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These Papers contain a number of official do.
ctiments.
Colonel Manuel Pinto da Silveira gives, in two
letters, an account.of his arrival at Coimbra, and of
the taking of the oaths to the new Government, by
the troops and the inhabitants, on the 31st of August.
All the persons of distinction belonging to the town
were present except the Bishop, who was absent hi=
indisposition, but was represented by his Secretary.
At night the town was illuminated.
On the 4th instant the troops at Villa-Real, and
the inhabitants of that place, declared for a Junta
and a Constitutional Govenunent. On the 3d, a squa-
dron of the 10th Regiment of Cavalry, under the
command of Captain Bernardino Mascarenhas da
Rosa, had declared for the national cause, and was
to join the troops of Oporto next day. This squadron
was expected to be followed by other corps.
Colonel Alexandre Alberto de Serpa writes from
Villa-Real, under the date of September 6, that the
national troops there had been joined by two squa-
drons of the 6th Regiment of Cavalry, commanded by
Major Joao Pinto ; a battalion of the 12th Infantry,
commanded by Captain Beulo Viesa ; and the Chaves
Regiment of Militia, commanded by Lieutenant-Cu-
lonel Francis Xavier.
The Students of the University of Coimbra, wishing
to give a testimony of their attachment to the na-
tional cause, have offered to serve in the army.
Two cavalry Officers, who had been employed as
spies by the Lisbon Government, are said to have
been taken at Coimbra. The Junta sent them back
to Lisbon, desiring them to give the Regency foil
information of everything they had seen.
DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED BY TIIE PROVISIONAL
JUNTA, PREVIOUS TO THEIR QC Irf ING
OPORTO FOR LISBON.
" Isorastrarrrs OP OPORTO !—The Provisional Junta of the
Supreme Government owes to you its most warm and unfeigned
acknowledgments, not only for the efficacious co-operation with
which, in so many ways, you have aided the holy cause of our
country, but also the truly honourable spirit with which you
have preserved tranquillity and regularity in your proceedings,
from the memorable day of our glories up to the present time.
" With pleasure the Junta complies with this grateful duty.
It withdraws from among you with regret, but according to the
general wishes it is necessary to approach nearer to the theatre
where these will have their last effect. Till, however, this happy
period arrives, the Junta leaves among you a Committee, com-
posed of three of its own Members, worthy of its perfect confi-
dence and of yours, with whom the Junta leaves powers to deter-
mine and order everything circumstances may require.
" The Junta will never desist from its present projects, nor in
the smallest degree swerve from the road chalked out. Each
ace of its Members would rather spill the last drop of his blood
than think of abandoning a cause in which their henour, your
glory, and the felicity of the whole nation are involved. Remain
tranquil and firm. The Junta will never forget your patriotic
virtues, and will never let slip any opportunity of promoting the
just interests of your great, honoured, and faithful city. Rely
on the love it professes towards you, and on its unalterable sen-
timents. [Signatures.]
" Oporto, Palace of Government, Sept. 10, 1820."
PROCLAMATION OF THE PROVISIONAL JUNTA TO THE
PORTUGUESE NATION.
" Poartroorsx !—The Provisional Junta of the Supreme Go-
vernment now, more than ever, has occasion to address you with
sincerity and frankness. It would not be necessary in your eyes
to justify the motives of the resolutions taken, and the assiduous
labours it has enthusiastically undertaken in your cause and the
salvation of our beloved cojintry. The purity of its intentions,
the regularity of its procee&ngs, its firmness in sustaining those
promises given, and the unceasing watchfulness with which it
has laboured to complete the grand edifice of Public Organiza-
tion, must be already known. to you.
" The Lisbon Governors, as soon as informed of the occur-
rences In the Northern Provinces, and of the ardent enthusiasm
so rapidly spreading, pondered on the state of public opinion and
the effects of our demands, and only w,ben they learnt that the
two Generals of Tras os Monte. and Beira bad mutually joined
with a.view to suppress the national feeling, to rivet the chains
of the people, and retain them in the extreme abjection and
misery in which they were already sunk, did they awaken from
their lethargy, and dared to proclaim that a million of Portu-
guese, who aimed at being happy, were rebels to their King; that
a Junta, which upheld such incontestible rights, was intrusive ;
that their useful and glorious labours were an overthrow of public
order; that the Cortes only could be convened by the King, and
that the whole nation ought in silence to await the measures so
oftentimes demanded and promised, and as often refused.
" We could not for a moment suppose, that the Lisbon Go-
vernors expected by such absurd principles and captious phrases
to disunite Portuguese, arm them against each other, and to ram
other distresses add that of a civil war. They are men, and in
the human breast such a black and vile project could not be har-
boured. This, however, would be the inevitable consequence
of their rash plans, if in the minds of Portuguese, the sacred
ties of nature, religion, and of patriotism, did not exercise all
their influence.
" The Junta was not alarmed at these specious measures of
the Lisbon Governors, because it knows your hearts, and is
firm in its principles. Its Members are not rebels against their
King, because they love him, and have sworn to fix and maintain
the independence and glory of his Throne, which the Governors
of the Kingdom had depreciated by their inept administration,
and allowed to be undermined by odious parties. It is not in-
trusive, because it was established by the unanimous voice of a
numerous people, who wished to escape from inevitable ruin.—
It does not subvert public order, this it rather restores. But,
why seek to explain to you what you already know from your
own observations? The Junta will go on firmly, and you have
yourselves already seen the happy effects of its constancy. The
brave troops of 'fres os Montes and Beira have successively left
their Generals, and are already united to the cause we have
sworn to defend. General Silveira himself has taken the oath
to this same cause. The inhabitants of the three Northern Pro-
vinces have also been enabled to declare their sentiments with-
out disguise, and are about to march to meet their brethren, who
with equal enthusiasm await their coming.
" The Lisbon Governors are not ignorant of these late events,
so contrary to their hopes, and so much opposed to the reten-
tion of their power and Administration. Now, however, they
recur to another more insidious, though equally useless artifice,
in order to alienate their minds, and persuade you, that through
them you will find remedies for the public misfortuoes. They
tell you they are about to convene the Curia, by particular instruc-
tion they kavefrem the King our Lord, fur urgent cases.
Mark well, illustrious Portuguese! On the 29th of August,
no 07ft hall the power to convene the Curler ball the Kink. The peo-
ple who demanded them were rebels. Then there were hopes
of turning public opinion, of suppressing the general feeling, and
of sowing discord. On the 2d of September, the Lisbon Go-
vernors had received particular instructions to convene the Cortes
in urgent cases. And what greater urgency could there be than
public misfortune, so long felt and lamented? What greater
urgency than the demands of the nation, so often, and in so
many ways repeated, in private and in public? What greater
urgency than the fatal division of Portuguese into three well ,
known parties, and never suppressed by the Lisbon Governors?
What greater urgency than the cry of a whole Province, that
raises itself from the abyss into which it had been plunged?--
Yet this Province then was rebellious, because hopes were still
entertained of suppressing and devastating. The general cry
was then the voice of insubordination, and as such was to be
punished and suppressed. The misfortunes of the country dkl
not touch their hearts, because they were not heard or felt in
their stately and luxurious palaces.
Now, however, they themselves wish to convene the Cortes ;
but in what manner? For what purpose? With what inten-
tions? Is it, perchance, to see things regulated by justice, and
consequently their power diminished? Is it to remedy the mal-
versation of the administrators of the public revenue, end to
benefit national agriculture, industry, and commerce? Is it to
revive our ruined navy? Is it to establish just laws; capable of
maintaining peace among the people, and securing their rights,
such as will suppress abuses and crimes nearly naturalized among
us; such as will restore public order and establish our felicity

