Accounts were received ye...
Accounts were received yesterday from Lisbon to the 4th instant, by way of Paris. They state, that by an act of firm- ness and vigour little looked for on the part of the KING, the QurEEN and Prince MNIGUEL have been checked in the career of arbitrary conduct in wbich they were proceecing, and that the English party, in spite of the intrigues of the French Minister, has once more gained the ascendency at the Court of Lisbon. it appears that Prince MIIUEL had had the temerity to place under arrest Count PALMNELLA, the Prime Minister, vithout any other authority than his own sign-manual. For this proceeding he was cited into the Ks oG's presence, who, before all the foreign Ambassadlors, whom he had collected in the audience chamber to witness the proceed- ing, reprehended him in the most forcible manner for his intemperate coniduct, anid daring con tempt of the Royal au- thority.The Prince,it is said,was wholly overcome by the ad- dress of his father, and fell athis feet acknowledginghis guilt and soliciting his pardon. The KING, however, gave orders that both the Prinice and the QuEEN should retire to one of the Royal palaces, ten miles from Lisbon, in a species of honourableimprisonment; andthatCountPA LM ELLA should be immediately set at liberty. His Majesty took the pre- caution, it is saidl, before resorting to a measure which required in him a most extraordinary exertion of firmness, to appeal for support to some of the principal officers of the army, wh1o did not fail him in the (lifficult emergencv in whicb he was placed. The consequence of thcse events had been, the placing Lord BEaEsFoaD, by whose advice the KING is supposed to bave aetect throughout the whole pro- ceeding, in a situation of high favour and ascendency in his councils, which was of 'course aecompanied by a cor- respondent decline in the influence of the French Minister, by whom the violent conduct of the QUEEN and the Prince was believed to be secretly supported. No interruptien to the public tranquillity took place in consequence of the order for the removal of the QUEEN and her son from Lis- bon ; indeed, the whole affair is understood to have passed so quietly as to escape the notice of the great bulk of the population of the capital. The next packet expected,which is the Stanmer, and whichl has probabl y been kept out by contrary winds, will no doubt bring more detailed accounts of these proccedings. It is not very easy in ordinary civil (lispensations t.s calculate upon the events of to-inorrow from those of to-day; and in the case of such a state as Portugal, and with such actors, the powers of prediction are wholly paralizetl.