The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-22 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]

Advices dated the 16th of February were re-
ceived on Saturday from Rio de Janeiro. It was
known by the previous accounts that the Portu-
guese troops, after a fruitless attempt to excite an
insurrection in the capital when the Prince's in-
tention to remain in Brazil was declared, had
been placed in quarters at Praya Grande, pre-
vious to their embarkation for Euiope. Though
awed at that time into submission, they had sub-
sequently assumed a bolder tone, and declared
their intention not to be shipped, except by force,
on board of the transports prepared for them.—
A contest was therefore expected by the inha-
bitants, and consternation reigned in the city.
The crisis was averted only by the energy and
presence of mind of the Prince Royal. He re-
paired in person on board one of the frigates in
the bay, which he ordered to be made ready for
action ; the gun-boats were also manned, and re-
ceived similar orders. The native Brazilian troops,
under the command of Gun. Corrade, were in-
structed to surround the troops at Praya Grande
on the land side, and all the inhabitants were corn-
pelled to quit that district. The Prince then sent
for the Officers of the Portuguese troops onboard
his frigate, and explaining to them their situation,
urged an immediate embarkation. A demand
was made in behalf of the troops of three months
arrears of pay, and a promise was given by the
Prince that one month should be paid im-
mediately, and the remainder when on board
the transports. This was refused, as some
letters state, in a manner personally insulting
to the Prince, and the officers returned to
Praya Grande. The Prince passed the night
on the water, animating the men, and arrang-
ing the mode of attack in the morning by
the gun-boats. He had intimated his inten-
tion, it is said, of himself firing the first gun.
This occurred on the evening of the 9th February.
On the 10th, in the morning, the Portuguese
troops were seen striking their tents, and continued
during the day to embark their baggage. A
Messenger was sent off to the Prince stating their
submission, and on the following day the greater
part of them were on board the transports. This
event removed the agitation which previously
reigned in the city ; business was renewed, and
assumed a more favourable appearance. One cir-
cumstance alone damped the general satisfaction.
In the commencement of the alarm, the Princess
Royal and her family had been conveyed to
Santa Cruz. The infant Prince, owing to the
exposure to the heat, by travelling in an open

carriage, was attacked by a disorder which
proved fatal. The Portuguese troops sailed for
Lisbon on the 16th, under convoy of two frigates.

NEW TIMES.] •
The Morning Chronicle has, with singular con-
fidence, undertaken to prove that there is nothing
political in the attempt to set up Mr. Denman
against Mr. Boßand, as a Candidate for the office
of Common-Serjeant ! Nothing political ! Of
course, then, Mr. Denman will not be supported
by Mr. Galloway, the Ex-Secretary of the Lon:
don Corresponding Society; nor by Mr. Alder-
man Waithman, the volunteer Counsel during the
first half of the Inquest on the rioter that was
shot; nor by Mr. Favell, nor by one and all of
the friends of Radical Reform. Nothing poli-
tical ! The assertion evinces, on the part of
the Editor, a tolerable contempt for the intel-
lects of his readers ; but the argument to prove
that assertion is truly entertaining. Because the
freedom of the City was voted to Mr. Denman for
his services to the Queen, therefore the rewarding
him further for those services, by the office of
Common Serjeant, cannot originate in political
motives ! ! ! Now we happen to entertain the opi-
nion, that Mr. Denman's " services to the Queen"
were mixed up with political matter of the most se-
rious import. It may (in the opinion of The Morn-
ing Chronicle) be very " malignant" in us to re-
member that Mr. Denman on that occasion com-
pared his Sovereign and ours to Nero ; but we
presume it will be allowed that that malignity
(if malignity it be) is purely political. We
assuredly have no reason to entertain toward
Mr. Denman personally any other sentiments
than those of entire respect and good will ; it is
upon political grounds alone that we censure
a comparison utterly unfounded in fact, highly
criminal in law, and totally at variance with the
spirit of the Constitution.—The Constitution, ac-
cording to the opinion of every author of the least
weight who has ever written upon it, demands
for the King the most unqualified personal respect
and honour. Extreme cases may be supposed,
in which it would be justifiable to call the King
Nero; but these are only the cases which would
justify a Revolution. If we had the misery to
live under the base and bloody tyranny of a
Nero, we should be justified, by the example of
our ancestors in 1688, in effecting as they did
a formal Revolution in the executive part
of the Government, to preserve the true spirit
and substance of the Government, in all its
branches. But this is a case out of the pale of
the Constitution ; and, therefore, in pleading be-
fore the highest constitutional tribunal, Mr.
Denman showed as great a disregard to consti-
tutional principle, as he did to the feelings of
every loyal subject, in giving utterance to his
unfounded and odious comparison.

