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

MIGVELIT E INSUTtRECT lON.
(From the Tinu a )
witgentleman, just arrived from Op,rto, has. favoured •us
lOth PY of the following proulamati,,a, issued on the

PRO LEGE ET GngOlc•
IN Tux Nalta OF H. M. F. M. Dow MIGUEL I. '
Issued PROCLAMATION
_ed by the General-in-Chief and Military Director; Re-
iguald*Blacdonnell, to the soldiers, Royalists, and patriots
ef Ports al
Sold' g •
ti 'era and Royalists,—Wbat with Charter and Constitu-
on p
• (tan', °rtugal has become the prey of faction and the sport
. . leaFrellY ;it is, therefore, you who must rise and take the
in eili rens ;
h s —u•ng your country from the state of degradation
brao,:" it lies. The crisis has arrived, and the remem-
is 0; of Past events ought to spur you on to exertion ; for
vrevolatlYnarn Which, you have lately waged with invasion and
-Lour fliv., you were not vanquished, von were betrayed.
capital eet Was captured in a simulated combat ; your
our was occupied without even the form of defence;
dea7ll3- Was subdivided and rendered ineffective
; and, when finally assembled, it was decoyed to
tiec:ra, and there cajoled into a needless and base capitali-
ass in B,ueh were the combined effects of domestic intrigue
the, "reign chicanery, aided and abetted by the perfidy of
b,. e councillors who surrounded the throne, and to whom,
,ti'vaa(i. dire fatality, your destinies were confided. Your
wre lug adversaries, conscious of their own weakness,
k__ astonished at their own success : they instinctively
tiss_ew that they owed no such advantage to any virtue in
,i'ne_rUseves, yet they cunningly made the most of this occa-
wL',. and strove to impose on Europe the belief that all
as due to their proper wisdom and heroism. The foreign
Visis teemed with the productions of their pen, professing,
gas tie, to be histories of the war, productions of invidious
as'ci sinister character, in which facts were garbled, distorted,
fhe auPpressed, in order that you might have censure and
astylelight have praise ; but this wretched ambition was
tii.. Is for in public, if success made them vain—in secret
f•;tr fears made them cruel ; and while abroad they were ac-
. The
with the pen, at home they were active with the poinard.
. ue Convention of Evora had scarcely been concluded when
11 Plot was formed for its violation; though the Royalist
armed force had been dissolved, the Royalist party was still
ItMdittinished in its numbers, and still unchanged in its sen-
aintents, it formed the vast majority of the Portuguese
atiso
see° • As it could not, therefore, be destroyed in body,
es. arse was had to assassination to destroy it in spirit;
~,.....-`rY Royalist of any leading, and who bore a good name,
?„''' doomed to be a victim. A system of murder then coin-
- •Lenced, and rapine and sacrilege were its concomitants.
' 'an 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.
slain 801ne• were arrested, 'and dispatched in prison—some were
,in the street—and others were butchered at their own
,gornes, in the midst of their horror. stricken families.
There was not a sanctuary which the dirk of the assassin
didv not invade and pollute with crime. The Convention of
asoaniawealas disregarded as if it never had been. This
policy did not, in strictness, appertain either to
takChartists or to Septembrists ; each of these parties, if
to aba as a body, was certainly free of the crime, and ought
Patticj've oifn
ja,tice free of te blame. It was not the
parties, but the I olicv of Ministries that led to the
who Ity.....SliniAries chiefly composed of unprincipled men,
and zith °Moja' knavery scrupled not to betray both friend
callousetornhen wh°, in fine, were justice,eed of power, rendered
then, SUspiaugrrioaustifY
eertun tt, S-alne ; who sacrificed humanity, and de-
their selfish propensities. What they were
for the c theY are now and such would continue to be re
of polies character is for ever the same. No other
revohltio • mY is, indeed, to be expected from a raw and
the e , aarY Government, that must needs be a mockery. to-
ese eyes of the nation, and thus kept alive to its own_ m
tlhhatiewat7; the nation,
is no authority so unjust and cruel as
soldiersl h
, and
is haunted by the fear of contempt.
