The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-02 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM THE-DUKE OF TERCEIRA TO

THE SECRETARY AT WAR.
" Illustrious, tke., Senhor,—l write from the field of
battle, that no delay may prevent you having in good time
an account of the important victory obtained by the Queen's

arms.
" The enemy waited for me on the heights of AceiCeira,
a league and a half from Thomar. I attacked them in
three columns, commanded on the right by Col. Queiroz,
the centre commanded by Brigadier Joao Nepomuceno,
and the left by Lieut.-Colonel Vasconcellos, and the
cavalry by Colonel Fonseca. The enemy disputed the
positions, bringing up his infantry, cavalry, and artillery to
the defence, but nothing could oppose the skill of our
officers and courage of our troops. The heights being
lost, the troops were dispersed. We took 1,050 prisoners,
with 30 officers, eight pieces of artillery, and four colours.
Time is not allowed ins to say more, and I shall say to
your Excellency that I am unable to do justice to the
conduct of the officers and soldiers of this army.
" I am going to set out for Atalaia, and to-morrow I
shall be at Golegaa.
(Signed) Duke of TERCEIRA.
" From the heights of Aceiceria, 4 o'clock, p.m., May 16.
" PROCLAMATION.
" Unhappy Portuguese ; who still follow the standard of
the usurper ‘. how long will you tread the high road of
crime, despising the path of honour which has been so
often pointed out to you, inviting you to the lap of loyal
Portugal? Can, I bury in oblivion all that has been done
against me, when your King, against my daughter, your
legitimate Queen in consequence of my solemn abdication,
and against the country and against liberty ? On all sides
the conquering phalanxes approach you, and have reduced
you to the small space in which you are now placed. You
could not be ignorant that the people of the northern pro-
vinces, those mostly deluded, have of their own accord and
from their hearts proclaimed the Queen and the constitu-
tional charter of the Monarchy ; you are bound to know
that these were driven to the utmost pitch of misery,
without pay, clothing, shoes, and all those accommoda-
tions which a regular army should enjoy. ''What are your
hopes? Whilst the question was doubtfuLyour obstinacy
might be looked on as a point of honour, or an illusion,
but now that all is against you, that you ought to be unde-
ceived that the squadron promised to you never could
arrive, that such a pledge only served to continue the
tyranny upon you, that powerful nations would not
protect you, that Spain has already recognised the
government of the Queen, and that her forces en-
tered into Portugal to sustain legitimacy—whilst under
circumstances, your persistence in crime will now re-
double your guilt. Portuguese ! think not that I
breathe vengeance, or blood, or death against you ; do not
judge me by your chief ; I pride myself in being true,
humane, and generous, and knowing how to forget offences
committed against me. A series of victories has secured
final success to me. Portuguese of all orders and opinions,
there is still time to join the standard of honour and legi-
timacy. I assure you that the amnesty which de facto
exists will be ratified by me, and then you will be able to
return to your houses, and enjoy domestic comforts in the
bosoms of your families, without any fear of being perse-
cuted ; but protected by the laws, and by the clemency,
which I prize myself in carrying into practice amongst you,
in the name of your legitimate Queen and lady, Donna
Maria the Second. If you be Portuguese, if you love
your country, if you seek to deserve the blessings of your
fellow-countrymen, who compose such a majority of the
nation, you will never more tear its vitals by prolonging
civil war, which will shortly be against you. Abandon
the usurper to his fate ; there is no reason to fear that this
precedent will be viewed as an act of treason ; on the con-
trary, it must be regarded by all the world as a. sincere re-
pentance for your crimes, the offspring of the love you
ought, first of all, to feel for your country ; that love
which, through so many eras has distinguished the true-
hearted Lusitanian. Come, Portuguese ! ye of all classes
and of all opinions, whilst yet there is time ; I repeat to
you, come ; I will receive you in my arms ; I will pardon
you in the name of your Queen, and I will bury in obli-
vion all your crimes, at the sight of your repentance.
" D. PEDRO, Duke of Braganza.
" Imperial Head-quarters, in Cartaxo, May 17.
"P. S.—A telegraphic communication has just been re-
ceived, announcing the entrance into Santarem of our army
this morning, it having been evacuated by the enemy."

On Saturday last her Grace the Duchess of
St. Alban's gave a magnificent fete champetre at her
beautiful villa of Holly Grove, on the ascent to High-
gate-hill, which was attended by upwards of four hun-
dred fashionables, including the Duke of Sussex, it
being the first party his Royal Highness has attended
since his recovery from a long indisposition.

