The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-22 00:00:00

iPIRIT OF TM: PU81.14: JOURNALS.

Opinions are confidently expressed on both sides
as to the remit of Bourmont's abandonment of the
siege of Oporto. The Miguelite prints in this coun-
try assure us that he is about to revenge on Lisbon
his failure to take Oporto by assault,—that he is to
effect a junction with Cadaval, who occupies " the
impregnable lines of Torres Vedrae," and with Mo-
lelloe, and that their united force is an overmatch for
anything that Pedro can bring to oppose them. «%e
have already stated, what might indeed be obvious
to everybody, that the announcement of such a de-
sign on the part of Bourmont would be one of the
best reasons in the world for doubting that he se-
riously meant to realize it. If Bourmont wished to
take Don Pedro at a disadvantage, he would en-
deavour to surprise him, and for that purpose to
prepare his attack upon the capital with all practica-
ble secrecy, as well as expedition. To publish his
project would, in that respect, have a visible ten.
dency to defeat it. After giving the Lisbon Re-
gency due notice of this march, he would enable
them,. by the time that he had half completed it,—
that is, before he could have advanced as far as
Leyria,—to transport in steam-vessels the whole
garrison of Oporto, immediately disposable for
the reinforcement of Lisbon, and thus to in-
crease the strength of Villa Flor by at least
eight thousand well-disciplined troops--a num-
ber not inferior to that with which Bourmont
would be able to join the Duke de Cadaval, after
pushing through a difficult country, with soldiers
ill provided, dispirited, and, as all the accounts in-
form us, deserting by whole companies at a time.
The letters published in the course of yesterday,
represent the force of Molellos to be nearly, if not
altogether, broken up, and that under Cadaval to
be greatly thinned by desertion. As fcr the asser-
tion that the latter personage occupies the " im-
pregnable" lines of Torres Vedrae, it is a stupid
rhodomontade. The lines of Torres Vedras were
designed by the Duke of Wellington to be impreg-
nable, not against Lisbon, whence Cadaval might
expect an attack, but against an army coming from
the north—that is, in the present instance, against
Bourmont, who, they tell us, is hastening to join
him. It is just possible, therefore, that Cadaval, who
with 4,000 or .5,000 men ran away from Villa Flor,
who had but 1,500, and when, moreover, it was the
duty, and must have been the wish, of the Miguelite
Governor to keep possession of the capital, if he
could—it is just possible, we say, that now the
Duke of Terceira has been considerably recruited,
the same Governor may show some of his charac-
teristic alacrity in decamping from Torres Vedras,
which is formidable only towards the north, and
leaving it to be defended, as in that case it would
he, by the united garrisons of Lisbon and Oporto,
against the new Massena of the Miguelites. How-
ever, we have been forced upon these speculations,
which are seldom safe for persons at a distance from
the spot, by the Tory flummery of what was
" going" to be accomplished by Miguel and his
beaten Generals for the recovery of Lisbon. If
Bourmont and Cadaval, with their ten thousand or
twelve thousand men, were to attack Terceira in
front of Lisbon, with but half or a third of the
number, allowing the people of Lisbon to be neu-
tral in the contest, no doubt superior force might
succeed, though at Oporto it was otherwise. But
is it probable, that if the plan of an assault on Lis-
bon beame apparent, the garrison of Oporto would
not he instantly conveyed thither ? And, at any
risk of losing Oporto, is not Lisbon in all respects
an acquisition of tenfold value? Should the Queen's
troops concentrate on the Tagus, we see no more
reason to question their success against the enemy
than when the Douro was the scene of their brave
and victorious efforts. With regard to the Spanish
Court, our Madrid letter of yesterday presents, we
have good reason to believe, the true prospectus
of M. Zea's policy and intentions for the over-
throw of Portuguese liberty, and the frustration
of any approach towards liberal measures in
Spain, in the event of Ferdinand's dissolution. He
therefore corresponds secretly with Don Carlos,
exiles the Queen's confidential servants from Madrid,
thwarts all her attempts to exercise a sound ascen-
dancy over the dark and suspicious spirit of her hus-
band, and silently prepares the means of setting
aside her authority as Regent, and her daughter's
accession to the Crown. As an essential accessory
to the triumph of Spanish despotism, the said Zen
intrigues, cheats, lien, and, even tinder thin dis-
guises, makes war upon Donna Maria and the Por-
tuguese charter, by encouraging Spanish adven-
turers to enlist in Miguel's ranks; while no sooner
will the Queen of Portugal's authority have been
recognized by the c'eovernment of Great Britain,
than the old game, played so cunningly in 1827 by
Calomarde, the Holy Alliance reptile, who after-
wards turned traitor to his own master, Ferdinand,
will be revived by his worthy counterpart, Zea
Bermudez. Miguelite refugees will be entertained,
clothed, armed, and organized ; every outrage against
the Queen, short of formal hostility, will be prac-
tised, amidst perjured professions of neutrality, and
England and France alike ridiculed by the world, for
pandering, through mere feebleness, to the ruin of
their avowed protegee,and to the utter degradation of
their own character, and extinction of their own just
influence throughout Europe. Nothing can so ap-
propriately avert this train of calamities as auinstan-
taneous recognition of Maria 11. by the allied
Courts of St. James's and the Tuileries. Nothing
but that prompt, manly, and consistent recognition,
can at once disconcert the projects of the Holy Al-
liance, baffle the dishonest and rancorous hatreds
towards both Governments which actuates the Spa-
:FIJI councils, or establish the political institutions
of the south of Europe on a basis which may for
ever bid defiance to the insidious machinations or
tyrannical violences of that league of despots which
acknowledges the Csar of Muscovy for its chief.
We publish two more letters from the Intercepted
correspondence of the Miguelites. M. d'Alptiim
has already given us occasion to notice him. He is
the attache of the mission in Paris, who demanded
of the faithful Minister there the delivery of the
~.-rchives of that Legation ; hut, as it is five years
ago, he may have recovered from the smart. It ap-
pears lie is nOw employed with one Dr. Heliodoro
Jacinto Carneiro, formerly a spy upon the affairs of
the loan of Don Miguel.
INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE.
Copy of a letter from Senbor Francisco d'Alpuiin de
Menezes, to the Conde da Lousam, Minister of Finance.

