We received yesterday, pa...
We received yesterday, papers and letters from Lisbon up to the 29th -alt. T1he intelligence which they bring is of no great or general interest. In the Lisbon CGazette of the 25th, it isstated that our Ambassador, Sir WI. A'COURT, had arrived on the preceding day with his suite, and had paid his respects to the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs. His Excellency has now nearly completed the circle of the southern Courts, having embraced in his di. plomatic experience a nmore. extensive range of striking events, and witnessed a greater variety of new and old Governments, than any individual of his corps.' He com- menced his interesting career at the Court of the Dey of TmIPOLT,whichfitted him for admiring and encouraging the establishment of civil liberty in Sicily and Naples. His services during the existence of the Constitutional Go- vernment, and the progress of the Austrian invasion of Naples, where he sa'w the representative system over- thrown by foreign bayonets, pointed him out das a fit envoy to Madrid,wkere that system still existedl, but was menaced with a similar fate. Having'had it in his power once mnore to congratulate an absolute BO'uB.so,- in Spain, he is sent to Portugal, where a constitution 'had already been over- thrown without his aid, and where a new one is promised, probably contrary to his wish. Ail edueation beguh in Africa, and so pursiued along the Mediterranean and southern states, should end at Constantinople. The cause of Greek independence may yet require the interference of his practised dexterity. The Lisbon Gazette of the 28th ult. contains a lamentation over the death of Louts XVIII., in whomr France is said to have " lost a father, and Europe a sage." As France seems happily to have surmoun ted her misfortune by obtaining a still dearer father, we hope Europe will be soon able to eonsole herself for her's, in the hope of seeing a Sovereign with as much wisdom. The reason why Louis XVIII. was so ,great a favourite, at Lisbon, seems to be a report that " on ,"his death-bed he turned his thoughts towards Portuga!, 'i and expressedhis regard to his Mlost Faithful MAJESTY." This, no doubt, is a very amiable misrepresentation-but still it is one. Louis, on his death-bed,. surrouLided with his priests an4 ministers, and physicians, and comurtiers, and family, had other things to think of than Portugal or its King. His Faithful MAJESTY, whom lie had never seen, was to him an alstraction, and could no more be ex- pected to occupy his reflections thani the King of SIAIS, or the Emperor of CiixWA. A subecription is sai(l to. be forming at Lisbon, under the countenanec of the Court, and with the encouragement of the Ministers, in aid of " the Brazilians who seek shel- " ter in Portugal from revolutionary violence.". Can this be a step towards a reconciliation and a treaty of union between the two states ? or is it niot rather like the conduct of France, in receiving anld supporting the Spanish rebels, who were styldI the Arnmy of the Faith ?