1822.] 
nected with the march of your labours, 
and with the right it gives you to the 
national acknowledgment, and to my par- 
ticular gratitude. The glory of kings is 
inseparable from the happiness of their 
subjects, and he who presides over a free 
nation is as happy as those are miserable 
who rule overslaves, ‘This is the measure 
of the satisfaction which your illustrious 
and useful fabours give me. ‘They opena 
boundless career of prosperity and glory 
to the noble Portuguese nation, wliose fate 
is essentially united with mine. 
“Yon are going, gentlemen, to receive 
from your constituents the congratulations 
and_benedictions to which your services 
entitle them, Carry to them, at the same 
time, the certainty that my care and soli- 
cittide continues to be deyoted to the wel- 
fare of the nation; assure them of the sin- 
cerity of my intentions, and the consis- 
tency of my proceedings, of which you have 
been eye-witnesses ; and, if it should be 
necessary, inspire them with true love of 
their country, which binds them to sacrifice 
every thing for it, and teach them, that 
sincere adherence to the constitutional 
system essentially consists in obedience to 
the law, and in love of order and justice, 
without which the best institutions cannot 
prosper. In this manner, continuing to in- 
struct and to edify, you will enjoy, in the 
public gratitude, the just reward of your 
glorious labours; and the generous nation 
to which you have consecrated them, by 
following the course which you have traced 
-out for it, will become, by the perfections 
‘of its social institutions, the model and the 
envy of ather people.” 
_ His majesty haying concluded his 
speech, the president rose to reply, in 
the name of the assembly ; and, in a 
Jongand eloquent discourse, developed 
the hopes which the nation might 
justly conceive for a constitution so 
fortunately established, without any of 
those internal convulsions which have 
afflicted other states, and with the most 
perfect concurrence.of all classes. He 
touched on the affairs of Brazil, which 
he still hoped might be finally arranged 
to tie. satisfaction and interest of all 
parties. His excellency dwelt on the 
gratitude due to his majesty for his 
sincere and steady co-operation in 
their labours; observing, that they 
would gladly have proclaimed him the 
father of the country, had not that 
noble title been prostituted by flattery, 
and conterred, to the horror of huma- 
nity, even on the tyrants of Rome. 
IIe concluded with “ Long live King 
John VI. the house of Braganza, the 
Catholic and Apostolic religion, and 
the Portuguese nation!” 
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The king, rising, said—“ Long live 
the sovereign congress !” se 
At fifty minutes past eleven the king 
withdrew in the same manner as he 
entered; and, the deputation that ac- 
companied him having returned, Mr. 
Felqueiras, the secretary, stated, it the 
name of the deputation, that his ma= 
jesty, on taking leave, had desired that 
they would assure the congress of the 
constituent Cortes of his particular’ 
thanks for all the delicate attentions 
which they had shown him, and that he 
would at all times be the firm de- 
fender of the social compact which the 
Cortes had decreed, and in co-ope- 
rating with all his power in the prospe- 
rity of the Portuguese nation. 
At five minutes past twelve the presi- 
dent closed the sessions, saying:— 
“The general extraordinary and con- 
stituent Cortes of the Portuguese na- 
tion close their session this day, the 
4th of November, 1822.” 
GREECE. 
The Provisional Government of 
Greece has acceded to the proposal of 
an armistice, made by Chourschid Pa- 
cha; but on condition that he’ should 
evacuate Thessaly, and that those for- 
tresses in the Morea which have stil] 
Turkish garrisons, as well as Arta and 
Prevesa, shall be immediately given 
up to the Greeks ; when this is done, 
the Greek government consents to a 
suspension of hostilities for six months. 
—Chourschid has sent a Tartar to 
‘Constantinople to inform the Porte of 
the state of things: the Pacha has 
thought it prudent to retreat with the 
remains of his army towards Mace- 
donia. The defection of the Alba- 
nians, who were with the Turkish 
troops, and haye now joined the 
Greeks, has given the last blow to 
Chourschid, who has no means to re- 
sume offensive operations, unless the 
Porte sends him another army. 
Canea, the capital of Candia, has 
capitulated to the Greeks; and when 
the last vessel sailed (25th of Octo- 
ber), a French frigate, with part of the 
garrison, was entering the port of 
Smyrna. Another vessel, from Alex- 
andria, which met the Egyptian flotilla 
near Candia, confirms this news, and 
affirms that many of the Turkish inha- 
bitants refused to leave Canea, and 
déclared they would embrace the 
Christian religion. 
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