" PARIS, JULY 10.
" Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—l have to
iafnrm your Excellency, that I have this day received,
conjointly with Heliodoro Jacinto Carneiro, of the house
of Outriquin e Jange, on account of our loan, the sum of
12,325/. 12e. 2d. sterling, in 31 bills of exchange, in
favour of the house of Gower, of London, to whom we
have this day sent them, in order that an equal amount
may he drawn for in favour of the Royal Treasury of
Lisbon.
" These bills, as well as those of the previous remit-
tance, begin to fall due from the sixteenth of September
to the sisalla of October next, and all at the rate of 25f.
75c. of exchange upon London per pound sterling.
" Our loa, thew. had been restorer'. lately in this
Exchange to price of 70, at which it had formerly
been, now begins to fall a little again,
ePr which the in consequence of
gars'
the unfavourable news from the Al
re-
volutionary journals exaggerate and distort in order to do
us injury. However, the depceseiou is not at present
considerable, for it was yesterday negotiated at 70
to-day of 691, not making, upon the whole, more than
difference.
" Tbis is all that I have at present to say to your
Excellency with respect to the state of the commission
with which I am charged.
" God preserve your Excellency, &c."
LETTER, PROM COUNT DA PONTE, DON IN(IGUEL'S MI-
NISTF a is ?AIM, TO VISCOUNT DE EANTAftEM.
" /Private. )
" PArds, JULY 12, 1833.
" Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor,—l have the
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honour to acknowledge the receipt of the despatch, No.
303, of the private series, and the circular, No.
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