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FRENCH PAPERS.

(From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.)
A Spanish cabinet courier arrived at Paris last evening
at six o'clock. Ile left Madrid on the 24th, at eleven at
night. We have through this medium received the Ma-
drid Gazette of the 24th, containing the decree con-
voking the Cortes for July 24, which the Queen orders
" to be promulgated with all due solemnity, to announce
to these kingdoms the new era of prosperity and glory
which they may promise themselves from the re-establish-
ment of an institution so important to the good govern-
ment of the monarchy." The decree is dated Aranjuez,
May 20th, and is followed by another to the following
effect :—" Being desirous of celebrating by new benefits
the solemn act of the convocation of the General Cortes of
the kingdom, I have thought fit, with the advice of my
Council of Ministers, to give the fullest extension to the
royal decree of amnesty of the 20th of October, by annul-
ling all the exceptions it contained." In virtue of this de-
cree, all Spaniards still absent from their country, even
General Mina and General Vigo, may return into Spain.
Madrid was perfectly quiet. On the 21st the widow of Gen.
Torrijos entered Madrid. She was accompanied by thou-
sands of distinguished inhabitants, who went to meet her.
This is sufficient to show the state of public opinion, and
what may be expected when the Cortes are assembled.
The Gazette contains the following on the affairs of
Portugal :—" General Rodil was on the 20th with all his
forces at Sarcedo, and the following despatch has been re-
ceived from his first aide-de-oamp, Don Ramon Teijero,
who has been detached to the Portuguese commander-in-
chief, the Duke of Terceira. It is dated Golegana, May
18, 10 in the morning An aide-de-camp of General
Saldanha has just come to the Duke of Terceira to an-
nounce that Santarem was begun to be occupied at seven
in the morning without any opposition from the Miguel-
ites. The two Pretenders have taken the road to the
provence of Alemtejo, intending, it is said, to pro-
ceed to Elvas. It is also said that the Emperor and his
Minister of War have already arrived at Cartaxo. A bri-
gadier, with 200 cavalry belonging to Don Miguel's army,
have just come in and joined our division. They state,
and all who arrive from Santarem repeat the same report,
that the troops of Don Miguel are growing weaker and
weaker, and that they have become so disheartened that
the Infante will shortly have but very few followers, those
merely who have most compromised themselves in his
cause."

The Moniteur contains the official promulgation of the
law fixing the budget of the expenditure for 1835 ; that
relative to the partition of the interest of the capital paid
by Hayti ; and that relative to the navigation of the duties
of the Lower Seine.

