The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-24 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH IN FRANCE

(From the Considutionnei—M. Thiers's Paper.)
An English journal asserts that the English who re-
sib amongst are exposed to serious attacks, and even
mentions an insult addressed to an English physician
who resides in Paris. This statement is certainly un-
founded ; nothing of the kind has come to our know-
ledge, and ai to the general disposition of the country
towsrda the citizens of Great Britain, we do not hesi-
tate to declare to the Morning Post, that it is in a
complete error. Nobndy in France, even among the
least enlightened classes, renders Eaelishmen individu-
ally responsible for the fault of their Government ;
al.obody has had the-plea of violating towards them the
sights of hospitality, and making them the objects of
cowardly insult. This would neither be consistent
with French manners, nor with the tendencies of an
- age which is eminently mild and polished. In other
time s when popular passions were unchained, there
rsvcre, indeed, offensive manifestations before the hotel
ei an Ambassador, but even in the midst of this
e(Tervcscence individuals were always respected. The
scenes of l:31 can never be reproduced, and it would
be madness to suppose that what was done then would
be clone now. There are in Paris a good number of
Inglish who can bear witness to the sentiments of the
French nation. They know that our country is resolved
to suffer nothirg injurious to its dignity, but they eon,
prebend that our complaints against the British Go-
vernment do not affect them ; and -that even if the
policy of Lord Palmerston were to light up war be.
Atvveen the two countries, the relations which twenty-
ve years of peace have established between them and
ras would cot permit a revival of the old hatred of
people' to people, as in the. time of Pitt. Whatever
may happen, there is one thing which
England,
y can sup-
press ; the people of France and pl iced
together at rise head of European civilization, have con-
:r.ei“::l for each other a mutual and perman nt estre- ree,
Thus the desire to see peace maintained is unanimous
is both countries, but the positions are so different, that
in ord,r to obtain this end. the enlightened men of
Great Britain disavow and condemn the policy which
led to the treaty of the 15th July, whilst in France
every body supports the policy which adopts precautions
against the menaces of this treaty."

POPULARITY OF WAR IN FRANCE.
(From the Constitutionnel.)
We stated yesterday that the most enlightened and
distinguished portion of Legit:mists considered in a na-
tional point of view the present circumstances, and
strongly condemned anything that might give semblance to
party manoeuvres. Our words receive a solemn con-
firmation by the following letters which the Duke de
Doudeauville has seat us. These letters add further I

to the high esteem which the whole of France has
felt for the Noble Duke :

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.

" Montmirail, Aug. 20, 1840.
" I say, and I can prove it, Sir, that there is no
longer party feeling when the safety of the country is
compromised, and all good Frenchmen must agree on
that point. I hope, then, that you will not refuse to
insert the annexed letter in your journal, and I shall
feel obliged for the same.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
" Duke de DOUDEAUVILLE."

" Montmirail, Aug. 20, 1840.
" SlR,—Wishing always to stand well with my coun-
trymen, who evince so much good-will for me, I ven-
ture, under circumstances of such difficulty, to give
utterance to my profession of faith. It will prove that
party is no longer in question in France when honour
and the. country are compromised, as my son impressed
,t upon me, and who knows me as well as he loves me.
It is, I hope, a means to prevent war, by proving to the
wise Sovereigns that it would not be so easy for them
Is, perhaps, they imagine. Besides, being ill, it is a
ort of political last will and testament. I have been a
Royalist from the time I have been in existence, and I
;hall be so until my death, but I have always been a
;ood and loyal Frenchman.

" In 179 i I left the Austrians and the Prussians as I
saw that they wished to insadc my country, instead of
rendering it succour, as they had stated they would do
n the first instance.

" During Napoleon's reign I was a greater enthusiast
than any other of his votaries.
" Having, as is wont to be said, no other ambition
`)ut that of the public good, I only accepted the place
of Member of the General Council of nay department,
,vhich I have occupied since that period.
" In 1827 I gave at the moment my resignation of
!he most envied place for the purpose of preventing a
lissolutbn, as unjust as unfounded, of the National
Guards of Paris.
" In 1828 or 1829 I advised Charles X. to name a
more prudent Ministry, at the head of which would
have been Cassinnir Perier.

