The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-20 00:00:00

DIVIDENUR.

J. Dow, Ithodes-well, Bow Common, Middlesex, rope-maker,
Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—R. Winatanley,
jou., King-street, Cheapside,,and G. Hudson, Manchester, sme-
ll/no:emu, Dec. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—
IL T. Robinson, Gun-street, Old Artillery-ground, silk-triknufac-
three, Dec. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—R.
Rossi, Harp-lane, Tower-street, wine-rnerchant, Jan. 12, at ten,
at the Court of Commissioners--f 3. Champion, Bristol, merchant,
Jan. 12, at one, at the Commercial-room, Bristol—S. Jones,
King's Arms-buildings, Wood-street, `Cheapside, lace-manufac-
turer, Jan. 9, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Brown,
Liverpool, merchant, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the office of Alessi...
.Parkinson and Culchetir, Liverpool.---J. Haycock, of St._
Alban's, grocer, Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Cour tof Commissioners.
W. Rogers, Lad-lane, silk-warehouseman, Jan. 12, at one, at the
Court of CoMmissioneri—j. C. Harker, Old Bond-street, Picca-
dilly, jeweller, Jan. 19, at ten, at the Con&of Commissioners—
'l% Foster, Maidenhead, draper, Dec. 29, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners—C. Hooper, Throgruorton-street, insurance-
broker, Jan. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—. Geo.
Johnson, King-Stanley, Gloucestershire, wool-broker, Jan. 12, at
ten, at the Court of Commissioners—S. Porsaith, Shoreditch,
haberdasher, Dec. 29, at eleven, at the, Court of Conirnissianers—
J. Morris, jun. Oareed-street; wine-merchant, Jan. 12, at' ten, at
the Court of Commissioners—T. Denman, .014 Bond-street; Pic-
cadilly, tailor, Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners
—G. Beat; Spring-iardens, wine-merchant, Jan. 12, at ten, at
the Court of Cornintssioners--Richard C. Scholey, Doncaster,
grocer, ;January 18, at five, at the Guildhal4 Doncaster—
Samuel Starling, Poole,' hatter, January 26, at eleven, at
the London Tavern, Poole—Richard Drahwell, Doncaster,
grocer, Jan. 18, at five, at the Guildhall, Donerister..--W.
Whitehaveu, currier,, Jan. 8, at three, at the Black Lion,
Whitehaven—J. :Woods and li. Williams, Hastings, grocers,
Jan, 9, at ten,- at the Court of CoMmisaioners—E. L. !Veber,
Reekluanstend, brandy-merchant, Jan, '9, at eleven, at the Court
of Commissioners-1 Rutter, Winterton, Lincolnshire, merchant,
Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Dog and Duck tavern, Kingston-upon-
filason, Little Tin/rack, Esiei,hay-dealer, Dec. 22, at
one, at the Court of Cennissioners—G. Clarke, Basinghall-
street, Blackwell-hall-factor, March 2, at ten, at the Court of
Conunissionere—F. and S. Shute, Crediton, Devonshire, wool-
len-manufacturers, Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Old London Inn,
Exeter—R. Pomeroy, jun. Befallen), Devonshire, banker, Fa. 2,
at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners--P. D. Abbott, Powis-
*ON Great Ormond-street,-street, insurance-broker, Jan. 2, at eleven,
at the Court of Commissioners---W. Stratford, Essex,
litationer, Jan.
16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners.

CERTIFICATES... 4 A N 9.
W. Hudson, Paddock root, if innkeeper—H. Mon-
son and J. Tucker, Coburg-street, St. Pancras, carpenters—W.
King, Shepton-Montague, komersetildre, dealer—R. Simpson,
ikilincliester, corn-dealer—11. Gardner, Paradise-street, Bother-
), ithe, cabinet-maker—D. Carr, Birmingham, grocer—J. Mdell,
Oxford-street, costii-maker—J. Easterly'', Fenchurch-atreet, mer-
chant-. 1. Samerfield, Illoxwich, Staffordshire, awl blade maker
—D. Gilbert, Oxford, coach-rnaster....E. IL Humberston, J.
Dunning, and G. Fletcher, Kingstou,uptin-Hull, Merchants.
PARTNERBRIPs .DISSOLVED.
T. Crook and J. Holland,. Manchester, stationera.:-.T. Mills
'awl H. D. Canning, Furnival's liras, ettorneye-.4. Levy and Co.

