New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-16
ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL.
THE TWO COUNTRIES BOUND BY STRONG
TREATIES OF LONG STANDING.

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States She is known to have written conven-
tions with both Germany and Italy covering GER
tain possible emergencies. But there is only
one Continental nation that is bound to Great
Britain by fullnedged treaties OF aIllance
Known to students of political and diplomatic
histsry, and in no sense secret TO the leadlhs
ststesrnen of the Old World. their existence may
be said TO have been ignored by the public at
large until last Sunday. On that day in the
course of a banquet in honor OF King carlos
on board the flagship of the British fleet lying
at anchor off Lisbon, the Portuguese Premier
in toasting Queen Victoria alluded to 'the aili-
ance that has long existed in treaties" between
Portugal and Great Britain. Responding to
these sentiments the British Envoy, Sir Hugh
Mcdonnell referred TO the alliance which unife'
US indissolubly," and concluded by the express
sion of desire on the part of the British Gov
eminent that the firm and durable alliance may
ever be maintained
The treaties establishing the alliance between
Great Britain and Portugal are eight in number.
Some of them have never yet been publicly
promulgated According to the terms Of these
treaties some of which date back to the last
century, England binds herself to defend Por
tUgal against foreign invasiOns and external
aggression To enable her TO carry out her
treaty obligations in this particular she has
received under these agreements authority from
Portugal to enter and to occupy all the latters
ports, the Tagus being specifically mentioned.
The attention OF modern .dpOmatists was first
called to these treaties at the time of the threat
ened invasion of Portugal by the Spanish Re
public, thirty years ago. Lord Granville, then
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Lon
don, instructed the British Envoy at Madrid to
inform the Spanish Government that Great
Britain stood ready to defend Portugal in
c4fFa Of in
existence between the two countries. 1t
by virtue of earlier treaties (of which the best
known is that negotiated by the Right Hon. Sir
John Methuen in 1703) which are still in force,
that England in 1863, and again in the NapO-
comic wars in the early part of the present CEN
tary. landed troops in Portugal to drive out
Spanish and French invaders. In 1926 English
soldiers again dispatched to Lisbon in re-
iDcnse to appeals for assistance from the POr
tuguese Government. and in 1883 the English
feet under Admiral Napier captured the insur-
gent navy and restored the power of Queen
Maria Della Gloria
THE LATEST TREATY.
About two years ago another and supple
n.entary treaty was concluded between Portugal
Ind England, the stipuIations of which have not
been officially published either at Lisbon
London, but which known in diplomatic
tIces to comprise undertaking the part
bf England to re-establish Portugal financially
Ind to safeguard the Throne from attacks. not
bny from without, but also from within; that
IS. to protect it from an internal revolution. In
return England received the right TO embark
and disembark troops, stores and ammuntiOns
at any point Portuguese territory in At
rca to keep them there, or to convey them
across Portuguese territory to any point she
might see fit, irrespective to whether she
az war with any third Power. This treaty is
virtually the same as that which the late Sir
Robert MOrer negotiated and signed in 1879 at
Lisbon, but which did not receive at the time
the ratification OF the Portuguese Cortes. When
a year later the Lisbon Government secured
the legislative majority necessary to ratify it,
the British Cabinet of the day turned deaf
ear to Sir Robert Morier's entreaties,
Lord Salisbury repaired this neglect. carried
out the project of Sir Robert Morier and Sc
cured the ratification of the Portuguese Cortes
10 the instrument, which enabled the British
Government last spring to land General Sir
Frederick Darlington and his army at Beira, for
OF the Transvaal The financial features of this
treaty concerning which less is known were
briefly yet significantly referred to by King
Carlos in The of address to the
Cortes. He said that the agreement was des-
tined to serve 'our economic regeneration" and
of Portugal, and the facility and rapidity with