The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-14 00:00:00

ADVICES FROM PORTUGAL.

The rebels who penetrated into the province of Alentejo, be-
kug, at least the greatest part of them, to the regiments No. 2,
of cavalry, and Nu. 17 of infantry, who bad formerly deserted
from the same province. They were positively furnished by the
Spanish authorities with arms and every equipment, notwith-
standing the repeated promises made by the Spanish Government.
The deserters who entered Portugal through the province of
Tras-os-Montes, belonged to the regiments II and 24, and were
beaded by the Marquis de Chaves, bringing, besides, in their
train, many individual deserters from other corps, a number of
Spanish lancers, and several peasants, Portuguese and Spaniards,
armed and embodied in guerillas, which devastate the dwellings
and villages through which they pass.
Will any respectable wan still doubt that this is the casus
.faderis 9 _ _

.The Portuguese Government seems to take all possible means.
to crush the rebellion. The corps which have already marched
from Lisbon are all commanded by persons of undoubted confi-
dence. The enthusiasm throughout all classes in Lisbon, and the
resolution of maintaining themselves, and preserving for their de-
scendants the institutions granted by a generous Sovereign, are as
strong as can be wished; and the two Houses, composing the
General Cortes, have shown great spirit, tempered by an admira-
ble moderation. The militia have been armed in part, and a
number of young men, belonging •to the nobility of the king-
dom, had armed themselves, and bad already marched against the
rebels.

The famous circular which the Spanish Government addressed
to the Portuguese and other Governments of Europe, pretend-
ing the expedition to have advanced under specific orders for the
disarming of Portuguese deserters, the expulsion from Spain of
the Marquis de Chaves, and Viscount de Canellas, &c. &c., which
has already appeared in the newspapers, is signed the 27th No-
vember, namely, the day after the Spanish Government was
fully acquainted with the entrance of those deserters into Portugal,
and of course, with the impossibility of the 'execution of those
orders which they pretended to give, as all the arms belonging to
the Portuguese deserters had been previously restored to them,
and as the Marquis de ,Chaves had already entered Portugal when
the order was issued for his leaving Spain. Never was a greater
or more palpable perfidy than this committed by the Govern-
ment of a civilized nation. Observing the unanimity which
prevails in all the sensible part of the Portuguese nation,
it appears evident that great arts must have been prac-
tised, awl much money expended, to sedum the ignorant
soldiery, who cannot distinguish betwixt right and wrong, and
who, unhappily accustomed to think-themselves entitled to inter-
fere in the political changes of their country, (all former attempts
to that effect having succeeded and never been punished), were led
by a tow despicable, low, ambitious courtiers, to raise the stan-
dard of revolt, and light the fire-brands of civil war, in the coun-
try of their birth, expecting to be held up as true Royalists, and
being perhaps received as liberators by some poor ignorant pea-
sants on the frontiers, into whom fanatical ideas had bees► inspired,
and who thought that liberal institutions were necessarily level-
led against religion and the King ; but even front those, the sen-
timents publicly expressed by the first men of the nation, and by
the Patriarch himself, and by the Bishops before the assembled
Collet, will have the effect of removing their delusion, and open-
ing their eyes on the subject.