The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-18 00:00:00

ELECTORS OF MIDDLESEX.

OBSERVE!! That SIR CHARLES FORBES, the new
Candidate is an ANTI-REFORMER and an ULTRA_
TORY!

That he has been for many Years a Member of the House
of Commons, for the rotten Borough of Malmsbury.
That he never gave a Vote in favour, either for Inquiry,
for Economical Retrenchment, or for Parliamentary Reform.
That he supported the infamous Six Acts, and all the Bad
Measures of the Castlereagh Administration (after the Mas-
sacre at Manchester, 1819), by which the Liberty of the Press
was narrowed, the Freedom of the Subject injured, and the
Rights of the People endangered ! ! !
That on Fifty Great Questions, from 1826 to 1830, for In-
quiry, Retrenchment, and Economy, his name is not to be
found in any of the Lists in Favour, but in the Lists Against
those Motions.

That he Opposed Scotch Borough Reform, in every stage, and
in every way in his power.

That he Opposed the East Radford Reform Bill, in all its
stages.

That he Voted Against the Question of General Reform, on
the 2Sth of May, 1829.

That he Voted Against the Reform Bills, brought in by
Lord John Russell and His Majesty's Ministers, and was
more hitter against these Bills, in every stage, than any other
Tory in the House !

The He is against Ballot,---against Triennial Parliaments,—
and against any Extension of the Suffrage.
Will you, Electors, support or Vote for such an Ultra.
Tory as Sir Charles Forbes? who has been so long the in-
veterate Opponent of the Rights and Liberties of the Na-
tion, and who has insulted the People, by declaring that " the
Petitioners were not very unlike the animals on whose skins
their Petitions were written."—(See debate of 14th March,
1831.) A FREEHOLDER.

Among the other valuable recommendations
which in the eyes of the Conservatives (those
sanctimonious patrons of hired bullies, buffoons,
and scamps of all sorts and sizes), Sir C. FORBES
possesses over Mr. Hustz, is that of extreme
sanctity. He is a Saint of the first water—a
Middlesex Mazyworm, whom it is profanation to
doubt, and flat blasphemy to oppose. " Look
at him," cry the Conservatives, " look at the
dear, good, pious man, anointed from head to
heel, with the precious ointment of righteous-
ness ! Is it possible that a man can be found to
oppose the pretensions, of such a child of
grace, to all political, as well as evange-
lical purity ?" Such, or something like
this, is now the cry of the Conservative
prints, who, finding their idol incompetent and
indefensible in all other respects, have at length
adopted him as a saint, and discovered that he
is a pattern of apostolic purity. But this hum-
bug will not go down. These are not the days of
puritanism, whatever they may be of cant. As a
religious man, in the only fitting sense of the
term, Mr. HUME'S claims are as unquestionable
as those of the most faultless parson in the three
kingdoms. He cannot cant, it is true, but he
can bow before his GOD in the modest solitude
of his chamber, and perform his duties as a meek,
unobtrusive Christian, without calling aloud on
all the world to admire him. The Conservative
prints seem bent on showing their readers how
much fitter Sir C. FORBES is for a Praise-
God-Barebones Parliament, than for such a one
as is now shortly to be called together. He is a
Saint, they say, therefore—mark the sequitur !
—he must make a capital Senator, just as if
legislation were a mere matter of cant. But our
Conservative contemporaries had better hold their
tongues on this score. It can do their idol no
good, and may possibly do him much harm ; for
political Percevalism is just now at an awful
discount.

The elections seem to have worked wonders

in the morale of the Cabinet. 'We hear of
nothing but projected improvements. Among
other things, it is said, that the law of patents is
to be amended. It is high time. A patent for
England, Ireland, and Scotland, costs 3451. In

the United States the expense of a patent is
6/. 15s. What but a system of corruption
could have prevented a Reform in this respect
so long ? The high price of patents has been
a great check to invention ; for few clever men
have money enough to risk so large a sum.
Many of the discoveries by which patents have
been realised fell into the hands of speculators,
who had money to advance, whilst the inventors
received, perhaps, only 201. or 301. In a
country where so much depends on inventive
genius, the Legislature should encourage the
man whose mind is more richly stored than his
purse ; but the whole state of society is wrong.
Merit and industry seldom meet with a reward.
The aristocracy of birth and the aristocracy of
wealth have hitherto had entirely their own way.

