The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-14 00:00:00

" TO THE ARMY.

" Soldiers !—The moment is at hand at which you may
regain your ancient splendour ! Formed for glory, you are
less able than others to support the disgraceful part you
have been forced to play ! The Government, which be-
trays our interests, wishes also to tarnish our glory.
Senseless hope ! Does it believe that the race of the
heroes of Arcole, Austerlitz, and Wagram is extinct ? See
the Lion of Waterloo still erect upon our frontier! See
Huningen deprived of its fortifications ! See the promotions
of 1815 disavowed ! See the Legion of Honour bestowed
with prodigality upon intriguers, and refused to those who have
deserved it by their bravery! See our flag; it floats nowhere
as a mark of the triumph of our arms ! See, in fine, on all
sides, treason, cowardice, foreign influence, and then exclaim
with me, Let us drive the barbarians from the Capitol !'
Soldiers ! Resume the eagles you bore in our glorious days.
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The enemies of France canna bear to look upon them, and
those who now govern us have fled before them. Deliver
your country from traitors and oppressors. Protect the
rights of the people. Defend France and her allies against
invasion. This is the path to which honour calls you—this
is your sublime mission. Soldiers of France! Whatever

may have been your past acts, come all, and range yourselves
under the regenerated tricoloured flag ; it is the emblem
of your interests and of our glory. Our dismembered
country, liberty betrayed, humanity in a scat of suffering,
and glory in mourning, rely upon you—you will prove your-
selves equal to the high destiny that awaits you. Soldiers of
the Republic ! Soldiers of the Empire ! Let my name
awaken your ancient enthusiasm ; and you, young soldiers,
who, like me, were born during the roaring of the cannon of
Wagram, remember you are the children of the Grand
Army. The sun of a hundred victories illuminated our

cradles—let our deeds or our death be worthy of our birth.
From on high the spirit of Napoleon will guide our arms ;

and, satisfied with our deeds, will exclaim—They were
worthy of their Sires! Hive la France ! Vice la Liberte !
(Signed) " NAPOLEON."
" TO THE INHABITANTS OF STRASBURGH.
6' Alsacians !=To you belongs the honour of having been
the first to overthrow a Power, which, being' the slave of
the Holy Alliance, is daily and deeply compromising your

future fate as a civilized people. The Government of
Louis Philip detests above all the brave men of Stras-
burg, because it detests all that is great, generous, and
national. It bas wounded your honour by disbanding
your legions ; it has injured your interests by keeping up
the entrance-duties, and by permitting the establishment

of a foreign custom-house, which paralyses your trade.
Men of Strasburg! You have laid your hands on your
wounds—you have called me amongst you—in order that
we may conquer or die together in _ the cause of the

people ! Aided ,by you and by the soldiers, I at
length, after a long exile, touch the sacred soil of my

country. Thanks be rendered to you! Alsatians !my
name is a standard which must awaken grand recollections
—and this standard, as you well know, ever remains in-
flexible to the influence of party or to foreign enemies, and
bows only before the Majesty of the people. Honour, our

country, and liberty, are our motives and our object. Paris
in 1830 showed us how to overthrow an impious Govern-
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inent. Let us, in return, show Paris how the liberties of a

great people are to be consolidated. Men of Strasburg!
To-morrow we march to Paris, to deliver the capital from
traitors and oppressors. Again form your national batta-
lions, which have already alarmed an unpopular Govern-

ment. During our absence preserve your town, the bulwark
of the independence of France, and which has become the
cradle of her regeneration. Let order and liberty reign
within your walls, and may the Genius of France unite with
you in guarding your Alsatian ramparts! With a great
people great deeds are to bo accomplished. I have entire
faith in the people of France !"
(Signed)

" NAPOLEON."

pORTUGAL.
PORTUGUESE FINANCE.
DECREE.

