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The Examiner 1823-08-10: Iss . ’ - THE EXAMINER. ’ gee No.81l. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, ve ees ae MOS 1823. be encod, ae ce le . ee eee a Se CS aioe ™ aed " > ol ~ ary gos ea - —— THE POLITICAL EXAMINER. his dominions. What a compliment to King Jonn’ is this apology ! Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.—Porxr. So much for the hollow pretence of the “ distracted state” nd Volumes of Portugal. We know another country—a province, if it ose LEGITIMATE SYMPATHIES. pleases the Boroughmongers better—to which the epithet @ glazed ax «ir T. Tyrwhitt will proceed shortly to Lisbon, for the purpose of | strictly belongs; yet those who used it in relation to a peace- py be tad ‘ aly installing his Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal a | abje and well-ordered kingdom, would choke with rage, and tis) ma sht of the Order of the Garter. His Majesty was admitted a Member yell out “ seditious!” with great vigour, if it were thrown ip oy, 47, Pate thst distinguished Order. at the same time as the other Sovereigns of , ' a Be , , 7 after the general peace ; but his residence at Brazil prevented the their teeth as applicable to that portion of our empire. Ima- i celebra nemony of the installation, and siace his return to his European dominions, | gine, for example, that in a happier state of European free- ealth and le distracted state of Portugal did. not permit of its being performed.”— | dom, and among certain Constitutional Monarchs of the Con- oe tone er, August 5. tinent, such an Order as the “ Order of Mild Rule” was on uls is one of those eloquent little pieces of official manage- | instituted,—(as there are Orders of Merit, &c.) and that upon etal an at, which perhaps betray the true political feelings of the | a suggestion to install our most Gracious Sovereign a mem- ee higarchy more decidedly than matters of serious consequence, | ber, a reason for evasion or delay was hinted by an allusion ee a cause the latter are accompanied with greater caution. to the “‘distracted” state of misgoverned Ireland. What a Inthe first place, here is. a direct and wilful falsehood, | howl would be set up by the court-sycophants at the bare in- | S CLOT gross, open, palpable.” The distance of Brazil might be | sinuation—the wicked libel! Or if the term “ distracted” eile i good reason for not sending out the Order; but Portugal | had been applied to England, at the time of the Manchester fas Inst ws wot in a “ distracted state” after the King’s return. So | affair or the Queen’s Trial, in disparagement of the rulers orale from it, it was singularly tranquil; and until AMARANTeE’s | conduct? Yet who can deny, that Portugal, from the mo- tent rebellion, no country in Europe enjoyed more perfect ment of the King’s landing to the insurrection of AMARANTE, uce, whether at home or abroad, during the period that was infinitely more peaceful and contented than Great Britain weeded to the Revolution. A mighty change had been effec- since 1816 ? 1 »by which freedom and a public guarantee was substituted _The plain truth of the matter is, that our Oligarchy in- unmitigated despotism, without bloodshed or retribution. tended, by the withholding of the Order, to convey a censure of the thousand horrors which the slavish prognosticate on the Portuguese Monarch, for yielding to the demands of all such changes, had occurred. The selfish monopolizers the people; and in thus promptly sending it, directly he had ubitrary power were removed with a firm but temperate repented of and repaired his fault, by the re-establishment of i,—-and the supreme authority vested in the people’s despotism and priestcraft, they design to express their delight- ty chosen delegates. The King returned from his distant ed approval of his having broken his promises, violated his joningtes & inions, apprised of all that had been done; he was in- oaths, and delivered up a nation to the tyranny of monks and iq. to Su ned before he landed of the condition on which he would | courtiers. The end sanctifies the means, we suppose, in such pulthurst, © received as sovereign; it was for him to decide whether he | cases; and all weapons are fair against Reformers. How baby i reign under the Constitution, or attempt to recover | strong and quick the sympathy between the upholders of the as Triquet, former unlimited sway. He chose the first, and entered | Boroughs in England, and the official plunderers and oppres- Wewort capital as the Constitutional King of Portugal. To enu-| sors under “ El Re neto” in Portugal! The “ breathless none t the oaths ‘he ‘has taken to maintain the new order of | haste” to confer a mark of favour on a perjured Despot, rivals. "8, would be to write the history of nearly all the public | that with which the Manchester Pastors were thanked for the mth 9 eae of the Cortes. Its sufficiently notorious, that he seized | slaughter of their flocks. re , ! 