[MORNING- POST.]
The aspect of affairs in France, we regret to
observe, is of the most unpleasant and discou-
raging description. Besides accounts of conspi-
racies in various provinces; the Duke de Fitz-
james, a Nobleman of distinguished loyalty and
honour, has published a very alarming letter, ad-
dressed to the inhabitants of the extensive de-
partment of the Oise, who, by their misfortunes
(the Noble Duke observes), are plunged into
all the horrors of despair. " Not a night
passes (says his Grace) in which there is not
some fresh conflagration—whole villages even
have become a prey to the flames. What adds
to the general terror is, that up to this moment
the invisible agents of this system have hitherto
eluded all discovery—not only by the officers of
justice, but by the most active research of the
whole population of the department, who are so
greatly interested in securing these miscreants. The
machinations of the enemies of Government are,
however, now laid open ; and it can be no longer
doubted that the object of the incendiaries is to
drive these unhappy victims to despair, thereby
to inflame the public mind against the King and
Government. The grossest calumnies are pro-
pagated against the Priesthood and the Nobility,
with redoubled activity. From those classes, say
these calumniators, the purchasers of National
domains have to expect only the bitterest ven-
geance. Even the most illustrious names are not
respected, and the most atrocious absurdities are
resorted to in order to excite the passions of the
people against the King and. Government."--
From the honourable character of the Noble
Duke, it is impossible to doubt the melancholy
facts thus forcibly narrated by him. What, then,
may be inferred as to the actual state of France ?
Commotions in the capital, which, although sup-
pressed, are ready to burst forth on the first fa-
vourable opportunity ;—insurrection in a province
most abounding with the partizans of Ultra
Royalism, of which the leaders are still at large,
notwithstanding all the exertions made to se-
cure their persons; and, finally, a department in
which the property and habitations of the people
are nightly subjected to conflagration by incen-
diaries, of whom (such is the mySterious secresy
observed) not a single individual has been yet
discovered ! Such is the unpleasant picture
which the present state of France unhappily
presents to our view.—The military officers
recently arrested at Strasburgh had been sent
off to Paris under an escort of gendarmes. One
of them, named Trole, is said to have avowed him-
self a Carbonaro. The ad vices from Madrid are
to the 7th inst. The preceding day, the Minister
of Grace and Justice addressed the Cortes on
the necessity of a radical reform in the Spanish
Magistracy, and a Committee was appointed to
draw up a plan of reform. Don Mariana Villa
had been appointed Political Chief of Valencia.
The other accounts from Spain are confused, con-
tradictory, and above all totally unimportant.

COMBINATION AMONGST THE COTTON KNIT-
TERS AT NOTTINGHAM.—We have hitherto abstained from
noticing the turn out amongst the frame-work knitters in the
cotton hose branch, in the hope that the matter would be ami-
cably arranged between the masters and their workmen. In
this, however, our expectations have been disappointed, and
we regret to find that the conduct of some of the workmen, in
several of the manufacturing villages in this county, has as-
sumed a character which threatens the peace of society, and
oftas in consequence become necessary to enforce the provisions
the Watch and Yard Act,--( Nottingham Journal.)

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 20.

CARLTON rIOUSE, APRIL 19, 182 g•

This day his Excellency the Viscount de Chateaubriand,
Ambassador from his Most Christian Majesty, had his first pri.
vate audience to deliver his credentials to his Majesty; and
the Count de Ludolf, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ple-
nipotentiary from the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies,
,had an audience of his Majesty to deliver a letter from his So-
vereign ; to which they were introduced by the Marquis of
Londonderry, his 'Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knight,
Master of the Ceremonies.

CARLTONHOUSE, APRIL 190822.

The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood on Robert Henry Blosset, Esq. Seijeant at Law,
on his appointment to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Judicature in Bengal.
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight-
hood on Charles Ker, Esq. of Gateshaw, in. Roxboroughshire,
a Deputy Lieutenant of that County, M.D. late a Member of
the Army Medical Board.
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood on Willingham Franklin, Esq. on his appointment
to be one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature at
Madras.

[This Gazette contains the Ceremonial of the Investiture of
Lieut.-General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, Major-General Sir
Hudson Lowe, and Major-General Sir John Cameron, with
the ensigns of a Knight Commander of the Military Order of
the Bath.]