The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-19 00:00:00

bIIGU'ELITE INSURRECTION.

(From the Tinvs.)
wi gentleman, jtv.t ,:::red from Oporto, has favoured us
th a copy of the following proclamation, issued on the
1014 inst. :

PRO LEGS ST GHEGE.
IN THE N...t.mis H. M. F. M. DON MIGUEL I.
PROCLAMATION

" Iby the General-in-Chief and Military Director, Re-
ginald ]Mcdonnell, to the soldiers, Royalists, and pa:riots
of Portugal.
Soldiers and Royalists,—Wat with Charter and Constitu-
,o, Portugal has become the prey of faction and the sport
of anarchy ; it is, th-..refore, you who must rise and take the
.lead in rescuing your country from the state of degradation
in which it lies. The crisis has arrived, and the remem-
brance of past events ought to spur you on to exertion; for
in the war which you have lately waged with invasion and
revolution, you were not vanquished, you were betrayed. Your fleet was captured in a simulated combat; your
capital was occupied without even the form of defence;
our army was subdivided and rendered ineffective
detail ; and, when finally assembled, it was decoyed to
Evora, and there cajoled into a needless and base capitula-
tion. Such were the combined effects of domestic intrigue
and foreign chicanery, aided and abetted by the perfidy of
those councillors who surrounded the throne, and to whom,
by a dire fatality, your destinies were confided. Your
invading adversaries, conscious of their own weakness,
were astonished at their own success : they instinctively
anew that they owed no such advantage to any virtue in
themselves, yet they cunningly made the most of the occa-
sion, and strove to impose on Europe the belief that all
Was due to their proper wisdom and heroism. The foreign
press teemed with the productions of their pen, professing,
in title, to be histories of the war, productions of invidious
and sinister character, in which facts were garbled, distorted,
and suppressed, in order that you might have censure and
they -might have praise; but this wretched ambition was
not all, for in public, if success made them vain—in secret
their fears made them cruel; and while abroad they were ac-
tive with the pen, at home they were active with the painard.
The Convention of Evora had scarcely been concluded when
a plot was formed for its violation though the Royalist
armed force bad been dissolved, the Royalist party was still
undiminished in its numbers, and still unchanged in its sen-
timents, it formed the vast majority of the Portuguese
nation. As it could not, therefore, be destroyed in body,
recourse was had to assassination to destroy it in spirit ;
every Royalist of any leading, and who bore a good name,
was doomed to be a victim. A system of murder then com-
menced, and rapine and sacrilege were its concomitants.
Men who had laid down their arms, returned to their homes,
and founded their hope of security on the faith and
. solemnity of public treaty, were persecuted and attacked.
Some were arrested, and dispatched in prison—some were
slain in the street—and others were butchered at their own
homes, in the midst of their horror- stricken families.
There was not a sanctuary which the dirk of the assassin
did not invade and pollute with crime. The Convention of
Evora was disregarded as if it never had been. This
demoniacal policy did not, in strictness, appertain either to
Chartists or to Septembrists; each of these parties, if
taken as a body, was certainly free of the crime, and ought
to be in justice free of the blame. It was not the
Polley of parties, but the policy of Ministries that led to the
11,ritY—Ministries chiefly composed of unprincipled men,
loacii,vrith official knavery scrupled not to betray both friend
eu„,ta; men who, in fine, were by greed of power, rendered
"(13 to shame • who sacrificed justice, humanity, and de-
el3ttrt t • •
then 0 gratify their selfish propensities. What they were
for tilesuela they are now, and such would continue to be—
spurious character is for ever the same. No other
),.C°Urse of policy is, indeed, to be expected from a raw and
troltitionary Government, that must needs be a mockery to
eyes of the nation, and thus kept alive to its own in-
--cleney for there is no authority so unjust and cruel as
that which is haunted by the fear of contempt.
Soldiers and Royalists, your fate has been hard ! fortune
hag been cruelly severe, and public opinion has done you
on
gi You sacrificed your wealth to maintain the altar
and the throne in their Divine and legitimate purity, and
