Lisbon News.
The Times, 1824-05-21T00:00:00

FLie Papers Dy Vn1s pacKCt WWI intbrmn yoU witll what revolut: tionary movemelnts this capital bas again been alarmed. They are this time of a different naturc, but in my opinion their consequences will be disastrous without an effectual remedy is applied, and I am at a loss to guess of what nature the rcmedy can be, as the King mself has sanctioned the measures of his son through fear ancd weakness, while the latter has not gained his end, not being second. ed by the troops. The hue and cry is raisetd without the least slia- dow of probabilitv, although it has great weight with the people, against the ponr Preemasons, and several hundreds ef all ranKs, principally ofl:cers of the army, have been put in prison, without even knowing whlat is laid to their charge. A general consternation still prevails, and every onc is arraid of sayinga nvord on politics for fear of Gndinz an enemy in thc perso:.a he converses with. lWhen you read the Prince's prodamagaons, his letter to his father, asld the King's decree in answer, you wni understand thc whole affair. We are yet to learn what part Oporto and the provinces take in all titis conifusion." [From thte LLslou Gazette.] LISBON, AP}tIL 27. For some days past various reports have been in circulation in this city, somnesaying that French troops were expected in this king- donn, o;hers that they had actally enteree it. We can boldly con tra- dict these absurd ant malidousinmpostures* the truth being,tht they neither enterednorareexpected noris thercthe'!eastappearance or-e, cessity for the entrance of any foreign troops into Portuga. (The coaeik co,3- sNq ilnce the over t f a system coutFrsto th-cla Eerofb.jfp., PogtaQ Wgh4oAinl terms wth zforeign powe ;anfl lied en5ngd'peGc4'andt'ranquillitxy' -at homf, so tha.t surh absard rumours miust proee -ether from ai few evil-minded pe*o's, ofrom some idlendividuaMs who'wish to, mnuse thenislies at the expense of th'e tid and the ignorant.) > . ~~MYx 3. -_ . Hisiajestv habe6i,W7e-sed to:confide; ad inrterim, the porte- feuslle of tlaA.VarDepartanpnt`todhis Minister Secretary of State.for the Affairs of the -Xingdom. the Most ExceUent Josc. Antonio de Oliveira Leite, and.that of the7Aiirine ad .Colonies to-hisM inister Secrey of Staite for-Forei n>Affair the Mlost Excellent the'Mar- quis PatmeUa. ~ His[3i:xcelleney the C.onde da Povoa reniains in the Ieartinent of the.Pinances. . .~ cc 's: Wfe cannot yet give the supplement which we promised relative to the Late events,lest sve should omit impOtxant eireaimstances. -'W'ie w iU publi1h itlas soon as possible; ' '. ' ' ' Sztpptenitent to No. 105 of the Lisbon Gazette.1 DEVELTEEN'T orF T'EE AFFAIRS OF THRE J:NGDOM. DECREE., "The. Infant Don 3liguel, my much-belored and dear Son, Comnihaidei.in-Chief of my Royal army, haing obtained vehement presumptions that a fatal conspiracy was carrying on in secret clubs againsthim, against the Qaeen, myvhighil'-.beloved and dearconsort, and against my Rayil person, wiich placed him uiider the absolute necessity of havine reconrse to arms; and the danger of the crisis net allowing him first to obtain from my sovereign authority the neeessary resolutions and orders to prevent evils of a higher degree, which, by their enorni-ty and detestableness, would not only have shaken, but destroyed, at this juncture, the poliiical edifice of the Alonarchy, of which Godhas confided to miethe governmcnt andpro. tection; and l, learning from arguments which he alleged in my Royal presence,the motives that induced him to prevent, by means of the armed force, such absurd and execrable attempts, rI tink fit and it is my pleasure, tlatthe Corregidors and Judges in crminat cautSe, in the quarters of this city and capital of Lisbon, and all other Magistrates of the white rod (vara brateai) in the provinces of these mv kingdoms of Portugal and Algarve, where there are crimi- nalLs arrested, accused of these infamous and pernicious crimes, shall proceed without delay against tbem, by summary antl verbal pro. cesses, without