The Lisbon Gazette of the...
The Lisdon Gazette of the 18th inst. produces an officiae. copy of th? convention concluded towards the end of No ?. vember last, between the Gencrals of the Portuguese an-. Brazilian troops, for the evacuation of Monte Video b.; the former in favour of the latter, toggether with othej documeats relative to that event. These pieces are intro, duced by a history of tihe military occupation of tha, fortress by the firces of bis Faithful Mfajesty, fom th beginning of the year 1S17, till near ~he end of the yea 1823; a defence of the goan1ds on whic:; that measr- was justified; and a display of the advantages to whici it gave rise. ARTIGAS, the partisan chief, we are tola' possessed at that t*ime the castern bank of the Plata, an the revolutonary spirit with wbich the opposite batik wai - animated, together with the continue(i hosilities whici prevailed between them, threatened the tranquillty of th- Brazilian frontier. His Most Faithlful Maje6ty, therefore. out of his eininent anxiety to preserve the peace of his owr-' dominiomis, and his uniceasing regard, to the rights of hil-' brother FERDIXNAND of Spain, juSt took possession of E. fort, a port, anid a large territory, for the common advau. tage of all concerned. 'Io be sure, broth.r FErDINmANT was not quite convinced of the disinterested views aanl be- nevolen:t objects of placing PYr!ug6=se garrisons iv Spanisl fortresses, and did make a link clamour on the occas sion at tihe Congrees of Aix-la-Clhapeile, and the Cox-a P of the Ho!y Alliance; but he was, no doubt, answNed satisfactorily, as he never invaded Portugal to reco Monte Video. When the emp2re of Brazil vas establisjed by declaring the late colonies of his Faithful Mlajesty inde- pent(lent of Portugal, the Imperial Gevernment found as cogent reasons for o eupting the eastern bank of the Plata as 1hat of his Faithful Majesty had formerly done, and therefore, just to prestrve the tranquillity of its frortier, or(lered tle Portuguese forces to cvacuate the coun- try. The la:ter did not immecliately see the justice of this command; anid therefore, in order to preserve the peace in which both paries professea to be so deeply interested, hostilities eommenced between frtw. On the restoration of the !iing of PirTUGAL to> abszlute power last summer, he sent jut instructions to the fewv points on the coast of Arnerica where his power was still arknowledgcod, to cease warfare; and the capitulation of Montt-Vdee, is ascribed], in some degree, to tbese orders. It is a rtmarkable inconsistency in the Lishozi G=efte his- tory of tlicse tr.nsactions, thlat the Porrucuese troops w ho stodcl out for a year against the forces of Brazil are praised for their fi lelity to the Constitutional Government, whicit at the satme timne is called an indrasive authority, and for re- sisting temptations to join the Brazilian causeP aviich, by their capitulation, they were commanded to leave triumph- ant. The very title of the convention is a curiosity in a Go- rertnneut journal published at Lisbon, being no otler thaii thu following:- A treaty betwe, n the coirinandlers of the forces of His Most Faithful M A.] FrsxY, anJ his dfaijesty "the Emperor of'BRAzIl. in tile ViS-Platiiw state." Ve are aware that this might be the original rubrick of the docu- ment, as it was signed on the banks of the Plata, but was it ieccssary so to publhsh it oni the banks of the Tagus ?