Yet you have been denied the principle of patriotism. You
ventured your lives in the active discharge of what you
dtleined to be a duty, and yet you have bean described as
avoid of moral virtue! you fought better than your adver-
tries, and that too under every disadvantage, and yet you
Z,a_ve been decried and stigmatised as cowards! I make
"se assertions boldly, for I speak of facts which I know,
find of conduct which I witnessed. A knowledge of these
risPlitable facts has enabled me to advocate your cause
brroughout Europe, in despite of opposition, and the remem-
mice of your good and noble conduct impels me now to
'ate the field, and fills me with pride while I thus address
Y°l4 for I know you will learn with delight that the war of
restoration is declared.
t 130 u Miguel I. has this day been proclaimed King of Per-
.ligal and the Algarves with their dependencies; based on
the national restoration of the Cortes of Lame o, and the
fundamental laws of the monarchy.
oYour ancient and legitimate standard now waves in
.ten hostility to both charter and constitution, and
eir Vacillating governments. It is the symbol of
Your faith, of your laws, of your King, and of your
63111) trY• It is the signal for you to arm, to truster
;nu to march and to rally around it, that you may recover
the
rights and redress your wrongs. Many of the best and
iilierbravest of the Royalists are already with me in the field.
t° Plan is formed and our system is established. Our sys-
VII is conciliatory, and it therefore is national. We recog-
fiet none as enemies, save those whom we encounter in the
am-- Yr e make no distinction of party; men of all parties
ju,tainnogst us, and every appointment shall be founded in
e• Promotion shall be strictly confined to the operating
in-14134 valour and obedience shall be the sole recom-
micritions candour, make this declaration in the fulness of honesty
Ili_ ~ for my will is good and my power is ample.
goaln._eeds of every brave man shall be rewarded. The ser-
their' corporals, and soldiers shall daily and duly receive
las rations and their pay, so long as the campaign shall
ar4 and While they remain under my immediate command.
to see aril empowered to promise, and this I pledge myself
gliaimetert:ortned, 'and you are all of you sufficiently ac-
With the With my character to know that I never break faith
Beitu troop,
the co en,„ lad Royalists, in December, 1833, when I quitted
evil CO,
at Santarem I foresaw and foretold all the
the - len in the sequel b'efel you, but as I had not then
int
a
Power to do you any good, I retired with my character
the ct, and made my resignation serve as a protest against all
se proceedings which did you any harm. It is, therefore,
I repeat, that in the war which you then waged with inva-
-81011 and revolution, you were not vanquished ; you were be-
trayed. It is now time to regain, by your own loyalty and
bravery, what you lost by the treachery and imbecility of
others. You have only to do, after a 1 ipse of nine years, what
your forefathers did after a apse of sixty—when they spurned
a foreign yoke, deposed a foreign Bing, and placed upon the
throne the native and legitimate Braganza.
Arm, then, and hasten to the standard of your ancestors, by
that standard which first was unfurled against the Moors by
the founder of your monarchy; that standard which first
guided the way, as a volant beacon, to oriental navigation ;
that standard which so lately, in Portugal, in Spain, and in
Prance so frequently triumphed over the hosts of Napoleon.
But you are not called upon to rally around it in force on
account of the dangers to be braved, and the obstacles to be
einvionnted ; for to vanquish a weak and spurious Govern-
ment, continually haunted by fear, but little force will be
squired. You are called upon to prove, by your readiness
1"° arm, that the state of political feeling in Portugal has been
saY misrepresented. You are also called upon to prove,
Your energy in the field, that the character of the Portu-
eel% Royalists has been foully calumniated ; and, finally,
„," Coa called upon to join in the enterprise, that numbers
ir7 give to it the grandeur of nationality; and, above all,
at as
sm.pecess. many as possible may share in the glory of its
14-trtuguese—lt is not to my voice alone that you now
You listen also to the voice of your dethroned sove-
-1*", Who speaks to you from his exile.
The General-iia• Chief and Military Director,
14 REGINALD MACDONNELL.
live the King Don Miguel L

