The letters and papers fr...
The letters and papers from Lisbon, up to the 30th ult., bring us an accoult of a fre3h conspiracy dstected, and, it is prestmed, deCcatea on the 2Sth, by t6 arrest of several persons. The statements, however, are extromely meagre; as we neither find in them the narmes of the persons impli- cated, nor a specification of the object soaght. Suspicion here would naturally fix upon the party connected with the QuErE and Don M1GUEL; yet the only conjecture whicli we find hazarded at the scene of action, iynputes to the disaffected the design of forcing tliG KrsG to fulfil his pro- mise of giving the country a free constituition-a design, the success of which, it is very clear, wouEl not be vcry agreeable eitlher to her Majesty or his Royal Highness. An. address has been publislhed by the War-Miiiister, thanking the troops in garrison at Lisbon, and the Royal Guard, for their conduct; and from the document we learn that the conspirators, or some of them, " were un - "worthy of theunifoi'm theyhad thchonourto wear"-.that is, that they belonged to the military. In another part also, it is said, or preached, that all the KING'S subjects, " how- ' ever high and distinguishied be their rank," owe him equal obedience; from which, perhaps, we might infer, that some persons of "high rank" may be imaplicated. Our deductions can go no farther upon any thing like sure ground. The people in London attach no great import- ance to the matter; and in the case before them they may perhaps be right: but we think they are sanguine .poli- ticians who would fancy the affairs of Portugal settled.