John Whitmore, Esq.
John Howell, Esq. John Wells, F.sq. 31.1'.
Quarks Harris, Esq. Sir Robert Wigram, Bart.
John Hall, Esq. John Wild, Esq.
David Hunter, Esq. Thomas Wilson, Esq. M.P.
Thos. Helps, Esq. Robert Wilson, Esq..
Thos. Jameson Esq. John* Winter, jun. Esq.
Jahn Inglis, Esq.
Resolved unanimously, 'That a Copy of the Declaration be
published in the Morning and Evening Papers.
Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of the Meeting be
given to Sir Roamer Wrotast, Bart. for his able, judicious, and
impartial conduct in the Chair.
(Signed)

ROBERT NVIGRAM.

The North Pok.—Whilst several of our gallant
countrymen have been exploring the Icy Regions of
the North Pole, in hopes of finding the desired pas-
sage, and thereby gain the promised £20,000, some
ofour friends here found a passage by a North Pole,
•I'hy which they obtained a similar sum, we allude to
one of the Lottery Poles, which directed them to
SIVIWKIGHT'S Office in the Haymarket, by which
they obtained one of the 00,000 he recently sold ;
and as there are Poles out now in every direction,
£21,000 may be gained, perhaps, by an East, West,
North, or South Pole, and that on the 23d instant,
when the Lottery begins, and first live Minutes will
produce £69,000, in Capitals alone.
PIetyODICAL LITERATURE.-It has been justly ob-
sery that the taste of the Public for Literary Essays,
has for some time been increasing far beyond the
means of gratification afforded by the Old Magazines,
whose limits are confined to six sheets per month ;
.and we therefore bail, with much satisfaction, an at-
tempt to keep pace with the march of public curio-
sity, which deserves, and will, no doubt, meet. with
the highest encouragement. We allude to the New
Series of the New Monthly Magazine, the first Number
((which, just publidsed, has, we believe, agreeably
surprised the Public, by assuming an importance not
hitherto contemplated or attempted by any Monthly
Journal.

PORTUGAL.

MANIFESTO OF THE PORTUGUESE NATION TO
THE SOVEREIGNS AND PEOPLE OF EUROPE

~-- .

The Portuguese Nation, animated with the most
sincere and ardent4Lesire to maintain the Political
and Commercial reNons which have hitherto bound
it to all the Governments and People of Europe,
and having more particularly at heart to continue
to merit, in the opinion of illustrious men of all Na-
tions, the return and consideration which have never
been refused to the loyal and honourable Character
of the Portuguese, judges it indispensably necessary
to offer to the Public a succinct but frank exposition
of the causes which produced the memorable events
that have lately taken place in Portugal, of the true
spirit which directed them, of the sole object to
which the changes tended that have been made, or
which it is intended to make, in the internal form of
its Government. It is confident that this exposition,
rectifying the false idea which may perhaps have
been conceived of those events, will merit the kind '
attentions of the Sovereigns and of the People.
All Europe knows the extraordinary circumstances
which, in 1807, forced his Majesty John VI. at that
time Prince Regent of Portugal, to remove with his
Royal Family to his trans-Atlantic dominions. It is
granted that this resolution of his Majesty was judged
then of the most decided advantae to the general
cause of Liberty in Europe. Is.obody, however,
failed to perceive the critical situation in which Por-
tugal was placed by the absence of its Prince, and
succeeding events proved that this foreboding was
not vain or rash.

