Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-10
AFFAIRS IN PORTUGAL.
FROM TIE LoNnnN rImrs

FROM LONDON TIMES
The ISTERvESTIoS IN oRTueAL-rhe coyresn,rds,os
relating the affairs of Portugal which has lust been pre
sented to Parliament for the purpose Calculating the de-
termination of the British Government to support it, media,
ton by orcibe nterventon fills blue book Of 377 pages
which have scarcely time TO examine with all the minute
which the subject requires The period embraced in
this very copous diplomatic record extends from the sudden
change of Government the 9th of October in last wear to
the of the last few days. We have ourselves
ed readers such full and frequent accounts Of these
transactions they occurred that shall attempt 10 re-
trace the whole of the In fact il Is TO be an
pretended that the public attention will be cumbered rather
than excited by the pofuson of information thus sutane-
ousy crowded upon and shall do better service hy en-
deavorng conne the substance Of these papers within the
beest possible compass than we devoted large portion Of
our columns to the reproduction of them.
The may, think, be reduced very distinct a.
tentative As soon it ascertaned that forces of
the Queens army were not in condition quel the nsur-
recon OF even to follow up the occasional advantages they
had gained by effective attack Oporo clear tat
this country stood wholly aQQ ether the triumph Of the
insurgents would nave De6n ND Oh mat
emergency would have induced other Powers to give the
Court of Lisbon the assistance which refused in order to
establish the absolute authority of the Crown One or other
of these results hold 10 have been inevitable and we also
hold that both of them would have been injurious and
deogator to the interests of Portugal and own inter-
ests in that country II is extremely probable that the pre-
sence of the British neobate ships in the Tagus even be-
fore direct Intervention contemplated did have the
effect OF keeping the capital in peace and Donna Maria on
the throne We are convinced that if the instruction had
been at once completely successful the consequences would
have been most disastrous Nothing exceed the eroous
violence OF proclamation printed by the authority of the
Juna Combra, in which it declared that the Queen
had forfeited her crown and ought undergo the fate of
Louis AV The respect with which the leaders of
the Juna have since affected speak of their Sovereign is
evidently not entitled complete credit They were and are
animated by the spirit Of revolt and highly probable that
fha afT
not have been the sole sufferer Sir Hamilton Seymour writes
late the Sd of April 81 bound to state that of the
merchants and other concerned and finance
there not with whom have conversed since nv arrival
here who has concealed from me his conviction that the suc
cess OF the revolutionary would be the immediate pre-
cursor of act by which the foreign debt of the country
(amounting to nine millions and half serng) would be-
cancelled
In fact impossible to doubt that the presence Of the
British squadron averted the imminent probability of san
culinary and total revolution, which would have left the king
dom oil Portugal without government at all, opened the
country to Don Miguel and to foreign intervention under far
more unfavoabe circumstances prolonged the interruption
OF trade, and seriously affected interests Portugal
VI all courses therefore, believe that the mpotic
and caatous would have been leave the country which
has so long regarded It's ancient ally, fate
without attempt either to preserve the sovereign from in
suit and injury, to restore the Liberties of the people,
But this had been the adopted by the British Cab
net these papers furnish abundant evidence that France and
Spain were ready to place their forces the Queens dspo
sal On the 18th of March NJ. Guizot minated that France
held the quadrupe alliance TO be still in existence and that
the presence OF Mguete General in Oporto appeared the
French Government to be sufficient ground for granting the
assistance which the Queen demanded At the time
(he 10th of March) Sir H. Seymour learned that NJ. de
Vaennes the French Minister Lisbon had been the
palace to express on the part Of his Government their read
TO render any of which her Majesty might
stand III need On the 18th of April Mr.. Bulwer wrote
The British Government be prepared for the armed
intervention OF Spain in spite Of all my efforts y and every
thing Indicated the approach of crisis of disastrous char
acter Under the pressure of these circumstances Lord Pal
merston addressed to Sir H. Seymour his despatch Of the 9Th
Of April which lays down the principles the British Govern
men recognised and The course it prepared to pursue
CIR Hamilton Seymour tie same time instructed 10 OBJ
tam written record of the Queens adhesion to the proposed
terms and to require indispensable preliminary
NJ Detz should quit the country This despatch Of the 5h
OF April was read to NJ Guzo who expressed his complete
the wisdom of the course taken by the BRUSH
Government.
Contrary to the hopes which then entertained Col
Wyldes mission to the Junta unsuccessful; and upon
the receipt OF the intelligence of that fact the protocol Of the
2lst Of May signed and the instructions (Which we also
publshed) the Admiralty for the guidance of
Admiral Parker Unless the Junta has made its submission
these operations going upon the of Portugal
IL viii be SEEM them from this brief sketch of the
ton, that the mediation OF England timed as to avert
the total ruin OF the Queens the hand and the
independent ofcous Intervention Of other Powers on the
Others and, although mediation has also assumed
character OF direct Intervention, are still uphold
all the legitimate demands Of the constitutional party we
are still preventing violent counter-evoution we are Co
operating with perfectly good understanding both with
France and Spain and there every expect that
our efforts will speedily be successful for the paccation of
the kingdom, if they have already succeeded in producing
this most desirable result.