The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-13 00:00:00

" The Count jar which HAMPDEN fell in the Field,

FRO.II TCESD.-IY'S LONDU.V G.fZErIT..
DOWNING- STREET. ger*. H. 1690.
The King has bred pleased to appoint Lieutenant-gene-
ral the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, O. R.. to be Governor
sod Conaaander-in•Chief of the island of Ceylon.

BANKRUPTS.
G. Oadshy, Rnarestone, Leicestershire, maker', to sur-
render Sept. 10. 47. Oct. *4, at the White Hart Inn. Ashby-
de-la-Zone:,. Attorneys. Mr. Smith, Ashby4e-la-ZOsich ;
and Mr. Price. New-square. Unyokes Ina.
T. Ward, Towcester, Northamptonshire. lace-dealer,
Sept. IP. Yti. Get. *l, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Clark,
Ilishopsgate Chiral% tini.
D. TrtlrMall, Goldsmith-street, Wee-dealer, Rept. 22. 22.
Oct. 24, at Guildhall. Attorne), Mr. Clarke. Bishopsgate
Church-% a rd.
I. Mn, mon. Illsektinrn. Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer,
Kept. 47, Ye. 01'. *4. at the Gld WM Inn, Blackburn. At-
torus.% 1, Mr. Blakelock, Serjeants* loa, Flert-street ; and
Mr, thiwhurat. Blackburn.

N'. F. Page. High Holborn, Hum-draper, Sept. Lk M.
net. tt. is Attornoyc, filessra. Willis and Co.
%Vs rn ord-conrt. Thropoorto
DIVIDENDI4.

Oct. S. J. Ritchie and T. Moist. Liverpool, 'merchants,
at McGeorge Inn. Liverpuol.—Oct. 4. W. Flinders, Boston.
ironmonger, at the !Ilonson.: %ems Inn, Lincoln.—Oct.4„W.
Cheapside. \l-nellester warehouseman. at Me
Widnes o'er Arms Inn. Manehester.—Oct. 3, O. Wrightson.
sen. Ilsoport. Camber:and. herring-merchant. at the house
of W. Porter. innkeeper. Mart port.—Sept. 13. J. Darrow,
Arundel-street. tune! food ornamental stationer. at Delhi-
,' ell--Sept. ..13. J. 1.. Cope. Dull. merchant, at tiuildhall.—
(let. U. 1.:. Marsden. Bolton-le-moors, Lancashire.. cabinet-
maker, at the Ship lim, Bolton-le-moors.—Oel. 4. P.
NI. Taylor, Literpool, merchant. at the (ironic lan. I.iver.
pool.—ort. (I. W. Stonloill, !Ilea I.lev. Buckinghamshire..
butcher, at the King's Dead Inn, .I!leshoory--Ort. 4. P.
Lawrie/on. Manchester. fustian-manufacturer. at the Dog
Tavern. Manchester.—Get. 4, M. Trukes. Liverpool. and J.
Leitch. Lonolon, merchnoor.r, at the George Int", Liverpool.
—Oct. 3.1'. Mottle!. V•rt-ntenoth, dealer, at the Dolphin
Inn. Onsport.—Ort. 3. G. Wrightson. jun. Mar• port, Conn-
herland. herring-merchant, at the house of W. Porter. inn-
keepers at Mar! port.
CERT I 11( • 11 ESl—Orr. 3.

J. Steel. Slieffii-111. croci.r.— 4'. Nerdhnm. Jun. Liverpool.
merchant.--W. Toll. St. Gerntaiwl. Cornwall, miller.—J.
Ritchie. Woolwich, beler.—lir. A. Retq. Scitlicoatei.
Vorlchire. sr) (*rook. lleanacre,
farmer.—S. Em•wirrave4, Liverpool. woolleo-draper.
PARTNER/WIPP; DISSO IN ED.

.1. Nl•Callitto. D. 'Oliver. and J. Horsley. Lt.:Wen-hell-
strert. ship and iniursnee-bruiers, s.t far as respells J.
%Pentium—lL Wells nod t 4, li. Lenny. Sprinst-plsee. Ken-
tish Town. brewers—T. W. ‘esdryws unit J. Ililllons. Slam-
lord. nploasterers—S Crompton. jinn. •11.1 T. Smith. Bolton
le-Moors. Lineashire, muslin-manufacturers—J. Wilkinson
slid S. 11.111-. s, Lasieashire. turners—S.
Ploulfra. inn.. W. ILittitrn. (1. llottotra), and T. Fennell.
Ilirwain Whirr. Fmrl-street, litsesitiars. iron-merchants—
.l. 131 era and .1. P. Britain. 4;re-title-street. lialloo-itarden.
auctioneers—R. C. Woolluton and C. Wallis, tiontbstark,
hop-tuerehnots.

