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

of the heinous and abominable crime of high treason of the first
class. in the following manner :
The Marquis of Palmella, as it is proved in the first place, with
the greatest ingratitude, forgetful of the Royal beneficence and
magnanimity with which, without his meriting it, be was re-
ceived and treated by his Majesty, while on his passage through
England—which treatment would be sufficient. if bestowed
on a man of good birth, to disarm the unjust prejudices
and malevolence of which be bad, prior to that time, given
notorious proofs; and, laying aside afterwards those senti-
ments of noble pride and duty that he, a Nobleman of the
first class, and representative in Englaantnd of the Porte
saugume
ese
nation, by the delegation and most benign permis
Si nher, owed to the Power under whose orders he served, con-
sti• toed himself, gratuitously and perfidiously. the chief of all
the dissident Portuguese refugees in that country, the head
..iid prime mover of all the plots and schemes which pre-
ceded the formal insurrection and formal military rebellion
of the 16th of May, 1828, in this city of Oporto, and which
bad its ramifications in four provinces of this kingdom ;
and fur which purpose, making use, for a pretext for his
evil intentions, of the Royal Decree of the 3d of May—
whereby the said august Senhor bad commanded the Coo-
vocation of the Three Estates of the kingdom—this criminal,
throwing aside the mask, addressed to Earl Dudley, then Minister
and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of that Power, the onto-
rious Protest in the note of the date of the 23d of May, and pub-
lished immediately in the Liberal papers of London of the
2d, 4th, and sth of the following June, and transcribed sub-
sequently into the official Gazette of the Rebel Junta of this
city, No. 18, with the revolutionary applause which was to
be expected from such papers—always disposed, as they are,
to injure legitimate Governments. and to calumiate all acts
rending to consolidate and to defend the monarchical institutions
which are the support of all thrones : the contents of the said note
exhibiting, among other things, the daring assertion • that no other
proceeding remained for hint (the criminal Marquis of Palmella)
but to consider himself no longer the Agent of the Government
then ruling in Portugal, until he should receive further instruc-
tions, which he was about to take measures to procure directly
from Rio de Janeiro.' thereby showing that the said criminal
had not only abandoned the cause and interests of his native
country. but also did not hesitate to become the first to raise—as he
did in fact raise—the cry of war against the very Government to
which be owed his authority, and of which he was an agent; which
note was followed. on the 24th of May in the same year, by another
extraordinary and astounding Protest, addressed to the Por-
tuguese nation, drawn up and signed by the Marquis de Rezende
and the Viscount de Itabayana, then resident (and, perhaps, solely
for that purpose) at the Court of London, published in the news-
paper called the Onstage, of the same day (24th), and equally ap-
plauded by the Revolutionists of this city in their Gazette Estee-
ordinary', No. 18—which Protest took its rise from the same evil
dispositions towards this realm, being the production of the same
cabal and confederation of which this criminal was the head, and
being written with the same object and spirit; it being to be ob-
served in this, as a particular circumstance, arising from the pre-
occupation and contrariety of the said Plenipotentiaries, their
having included in the number of Acts protested against the Royal
Decree of the 13th March, by which his Majesty, in the period of
his most glorious Regency. dissolved the Chamber of Deputies in
Lisbon, as well as that of the 25th of April, in which the same
august Senhor vouchsafed to reply to the representation of the Mu-
nicipal Chamber of that city, as if the matter of the one and the
other Royal Decrees were not within the limits of his supreme
power, even in the quality of Regent.
Is the second place, it appears from some papers printed, pub-
lic and official, as annexed to the Appendix, that this criminal, pre-
cipitating himself from abyss to abyss. had proceeded, soon after,
openly to carry on hostile measures against this kingdom and
its most happy Government, by recognising Und placing him-
self under the orders of a handful of abject and despicable
Revolutionists, such as those who composed the Provisional
Junta established in this city, as is proved from the perusal in
the aazette Eatmerdinery, No. 18, of the following official articles,
translated from the English newspaper called the Evening Mail, of
the 4th of June, viz.—' We know that the Marquis of Palmella
received, yesterday, despatches from the Provisional Government
established in Oporto ' • and, as it acts in the name of the King, his
master, at the rime when the Government of Lisbon does not, his
Excellency, without hesitation, has recognised the authority of the
Junta. replied to its despatches, and obeys its instructions.'
