Star.
London, England, 1817-06-09 00:00:00

CONSPIRACY AT. LISBON,

41 it will be recollected, that, some time back, a
shot was fired at l'slarAial Bereslord, while in the act
of reviewing a hotiy of Portuguese troops. This was,
at the time, impute.' to accident,•but is now consi-
dered as c,:nracted with what has recently occurred,
and of which we present the Most interesting details.
" About the 15th of last mouth, Marshal Lord
Beresford held a meeting with the Regency of Portu-
gal. to whom Le communicated the informatiorahe
bad received of a most dangerous and extensive con-
apiracy, formed for the treasonable purpose of over-
turning the Government, and establishing a new dy-
nasty. Until then it appears that the Regency were
entirely ignorant of the machinations of the conspira.
ten.. On the suggestion of Marshal Bereslord, the
knowledge of the circumstance was kept a profound
secret until adequate measures could be adopted (Cr
insuring the complete suppression of the plot, and for
the apprehension of all parties impreited in it, whe-
ther in Lisbon or is other parts of the kingdom.
" It appears that the conspirators had not precisely
'End upon the period at which the attempt was to be
rnack !o catry their traitorous designs into execution;
but th was to be made some time between the
2.5ih ca .y and the sth of June. The Portuguese
Government, cierefore, resolved to seize on all the
Conspirators residing in Lisbon during the night of
Sunday. the ithan. This determination was promptly
carried nit effect with complete success, and, for-
trnately, without any bloodshed. Great praise is
a,,cribed t.. Marshal Berestord for the wisdom of his
Lorchhip's directions and arrangements respecting
these apprehensions.
11 At the heed of this detected conspiracy was
Lieutenant-General Gomez Freire d'Andrade, who
has the character of a mansof distinguished tahnts,
both as a statesman and as a 'military officer. He
formerly commanded the Portuguese levies, in the
rrenell service, and was always much in favour with
the army. had the plot succeeded, he was to have
been proclaimed Marshal-General. Freire, and his
follow conspirators, were taken quite by surprise, at
twelve.o'cl”cit at night. The party who went to ap-
prehend Freire, were told that he was not at home,
and were refused admittance. They, however, forced
the door, and ibund Freire sitting in his library,
where they apprehended him, and seized on all his
papers. A brace of pistols were lying on his table,
but he did not attempt to make use of them. There
v ere also discovered in the residence of this chief of
the rebellion, several printing-presses, and a variety
.0 primed Proclamations, ready for circulation;all
smelled in the most d ingerous and inflammatory lan-
guage. lie was immediately carried off, with all
expedition, in a chaise, to Fort St. Julien, attended
by a Lieutenant of Police, and escorted by a Lieu-
tenant-Colonel and eighteen dragoons.
‘: About halt-past three in the morning he was
elaced in the custody of Colonel Haddick, who had
airlied for that purpose from C4sCeieS, with four
.companies of the 19th regiment. Among oilier con-
spirators who-have been taken into custody are Baron
,g loreig;,n Officer, and who is said to hold, or
to have i eld, a high office on the Staff in this coon.
try, Colonel Mornian, of the Portuguese militia,
Captain CaHorniier, of the tst infantry, a Lieutenant
of the sane regiment, two Lieutenants of Artillery,
one of Engineers, a Major, and two Ensigns of Tira-
dom. in the event GI success, and the proclaiming
Ficire Marshal General-4,P0! tugal, the Cuititan Jlor
was to have been appointed to ipso command of the
Ordnance; end, it is said, was to have marched
about 13,t;00 tni n into Lisbon, to support the Revo-
lution. A Captain Vicuna); 4, cf the Ist regiment,
was to have dispatched Marshal-Lord Bereslord and
the Msr.:bers of the Regency. The British Generals
in the Portuguese service, and also some particular
jaelttichials, mho are obnoxious to the conspiratias,
Were destined to a similar fate. The British Officers

ct inferior rank were to be shipped off for England.
'The accounts respecting the person intended to be
Rtaced by the nano's at the head of their new Go-
Ooveturnent vary. Some mention the Marquis of
Abrautes, others the Duke of Cadaval, nephew of
the Duke of Luxemburg.
€c From what has transpired, it does not appear
• that any of the Nobility have been connected with
the plot, nano of them having been apprehended,
• Many persons had been arrested in the provincial
s.,wns, whose connections with Are treason were dis.
cot ertd by an examination or all letters at the Post
Oi ice, dwing; the interval between Marshal Beres.
Jt.rd'a commus.icatior, to Cie Regency, and the arrest
ttie ct..l.4pitatora at I..i..bun. Ali the iliversihed