on fixed and permanent bases ? Is it to define the tier 31 liens
tit the nation, and trace out the just limits of power snd ohs_
thence? Is it, finally, in order to give us a stable Con 'nation,
buck as we require, one that will be a rampart of publi liberty,
and the solid foundation of a just Throne ?
" Ab! no—do not deceive yourselves, Portugnese! 'f these
were the intentions of the Lisbon Governors, long go they
would have been performed, for it is long since our wa is have
reached their climax. They themselves now acknowl the that
the King's instructions provided for this, in urgent cas s. Did
not public misery suffice?
" They tell us they are about to establish a Corn oittee of
chosen persons to consult on the method of convening a 4 hokl-
ing the Cortes. Persons chosen by them, and their
confidence! Persons under their influence ! Persons who cts.
tainly will spin out their labours till the time when the nation is
involved in discord, when the public ardour and tnthu iastn are
extinguished—when a foreign army possibly may have come to
subjugate us, and render our chains snore heavy ; til ,
through measures of rigour and severity, the wishes of the peo-
ple may be eluded, and the nation again plangtd inzo a still
deeper abyss.
" No—lllustrious Portuguese !—no, valiant national troops ..Lia
do not suffer yourselves to be deceived. You already know what
you have to expect front the pompons promises of the Lisbon
Governors.—Firmness and constancy are the virtues worth writ
crown our projects with success, and of these the Jutra will
give you the most signal example, pledging to spill the last the.?
their blood in your service, and bury themselves under the
ruins of public liberty, or succeed.
64 Oporto, Sept. 8, 18'20."

