The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

LIHIMICK, Dxc. 16.—This day, the Non-commissioned Offi-
cers, and entire Band and %glee of his Majesty's 24th Regi-
ment, dressed in the new military clothing, beat up for recruits
througk.this city, to replace a few men lately discharged on
some pensions. This ,Regiment is considered so favourite a corps,
that Wore it reaehed the bridge, nearly the umber required,
offered.

The first division of the 10th Regiment of Poot, three com-
panies, under 'the command of Major Grieve, 'marched this
morning for ButtevAnt, previous to embarking at Cove for fo-
reign service.

Pour Companies of the 66th Regiment from Birr, marched in
here yesterday, under the command of Major Baird. They will
occupy the Candle Barracks.

The Depot of the 86th Regimeng, tinder. Captain Stuart,
marched hence, for Roserea, on Aloil‘,7, to relieve put of the
66th Regiment.

Captain W. Ill'Leant, and company 6th Regiment, marched
from Cashel,.yesterday morning for Dublin.
bnaLtu, Dec. 22.,--The 58th is detached at Wicklow, Car-
low, Athy, and Maryborough.
The 17th Foot have left blullingar for Trim.
A detachment of 200 men from the depot of the Bad Regiment,
at present in Boyle, marched for Newry, on Monday, preparatory
to embarkation for Jamaidi. This detachment will he accompa-
nied .by the following Officers :-....Captain UNell,, Lieutenants
Norton, Fisk, Robinson, Markle; and Doctor King.
The 73d are to be stationed at Waterford, Duncannon Fort,:
Wexford, and Kilkenny.
The Recruiting 'Establishthint in the County Mayo is broken
up, and. Lieutenant Sadlier, 87th Regiment, bee been removed to
Tralest, to replace Lieutenant Byrnes, Sitth, who is ordered to
join his regiment. The Castlam. Sub-division has been joined to
that of Intim, and both are now under the superintendence of
Lieutenant Dunham, 15th Regiment.
The 15th Foot, in Galway, 'And 15th Regiment, in Castlebar,
are reported for imnlediate service.

SygotaLAtt BET.—A gentleman in this town haa,
for a bet of 204 undertaken to walk backwards 20 miles in five
aueeepive hour*, over a half-aide piece of ground an the Stret.
ford-road, on Tuesday next.-... Manchester Gazette.

FIRE AT PRESTON.—Between fire and six o'clock
this mornings fire broke out in the factory of Messrs. Sleddon,
North-road, and burnt with such fury, that in about two or three
hours, the whole of the , x tensive promises, with the exception of
about three rooms and the steam engine at the south end, have
been totally destroyed. All the town engines were in prompt at-
tendance, but the conflagration spread so rapidly that their efforts
were almost unavailing. The fire, i said, oreulioned by
an accidental explosion of the gaipipes. We have no time for
further pluticuturs,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. '

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Quotidienne.)

MADRID, DEC. 12.—(Private correspondence).—The
day after his arrival at Madrid, the King reviewed all the
Spanish troops who were in that capital. The Marquis
of Zambranos Minister of War' was at the head of the ca-
valry of the guaill, The satisfaction his Majesty enjoyed
at the sight of this fine troop was remarked by all the at-
tendants. It is to M. de Zambrano that we are indebted
for the brilliant state of the Royal Guard, and of the army
in general; he has achieved this prodigy in spite of the
embarrassed state of the Royal Treasury. With respect
to the militia, thanks to the efforts of M. de San Roman,
they are completely organized, and ready to march, in case
of necessity. This troop is composed chiefly of veteran
officers and soldiers of the army which fought for indepen-
dence, so that it might easily be transformed into a regular
troop.

Many regiments have been marched' towards the iron-
tier of Portugal, to form there a military line. It- ap-
pears that it is the intention of our Government to
have ~upon :this -point a 164 of 10,000 men, of whom
3,000 are of...the. Guard' Royal. These forces will
form two divisions, of which one will garrison the fron-
tier of the kingdom of Galicia, and the other the fron-
tier'. of Estremadura. Generals D'Espagne and Seed-
. field are designed for the command of these two divisions.
The last news we receivgd from Portugal confirms the
account of the victorious march of the Marquis de Chaves
upon Oporto. The Royalists have experienced no other
resistance beyond that which was opposed to them at Bra-
gauze. We learn that their number increases every day;
at their approach
.every country rises cn masse; the pea-
smart arm themselves ; there only remain old men to guard
the houses. The weak detachments of Constitutionalists,
which are not rallied under the banners of Don Miguel,
find themselves cut off from retreat, and edged in between
the Royalists and the armed peasantry. Such is the cri-
tical position of Generals Claudino and Correa Mello, who,
in the early part of December,wandered with some soldiers
upon the right bank of the Douro, without the means of
crossing it, the inhabitantifaf the left bank having with-
drawn every means of embarkation. All retreat upon
Oporto being impossible on account or the insurrections of
the inhabitants, the two Constitutional Chiefs must ne-
cessarily lay down their arms.
According taucconnts-from Lisbon that capital was, on
the 6th, in the .greatest tonfusion. Every one, dreading
the
.fature, was endeavouring to quit a city which in a few
days might become the scene of the most terrible catas-.
trophes. The Princess Regent had formally refused 'Oa
asylum which had been offered to her on board the English
vessels; she had even declared her formal intention. of
retiring to the Empress, her mother. I can confidently
predict that the defection will be general in the army, and
even in the Come, as soon as the Marquis of Chaves shall
have arrived within 2.5 or 30 leagues of Lisbon. Then we
shall see renewed the scenes of 1823; every one will en-
deavour
to treat with him, except, perhaps, the men who,
too openly attached to the English party, have so far com-
promised themselves as to be under the necessity of leaving
the country.

