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proved as to the most important parts, and that the
remainder was undeserving of credit.
M Under this declared conviction, they strongly re-
commended to your Majesty's Royal Father to bestow
his favour upon the Q*seen, then Princess of Wales,
though in opposition to your Majesty's declared
wishes.
,But when your Majesty had assumed the
Kingly power, these same advisers, in another Minute
of Council, recanted their former judgment, and re-
ferred to and adopted these very same documents as
a justification of one of your Majesty's harshest mea-
sures towards the Queen—the separation of her Ma-
jesty from her affectionate and only child.

4, The Queen, like your Majesty, descended froth a
long race of Kings, was the daughter of a Sovereign
House connected by the ties of blood with the most
Illustrious Families in Europe, and her not unequal
alliance with your Majesty was formed in full confi-
dence that the faith of the King and the People was
equally pledged to secure to her all those honours
and rights which had been enjoyed by her Royal
predecessors.
In that alliance her Majesty believed that she
exchanged the protection of her family for that of a
Royal husband and of a free and noble-minded Na-
tion. From your Majesty the Queen has experienced
only the bitter disappointment of every hope she had
indulged. In the attachment of the People, she has
found that powerful and decided protection which
has ever been her steady support and her unfailing
consolation. Submission from a subject to injuries
of a private nature may be matter of expedience—
from a wife it may be matter of necessity—but it
'ever can be the duty of a Queen to acquiesce in the
infringement of those rights which belong to her
constitutional character.

46 The Queen does therefore repeat her most so-
lemn and deliberate protest against the decision of
the said Council, considering it only as the sequel of
that course of persecution under which her Majesty
has so long and so severely suffered, and which deci-
sion, if it is to furnish a precedent for future times,
can have no other effect than to fortify oppression
with the forms of law, and to give to injustice the
sanction of authority. The protection of the subject,
from the highest to the lowest, is not only the true
but the only legitimate object of all power; and no
act of power can he legitimate which is not founded
on those principles of eternal justice, without which
law is but the mask of tyranny, and power the in-
strument of.despotism.
Queen's House, Judy 17th, 1821."

ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL

AT LISBON.

A Madrid Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 7th
instant, contains the follow ing offici.4l article:
" An extraordinary courier, dispatched from Lis-'
bon, by the KING's charge d'Affaires to the Portu-
guese Government, has brought to the Spanish Go-
veniment the following communication, dated the
4th instant :

" Yesterday, very early in the morning, a signal was made
that the Portuguese squadron was in sight, and at eleven A. M.
the ship of the line John VI. anchored in the port of Belem, and
the other ships of the convoy in succession. To-day, at noon, his
Majesty and the Royal Family landed with great pump, and
proceeded to the Cathedral, where aTe Deus was sung. The
Ring and his family afterwards entered the Hall of the Cortes,
where the King took the oath to maintain and observe the Con-
stitutional bases decreed by Congress on the 9th May last.
4 During this august and solemn ceremonial, the most perfect
tranquillity and good order prevailed."

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon.
They contain an article from Trieste of the Ist of
July, which states, as a matter of report, that the
whole of the Ottoman squadron, which was cruizing
off Prevesa, had been captured by the Insurgent fleet.
The Greeks have, it is added, a squadron of bbserva-
tion, which cruises near the Dardanelles, waiting a''
favourable moment to act against Constantinople.
French Five per Cents. Saturday, 85 fr. 55 c.
Yesterday, the Duchess of CLARENCE and the Du-
chess of KENT rode out together in a coach and four.
Last night the bake and Duchess of CLARENCE,
and his Serene Highness the reigning Duke of SAXE
DIEININGEN, honoured the Italian Opera with their
presence.
Prince PARTANA, Neapolitan Ambassador to the
Court of Berlin, has given orders for illuminating
the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square, on the even-
ing of the Coronation.
-The King of BAVARIA (says a letter from Stras-
burgh, of the 9th July) is expected here in a few
days. His MAJESTY is going to the waters of Baden,
and will travel incognito, under the name of Count

By a letter from his Excellency the Governor of
Gibraltar, we are glad to find, that, notwithstanding
the rock has been surrounded with plague and epi-
demic fever, the public health has always been good,
and everything there continues to prosper.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—It is much to the honour
of these eminent men to come forward so kindly in
support of an unfortunate, although a noble Enter-
prise, in the Fine Arts. We allude to those superb
Works composing the Prizes in " TOMKINS'S PIC-
TURE LOTTERY," which will be drawn in a few days.
—ln Testimonial Letters to the House of Com-
mons, from these distinguished men—Sir BENJAMIN
WEST, the late President, says, " they are correct
and beautiful, and will be honoured and admired
by subsequent ages:' Sir THOMAS LAWRgNCE, the
present President, " has no difficulty in saying, that
they are beautiful specimens:' Sir WILLIAM BEECHY'
says, " there cannot be two opinions on their merits;
they are certainly most exquisitelyfinished and unique."
Mr. WARD says, " there can be but one opinion as
respects their excellence." Mr. SHEE" has great plea-
sure in adding his testimony to that of the President
of the Royal A cademy, in whose high commendation
he entirely concurs." Mr. SSIIRKE Says, " the mode
in which they are completed, as Paintings, is new and
ingenious; and the result far exceeds any coloured
unitatious that were ever produced in Europe."