" Four or five years ago, in the only letter which I
wrote to that good King, in order to make him know
the truth, I said, 'Sire, lam ignorant of the views ry
Providence on your august grandson ; he can neither
reign by aid of foreigners nor by conspiracies, but by
public opinion alone.' It may be guessed whether I
think in the same way.
" These sentiments, divested of intrigue, and I hope
truly French, are those of a great number of my fellow-
creatures, especially of those who are around me.

" To show them otherwise than by phrases, I offer,
notwithstanding the heavy expenses of four generations,
ten thousand francs for a general war, if unfortunately
t takes place between this and a year hence. At a
later period, in all probability, I shall have ceased to live.
" I flatter myself with being sufficiently known that
there be no misunderstanding as to the intentions of an
old Royalist, who is always the friend of his country.
" I pray most ardently for peace, as it is as desirable
for France as for Europe, for who can foresee the terri-,
ble commotion the first spark would produce ?
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your vety humble and
very obedient servant,
" Duke de DOUDEAUVIL LE."

(From the German Papers.)
The Journal de Francfort, a paper generally con-
sidered to be an organ of the Russian Cabinet, contains
the subjoined article, which is not without importance
it the present moment :

When the French Ministry was asked by the jour-
nals if such and such a proposition had not been made
by Austria, M. Thiers replied in the illessager that
such and such a proposition bad not been made ; but he
did not say that no proposition had been made to him ; he
did not reply that nothing had been proposed to him.
Yes, something was proposed, and his evasive denials
ire an implicit avowal which cannot be misunderstocd.
At present, for the purpose of preventing the anger of
the country, he himself affects great anger against
the other Powers ; he pretends to have been de-
ceived, and talks of opposing the execution of the
treaty, and revolutionising Europe. These menaces
are not more serious than the degenerations which pre-
ceded them were sincere. They show simply to the
Powers the concealed regret that is felt at having been
kept by the inopportune display of a surly pride out
of negotiations which were carried on by the other
Powers when France had refused to take part in them.
What was the origin of this momentary difference be-
tween France and the other Powers of Europe ? It
is doubtlessly the same as the origin of the difference
which exists between the chief of the French Cabinet
and his Sovereign on the present question. Louis
Philippe, although he owes his position to a revolution, ,
is necessarily Conservative. His Minister, the child of
the revolution, has remained revolutionary, although his
present position prescribed to him other principles,
in order that he might act in harmony with the rest of
Europe. The Foreign Powers could not approve of
all his Parliamentary speeches, nor of all the acts of
his Government, some of which were evidently tinc-
tured with a revolutionary spirit ; his irascible temper
resolved upon reprisals, and the Powers, finding him
ill-disposed, were compelled to undertake the pacifica-
tion of the East without him. But is the evil with.
out remedy? No. Upon the parchment on which
are inscribed the resolutions of the Conference, there
is still room for the adhesion, or even the observations
of France, before the definitive ratification of the '
treaty shall have rendered its execution imperative. It
i 3 possible, therefore, that M. de St. Aulaire and M.
Guizot, taking counsel of their own good sense, the
wise instructions of their Sovereign, and the critical
position of their country, may make, one to the Ca-
binet of London, the other to the Cabinet of V:ecna,
advances which may retard the ratification of the
treaty, and open the way to fresh negotiations ; this
point once gained, it cannot be doubted that the French
Cabinet, still more interested than the other Powers in
avoiding a conflict, will enter at least partially into the
views of those Powers.

The Nureinburg Correspondent observes that the ru-
n-tour of the Emperor Nicholas intending to make a
journey in the autumn into Southern Russia, accom-
panied by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Marshal
Paskewitch, is unfounded. "It may be taken," adds
this journal, as a proof of Russia meditating no at-
tempt on Constantinople, that Austria does not think
it necessary to make any extraordinary armaments.
The treaty of the Four Powers is a stumbling-block,
although it is not yet ratified but the mission of M. de St
Aulaire proves that France wishes to ward off its effect,
not only by means of enrolments and fittings-out of
vessels, but also by negotiations. In any case, if the
treaty is ratified, it will not contain any article of a
rature to determine France to go to war with the other
Powers."