ST.ITE j PUBLIC OPINION in PORtUGAI..
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Pnrtngal once Laos/sted raak and inAnewee among
European Titions, ill he:you', wt.,' might Rte jelpected
from her ei:tatinserilied territory and population. Her
discoveries and netts were great, -anti her naval
power awl commerce e‘tesideil to the remote corners of
the globe. This preponderance did nut, howeirr, last
long : her glories seemed to die with the men hr
they huh heenat hieved. This way ON to the wretehril
policy of her Govern its, . a hick soon heitame narrow,
bigotted and tyrannic:.l. Pxhaniderl by r series of ruin-
ous and rweeitting Vl%l pi, as siiccession of a eak and im-
politic Princes tendril to prepare her downfal. luster.:
of fustertni! that hardy and enterprising spirit tt hi: le
had east so movie lwtre on Ilse Port O.: nes.. na.nr, the
Men:in:lls of Perin!: ei thosittlit only of stripping their
.ttubjects of every particle of freedom they had inherited
fr their accestor,, situ soon the very House of Bra.
ganza forgot the prim iples which lirought them to the
Throne. Tienite, whilst through the spirit of liberal
opinion, improv.went was enlightening the rest sit
hitrope, Portugal %V.I 4 •1.1.11 stationary, defies's' by poli-
tical ac wrii as t,rlcsta•tieal institutions of the must
slavish kind.

Hitherto :liar 1..1 only by her geileraphieal position
and the tkei • of Em:lamr, the crisis of her fate load ar-
rived ►then the Annie.= of "'ratter erti...eit the NMI/solos.
Then it was that the Gower eeeee mit of Portugal because
sensible of its 14n•n uellittes". Iler army was naked
and unpaid, her ships dismantled, her arsenals nopty,
and the credit of leer Mover 1111 l rut totally ruined. The
Ministers enjoyed no public cloolidener, and rouse-
sinently were notable to call forth and wield those ~r-
eit.% which existed in the people, who boon saw their
Sovereign emigrate to the Colonies. and their country
delivered np to a handful of foreign invaders.
From that moment the Portuguese conceived the ut-
most contempt and abhorrence fur the fiespootie system
under which they had been governed : loot this they
attrilotite.l not so mun•hr to the faults of their lonarehs,
as to the vices of those who surrounded them, and the
want of laws ■nd civil institutions conformable to the
improvements of the age. These alone they were sen-
sible econlol procure for them an upright administration
of justly'', hani•ilt that %ysteno of corruption and pecula-
tion, whirl. tainted all the concerns of their Govern-
ment, and intimt civil liberty and all its concomitants.
1/n these snhjects the enlightened nwntbers of the Por-
tngtoese cootmonnil v have been pondering for years, and
their conviction that a change was necessary has in-
creased as •he elfevts of the emigration to the Brazils
hare operated at home. So great and invariable has
barn this hope of regenerat. . and so unceasing the
labours br whoh it was to lw promoted, that no less
than font PtortuL,ttese perioolieal works, printed in Lon-
don. availing themselves of that freedom of the press
which they could nut enjoy in their own dominions,
have beer, long and noweisingly occupied for the benefit
of their toppres.,eol fellow'-comotrvmen, and their chief
circAlation ha• in Portngoa aml the Brazils. In
vain dial the Fillets of the Government proscribe the
intre►dnetiun ,•f thew• works. and denounce vengeance
against those in whose hands they were found; they
passed the frontiers of the countries in which they were
intended to operate. stool • were read with the greatest
avidity. It was their particular study to point out the
oppressive sets of the Government, to lay before the
people the debased system by which the public affairs
were atlmini.tered. and more particularly the retinal.
ttttt onercsssful manner, in which they bad been
stripped of the benefits of civil lawny, and their ancient
institutions perverted into a systematie plan of misrule.
They were reminded that they once pommies! Cartes,
acid 1t was argued, that on their reatoestion alone their
present liberties depended. Bonded, in short, by sof-
-1.-rong, lonatiliated and °pressed, we have at length
seyn, that the P.ottiaguese MI deternoined to rid them-

SYDNEY died on the Seat°ld!"

selves of tbeir grievaoces, and aim at a political rege-
meration. No opportunity could be snore favourable
than the present, with the successful example of Spain
before them • bit we think it proper here to observe, that
the intent 6f their Revolution is not to introduce the
, Cousstitution of Spain among themselves, but to assemble
Cortes of their own, after the manner of their ancient
and national iastitutions, as sanctioned by law. They
rise up lit Ao hostility against the Sovereign on the
Throne, or hie dynasty, but against the system by which
he governs Diu realms, inherited as it was from fils fore-
father*. were, in short, resolved to set bounds to
arbitrary plater, to do aWAV with the arrogauce and
deopotism of Court favourites and sycophants, to rP(drm
the administration of justice, and above all, to destroy
that unnatural dependence by whirls they are made sisfi-
serviem to a distant arm of power, even in the tnost
trilling cases of judicial appeals. The effect this Revo-
lution will have on the Brazils, is a subject on which
we shall not yet venture: we must watch its operation
before it waiold be possible to judge correctly.

UNITED STATES.

wAsniNarox, Au:s. 12.

The Act imposing new tonnage duties on French
vessels seems to have produced in France, as nineh sen-
sation as if it had been unexpected. Hut what elle
1.1 it, 111 they have looked for ? Our ;%liuister to that
country had been I •ng enough entreating them to lis-
ten to reason, and lomr, enough put otif by evasive an-
swers. The subjoined extract of a letter from him to
the Secretary of State, coal ..unicated to l'ougaess at
the last session, bIIOWA the ground on which our
law was passed.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Gallatin to the Secretary