The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-06 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION OF THE DUKE OF TERCEIRA.

LISBON, JULY 'Ll.—lnhabitants of Lisbon,—The division
of the liberating army, with the command of which his Im-
perial Majesty the Duke of Braganza, •Regent in the name of
the Queen, was pleased to iustrust me with the sole view of
liberating you. has crossed the provinces south of the Tagus and
come to the margin of this river, to cause the standard of the
Queen and of liberty to wave before you. But this standard,
under the shadow Of which the loyal supporters of the throne
and the charter took sheder, amidst the persecutions of exile
and in combats, never was the emb em of war and vengeance,
bat that of the peace, e.mcord, and reconciliation of the whole
Portuguese family, and of clemency and pardon for the deluded
and unfortunate. Therefore, inhabitants of Lisbon, order,
respect for toe rights of each, the tranquitlity and peace of the
capital, are what I hope and exact horn you. I have taken,
and shall continue to take, measures for you to be regularly
armed by re-establishing the same corps that wera once the
support of the Queen and the charter: in them, and in tithe's
which I shall immediately organize, you witl have an oppor-
tunity of sharing the giory of restoring the nation, and of
maintaining order and the tranquility of oar hearths.
" Duke de TERCEIRA."
" Head-quarters, Lisbon, July 24."

" ACT OF ACCLAMATION.

" LISBON, July 21.—0 n the filth of July the people in a large
body, free from all influence, internal or external, without coin-
puision, the city being entirely finsal(en by the troops, being
assembled in the hail of the council of this very nob:e and myal
city of Lisbon, with a free and spontaneous wili, and with au
unanimity never till nor seen, ace.aimed and declared the
&nitwit 'Donna Maria iI., daughter of the immortal Pedro IV.,
for whom the people are ready to spitl the last drop of their
blood, as all toyer Portuguese are ever ready to do for their law-
ful Sovereign, as their legitimate Qu'cn, an 4i in older that this
should be made known, the present act was drawn up, which
was signed by all present.
" MANOEL IGNACIO DE SASIPATO E NINA, Brigadier.
MAximiLiANo JOSE DE LEONE, Brigadier.
" JOSE SotiNEtuo CANNA.
" Lutz TEXEIRA HOENE DE Bitunom.
6' Alsr1oN)0 JoActilitt FIDNIINIO DE CASTRO.
(Numerous signatu) es follow.)

FINE SPECIMEN OF A REFORMER.
(From the Johfi Bull.)

A circumstance has transpired within these few days which
has riven rise to much conversation and conjectuli., and to
-whit% we consider it our duty especially to refer.
It has been pretty generally stated that Sir John Key, one of
the members for the city, had gut the government contract for
stationery, and had therefore rendered himse.f inetigib,e to sit
in the Housa of Coannons. It turns out, however, that al-
tho rgli Sir John Key actual.y manages the business connected
with the con:l.:let—bays the paper, and sendsitto the stationery-
office in his own carts, and is 'nursed' in attendance there, it is
not he who took the contract, but Mr. Jonathan Rey, a book-
seller, late of Gloucestershire, and supposed to be a brother of
' the•baronet, fur whom, out of pure kiiiuuess and affection. Sir
John takes alt the troul.oe we have desoohed. All this, how-
ever, is matter of evidence fur the House of Commons, and we
do not propose to touch it.
It appears that the storekeeper of the stationery-office, a Mr.
Laurence, was charged with the duty of inspecting the articles
furnished, and 'night on his own judgment receive or 'eject
such as he thought fit or unfit for the service. His eon was the
boy whom Sir John Key presented to the Blue Coat School,
and whom, for reascns Cest known to them, the governors chose
not to ieceive upon Sir John's presentation.
Mr. Laurence, it seems, as soon as the contract was settled,
ekpressed a wish to retire from his t,ffice of Storekeeper, and
having communicated that. wish
.to,Sir Juhu Key, Sir John
ry stated,
to
haer e
amount
o inspectu
to f
appied immediately for the situation for his son.
File ditties of the
ofnqciet'a tsy woe
,af h let stationery and decide upon the
i:100.000. to be supplied to the Govertinrent.
When Sir John made the application to Lord Glev, his
Lordship asked how old the young gent,fman was? John
replied, that he was eighteen. The Premier said he thought he
was too young, but teferied the matter to Mr. Church— the
Comptioller of the Office, who reported that a boy of eighteen
could not perfoun the duties ( whether Mr. Chur;:h anickd that
that Sir ..If,hu Key, the father, was the person actually execut-
ing the contract, we know not). Lmd Grey conniunicated
Mr. Church's report to Sir John, who with wondeiful prrsence
of mind, said—`• Then, my Lord, I will ask the appointment
for my eidest son, who is neatly two-and-ltrotty."
To this son the orrice was given, and Mr. Kingsmill Key
forthwith entered upon the arduous duty of examining the
articles which were to be sent in ; but, after he had held the sit-
nation about thtee weeks, it Untied out that he was the ident;ral
individual for whom his father had jitst asked the 'dare; end that
he was not two-and-twenty; nor near it, but was, as he had
first been represented by his parent, EIGHTEEN. The thing
made a noise, and the lad has been dismissed;—but this is net
the point for the' consideration of the Ministers who made.lk/ r.
Key a Baronet for lighaing up London on the success of the
Reform
It ought to he known that no person can he a Liveryman of
the Stationers' Company unfit he has attained the age of twenty-
, one : Sir John Key felt, therefore, that it would be a matter of
first-rate importanje to get his boy of eighteen made a Lively_
man, which, from the notoriety of the regulation respecting the
required age of the Liverymen, would at once put an end to the
doubt of his sou's having attained his majority, and being
n-arty twenty-two. For this purpose Sir John Key wrote a let-
ter to Mr. Greenhill. the Treasurer and Clerk of the Stationers'
Company, which follows :

