The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-02 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

CIIIICCLAR LEWIS N THK PORTCOL'IIIt 111/Ktettl, At
HAMM:SIGH.
flassonoo. Sam dl.—" The following docoment
has been published here:---
" Copy of the circular letter addressed by the Minis-
ter of his Most Faithful Majesty to the Senate of Ham-
burgh and the diplomatic body.
" Sta,—A crime of the nature of those which Dave
taken place in Spain and Naples has jest marked the
audacity of some factious persons. Oporto, the second
city of the kingdoms of Portugal, has bees the Mitre.
where the actors in these deplorable scenes the* eiVen
the first proofs of their matloroo.• Having suceebded in
seducing into their plots the veep forming the garri-
son of that city. they have expelled the legitimate 'sato-
rities; they have seised on the power—they have pro-
claimed arts which belong exclusively to the majesty of
the throne, and that without the consent of the King,
who is the sole regulator of the laws according to the
tenstitution of the kingdom. Sock a course evldestly
appearing to have for its object to overthrow the repel
and protecting authority. to 'substitute for it a popular
and anarchical authority, I think it is calculated to ex-
cite the most strives attention of all goverosnests, of all
sovereigns.
"As a faithful and devoted subject, a$ still on as
minister of his Most Faithful Majesty. tile my duty.
Sir, to acquaint you with this event, 1* woes that your
Court may be informed of, it. sod may agbis such
measures as it may jusise proper. As foe myself, I for-
mally protest against all acts contrary to laws hi-
therto observed in the kingdom, and sweet, to the le-
gitimate authority of my august Severe's* sad master,
until he shall have informed me of his it...ldiom
(Signed) " I.E COMMANDSV It DE LVEREA.-
• Hambarih. dept. SP.

The York Whig Lid► dinner took place se Tres:lay
last, in the Assembly-rooms, and was attended by a
Free number of its members. S. W. Nicol, Emi. was
in the Cbair, supported by M►. Challener and fir. -
rill. representatives fee York. Mr. Larnbton, N.P, f;.r
the cwiiiitv of Durham. Mr. Ottiww4l Wend, and several
other geritlemen erre also present.
Abort aloe o'clock OD the night of last Sunday
week, a mar kaocked at the door of she park.keep-
er's honse, is Gobbets Park, Kent, asst, es heist
asked what be wrested, he answered that he rause eith
a :message from Lord Darmley wipes:Mg pew gam* ;
the keeper being throws el ►is guard ►y this straits-
ger. istwortbasely spewed the door, when awe wee
rushed sorbleely into the how*. asst 111ee114141 1 FA.
blag the keeper of his watch mad. upwards of 6fieta
pounds in metes and cash. OM lowimg the berme ftbD
thieves tusk away the Ivy amp twwwei skm awe us lb*
*inside. Two ass■ have been taken late emstody wha
are stroagiy suspected the robbery.

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t; In our Report of the momentous proceedings which
tr-clueseee In we hope. from the arrangemeata we
fumed, to be distinguished for fidelity. amplitude and
r.emptint& Our peblication at the usual hour. will contain
at complete as amount as can M given. up to that time.
iltr herald FAlllios. which will be published ever) evening
at siv o'clock, comprehend the whole proeeeilinga of
the day.

LONDON:
liosp‘T EVINIXO, OCTORZR 2. 1920.

Tie Muisilear of the 29th, under the head of Paris,'
the Pith of September, states, " We stop the press, to
intimate that the cannon are announcing the birth of
a ruung Prince. At live o'clock in the morning of
the toth, the Duchess de BERRI was safely delivered of
a ms. The mother and child are both in good health."
Frisch Futols. Five per Cent. 741.

TLis day ha• furnished ample evidence, hail further
roof been requisite, of the glowing and growing zeal
which animates the breasts of Englishmen in behalf
of their persecitted Queen. The first manifestation
was displayed in a pedestrian procession of the
fibipwrialots, proceeding to present their address to
lin Majesty at Br indenburglo House ; and a finer
or more 'orderly bully of men, of such a magnitude,
has been rattly seen. The number amounted to at
least two thousand. and the procession was enlivened
by several bands of music, and a variety of banners.
ears, and ensigns with appropria.e inscriptions. It
passed along the Strand soon after ten o'clock.'
and was soon after followed by the splendid cavalcade.
with the address, of the Metropolitan meeting from
Freemason's Hall. That Address, which was carried
in an wpen baruuche in the van of the procession, ap-
peared to form a roll of more than a foot diameter;
mod contained the signatures, we are informed, of more
than fiti,inm persons. The carriages, all open and
I.!eil with s ith well dressed females and gentlemen.
an I drawn by four horses each, amounted, we under-
►tind, to abont four hundred. The procession of the
pieshioners 0f St. John's, lforselydow•n, was the third
that proceeded through the Strand. It consisted of
ne►r:y twenty carriages and four, occupied by gentle-
men, and exhibited a very respectable appearance.
Will the Nlinisterial papers still persist in saying, that
the public feelionr in behalf of her IIAJE4TY is on the
decline Let then► notice, then, to morrow.

The prayers of the Bourtsoss have been heard ;
Duchess de Banat has been delivered of a boy; dm'
tattoos have shakea the Thuilleries : and, in gossip's
language, the lady is " as well as can be expected."
No prelim, who has the smallest insight of affairs be_
yond their surface, trill he surprised if this event should
afford food to the Paris Journals for several weeks to
come, But, although the birth of a female would have
destroyed the Boranon hopes, it does not follow that
the birth of t male has preserved them. Prance, at
the present moment, is fevered, even to the very cris's
of that political disease: and, most inauspicious indeed,
are the eirrninstances which have preceded, and which
attend the birth of this child. His father was assas-
sinated : not from an indulgence of prirate resentment,
or the gloomy terrors of religion; both of which, have,
tno fatally, contributed to the disquiet of even the best
of Princes; bat frotn an ttoqnalified, abstract hatred
of his family. When it was known that the situation
of his mother was such as to promise the continuance of
that family, several attempts were made against her life,
although his father's murderer was at that moment in
the hands of angry justice ; and here too, it must be ob-
lions that those attempts must have proceeded from
the same cause as that which led to the hoc de Bantu's
: for the Duchess is, in private life, respected
and bad it been otherwise, her short residence in
France could scarcely have given her many opportu-
nities of creating personal dislike. These circum-
stances alone, are of a character which should trumpet
the rejoicings of the Bounsons ; and lead them to
a little reflection, anti to a little consideration of the
means by whirl' they may aceere that Throne
which they consider as the divine hereditary right
of their family ; and which family they will think
has been preserved by the MI *talons bounty of
Providence. Hat if these circamstanees should not
he sufficient to command their attention ; or if, in the
holy fervor of their thanksgiving, they should leave
these events " a prey tb dumb forgetfulness," let them.
It least, Imik at the present state of that country, of
*hick they fondly natter themselves, this boy is des-
tined to be, one day, the Sovereign. They will tire
lei ample room for reflection ; and no less ample
trots fur considerations very different from those of
worthy revelry and brawling mirth. '1 ke same causes
which endangered the.flocasom safety before, are now
is action. stronger and more dangerous than ever. A
coaspintey has beets discovered. so extensive is the
limber and the rank of its members, and so dun-,

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gerous in its nature, to the very existence of
the Bowsaws dynasty, that the wretched shackled
press has been forbidden to publish these parti•
calm; and this joyful occasion will be attended
by one circumstance uo less remarkable than the
others: it is the fact, that at the same moment of the
rejoicings in question, some of the leading conspira-
tors are on the eve of trial : and we shall not say too
much, in adding, that their companions, powerful
from their number, and dangerous from their rank and
influence, are watching these proceedings with all the
vigilance of conspiracy, and with a resolution to avail
theusselvesof the first favorable opportunity for striking
a decisive blow. These considerations naturally sug-
gest themselves upon an event which will be so loudly
hailed by the B►'casuMs and their friends, as the ac-
complishment of their hopes and their wishes, and the
reward of all their prayers; but their attendant cir-
cumst•tnces augur most unfavorably against the pro-
bability of those hopes and wishes ever being crowned
with ultimate suswess.

In to-morrow'a paper we shall have to present our
readers with the opening of the Queen's defence; and
if the people have been impressed with a conscious-
ness of her innocence, notwithstanding the sweepieg
oaths of lying eltemlwrotaitin and discarded grooms,
what impression may we not fairly believe will be
made by her defence! At present, the evidence
against her Majesty is as positive and direct, 21 the
testimony of these witnesses could make it : Litt the
defence will open a view of their character., their
habits of life, and other general fact" ; with probable,
some of a mature mitre particular; all tending to thew
the secret spring!. of their proceeding; and that it is,
what it has been called, in the teeth of Minister',
• proceeding originating in conspiracy, and con-
ceived, :natured nod brought forth by themselves.
We thereinre look forward to the approaching pro-
ceedings with a pleasure and a confidence, not yield-
ing to that of her Majesty's warmest triend•; yet
there is a point of view in which we c .nsitier the trial,
that actually absorbs our even for the
Queen. So important in that con.ideration, to our-
sett's, to our country, and to the friends in general
of the human race, that we confess we consider the
cane oilier Majesty, as altogether minor to it. It is the
cause of CONSTI TUTIONAL REFORM, which has
already been sr' engthened. and still continue to be
strengthened by these proceedings. That great cause
has long been tolsocated by many ; it has engaged
the laudable animism of houtireds aho have gone to
their account and it has been supported by argu-
ments, which even inspiration itself could scarcely in-
crease. But, notwithstanding the exertion of these
advocates, and the weight of their argument, the
" coon out cat se" has lingered, has Wins back ;
entirely from a want of that assistance which can only
be given by men of property and intluence. When-
ever it has been about to gain an accession of this
n stare, corruption has net up its hideous yell, wood-
ed the tocsin of alarm ; and, at once, terrified the
weak, and sternal the prudent. Reform offered ar-
gamest ; and Corruption answered it by insult. Those
who had properly in the country were stunned by the
words " Anarcle.-, bloodshed, and public robbery:"
and they were toll to look at France. Now the's, let the
men of property, who are friends to safe and temperate
Reform, look at Spain. at Naples, and et Portugal. They
will there observe Reform achieved, with 1.. s dis-
turbance than often attends the rise or fall of a M !tinter ;
and will see a people inspired with the air of genuine
freedom ; an air more grateful by comparison with the
poisonous vapour of despotism. Let thelll then turn
to their own country ; anti they will see, a Queen intr.
sued to infamy and destruction by her most infamous
persecutors ; a people oppressed by taxation, degraded
by pauperism ; sod loaded with a debt, so frightful in
amount, that a view of its figures alone must affect the
head with giddiness. Having taken even this super-
ficial view of thrit country, they can readily nano the
authors of all its miseries. They are the men, or
their pupils, who plunged us into a war with France ;
swore she should not be governed by a Republic ;
lavished our treasure ; wasted our richest blood, ant/
then acknowledged that Republic. They are the :nen
who disgraced the English name by burning Copen-
hagen in the sacred hoar of peace, in violation of every
public right, and all the lasts of nations. They are
the men wbu planned the ever-memorable Welchem
Expedition ; and who acknowledged the practice of
seat-selliug to be "as notorious as the nun noun•
day." 7 hey are the men who passed the Dungeon
Bill ; and applauded a miscreant who ridiculed one of
its victims ; the monster who talked of " the revered
and raptured Ogden:" Yes, it was they who cheered
and laughed at this ; and who, had the victim been
ensboweCed in their presence, would have cheered and
laughed again, They are the applauders of the Man-
chester massacre; but we cannot run through the de-
tail of their enormities ; for if we Jul. and expressed
our feelings to the fall, we should "into,: the very
stones to mutiny."
Come forth, ye son' of Pym, of Hampden anti
of Russell ! ye descendants of !hone who bound the
tyrant John, and expelled the coward James ! Come
forth; demand an audience of your Sovereign; of
him who was beloved as a prince, and is neglected
as a king. Tell him that his Ministers have deceived
him ; oppressed his people; and disgraced his name by
an abuse of it. Exhort him to dismiss these Ministers
from his presence ; to restore the Constitution, and save
the country front a scene which may plunge us into
all the horrors of a civil war. He should, be must,
and will attend to you; for what he should, he must,
and will perform. Do this ; and the blessing" of a
~
grateful country will attend you through lite, and-
shed lustre on your graves!

At the Cambridge theatre, on Monday last, at the
smasission of the play several suites shouted " tied save
ewes Caroline!" upon which a gentleman in the Were
Are three times three cheers in honour of her Ma-
, which was instantly responded by nearly the
w e hose waving their hats and handerchiefs, and
*ming is Ark* three times three hearty and honest
cheers.
St. Lake's Address to the Queen was signed by 3,277
females. and 5,979 mates ; besides many parch] seats
that cane in tuu late.

SMAN.