Star.
London, England, 1829-07-16 00:00:00

usurped the throne of Portugal by a series of un-
exampled treasons, the tyrant, and those who act
under him,;scs endeavouring to perpetuate their sway by
murder and •proscription ? Is it nothing to have proved
beyond the possibility of doubt that an acquiesence in the
Usurpation by the Great Powers, is not only incompa-
tible with public tranquillity, but vitally dangerous to
those principles of legitimacy, by which every Prince iri
Europe hap obtained a crown,and continues to wear one?
Is it not proved beyond contradiction, that the great
rnasa of the Portuguese nation, and every enlightened man
in the country, are kept down by a system of terror which
has already immolated hundreds of its best patriots,
and which hourly furnishes fresh victims to the prisons
and scaffolds ? Having proved these facts, and witnessing,
as they do, the universal sympathy of Europe in their
favour, the exiled Patriots may surely indalge a colt-
fident hope that the hour of retribution is pt far dis-
tant. Seeing as they do, that not a single Power,
not even the most despotic, has ventured to acknowledge
ths.Usurper, the Pstriots—ivho are for the most part dis-
linguished for their talents and political sagacity—can
hardly fail to be convinced, that like other attempts to
acquire power by fraud and perpetuate it by persecution and
crime, the treason and atrocities of Don MIGUEL will also
have an end. It would, indeed, be monstrous to suppose
that such an usurpation can be tolerated much longer—
'opposed as it is to every rule of justice, as well as to the
general interests of the European family. As to any active
measures which the patriots may have in contemplation, it
is not our business to dwell on the subject. There will be
time enough to comment on these, when they are carried
into effect. In the meantime, we repeat that the Infant
cannot be recognized by any legitimate Sovereign, with-
out an utter dereliction of honour and good faith.
This liberal writer continues:—" It is our duty cer-
tainly to protect our own subjects from injustice and op-
pression t and if be cannot otherwise be restrained, to
punish him for his infractions of the law of nations."
la giving our most cordial assent to this opinion, we will
ask the Times, whether the numerous and unprovoked
acts of injustice and oppression committed on British
subjects, have been redressed in one solitary instance ? We
will further put it to our contemporary, whether he does
not think the moment has arrived when it would be cri-
minal in us not to inflict the " punishment" which his
delinquencies so loudly demand ?
These remarks ought to serve as a reply to .that part
of the writer's article, in which he inquires " how long
the Portuguese patriots would wish us •to give them a
chance for the recovery of their country by anus, before
we withdraw from him and his people the ban of our non-
intercourse ?" We confess that this extraordinary inter.
rogatory startles us in no small degree. But when
we call to our recollection the eloquent and forcible
arguments which have so often, and up to a very
recent date, appeared in the columns of the Times,
against the possibility of recognizing this monster on
any terms, we can scarcely persuade ourselves that we
read aright. Admitting that we have no right to take
up the quarrels of others against Don film trat„ we
maintain that our recognition of his government would
be one of the most flagitious as well as degrading acts
ever committed by a British administration : an act which
could never be justified, and which, therefore, involves a
perilous responsibility in the minister who should dare to
counsel the proceeding.

The fourth letter of LUSITANUS appears to-day.--
Anxious that the Reader's attention should not be diverted,
we content ourselves by recommending to his notice this
last communication, in which the case of our distinguished
correspondent is closed. As every paragraph throughout
the whole series, furnishes a strong argument in favour
of the cause he pleads, we shall '
make them a species of
" text book" for our future comments, to which we shall
liberally refer.

AB there seems to be no doubt that the young Princess
de LEUCIITENBERG, the affianced bride of Don PEDRo,,
Will touch at an English port on her way to Rio Janeiro,
we trust Ministers will invite her Majesty to visit the
metropolis. After the reception given to Don Mu; un.,
and the frequent duckings incurred by them to show him
the glories of the empire, they can hardly do less towards
a Princess, the grand-daughter of a Constitutional King,
and the intended wife of a Constitutional Emperor.

We have news this morning from the theatre of war.
A brief account of the operations before Silistria is given
in the Prussian State Gazette of the 10th instant, which
is to the following effect :

"The last accounts from the army state diat one el-the• ess.t
irate ef ilillstria has been taken by norm, on which cockades IX&
standards fell into the hands of the conquerors. The•wotks etch*
bedegers had been carried into the ditches of the fortress, sad it
was expected that it would capitulate on the 49th Jene.".

In the absence of any better information we are bound,
to take this for granted. By the following extracts, it,
will be perceived that while the 41qemkiite Zeitusg
informs us that the Turks cannot posaibiy.hald out ninth,
longer against the Russians, it speaks at the same time
of the terms on which the Russians .mean to negociato..
It is certainly difficult to believe that a victorious army,
should be the first W. succumb,in the way of negociation,
to a-scattered and flying enemy. We are told that the
demands of Russia are by. no means extravagant..-the.
EMPEROR wishing to avoid any thing 'tending to dia.
Ptites. _Had he sooner brought himself. to this way of
thinking, he• would have saved himself and others a great
deal of trouble. . • .
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