improper, and, with reason, blameable, in so important an affair, to listen only to the passions, which, though not always false, are ever suspected. It is true that the representations of the different Classes and Corporations, whose Votes are less to be suspected of prejudice, speak the same language on this point with the acclamations of love and exalted patriotism. Still the well-known firmness of our Prince did not consider this sufficient. He determined to submit to a new proof the declarations of the Classes and Corporations, and to bring them before a Tribunal, more competent, because authorized by the Laws-more zealous and discreet, because in prudence, rank, and wealth, it unites all that the Nation possesses most eminent-of greater weight, because its judgment in this matter is legally the judgment of the whole Kingdom.

It is not necessary to say, that by this Tribunal I mean the Assembly of the Three Estates-Clergy, Nobility, and People,―to whom the ancient Portuguese had recourse upon all important occasions of the settlement of the Kingdom. On this certainly most important one, our August Prince restores it, in his high wisdom, shewing at the same time his Royal integrity, his respect for the Institutions of his Country, and his full confidence in the intelligence of the Nation. He has convoked it for the purpose of considering well the letter and the spirit of our Fundamental Laws-of recalling the events in our History, of collecting from them the true national opinion in all times, and of comparing the present case with what has before occurred concerning the Succession to the Throne; in order to ascertain whether the application to the person of His Highness, which the Classes, the Tribunals, and the Camaras, have in their representations drawn from the Laws, be conformable to their true spirit and to the common national sentiment. This is the object which His Highness proposes for the deliberation of the States: each Branch, according to ancient forms, will deliberate and confer with the others, with the gravity due to themselves, to the importance of the subject, and to the advantage and honour of the Portuguese Nation-and, finally, it will come to a judgment, from which it will draw up an authentick Document, declaring to whom the Succession belongs at this time, and settling the same for the future.

May posterity look to the present Assembly, and to its results, with the same consideration and satisfaction, as we look even now to those of the Assemblies of 1385 and 1641!

DECREE of the Infant, Dom Miguel, respecting his assumption of the Throne of Portugal.—30th June, 1828.

(Translation.)

HAVING maturely considered the important Question submitted to the Three Estates, assembled in the Cortes which I commanded to be

convoked, who have presented to me the Resolutions adopted by each Branch, and in which they establish, that, according to the provisions of the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy, I am called to the possession of the Crown of these Kingdoms; beseeching me, therefore, to be pleased to assume the Dignity of King and Lord thereof, which Dignity had devolved upon me since the decease of the King, my Lord and Father, of blessed memory; reflecting, moreover, that it is incumbent on me implicitly to follow the above-mentioned Fundamental Laws of the Monarchy, on which the Portuguese Throne is established; I am pleased, for these reasons, to conform in all respects to the said Resolutions of the Three Estates, the principles upon which the same are founded being equally applicable to the present generation, and to posterity.

It is further my pleasure that, after the manner practised in the Cortes of 1641, an Act be drawn up, and signed by all and each of the Three Branches, containing the gronnds upon which their said Resolutions are formed.

With the Signature of Our Lord the King.

Palace of Ajuda, June 30th, 1828.

ACT of Congress of The United States, relative to the Duties on French Vessels, and their Cargoes, arriving from Martinique and Guadaloupe.-9th May, 1828.

An Act regulating Commercial Intercourse with the Islands of
Martinique and Guadaloupe.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that all French Vessels, coming directly from the Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and laden with articles, the growth or manufacture of either of the said Islands, and which are permitted to be exported therefrom in American Vessels, may be admitted into the Ports of The United States, on payment of no higher Duties on Tonnage, or on their Cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American Vessels, and on like Cargoes imported in American Vessels. Provided, that if the President of The United States shall, at any time, receive satisfactory information, that the privileges allowed to American Vessels and their Cargoes, at said Islands, by the French Ordinance of February 5th, 1826, have been revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by Proclamation, to suspend the operation of this Act, and withhold all privileges allowed under it.

Approved, 9th May, 1828.

AN ACCOUNT of the Ordinary Revenues and Extraordinary Resources, AND IRELAND; for the

TOTALS of Ordinary} 2,180,885 14 5 58,417,729 7 23 3,652,345 3 11 54,705,586 3 3156,965,271 178

Revenues...

9,890 8 0

9,806 8 0

9,806 8 0

OTHER RESOURCES.

Money received from the.
East India Company on
account of Retired Pay,
Pensions, &c., of His Ma-
jesty's Forces serving in
the East Indies, per Act 4
Geo. IV, c. 71
From the Commissioners for
the Issue of Exchequer
Bills, per Act 57 Geo. III,
c. 34, for the Employment
of the Poor
Money received from the
Trustees of Naval and Mili-
tary Pensions
From several County Trea-
surers, and others in Ire-
land, on account of Ad-
vances made by the Trea-
sury, for improving Post
Roads, for building Gaols,
for the Police, for Public
Works, Employment of the
Poor, &c., &c.

Imprest Monies repaid by
sundry Public Account-
ants, and other Monies
paid to the Public
Money brought from the Civil
List on account of the Clerk
of the Hanaper.
Repayment on account of
Money advanced out of the
Consolidated Fund, in the
Year 1825, for SilverCoinage
From the Bank of England,
on account of Unclaimed
Dividends

TOTALS of the Public)

Income of the United 2,189,885 14 5 63.768,671 18 31 3,052,343 3 11 00,116,328 14 4302,306,214
Kingdom.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 6th March, 1828.

constituting the PUBLIC INCOME of the United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN Year ended 5th January, 1828.

3,906,456 13 53 1,302,029 17 13 5,268,486 10 61 40,581,576 2 9 2,105,209 4 4 50,955,271 17 83

6 15 9

3,966,456 13 51 1,802,020 17 15,208,486 10 6754,932,518 18 10 2,105,200 4 402,306,214 8 9

GEO. R. DAWSON.

AN ACCOUNT of the Ordinary Revenues and Extraordinary Resources, constituting

TOTALS of Ordinary} € 1,987,853 17 11 53,928,220 2 8 3,572,100 11 950,358,110 10 102 52,343,964 8 92

Income of Great Bri-£1,987,853 17 11 59,092,510 19 61 3,572,109 11 91/55,520,401 7 9 57,506,255 5 8

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 6th March, 1828.