" Abchureh-lane, Ju! y 13, 1873.

"Dear Sir,—My son HAVING ATTAINEDI HE AGE 0.17
TY-ONE YEA liS about
,fire months since, %%:111 you oh:ige sue by
informing me whether he can take up his Lively in our Com-
pany, although the term of his apprenticeship is not vet com-
pleted, as he was not bound till some years after the pi op.er time
—Dear Sir, tin.y yours, " JOHN KEY.
" Geo. Greenhii, Esq., Stationers'-court."
Dere we have Sir John Key, after having, as it appears, re-
presented his sun wh..) got the office to be a OilTerent peas n flora
the son who was refused it, stating that the son of whom he
speaks has attained the age of twenty-one al out fire months since.
'Who is the mother of that son? We ask this question, be.
cause we believe him to be the ton of Lady Key. the Imuour-
able baronet's wife. Such being the caFe„ remit us to submit
a copy of the certificate of the marriage of the honourable bart.
with his said lady:—

" Page 215.
" Marriage solemnised in the TN ribh of Lambeth, in the county
- ' of Surrey, in the year 1814.
"John Key, the :i•otinger, of this parish, bachelor, and Char-
lotte Green, or ths 'parish, spinster, were mauled in this church
by license, with con,ent of this seventeenth dav of An-
gust, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eciurteeu
by me, George Wade Green, officiating minister. This mar-
rfatte was solemnised betwcen us—
In the presence of
FRANCIS GI:ELN,
JOHN KLY,
"No. 757.

JOHN KEY,
CHARLOrIE GREEN.

"'1 he above is a true copy from the marriage register of the
parish aforesaid, extracted this 3ist Ja:y, in the )ear
18.3.1, by me. CHA 'ILLS C,rate."
This certificate was procured at the desire of some of the
members of the court of the Stationers' Company, ashen Mr.
Greenhill had communicated the wish exp.( ssed John
Ke)'s letter, and proves that the lad whom he has repiesen:cd
to the Prime Minister as realer!' went!" two wars s f ace, cad
whom he 'proposed for a liveryman of the Sia:ioner' COmpt,ny
as having been of age ',earl!" five 771,7111iR, con.d not, in the
course of nature. supposing him to be tha legitimate son of Sir
.J hu and Lady Key, have been Lein before the seventeenth
day of May, 115, which makes this full-go own man of tao and-
tu jusi eighfren tears and weekx this relit (fall.
We see by yesterday's paper that Sir Henry llardine.ho7ds
a petition flour cations paper-makers and stationers, pi ayirg
for the expulsion or this Ley, on the proud of his being the
teal contractor with the ,t; I •ret y-office. As we have already
.
said, this is a question we have nothing to do.

The Cencral Steax. Cornpanv's Packets, the
Harlequin, Itom llotteidan., the !_iupetb. i'rem turgh,
arriveo otf the Custom 1-141:J..e, Loudon, on Ftiday. The for-
mer made her passage in the zetnatkably short time of twenty
one hours and a ha f. _

PIiESENT OF A CARTITAGE AND PLATE TO DR. KENDRICK,
of WAMUNGION.—The inhabitants of the town and neigh-
bourhood of Warrington have testifled.their esteem .for Dr.
Kendrick, and their sense of t heir obligations to him for his-
Icng, nuwearicd, and gratuitous pl ofessionel EerViCe to the poor,
by rrezenling him with en elegant e•iiver tray cad waiers, and.
a neat close carriage. 'I he plate, w;:ich i Leautiful,v fmished•
and univeisala athuired, was got tip I,v I‘.lr. Lewis Samuel. of
Liverpool. fie carriage was Luilt Whelden, of Li: h-
field, and does him great creclit.
A very singular phenomenon oceure•ed at Etlinlurgh en Mon-
day evening. About five in the af;ernoon, aftet a day of ex..
trcme beat, the atmosphere became sudden y overcast • the
wind, which was westerly, veered round to the east, and
very fresh, raising clouds of dust on all the roads; the fe.,,
which a few minutes bet* or e presented a placid e p.a.use. l'eta tr
agitated, and the temperature fell al'ont ten degrees.— rS!rriirr
appearances were and On the %Lugs a tl.l
tssd coast.l