The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-07 00:00:00

LISBON, JULY 19.

( From the Correspondent of a Morning Paper. )
The absurd reports of the Emperor's desperate state of
health, of his having a cancer in the chest, and the like, which
have been, received in England are wholly unfounded. Hav-
ing seen him the day before yesterday at Queluz, I can contra-
dict them from ocular demonstration. He has been riding
out twice a day all this week, and, on the 25th instant, he and
the Royal Family will proceed to Oporto in the Royal Tar
steamer, which vessel arrived this evening in six days from
London, superbly fitted up for the reception of their Ma-
jesties, bringing 100,0001. for Government, and 10,0001. for
private account ; after returning from the heroic city, the
Count is to go to Caldas da Rainha, for the benefit of the
mineral waters, till thee Cortes open on the 15th of August.
The present session being extraordinarily convoked, will last
only three months, or as much longer as the Government thinks
fit, and, will have to attend to questions of the highest impor-
tance—namely the Regency, the Bill of Indemnity, the new
peerage, and last, though not least, the Queen's marriage. Re-
ports have been set afloat that it is intended to declare the Queen
of age, and that a Noble Duke, of high diplomatic repute, has
formed the ambitious design of bringing about a matrimonial
alliance between her Majesty and his own son, a youth of tender
years,—as the only Portuguese subject who could aspire to her
hand. I learn, however, from a quarter which has never de-
ceived me, that, consulting her Majesty's own inclinations, as
well as the wishes of her Royal parents, and the interests of
the country, and of at least one of its allies, the Duke of
Leichtenberg, the Empress's brother will bear off the prize
before all other competitors, such as the self-proposed Duke
of Nemours, or a Neapolitan Prince. From the same source
I learn that, in spite of all that has been said to the contrary,
there is no chance of the Duke of Palmella's taking o:ice with
the present Ministry, though the price of his amalgamation
has been already named, viz.—the cession of the property of
the Aixostinho's convent at one-fifth of its value, to secure his
support in the House of Peers.
In Lisbon the parochial elections of the individuals who
choose the provincial electors for Estremadura' have taken
place on the 13th instant, and in the Revista of the 16th inst.
you find the names of the parties returned by the different
parishes. It was said the Opposition, consisting of Royalists
or rather Absolutists, of the friends of Palmella, and Repub-
licans, uniting against the Carvalho Ministry, had obtained a
small majority ; but it turns out since that the Government
has, or at least fancies to have carried its point, Carvalho
himself having been returned by the parish of Santa Isabella.
and none but Ministerial candidates, by some ether parishes,
for instance, that of Anjos de St. Jorge, which alone returned
three friends to the Ministry. St. Mamede made what you
call a double return of Andrade, an oppositionist, and MOS-.
tinho Friere, Minister of War, the poll having closed before
the remainder of the latter's friends tendered their votes. In
the country it is supposed the influence of Ministers will prove
still more decisive. To render the election quite fair, the
Ministers ought to have granted the freedom of the Press—
so much extolled in their journals beforehand. In the mean
time a sufficient number of opposition electors has been re-
turned to admit of very interesting truths being boldly as-
serted; amongst these is Francisco Antonio Campos, the Pre-
sident of the Camara, and formerly a Deputy, who made him-
self already conspicuous by his opposition bias, and Ottolim,
a great friend of Viscount Santarem, Don Miguel's Minister.
At Oporto the parochial elections are said to have been very
stormy, and when Baron Rendorff wanted to address the au-
dience according to custom at the opera ; he was, I am in-
formed, repulsed with cries of " Fora, fora" (" Out, out
with him.")
In the interior many outrages, many assassinations continue
to be committed. Near Elvas a traitorous conspiracy was dis-
covered, the members of which met at night for hostile pur-
poses, and between Assaceira and Atalia, Father Braga, a
fanatic Franciscan monk, has been murdered by the country
people, who overpowered the escort conducting this holy
guerilla Chief from the prison of Thomar to Lisbon, because,
during Don Miguel's time, he had occasioned numerous cruel-
ties against the Liberals, and wore the Royal effigy on his
dress. Accounts of other assassinations arrive daily from the
Interior, yet none of the perpetrators of such atrocities have
been tried and punished hitherto. Last Saturday night an
English soldier in the Queen's service was stabbed on Caes
Sodre, and a Miguelite, wearing the cap of the Usurper's uni-
form, was killed in Loretto—one of the most populous streets
of Lisbon, by the guard running his bayonet through him, for
refusing to give a proper account of himself.
The joy the foreign and native merchants experienced at the
introduction of the free-port system, the equalization of duty
decree, putting other States on the same footing with the most
favoured nations, the British and Brazilian, has beenrof short
duration ; for in the official Government Gazette of the 16th
inst. a decree appeared, not to extend, but to narrow, explain,
and modify the free-port system in such a way as to annihilate
it almost by a variety of forms, restrictions, and penalties, long
before the expected beneficial results came into operation.
Four months have now elapsed since it was issued, and not
one additional foreign establishment has been formed since on
the strength of it. No new warehouses have been erected or
even begun (for in this country architects do not build so ra-
pidly as in England), no cargo of foreign produce has been
imported for deposit or re-exportation, and no symptom of
fresh animation has been visible on the Exchange or on the
quays of the Tagus ; nay, the northern, French, and American
merchants complain now more than before of the exactions of
the Custom-house, whither they in vain go with the decree in
their hands, which reduces the import duties to 15 per cent.,
but are, in the teeth of it, compelled to pay 40 per cent. in-
stead of 15.