tsgooshove been apprised of the fact of a number of
mote 'ng having lately started in the suburbs, the pro-
till.B Of Which profess to afford servants and others moving
batik: subordinate ranks of society all the security of savings'
lish '9 with a much larger rate of interest than these estab•
fin,!ents pay. In one or two cases it is stated that as much
cha ve per cent. is allowed for moneys paid in, and all the
d 1511,;e,ter ef savings' bank business being assumed. the party
tie"hg is permitted by the managers to withdraw, at any
the 9 sums from 1/.larer demand is made upon
establishment, proper notice mgt be given ; and should
itetend to a greater amount than 251., three months is fixed
tf the date of repayment. It is not alone the high rate of in-
Q.est proffered on these deposits, which in ordinary money
.t!ansactions is not considered indicating a safe basis of business,
‘t has excited suspicion of the associations, but the stronger
fact, that in one particular instance several poor servant
girls w,`.`e had so disposed of their savings have experienced
considerable difficulty in getting them returned when they
have applied for them. The greatest caution ought to be
exercised on the part of persons who with commendable pru-
dence seek means of increasing the surplus of their income
by laying it out at interest, in selecting a savings' bank
Which is really known to be under the management and su-
perintendence of trustees and others who have not so much
In view the desire of profit as the security and safety of the
earnings of the poorer classes of the community. Security,
with a lower rate of interest, like an investment in Consols,
will be found in the long run much more advantageous to
the depositor than the prospect of a high rate of interest
accompanied by the uncertainty of a return of principal.—

IRISH PRovisross —The importations of provisions
of various descriptions from the principal Irish ports into the
port of Liverpool during the past week, being from the 31st
of July to the Gth irritant exclusive, consisted of the follow-
ing articles, viz. :-6,743 firkins, 243 half firkins, 1,236 bas-
kets, casks, &s, and 84 boxes of butter; 628 sacks of flour;
61 racks, 330 quarters, 89 tons weight, and 1,220 barrels of
oats; 106 tons weight, 258 bags, and 154 other packages of
oatmeal ; 124 sacks and 24 tons weight of barley ; 55 sacks
of malt, 182 packages of bacon, 238 barrels of pork, 575
ackages of linens and cottons, 372 sacks of farina flour, 32
arrels of general provisions, 65 bags of malt, and numerous
Packages of beef, whiskey, seed, lard, hams, and various
other articles. In the same period the following is a com-
pendium of the principal and most noticeable arrivals of a
illar character, from the same quarter, at the port of Lon-
do°:-1,159 boxes of salmon, 1,377 boxes of eggs, 756 ham-
pers of hams, 3,526 packages of bacon, 917 packages of lard,
'8 °f malt, 848 casks of porter, 100 cheeses, 13,194 boxes
bar other packages of butter, 822 packages of pork, 2.237
els and 8,707 quarters of oats, and 124 pigs, in addition
,°637 bales of paper, and various other articles of food of
—"nor importance and of merchandise of too numerous and
general a character to be further enumerated or specifically
mentioned.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, AUGUST 13.
`-Yesterday evening a detachment, consisting of 2 corporals
and 29 privates, with 5 women and 14 children, of the 99th
Regiment under command of Adjutant Rupert Barber Deer-
'ng, of the 99th, arrived at the Invalid Depot from Graves-
-11(1, at which place they disembarked from the ship Templar,
...aPtain Brown, from New South Wales. Most of the men
i'ere
i wounded in the late engagement with the New Zea-
.7Lers. Some were required to be taken into the hospital
Barracksit, and the remainder were removed to St. Mary's
rii
Brompton Lieutenant R. 0. F. Steward, of the
iouficia:oldment, came. home in the ship, as also a detachment
27th Regiment, consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal.
futo 10 Privates. This latter detachment left the Cape of
,00d Hope as a convict guard, with convicts for Hobart
._lrnr, and at the time of their embarkation the 27th were
1412._0_e orders to proceed to Englhnd; but owing to the re-
rpt outbreak with the Kaffirs the regiment has been de-
ilicietnweheztied,ifllotgroakelw the detachment was removed from Hobart
South Wales, where it embarked with the
ve
England on the 20th of April, in the expectation of
with their regiment at Chatham. One woman and
children came home with the 27th.
GREAT SWIMMING MATCH FOR 201. AND THE
sad
.na . Monday evening Pewters (the London)
te luer,oo (the Oxford) champions, decided their claims
periority between Blackfriars and Vauxhall
von.tl es, and after a very admirable contest, the Londoner
opponent gave up at Westminster-bridge.