Star.
London, England, 1828-04-25 00:00:00

PRIVATE COMIMPONDENCI.

The murder of the Professors of Coimbra, by their I
own students, has been exceeded, and even rendered ten
thousand times more barbarous. A•volunteer of that
body called " Pedro IV." was seized by a party of the
rebels who took refuge in Spain, thrown upon a bench,
stripped naked. and then deliberately ripped open in the
manner and form the butchers of the country do their
pigs ; and his body was subsequently treated with every
indignity. This is inhuman, but such are the dim:riot
mutual hatred. Yet the Gazelle of L.isbcn, which is
now interested for the support of the Absolutist faction,
although it lays great stress on the monstrous conduct
of the students, does nut deign.to mention this savage
atrocity, nor the murder at Lamereo of the soldier, solely
for cheering the acknowledges* King of Portugal; nor
the assassination of the Major of the Fourth, on his way
to Lisb.,n from Upper Beira. Tie murderers of the
Professors are to be tried, and deservedly punisheJ.
The following barbarity will serve al,o to illustrate'
the spirit of the time. A mistier of the 7th Infantry,
which regiment is now stationed at Beato A wool°, about
one and a half mile to the eastward of the city, took a
wire trap with three live rats into a worn, in which were
seated the Chaplain, a Captain, and an Ensign of this
regiment. '1 he Captain said that the Chaplain should
give names to the captive vermin ; the soldier having
been •rdered to withdraw, and the door being closed,
the Chaplain, with some formality, bestowed on the rats
the names of " Don Miguel, the old Queen, and the
Conde de Rio Pardo, now War Minister."
The three officers then commenced an attack with
sharp p AnteJ knives on their prisoners. Jests, laughter,
and shouts followed—" Now 1 have stuck the Queen
twice, 1 have lamed Don Miguel—see the hole I made
i i the skin of the old gray Count." This exhibition
they continued until their victims ceased to palpitate;
but the soldier, who knew those three men to be Corr
stitutionalists. as they called themselves, watched and
beard their observations ; he soon discovered the whole ;
the three brutes .►ere wrested arid thrown into prison,
to suffer all this severity of the law, while .the informer
was rewarded with a Cadetship in another regiment;
and, as it is necessary that each Cadet should have
about 40i. pee annum, the Regent has undertaken to
pay it for him.
Report asserts that Telles Jordao, an officer much
talked of last year for his adherence to Chaves, has been
seen several times in different parts of Tras-os Monies.
No doubt he is making preparations for the triumphal
return of his partizans when Des Miguel shall be pro-
claimed.

Lord HAREWOOD presented a Petition from the Minister
and Churchwardens of Woodhouse Ckapti, Leeds, against further
concession to the Catholics.
The Nlarquis of LA NSDOWN presented a Petition from two
Parishes in the County of Derby, lot the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts.
The Earl of CARNARVON presented a Petition from Mr.
Isaac Goldsmid, of Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, a Gentle-
man of the Jewish persuasion, complaining of the introduction of
the words " on the faith of a Cbri,tian," into the Dclaration to be
made by persons previously to their accepting office. If this form
of Declaration were insisted on, it would place the Jews in a
worse situation than they now were under the existing laws. As
the law at present stood the Jews were relieved by the Annual
Indemnity Bill. The l'etition stated, tha: iu the Act of Geo. I.
Jews were expressly exempted from being obliged to take the oath
of abjuration.
The Lite Annuity Act Repeal Bill went through a Committee,
and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow.