Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-07-08
TspEIGN NEWS.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

ne 2Sd of May. BY this arrival, the
Editors of the Commercial Advertiser
have received files Of London papers to
the Esd, with Lloyds and Shipping List
SIC.
The most prominent matters that en-
gage our attention are the various sc-
counts of an attempt to bring about
revolution in Portugal We must be
as brief as possible.
1t appears thatthe Queen and the Ia
FAINT Don Miguelintended to. deprive the
King of his royal authority, and the lat
Ter. who is COMMUNICATIVE chief of the
army, was to have been declared Re.
gent on the goth May, when the friends
of the ROYAL Family celebrated the
fate Of the Princess Beira, now in Spain
on which occasion the British Ambas-.
sador gave grand bah. Some move
ments during the night excited suspl-
cions that all was not as it should be,
and at day break, to the surplize of the
ptiblic, the great square of Lisbon was
filled with troops, and the Infant Don
MIGUEL was at their head 1t was ru-
mgred that an attempt had been made.
;r.the night to assassinate the King;
that MANY persons were implicated in
the Mot formed for that purpose; and
that Pamplona, Count de Parate, Count
ynlaGor. and other distinguished per-
sons who enjoyed the royal confidence,
and had been declared partizans OF the
Court. had been apprehended as con-
snirators. A new Minister of Police
was appointed; the King was shut up,
and the number Of arrests and impr,-
sonments, of distinguished persons, was
from 400 TO 500. All access to the
King was denied, until the Diplomatic
CorDs assembled in a body,and demand
ed an interview. He was found in a
distressing state of mind, and ignorant
of what had been going forward. The
attendance of the Prince was requested,
and. on his arrival, the foreig1 Minis
tiers made full exposure of the views of
the Queens party, and various trivial
excuses were made by his Royal High
ness, which, however, had no wei ght
with the ambassadors, who insisted that
an order should be sent, In he Kings
name, to dispense the troops, &c. which
was complied with, and every night APP
reared to be tolerabiv quiet. The
Queen had COME from Quelez early in
the morning, fully expecting to hear the
Infant Don Miguel proclaimed Regent
and was at Bemposta when the above
consultation took place.
As late as the 5th of May, universal
distrust prevailed. Don Miguel still had
command of the troops the prisons
were crowded, and the arrested persons
dispatched in squads to the country, to
make room for new SUGGESTIONS OF pri-
soners; that the Minister Subserra
4Pamplona) had taken refuge on board
the British frigate Lively and the kings
. person was considered in so much dam
ger. as to make it necessary to prepare
the ship Windsor Castle for his recep-
ton in the hour ofneedi The king, it
appears. has not been actually deposed
by his son aud wife; but yet he has been
Obliged to issue proc lamations. appro-
wing of their acts, and condemning to
punishment those whom they had con-
hlemned. Our Journal contains a pro-
Z clamation of that nature. 1t is dated
on the 4th instant. In this, his Majesty
is made to say, that the Prince was
under the necessity of having recourse
to arms and that the danger otthe cri-
= sis would not allow time TO him to
consult his father.n A dangerous con
eession this, we should think.
1t was reported that a Cabinet Coun-
ell was to be held on the morning of the
~22d. at the house of the Duke of We'll
linston, who was too i'll to leave his
house; and, on account of news from
q, Lisbon, his presence was considered ne
cessars. A "a gun ship was to proceed
g to the Tagus forthwith.
A Paris paragraph of May is, says:
eve learn from Barcelona, under date
the 9Th instant, that an English vessel of
war. having on board Admiral Sir II
j. Neal. arrived at Mahon in eight days
from Algiers; and, according to the
"a communications made by the British
Consul, no arrangement had been enter
ed into with the Dey-in consequence
:. the port and coast remained strictly
blockaded"
Lord Byron is no more! he sleeps
with the mighty dead The world has
done with his faults and his foibles,
whatever they were. lie, persisted in
a cause worthy of bis fame and genius;