Walbrook, vitriol manufacturers—J. Jellicorse and J. Slingsby,
Manchester, warehousemen—C. Binns and F. Boardman, Man-
chester, attorneys—J. Duckworth and P. Ormerod, Ilaslingden,
Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers—F. Philips and Co. Manches-
ter,•merchants—J. Carr ,:stn. and Co. Northumberland colliery.__
J. Evitts and J. Taylor, White Lion-street, Norton Fulgate, silk-
manufacturers—W. Bartlett and. G. Bartlett, Great St. Andrew-
street, Seven Dials, potato-merchants—J. Kay and Co. Chorl-
ton-row, Lancashire, linen-drapers—C. King and. H. Hanbury,
Basingball-street, woollenArapers—S. Gray and H. ,Gray, 'Earl-
street, Blackfriars, livery-stable-keepers--N.' Bingham and R.
Wake, Piccadilly, surgeons—B. Raymond and Co. Ipswich, mer-
ehants—J. N. Bryan and W. &Wetland, Leeds, Yorkshire,
stuff-merchants—T. ,Flockton and J. Smith, Sheffield, Yorkshire,
sawyers—W. W. Staff and J. Chamberlin, Norwich, welters-,
J. T. Boucher and W. Porter, Yeovil, Somersetshire, boyksellers
—W. Anderson and T. Brown, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, book-
sellers--A. Booker and S. Hancock, Radford, Nottinghtimshire,
fraine•amiths--R. Gibson and W. Taylor, York, tnaltstnrs--G.
Harvey and J. Unitt, York-street, Southwark, mustatil-ruann-
facturers—N. C. Coßison and Co. London,
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Bowie and Lamb, of Glasgow, merchants, Dec. 10 and Jan.
10, at one, at the Prince of Wales's Tavern, Gldsgoter.
John Boyd, aen., of Stonefield, near Paisley, factor, Dec. 23,
and Jan. 6, at one, at the Saracens Head Inn, Paisley.
Thos. Kirkpatrick, of Glasgoiv, manufacturer,' Dec. 26 and
Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Prince of Wales's Tavern, Glasgow.
And. Wilms', of Dunbar, merchant, Dec. 29 and Jan.; 12; at
one, at Loritiffr's Inn, Dunbar,
Robert Rusiell, of Milnathort, wheelwright, Dec. 21 and Jan.
10, at two, at the house of Rob. Muir, vintner, Milnathort.
David Allan, of Glasgow, manufacturer, Dee. 28 and Jen. 15,
at three, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. .

FOREIGN. INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Etoiledated Monday.)
Accounts from the Frontiers of Russia, dated Dec. 4, are to the
following effect :
News from St.. Petersburgh of the 25th November, say that the
Marquis de Ribeaupierre, who, with Count Woronzow, directed
the conferences at Akermann, had arrived in that capital with the
convention ratified by the Sultan. It was said that he was im-
mediately to set out again, to proceed to Constantinople as Am-
bassador, on the one band to press the convention of Akermann,
on the other to 'open negotiations relative to the pacification of
Greece, according to the agreement concluded between England
and Russia on the 4th August, or rather to join in the neg-ocia-
tions already commenced on the subject by the English Ambas-
sador at Constantinople. The protocol of the conferences of the
4th Apia, between the Duke of Wellington and Count Sressel-
rode, is to serve as the basis of the negotiations ; and there is the
more reason to hope a favourable result, as the Porte is in such
a situation that it must necessarily accept the proposals Made to
it. If it should refine, there is no doubt that it will be . threa-
tened with a new ultimatum, which, this time, would be probably
European.

' LIES OF THE DAY.
The Quoadienne_.lt is certain that the Ministry has deapatch-
ed a courier to Madrid, with an order for the meal of the French
troops in that city.
The Couldilidiunnel—The whole, of its second article Paris.
The follo;wing note was omitted yesterday under the article—
" LieS4 the *day" :
" Marquis de Moustier arrived in the night of Wednesday, and
the next morning he was seen at the levees of the Minister for
Foreign 'Affaiii, and of the President of the Council."
MADRID,' t),:u. 7.—Ycateiday being the Anniversary of the
birth-day of the Queen, there was a grand gala and presentation
at Court. More than 1,200 persona were prevent, In the even-
ing the theatres were illumine:A.
The corvette la Zefriro, and the brigs la Guadiana end /a
Relampago; which lately left Ferrol to cruise on the coasts of
Galicia, brought, on the 25th of November, into the port of Vigo
a brig and a galliot, hearing the English flag, which thiy had
seized as contraband,