Ra 1),... --- Royalists, your fate has been hard! fortune
wits •••• cruelly severe and public opinion has done you
andig' Y" sacrificed your wealth to maintain the altar
Yet
tent on throne in their Divine and legitimate purity, and
Vesf„"4ve been denied the principle of patriotism. You
deem`uns Your lives in the active discharge of what you
. de" i'''' Lo be a duty, and yet you have than flour
as
....,cs d of moral virtue! you fought better than your adver-
ZZand that too under every disadvantage, and yet you
these been decried and stigmatised as cowards! I make
and ‘.4BBertions boldly, for I speak of facts which I know,
Isss.°l conduct which I witnessed. A knowledge of these
tja;:-Piltable facts has enabled me to advocate your cause
boutbrasug Europe, in despite of opposition, and the remem-
has brans
r good and noble conduct impels me now to
yo: the field, and fills me with pride while I thus address
,s
rfor I --knew you will learn with delight that the war of
-nation is declared.
ts in Miguel I. has this day been proclaimed King of Per-
tda, and the Algarves with their dependencies ; based on
fundamental
restoration of the Cortes of Lamego, and the
:Mental laws of the monarchy.
ooa at ancient and legitimate standard now waves in
hostility to both charter and constitution, and
lour vacillating governments. It is the symbol of
eetZt faith, of your laws, of your King, and of your
and trY• It is the signal for you to arm, to muster
yottr ° march and to rally around it, that you may recover
the ',rights and redress your wrongs. Many of the best and
ourvriavest of the Royalists are already with me in the field.
tem Ptan is formed and our system is established. Our sys-
si„ Is conciliatory, and it therefore is national. We recog-
fiekirmn,e as enemies, save those whom we encounter in the
are am " e make no distinction of party; men of all parties
instie;"gat us, and every appointment shall be founded in
fors, - sTomotion shall be strictly confined to the operating
roes.: and vsJour and obedience shall be the sole recom-
and uati.°n• I make this declaration in the fulness of honesty
The edanu,sur, for my will is good and my power is ample.
geast:e's of every brave Man shall be rewarded. The sp.-
their
r'..,c.erporals, and soldiers shall daily and duly receive
last, a“„"ns and their pay, sunderg as the campaign sha l
This f:„,while they remain my immediate command.
to see ;,` semPowered to promise, and this I pledge myself
....cluaiatoC.4.°rmed, and you are all of you sufficiently ac-
-411 the -Ith my character to know that I never break faith
Seidl trG°Ps.
evil which ;
the era
" Ro
. •
c°lllMand Zahsts, in December, 1833, when I quitted
at antarem I foresaw and foretold all the
the Power i$ the sequel befel you, but as I bad not then
intact, "'l' to do you any good, I retired with my character
.." and
. those Made my resignation serve as a protest against all
1 sin Peat, which did you any harm. It is, therefore,
einPeat, that in the war which you then waged with inva-
t "'" end revolution, you were not, vanquished ; you were be-
. • raYed. nis now time to regain, by your own loyalty and '
bravery, what you lost by the treachery and imbecility of
. ' Mhers: You have only to do, after a lapse of nine years, what
YOUr forefathers' did after a lapse of sixty—when they spurned
as,fore' yoke,"deposed a foreign King, and placed upon the
'~uronel the native and legitimate Braganza.
•
4-rrn, 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 wa as a volant beacon, to oriental navigation;
that standard ,Ym:hich so lately, in Portugal, in Spain, and in
Prance' so frequently triumphed over the hosts of Nappleon.
ll
itiet
You are not called upon to rally around itin force on
°ma of the dangers to be braved, and the obstacles to be
alls„rnloanted; for to vanquish a weak and spurious Govern-
;rot, continually haunted by fear, but little force will be
Ottired• You are called upon to prove, by your readiness
is. arl;n, that the state of political feeling in Poriugal has been
raalY misrepresented. You are also called upon to prove,
ji Yeut energy in the field, that the character of the Portu-
vr esa Royalists has been foully ealuMniated ; and, finally,
111°: are called upon to join in the enterprise, that numbers
ths° give to it the andeur of nationality; and, above all,.
sus raanY as possible may share in the glory of its
1,0
listey,-ruguese—lt is not to my voice alone that you nvow.
re* -; You listen also to the voice of year dethroned so e
'DI who spe
to you from his exile.
The esen;s:al-in-Chief and Military Director,
. Longi; REGINALD MACDONNELL.
