Star.
London, England, 1828-08-06 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Decree of Don Miguel appointing the Commission for trial of
the °fort° Insurgents:
" I am pleased to command vru to proceed to the
City of Oporto; and there—until it may be pleasing
to me to name some other places—opening without
delay an exact and scrupulous inquiry, without limi-
lotion of time, or determined number of witnesses—
this my letter serving as the act of indictment—you
cause to be charged, taken up, and sentenced, beyond
an appeal, all persons, of what clan, rank, or station
however, not being soldiers. taken with arms in their
hoods (for in this respect I have formed other ar-
rangements), against whom there be sufficient proof that
they bad. in any mode whatever, taken act or part in the
said rebellion, which began in the city of Oporto, on the
16th of May in this year, 1828, all the processes being
formed verbally and commonly, and without any other
solemnities which be not indispensable and of natural
right; and I hereby authorise you to require all records
and papers whatsoever, and to take such proceeding.
as may seem to you k and proper for the lull and corn.
plate execution of this important commission I thus
confide to you—and vrbich you may also intrust to all
and each Member of your own bs dr, as well as to each
Magistrate of every description in every part of the king-
dom,who are hereby bound to obey you. And I further
authorise you to employ, in the furtherance of the said
commission,the officers of the said Magistrates. And you
may also take up and cause to be apprehended, even be-
fore any charge is lard against them, all persons again. t
whom well•grounded suspicion may be entertained,
bringing the charges afterwards forward, and liberating.
as the case against them may be made out ; and you may
also require from the military authorities assist. nce, to be
by them most promptly given. Tnis Spr.cial Commis-
nal is to assemble in the Court house at Oporto. And
you, and each member of the Commission, are to re-
ceive fully the daily amount of allowance specified by
law ; which amount, as well as all the expenses of the-
Commission, are afterwards to be defrayed out of the
goods and property of the condemned culprits. And,
as you proceed in your labours, you will lay before me
an account of their progress, in order that I may, ac-
cording to circumstances, come forward with such suit-
able arrangements as may be necessary. All which you
will execute an the aforesaid form. notwithstanding any
laws, regulations, or common rights, or contrary cus-
toms, which, as such, I have thought proper to dew.
gate from, solely for this purpose.

(Egad) - " THE KING"
The preamble states, that it is necessary to punish,
not only the rebels of last May, but also 4$ all those
who had, act or part, either by aiding, counseling, or
abetting the revolutionists, since 1820, or when the
revolut►on first broke out in Oporto, and which has
since continued to be at work in it."

Liters received from Smyrna, via Naples, dated
June 16, state, a very severe shock of an earthquake
has been felt that, which has done considerable mis-
chief to the houses, throwing down chininier, and split-
ting edifices; but happily no lives bad been ascettained
to have been 12at.—The weather had set in eztreasely
hot, and that dreadful scourge the plague bad mode im
appearance, although not to a very great eaten!.