Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-24


capital will put The SuLTAN's head in
jeopardy. The Turks lost number OF
men, and all their camp equipage aud
provisions in the crossing of the Danube,
besides $500 killed in sally from the
fortress OF RudsGbuk.
PORTUGAL Counter Revolution
The moment OF decision has at length
arrived 10 this kingdom, and as We fore
told when the intelligence of Don Mi
gueI's treacbery was made known, the
military aud the respectable part OF the
population have entered upon hfm
opposition to tue Usurper. The officers
commanding the regiments in oporto,
and the neighbGting districts, assembled
in their barracks on the 18th ult and al
ter a so.em deliberation on the state OF
the country, drew up declaration "f
fidelity to Don Pedro, and came to The
unanimous determination OF resisting
the designs of the faction which was Ell
fecting the ruin of the Constitution and
country at home, and bringing disgrace
upon il throughout every state in Eu
rope. Other regiments in the neigh
borhood were prepared to follow the
same course; and the result OF the whole
WAS a proclamation, IN winch Don MI
guel Is described as the shame and DIS
grace of Portugai--as creature With
out talent and without deceBcy-devoid
of honor and virtue cruel by nature -
false, bypocri,ical, and, assembling"
All the Monarchs OF Europe" says the
proclamation, "Ieprove and detest the
criminal proceeding. oil a monster, who
SO basety deceived them; all detest and
despise him: and they also know that
now the forberance of the Portuguese
must have an end Already their Min
listers in Lisbon have cut off all commu
nication with that rebe uious and usurp.
| ing Prince, and, ia few days, they
will withdraw from a Court where
crimes ,impudence irreligion; fanaticism,
confusion and disorder, alone prevail"
This spirited proclamation seems to have
produced the desired effect The Ulras
and acclamatlous Of the rabble who had
formerly been SO forward in calling out
for Don Miguel the Absolute" either
ceased, OF were exchanged for curses Ou
the young despot who had hired them to
pronounce the riUas but had forgotten to
pay them.
The Provisional Government, having
thus rapidly evolved feeling of 10y atty,
met almost instantaneously with the
confidence ofthe nation. 1t was joined
by all, or nearly all. the bodies of troops
stationed in the north, and by the gar
risons Of Cirubia, Viseu, Leyra, and
other places 10 Beira and Estremadura
in the south. immediately ate. lis es-
Establishment ittransmitted a representa-.
ton, explanatory offs conduct, to the
British Consul at 0porto, to the com
mauder of the British naval force in the
Douro and to all the foreign A'ntassa-
ldors at Lisbon. The confusion which
reigned in the palace Of Ajuda, in con.
sequence Of the declaration Of the troops,
and the knowledge of the spirit which
actuatedthe other corps Of the army in
Lisbon and the vicinity, may easily be
conceived The Ministers of the Usur-
per could better direct him in the com
mission Of treason, than point out the
means of averting its consequences,
There is no doubt that they will resist
the champions Of fidelity as long as they
are able, because, if they cannot by
success make out the troops in the north
to be traitors 10 Don Miguel l., they
themselves will be declared guilty of
rebellion and treason to Don Pedro ~
If tue country should join the troops in
declaring for lis legitimate severe; go
and his liberal institutions. las there is
every probability that it WILL the only
apology which the Usurper will be able
to plead, will be, thatin his reasonable
attempts he acted under restraint of a
faction; but his ilimsey pretence will
not equally serve the leaders of that
faction. Beth they andhe have receiv-
ed warning enough from the courageous
fidelity of some of the Constitutional
Peers, whom they found it impossible
either to ntimdate or corrupt 1t may
be mentioned as singular circum-
stance, that the address IN the Gazette,
down TO the 2Sd nit some days after the
events which took place at Oporto on
the 18th, must have been known at Lis
bon, continue to style Don Miguel "his
Majesty"