The past week has added little to the important news
received on Saturday last from Portugal. It seems to be very generally admitted that the game is up with MIGUEL. What has become of him, has not yet transpired. Rumours of his escape into Spain, and even of his arrival in London, have been in circulation, but are scarcely worth attention.
The future settlement of the Portuguese Regency is now the principal point of debate. That Don PEDRO would, on numerous accounts, be a most ineligible person to be the head of it, is manifest. He would become the actual Sovereign, and would run all risks to retain his power in spite of his daughter's claim. Then, he has scarcely a single quality which can inspire confidence as to his intentions, among the Portuguese themselves, or among fo- reign powers,—being universally allowed to he a shallow, faithless, passionate, restless man. Any arrangement which can send him out of the country, and make the Duke of PALMELLA Minister and Regent in his stead, would be the best that could be made for Portugal and its infant Queen.
Some excitement was occasioned in the City on Tuesday, by a Government notice posted at Lloyd's of a contract to charter vessels as transports. It was reported that three thousand troops were to be sent immediately to Portugal, to defend our ally, the Queen, against Spanish aggression. But whatever might have been the intentions of Government, they appear to have been since abandoned. Lord ALTHORP stated,in the House of Com- mons, on Wednesday, " that there was no reason to expect any hostile interference on the part of Spain in the affairs of Por- tugal ;" and that with regard to the taking up of transports, it bad no reference to any such hostility.
The Times, however, of Tuesday, mentions the suspicious fact, that CORDOVA, the Spanish Ambassador to Mauer., was taken fighting in the ranks of the Miguelites, by the Constitutionalists, who afterwards released him.
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