Star.
London, England, 1829-08-21 00:00:00

ADDRESS to the DUKE of WELLINGTON

Mon have:sum Ann Excm.i.nrr Sin The undersigned,
actuated by feelings of gratitude and well.merited admiration, for
the distinguished triumphs recently obtained by your Excellency
in the British Parliament, in securing the Emancipation of the
Irish Catholics, and also in defending and protecting the Porto.
guese Throne and Altar, avail themselves of this mode to fulfil the
duty Imposed upon them by such signal benefits, the fruits of your
Excellency's heroic virtues and disinterested zeal.
Your Excellency, like another Cyrus, has reasstobtioted in your
country the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion, persecuted and
banished therefrom for the last three centuries; and, like another
Alexander, severed, with the keen edge of your brilliant and
well-tempered eloquence, the numerous intricate knots formed
and tied by the sophistry and intriguing subtlety of Maeintosi.,
Brougham, Palmerston, Holland, Goderich, and other fouler. -
tors of Liberalism ; in other words, of masonry, irreligion, and
republicanism—crimes which, in our times, have barefacedly
faulted the altar and the throne. Bit, thanks to your Excellency,
the cause of the legitimacy of the Portuguese Crown, belonging to
our august, mercifulonsitable, and beneficent King his Majesty Do,
Miguel I. was boldly and victoriously defended by your Excel-
lency, and will ever continue to be so by the unanswerable dialec •
tic of Peel and Lord Aberdeen, at the same time that it finds c.
your Excellency a most zealous Parsox.
For so many distinguished services we, the Ministers of the
Altar, whose duty it is to watch o►er the purity of the Roman Ca.
tholic faith, and to preserve inviolate the fidelity to the throne, in
unison with our Irish brethren, who. in less than two months, have
seen themselves re-instated ice their rights as British subjects, she,
always bless, and our children after us. the illustrious name of your
Excellency ; and we implore the Aussourr, in whose service your
Excellency has been so actively employed, graciously to bestow
upon you, amidst endless prosperity, the greatest energy and
power, that, continuing in the glorious career of assessor to the
British throne, you may complete the alreadrcossneencod osetthron
of As fantastical Colossus e the" so termed " dwf iffserties, net only
in you► country and ours, but also Mowry corner of the globs.
We offer up our prayers to the same BONO that he may er -
lighten your Excellency with his divine grace, that, after a long
life of happiness in this world, you may succeed to eternal bliss.
GOD preserve your Excellency.
Lisbon, July 24.
To his Excellency the Duke of Wellington.
(Signed)—Patricio, Cardinal Patriarch.
Francisco, Bishop of Vixen, for himself and the absen
Bishops.
Joaquin, Bishop of Castello Branco.
Fr. Joaquim, Bishop of Coimbra, Count of ArganU.
Fr. Manoel, Bishop Deacon.
Antonio, Archbishop of Laced/monis.
Antonio, Archbishop of Adrianopoli.
Luis, Prior M'or of the Order of Crasser.
Jose Telles da Silva, D. Prior of Guimaraens.
The D. Prior-General of the Regrant Canons of Bt. An-
sonia.
TLe D. Abbot-General of the Monks of St. Bernard—
the King's Almoner.
The D. Abbot. General of the Monks of Sc. Benedict.
The D. Abbot-General of the Monks of St. Jerom.
The Rector-General of the Secular Canons of Sc. John
the Evangelist.
The Prior-Provincial of the Order of St. Dominick.
The Prior-Provincial of the Monks of St. Agustin, shod.
The Rector-General of the Monks of St. Paul the Hermit.
The Prior-Provincial of the Monks of oar Lady of the
Carte, shod.
The Proposit of the Congregation of the Oratory of St,
Phillip Ned, of the Convent of the HOLT Guar, for
himself, and Proposits of the other Convents in the
kingdom.
The Provincial Minister of the Observant Minors of the
province of Algarve.
The Provincial Minister of the Reformed Minors of
Artabida.
The Provincial Minister of the Reformed Minors of
the province of St. Anthony of Portugal.

The Guardian of the Apostolic Missionaries of Braneaner.
Morning Paper.

By the bye, for some cause of pique or jealousy, these
friends and admirers of the Duke of WELLINGTON and
his deserving protege Don MIGUEL, have left out one
signature from the list, no less respectable and flattering
than any of the names that figure so much to the honour
of the enlightened Apostolical Gentlemen who thus so
gratefully address their benefactor. We mean Don SAN-
G VINO FEROCIO, public executioner of Lisbon and its
environs,together with his understrappers and apprentices.

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