Star.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

LISBON, OCTOBER 10.
PEILEZ, Visconde de QuELEZ, is alive. He is posi-
tively asserted to have been seen at Alfaite. A variety of
stories are as usual abroad ; among the rest, that a Ger-
man girl, whom the King brought with him, has lain in
there, and that he attends her ; but the manner of his
being left, would seem to give the lie to this : in the
reign of barbarism there is no counting upon anything.
The Pope has plagued us sadly : he will not confirm
some ecclesiastical appointments of the King. This is
the only thing to be ascertained here ; as to other state •
ments we cannot judge. Whether he directs prayers for
Donna MARIA 11. instead of Don MIGUEL, the Church
will of course not let us know. If it be so, it must be
expected. that the excellent Cardinal Patriarch will be still
further humiliated, as the cause. He is already scarcely
seen, nor has he been for many months ; while during
the Constitutional Wgime, he was constantly in public.
The state of exchange, and the current paper here,
and what is worse the ill opinion entertained by English
Bankers of Portuguese and Anglo-Portuguese bills, ordi-
narily accredited, are altogether bringing us into au un-
comfortable dilemma. Then there are people wanting
their money from the public deposit, which it is said Don
Al lot-EL has emptied for his expedition, is a great evil.—
Whether the latter be the case or not, it is certain that
the people do not get their money as they were wont to do.
OCT. 11.
The KING has not made his appearance this week, and
nobody knows where he is. Shooting at Mafra is stated,
but this is a mere report.
The last packet, which arrived on Wednesday, in less
than five days from Falmouth, brought a courier from
the Consul-General SAM PA TO, in London, understood
to bring despatches from every Court except England
and France, but you cannot count upon any information
'beyond the positive arrival of this courier.
The paper medium, in which the majority of payments
are made, has risen from twenty-five to thirty
per cent. discount ! This, and other symptoms, evince some
new occurrence to embarrass the present Government.
Since the preceding was written, on requiring a few
hundreds sterling of paper currency to be discounted,
the discount arose to 32 per cent. and the bank which
was trying to accommodate, has declared its intention to
close. on to-morrow.
The cause of this is the entire anticipation by the Mi-
nisters of anarchy of the revenues of 1830, and the
necessity of their encroaching even on the following
year!
The Treasury is empty, notwithstanding the dreadful
.b:each of faith in ordering the officers of the public
deposit, to transfer to it the funds intrusted to them in
the same manner as paying money into the English
Chancery. This will produce a further distress among
all the numerous suitors, rich and poor !
The immensity of bilhetes (tickets for official pay, at
long dates) will soon prevent their discount at all. For a
long time the poor-holders, by discount, and the state of
the half pay, hardly received a third of their pay in
metal.

Three changes are talked of in the Ministry. The
infamous Conde de Basto to be actual Prime Minister,
instead of the fiction of the Duke.
The every-way notorious Joze Accursio des NaVas,
is to have the Home Department.
The denouncing—Barrata, lately Intendent General
of Police, promoted to be Minister of Justice, by which
he will have command of the present Intendent ; and thus
command every way more violent measures.
As none of these men are financial, and all devotees
of the Empress Queen, their appointment can answer
no rational end ; the fair presumption is, therefore, that
they are intended to enforce " voluntary" loans, and
carry terror still further throughout the country.— Viva
Don Miguel and mi Lor Alberdino !