Letter of the Queen of Portugal, to the King.Circular, &c. 23 "SIRE,-1 received last night, through the hands of one of your Ministers, the order to quit your States. So then it was for the purpose of sending me into exile, that you induced me to descend from the throne to which you raised me. I pardon, and compassionate you from the bottom of my heart. All my contempt, all my hatred, shall be reserved for those by whom you are beset and deceived. In exile I shall be more free than you in your palace. I carry with me liberty. My heart is not enslaved. It has never crouched before those rebellious subjects, who have dared to impose laws upon you, and who wished to force upon me an oath which my conscience rejected. I yielded not to their menaces; I obeyed a voice from heaven, which announced to me, that if the period of greatness was passed, that of glory was commencing; for the world would say, The Queen has preserved unsullied the majesty of the diadem: she bas not consented that its splendor should be dimmed; and whilst Monarchs (hommes couronnés) who hold the sceptre and the sword, succumbed, she remained unsubdued, and without reproach. "As thy obedient wife, I shall obey thee, Sire, but I shall obey thee alone. To you alone I will say, that my illness, and the rigours of the season at this moment, render my departure impossible. They have not yet required of you to order my being put to death. I shall soon depart; Extract from the Circular of Frankfort, Jan. 5. The Sovereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, assembled but, to find a place of repose, whither shall I direct my steps ? The country of my birth, as well as yours, is a prey to the spirit of Revolution. My brother, like yourself, is a crowned captive! and it is to no purpose that his youthful spouse asks permission to mingle her tears with mine in pious seclusion! You will not refuse my children to accompany me. Among the laws you have imposed, there is not one which tears children from their mothers; and though my rights as a Queen may be despised, those of a mother will perhaps be respected. "At the approach of spring I shall quit those States, that land in which I reigned, and in which I have done some good. I will go to share the dangers of my brother, and I shall say to him, they could not force me to yield!" I am exiled, but my conscience is pure, for I called to mind the blood that flowed in my veins. Adieu, Sire: I leave you, old and infirm, on a tottering throne. In leaving you my grief is extreme. Your son is not with you, and the evil-disposed keep you from him more studiously than they do even mothers. May He who reigns over Kings, watch over you, and confound your enemies! Whereever that wife, whom you exile, may be, she will pray for your Majesty; she will beg of God to grant you long life, and at length to bestow upon that country, whence I am exiled, peace and prosperity. "The QUEEN." Austria, Russia, and Prussia. D 24 Extract from the Circular of Austria, Russia, and Prussia; the originals of which are signed respectively, viz. those to the Austrian ministers by Prince Metternich, to the Russians by Count Nesselrode, and to the Prussians by Count Bernstorff. CIRCULAR. "Verona, Dec. 14, 1822. "Sir, other events, deserving of the entire attention of the Monarchs, have fixed their attention on the deplorable condition of the Western European Peninsula. Spain now endures the fate which awaits all States that are so unfortunate as to seek what is good in a way in which it never can be found. It passes thro' the fated circle of its revolutiona revolution which deluded or ill disposed men would willingly have represented as a blessing, nay, as a triumph of an enlightened age. All governments are witnesses of the zeal with which those men have endeavoured to persuade their contemporaries, that this revolution was the necessary and wholesome fruit of the progress of civilization, and the means by which it has been effected and supported, the noblest essay of generous patriotism. If it could be the object of civilization, to overthrow human society, if it were possible to suppose that the armed force, which has no other vocation than that of maintaining the internal and external peace of the state, might with impunity assume the preme dominion over it, the Spanish revolution might certainly pretend to the admiration of all ages, and the military insurrection in the Island of Leon serve as a model for Reformers. But truth has soon asserted her rights, and Spain, at the expence of her happiness and her glory, has only furnished a new and melancholy ex su ample of the inevitable consequence of every transgression of the eternal laws, of the moral order of the world. "The legitimate authority followed, and changed into a forced instrument of the overthrow all rights and all legal privileges ; all classes of the people, hurried away by the stream of revolutionary movements, violence, and oppression