INSURRECTION AT LISBON.

SUSPENSION OF THE LIBERTY OF THE
PRESS, OF THE LA WS PROTECTING PER.
SONAL LIBERTY, &c.
" LISBON, AuG. 17, FOUR P.M.—The tenour of my
last communication of the 10th inst. would, doubtless,
from the elements of popular disaffection then manifest,
hive prepared you soon to hear of a political move-
ment to overthrow the Ministry, and the Ministerial
measure that would be adopted, then in embryo, in
the event of its failure. This attempt was made on the
night of Tuesdcy last, but in the course of four hours
was, by the fidelity- and discipline of the troops, totally
suppressed, without bloodshed, or even a contusion.
" The Habeas Corpus and the liberty of the press,
excepting literary periodicals, the Diario dos Cortes,and
official gazette the Diario do Govern°, have been sus-
pended for the space of one month, and the im:ividuals
implicated arc to be tried by a Special Commission to
be composed of six members, of an equal number of
Magistrates and military officers, the President to be a
General, with a vote. The process to be observed as
in Courts Martial, with an appeal, however, in case of
condemnation to the Supreme Military Council of
Justice.
" The emeule commenced at 10 o'clock at night, by
small groups of people congregating in the Estrella-
square, who were soon after joined by 40 privates and
three serjeants of the Municipal Guard stationed in the
Travessa dos Ladroes close at hand, headed by Major
Cabral, of Cat:adores (who, on the plea of ill health, last
week refused to go to Peniche) and ex-commander of
the navy. Franca (who made himself so conspicuous
while inspector of the Royal dock-yard), and Colonel
of the arsenal battalion, raising a cry of ' Ira a Rainha,'
Viva a Constitucao de 1838,' and Down with the
Ministry.' Their first endeavour was to seduce a cor-
pnral's guard of the 10th Infantry on duty there, who
resisted. The next was the captain's guard of the
17th Regiment at the Palace of Cortez, where, meet-
ing with a similar disappointment, they marched on to
a branch municipal station in the Calcade Paulistas,
where they were more successful, being joined by
al:out forty of that corps, who compelled their Cap-
tain, Batalha, to go along with tbem. They then
proceeded to the military arsenal, meagrely engrossing
their numbers, and repeating the vivas 'as they went ;
on their arrival there they mustered about three hundred,
principallyi of the Municipal Guard, Provisional bat-
talions,
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Na-
tionalreae
Jose Pedro Nunes, ex° blici einpylo'ye? and an 'ex-
Captain of Cacado're'., OzPu,ofw io, surpriis.ing the sen-
tinel, broke open the- gates that
andestab.ishnent, and
were helping themselves to arms
stani?demgwpmhuoenni ammunition, ooenrf
e,
onnoopposition being offered by the first
Ar-
tillery, whose quarters are closeer bhye'r,
the revolterst calculated
guard on the spot that night,
upon its aid and support, which, during interval of the
arrival of the 30th battalion of Cacado*res whri
came down at the order of General Costa (who resides
in that neigbourhood, and on hearing the noise sents fores
it), it is said wavered, and had this battalion been
undecided, the affair might have taken a verydif.
I,?rt.nt turn ; a panic immediately ensued, when the ring.
leaders were the first to cry out'' Salve-se queni podcr"(save
Limself who can), and fled ; these I am informed have taken

