Lisbon Papers.
The Times, 1824-04-16T00:00:00

The Gazette of this date cortains the following decree, which is dated from the Palace of Bemposta, Dec- 18, 1823, and registered in the Chancery, March 13, 1824:- " Office of the Mlinister ot the Affairs of the Kingdom, Carta de Lei. '- Don John, by thc Glrace o' God, &c. "Taking into my lRoyal conisideration how important it is to tile service of God,and mine, and ltic general good of the8e kingdoms, to remove the obstacles arising trom the legislative and economical in- novations vhieh were made fbr disorganizing purposes during the unhappy time in which auU classes of my faithful subjects were op- pressed by a revolutionary faction, aninated by a truly subversive irit; and how suitable antI necessary it is that I should take simultaneously the measures whichi may be useful and conducive to tbe gencral good, wyhicli I desire above all things to promote; and contorming to what lhas been proposed to mne on this subject in consequence of the inquiry and general revicw made by the Junta of Ministers in my royal confidence, created by decrees of June Ill, this year. for tlhe revival of all the said innovations, reserving to propose in the sequel w ha: requires greater considera- tion, I have tthouglht fit to resolve as follows:-l revoke the decrecof the so-called Cortes of ltarcih 22, ll21, pulslislted by l'ortaria of tie (so-styled) Regency of the 24th of tile stllle monith, No. 39 whici, with the greatest impedence, declares to be legitimate and necessary the revolutionary proceedings of thie unhappy days of the 24tlh ot' Augntst, andl of the 15tlh of September, 1820, and those who dared to act in themi to lhave deserved well of ttheir country, and thus to stain tile honour and fidelity of the nation, by placing the most scandalous boldness, the greatebt and iaost nefarious of crimes, in the rank of virtues- I am pleasetl to ordaini that both this decrce and Portaria, and all othiers, and every orier of any description vwhich has been issued relatively to the proscribed constitutiorn and its basis, or for taking the oath to themn, be wholly cancelled with tihe oaths themselves, and erased froiii all books, &c., in whiicli they may be inserted or registered, in huch manner that they can be no more read, nor the memlory of such disgracefiul events be preserved. 2 ' also revoke the tlecree of toe said Cortes of June 28- the satte year, 1821, published by Portaria of tlle Regency of the 30th of the same month, No. 'J;, Which permlits all persoils wlhat. ever to teacli publicly, ro opell elellcetary sciools witlhout licence, tius opering the door to immorality, atid destroying the first ele- ments of eclucation asd iistruction, which has always been one of the principal objects of the solicitude of all civilized Goveinments, that no doctrine may be taught contrary to religion, good manners the principles of'the saene Governments, and the public tranquillity, it being necessary that the professers, in order to exercise their tunc. tions, should show that they possess the requisite qualifications, con. lormablv to the precetIing legislation, wbich I order to be observed; and thai, on the other hand, those schools shall be imiediately shut which are open in atny other manner so far as the Professors do not qualify themselves according to the lavt. 3. " I also revoke the decree of the 28d of January of the present year (1823), which, with deoocratical intentions, alters the existing regulation fbr the election of clerks of the market (Aliotaceis), ac- cording to wlichl tttis object shall continue to be regulated. 4. "And, that no doubt may remain of the validity or continuance of those of the said innovations (either as they were temporaty, su- perfluotts, or connected with and dependent on the democradcal in. stitutions, with which they ended), I atii pleased to order that those under thie following numbers shall be considered as such." [Here follows the list, amounting to 43, to which are added direc- tions to the several persotts who arc to carry the regulations of the decree into eff'ect. To this is annexed the report madle to his la- Jesty by the Alinister, containing the specifications of the abrogated law,, with the dlate and subject of each.] LISBO.N' PAPERS. LISB3O?,N IIAUCn 26.