" In the third place, it is proved from the correspondence of the
other rebel, Valdez, Rs-Governor of the island of Madeira, which
was seized in this city in the possession of his emissary Jose Maria
Martiniano da Fonseca. who has been since executed, as annexed
to the proceedings in this cause, that this criminal. always indefati-
gable in his plan of conspiracies and hostilities against these
realms, placed himself in contact with the other Revolution-
ists. and discontented individuals of different countries, and,
having formed a rebellion, as it has been 'treacly explained,
with all the Portuguese Legation in London. and promoted. as
far as lay in his power, the rebellion in this city, plotted, in his
perfidious and depraved Council, to withdraw, also, from their
lawful obedience to the mother country, the ultra-marine pus.
sessi• ns : since it is stated in one of the letters of the traitor
Valdez, and written with his own hand to one of the most
exalted members of the said nefarious Junta, the Ez- Disem-
birgador Caldeirs, and dated Funchal, June 30. 1828 :—' I
have received a letter from the Marquis of Palmella, dated from
London on the 7th lost. containing expressions the most flattering
on my behalf, and most interesting to the cause in which we are en-
gaged : I received one also from Candid° Jose Xavier, of the same
date, and from the same place : I have one from the Marquis of
Rezende and Viscount de itabayana, of the 12th of May last.
I received that of Palmella and Candido when I was giving
orders for the formal declaration of this island.' In concord-
ance with and in explication of the said seditious correspondence
the fourth article of the instructions given by the said Valdez to the
slid emissary contains the following words Information is
to be given that the Marquis of Rezende and the Viscount de Ita-
bayana have sent official directions to this Government (of Madeira)
on the 12th of het May. stating that all the Allies of his Majesty
the Senhor D. Pedro had decidedly supported the resolution taken
by the island on the 22d of June.' And the 6th article was--` I
give also every assurance that, in case of an unfortunate issue in the
heroic enterprise of Portugal, all emigrants who choose to take
refuge in the island shall be received in it as brothers.'—
And, in another seditious paper, written by the emissary and
seized in this city in his possession, another passage was found,
stating that the emissary of the Marquis of Palmate to Rio de
Janeiro had reached Funchal on the 21st of June, at night, and
set out on the 2351 with despatches for his Majesty : the emissary
of the Marquis of Rezende and the Viscount de Itabayna had
reached the 2d of June, and set out on the sd. The result of the
whole of which. by a simple combination and collation of the dates
of the said publications with the dates of these letters and cones-
pima-nee, is sufficient to form a conclusive and an evident proof
of the revolutionary and hostile object of this monstrous con-
federation.
" In the fourth place it is shown from the original letter, No 4
of the Appendix, and recognised as true by the very person who
brought it forward, Lourenco Germach Poston°, Captain of the
steam boat Restaurador Lumen°, to whom it was addressed, and
by the collation of the writing by the Notary Public, and which
was dated in London June 6, last year, in his own handwriting, by
the other accomplice and criminal, Joao Carlos de Saldanha,
and delivered to the said I'ossollo in Liverpool, where be then
was, that this criminal. after having put into practice all
the plots and schemes already specified, and having recog-
nized and made common cause (although absent) with the
rebels of this city, proceeded to come in person, and at the
head of his other fellow-criminals, to give a finishing stroke to his
perfidy, by uniting all his own personal efforts to the rebel forces,
as appears from the perusal of the said letter :—" All the Portu-
guese who have been compelled to quit Portugal, together with the
Marquis of Paimella. are to embark at Falmouth on Thursday,
the 11th inst. in a steam-boa:. We have to request you to accom-
pany us, and also that on that day you will he ready at that place,
and bring in your company the pilot of the bar of Oporto whom
you may think best.'
" In the last place, it is proved that the said execrable and infer-
nal system of hatred, plots, and schemes, which this criminal and
his accomplices openly and unhesitatingly carried on, having pro-
duced. on the motning of the mournful 26th of June of last
year. the rash and moat criminal act of disembarking on the shore
at Lavra, two leagues distant ftom this city, trom on board
the Belfast, from Falmouth, they proceeded to Mathodehos,
and from thence came into this city, escorted by the rebel vo-
lunteers on horseback, and surrounded by an innumerable mul-
titude of revolutionists, the greater part being of the dregs of
the populace, such as are always figuring away in commetions and
civil disturbances ; with which indecent and shameful accompani-
ment, in the midst of seditious shouts, cries, and gestures, resulting
Irons the maddest exultation of revolutionary phrenay, they were
conducted to the Casa Pia, which was the place where the infa-
mous rebel Govcinment held its sessions, and where the traitors
within the country soon formed a junction with the traitors
coming from abroad—an event, which, while it, on the one
band, produced the highest alarm and the most pungent grief
among the respectable and faithful vassals and peaceful inhabitants
of this unfortunate city, in witnessing such an extraordinary and
horrifying spectacle, and seeing a postiou of the Portugueee No-
bility thus degradingly stained, and associaled in the cause of the
execrable and abominable rebellion, was, on the other band, ap-
plauded. eulogised, ad welcomed, by the impure organ of the
rebel newspapers, as a reinforcement and decisive assistance,
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• or rather. as • victory, which treason bad already obtained lore