We stated yesterday that the accounts which
we had received from Oporto gave the lie to the
assertions of some persons who had addressed a
letter to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle,
on the situation and prospects of the Portuguese
Constitutionalists. It appears that a great num-
ber of young men, who fancied themselves
worthy of holding commissions in the Constitu-
tional army, had gone to Oporto as volunteers,
expecting, on their arrival, to he appointed
aides-de-camp to the EMPEROR, or brigadiers
at the least ; and that having been deceived in
their expectations, their conduct had become so
turbulent, and otherwise itnproper, as to render

it necessary for the EMPEROR to send them
back to England. We know not whether the
Chronicle trio were among these discarded
aspirants or not, and whether they formed part
of the hand of soi-disant gentlemen, who landed
at Gravesend on Thursday last, and there be-
haved so indecently in a public inn as to disgust
all who heard them ; but if they are of the same
description of persons as those to whom we
have alluded, we can only say that Don PEDRO
has done well in having got rid of them ; and
we only regret that the British character should
have suffered in his estimation from such an
unworthy specimen. We fear, however, from
what we have heard, that the greater portion Of
the adventurers who went out to join the Em.
PEROR, are of no better stuff. And this brings
us to the subject of our last accounts from
Oporto; for one of the most striking passages of
a letter from a British officer of high rank and
respectability, is the following. He says, " The
men who have been sent from London are little
better than robbers—they are, nine out of ten,
drunkards, and such corps as the British, with
the exception of one or two, were never seen."
The writer, after this censure on the agents of
Don PEDRO for sending out such persons, pro-
ceeds to criticise the conduct of the EMPEROR'S
Ministers at Oporto. " Never," says he, " was
there such extraordinary negligence. The fine
wines and brandies, upon which PEDRO could
have raised a loan which would have prevented
all present difficulties, were for fifty-six days in
the possession of the Constitutionalists, and yet
no attempt was made to remove them from Villa
Nova, where they are now in the power of the
enemy." Of the energy and activity of PEDRO
he speaks highly ; but his Ministers are, it
seems, with few exceptions, men totally unfit for
the exigencies of such an enterprise as that in
which they are engaged.

At the date of the letter from which we have
these particulars, three sorties had been made,
and all with good effect ; but the grand sortie
was to take place in the course of a few days.
Should that succeed, the Douro would be again
open, and the army receive the reinforcements
which they consider necessary before taking the
field. The troops are in high spirits, and, with
the exception of some of the British, many of
whom, it seems, had been grossly deceived here
as to the nature of the service which they were
about to enter, full of devotion to the cause.
There are, however, some companies of English
soldiers entitled to high praise ; among them are
two companies of volunteers, all riflemen, com-
manded by a Captain PHELAN, who share with
a Piedmontese company of volunteers, com-
manded by a Captain BIGN, and a Portuguese
body of guides a chevalohe honour of serving
as body-guard to the EMPEROR. Of those men
the writer speaks very highly, and he states that
the EMPEROR, notwithstanding the misconduct
of some of the British, still shows a strong pre-
dilection for our fellow-countrymen, and expects
them to accomplish great things.
The Miguelites had thrown upwards of 140
shells into Oporto, from Villa Nova, in the
course of one day, but without doing any injury
to the Constitutionalists. They had, however,
killed several women and children, and set on
fire a Miguelite convent. Our correspondent
does not add, unfortunately, that the fire de-
stroyed all the monks. An attack on the Foz was
threatened by the Miguelites, but that castle had
been fortified on a plan transmitted by the veteran
Sir JOHN DOYLE, uncle of Sir JOHN MILLET
DOYLE, and was too strong to fear any force
that the Miguelites could bring against it. The
news by the Pike, from England, of the prospect
of a recognition of the Regency by Lord PAL..
NIERSTON, had caused great delight to the
Constitutionalists—(would it not be better if
they were to trust more to themselves, and less
to Lord EA LM ERSTON ?)—and produced great
gloom in the opposite party ; but whilst the
Constitutionalists were hoping, the Miguelites
were acting, and every day increased their means
of annoyance and narrowed the means of defence.
The writer, in the course of his letter, says,
" The conduct of the EMPEROR is beyond
praise. He is all life and energy, and he is
anxious to take the open field ; but his Ministers
remonstrate and say, that, though they are strong
enough to defend Oporto, they cannot with their
present force move far from it." This is not very
cheering, although he says in another part of his
letter, " Every thing looks well for the cause."
To us it seems that, situated as the Constitu-
tionalists are, their only chance of extricating
themselves is by action—vigorous action. The
Miguelites muster, indeed, more than two to one.
But what are two to one with men in desperate
circumstances, who see starvation ininactivity,
and behold in action a chance of glorious triumph
or honourable death ?

