Star.
London, England, 1827-08-11 00:00:00

Infant Don Miguel, has been ceiebrsted, and the mar-
riage completed ; and this abdication and this *micro
not take place, if either of these conditions shall Jug
be satisfied!
We may defy thlkmost intrepid pupil of Scott to find
in this passage anything which excludes Don Miguel
from the Regency. All that can be inferred from it ls,
that the abdication shall be null, if the marriage of
Don Miguel is not completed at that period when k
will be possible to complete it. The question hinges
only on that.

Further, is it not very probable, that the words" mar-
riage completed" are only a matter of style, adding
nothing to the meaning of the phrase ? Since the deci-
sion of p lineal interests is referred to grammar, we
admit that grammar does not give to the word " two"
the value of the word " three." Nuw, according to the
adversaries of Don Miguel, there are three conditions
which Don Pedro will have imposed before the abdica
Lions he definitive—thi, oath, the espousals, and
the consummation.

In all cases they say, it is for Don Pedro to decide.
Author of the Charter, he alone knows the true mean-
ing of it. if this assertion, registered in the Constitts-
time', be compared with so many others with which
it troubles itself till the remembrance of them is effaced,
it is impossible not to remark that a great revolution
has taken place in its ideas. Indeed, by force of liber-
alism it will fall, if it do not take care, into servilism.
Behold, he who has defined the Regency an immovable
authority, grants to Don Pedro the right of regulating
it as he may please in maintaining in it the Infanta his
sister, or in confer ring it on whom he thinks good. The
mad management i.f the enemies of Don Miguel is
great, and the Emperor has few thanks to offer to them
for the character of animosity, and almost of faction,
which they have bestowed on his Charter.
To conclude--The spirit and the text of the Charter,
the interest of Brazil, and th it of Portugal, the repose
of Europe, as well as that of America—in fine, the
common law of nations, all oppose themselves to the
return of Don Pedro—all reject the autlio:ity of an ar-
biter who has discpalified himself. We repeat it, he has
abdicated. Ile decl ,res himself that his abdication is nor
the consequence of disgust, or t f any secret inspiration,
but the effect of a radical impossibility, which must
vtherefore remain the same after his return as it is be-
fore his departure. To proclaim this principle, and
shortly afterwards to unite in himself its() powers
which oppose each other, would not be an act of sound
policy. Europe and America would think themselves
played with. Out of this violation of the Charter
by its author—out of this contempt for a necessity by
him who had solemnly recognized it, per p'exities and,
conflicts would arise, of which human wisdom cannot
determine the issue. It is a principle, admitted in all
times, dia• an individual cannot ie•ascend the thrine
which he has voluntarily resigned, and that the affairs
of nations ought to be made independent of caprice.
Thus Europe has not comid red the successor of Vic.
tor Amedee, a had sun, for having repressed the re-
turning ambition of his father.
The presence of Don Pedro in Portugal would only
serve to revive parer differences, to rekindle civil war,
to furnish motives or pretexts to his enemies in Ame-
rica for rendering v, id the charter which he has given
as a pledge of peace—in a word, se:iously to compro-
mise the throne which he aLanions, and the throne
which he retains, the repose of 13 azil, and that of the
Peninsula. Convulsions of all sorts appear to us
bound up with the project, and ready to issue forth to
affect the world. Let us hive, with the friends of
order and peace, that this appteheatian will not be
realia.d.