. Vesey, who accepted the
office of the board of trade; while the Earl of Aberdeen received the
seals of the foreign secretary. No further change took place, except
that the Duke of Clarence resigned his post of lord high admiral, when a
board was appointed on the old system, with Lord Melville at its head.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

Parliament was prorogued on the 28th of July. On this occasion two
interesting subjects of foreign policy were introduced into the speech,
which was again delivered by the commissioners. These subjects were,
war between Russia and Turkey, and the suspension of our relations
with Portugal. The sections relating to these events read thus:--"His
imperial majesty has found himself under the necessity of declaring
war against the Ottoman Porte, upon grounds concerning exclusively the
interests of his own dominions, and unconnected with the stipulations
of the treaty of the 6th of July, 1827. His majesty deeply laments the
occurrence of these hostilities, and will omit no effort of friendly
interposition to restore peace." "His majesty commands us to acquaint
you, that his majesty had every reason to hope, when he last addressed
you, that the arrangements which had been made for administering the
government of Portugal., until the period at which the Emperor of Brazil
should have completed his abdication of the throne of Portugal, would
have secured the peace and promoted the happiness of a country in the
welfare of which his majesty has ever taken the deepest interest. The
just expectations of his majesty have been disappointed; and measures
have been adopted in Portugal, in disregard of the earnest advice and
repeated remonstrances of his majesty, which have compelled his majesty,
and the other powers of Europe acting in concert with his majesty, to
withdraw their representatives from Lisbon." As regards the declaration
of war against the Ottoman Porte by Russia, the chief pretext for it
was, the imperious behaviour of the Porte, in its delay to fulfil the
treaty of Ackerman. It seems certain, however, that though it was said
to be waged for objects wholly national, that the chief object was
aggrandisement. In Portugal affairs had assumed a strange aspect. Don
Pedro had recently named Don Miguel regent of the kingdom, on which,
a few months before, he had sought to establish himself as monarch.
Miguel, however, had spontaneously sworn allegiance to him as natural
sovereign, as well as