The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Manna), JULY 28.—We are assured that M. Zea
Bermudez had recourse to every means, in order to per-
suade the King to interfere in favour of Don Miguel. He
told him, among other things, that he might rely on the
approbation, and even support of Russia and the Holy
Alliance. To this his Majesty is said to have replied :
" How little thou knowest the present situation of Portu-
gal! That country is circumstanced as Poland was at
the time of its revolution. France and England bore the
greatest interest to the ohildren of Warsaw, ardently
wished for the success of their cause, were incessant in
their applications to the Cabinets of Europe in their behalf,
and that was all. Wl:en they were defeated the French
Ministry declared itself satisfied, because order reigned in
Warsaw. D.in Miguel is now in the same predicament.
All the Northern Cabinets are interested about him, and
wish well to his cause; but, as soon as events shall have
decided the struggle, should the Pe froites be victorious,
thou wilt see orde* reigning in Lisbon in the columns of
the Augsburg and St. Petersburgh Gazettes, that nobody
will fire a shot for him, and that our interference might,
perhaps, be the cause of a revolution in Spain." M.
Zea, who certainly did not expect such an answer,
abruptly took leave of his Majesty.
It is now pretty clear that Ferdinand is opposed to an
armed intervention in the affairs of Portugal. He bas
said as much to the Ambassadors of France and England,
and, rely on it, his Minister will not succeed in bringing
about a rupture between him and those two Powers.

Private letters state that M. de Bourmont, anxious to
signalise his at rival at Don Miguel's head quarters by an
attack on Oporto, had been repulsed with considerable
loss, and that he had resigned his command. This Mar-
shal of Charles X. had a double object in coming to Por-
tugal. At the same time that his efforts would be di-
rected to strengthen despotism in the Peninsula, be was to
have organized several French legions, with whotn he in-
tended to effect a descent in La Vendee. Portugal was to
have been the rendezvous of the partisans of Henry V.
Several French officers, who lately passed through Madrid
on their way to join M. Bourmont, openly avowed it.
The King is very ill ; his state is said to be most
alarming. There has been of late some teports in circula-
tion of an intention on the part of his Majesty to abdicate
in favour of his daughter, and appoint a Regency. Tile
Court was to have gone to spend ten days at a neighbour-
ing toyal residence, where this great event was to have
been prepared. The King's illness, however, deranged
the project, at the same time that it may perhaps hasten
its execution.

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MADRID, JULY 29.—Intelligence of the capture of
Lisbon by the troops of Don Pedro was received by this
Government yesterday. On the night of the same day
M. Ad•iingtim, after a conference with M. Zea, sent off a
courier with despatches for his Government. Up to that
date we had been kept entirely in the dark as to the pro.
gress of Count Villa Flor in the Algarves. The inference
naturally drawn from the silence of the Madrid Gazette
on the subject was that the arms of Don Pedro in that
quarter were not less successful by land than they had
been by sea. An acciiunt of this occurrence is ex-
peered to appear in that paper to-morrow; and when
the issue of this long-pending contest shall be generally
known here, a strong sensation is likely to be produced ;
for as the prospects of this country depend in a great mea-
sure on the state of things in Portugal, the downfall of
Don Miguel must raise the hopes of the more libe-
ral class of Spaniards in the same degree as it will
embarrass the views of the Apostolicals. The political prin-
ciples of the latter being clearly incompatible with the in-
terests of the Queen, and inimical to the succession of the
young Princess, the policy of truckling to that party—a
policy the most incoraistent and paradoxical that ever
Cabinet adopted—will have now to be abandoned. It is
asserted that M. Zea, a few days ago, proposed in the
Council of Ministers that an army of 25,000 men should
be sent to the assistance of Don Miguel. A measure better
calculated to ruin that unfortunate Prince, if his doom were
not already sealed, could scarcely have been devised, since
it would have been immediately followed by the direct in-
terference of France and England, and by the appearance
in Portugal of an overwhelming force.
A fair and unlocked for opportunity is again offered for
establishing in Spain a frank and enlightened political
system. One of the measures most conducive to the
realization of these objects—the recognition of the King's
eldest daughter as heiress to the Crown, has already been
adopted ; and so far the intentions of the Ministry appear
to he correct. It now only remains to secure the suc-
cession of that Princess by obtaining guarantees of France
and England, by establishing the relations of Spain with
those two Powers on a more amicable footing, and by form •
ing a party at home that may be relied on in case of need.
The mass of the people will no longer give their aid to
agitators of any class or colour. They are in favour of
an efficient, but mild and enlightened Government—a
Government exempt from the influence of any faction, and
which, MAJ..; it retains so much of the Conservative prin-
ciple of the Monarchical form as is required by the cir-
cumstances of the country, shall pay due deference to the
lights of the age. Such are the sentiments and feelings
of the majority of the Spanish people. But this majority
is a passive and inert mass, which is combated on either
side by the instigators of the two great contending factions,
and which, as it yields to neither, serves as a barrier to
both. The man who shall obtain the control of this im-
mense force will direct the destinies of Spain. M. Zea
appears to have failed in the attempt, and the probability
now is that he will have to vacate the Ministerial chair in
favour of some less able but more fortunate rival.