exercised under the forms of law; a whole kingdom given up a prey to disorder and convulsions of every kind; rich colonies, which justify their separation by the very same maxims on which the mother country has founded its public law, and which it would willingly, but in vain, condemn in another hemisphere; the last resources of the State consumed by civil war; this is the picture which the present state of Spain presents! such are the evils by which a generous people, deserying of a better fate, is visited: such, in fine, are the grounds of the just apprehensions which such an assemblage of elements, of trouble and confusion, must excite in the countries more nearly in contact with the Peninsula. If even in the bosom of civilization a power arose, hostilely alienated from the principles of preservation in which the European confederation reposes, such a power is Spain in its present state of desolation. "Could the Sovereigns have contemplated with indifference so many evils heaped upon one country, accompanied with so many dangers to the others? Having in this important affair to consult only on their own judgments, and their own consciences, they have been obliged to ask themselves whether they were longer allowed as far as regards Spain. to remain calm spectators of an evil which every day threatens to beoome more terrible and dangerous, and even by the presence of those Representatives, to lend the false colouring of a tacit sanction to the measures of a faction which is ready to undertake every thing for the maintenance of its destructive sway? The decision of the monarchs could not be doubtful. Their legations have received orders to quit the Peninsula. "Whatever may be the consequence of this step, the Monarchs thereby prove to Europe, that nothing can induce them to waver in a resolution which their most intimate conviction has ap proved. The more sincere the friendship is which they feel towards his Majesty the King of Spain, the more lively their interest in the welfare of a nation which has distinguished itself by so many virtues at all periods of its history, the more strongly have they felt the necessity of adopting the measures on which they have decided, and which they will know how to maintain. "The preceding view will impress you with the conviction that the Monarchs, in their last negociations, have not departed from the principles to which they have reinained unalterably faithful in all the great questions relative to order and preservation, to which the events of our times have given such great importance. Their union, essentially founded on those principles, far from losing its early character, obtains from one period to another more solidity and energy. It would be superfluous further to defend their upright and benevolent intentions against unworthy calumnies, which are daily refuted by noto 23 rious facts. All Europe must at length acknowledge that the system pursued by the Monarchs is in the most perfect harmony with the well understood interests of the people, as well as with the independence and strength of the Government. They recognise no enemies but those who conspire against the legal authority of the one, and the simplicity of the others, to plunge both into one common abyss of destruction. The wishes of the Monarchs are directed to peace alone, but peace, though fully established between the Powers, cannot diffuse its blessings over society, as long as the fermentation is kept up. which in more than one country inflames the people's minds by the perfidious incitements, and the criminal attempts of a faction which aims only atrevolution and destruction; so long as the heads and instruments of that faction (whether they openly take the field against thrones and existing institutions, or whether they brood over their hostile plans in the dark, propose plots or poison public opinion) shall not cease to torment the nations with discouraging and lying representations of the present fictitious apprehensions of the future; the wisest measures of the Government cannot prosper, the best meant plans of improvement cannot succeed; in short, confidence cannot return till those promoters of the most odious purposes shall have sunk into impotency; and the Monarchs will not believe that they have accomplished their noble task till they shall have deprived them of the arms with which they may threaten the repose of the world. "In communicating to the Cabinet to which you are accredited D2 the facts and declarations which expose themselves to a serious responsibility when they fall into errors, or listen to counsels which would sooner or later deprive them of the possibility of protecting their subjects from the ruin which they themselves would have prepared for them. The Monarchs have the confidence that they shall every where find true allies in those who are invested with the supreme authority, under whatever terms it may be-Allies who do homage not merely to the letter and the positive precepts of the conventions which form the basis of the present European system, but also to their spirit and principles; and they flatter themselves that the words here spoken will be received as a new confirmation of their firm and unalterable resolution to consecrate all the means entrusted to them by Providence, to the promotion of the welfare of Europe.". An authentic Narrative of the extraordinary Cure performed by Prince Alexandre Hohenlohe, of Miss Barbara O'Connor, a Nun, in the Convent of New Hall, near Chelmsford; with a full Refutation of the numerous false reports and misrepresentations. By John Badeley, M. D. Protestant Physician to the Convent. 