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he two most powerful natioril of -.Europe,7
France,---in assertion of their choice ;am
ie of justice, freedom and common sense, 1
se we to say, that they shall not have the k
7 have chosen ?
Itt these femarkS, we have no idea. Of Oa]
glish conncilS with any factious and intei
bition. They may have been involved in tl
the original weakness of Mr. CanninA's int
,ley, and by the new systetn of flattering tl
V,eininent. We speak of the Whole transa
the spirit-of party, but in the, common sense
life. With. the Portuguese choice of the
throne; England has, unquestionably, no ri
:r to interfere. But in one Point, we mu
we are, however unconsciously, draWing
l'uilt upon ourselves ; and that point is, the
ctice of raising soldiers. for tile Portugues
-man lies a riitheto shed the blood of man bi
once, or for the protection of the weak, and
only in extreme cases. - The soldier figlitin
airy fights virtually in
.Self:defenee. But
the recruits that are going off daily to fie
al, in the liSt of self-defenders ? . We are n
I Portugal as a nation, yet do We not San
winking at the act; the crime Of men going
tuouese for.their pay ? The Sable. rule w
Is tie British recruit to fight in Portugal wo
Imurder on the high road. The highwayma
1 for what he can.get by it. What persOna
the British half-pay oitcer,L, or the conimori
e in a quarrel between two Portugnese prim
ing is, notoriously and simply, a desire to
led, to get pay and promotion, and for that
beds the blood of Portuguese officers and
Ilgers, whom he would never Meet but for thus
it blood; and, with Whom he haS no more na
anal quarrel than with the man in the moo
d all doubt, this act of utterly unprovoked and
I aggression in the individual, ismurder--mun
Bof God and man. In this statement, we
cause no more of Don Mignel than of Do.
barking in the service of either, the Britis
mid be equally criminal. , Our government I
ble to prevent the entering of private and
lons into the quarrels of foreign countries.
half-pay list it has a hold; and if it' shall sufl
individual to raise men in this country fi
(yr, it, beyond all controversy, puts itself int
lof belligerency. On this head we shall ri
our policy retracted. If the Portuguese prig
tinue to present to Europe a spectacle unprel
rong all the frightful, disgusting, and guilty si
-later times,_ two brothers seeking each other'
ithe British take the only part suitable to a i
kal people, let the British nation distinctly 1
in accomplice in this hideous exhibition;, 4
Ist exert our power, let us exert it to concili
Pease, and put forth our intervention to stop
ich outrages every public interest, every prix
kanity, and every command of religion.
The exact state of the question is this. Be:
*lli of the late King John the Sixth, Don Pe,
an act of direct revolt, declared Brazil indepe
rtugal, and himself Emperor. On the cleat
King, in 1826, the Portuguese nation; notwi
the revolt, offered their crown to Don PI
... ition Of his returning to Portugal, which,
lent laws, was essential to his possession of du
throne then, by those laws, came to the sea
the late King, but that son was a prisoner in
regency was appointed in this emergency, b:
ace of Don Pedro, at the head of which was h
Infanta, which regency was suffered only it
flee of the annexed condition; that on the seco
ving at the age of twenty=five, that son shonlc
regency ; a-provision which notoriously poll
ki Miguel, lie being twenty-three at the time,
Vable of the throne by reason of his being in e
It even with this proviso the national disconte
violent, that it produced the insurrection and ii
tech were put down only by the British troops
Mr: Canning, on the pretext that, as comic
ttin, they constituted a Spanish invasion. It I
aid necessary to release Don Miguel, and app(
'gent in order to quiet the public tumultsi,and l
y show of dependence on Don Pedro. But NI
alinal Sovereign the Portuguese nation were i
It. They considered a regency to be an ackn
la. of dependence on a power which had con
elf altogether a separate . and foreign state.
rfectly justifiable national feeling, they refused
'the colony to become the dispbser of the parer
i they, in -1825, proclaimed Don-Miguel king,
're object of national independence, -and in un
leistency with the spirit of their 117 hole code'
erring to the throne. Don Pedro now,' for the'
shaking Don Miguel's succession transferred
Ighter, Donna Maria, a right which existed no
having alienated it from -himself, and set-her
'al to the prince of the national choice. The
lese 'nation, still considering that the governmm
ild must be but a contrivance for keeping the
der the jurisdiction of the father, and being j
' the laws of the Cortes, rejecting the'foreign k
l' descendants, refused to receive her -as their I
d have armed in defence of the sovereign Who
°se, certainly without any intervention of forei
Whom they are now fighting, and whom the
4erto shown no tendency whatever, under a
tkptations, to abjure.
It is evident that Don Pedro,' without his foreig
and his foreign money, could not stay an 1
?rtligal; it is equally clear that Don Miguel is I
tll no other strength than the force of the count
•?qually clear that a continuance of the strug-
Lly alienate Portugal from England, distutb'Spil
of revolution abetted by England, and, as fix
~Ise them both listen to.the first overtures from .
N 4 Russia, as conservatives of theold European
ease of that war which now seems to•menaCe 1
be character of the' individuals is 'comparatively
k 17tant to the queStibn.. The only point lbr Eng
iligider is, whether she can have any right to die
(~)lee of a sovereign to an- independent nation.—
'ocr.r Magazine.

CO REGICIDES.—The details of that royal tragedy (
Sentence of King Charles) lia;:e no raitiou to a m
dhy, further than to record; that not one seaimin was a
eath, who was a contemporary:witness of its enact
it us ln his chronicle,. which ;embraces all those details, 1
',i,11-0,,,,,:ne0f the haine, qUality; avid dektiiitidii of ever'
~,,, who acted as a member Of the tribiitutl tO which 'the r
mi_, abandoned: That eatalogue.consists, of one eeelesi;
b I
I,4'4iers, eight laivyers, three citizens 'one'butcher, two 1
I aler .haut one chandler,' tw'o'' goldsmiths; one' shoi
t,, , <- : ~ „,,
~ .
„ suknien,unen-oragers, VIM WODUCII-Glapei o,
ill'ier, one salter's apprentice..:thirty,six civilians with
Ihill or trade, in' all 78..lierivink::out 'of 150 that hi
~i rluated for . that- re voltiog tfunetion ;- but not . one i
'''''sllel Deane:(one Of the fourteen: tioldi'ers enumerated'
I'4
p auvell afterwards ,sent to Command and control tl
,4 at that time a stranger to the fleet, and the fleet
i,!readon, indeed, writing-..largely, calls him ' a mere i
011 from a common mariner. to the reputation of a I
4tellent officer ;' but Heath; who wrote with more mii
,14.. %ore knowledge of the truth,- states, ',he was for
Z.lllan's servant at Ipswich.; and when the war .bega
, Lross in
the train of artillery, and rose to a Captain
`',11(1 therein and was :fatuous •at the siege of. Ixet
`114,t a cross therein,
was thought to benne of Cro
),,compliees to execute his plets against his sotereign'i
.4e il/kmoriats of Sir William Penn.