P. S. The King for these two days past has been
slightly indisposed. They even say that he has been
bled. A. Z.

MIDDLESEX SESSIO.s.S, AUGUST 9.

Just before the rising of the Court, at five o'clock, the
Grand Jurors came into court and presented a number of
hills of indictment which they said were all submitted to
them.

The Foreman, Mr.Thisleton, then made his presentment.
The jurors lamented the increase of juvenile delinquents,
and their committal to prison by magistrates for trivial
&fences. They also reprobated the prac.ice of tradesmen
exhibiting their property outside their premises, which
course offered an inducement to Clime. They had visited
the House of Cmrr.ction in all its interior parts, and were
quite satisfied with the arrangements and with the keneral
state of the prison. The Foreman then said it was with
pain the jurors had to complain of the anitnAversions of a
magistrate of the police as to their conduct in ignoring a
toll Had the Learned Sergeant (Sellon) been one of their
body he would have come to the same conclusion ; the
oaths of the jurors prevented their stating their reasons for
the course they had adopted.
The CHAIRMAN said the Grand Jury were entitled to
the thanks of the county, but he could not discharge them
until Monday next.

It was very generally circulated yesterday that
an agent was about to be despatched from the Provision il
Government of Donna MARIA at Lisbon, for the alleged
purpose of paying off the arrears of the officers and men
of the army of Oporto who have, from various causes, re-
turned to this country. Tile number of persons of this
ohs.; amount to upwards of 700, and the sum of 5,0001.
will be required to discharge their claims on the Ex-
Emperor. A Foriy of 120 men who were sent home by
the Duke of TERCEIRA and Sir Jon N DoyLE, in conse-
quence of their having laid down their arms, will, it is
said, nut be excluded from the advantage.

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Yesterday a long investigation took place be-
im. Mr. CARTA 11., at toe Windmill, H,gh-street, Lambeth,
relative to the death of WILLIAM SERJEA NT, a butcher,
of Lambe h. The deceased was seized with an apoplectic
fit in one of the recesses of Westminster Bridge. A
surgeon, who has the royal coat of arm+ over his door, was
sent
for, and ho was requested to bleed the deceased, but
his answer was, " Who is to pay me ?" and be then
a surgewn, there attended him, but his
departed, having directed the man to be taken home.
AL:iliej.dtia n r
of no avail. He said that he thought
first instance, would have been of great
bleeding,
Vi
n Brasoa
t, he
service.
of GiT leod,Jus,mrayrf t,rniy es-uronegiiaveclict--" Died by the
visitation
reprehended
the tnerceoai y
conduct of the surgeon. It is right to s,YI that ti e ac-
cused surgeon was not in attendance.