Whereas the report of this date by the Secretaries of
State for all the departments is deserving of my high con-
sideration, •I think fit to decree as follows :
" Article 1. The sale of the 2.400 contos of national
property, which, by Article 2 of the Decree of the 31st
of October last, is directed to be made in the locality,
and within the competent period specified, independently
of the provision relating thereto contained in the Carta da
Lei of April 15, 1835, shall be effected in the manner
hereinafter prescribed.
" 2. The property situated in the districts of Coimbra,
Aveiro, Oporto, Barga, Vianna, Braganza, Villareal, and
Lamego, shall be sold by auction before the Administrator-
General of the district of the port, whatever may be
the value of the property, and that of the other dis-
tricts before the Provisional Commission of Junta of Public
Credit.
" § Sole. The sales of the national property existing
within the districts of Lisbon and Oporto shall be carried
into effect within the space of thirty days, and those of the
property situated in other districts within 50 days.
" 3. To facilitate the sales, combining also therewith
the interests of the public treasury, which depend upon the
increased competition of purchasers ; and to give a com-
mencement likewise to the measures announced in the de-
cree of the Ist of the present month for the total extinction
of the paper money, the price of the property sold shall be
paid in the following manner :
" 4. One half of the price of the sales, ordered in the
hereinbefore mentioned decree of October 31 to be paid
in ready money, may be liquidated in two equal
parts, one
in
specie, the other in bonds or Treasury bills falling due
within the year 1837 ; titulos of paper money, passed in
virtue of Art. 3, of the decree of the 23d of July, 1834 ;
or titulos receivable through direct channels in the Custom
House of the respective ports.
" 5. The half the payment of which is permitted in the
paper obligations enumerated in the preceding article shall
be made good in paper money at its nominal value.
" 6. The price of the property sold shall be realised in
the Junta of Public Credit. For this purpose the adminis-
trator of the district of the port shall forthwith dispatch
proper guides with the highest bidders for the property sold
in his presence, and transmit to the said Junta copies of
the terms of sale.
"7. The Provisional Commission of the Junta of Public

Credit shall, at the end of the month after the commence.
ment of the sales of the property to which the present de-
cree refers, cause to be published an account of the amount
in paper money thus paid in, with the description of the
persons to whom the delivery of the property is due ; and
shall proceed to burn the said paper with the greatest pub-
licity every three months. ,
"8. All provisions contrary to what is determined in the
present decree are abrogated. Let the Secretaries of State
of all the departments thus understand the said decree, and
cause the same to be executed.

THE QUEEN.
(Countersigned by all the Ministers.)
" Palace of the Ne cessidades, Dec.lo, 1836."
The following are extracts from the Ministerial report on
which the above decree :s founded :
The admission of the phper money at a discount of 20
per cent. in the operation for the consolidation offered in
the first decree of the 31st of Gctober last, in so far as the
same is substituted for the opera: ion intrusted to the Bank
of Lisbon by article 2 of the decree of July 23, 1834, was
not sufficient to satisfy the wishes and the engagements of
the Government.

" For this reason your Majesty's Ministers were of opi-
nion that the issues of titulos of paper money being sus-
pended by the decrees of the first of the present month, the
said paper money ought to be admitted, according to its no-
minal value, for one moiety of the price of the 2,400 contos
of national property ordered to be sold by the decree of the
31st of October last.
" The Government has calculated that those 2,400 con-
tos will be absolutely required to assist in defraying various
urgent expenses ; but, on the one hand, the hopes which
the Ministers cherished of a speedy improvement in the
state of the country—and on the other, their desire to ho-
nour duly all the engagements of the Government, and to
protect public and private interests, have induced them to
appropriate one half of the said amount to the extinction of
.the paper money."

Reis.
The paper money issued amounts to 11,356,589,800
Extinguished to Dec. 9, 1836

Remains 3;114,994,800

But, allowing for losses by various accidents, it
•
may be calculated that the value of"..tbe exist-
\ •
„ing paper, is 2,800,000,000

Nova; should the sales of the 2,400 caatos of
national property not exceed the valuation,
the piper extinguished will amount
Which, deducted from 2,800,000,000

Will loam _

1,600,000,000
. .

Part of the above sum may be extinguished by. other
measures of the Government, and the amount is little more
or less than •Jvhat is thought necessary for the transactions
which may take place to the end of the year 1837.