Portugal, separated from her Sovereign by the
vast expanse of the ocean, deprived of all resources
from her transmarine possessions, and of all the be-
nefits of Commerce by the blockade of her ports,
and governed at home by a hostile force, which was
then thought invincible, seemed to have reached the
final term of its political existence, never to be re-
placed in the rank of independent Nations.
In such a desperate crisis, this heroic People did
not lose its honour, its courage, or its fidelity to its
king, which could not be torn from its heart by the
force of circumstances, nor by the preponderant
power of the enemy. They, in fact, displayed them-
selves in the most energetic manner, as soon as a fa-
vourable opportunity offered. The Portuguese, with
the assistance of their allies, recovered, at the ex-
pense of the most painful sacrifices, their political
existence; restored with generous loyalty to their'
Monarch the Throne and the Crown; and impartial
Europe must confess (though this justice is not al-
ways done) that to them are also in a great measure
owing the triumphs which have since been jnined to
the advantages of the liberty and independence of
Thrones and Nations. It is more easy to conceive
than to express what was the internal situation of
Portugal, after circumstances so new, effects so ex-
traordinary, and a convulsion so general.
The ruin of its population commenced by the emi-
gration of the inhabitants who followed the Prince,
or endeavoured to withdraw from the distrustful
suspicion, or trvo systematic persecution of the enemy ;
which was increased by the two fatal invasions of
1809 and 1810, and by the inevitable losses of a long
and obstinate war of seven years.
Commerce and industry, which can never prosper
but under the beneficent protection of peace, secu-
rity, and public tranquillity, were not only sup-
pressed and abandoned, but seemed to have been
wholly destroyed by the unlimited liberty given to
foreign vessels in the ports of Brazil ; by the disas-
trous Treaty of 1810; by the consequent decline of
the national manufactures; by the almost total de-
struction of the mercantile marine, and naval force ;
by the absolute want of all care to protect and en-
courage these two most important branches of pub-
lic prosperity.
Agriculture, the basis of the riches and strength
of nations, deprived of the arms which the army or
death took from it; destitute of the capital which
supported it, and which had been sometimes em-
ployed on objects of more urgent necessity ; de-
prived of the vital strength which it used to receive
from the national industry, and from the active cir-
culation of Commerce, both domestic and foreign,
lay in a fatal lethargy, and presented to the astonish-
ed spectator only the melancholy picture of famine
and misery.
The sensible diminution of the Public Revenue,
caused by the ruin of the Population, of Commerce,
and of Industry ; by the irrevocable loss of the great
sums which the enemy violently extorted from the
hands of the Portuguese; and by the excessive ex-
penses of the war, obliging the Nation to contract
new and enormous debts, for the payment of which
its resources were engaged, gave the final blow to
public credit, which was already shaken by the scan-
dalous malversations of the fiscal agents, as well as
by the most erroneous system of administration.
If the Portuguese did not love and respect their
Prince and his august dynasty with a kind of love
and adoration almost religious—if they did not wish
to receive from his justice and kindness alone the re-
forms and public improvements which such a sate
of things imperiously demands, it would be very
easy at that time to fix limits to power, or dictate
conditions suitable to such urgent circumstances.—
They were not ignorant of their rights : the general
tendency of opinion, guided by the light of the age,
and openly manifested among the most civilized na-
tions of Europe, invited them to such use of these;
rights which their ancestors had recognized and ex-
ercised on less pressing occasions : the victorious and
triumphant army would have supported such just
pretensions, and the Nation would now be free, or
certainly less unfortunate.

But the character of the Portuguese could not
belie itself. They chose rather to hope everything
from their Prince than to give to Europe, already
afflicted by the late misfortunes, the sight of a tur-
bulent and impatient Nation, or to appear to abuse
the facility afforded by circumstances, to shew a
spirit of revolt and want of submission. The silent
and peaceful endurance of their evils was the basis
of their proceedings—confidence in the acknow-
ledged virtues of the Prince, the foundation of
their hopes.
But (it is hard to say it !) these hopes were wholly
deceived, and this suffering was carried to the utmost
extent to which it seems possible for the patience of
a high-spirited Nation, full of the feeling of its mis.

fortunes, and not ignorant of the means of remedy-
ing them, to endure.
After this introduction, the Manifesto proceeds to
observe that it is unnecessary to paint in ditail the
melancholy picture bf the progressive decline of Por-
tugal in the last six years, as being notorious to all
Europe. Referring to the proceeding, it states, as
additional causes of ruin, the sending of so many
thousand troops to Brazil to carry on a war, of which
Portugal bore the burthen, and which exposed it to
the attacks of a powerful neighbour, always its rival,
and now offended and provoked.
Commerce was without encouragement, and every
regulation tended only to the advantage of foreigners.
—Manufacturers were equally discouraged; and,
while their own manufactures were going to decay,
and innunferable workmen reduced to idleness and
want, the most insignificant articles of furniture or
dress were imported from other countries. Portu-
guese vessels were taken by friends and enemies, in-
suited and captured by pirates, in sight of our own
forties es. The Portuguese saw and suffered. But
why renew these profound sorrows? Even strangers,
who profited by the dreadful indifference or coldness
of the Portuguese Government, often said, with ho-
nourable frankness—'" This fine country is worthy
of a better fate." Blessed as Portugal is with a most
fruitful soil, overflowing with agricultural riches,
augmented in quantity by improvident permission of
excessive importation, yet the general distress was so
extreme that the poor were perishing with famine in
the midst of plenty, and the bounty of HEAVEN was
blasted by the folly of man.
The Manifesto then shews how this distress was
still further aggravated by continuing an immense ex.
penditure, as if the Court were still at Lisbon, while
the revenue was sensibly diminishing by the above
causes, as well as by the negligence and peculation
of the officers. The sums sent to Brazil for the war
in America,-Ac. increased the distress and caused the
salaries of the public servants in every department,
as well as the interest of the public debt, to be dread-
fully in arrear ; and finally (with shame be it spoken),
it was not possible to complete a loan of only fool-
millions of crusadocs.