IS!rtiature,.]

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon:
The Moniteur says, that at the Tuileries, on Mon-
day, the delivery of her Royal Highness the Duchess
of BERRY was looked upon as very near at hand.
An Engli4iman of the name of Joint ORTIIONT
(probably HonToN) was lately arrested at St. Pierre-
les-Calais, as guilty of seditious proposals; but on
being conducted before the Kivg's Procurator at
Boulogne (Pas-de-Calai,..), he was, for want of proof,
set at liberty.—Five per Cents. Monday, 74 f. 45 c.

A letter from St. Andero, of the 15th SeptemLer,
throws some discredit on the report recently repeated
with such confidence through the Jamaica l'ape!s,
that the Independents of South America were dis-
posed to a re-union with the mother country. It is
to the following effect:—" We learn, from Biscayatt
merchants who were established at Caraccas:,
have returned to their native country, that although
the news of the re-establishment of the Constitution
in the Peninsula bad caused an agreeable sensati•,.n
throughout the whole part of the Province of Vene-
zuela occupied- by Aro:mu), the Insurgents bad re-
ceived it with the greatest indifference, and have le-
doubled their hostilities against the Royalists. If we
may give credit, to what these merchants farther re.
port, BoLtVAR had lately sent emiltaries on the Con-
tinent of Europe, in order to sow the seeds of discord
in the Peninsula, and to complete the impossibility of
its sending troops to combat him."

The details of the proceedings of the Cortes, con-
tained in the Papers received yesterday, record an
act of justice highly honourable to the Spanish na-
tion. In the Sitting of the Nth instant was read
the Report of the Committee of Rewards on the ca:ie
of PABLO LOPEZ, commonly called " the lame ma::
of Malaga," who was condenined to death in 1814,
and had actually been imprisoned-six years in a dun-
geon at Cadiz, whence he was released by RI EGO. One
charge against him, for which the punishment was
inflicted, was his having assisted at a serenade given
to some members of the Cortes in 1814, and which
was supposed to have been projected by him ; and
another, the constant attendance he was in the habit
of giving to the debates of the Cortes, at one of
which he was accused of creating a disturbance.—
Even these charges, frivolous as they were, were de-
nied by PABLO LOPE,. ; and the Officer attendant oa
the gallery of the Cortes declared him to have had r.o
share in causing the riot alluded to. The netts:ldol
was not attempted to be supported by evidence cf
any kind. The Committee of Rewards, with the
object not only of indemnifying him for the injuries
he had suffered, but rd rescuing the nation from the
reproach of having inflicted them,recommended that a
grant should be made to LOPEZ from the public
tunds, to the amount of 70,000 or 80,000 reals (MO
or £BOO sterling), for the purpose of building a house
for him in Malaga, his native place, and that an
annuity for life should further be given to him cf
the value of 8000 reals.