For several days no positive information has ken received of
the movements of the Portuguese Insurgents in the province of
Tres-os-Montes. It is known only, by way of Lisbon, that they
had entered Chaves; yet, if we may believe the reports, not
official, and, as yet little diffused, they made themselves
masters of Villa Real, and of the bridge of Amarante, and a
raipular insurrection had forced the Constitutional troops to
beat a yetreat, and to repass the isaro, abandoning the road to
In Was saidTetitelttay, that the 'Marmots. who cower(' the
province of Beim had been .defeated. This intelligence is not
yet confirmed.
•

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It is not known whether the deserters, Ivho took refuge in
Andalusia, had, like the others, invaded Portugal.
Note of the Etoile. —The news of the 12th speak of the sato.
uncertainty= at Madrid, as to the events in Portugal.'
4 Of course the Etoile knows as well as we do, that this ignu.
ratii.e is most probably a meta politic pro-Once.

(From the Quotidicutte of Sunday.)
PA MS, Dec. 16.—1 n our last number we made some obser-
vations on that passage of Mr. Canning's speech where he mid-
feats his polities] intentions respecting the occupation of Spain by
the French troops. •
All the world has been mach amazed at these attinge expres,
sions, which the English Minister maile use of on tbat topic in
Parliament. Every man with a generous and patriotic heart. in
his bosom must sigh deeply at the situation of our country, aril
at the thought of the melancholy,effects of an alliance which, in
its very first operations, entails upon us contempt and insult. Not
content with bitterly inveighing against the principles on which our
expedition to the Peninsula rested, the English Minister has als6
tarnished the glory of our arms, and spoken of that campaign as
a species of political disgraae, which make our statesmen even
now, blush.

Nor is this all ; fur the English "Moister boasts of having con-
ceived end prepared this event. His policy has changed the oc-
cupation of Spain by the French Army into a matter of real our-
barrisiMent to France, whilst his greater Aill in politics opened
to England the ports of South America. Mr. Canning acknow-
ledges all this Machiavellian'. And, pray, against whom has he
employed it? Against a Power which, in fact, he proclaims to
be his cloiest ally. What sort of.an alliance is this? What friends
are these ?

We need not say any more to boperfectly :understood by our
Itoyalist readers. Another passage of this speech might have at
tracted attention, that passage not being less characteristic of Eng-
lish policy, which reveals to us the horrible secret of the revolu-
tion in Portugal. What friend of his country and of legitimate
Government could have helped shuddering at hearing the British
Minister appeal to all the discontented and to all the RevoJuan-
. niets in both hemispheres ? Mr. Canning has not hesitated to
compare the powers which-he wields to the divinity-who unchains
the winde ; and, to set !wide the figurative style, who are the sub-
jects and faithful auxiliaries of this modern -:4;olus, unless they be
revolution, regicide, discord ; and, in one word; all the evils and
crimes to which revolutions give birth? Such are the allies and
supports which-are invoked amongst a people which boests to be
foremost, and at the:heti of civilization. At this rate the English
Ambassador, Sir Charles Stuart; was at his landing at Lisbon only
the Messenger of AL'oltts, and the institutions which he brought
to the Portuguese nation, were nothing less but the bags in which
the God of Winds sometimes conceals his growling tempests. The
Latin poetstre frequently quoted in the English Parliament; but
it might be- admitted that the testimony of the ancients was never
yet employed in thedefince of such a novelty. Instead of choosing'
his comparisons in 'Virgil, would not Mr. Canning have done better
to take them from Milton, whose principal personage endeavours
to raise all the power* of hell-and all the passions of man against
the laws established by the Creator?
It seems to be a matter of certainty that telegraphic intelligence
has this day arrived from Madrid; dated the 12th of December ;
but the Ministry has Rot suffered any part of the contents of the
despatches to transpire; from whence we may conclude that the
Portuguese Royalists had made further progress. It is certain
that the'Miniatry below a courier to Madrid, who carries thither
the order for the recall of . the- French troops which are in that
town. But this order dour not relate to .the corps at Cadiz and
at Barcelona. The French troops
are therefore no longer in
Spain as the allies and protectors of a friendly Government, but
as victors, to keep the fruit of their conquest, and to threaten the
Spanish Government with- hostilities which have been concerted
with Mr. Canning. • •

(From-the Journal des De6iits of Sunday.)
PARIS, DEC. 16.-•.-At the moment when the civil war, urged
forward with fury by the sposcolical party in Spain, is about to
assume a new character by the armed opposition of a regular Go-
verntuent, we think • it our duty to present tome reflections to our
readers, which may enable them to foresee the melt of the eon-
tett, independent of the events of each successive day, and the
emotion* they produce.
The greatest progress of civilisation consists in having subjected
the dispute* between Nations, between Sovereigns and between the
Members of the reigning Family, to the deeishms of reason. -The
establiehmeut of a legal order, now called the-Corratitutional Sys-
tem, is the last step of this progress, because it itibitits the dis-
putes which sometimes break out betiveen the people and those
who govern them to the same tribunal. For. this very reason the