The Portuguese, knowing the heart of their Sove-
reign, hoped he would prepare the necessary reforms,
a hope which his Majesty sometimes encouraged ;
but the hope vanished, and the Ministers at Rio
Janeiro turned aside the King's mind from it, and
were displeased when any patriot dared to publish
his opinions on this important subject, and shewed
the necessity of restoring the seat of government
to Portugal.
Hence the Portuguese began to lose their confi-
dence in the sole remedy which remained. The idea
of being reduced to a colony affected them ; and all
saw it was impossible for the affairs of a monarchy
to go on regularly at such a distance from the centre
of its actions, frequently impeded by the malignity
of men, the violence of passions, and even the effects
of the elements.

What could the Portuguese Nation do in such a
situation? Suffer and hope ? It did suffer and hope
in vain for many years. Sigh, remonstrate, com-
plain ? It did sigh ; but its sighs were not listened
to. Not listened to ? They were repressed, cruelly
stifled. It remonstrated and complained ; but its re-
monstrances and complaints never reached the Throne.
The King was told that his People were contented and
Faithful; and the Manifesto protests, in the face of
Europe, the unalterable loyalty of the Nation, but
observes, that content is incompatible with a situation
like theirs: it shews, that the late events have not
their origin, as had been intimated, in the false prin-
ciples of an absurd and disorganizing philosophy, or
by the love of unbridled chimerical liberty, but in
the conviction of the public distress and the desire of
remedying it. It shews, that government is essential
to society ; but that, whatever may be the species of
government establi,hed in a Nation, and by whomso-
ever exercised, neither force, nor habit, nor the lapse
of time, can deprive a Nation of its inalienable right
of revising its fundamental laws, and introducing
such improvements as may be necessary. The Por-
tuguese acted upon these principles ; they wished to
place the Throne upon the solid bases of justice and
law; they did not desire to introduce an innovation,
but a restoration of the state of things which for-
merly existed in Portugal, when in 1139 they gave
the Crown to their first Monarch, and made the first
fundamental laws of the Monarchy in the Cortes of
Lamigo; when in 1385, they gave the Throne to
John I. on conditions which he accepted ; when in
1640, they gave it to John IV. who also respected
their liberties ; when the Portuguese had their Cortes
through a long period of five centuries, when they
reached the summit of glory and greatness. It is,
therefore, absurd and unjust to stigmatize what they
have done as rebellious or unlawrul. Philip IV. in
the same manner denounced the glorious rising of
the Portuguese, in 1640, as rebellion. It is equally
absurd to attribute the late events to a faction.—
Taking everything into consideration, the Portuguese
cannot doubt but that their patriotic proceedings must
merit, not only the most favourable consideration,
but just praise, both in the public opinion of en-
lightened Nations, and in the Cabinets of the Euro-
pean Sovereigns.
In conclusion, the Manifesto remarks, that it would
be most afflicting to the Portuguese Nation, if the
powerful Sovereigns, with whom it has always been
on the terms of friendship, should abuse their power
to impose laws on it, or to repress the noble efforts
of a Nation, incapable, by its geographical position,
of troubling the peace of other people, which has
never interfered in the internal concerns of others,
and which may depend on the acknowledged justice
of the Princes of Europe ; but which, if its hopes in
this respect should be disappointed, it will risk every
thing in defence of its just rights ; that the maxim,
No Nation ever failed to' be free which desired to
be so," is their encouragement; and that if, unhap-
pily, they should fail in attaining this happiness, the
Nation will be destroyed sooner than conquered, and
no good citizen will survive the ruin of public feli-
city. They, however, anticipate a more fortunate re-
sult.—A letter addressed by the Provisional Junta at
Oporto to his Majesty the King, now first published,
contains a full exposition of the causes that led to the
Revolution, of the spirit which had directed it, and
of all the proceedings that had taken place up to the
date of the letter. It appeals to history for a proof
of the invincible loyalty of the Portuguese to their
Sovereigns, and their devotion to the House of Bra-
gattsa, which they continue to maintiiu undiminished

