Star.
London, England, 1821-05-28 00:00:00

LISBON, MAY 9.

We receive from all parts of the kingdom letters
describing the extreme pleasure which has been ex-
cited by the arrival of the news that) is Majesty has,
adhered and sworn to the Constitution which s'aall be
made by the Cortes of Portugal. The City of Braga
particularly distinguished itself.
Letter sent to his Majesty by the General Extraor-
dinary and Constituent Cortes of the Portuguese
Nation, giving him an account of their labours, and
presenting to him the basis of the Constitution, to be
sworn to by his Majesty :

• gio,i2,--The General, &e. Cones of the Portuguese Nation,
having communicated to your Majesty, on the 15th and 19th of
Pebruary, the faithful relation of their proceedings after their I
installation, and an account of the facts and causes which pre-
ceded it---Raabred, in their sitting of the 10th of April, again I
to offer to.your Majesty the expression of their profound respect,
love, and attachment to your Majesty's meted perms, and to
present to you the basis of the Constitution of the Portuguese.
Monarchy, in the conAdent and well-founded hope that your
Majesty would with joy immediately codirm, by your oath, this
eternal support of your Majesty's throne, built on Portuguese
beam, an immovable bulwark of liberty, and the sun pledg

of dieliappleele et s oda; ee detettiag et tb love of he
mot areb as worthy to be free.

a But the rapidity with which the glorious events of our poli-
tica regeneration succeed each other, daily encreasing the great
hopes of seeing all our wishes fulUed, has caused us to be anti-
cipated by the agreeable information that your Majesty did not
hesitate to anent so the wishes of the Nation, and that you had
in fact sworn to maintain and preserve the Constitution on which
the Cortes are now engaged.••

The letter then describes the transport of joy with
which this happy news was received throughout the
whole kingdom. Thu Cortes are persuaded that they
cannot congratulate his Majesty in any more suit-
able manner, than by presenting to him the bases of
the Constitution, which contain the authentic decla-
ration of the rules and condition, according to which
the Portuguese Nation desires to be governed.

The principles therein adopted, they say, contain
nothing extraordinary; they do not diminish the
just weight and prerogatives of the Monarch, and
•far from eclipsing they enhance the splendour of the
throne. They then state the solemnity with which
the oath was taken on the 224 March by all the Au-
thorities, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, of Portugal
and .Algarve, with the exception of the Patriarch.
The letter then mentions the acceptance of the Con-
stitution by the islands of Madeira and of St. Mi-
chael, and by the people of Para and Bahia. His
Majesty has now completed by his oath this majestic
edifice, and the union of the three kingdoms of Por-
tugal, Algarve, and Brazil, hitherto nominal, will
henceforward be real and voluntary. Nothing is now
wanting but to perfect the National Representation,
by the election of Deputies for Brazil.
The letter concludes with assurances, that the
Cortes proceed with assiduity in their labours, and
with wishes for his Majesty's health and happiness.

" Dated Lisbon, from the Palace of the Cortes, 9th of May,
1821. (Siined)
" HERMAN° JOSE BRAAMCAMP DO SOBRAL,
President.
JOAO BAPTISTA FELGUERAS A GOSTINA JOSE;
" FREIRE ANTONIO RIBEIRO DA COSTA; and
" AGOSTINHO MENDONCA FA LCA 0,
Deputies and Secretaries."

The foreign arrivals in the course of yesterday
consisted of the Paris Papers of Thursday. and ex-
tracts (by express) from those of Friday ; as also Ma-
drid Papers to the 14th inst. and Hamburgh to the
23d. Extracts from them will be found under their
respective heads in a preceding part of our Paper.—
The accounts from Turkey, it will be observed, tend
to confirm those which we published on Saturday.