Monkish party has a' horror of Constitutions ; and it will not ad-
mit that Kings can recognise any rights in them ; because, where
a legal order reigns, the ambition of the theocracy- finds a limit to
its usurpations

If the Spanish Monks have hastened to carry civil war into
Spain ; if they have openly denied the right of intervention to the
diplomacy of Europe, it is because they feel a necessity to get rid
of every appeal to reason, by immediately instituting an appeal to
force. Nothing is, more ridiculous than decisions as to rights
when the sword is drawn, for things change while they are Under-
going discussion ; and no person supposes that the party which is
victorious, by violating all rights, will subsequently acknowledge,
them, when they would deprive him of the fruits of his victory.
Between Don Pedro and Don Miguel—between the Absolutists
and the Constitutioualists—between the Revolution and the
Counter-Revolution, there can only be a war of extermination,
proscriptions without end ; if England had not interfered as a re-
gular power—throwing in the way of parties by the form she has
adopted, the superiority of treaties and of the laws of nations, such
as are generally recognised in Europe. '
Even if it be true, that the Spanish Government has not con-
tributed to arm the Portuguese refugees in its territory, as it
could have prevented that armament, it is responsible for it.—
This principle has always been acknowledged by nations.—
Portugal is connected with England by treaties ; in virtue of
these treaties, it asks the assistance of England—not against a
discontented party in the interior, but against Spain, accused
of having favoured, or of not having prevented, this invasion.—
England answers to the appeal of her ally, being formally com-
pelled by treaties formed before the events, and its first care is, to
provoke a discussion in Parliament, in order to justify its conduct
before all regular Governments. Events will immediately change
their character to civil war, with all its accompanying horrors—
' to this will succeed a war of Government against Government:
the laws of nations will re•assuine sill their force ; and diplomacy,
to which the monks had refused to submit, will find itself superior
to them, who will, in the end, be severely chastised by the Spanish
Government, now accused of being their accomplice, but which
has prudently begun by diSavowing then!. England, then, is per
forming a great service to Europe, in bringing back to reason the
last appeal made to force by the spiriVof faction ; for an appeal to
force, whether made in the name of religion, of the sovereignty of
the people, or of the three legitimacies in dispute, is never any
thing but a crime against civilization—a return to barbarism.
This is true policy, and so we must tegard it, though the mist
which our apostolicals and absulutiets endeavour to throw over it,
if we desire not to be deceived in our opinions. '
With this view we distinguish political truth from every other
species of truth; because political truth is sufficient in speaking of
political things.
Our intervention with Spain bas not led, and cannot lead, to
any conclusion. Summoned by one party, we could only enable
it to triumph, and be embarrassed by its victory. We are so
now, and more than ever. In the system of legitimacy with
which we interfered, we ought, before all things, to have treated
with the King of Spain, the only regular Government in our view
—we ought to have regulated with him the political and financial
haveconcl iktinoonlsv
nofbtehfeorseuiciacno
durthwaet tllrieerree ,troasg invoe h
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ought to
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party, because a party is never satisfied. The Spanish Apostoli-
cals have cruelly reminded us of this truth, and the conciliatory
voice of the, conqueror has been stifled by the ferocious cries of
those who owed their safety to us.

England, on the contrary, advances towards Portugal in the
rigorous forms of politics, and it will be remarked that the Mi-
nister who has raised up the standard of opinions that might move
the world, has carefully rejected from his speech every thing that
could make general a belief that England was arming for the sake
of opinions. He has insisted on the faith, and has demanded the
execution of treaties ; he excuses himself for having wanted fore-
sight, but it was to be expected that the faithful Ally of Great
Britain would claim her assistance; he finds himself ready to
grant.it, as if by enchantment ; and yet the political and finan-
cial results of cooperation have bon regulated beforehand ; and
beforehand also have the conaequences, almost incalculable, of
this warlike movement bcea foreseen in all their points and in
their most exaggerated developements. The English Ministry
had solemnly promised not to interfere between the parties—they
keep their words in raising to the level of a war between regular
-Goverrmients.' In the present state of things in the Peninsula,
'this is to render a great service to Europe, the Governments of
which would be much more speedily destroyed by the war of in-
dependent parties, than by those opinions to which no impor-
tance is attached.

