The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-26 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

THE MARQUIS cr SALDANIIA'S PROCLAMATION ; AND

"1110 rEIII.:EA's LETTER TO QUEEN DONNA NIAItIA.
‘• PROCLAMAMION.
Portuguese ! Tac voice of our country calls out aloud ;
the army which made so many sacrifices For liberty has
again taken up arms, and will not abandon them until it
has freed Portugal from her oppressors.
" What has become of the charter, to attain which so
much blood was shed, and so many noble feats of arms and
heroic deeds were accompliblied? Trampled upon by a
handful of wretches, it has been obliged to submit to men
of a new Isurpation, and thus have the people lost peace
and tranquillity at home, credit and consideration abroad.
What has become of the security of our persons and
property, of the liberty of the press, the inviolability of your
i,ziuses, the secrecy of letters ? All has disappeared at the
inert, command of these perverse men, who, suing the im-
posiibit;:v of keel 11;: their place:, wish to precipitate the
country int,' an abyss of misfortunes, and to perish them-
selves amidst t;.!' ruins-
" The palaces of the daughter of our ll'ocrator has be-
come her dungeon ; th,7 placed in a state of coereio she
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can only weep over the insu;L7 by which her sacred and id-
violahle person is hourly revile:l. Her august husband is
attacked by a foreign assassin, and the revolutionary Go-
vernment allows such an attempt to go unpunished. One
of the Aides-de-Camp of his Highness (the Baron de Cam-
panhao) is made a prisoner in the very procincts of the
palace, when about to enter upon his weekly duty, and
threatened with death upon the spot, by a band of men
who arc a disgrace to the worthy Municipal Guard, to
which they ought never to have belonged, and by thirty
or forty rabble of the 10th battalion of the National
Guard.

" So many crimes against the country. against the sa-
cred person of our constitutional Queen Donna Maria 11.,
and against the people, shall not remain unpunished ; liberty
shall again assume her sway in Lisbon ; the sword which I
drew in her defence, the same sword with which I defended
the heroic city and conquered the conquerors of Algiers, that
sword will I cot sheath until the constitutional charter
shall hare been proclaimed in Lisbon, until this nation
shall have been restored to those precious rights which she
was robbed of on the disastrous and-unfortunate night of
the 9th of September. The army which I have the ho-
nour to command in chief nourishes the same sentiments—
the result cannot be doubtful.
" Portuguese, fear not, I come to liberate, not to op-
press you. Those who arc not against us are for us, but
those who shall lend the least aid to the rebels shall be
considered as such, and shall lose the situations they may
.nold. If any one dare fire a shot at any of my soldiers he
shall infallibly be led to death. Choose between liberty
and oppression, life and death, fidelity and rebellion ; de-
cide quickly, for I shall soon he among you.
" TO THE ARMY.
" Soldiers,—You are united in defence of the noblest of
causes. Our country groans under the fetters of a new
usurpation, The daughter of the great Podro is a pri-
soner in her own palace, where she suffers the insults of
the vilest rabble. We go to free one and the other—we
go to pay the debt which we have contracted towards the
daughter of our General-in-Chief and to our country.
" Were other stimulants wanting to inflame your ardour,
I would bring to your recollection the insults to which the
ingratitude of these miscreants have endeavoured to ex-
pose the army—the army which opened the gates of their
country to them, and freed them from the shackles with
which the tyrant had manacled them ; but you are gene-
rous and patriotic, and despise the petty revenge of personal
insults when you have to revenge the greater wrongs of
yoar country.
"Soldiers, you are the same heroes of Ladeira da Vellia,
Mindello, Porto Almaster, and Afranceira. The Chiefs
who are hcooured in commanding you are the same who
thcn led you on to victory, under the command of the im-
mortal Duke of Braganza. Let us swear not to lay down
our arms until the Constitutional Charter shall have been
re-established in all the kingdom. Let us proceed ; our
country will thank us, and victory will crown our efforts,
fer we fight under the game pennant which, in 1834, we
triumphantly planted in Evora Monte.
" Long live the Charter, the Queen, and the Portuguese
nation.

" Marquis SALDANHA.
" Head-quarters, Castello Blanco, Aug. 4."
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT

MAJESTY.

" Your Majesty, as well as my colleagues, are well aware
of the weighty and patriotic motives which prompted me to
accept the heavy task of enterieg, contrary to my inclina-
tions, the councils of your Majesty, as also the solemn de-
claration which I then made of retaining the situation solely
for a short. period. Nor can your Majesty well forget the
promise you were then graciously pleased to make me, of
endeavouring to find a substitute. In the short space of two
months, during which I have exercised the situation I am
holding-, I have twice represented to your Majesty the ne-
cessity of accepting my resignation, but on both occasions
I desisted from my intentions by weighty motives, arising
from the critical state in which we were placed. This state
of things has merged into one of ordinary contest, which,
with the aid of God, cannot bo much longer prolonged ;
nevertheless, fresh and unexpected occurrences have brought
me to the determination of agar❑ declaring to you Majesty,
positively and solemnly, the impossibility in which I find
myself of remaining any longer permanently in the elevated
position you have been pleased to appoint me to.
" My health failing me, as also every thing most essential
for properly fulfilling the duties of my situation, I consider
it rigorously necessary on my part to acquaint your Majesty
that I can no longer serve you, and I confide that your Ma-
jesty will be graciously pleased to accept without -further
delay of my present resignation.
" I respectfully kiss your Royal hand, as your submissive
and humble servant,
" MANOEL DE CASTRO PEREIRO.

" Lisbon, Aug. 5, 1837."
This declaration was read by the Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs, in presence of the Prince and the Minis-
ters of the Crown, and delivered into the hands of the Queen.