The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-05 00:00:00

LISBON PAPERS.

LISBON, Nov. 23.—Communications have been
received by the Minister of the Interior on the 234
of November, from the Corregidor of the district of
Setubal, dated the 2lst, who says that perfect tran-
quillity prevailed in the town, and that the workmen
were very diligently emrloyed in the fortification.
Front the Juizes da Fora of Monte Penielte and
Mafra, under the dates of the 19th and 20th, we
learn that those places were tranquil, and the spirit
of the merchants good.

The Juiz da Fora of Almada, under the date of
the 20th and 2ler, writes that information had been
obtained from a woman surprised in Aldegallega,
who came from Santarem, that provisions were ex-
tremely scarce there; that a quarter of a loaf per
day was given to the men, and very seldom wine;
and it was reported among the rebels that they were
going to Elvas. The same officer says that in his
district perfect tranquillity prevailed, and that the
excellent spirit of the inhabitants was manifested by
the sincerest enthusiasm at the presence of his Im-
perial Majesty our immortal liberator.

By the communications from the provincial Ma-
gistrates, which we publish, we may judge, at least
approximately, of the situation of the rebel army.
We know that desertion has progressively increased
for some days. As soon as we have official docu-
ments on this important subject, we shall have great
pleasure in laying them before our readers.
"DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
" LISBON, Nov. 23.—(Official.)--A decree of
the Emperor, in the name of the Queen, revokes
as it/just the article of the decree of the 28th of
June, 1823, depriving Manoel Gonsalves de Miran-
da of the honours of Minister of State, under the

pretext of his having ordered certain measures while
he was Secretary of State for the War Department
—an unfounded imputation, because the measures
were authorized by the existing Government.
" The second decree revokes the article of the
same decree of the 28th of June, 1823, which de-
prived the Councillor Jose da Silva Gayalho of the
honours of Minister of State, on the ground that
he had absented himself from the kingdom without
leave, whereas it is proved that he had obtained a
passport on the Ist of that month from the Minister
for Foreign Affairs. These two gentlemen are
therefore restored to their honours as conferred on
them by the decree of the 28th of May of the same
year, 1823.

" The circumstances having happily ceased wh;ch
led to the importation of nwional arid foreign flour
on payment of half the usual import dwy, for the
advantage of the inhabitants of this populous city
and of the liberating army, I think fit, in the name
of the Queen, to revoke the decree of the 6th of
September last, allowing this importation at a re•
duced duty, and to order, that after the expira-
tion of a month from the date of the publication of
this present decree, the old regulations shall again
be put in force.
" Palace das Necessidades, Nov. 15.

" Don PEDRO (Duke of 13ragann)
" JOSE DA SILVA CARVALHO.'

A decree of the Duke of Braganza, dated the 22d
of November, orders to be delivered to the Criminal
Judge of the quarter of St. Isabel, a list, which is
subjoined, of the prisons of the city, which are
classed according to the degree of criminality of the
persons to be confined in them, that that magistrate
may understand that henceforth the prisoners of
both sexes within h s jurisdiction are to be sent to
the prisons assigned fur them according to thenature
of the crime for which they were to be confined.
The prisons enumerated are from No. I to No. 11;
they have all the name of Enxovia or dungeon given
to them.

The infirmaries, both for men and women, as well
for contagious as non-contagious disorders, are also
pointed out.
The usual Court articles, dated from the Palace
das Necessidades of the 20th, 21st, and 22d of No-
vambet, mention his Majes,y going to view the for-
tifications, and giving his orders ; his giving audience
to the Ministers and other persons. On the 20th
fourteen deserters from the enemy were admitted
into the ranks, and on the 21st five.—Lisbon
Chronica, Nov. 21, 22, and 23.

The late Viscount Exmouth was an officer
who had distinguished himself much in several actions
during the late war. His post commission bears date
from 1806. His Lordship was a distinguished member
of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and in the spring of the
present year made a rapid voyage to the Biltic in his
yacht the Gamymede, visiting St. Petersburgh, Stockholm,
&c., and he had the intention of having a schooner con-
structed et Cowes, in which lie would have made a voyage
to the Mediterranean next summer. The Viscount was
twice married, first in 1808, to Eliza 'farrier, eldest
daughter of Sir George Hilara Barlow, Bart., G.C.B. ;
this marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament, 1820,
and he married, secondly (1822), Georgians Janet, (laugh-
ter of Mungo Dick, Esq., of Richmond. His successor in
the title is the Hon. Percy Taylor Pellew, the only sue••
viving son by his first marriage, now in his 19th year, and
not the Hon. Edward Pellew, who died in India. The
Noble Viscount has left an infant family of five children
by the present Viscountess, who remains at the residence
of the Hon. Capt. Fleetwood Pellew, in Grafton•street, in
a state of great affliction. The remains of Lord Exmouth
will be removed from the Colonnade Hotel, in Charles.
street, for interment in the family vault at Cannonteign,
near Exeter.

THE HEADSMAN.—Mr. Cooper's mine
seems exhaustless, as productive, as rich in quality, as
ever. This new romance is as fresh, as racy, as vigorous,
as any of its predecessors. The subject of the story is a
difficult one to handle—one such as a writer of ordinary
talent would have shrunk from in dismay. He has
grappled with it and conquered. To render Balthazar,
the hereditary headsman of Berne, (a creature with whom
all our sympathies and prejudices are engaged in hostility)
mild, meek, amiable, and interesting, was a task fur no
common pen. That of Cooper has succeeded. Margue-
rite, too, the deeply-sensitive wife of Balthazar, is a finely,
forcibly drawn picture. And Maso, the brave and gene-
rous, but hardened, outlaw, with his noble dog Nettuno, is
a master-piece. Adelbeid, the gentle daughter of the
Baron de Wilading, is also a character most exquisitely
conceived and sustained. These, with Pippo, an itinerant
juggler—Conrad, a profligate snook—and Christine, the
timid daughter of Balthazar, are the chief persons of the
drama. We attempt not to sketch the plot, the liveliest
interest in which is excited and sustained till the very laat
page of the work,