The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-01 00:00:00

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lishes the Constitution of 182b2 ; but " considering that tl
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ancient fundamental law of the monarchy cannot now, as it
formerly did, fully answer the ends which he had conceived
to his paternal mind, unless it he accommodated to the ac-
tual Cate of civ:li.:ation, and to the relatives of the va-
rious parts of which the Portuguese monarchy is com-
posed, and to the forms of the representative govern-
ments established in Europe, he has thought 6t to
&mint a junta to prepare the plan of the Portuguese
martin*. "flue Junta is to he composed of 14 mem-
bers, whose tutnes are inserted in a list annexed to the
Decree.
The following is a copy of a letter dated Vigo, June
17:_
Sir Robert Wilson, Cul. Light, Capt. Erskine, and
Elleort arrived hereon Monday evening: they left
Oporto. on. the 6th, hitt were 10 roughly treated by the po-
stulation at Broca, where they were delayed two days,
that they Were obliged to return to Oporto under protec-
tion of-thc n ilitia. Ou their return they were instantly
wade prisoners, and again sent oti, without being. allowed
a matent's rest, by way of Viana and Bayonne."
The papers brought by the Mail contain a spi rite& re-
snersttauce trots Sir Rated Wilwro, attlressed to the
people of Portngst, on: the treatment he had received.—
' IYAns of room compels as to rmatpone its insertion.

Th- papers previonvly received contain severalDeerees.onn
eppointing M. de Oliveira Minister of the interior; en-
other, reinstating the Queen in her rights; and a third. re-
leave to the prameed*Dgs against General Stockier, then a
prisoner in the tower of St. Vincent de Seiko. Ills Ma-
je4ty, It is said, not choosing to interfere with the course of
justice, does not order him to be restored to full liberty ;
but. considering the greit service that he has done the
- Stele, allows the whole province of Estremadura to he as-
signed him as his range. Yet though his Majesty professed
". NA to interfere with, the course ofjustice," one of his first
otqrill orders has been to set at liberty all persons confined
. for political.off-mces—against the Constitution he had freely
aceerted no doubt. Tile other acts of the King are the an-
aullin; the decrees issued by the late Government against
Count Amorante nut his followers ; the prohibition
of any publication that does ,not receive the certi-
(cafe of two Members of a Board of Censorship
wi.Lh bas beea appointed, " until a law protecting the
well regulated liberty of the press" can be introduced,—
Ti:e decree by which French ships of war were excluded
fro I the ports of Pormgal Las been revoked ; and or-
d. rs have been issued to restore the Municipalities of the
err ral towns in the kingdom to the footing on which
o.ey were previous to the Constitution. and for the re.
e4sblishment of the intercourse with all the ports of the
• Lr.t7ils, which had been by the Cortes vuspended, as far
as Mated to those provinces in a state of hostility with
tt.e mother country. The recruiting which had been
ordered for the purpose of strengthening the army, has
been suspended, and the militia have been disbanded.—
Private letters state that a corsiderable sum um expend-
ed among Cie soldiery and officers to induce them to aban-
don the Constitution, the Men being paid at the rate 0f:354.
per head. The King's "coach,
.which on his Majesty's
'entry into Lisbon was laidta-bave been drawn ire the
people, was drawn, it is positively asserted, only by of-
tigers belonging to the regulars and to the King's house-
Lold. The French papers say that a Proclamation from
General Rego to his army announces that he redogrizes
the restoration of the King of Portugal to all the ancient
rights of the Crown, and trusts his promise of giving a
really free Constitution to his subjects. •
Paris papers to the 29th have brought two bulletins
from the army ; the one announces the capture of thirty
men attd a i.ieutesant.Golonel; the other detailing what
had been represented in a telegraphic despatch, as the
evpture of the tete.de-pont of Alcira, but what now ap-
pears to have been a voluntary evacuation on the part of
the Spaniards, (belonging to Ballasteros' Army), after a
• smart notion, is which they showed the enemy that they
could fight with spirit sad braveryeif it bad entered into
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