any determinecl number of witnesses, interrogating them jiIddallr,ard remitting the documet ts of the proceedings to theCourts of Judicatiure of their respective districts,with the sentence (pronucvia) of the criminal, that the punishment may follow the crime without the inconveniences of protracedl imprisonment. I further order, that the Chancellor of the Cast. da SuppEcaqao shall appoint a commission, in the same tribunal, composed of six of the Judges, one of whom is to act as reporter, in order to inquire briety and summarily into the crime of this description, and also to nonsi- nate Judges for the confiscations, &c. The same is to be done by the President of the Tribunal ot Oporto on the causes in that dis- tricL And I am further pleased, in consequence of the very re- spectful supplication wrhich the said Infant, my much-beloved and dearson, made in mv rovad resence, to excuse him for the acts be- yond the itmits of his Surisdiction which he did without my Toyal autbority, and Idahereby excuse him accordingly. Jose Antonio de Oliveira Leite do Barro's, my Coansellor of State, Mtinister of the affairs of the kingdom, villissue the necessary orders to the compe- ten.t authorities. (Signed by his Majesty.) " Palace of Bemposta, AMay 3, 1824." ORDER OF THE DAY. " His Highness the Infant Don Miguel, Commander-in-Chief of the army, orders it to be signified to the army, how inuch he is satisfied with the promptitude with which the corps of the garrison of Lisbon assembled on the 30th of last month, and with the fidelity and enthusiasm with which they were animated, and so decidedly maRifested to meiutain the sovereign rights of his Majesty thc King our Sovereign; and he is highlv gratified by this opportunity of cor- lirming his conviction, that there is not one of the corps that com. pose the brave Portuguese anny that is not animated by equally honourable and faithful sentiments. " His Highness thanks the 19th regiment of infantry for the good order and rapidity with which it marched from Cascaes to Belem. " His Highnes further orders it to be matte known to the army, chat some ofthose individuals are arrested who were plotting against the sovereigoiyof his M1ajest, and that he has been most highly gratified by the notice which his Majesty has been pleased to send him by his aMaster of the Horse and Clhamberlain, the Marquis de Loule, approving all that his Highness has dlone for the good of the nation. . ih " OZINHO, Chief of the Staff. " Head-lquarters in thc Palace of Bemposta, May 1, 1824." The inhabitants of this city celebrated, by a spontaneous illu- mination, the happy issne of the heroic resolution ot the Infant Don Miguel, as well on'the 30th of April, ^s on the Ist of illay, and almost equally on the 2d. On the 1st, in the afternoon, thc King, and the Infantas, pro. ceeding from the Palace of Bemposta, by the Rosoio, to the Royal Church of Our Lady, every where receivedl the most unequivocal andi lively testimonies of the love of all classes of the people, who crowiledto hailhis Mlajesty, exulting to see his august person, all the Roval Familv, and the nation, delivered froiithedark machina- tions o'f the irrec'oncileable enemics of the throne and the altar. lWe have some inaccuracies to correct in the article preceding the proclamation in our Saturday's Gazette. In the first place, though the Counsellors of State came togethier in the morning of the 30th, to the Palace of Bemposta, the council did not meet, as there stated. Secondly, the Count de Povoa, minister of finance, continued to exercise his office without interrnptinn. Thirdlyv, the Conde de Subserra was not arrested, having co'ncealed himseli In the fourth place, the militia, who were in fact ordered to assemble, did not come in a body to the Roseio, but there joined with the troops of the line and the roval brigade of marines. Thus we cor- rect the inaccuracies of that 'article, drawn up from accounts which, though gerierally spread. were not correct. lISBON NBE WS. j LUXTnACT OF A Pt'VATE LETTER, DATED LlS11nf xTAft I