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What we communicated on Saturday respecting the
Portuguese arrangements; has excited a great sensation.
It had long been the general fear—and it seems now to
• be the general conviction—that the British Cabinet is
• pursuing the dark and .tortuous policy which dis-
tinguished it under the late Lord LONDONDERRY.
It is true, since the death of that famous Minister,
some relaxation has been exhibited in the prin-
ciple of domestic despotism; some concessions have
been exacted by the spirit of the age, even from men
whose minds and measures congenialised with his. Two
such men, in particular, are -the Noble Duke, and
the' Home Secretary. The exaction ' which has been
won from. them was the sacrifice of the last Session
—Catholic Emancipation. We characterised it else-
where as " a sop to Cerberus," but we have abstained
from publishing in these columns 'the MEMORANDUM
which we made of our full opinions at the time. It ought
not, however, to be soon forgotten by the country, that
these Ministers were the colleagues of Lord CASTLE-
REAGH in the most baneful period of his administra-
tion : that to them, along with Viscount SIDMOUTII---..
Row politically dead, but gratefully remembered—the
nation owed the suspension of the Constitution in va-
rious,ways—the slaughter of the crowd in Lancashire—
the arbitrary Six Acts—the blood-defiled obsequies of the
QUEEN—and the persecution and disgrace of many
friends of the people. We recur to these matters with
reluctance : it is not long since we said that we would
support the Noble Duke and his government, for the sake
of the past—at least, until they should show signs of
relapsing—but that we should temper our support with
jealousy.
What a justification for our distrust are they not fur-
nishing now, with regard to Portugal ? These under-
hand manoeuvres, these clandestine discussions with
unacknowledged and incompetent parties—these meetings
on• the sly at a diplomatic receiving-house with the
notorious emissary of a foul usurper—what is England
to gain by theie ? Will her national power, or her
moral influence be augmented by the destruction of
the charter of Don PEDRO ? Will she—by pre-
scription, the QUEEN of Constitutional Kingdoms-,-be
enabled to look from her own eminence with as
clear a brow, after guiltily
,conspiring and compassing
the suppression of nascent liberty in Porttigal, appealing
to her for protection ? We can promise her that it will
be far otherwise ; and that if her Ministers persist in
this unworthy course, they will accumulate round her the
scorn of all nations now, and set the seal of ignominy upon
her forehead for ever. But this, in the mean time, is the
career which those Miniiters are pursuing ; and once
more,. we dill upon the noble Duke and upon the
noble Earl to pause. It is not yet too late,
tut the recantation must be immediate. The public
mind is too impatient—too irritated—to be longer the
calm spectator of such a disastrous system, such petti-
fogging proceedings, such a selling to. shame of the
national name andhonour. The foreign seals must be
taken away from a hand unworthy to hold them, or a
worthier foreign policy must be pursued. Even the
Noble Duke, • all arbitrary as he: is—and upheld
by the :leading Joarlisti"•—niiit gif too, or cut
the thread' of • these 'derogatory • doings. Support
from us.-if they tethper any, longer with. Ml° vat,
or negetdite With-Spain tha abolition of Don PEDRO'S
Cherietu—the Govermrient shall him none. We will
raise cry against it, which it has been long
.*ombiilteg'ims not yet been raised : we wlll show the
necoseity ftir alit:nye of men, since the men we have
1- do not rot necessary to change their measures, We
•
entsent, em, therefore, for their own sakes—and for the
coiiistly's, which has borne with them pe• fong7-to re-
trace their steps. to re-consider their Councils—before
the' rice of MitvrattN tell, to which' they have so
long unnaturally listened, shall be drowned in the roar
of popularindignation, and theniselves:cOnfounded and
ejected with him, as twin pollution& of an -English Ca-
binet. We had intended to-day to 'write more calmly,
and to discuss some of the clear and. convincing
reasonings offered by. Lt7apciaitre, last aeries, to
the consideration of -Ministers': but -the phenomena
of the Portuguese question •luty,e so altered' Since Fri-
day, as to render it indispensable that it should be argued,
also, in-an sheik tone. It seems; poi -to be distinctly
undeistoi;d, that the poiroonlika oat. is to descend from
his blood-spotted throne, an' IYOl2lli MARIA to be
suteb-
lished in her rightful siiTtreigitty. • Austria, Spain,, and
England—France tutinterferioi4aiii agried to this; but
it ,is arranged, also, in;compliance;ritly•the exactions et
• FenDINANO, that t.-hilolll4o:oo6;:Coltiltittition shall to"
declared void : in : othee...words,4o4ofigifgar restored in
Porttpal. Which :arriingimiqtat; the.tlitite. of Wit-
LiNATON and Lord ABERDEEN are not ally sanctiontog,