8vo. "Ne quid falsi discere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.” By the title of Dr. Badeley's Narrative it is announced, that he attributes the cure of Miss O'Connor entirely to PrinceAlex. Hohenlohe; a circumstance which, when we consider the eminence of his professional character, and the high reputation he has at stake, must make on every candid mind the deepest impression. As the extraordinary cure took place so long ago, it is evident that he has evinced no particular haste in publishing his Authentic Statement of the Facts," certainly rendered necessary by the illiberal reports, misrepresentations, and wilful falsehoods, that have been circulated respecting it." Nothing, surely, can be more unwished for to an eminent Protestant Physician, than the annoyance of a controversy in defence of a supernatural cure, not of his performing, in a Catholic Community; or more distressing to that Community, than a publicity which is so much opposed to its habits and duties, and cannot fail to afford to the popular prejudice against Catholicity and its institutions an opportunity, always fearful, of provoking the authentie Narrative, voice of hostility against them. Among those who have been lavish of insult to Dr. B., Catholicity, and this Community, is an anonymous writer in the Sunday Times of Jan. 19, who claims Dr. B. as an acquaintance. This writer, an M.D. too, is astonished that Dr. B. should have knowingly lent his name to the "idlest fallacy that ever disgra"ced the records of Catholic su"perstition; or in the resignation of his intellects, have be"come the dupe of one of the "shallowest of impositions;" and adds, your character as a man of intelligence is, I fear, gone for ever." 66 The idlest of fallacies cannot of course call for much labour to refute, and M. D. appearing to imagine that the fallacy is so obvious, as to call for no proof, occupies himself principally in the language of contempt for Dr. B., without adducing any thing to annul the Fact which his Narrative irreversibly authenticates. The Case is thus stated by Dr. Badeley : "On the 7th of December, 1820, Miss Barbara O'Connor, a nun, in the convent at New Hall, near Chelinsford, agedthirty, was suddenly attacked, without any evident cause, with a pain in the ball of the right thumb; which rapidly increased, and was succeeded by a swelling of the whole hand and arm, as far as the elbow. It soon became red, and painful to the touch. Mr. Barlow, the skil ful surgeon to the convent, was sent for; and applied leeches, lotions, blisters, fomentations, poultices, long immersions in warin, water, and every thing that was judged proper, a long time, without much benefit. One cold application diminished the swelling, 27 but occasioned acute pain in the axilla and mammna. Leeches were applied to the axilla, and the same cold lotion; by which means the pain was removed from the axille, and the hand and arm became a bad as before. "On the 5th of January, an incision was made in the ball of the thumb; only blood followed, no pus. Mr. Carpue, an eminent qurgeon, from Dean Street, was sent for on the 7th, and enlarged the incision, expecting pus; but none appeared. "On the 15th, another incision was made on the back of the forefinger; still, only blood followed, and with very little relief. As her constitution seemed much affected, I prescribed a course of medicines; and amongst others, mercurials: they were attended with much benefit, but did not affect the salivary glands. The surgeons recommended mercurial friction on the arm, which was continued till salivation was excited. The arm, by this, was much reduced, and remained so several days. It flattered us with some hope of recovery, but it was transient. The symptoms soon returned, as bad as ever, notwithstanding the general health was perfectly re-established; and notwithstanding every thing was done which the London and country surgeons, in consultation, could suggest, daring a whole year and a half.” "The Superioress writes to a friend to address Prince Hohenlobe in behalf of Miss O'Connor. The Prince replies: "Pour la Religieuse Novice en "Le trois du Mois de Mai, a. huit heures, je dirai, conformement a votre demande pour votre guerison ines prières. Jaignez-y à la même heure, après a |