We have before us the French Papers of
Sunday. The news of the taking of Fort St.
Laurent arrived at the Tuileries at 2 o'clock in
the morning of the 14th inst., and was immedi-
ately communicated to the different posts of the
National Guards, and of the troops of the line.
The guard kept upon the Duchess of BERRY
is very strict, but she is allowed to walk upon
the ramparts of the fortress, which gives an op-
portunity to the partisans of her family to look
at and salute her from a distance. Addresses
of congratulation continue to pour in to the
KING from the provinces.

It will be seen, by the following extracts from
the Allgemeine Zeitung, that intelligence has
been received from Constantinople down to the
10th of November. We hardly know what to say
to the strange account it gives of Russia having
offered, and the Porte having accepted, as-
sistance to repel the advance of IBRA•
HIM PACHA upon the capital of Turkey.
The motives of Russia are sufficiently obvious ;
but that the Turkish Ministry should be
so little distrustful of the known enemy
of the Ottoman empire, as to admit his troops
within their territory, to teach them how
to overcome the difficulties of the country,
to show them its weakness, in short to train
them for the conquest of Turkey, is a thing we
are unwilling to give credit to, till confirmed by
some better authority than that of a journal like
the Allgenzeine Zeitung
CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 10.-The MOnlielir Ottoman
shows the positions of the contending armies of Ibrahim
Pacha and the Porte, which is not very favourable for the
latter. The Egyptians appear to intend to march directly
against the capital, and wait for the cooperation of th it
fleet to attack it. The remnant of the Sultan's troops
(for the name of an army is wholly inapplicobie) U at

this moment exposed to the greatest danger. The Grand
Vizier, has, therefore, precipitately left the city, is collect-
ing all the troops he can, and hopes to employ the enemy
till the arrival of the auxiliary corps, which is said to be
expected from Russia. It is universally reported that the
Russian Ambassador, in an audience of the Sultan, de-
clared to him that the Emperor, his master, was ready to
assist the Porte, against the rebellions Pacha of Egypt,
and that this was the reason of the Sultan making him
such rich presents, in which even the Secretaries of the
Legation were included. It is further stated that the
preparations are already making in Odessa to employ
Russian troops, and that a Russian squadron will join the
Turkish fleet. Most of the Turkish men-of-war are, in
fact, in the channel, and seem to expect reinforcements
from some quarter, as their crews remain on the complete
war establishment, and a great quantity of ammunition is
sent on board. The Capitan Pacha, however, will not
command it, but will be succeeded by an experienced
seaman. Should these various reports be confirmed, the
Egyptians will soon be reduced to the defensive, and have
to make a dangerous retreat. Only 10 000 well disci-
plined troops are required, round which the scattered divi-
sion may rally, to dispute the victory with Ibrahim, and
prepare for him a very perilous retreat through Syria,
which is partly desert, partly desolated by war ; and
where, if be should be unfortunate, be would be as likely
to find enemies as he found adherents in his victorious
career. The people of the capital are made quite easy by
the hope of support from Russia, on which they entirely
rely. It is a strange phenomenon, to see the Porte in
close friendship with Russia, with which it has been, in
almost uninterrupted enmity ever since the time of Peter the
Great. The noble conduct of the Emperor Nicholas,
on this occasion, is indeed in harmony with
his acknowledged magnanimity and wisdom. Instead
of profiting by the embarrassment of the Porte, which he
might easily have done ; he is the only Monarch that
hastens to its support. Ile has already shown, by recalling
the Russian agents from Egypt, how much he disapproves
of its rebellion against its Sovereign ; and the late order to
Russian subjects to suspend all commercial intercourse
with the Egyptian ports till Nlehemed is subdued, proves
the consistency of the Russian Cabinet.—Allgemeine
Zeitung, Dec. 12.
Muivicu, DEC. B.—On the 4th three new Deputies
arrived here direct from Greece, who confirm the accounts
of the universal wish for the arrival of the King. One of
the Greek Deputies is to return to Munich as Minister
from Greece at the Bavarian Court.

