The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

FOREION AFFAIRS.

" Madrid, 4.61_20, Five o'Clock P.M.

" According to the news of the 16th inst., which has
been communicated to me by the Portuguese Ambassa-
dor, General Saldanha, dlicouraged by the.tad reception
he had met with at Coimbra, has directed his course
towards Spain."
The Journal des Dibats states that it was ru-
moured that SALDANHA bad succeeded in effecting
his escape across the frontier. SALDANHA addressed
the following letter to the Duke of TERCEIRA, at
Santarem :

"Leiria, April 11, 1851.
"Sir—A general rising has long been prepart d
throughout the kingdom against the prevarications, peen-
lationa, and continued infractions of the Constitution
committed by the Count of Thomar. More than once
have I prevented it by representing the possibility of
ejecting that ill-omened man, from the Ministry by legal
means, but the procei dings of the majorities in both
Chambers convinced every one of its impossibility. The
only thing I could do to avoid such rising was to accept
the invitatim of many of our brave companions in
arms, who, horrified at the future which the presence
of the Count of Thomar in the Ministry pre-
put myself at their head ;
demonstration, obtain the result which
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and will infallibly obtain. Until
to
this moment all the chiefs of the popular party have
remained quiet, but your Excellency may rest a'sured
that in the same instant in which they are convinced
that the military demonstration, at the head of which I
resolved to place myself, is not sufficient to overthrow
the extortioner who. oppresses the nation, a movement
will manifest itself in all the provinces, the end of
which no human perspicacity can foresee. I have just
been told your Excellency has marched out of Lisbon
at the head of sumo troops to support the peculating
Minister, the man who unites in himself all the cor-
ruption and all the odium of the naticn. I have the
pleasing conviction. that not one of those who accom-
pany your Excellency will fail to participate in my
ideas and in my wishes to deliver the nation from the
yoke which oppresses it. Duke of Terceira! if you for-
get that after our time there is an inexorable tribunal
called history, in which the glorious pages to which your
Excellency has an incontestable right will be complet-ly
neutralised by those in which you will appear as the
champion of the corrupt man, the infamous extortioner,
the known prevaricator, remember, at least, that your
Excellency's conduct not only places the throne of her
Majesty the Queen in imminent danger, but likewise
causes her dynasty to run the greatest risk. Shoula
your Excellency persist, to me the honour will be due
of having done, fur fourteen months, all that lay in hu-
man power to avoid the evils of a revolution—to your
Excellency the disgrace of having rendered it necessary,
indispensable. Let us remember that if in heaven there

is God's justice, the laws of morality are likewise not
prohibited on earth. This insurrection will not be
a struggle of parties; their interests will be
foreign to it; its object will be a graver one,
that of proving to Europe that the Portuguese
nation will not consent that a system of corruption, of
peculations, and unconstitutionalisms should be raised
on high by means of the Government and political doc-
trine. The movement represents purely and simply the
resistance of the nation to the moral death which was

prepared for it after prolonged agonies. The country,
during the indifference with which the Government has
considered its most urgent necessities, and in the cry of
anguish which it raises at this moment, limits itself to
beg for justice and morality.
" Your Excellency can avert the evils which menace
us, save the country from the horrors you are preparing
for it by causing her Majesty the Queen to dismiss im-
mediately this man fatal in so many respects, and call to
the Ministry persons deserving the national confidence.
Never has there rested upon your Excellency so grave a
responsibility as at this moment.
"Duke of SALDANHA.
The following is the reply of the Count Dn CABAL
to SOLD AS HA'S summons :
" TO HIS NICELLENCY THE DULE OP SALDANHA.

" Oporto, April 14,1851.
"I had the honour to receive your Excellency's
letter, dated the 11th inst., brought by your Aide•de-
camp, Damagio.
"Sir, however great may be the affection and defe-
rence we feel for your Excellency, I cannot, as a soldier
and General of the 3d Military Division, but fulfil, even
at the sacrifice of my life, the duty I owe to her Majesty
the Queen, maintaining intact the prerogatives of the
Crown, which I am determined to sustain with the
brave and faithful garrison I command.
" Conde DE CASAL."
The Count DE CASAL subsequently issued the fol-
lowing proclamation :

" THIRD MILITARY DIVISION.

"Inhabitants of Oporto! The Marshal Duke of Sal-
daubs, in disobedience to her Majesty's Government,
entered yesterday into Coimbra with the sth bat-
talion of Cassadores, and 12 horse.
" As this event might occasion in this city some dis-
turbances which might endanger the public security, it
is necessary that its tranquillity should be placed under
the safeguard of a military force.
P.seific citizens, trust to the care and solicitude I
shall employ to obtain this result; continue quietly at j
ytlll° frocatiDna, and do not allowriareelyes to be de-

ceived by evil designers, who, wherever they may appear
disturbing the public tranquillity, and in whatever man-
ner, shall be. apprehended and severely punished.
" Conde DE CABAL."