A'.miral Napier is returning to Lisbon. Commodore
Rogers received letters from him this day, announcing that
as soon as the British Government had repaired the Braganza
frigate at its own expense as it purposed doing out of regard
for Portugal, he should sail for Lisbon, instead of refitting at
Brest. . _ _ _

—Cnionel Pizarro, formerly the right hand man of Marshal
Saldanha, was dismissed by him shortly after assuming the
command of the Imperial staff, went to England and penned
some attacks against this Government, which, on his return,
caused his arrest.
General Bacon's sentence remains unconfirmed.
The time for the meeting of the Chamber approaches, to
which all look forward with anxious expectation. The electors
for the provinces are chosen, and the election of Deputies is in
rapid preparation. The country appears everywhere tranquil,
excepting in some parts of Alemtejo, which is still infested
with guerillas and other robbers; a chief of this description is
said to have still under his command a body of 3,000 men,
against whom a competent force has been sent under the com-
mand of General Schwalbach ; and it is not expected that
any quarter will be shown them. They have refused, it is said,
to lay down their arms and accept the amnesty offered under
the plea that some of their party, who had been brought pri-
soners to Lisbon, had been killed by the people, that no re-
liance was to be placed on the Government, and it would be
better, therfore, to die sword in hand. It is true that a few
unfortunate wretches, known for their crimes, have thus fallen
victims to popular revenge. But how many thousands of the
same party now reside unmolested in Lisbon and elsewhere in
the country under the protection of the Government ? The
latest act of popular vengeance we have to relate is that in-
flicted upon a well-known violent Miguelite, commonly called
Padre Braga, a Franciscan friar, who having been arrested on
a charge of crime, was on his way from the prison of Thomar
to Lisbon, escorted by a guard who had with great difficulty
saved his life at the latter place. 'On the road, however, they
were met by a large body of armed men, who, ordering the
guard to move off, fired a volley upon their victim and killed
him in an instant. We hope this will be the last sanguinary
act of the kind we shall have to record.

LISBON, JULY 24.—The Portuguese Government having
chartered the British schooner Itiazeppdio carry dispatches to
London, I avail mys,M of this oppOrtunity to inform you that
the arrival of the Pike on the 22nd instant, with positive intel-
ligence of Don Carlos's return to Spain, via Bayonne, has ex-
cited great sensation here, and revived the hopes of the Ab-
solutists to-see Don Miguel one fine morning land again in the
Algarves.
I happened to be on board the Hastings flag-ship when the

Pike was reported, and found Rear-Admiral Sir William Gage
sadly annoyed at his despatches .having been landed, and left
at Oporto by mistake, which is the more to be deplored at
this interesting crisis, as they are, probably, of a very impor-
tant and urgent nature, and may contain instructions for his
detaching part of his force to the north coast of Spain, to
Watch the Pretender. The Pike had scarce anchored, when
the Admiral fired a gun, and made a signal for a pilot. He
ordered Lieutenant Brookin immediately to get under weigh
again, and to proceed to Oporto to fetch the miscarried, or
misdirected; despatches in question, whi'Ch was done accord-
ingly, instanter ; but a sort of fatality seems to hang over this
untoward affair, so unfortunately marring the plans of the
quadruple alli,tnce, for the same stiff northerly breeze which
wafted the Pike in four days from Falmouth to Lisbon inclu-
ding stoppages at Vigo and Oporto, will now impede her re-
tracing her way to the Douro, and retard her return with the de-
spatches in question, and consequently the execution of the ope-
rations directed therein. Pour comble de malheur, his Majesty's
steamer Confiance, which is to take Saturday's mail to Eng-
land, had no coals on board, and this circumstance compelled
the employment of a sailing vessel, to retrieve the error pre-
viously committed. The Confiance has since completed her
coals, and accompanies the Royal Tar, to morrow, to' Oporto,
whither the latter carries the Royal Family • she returns them
to the Tagus, and will probably not be able to take the mail
before Monday. . _

Before we learned the arrival of Don Carlos in Bayonne,
and his re-entering Spain,. from the correspondence of the
Morning Herald, this Govttiament had already ordered Ge-
neral Schwalbach's brigade (which is stationed in the Alem-
tejo) to be in readiness to march into Spain, and co-operate
with Rodil's corps against the Carlist rebels; tut it will now
have to cross the whole of Spain before it can intercept the
line of Don Carlos's army of operations upon Madrid, if such
a one exists, which, it is hoped, will have the same ill-success
as Miguel's army of operations upon Lisbon had at Almoster,
Assaceira, &c.

The Stag frigate, and Nimrod sloop-of-war, returned on
Sunday last, from Genoa, and were put under quarantine for
a day or two. They brought a great number of letters from
the Usurper's followers, to their friends here ; rather an em-
barrassing circumstance, as the delivery at the Portuguese
Post-office would probably compromise the parties they are
directed to with the Queen's Government ; and whilst the
honour of the British flag is pledged to the writers for their
being safely delivered, this Government may protest against
that flag being made the medium of conveyance, as the Mi-
guelite Governor of Madeira did last Spring.
Salutes were fired this morning at daylight, in honour of
the anniversary of the Duke of Terceira's entrance into Lis-
bon, and troops have been detached to Santarem, to repress
the outrages of some.gueriPa remnants.
My Oporto letters represent the parochial elections in that
city to have proved unfavourable to the Carvalho Ministry,
the Prefect being very unpopular, but in the Province of Min-
ho, the men at present in power have a decided majority.

A. M.