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

TUESDAY MOILVING, AUGUST 6, 1833.

A full account of the fail of Lisbon, and the recogni •
Lion of the invading flag, by the British fleet under the
command of Admiral PARKER, Will be found in another
part of the STANDARD. The capital and nearly the
whole of Portugal may now be said to be, if not aactu-
ally under the dominion, certainly at the mei cy of foreign
pirates and English adventurers. The troops which
Captain T‘IAPIEtr landed in the Algarves consisted chiefly
of French and Briiish mercenaries—men of desperate
fortune—the scum of the gaols-4he sweepings of every
haunt of infamy in Paris and London ; and with these
wretches Count ITILL.A. FLOR marched upon Lisbon,
broke open the prisons, added some two or three thousand
vagabonds more to his forces, hoisted the revolutionary,
vulgarly called the constitutional flag, and proclaimed
Donna MARIA Queen of Portugal. - - - _

It will be observed that VILLA FLOR entered Lisbon
with some fifteen hundred men only. Tile march from
Lagos to the capital is about seventy miles, and his route
lay through a populous part of the kingdom ; but we find
that he entered with his original retinue of scamps
and plunderers, not a single native of the country, whom
he did not press, having joined his standard. This shows
that the inhabitants have yet made no demonstrations
favourable to Don l'Enno. They consider the aftliir in
the light of a British invasion ; and we have no doubt
that the Count so represented it to be, thereby impress-
ing the natives with a belief that as British soldiers are
invincible, all resistance was vain.

What Marshal BoußmoNT is doing before Oporto we
have 'vet to learn, as no authentic accounts of his move-
ments have yet been received. It has, however, been
reported that he had raised the siege which, seeing the
state of affairs, is not improbable. Whether he will
march upon the metropolis and endeavour to regain what
is lost, or decide the contest in one grand struggle, re-
mains to be seen. It is calculated that he has still about
twenty thousand men in the vicinity of Oporto. The Duke
de CADAVAL, one of the ablest of the Portuguese nobles,
and himself nearly allied to the throne, left Lisbon at
the head of three or four thousand men. With these
and the guerillas Don MIGUEL might still muster a pow-
erful force, and if the • soldiers could be depended on,
there would be little difficulty in retaking the city.
If this, however, cannot be done, and I)on PEDRO he per-
mitted to take quiet possession, then will begin the more
terrible struggle fur the spoil. The mercenaries will not
be content with a stinted compensation for their infamous
services. They will not be satisfied with barren titles m
honours. They will demand sGme hard cash, or, if this
be not forthcoming, they will perhaps make a division of
the land, and become for the future the wine growers of
England—the manufacturers of light port for the citizens
of London.

At all events, Portugal is A ruined country. The
damage done by this invasion will not. be repaired by the
labours of the next. ten years. England, the "ancient.
ally" of Portugal, during the reign of WILLIAM the
FOURTH, and the Whig administration, has had the dis-
tinguished honour of being the secret abettor of this
aggression and calamity. Our national renown has been
tarnished by this foul blot on our shield of arms. Instead
of sheltering the weak, and maintaining justice in a
foreign cause, according to solemn treaties, she has play-
ed the money game of Lours PHILIP, and fanned the
flames of revolution which it. will take • years to subdue.
If Portugal is to be constitutionalised, so also must Spain.
It is impossible that revolutionary principles can be re-
stricted within an ideal line ; they must excite discon-
tents in the adjacent kingdom ; and if they do, France,
perhaps, will do as much for the one nation as she has
done for the other. • •

The Lords have thrown out. the Jew Bill in order to
evince their independence, having a few days previously
passed the Church Robbery, Bill, to prove that they had
very little of that. quality to spare. The reasons given
against. the poor Jews, who, by the way, are as loyal a
body of men as any in the kingdom, were, that by ad-
mitting them to Parliament the character of that honour-
able assembly would be dischristianised. This is al
very well for an hypothesis; but it has but a. sorry
look in practice. The characters .of some of the men
who figure in the reformed Parliament might have con-
vinced even the Lords that any fur:her dilution of their
respectability, or their Christian principles, was impos-
sible. They, however, know best, and we care not three
straws whether they are right or wrong. The house
that contains O'CONNELL and his tail, COBRETT and his
squire, MARK PHILIPS and some fifty Socinians, is•not
a house worth fighting about. "Throw physic to the
dogs as Sir SAMUEL .WHALLEY says.

We perceive that all the mongrels and turnspits of the
Liverpool press have, during the last few days, been
barking at Mr. YATES for his honourable and manly ad-
vocacy of the Liverpool freemen. This comes of any
gentleman being suspected of having any latent connec-
tion with the Whig party. When Mr. YATES is com-
peled by a sense of justice to ta!•e the side of the vilified
and injured burgesses, it is a proof that their cause ex-
cites the generosity of an honourable mind, otherwise,
perhaps, opposed to them on political grounds. The
Whigs, however, will allow of no medium. Their adhe-
rents must be thick and thin, or nothing. But Mr. YATES
is not a man to be dinned out of his conviction by mounte •
banks, or overawed into silence by the sneers of a faction
whose machinations he abhors, and whose injustice he
has thus publicly condemned. His conduct reflects on
him the highest credit, and must insure the admiration
of all those who can estimate honourable motives.

The conduct. of the adVoCates for disfranchising the
freemen of Liverpm I is in perfect, keeping with the ef-
forts and clamour of the Whig faction to which they
belong. It ,has been, in the late procce,dingsparticularly,
characterised by a total disregard of truth, and a 'shame-
less perseverance in dishonesty. Inconsistency in a mo-
dern liberal is considered a venial, bemuse it is a doily
besetting sin. .We do not, therefore, limit our charge
against them to inconsistency, seeing that it isnot deemed
a vice in the man, or a fault in the patriot. We go be-
yond inconsistency, and openly accuse them of disho-
nesty and gross perfidy',—of first flattering the reformers
and then betraying them,—of extolling their purity and
patriotism, and then turning informers and swearing
away the rights and liberties of the duped and victimised
burgesses!

This, we admit, is a grave charge to bring against any
class of men, but doubly grave when broug,ht against
persons w.ho call. themselves the friends of the people, the
apostles of liberty, the advocates of truth and justice.
Serious, however, as the charge undoubtedly is, we are
ready to substantiate it upon grounds which will not bear
cavilling, and by a host of witnesses whose testimony
cannot he questioned or disputed. In one word, we shall
substantiate this grave charge out of the mouths of the
implicated parties—by the puritans themselves!

We have before us a copy of a newspaper called the
Liverpool Mercurg, of date the 6th May, 1931. It con-
tains a long report. of the proceedings of the election at
that period, when General GASCOYNE WAS defeated, and
Messrs. EWART and DENtsoN were returned. It also
contains the speeches of the candidates and their frieOds,
in which we find the burgesses are complimented in the
highest terms for their purity, honesty, and independence.
The very men that have raked every dark lane, and every
Obscure and disreputable pot-house, in order to procure
evidence to degrade the freemen, were then the lOndest
in their praise, and why ? solely because these freemen
had, during the mania of reform, been induced to desert
their old friends, and return to Parliament a gentleman
whose conduct has disappointed their expectations,—who
has abused their confidence, betrayed their trust, and ren-
dered himself for ever worthless and contemptible. That
get3flenyin is Mr. LW ART ! He Wag. returned by
the
freemen in 1t:31.,-anct for this 'distinguished hoover) to