refuge on board the French corvette, Laßlonde, at anchor
in the river. Their escape was rendered easy from the
circumstances of this arsenal being contiguous to the
water's edge. Forty, principally sans culottes, barbers,
tailors, and cobblers, were made prisoners ; the re-
mainder managed to make off ; a very few have since
been apprehended. It is reported that Major Cabral
and Captain Roza subsequently fell into the hands of a
Cacadore regiment to which they had formerly be-
longed, when a sympathetic feeling evincing it-
self, they in the confusion contrived to get away.
By the time the remainder of the garrison of the capi-
tal, with the President of the Council and Minister at
War, the Count de Bomfin in their front, reached there
at two o'clock in the morning, the riot was quelled.
At five o'clock they all assembled in the Rocio square,
where the Secretaries of State appeared on horseback,
and shortly afterwards the troops filed off to their re-
spective barracks, and their Excellencies to the War-
office, where they sat in deliberation until 11 o'clock,
and thence came down to the House with a Bill for the sus-
pension of the habeas corpus, liberty of the press, and to
try the delinquents by a special commission, which was
referred to a committee, and the Session declared per-
manent until the report should be brought up. Mean-
while the debates were very vehement ; the Septembrist
partisans denouncing it as a borracheirada, a bacchana-
lian affray. At half-past ten o'clock at night the re-
port having been brought up, and a majority of seventy-
one appearing in its favour, the House separated. On
the following morning it was sent up to the Senate,
where, after similar combating, it was carried by a
majority of thirty-eight ; on Friday received the Royal
Assent ; passed into a law on Saturday, and published
in the Diario do Govern°.
" The thanks of both Chambers have been voted to
the troops for their determination and fidelity on the
occasion, with one dissentient voice only in the Depu-
ties, of M. Mendez Leite (a Septembrist), who, being of
opinion that they had done nothing more than their
duty, they were not entitled to any praise.
"It does not seem that the revolters, who reckoned
upon being united by some regiments during their
transit, were guilty of any mischief other than seizing
upon the persons of Lieutenant Colonel Don Antonio
de Mello of the 2d, or Queen's Lancers, who, not being
aware of the emeuie, was on his way to his residence, in
a close chaise, and sent him to the guard-house of the
revolted Municipal Guard, from whence he managed to
escape and get safely off to his regiment, and the deputy
M. Gomez de Castro, late of the Treasury, who was
penned up for a short time : they also took away the
horse on which the officer of the night, the Major of the
17th regiment, was going on his rounds. M. Rio
Tinto, the proprietor of the Nacional journal, on a re-
turn from a visit, was stopped in a chaise, near the mili-
tary arsenal, but on being known was permitted to de-
part. He has, however, taken fright, and has concealed
himself.

" The Titulos, and all other Government securities,
have remained firm.

" DECREE.

" Donna Maria, by the grace of God and the con-
stitution of the monarchy, Queen of Portugal and the
• Algarves, &c.—We make known to ail our subjects
that the General Cortes have decreed, and we sanction
the following law :
" Art. 1. That the guarantees of the liberty of the
Press, the inviolability of the house of the citizen, the
prohibition of arrest without proved charges and judg-
ments preferred by the ordinary tribunals, and the ante-
rior laws expressed in the articles 13, 16, 17, and 18,
of the Constitution of the monarchy, be suspended
throughout the kingdom for the space of one month
from the publication of the present law.
" Art. 2. That those implicated in the rebellion of
the night of the 1 Ith to the 12th of the current month
in the city of Lisbon, and those who for the future may
commit crimes of a similar nature in any part of the
kingdom, be judged by a special tribunal.
" Sec. 1. This tribunal to be composed of six mem-
bers, of which there shall be one Captain, one Major,
and one Lieutenant-Colonel or Colonel of the army, and
the other three Magistrates of the district where the
crime may be committed.
" The President, with a vote, to be a general officer.
Besides these effective members there shall be an extra
number of each of these classes, as may be found ne-
cessary.

" ' Sec. 2. That all the Members of the tribunal,
effective as well as provisional, be forthwith nominated
by the Government.

_
" ' Sec. 3. The process to be as in courts martial.
" ' Sec. 4. From the sentences passed in this Tribu-
nal there shall be an appeal to the Supreme Military
Council of Justice.

" Art. 3. That the publication of all periodical
papers be prohibited for the space of one month.
" Literary periodicals—the Diario dos Cortes, and
the Diario do Govern() are excepted.
Art. 4. The Government to render an account to
the Cortes, by documentary report of the use they have
made of the powers invested in them by this law, as
soon as the time marked in the first article of the pre-
sent law be completed.
". Art. 5. That all laws to the contrary be suspend-
ed. We order, therefore, all the authorities to whom
the knowledge of this referred-to law belongs, that they
comply with and keep, and caused to be complied with
and kept, all and everything therein contained. The
Ministers and Secretaries of State of each department
will cause the same to be printed, published, and dis-
tributed.'

" Done in the palace of Cintra, this 14th day o,
August, 1840.