7 *pportanity with apparent eagerness to reiterate the To be sure, the spectacle presented, by the choice of such solema protestations of his admiration and affection for a moment to bestow this court-compliment, suggests some Constitution ; and that if his Most Faithful Majesty has curious reflections regarding the change in policy and feeling - playing false throughout, he leaves brother FenxinanpD which could allow the Ministers of.a, Brunswick Prince— rever volunteered such declarations) far behind in the who is (or ought to be) by virtue of his descent, the “ child : aon for the palm of cant and hypocrisy. All we and champion” of Constitutional Revolution—to betray so : this brief recapitulation is to shew, that there could much exultation at the destruction of a neighbouring bie tion’s » better opportunity for bestowing the British Order, than liberties. Is it come to this? “A. fellow-feeling makes, the Portuguese’ Monarch them wondrous kind.” The’ identity Of interests between Mpular act, and ‘was \ royal despotism and corporations of irresponsible aristocrats, ia the midst of a is best shewn by this unix of sentiment.. Can it be doubt- Some Servile, ‘“ he ed, to which party in the Spanish war our Cabinet, his crown,” Me Was a liar and a } Cabinet, wish sue + , THE EXAMINER. But he takes office along With those who'make him acquiesce Heroules that supports the (thé Atlas of this little w : in such proceedings, and becomes the friend-and colleague of Magnus Berg hed not the ideal faculty. He was a Sena dallist to the Emperor! Infinite were the pains he took with ‘this men who deny the Catholics the toleration which (until he the chef-d'auvre of hishhand! Infinite were his hopes and fears in the took office) he called indispensable and urgent. What good progress of the work! Mach was there that he succeeded in, mug, then can his scruples do the country, if he has not the manli- that he failed in, to his own thinking! How diferent the interes: the artisan feels in a task of this kind in his workshop, and that which ness to make a stand against the degrading impolicy of the it afterwards excites in the mind, of the spectator or possessor! ' It Ultra part of the Ministry ? | occupied his mind for years, and every thing depended on its sye. cess. Let it succeed, which is a million to one, and it forms an article in a catalogue of curiosities, is placed in a gallery, is one among a FONTHILL. ABBEY. thousand other trifles, is looked at for a moment, and forgot! There The road hetween Salisbury and Fonthill Abbey is at present are several small. ivory sculptures of’ the hand of Fiamingo, in the superb, Dark woods waving over Pembroke’s princely domain Fonthill Gallery. The little allegory of Youth and Age is the best, crown the heights to the left; a clear chrystal stream winds its peb- The figures of the old man and of the children are finely und bly or its sedgy course almost the whole way; and groves, hills, and and executed with much taste and feeling; and considering the dimiz valleys, glitter in the sun and showers. A neat little inn by the road- nutive dimensions, are almost a miracle of accuracy. ‘These (together side, called the French Hora, with its painted bow-window and with the large Topaz Cup, carved by Cellini, and presented to Catha. flaunting geraniums, reminds the passenger strongly of the old-fash- rine Cornaro—the materials stamp its solid worth, the historic names joned prints in * Waltor’s Angler.” The weather has been hitherto shed a glory round it) form a collection of of the most impracticable kind : yet no less than three per- [Some notice of the Library next week.) sons, it‘seems, havealready visited the Abbey—the refluence of that tide of fashion and curiosity that poured in upon it from all parts of FLUMMERY, the country last year. The visitor is struck, almost immediately on ( From the Morning Chronicle.) entering the avenue that leads;through a large massive gate-way, to If Mr. Southey does not work well for his batt of Sack, and palms this far-famed mansion, with the richness and taste spread out before off upon our Most Gracious vas for: the fair amount of praise him—an Eden rescued from a desart. A 1 skirts the lawn, in which he is bound to pay him, Visions in which he beatifies his pr which innumerable wild-fowl bathe and sport ; and a hundred stately decessors (a mode of sdtyrising a living Monarch by the bye, which swans repair to its banks to compose their ruffled plumeé, like a navy if Attorn ibbs had been alive, might have served to illu to refit, Nothing can he finer than the natural variety in the surface trate the ‘law of libel, for contrasting invidiously a dead Monarch of the ground, which, with the assistance of presiding art, presents with a living one, is.as weprehensible as contrasting the living ope continually new and striking points of view.
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