Our. Absolutists and Apostolic*ls would not believe in the
possibility of this resolution of England, and they supported their
view, 4,1* state of her finances. 'this is a question tit shsll"
,eamine.by and by. We aleo ativft-t to the reason isity the
great majority of the Portuguese are cold towards the charter of
Don Pedro, and why there is not the same enthusiasm on the
side of the party in posieaion as is displayed by the party which
attacks.

To judge according to the general relations of politics, in the step
inst taken by Great Britain, it will be seen that we have kept out
of view all participation by France in this great queztiOn, and
that we found in the Message of the King of England, whoenu-
tuerates our Sovereign among his Allies. This is true. Except
of Spain, England will remain the Ally of every nation of
Europe, to the great disappointment of the Radicals in England
and Apostolicals in France.

We will only remark, that Mr. Canning had taken care to avoid
the word intervention, in order to retain the right of asking our
Ministry, if the troops which we retain in Spain interfere or co-
(nitrate ? For the troops which are in a foreign country must be
there for some purpose. Mr. Canning has laid it down as a:faet,
that Spain has interfered in the disputes of Portugal—that Portu-
gal was at war with Spain, and that England ought to co-operate
in the war in favour of her faithful ally. Shall we see the same
Ministers who have expended 300,000,0001. plane us in a situa-
tion which is always dangerous, for it has always been without
influence, deny and condemn their own work ? We must not
conceal from ourselves, this result would place France below her
dig city—would injure its foreign importance and its interior se-
curity, for nations will have consistency in the power which re-
gulates their motions. We accept willingly the words of the
King's Speech, applicable to the warlike virtues of our people,
and have only produced an *extraordinary sensation, because .the
events of .the day seen to give them a peculiar meaning, But
warlike virtues have
:never been independent of the political system
which guides them. Who can know this better than France ?
In absolute Governments, a change of political system is almost
always the consequence of uncertainty and weakness. In repre-
sentative Goverpments a change of policy is often an ameliora-
tion, the first effect of which is to unite the National assent with
power. This change has, thee, its conditions. It would require
but little knottledgegot the human heart to believe that 'it would
pardon Ministers the' evil which they bad dene to their personal
interests, because they could no longer persist in it without dan-
ger to them. This would be to deprive the Government of all
the hopes which are attached to meliorations; this would be to
forget that warlike virtues in all times, and in all countries, have
never, produced . all their advantages, except from the direction
they have received from national policy. Without that, what do
battles become?

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTMO or MIR 16TH OF DXCIAIDEIt.

The President took his seat According to aettiority. The
Chamber then proCeeded, for the third time, to a scrutiny for
the nomination of five candidates for the PresidencY. After con-
siderable delay, on account of the absence of the necessary number
of Members, the scrutiny took place, and the candidates then de-
clared, ,were Messrs. Raves, De la Riguudie,- De Montmorency,
and the Prince de &ire. Another scrutiny 101 take place on
Monday, fur the nomination. of the fifth candidate.
. The Chamber adjourned at a quarter after six o'clock.
Lasttow, Dec. s.—The following is the tenor of the Nute ad-
dressed by Don Francois d'Altueida, Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, to his Excellency the Count de Casa Flores, Ambassador of
Spain. _ _

" The undersigned Minister Secretary fur Foreign Affairea,
has the honour to communicate to his Excellency the Count de
Cusa Flores, that the Governor of the provice
,of Alentejo an-
nounces, of the date of yesterday, that there has entered Villa
Viciosa, a body, composed of Portuguese rebels, who had fled
into Spain, who, for the purpose of this invasion, had received
arms from the Spanish Authoritiel. It also appears, from the
report of the Governor of Alentejo, that five hundred muskets
have been peasants, who were on
the frontiers,
park of artillery was preparing to leave
asturdibuted that ato the Portuguese
Badajoz, by superior orders, to go end join the insurgents—the
whole against the right of Nations, and contrary to the reiterated
assurances given so often to the undersigned, by the Count
de Casa-Flores, to the Count de Villa-Real, and to the Mi-
nister of his Britannic Majesty at Madrid, by hie Excellency
M. Salmon.

seeing ►o strange an event, entirely unknown among civi-
lized widen*, the undersigned is obliged to communicate to his
Excellency the Count de Casa-Flores, according to the orders re-
ceived by him to that effect from the Princess Regent, that if the
Government of his Catholic Majesty shall not give clear and sa-
tisfactory explanations concerning so unheard-of an insult, his
Excellency the Count de Casa-Flores will be considered as
tius-
pended from his-functions of. Ainhassidor.
'"The undersigned has the honour to inform his Eicelleng, the
Count de Casa-Flores, .that all necessary measures have been (tdopt-