-ve the King Don Miguel L

asso'Yc;above
been apprised of the fact of a number of
rioters nigB having lately started in the suburbs, the pro-
•th whichprofess to afford servants and others moving
bank3,B ttbordinae ranks of society
.all the security of savings'
lishinejlth a much larger rate of interest than these estab-
as five `3 pay. In one or two cases it is stated that as much
tkarect:er cent. is allowed for moneys paid in, and all the
dePosir-r °f savings' bank business being assumed, the party
time, 'rig is permitted by the managers to withdraw, at any
the sums from ii. to 5!. if a larger demand is made upon
it 4sttahlish
rnent, proper notice must be given; and should
as theenu to greater amount than 251., three months is fixed
term date of repayment. It is not alone the high rate of in-
Proffered on these deposit% which in ordinary money
that transactions is not considered indicating asafe basis of business,
picion of the associations, but the stronger
atexeited 8"
taah
girls „ in one particular instance several poor servant
conshf 'A° had sn disposed of their savings have experienced
erable difficulty in getting them returned when they
e_°: plied for them. The greatest caution ought to be
rcised on the part of persons who with commendable pru-
-I°s nee seek means of increasing the surplus of their income
Y 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
lafeti
of the
earnings of the poorer classes of the
community.ins nvostrnent in Consols,eurit
With a lower rate of interest, like an
Will be fotind in the long run much more advantageous to
the depositor than the
uncertaintyrosec of a high rate of interest
accompanied by the y of a return of principal.—
Times.
IRISH PROVISIONS.—The p
im ortations of provisions
of various descriptions from the principal lrish ports into the
Port of Liverpool during the past week. being from the 31st
of July to the 6th instant exclusive, consisted of the follow-
ing articles, viz.:-6,743 firkins,.243 half firkins, 1,236 bas-
kets, casks, &e, and 84 boxes of butter; 628 sacks of flour;
61 sacks, 380 quarters, 89 tons weight, and 1,220 barrels of
oat; 106 tons weight, 258 bags, and 154 other packages of
meal ; 124 sacks and 24 tons weight of barley; 55 sacks
t,,,n'alt, 182 packages of bacon, 239 barrels of pork, 575
g'uges of linens and cottons, 372 sacks of farina flour, 32
in„-rr,e's of general provisions, 65 bags of malt, and numerous
'-eaages of beef, whiskey, seed, lard, hams, and various
ovttither articles. In the same period the following is a WID-
Irtn!li_inin of the principal and most noticeable arrivals of a
(laer
e„ character, from the same quarter, at the port of Lon-
-418" boxes of salmon, 1,377 boxes of eggs, 756 ham-
e
of hams. 3.526 packages of bacon, 917 packages of lard,
an, of malt, 848 casks of porter, 100 cheeses, 13,194 boxes
bar•
rels h
packages of butter, 822 packages of pork, 2,237
and 8,707 quarters of oats, and 124 pigs, in addition
bales of paper and various other articles of food fe
—lnor
nvortance, and of merchandise of too numerous mid
geral a character to be further enumerated or specifically
men; Toned.
INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, AUGUST 13,
-IQ3tertia detachment, consisting of 2 corporals
and 29 • Y evening
privates, with 5 women and 14 children, of the 99th
.Regiment, under command of Adjutant Rupert Barber Deer-
ing, of the 99th, arrived at the Invalid Depot from Graves-
,lld, at which lacetbe disembarked from the ship Templar,
tviaPtain Brov?n, fromYNew South Wales. Most of the men
ete wounded in the late engagement with the New Zea-
enders.
-„me were required to be taken into the hospital
aL Port Pitt. and the remainder ware removed to St. Mary's
Bah; Brompton. Lieutenant R. 0. F. Steward, of the
Rejiment, came home in the ship, as also a detachment
of the 2701 Regiraent, consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal
IV
10 privates. This latter detachment left the Cape of
I,ood Hope as a convict guard, with convicts for Hobart
u„c'w, , and at the time of their embarkation the 27th were
_'"er orders to proceed to Englhnd; but owing to the re-
Zaet.it outbreak with the Kars the regiment has been de-
Toniwen,nad the detachment was removed from Hobait
99 - Newt South Wales, where it embarked with the
99th for England on the 20th. of April, in the expectation of
,veeteing with their regiment at Chatham. One women and
hg came home with the 27th.
ORE A, SWIMMING o MATCH YOR 201 AND THE
ancr riox r.— stuCM Monday evening Pewters (the London)
~,11; 'bermes (the Oxford) champions, decided their claims
I.l4,4rning superiority between lhlackfriars and Vanxhall
Vim bes, and after a very aclAiirable contest, the Londoner
•Ds.is opponent gave up $ Weetagneter-bridge.