His Majesty the King returned on the 6th, in the after-
noon, from Perl Ach, whither he had accompanied King
Otho. The Queen did not return to the capital till mid-
night, having accompanied her son as far• as Aibling.
The Greek Deputation, after a stay of nearly two
months, left us on the '7th, in the morning, and the Re-
gency is to set out to-morrow, the 9th.—Nuremburg
Correspondent, Dee. 10
Sala-RNA, Nov. 17.—The situation of the Porte is ex-
tremely critical ; it is threatened not only by external
attack by Ibrahim Pacha, but by divisions in the Divan
itself, which paralyse all its movements. There are still
in the Divan many adherents of the old system, who con-
sider all their misfortunes as consequences of the innova-
tions introduced by the Sultan, and even impute to him
as a crime, that he has slept under the same roof with
Franks, being of opinion that the Christians make use of him
to undermine the Mahometan religion. This party has most
of its adherents in the powerful class of the Ulemas, which
had lost much of its importance in the state bythe Sultan's
reforms. This party is, of course, displeased that the Sultan,
seeks assistance from foreign Christian Powers, against the
Arabs, their fellow believers. In the Assembly of the
Divan in which the question was put, whether, under
sneh trying circumstances, it might not be advisable to
apply to the Russian Emperor for assistance against Mae-
med Ali, such agitation ensued, that the Sultan, dreading
more serious consequences, caused the proposal to be with-
drawn, and an assurance to be given to the most influent
tial Members of the Divan, that he would never have as-
sented to this step, though he had received from the Em-
peror of Russia many marks of friendship, and was con-
vinced that he was the only foreign Monarch who wished
well to the Porte. While they are debating at Constantinople
about the propriety of asking foreign assistance, the
Egyptians are preparing to make the most advantage of
their victories, and in case of negotiations to impose the
hardest terms on the Sultan. In this critical situation
the Sultan must either be relieved, or must depart from
the course which he has hitherto followed with so much
perseverance; he must return to the old system, or be•
have with the same hypocrisy as Mehemet Ali ; that the
great majority of the Musselmen, who are still rigid ad-
herents to all the forms of the Coran, may consider
him as orthodox, and themselves bound to obey
him. But it is difficult for the Sultan to accom-
modate himself to such a party; and according to
his custom he will rather expose himself to the
greatest personal danger than renounce the completion
of his reforms. He may, therefore, not have been quite
in earnest in the ready withdrawal of the proposal to ap-
ply to Russia, for we know that negotiations are on foot
with England for the same purpose. This, however,
does not cause so much dissatisfaction as an application
to Russia would do, though many are especially averse to
England. The Sultan will need great energy and pru-
dence to maintain himself under such adverse circumstances.
Besides the unfavourable situation of his affairs at home he
has to contend with an enemy who leaves no means untried
to obtain their end. Every kind of seduction has been em-
ployed to induce the soldiers to abandon their duty. These
attempts have hitherto been unsuccessful, but considering the
perversity of some members of the Divan, they might, in the
end, produce some effect. It is said that Mehemet Ali lately
caused some overtures to be made to the Capitan Pacha, the
object of which was to get the Turkish fleet delivered up to
him, but which the Capitan Pacha rejected with contempt, and
immediately sent an account to the Sultan. He seems, how-
ever, to have thought it necessary to send several of his ships
to Constantinopl4 not trusting their crews.

VIENNA, Dec. 6.—Five per Cent., 84 ; Four per Cent.,
73 ; Bank Shares, I,oB3.—Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 and 10 Dec.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Bombay Papers to the 23d August has been received at the
North and South American Coffee-house.

The ship Fuzil, Cunim, after a very fine passage of only 15
days from the Mauritius, came in yesterday morning; she left
on the 2.cl inst., at which time every thing was quiet there.
A Singapore Paper of the tlst June, received at Calcutta,
announces that orders had reached Batavia from Europe, or-
dering the concentration of all the European forces of his
Dutch Majesty at Java.

The following has arrived by the French mail this morn-
ing :—A part of the artillery of the garrison of Brussels has
left for Venloo.

M. Nothomb, Secretary-General of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has set off for London with despatches.
Accounts from Oporto via Havre, say the greatest privations
are experienced by the Constitutionalists, and the inhabitants of

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that unfortunate city were under great alarm, owing to the conti-
nual bombardment by five of the Miguelite batteries placed on
the left side of the Douro, which day and night throw shells in
the town. The two great streets, des Fieurs and Bellemente,
have been the principal object of their bombardment. Most of
the houses are pierced with balls. The Convent of St. Do.
minique, at the extremity of one of the streets, and in which
was deposited all the merchandise was set on fire by a bomb
on the 27th October, and on the 29th was still smoking and
in ruins. The loss sustained is computed at a million of
crusades.

In the official despatch of General Gerard, he states that the
foul th parallel has been opened before the bastion of Toledo, as
also two new communications. One of them advances on the
glacis, on the left of the bastion of Toledo.
The accounts from Berlin mention that a Prussian army of
50,000 men is stationed on the frontiers of Prussia.
From Mayence they state that, for some days past, a great
number of heavy artillery has passed there, on their way for
the strong Prussian fortresses on the Rhine and Moselle.