NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT appears extremely probable that Lord Stranzford will go as Ambassador from this country to the Brazils. The object of his mission is said to be to induce the Emperor Don Pedro, to submit quietly to his brother's usurpation, and to establish some amicable arrangement between the parties. How far this report is founded on facts, or simply deduced from the political sentiments of the envoy, we are not able at present to state.
The conduct of Don Miguel continues to bear out the evil auguries which his previous character and his late injustice were calculated to excite. The prisons of Lisbon are filled with persons guilty of not favouring his usurpation : commissioners are proceedirig to Oporto, to try the persons confined in the gaols of the city ; and it is said that their pay is to be derived from the goods of the condemned.
An expedition is fitting out at Oporto against the island of Madeira. The Portuguese in London are, we understand, forwarding money and arms for its defence.
The Portuguese Ambassador at Madrid has reduced the Spanish Ministry to a dilemma : he has required to know whether the King of Spain acknowledges the new state of things in Portugal—in case he does, the Ambassador demands his passports ; in case his Majesty does not, he requires to be told whether his credentials still continue to hold good ?
The Portuguese officers who have emigrated to England, continue to receive their full pay at the embassy of his Brazilian Majesty in London, in the name of the Emperor Don Pedro, King of Portugal.
It has been confidently asserted, that it is the intention of Don Pedro to conic to Europe, and maintain his rights in person ; and that he has addressed letters to the Governments of France, England, and Austria, requiring them to interpose their power in his favour, and to uphold the legitimate authority in Portugal. The application is said to have been well received by the Court of France. The intentions of the British Ministers are not ascertained: the mission of Lord Strangford, and the general tone of their sen timents as uttered in Parliament, would indicate a determination to interfere as little as possible.
A statement has been published, detailing the painful situation in which Sir Frederick Lamb, the Ambassador at Lisbon, was placed during the concoction of the usurpation of Don Miguel. It is said that a word of encouragement on his part as the representative of England would have given a complete triumph to the Constitutional party, and have rendered all Ddiguets attempts abor five. He was, however, directed by Lord Wellington's Administration to remain a passive spectator of all that took place. He had, it is said, tendered his resignation as Ambassador, when Miguel's last step justified him in immediately returning to London.