The African commission came to a termination of its la-
bours yesterday, and after delivering up all the documents
upon which its conclusions are formed, the Duke Decazes
expressed to the Minister of War the opinion of his col-
leagues, that it was desirable that the Government should
put an end as soon as possible to the present provisional
state of the administration and judicial courts of Algiers.
The commission also urges the necessity of substituting
ordinances for resolutions. The Minister admitted the
propriety of these recommendations, and announced that all
the improvements of which the government of the colony
is susceptible should be the subject of successive royal or-
dinances. It is stated that the ordonnance relating to the
administration of justice will be promulgated within the
next fortnight.
The Journal des Pyrenees Orientales of Perpignan, of
the 24th instant, has the following :-" Don Antonio
Posada Rubin de Celis, Bishop of Carthagena, returned
into Spain on the 19th instant, through Perpignan and
Perthus, on his way from Aix, where the venerable pre-
late had passed the whole of his exile."
The Augsburg Gazette of the 27th inst., contains the
following extract of a letter of the 15th, from Rome :-
" Much is said here of the growing attachment of the King
of Naples to France ; it is natural that we should not re-
main indifferent to this news, and the affairs of the neigh-
bouring country are watched with some anxiety. Our
coffee-house politicians go even further, for they assert that
Naples is about to join the quadruple alliance, and that in
the course of this year the King will give a constitution to
his subjects ; this is, perhaps, something premature. Se-
veral Cardinals will be nominated on St. Peter's Day."
This journal has also the following from Frankfort, dated
the 23d inst. :-" We learn that the several individuals of
whom justice is in pursuit, for the part they took in aiding
the escape of the prisoners, as also the student Alban, have
all arrived in Strasburg, for which place they had pass-
ports provided in other names than their own. The re-
port of a formation of a garrison for the Germanic Diet
pins ground, as does that of the removal of the prisoners.
The evil-disposed profit by these circumstances, to say that
the freedom of Frankfort is lost, yet we are convinced
we have nothing to fear for our independence; we have
recently received the assurance that this has been still
further guaranteed by the Ministerial Congress at Vienna.
We learn from Biberich, that the negotiations relative to
Luxemburg do not advance. The three Plenipotentiaries
are well received by the Duke of Nassau, and invited
daily to his table ; it chanced, however, the other day,
that, as the Duke of Saxe Gotha was a guest there, the
Ambassador of the Netherlands was prevented appearing
by sudden indisposition." The Gazette quotes the funds
at Vienna on the 22d instant, Metalliques, 5 per Cents.,
99i • ditto, 4 per Cents., 903% ; Bank Actions, 1,281.
The Berlin State Gazette of the 25th instant quotes
Prussian 4 per Cents. 99 1-3 9834•
Extract of a letter from Frankfort on the Maine, dated
May 26 :-Our Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna,
the Burgomaster Quaisas, has succeeded in exculpating
our authorities from all blame with regard to the tragic
event of the 2d, and the sovereignty of our republic, re-
peatedly threatened to be sequestrated by military force,
has been again saved. Every thing will, therefore, for
the present remain in state quo, on condition, however,
that our police be strengthened, which will be done as
promptly as possible by the creation of a special direction,
which will be armed with very extensive and almost dis-
cretionary powers."
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, MAY 3a.
Five per Cents., 105 f. 90c. 1, 61.
Four per Cents., 94f. -c.
Throe per Cents., 79f. 40c. 43c. 60c.
National Loan, 105 f. 80c.
Rente de Napleq, 971. 10c. sc. 30c.
Roman Five per Cents., 95%94%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 30% 311,9
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 4451 %t.
Royal Spanish Loan, 84 841:,.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents. 71 14%.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cents
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, -f. -c.
Three mouths, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, -f. -c.
-Cours Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Ranis, Mav3l
Five per Cents., 105 f. 10c. 106 f. 1061. sc.
Four per Cents., 94f. -c.
Three per Cents., 79f. 55c. 60c. 50c.
Rente de Naples, 97f. 20c. 59c. Coc.
Roman Five per Cents., 96%6'.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 31% 32
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 4444 N.
itoyai Spanish Loan, 84 84
RentePerpet d'E.spagne, Five per Cents , 74 748
Belgian Loan, 1881, Five per Cent, 98%.
EXCHANGF. ON LONDON.
(sue month, paper, 25f. 35e. ; money, -f. - c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, -f. -e.
--ewers Authentique.

M. de Chateaubriand is said to have de.
dared that he will take his seat in the Chamber of
Deputies if elected a member.
'e have received a letter from the north of
France, requesting us to inform the Leeds manufac-
turers, and especially some who make a new and un-
common description of goods, that several Frenchmen
have come to England, accompanied by an able mecha-
nician, with the view of obtaining a knowledge of the
peculiar processes of this manufacture at Leeds. We
believe these foreigners have already been in this
'town. We mention ttre fact, because we think mann--
facturers who possess any exclusive secrets or improve-
ments are justified in endeavouring to keep them to
themselves. It is very seldom possible for them to do
so, and the superiority of this country over others does
not consist in any peculiarities of this nature, but in
the abundance of coal and iron, in larger capital,
steadier industry, the minute division of labour, the
practised skill of a large body of workmen, and the
full protection given to property. Yet there is no
reason why our manufacturers should give up, without
compensation, the results of their own inventive skill,
when they themselves can fairly gain the advantage of
them.—Leeds Mercury.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH POST-OFFICES.—
The arrangements which have been some time pend-
ing between the Post-office departments of England
and France, respecting the transmission of the journals
and their circulation in both countries, at length, we
understand, have assumed a form which promises that
they will speedily be carried into execution. They
are now, we have reason to believe, only awaiting the
official signature of the Minister of Finances. Until
that is fixed nothing can be publicly known as to the
precise terms of the treaty, or the period at which its
operation will commence. In the meantime, we ob-
serve it is stated that the English journals are to be
allowed to circulate in France without any additional
postage, but that the French Post-office propose to
exact a duty of four sous on each newspaper trans-
mitted to England. This must surely be an error ;
upon what intelligible principle could such a heavy tax
be imposed upon the French press, in its intercourse
with England, more than any country in alliance with
France ? We trust and believe—for to suppose the
contrary would be an insult to the justice as well as
the common sense of the government—that the
treaty in question will be found to place the journals
of both countries on perfect terms of equality with re-
spect to carriage, and none will feel more gratification
than ourselves at the new proof this measure affords of
the firm and increasing amity which unites the two
nations.—Galignani's Messenger.