It is asserted that a rec...
It- is asserted that a recent despatch frorn Sir C. STUART has brought some highly interesting explanations, furnisheed by the French Government, relative to the proceedings of its active Minister in Portugal, M.f. HYDE XAE NEUVILI.E. It may be a delicate matter to touch upon official facts L but what we receive from respectable authority our readers are entitled on all occasions to knowv. The stateinent affirms that M. HYnD DE NEUVILLE, during the late temi. pestuous scenes at Lisbon, undertook to assure his Most Faithful Majesty, that if he felt hipself in any danger, the Cabinet of the Tuileries would authorize him (the Am-' bassador) to summon a body of French troops, which werc at no grcat clistance from the Portiguese frontier, to his protection. Had M. IIYDE Dg NEUVILLE Made suelb atn offeri by the command of his Court, and had it been even! tually acted on, a case might bave arisen in which Englandj fromn purely defensive considerations, woult have beed forced to Adopt sqtll reass. of more th. commrion energy. As the thng sands, an avowal of their intentions appears to have been demanded from the Hoa-se of Bouat BoN, when it was declared that M.HvDE DE NEUVILLE hall exceeded his instructions-that the French Government had given him no authority to offer its military interference in the affairs of Portugal, and that it had no desire to inter. fere. It is now believe(d that the effortsof our Govei'nment will be confined to a moderate incerease of. the number of marines on board the British men of -war o1x the Lisbon station; and before Ministers conclude uponI adopting even so limite(d a measure, they are sai5l to wait for furtbert despatches from Portugal, trusting in the mean -time tbat the improved situation of the KiRNG's afiTirs may render his Majesty secure against domestic disturbance.