"The QUEEN.
" Conde de BOMFIN.

"RODRIGO da FONCECA MAGALHAES.
"ANTONIO BERNARDO da COSTA CABRAL.
" FLORIDO RODRIGUES PEREIRO FERRAZ."

(From the Dialio do Governo of Friday, Aug. 14.)
" FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,
HEAD-QUARTERS, RUA DE SAN BENTO,
AUGUST 16,1840.
" ORDER or DIVISION.
" His Excellency Lieutenant-General Visconde de
Villa Nova de Gaia (General Sir Thomas William
Stubbs), Commandant, ad interim, of the First Mili-
tary District, commands, for the information of the
corps of this garrison, and those more immediately
under his command, the following order relative to the
occurrences which took place on the night of the 11th
inst., to be published :

SPECIAL ORDER.
" Officers, Subalterns, and Soldiers of the Garrison
of Lisbon. Comrades—lamenting that the delirium of
factious men in perpetrating the most criminal attempt
to introduce anarchy in the capital, should have taken
place by the movement of the night of the 1 lth inst.,
I cannot but manifest to you my full satisfaction for the
brave, faithful, and truly military manner in which the
whole of the garrison behaved under these important cir-
cumstances ; already has Lisbon owed to your efforts and
discipline its safety. More than once has the glory of
rooting out anarchy been assigned to you ; but your con-
duct, so firm, decided and brave, as well subordinate on
that night, undeceiving the agitators who attempted to
seduce you, will finally destroy criminal factions ; show-
ing that infallible in your fidelity, and identified with
the laws of military discipline, you will be at all times,
and under all circumstances, as ready to fly to arms in
the defence of your country, as well as for the mainte-
nance of order, being the supporters of the Queen, the
constitution, the tranquillity and the safety of unarmed
citizens.
" ' Commanders of Corps,—l congratulate myself
with you for the state of discipline and subordination of
the corps under your command, to whose officers, subal-
terns, and soldiers you will transmit in my name the
praise they merit.
" VISCOUNT DE VILLA NOVA DA GAIA.
" Head-quarters, Rua de San Bento, Aug. 13.'

(Supplement to the Diario do Govern°, No. 190 )

LISBON, AL'G. It.
" The capital was yesterday the theatre of a great
attempt. About ten o'clock at night a few seditious
persons, who had succeeded in deluding and taking
with them some soldiers of the Municipal Guard be-
longing to the company at the Travessa dos Ladroes,
broke out in anarchial exclamations and vociferations
against the Government ; and after having performed
several acts of excess and violence, which they
repeated in their transit thence to the army ar-
senal, where, surprising the guard, they broke open the
doors, and took some arms and accoutrements. The
troops of the line, who sallied forth from different parts,
surrounded on all sides the revolters, who had, instead
of sympathy, met with general indignation. They were
in a short time disarmed and dispersed, 30 remaining
prisoners, who seemed to have taken a most active part
in this seditious movement, the perturbators not exceed-
ing 300 in number. All the troops of the garrison,
from the Commander to the lowest soldier, manifested
the most noble sentiments of love and respect to the
Queen, and to the fundamental laws of the State. The
inhabitants of the capital and the nation in general owe
to this brave garrison the most eminent services for
having delivered them by their firmness and their
discipline from the scenes of horror by which an-
archy is always accompanied. No individual who
has any pretensions to consideration was seen among
the revolters ; notwithstanding, there is no doubt
these insensate people were, in general, the miser-
able instruments of perverse instigation. When will
all classes of people be undeceived, and be aware
that they are the victims of revolution and disorder,
which arc only the vain speculation of few to the sacri-
fice of many ? Before three o'clock in the morning all
wasquiet,mpiet and the capital in perfect tran-
quillity.it is not only in Portugal that public
spirit resists the attempts of revolutionary pretensions.
co
Happily,ely
In Spain, where the occurrences of Barcelona seemed
so much to favour the spirit of turbulence and subver-
sion, peace has been established. By the post of to-
day, with news from Barcelona up to the 3d instant,
and from Madrid up to the 7th, we learn, that neither
in one city nor the other anything notable bad taken
place to disturb public order.
" Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses were at
Barcelona in the enjoyment of good health, awaiting