—but positively precipitating—in the., name of England 1 I
We repeat, therefore—passing by the'grievances connec-
ted with affairs in the East- -that the administration of the
Noble Premier, on the score of its conduct in the Por-
tuguese business alone, is no longer worthy to be sup-
ported by the country.
The Morning Chronicle of Saturday—in a long and
fluent article on the Return to Parliament, just printed,
showing the quantity of several exciseable and other
great articles of consumption retained for home use in
each year since 1788-- indulges in a strain of sarcasm
against Mr. Alderman WOOD and Mr. SA DLER, for
having, in their places in Parliament last Session, ex-
posed the fallacy of the prevailing theory of Free Trade ;
and draws a conclusion in support of that theory from
the circumstances of the Parliamentary account adverted

to, representing the consumption of Tobacco in 1789 as
having been only 8,152,185 lbs. whilst in 1828 it had
been 14,540,368 lbs. and other articles as exhibiting a
similar or proportionate increase.
In the first place, the Morning Chronicle, in common
with all its contemporaries, seems to have mistaken or
overlooked the fact of the Parliamentary Paper in ques-
tion not representing the consumption of the several
articles exhibited in each year. It is an account of the
quantities left for consumption, after deducting the
quantities exported, and is consequently affected OTOS
through a period of several years, by the gustier
or lessor stock on hand at the beginning or , est
of any given series of years : for hotness., au-
cording to the account in question, the quantity of
Tea left for consumption in the year 1814, is only
19,224,1541b5. whilst the quantity sold at the East India
House in that year, was 27,820,6431b5. out of which
there was charged with duty for consumption in Great
Britain 23,527,8361b5. and in 1815, 24,197,3861b5.
Vide Parliamentary Paper, No. 363, Session, 1824.
But admitting to the fullest extent all, that the most
perverted partisan or theorist can draw from the Parlia-
mentary Paper in question, what does it prove ? Take
the quantity of Tobacco left for consumption in the first
six years of the period, viz. 1789-94, and the annual
average is 8,962,3391b5. and the annual average of the
last six years is 14,006,9331b5. great increase certainly,
and as marking the progress of the power of production
and supply, gratifying. But look at the relative number
of consumers at the two periods : at the first period we
shall find not exceeding 10, and at the latter period
nearly 17. Where, therefore, the ground for exultation
or sarcasm ? In the next place, take Wine, an article, when
need with discretion, one of the most beneficent gifts of
nature and of art. The annual average quantity left
for consumption in the first six years, was 6,956,723
gallons, and in the last six years, aided-as it was
by a sensible diminution of duty, and an extrava-
gance without a parallel, the annual average con-
sumption has been only 6,786,780 gallons, being less
than two gallons per annum for each family ! ! Is this a
subject for exultation?—Besides, an average of years may
be taken--say the six years 1810-15, when a high money
price was sustained by an adequate extent of an appro-
priate circulating medium (we mean ;appropriate to the
circumstances of the time) when the consumptibn of all
articles contributing to the comforts and enjoyments of the
community was greater than in the last six years, notwith-
standing the increase in the number of consumers, to the
extent of 25 to 30 per cent. ; in addition to which
evidence of aggregate privation, let it not be forgotten
that the consumption has vastly increased on the part of
one portion of the population, and consequently the priea-
rims of the other portion must have propmfmably
'creased.

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