Star.
London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

MODERATION OF ABSOLUTISM.

The following is a translation of an Gadd document, worthy of
general notice, as affording the best esplanation of the system of
moderation so strensously recommended to " the absolute Sove-
reign of Portugal. Miguel I." It Is published in Oporto. with
the sanction and by the authority of the Alcada. the Star Cham-
ber Tribunal appointed by Miguel to try and to condemn all
those those who. unlike hint. bad eeetinoed true to theft oaths,
their fidelity. and their honour.

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"The Alcada being assembled in due form. have examined' "the
various papers of the summary process instituted in coatotmity
with the Royal orders against the culprits now abant—viz. U.
Pedro de Sousa e Holstein, Marquis of Pakoelia. Maned Antonio
de Sampayo Mello e Castro Torres e Luzigisano, Cuunt of Sans-
pay°. Antonio Jose de Sousa Manoel de Mesezcs &vain% de
Noronha. Count of Villa for, D. Alexandre Domingo de
Sousa e Holstein, Count of Carkariz. D. Gastao da Camara. Count
of Taips, Joao Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Day, ex Brevet Ma-
jor-General; Candid° Jose Xavier, Et- Lieutenant-Colonel ; Thos.
William Stubbs, Ba.Lieutenant-General ; Francisco de Paula de
Awed°. Rz-Brevet Major-General; Simao da Silva Ferns de
Lima e Castro ; Baron de Render, ; D. flippe de Sousa e Hol-
stein, Bs-Councillor of Finance; D. Alexandre de Sousa, At-
tache to the Legation in London • Rodrigo Pinto Pizarro. Rx-Col.
on half-pay ; Menne; Jose Mendes, Ea- Major ; Manoel Joaquin
Berredo Prat% and Joao da Costa Xavier, Ex-Captains ; D. Ma-
niac! da Camara, Francisco (le Sampayo, and Thomas Pinto
Saavedra, Rs Lieutenants. Jose Victoria° Barret° Frio, Rs -
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Francium Zacariu Ferreira de Araujo--
all of whom are accused by the inquiry established by the Royal
Cusamiesioa of this Alsada, and some of them also in other inqui-
ries concerning rebellion; and having examined the witnesses in
corroboration of the different charges, the documents annexed to
the process, as well as the allegations brought forward in their
behalf by the advocate who was appointed by the Court to defend
them. do decide as follows :

"*betas, immediately after the most fortunate and miraculou
restoration of his Majesty to these kingdoms, which be came to
bless with his august presence. some degenerate and disloyal
Portuguese, ticked by the evil spirit of pride and ambition, and
urged on by the unjust and implacable hatred to his Royal
person, and seeing, in the heroic valour. firmness, and wisdom
with which he began his most happy Regency, the anaemia:-
matt of the snaky which awaited them, and perhaps, eke the
approaching punishment of their insidious proceedings, took their
departure precipitately and clandestinely from these kingdoms
under divers pretests. bat with the premeditated malice of im-
pressing on foreign nations the existence of an imminent persecu-
tion ; while they, on the contrary, bad been received by the same
august Senbor with the most sovereign and truly Royal benignity.
.‘ Whereas it mureover appears from the said inquiry, and its
append's, with all the evidence which results from the correspon-
dence seised upon. from the combination and certainty of the
facts, and from the notoriety and coincidence of the events, that
the luminous and paternal arrangements being evident within and
without the realm, with which the same Senhor was pleased to
yield his assent to the wishes and to apply a remedy to the most
urgent necessities of his vassals, in the representations sub-
mitted to him by the municipal Chambers of Lisbon, as well as by
almost all the Chambers of the kingdom, commanding to be con-
voked, as reason and justice required, the Three Estates, by his
Royal decree of the 3d of May, 1830, that those degenerate and
most ungrateful Portuguese set about instantly nourishing their
ferocity and implacable rage, by forming plots and machinations
tending to prevent the most important assembly of the Three
Estates; and, at the same time, while on the one band all
the classes of this kingdom were full of joy and hope in the
unlimited grandeur and paternal care of the same august Scriber.
offering to the Suture Rusts of kingdoms the most ardent and
fervent vows dot the preservation and prosperity of their must
august Regent • on the other side, some of the tore-named cri-
minals assembled teacher, with their malignant and insidious
Leader, the Marquis of Plimelia, in the Palace of the Portu-
guese Legation in London, which then became the infamous and
shameful scenes of conspiracies, and proceeded with perfidious
and execrable craft to blacken the Royal and heroic virtues
of the same Senbor ; calumniating his sacred person, and di,-
seminating the most virulent detiaction by the pestilential
vehicle of hired periodicals, publishing seditious and contradictory
protests, pretending that in this kingdom all was disorder,
and desolation, arising from a revengeful faction, preparing with
artifices and boldness the means of carrying into effect their fero-
cious machinations, gathering around tbrm all such persons as arum
their ferocity were discontented with the most happy Government
of the same Senhor ; and, finally, collecting together in seder to
unite with their infamous association in this city, and. by assisting
and sustaining the rebellion, to carry on a parricidal war against
the country which gave them birth, and tbr throne which had
erred them with benefits, hums, and di4iiities.
•• Whereas it &sally i‘ clear that the forenamed criminals, in per.
' feet combination and reciprocal intelligence with the conspirators
resident in the kingdom, induced and instigated them by vaunt.'
means to put in practice other similar machination. ; it being evi-
dent and manifest by the original correspondence seised upon. and
which is to be bound in the al peed's. that they had simultaneously
fur their principal objects to prevent the assembly of the Three
Rotates, even at the cog h civil war, a matter before unheard of.
teckuning on the personal aid of some of she most iiikeetial of the
said criminals, who, by attracting others to their isfansuus party,
aiterwatele ttec sally realised it, and thereby rendered them guilty

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