The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-31 00:00:00

LISBON, DEC. 20.

With respect to the military operations, it has
been reported that the Miguelites have evacuated
Alcacer do Sol, and that General Lemos has
fallen back on Elvas, but the account needs
confirmation.

The ardently desired wet weather has set in
these four or five days, though not violently ;
may it continue, as those at Santarem would
be compelled to evacuate that place in a week
or ten days, or risk the loss of all their artillery,
heavy baggage, and stores ; for even the
Abrantes road, which is still open to them,would
become too soft and deep to admit of gun car-
riages travelling over it. The baggage, hos-
pital, and magazine waggons, drawn by oxen,
are still more slow and unwieldy, and would
stick fast inextricably in the mud and mire.
Still a further stay at Santarem would become
impossible, forage being already so scarce that
the cavalry horses received but one ration in a
whole week. The Miguelite infantry has been
for some time half naked, barefoot, and filthy,
las the deplorable looks of their deserters show,
The French army under Junot were so much
eluting ttic Irrvaß;o.. .f 1007, clim rim ce
firclock was serviceable, and not a gun could be
dragged along, the whole artillery being em-
barked in boats, and transported down the
Tagus. If compelled to retreat it will be
doubtful, therefore, whether the demoralised
Miguelites can keep together until they reach
the lines of the Zezeres in front of Abrantes,
the probable direction of their flight. As that
river swells often 20 feet in a single night,
they may he cut off altogether by the
sudden rise of this mountain torrent. Between
Gallegao and Auzniaga, a little to the eastward
of Santarem, Junot's troops had to march
in the water two feet deep for upwards of
an hour, if we may believe Baron T hie-
bault's Relation of the Expedition to Portugal
in 1807-8. A comparison of the proceedings
of the two armies will best explain the reason
why Marshal Saldanha appears to be in such
high spirits as he is represented to display at his
head quarters at Sintieira, he having, no doubt,
read the various works on the French Peninsu-
lar campaigns. The friends of the Queen's
cause in England may now safely augur well of
the campaign.
The Government, it seems, has some posi•
tire intelligence of Don Miguel equipping a
squadron in some foreign port. The old line-
of-battle ship, the Rain/ia; which was lying at
anchor dismantled at a great distance, has been
moved nearer to the arsenal, and it is to be
fitted out immediately—an expense not likely
to be incurred under any other supposition. The
Admiral has told his officers that there will be
some more work cut out for them.

The Count de Taipa remains at the Duke of
Terceira's house unmolested, but has suspended
the publication of other letters ; the charge of
exciting rebellion and conspiring to depose the
Regent being quite enough for him to encounter
and rebut at present.
Respecting the Queen's marriage, a question
surrounded with diffiuchies and of the most
important consideration, some curious sur-
mises are now afloat. England and the
Queen's own inclinations object to the Duke
of Nemours, and France is equally averse
to the much talked of alliance with the
Duke of Leuchtenburgh. To cut this Gordian
knot, though not with the sword, yet by reasons of
state necessity, in lieu of the sharp dart of Cupid,
a Neapolitan Prince, whom the Queen never saw,
and can neither like nor dislike, has been propos-
ed to neutralize the conflicting objections of
France and England. This new aspirant to
the Queen's hand uniting the suffrages of
the great Powers, and being likely to satisfy
the Portuguese nation, nothing remains, there-
fore, to be consulted but her Majesty's
heart and taste, perhaps likewise a stagger-
ing obstacle. England ought to be on the watch
respecting this projected union ; this Neapolitan
sprig of Royalty being still a Bourbon and a re-
lative of the Queens of France and of Spain, as
well as of the hopeful Duchess of Berry; for it has
always been a rule of the soundest policy of Eng-
land to prevent the accumulation of many crowns
on the brows of Bourbon Princes, as well as of the
Napoleon dynasty, against both of whom, and
their spreading, such long and expensive wars
have been carried on.

Sir J. Campbell remains to this day a dose
prisoner in the castle of St. George, and the
British Ministry has declined to interfere in his
behalf.

LISBON, DEC. 22.—The importance of the
instructions to M. Sarmente, and the increasing
intricacy of the question of British and Spanish
interference, together with the expediency of
accepting or declining the same, have occasioned
a further detention of the James Watt, at 501.
per day.
At three o'clock on Friday, the Miguelite
forty-eightgun frigate, Princesa Real, Severiano
Jose de Mesquite, commander, her captain
having died on the voyage, entered the river Ta-
gus, standing in boldly and unsuspiciously under
Miguelite colours, between Fort St. Julian and
the Bugio, situated on a rock midchannel. Nei-
ther of the forts hoisted any flag, but suffered
her to proceed well up and a good way
within the bar, when the fort of St. Julian
(which had its guns run in, but every thing
ready to belabour her if she attempted to
put about) displayed the Queen's standard
and fired at her a blank cartridge, followed
hy the discharge of a double.shotted
gun. The Bugio Castle observed the same
etiquette, when she anchored and proved
the vessel above described, 241 days from Goa
in the East Indies, laden with tea, rice, pepper,
drugs, cinnamon, ivory, and a variety of Asiatic
produce, having, moreover, on board 20,0001.
sterling, or thereabouts, in cash for Don Miguel,
and various sums for merchants' account. Yes-
terday morning, at eight o'clock, she fired a royal
salute,,from her original anchorage, under the
Queens colours, and in the afternoon she was
moored above the arsenal.

After Miguel's flag had almost disappeared
from the surface of the ocean, and hardly a
single ship of war of his was known to exist,
save and excepted the squadron said to be equip-
ping for him at Flushing, this valuable capture
forms as seasonable as unexpected a windfall and
godsend to the Queen's finances, and deprives
the Usurper pro tanlo of his means of aggression.
A series of fortunate circumstances threw this

rich prize into the Queen's possession. She sailed
from Goa eight months ago, of course before the
defeat of Miguel's squadron and the capture of
the capital. But had she put into the Cape of
Good Hope, St. Helena, Rio Janeiro, Bahia,
or any of the western islands,.or spoken a single
ship in the Atlantic, she must- ,have learned
the reverses of the Usurper's fortune, and
could have gone to some friendly or neutral.
port, and saved that much out of4be, fireA
him.. It is also singular that she -I',. t1..,-
in with any cruiser of our. .: ':''''• ;r
which, in the opinion of so IA .- .1,
say much in favour of the.; tgila.n j: and.
activity of that squadron. The ZWceso Teal
(some call her the Princeza; de Bea); sailed
from hence near three years agcn to Angola and
the East Indies, carrying io the former place
which is the Botany Bay * Siberia of Portu-
gal, convicts, chiefly consisting of political pri-
soners, the victims of Miguel's usurpStion• She
is an old, but still serviceable and very
good ship, being well built, though near
twenty years old, and even in this respect
makes a valuable addition to the Queen's
naval force. Two vessels, the Principe Real
and Orestes, are under orders to sail to the
Cape de Verde Islands and Africa, to bring
back the surviving exiles, among whom are
many persons of distinction of both sexes. But
the preparations for the expedition are rather
slow, and the officers of the navy are said not to
be very anxious to go to that climate. The
Don Pedro frigate, Captain Bertram, was to
convey them, and to reconnoitre, if not to at-
tack, Madeira en 2ifteennt. _ .

Tile rain continues gently. winch
was for some time past northerly, has chopped
round to south and south west. The rainy
season may, therefore, set in regularly, for
which the army before Santarem was so anxious.

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