ramifications or the plot are said to have been traced
out by the vigilance of the Government. Numerous
apprehensions had taken place at Oporto.
" Marshal Beresford, at the time of the packet's
sailing, was at Alcantara. The troops were on the
alert, and at all their stations constantly under arms,
each man being provided with ten rounds of ball
cartridges. The prisoners are said to be confined its
close dungeons under ground. They would be im-
mediately brought to trial before a Court-Martial ;
most probably in the course of last week. The
troops, it is stated, have remained faithful to the
Government. No Proclamation on this subject hav-
ing been issued, the inhabitants of Lisbon naturally
felt anxiety and alarm. Some of the private letters
observe, that there are among the strong old fashion-
ed Royalists, or Ultra- Royalists, of Lisbon, those
who partly ascribe this attempt at revolution to the
education of so many Portuguese youth in England
during the troubled times of their own country.—
The Messenger who brought the above intelligence
was landed by a packet at Falmouth, which left
Lisbon on the 2Sth. The intelligence from the
Brazils, through Lisbon, is not so late by two days
as what we were in possession of previously by other
channels."

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A conspiracy has been discovered at Lisbon, the
objects of which were no less than the subversion of
the ex:.ling Government, the overthrow of the reign-
ing
dynasty. and the establishment of some new Go.
vernment under some new head. The British Go-
vernment have received dispatches from Marshal
Lord Beresford, of the 28th M.iy, communicating
the events which had taken place. The substance of
these dispatches will, we believe, be found to corm-
spond with the particulars which we have laid be-
foie our Readers in another column.

As might be expected, the receipt of this intelli-
gence in the City occasioned a very great sensation.
It was stated in two private letters seethed by the
Mail on Saturday—and only in two, and both of
these were from English Houses at Lisbon. None
of the letters received by any of the Portuguese
Houses from their Houses in Lisboncesen mentioned
the occurrence; and from this circumstance it is in.
ferred,that the alarm must indeed haveheen great that
could intimidate those who were writing from even
alluding to the fact : it intimates a kind of conviction
in the writers, that possibly (he conspiracy was not
quite defeated, and that there might be danger in
their correspondence being intercepted. Farther ac•
counts are anxiously expected.
We seem doomed at thi period to be assailed by
alarms. In French P s received yesterday, there
js an allusion to a letter from Marseilles, stating, that
a vessel bad arrived there from Algiers, with intelli.
gence that the European Consuls there (with the ex.
ception of those of France, Denmark, Sweden, and
Spain) had been put to death by order of the LW.
The same intelligence is alluded to in the subjoined
letters, the first of which is from the Agent for Luren's
CoffeeZouse, the second from our own Correspondent:

" DOVER, JUNE a.
al It is very confidently reported here, and the in-
formation comes by the way of France, that a general
massacre has been made on all the white subjects in
Algiers, the French only excepted. The massacre
is also said to have extended Along the whole coast
of their dumitth.us."

“ DOVER, JUNE 8.

e, Early this morning arrived the Susanna, Cap-
tain MOON, iron) Calais, q ith Sir GLONGE NAYLOR On
board, who immediately set off for Town, charged,
it is said, with dispatches relating to a horrid Xis-
sacre at Algiers, in which the Europeans, and parti-
cularly the English, were sacrificed to the rage of the
Dm The French Consul and subjects were exempt-
ed from the slaughter, with some others, but we have
not yet bees able to learn all the particulars."

. .

German Papers, received last night, contain the
Following article :

" BERLIN, MAY 20.

I* The Grand Titstiseted—Sams Weimar has oiLially notified to
all foreign Courts, and consequently to our s, a that the Liberty
of the Press, which he Las granted, must not be abused for the
purpose of depredating and offending foreign Soveteigos, Go-
vernments, and private persons ; but that, upon complaint being
made, the pamphlets, journals,pr other writings, in which ant
thing of the kind has been inserted, shall be sequestrated by the
Police, and the Authors punished according to the law of the
cana).*

" It were to be wished, that other Governments would make
the same regulations and then leave the Press wholly free, as
they have it not in their power to make wisdom issue Irons it
without its being at the same time accompanied by an inunda-
tion of folly and nonsense, as was particularly the ca►e in the last
Unfortunate year.

" Prince Hardenberg will not leave th 6 place for Carlsbad be,
fore the middle of June, because he is retoi :ed cn see all the bu-
siness now in Land relating to the Couueil of State finished be-
fore his departure; anion these is the law on the finance, the
preliminaries of which will be soon brought furward.
" There has been so decided by the majority of votes, that
the middle between both extremes has beta resplved upon; nei-
ther the unlimited importation of foreign goods, abolition of the
indirect, and increase of the direr.; taxes, nor the old system of
prohibitions, forming an excise. Baron Von Humboldt, by los
coolness and penetration, is said to l:ave acquired great Influence
in the Finance Committee, so that the most boi,teroos waves of
the storm of contendin passions were safely passed through by
this abk pilot. May Hcatves prospers lit the MOW plithaelri the
Onnafittct tar the Consilutjun