to Ms present Majesty, of whose sover•s4.! grit:;
they are perfectly convinced.
Unwilling to afflict the paternal hear r,r No
jesty by a minute description of the dread...l sit
of his faithful People, they generally al;., je to
loss of their ancient glory and prosperity.
ruin of commerce, agriculture, and maaltira
the destruction of public credit and indivit!vai •
piness ; all which evils arc greatly aggravated
Majesty's absence.
This unhappy state of things was borne aid'
1
tience for many years. The patience of mot
above all, that of Nations, has a limit, and it w;
length evident that there was no altetnative .
expect a general convulsion and popular disot,•
which would expose the Nation to destruction.,,,,
prevent it by giving the People the bend: of art.
lic regeneration.
The letter, beginning with the act of the M •
Council at Oporto, details all the procee,:ing%.
had successfully taken place, and, referring to ,!
ments (which have been all before printed), d,e,4
Majesty that regard for his person and di!;nitt
never been Wit sight of—that no measures hme
taken but such as seemed absolutely necessarr...l
even the suspension of the English Officers, do".
and cornmandeJ by the public wish and there,,,
clamour, was accomplished in the most delicatea,„
nor. The writers dwel. on the unanimitr 4;::„
' prevailed among al ranks of People, ri,e ii,,,r; ••
between the two Junt..s of Lisbon and Opcno„. e.;
their union ; and add, that nothing is wanted in, 1
presence of his Majesty, or of onie Prince of :..
mily, to satisfy the unanimous wishes of the N,,,•
their only fear is lest his Majesty should give ea:
some one who, under the mask of zeal, ma,' it,
vain alarms in his Majesty's licaft, ,:nd givc
counsels contrary to the reqii...sts u high, ssifli ,
same respectful loyalty, they lay befure him. T.':
consequences of such counsels cannot ly, wel:f .
seen, but they will certainly be fatal. Tile
does not merit his Majesty's displeasure; ii .:.;:„
be hippy, and to recover the ! recious ilfheritaQ'
its ancient greatness—that the Throne of his Ma*
may be firm %% idiom the power of being uiljiht, a
that they may have the felicity of renewing all a "
good which his royal beneficence pi-mists sit
without being able to ascribe to him any evil.
These are the wi,hes which they utter in there l
of all the Portuguese, who, prostrate before his )1,0.
jeity's Throne, appeal to the honour id- the.'
their public happiness, andthe sentiments of •
veneration known to subsist in his Majesty's.
heart.

THE EVENING. STAR,

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1821.
TIM FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE &ma:
Bank Stock 223 2231,4
3 per Cent. Reduced 70 70'4: 70
S per Cent. Cons. ex. div. 69% 1/, 1%
Si per Cent. 79 791/4-4 per Cent. 87% %1
5 per Cent. Navy ex. div. 101,% 10.
Long Annuities 181/2
Imperial ,3 per Cent. 68%
India Stock 2231/1 34—Bonds 335. 345.3115 it
South Sea Stock 763/8
Exchequer Bills ss. 4s. 6s. pre.
Cons. for Acct. 70% 71 70%.

The Right Hon. C. B. BATHURST now oceepi
the place of President of the Board of Central
lately filled by Mr. CANNING. The Chairman zr.
Deputy Chairman of the India Company yester
paid their personal congratulations to the 110
Honourable Gentleman on his appointment.

Yesterday the Common Council of the City i
fta...
London met for the purpose of taking into considert '
tion a variety of public and private business. A
disposing of some other matters, the LORD Mod
called the attention of the Council to the Requisitis
sent to him, and which principally gave rise tots
present Meeting,—to consider the expediency '.,
petitioning Parliament for the restitution of tit•
QUEEN'S name to the Liturgy, and for the full icw
ration of her MAJESTY'S rights and privileges. ra
particulars are detailed in another part of this Papa
for the Resolutions see a preceding column. 4
There was also a Meeting, but of a more privuLA"
nature, of Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and oho',
held at the City of London Tavern. The Meetiogiv
rather of a private nature, though, as to the purr
of the Declaration voted, it might have been hail
the most open manner possible; for it is so cautious!
drawn, that it may be interpreted either as a coo
or an approbation of Ministers—but more logical]
as the former, though we imagine intended to b
construed by Ministers in the latter sense.—(mod
Advertiaement.)

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•—•••
Under the head " NAPLES,* we have given, R''
some other particulars, an extract from The "Naio
Observer, which we need hardly inlet m our Readr
is published with the sanction of the Austrian Gc
vernment, which seem pretty plainly to indicate
what we have constantly expected, that the fate °
Naples, so far as that may depend on the will as'
the power of Despotic: Kings, is settled ahead!
But " the race is not always to the swift, nor tio
battle to the strong."
The Portuguese Nation has published a Manifesto
addressed to the Sovereigns and People of Eur°ll
on the causes which produced the memorable evelo
that have recently taken place in that Kingdom, 6,
the spirit by which they were directed, and the*
ject aimed at by the changes introduced into the G►,
v‘inmvut; It 4 ilk be read with lively interest 101

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