Some menacing words which, it is said, escaped Mr.
Lamb, lead to the belief that England wishes to profit from
the patristic ardour of the Portuguese, by attributing to
us its cause and its consequences; but we persist in be-
lieving that the French Government, the natural ally of
ours, will not deceive itself upon the too visible intentions
of the Cabinet of St. James's. If England persists in ren-
dering us responsible for what passes in Portugal, your
Government (at least, so we hope) would assist us to re-
ply to our common and perpetual enemy. It will not for-
get that, in more than one circumstance, Spain compro-
mised '
its own interests by remaining faithful to those of
France. Europe knows that, for these three years, we
supported patiently all the political insults of which it
pleased England to render us the • victims. To an-
noy us, she recognised the independence of our co-
lonies, after having furnished succours of every kind to
the insurgents of those countries; expeditions -piepared
on her soil, and paid by her agents, invaded our coasts;
it is to England that we are indebted for having sego
the flag of anarchy wave over us, when no act On
our part had *yoked such hostilities. Not only we
did not complain, but our Government pretended to be
ignorant of the real cause of these attacks. What, then,
can England 'allege against our Sovereign whose conduct
has been so noble and so forbearing ? Will she reproach
him for having wished to preserve us from the evils which
the political revolution of Portugal might bring on Spain ?
But since, in 1823, England gathered upon her vessels and
upon her soil, Mina and other Spanish Revolutionists,
have we not a right, in our turn, to give an asylum, in
1826, to the Portuguese Royalists ? It is possible that
our enemies may attack us, that our allies may abandon
us; that they may take fro us some portion of our ter-
ritory; but that which they' cannot take away is the justice
of our cause, and the pride of our character. United in
inclination and opinion with its Sovereign, the Spanish
nation, always remembering the war of independence, will
remain faithful to its religious principles, and to its national
glory. There is much talk here of an energetic declaritiOn
addressed by our Sovereign to all the Cabinets of Europe,
which the King, fully recognizing the great service ren-
dered to him by France in deliVering him from the Cortes,
invokes the 'generous support of the King against the
double menace of England and the revolution.

(From the Courier Francais of Saturday, Dec. 23.)
DRC. 22.--EMRARRASSED COUNTENANCE OP
THE 1111NIRTR1'.--ClUr Ministry is not gay, notwithstand-
ing the efforts which they make to appear united and firm.
They are agitated by melancholy forebodings, and conceal
.the symptoms of some internal malady; they do not sneer
their jotirnals any longer to speak, as if apprehensive. of
some indiscretion on their part. They hardly speak
themselVes • or, if they do, they take the !aconite! M. de
Dames for their mouth-piece, who, forgetting that he is no
longer in the Service of Ituisia, congratulates England in
his speech, for having gloriously fought against us during
twenty-five years. He has even the goodness to promise
to us similar success, if, ever we should be called upon to
defend the same' principles in our turn.

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A compliment more or less is of no consequence when
..our,new allies are to be caressed, who, however, evince no
great anxiety to return the compliment to our Ministers.
But what ,ean M. de Dames mean ? Have enigmascome into fashion?, Are they to supersede diplomatic
se-
crets, which l‘fr. Canning let , out a little by severe ex-
hortations to misgoverning kings ?
Against whom are we to wage se tedious a war as that
which England carried on against ourselves ? Where is
Legitimacy endangered, if not in Portugal, where Chaves
attacks them sword in hand, or in Spain,
where the Apos-
tolics sometimes exclaiin, for the sake of passing time
Long live Charles V !" instead of "Long live Ferdi.
nand VIL" -

The defence of Portugal has been left to the English;
„nothing is required of us but to cause the Charter to be
recognized, and the frontiers of that country to be respect-
ed by King Ferdinand, who is to remain for some time
under- our
..fri
..danee, if he succeed in appeasing the ven-
geance of England, and our just reaentment.
According to M. de Dammed free!), we have but one.
chance of an enemy—of a declared enemy, since we have
already recalled our Ambaasador, namely Spain, should
she persist in refusing to give satisfaction to England, to
Portugal, and to ourselves, all three make common cause
Portugal,togetherand of
t o
preventthe consequences of her hostility against
her scorn of
flown councils.
But should such -a struggle break out, and should we re-
main linked with I.,:riglan& and Portugal as we now are,
and form a triple alliance against Spain, we have already
111 the principal fortresses, as
Thus it is not probable that this
Ethnegala advantage andtaoegse eoitbra crtarcu.
struggle against Spanish Absolution . and Apostolicism
should last as many years as that of the Cabinet of London

against the French Revolution did. So much thebettot
For England finds already that Pitt and Castlereagh
her pay somewhat dearly, for. that glory. ,to which M. do
Damao permits us. to aspire.- During all thatglory 11)(1
had our share of it, which most of those who now calum.
niate us thought brit too brilliant, and which M. de Dst°'
must have surely heard them talk of in the Russian camp.
But really we have no occasion to envy or' to reproduce the
glory of any one. Every body has his own in his turn, p.er•
haps even M. de Dumas, when he hastened, to d tamps*
in Catalonia, which, together with the protection of
h.
de Chateaubriand, whom he succeeded, procured him the
office which seems to embarrass him so much under M. de
Villele's supremacy.
Our Ministry, which does not seem a your one either
to France, upon whom it pressed already so long owl
su
heavily, resembles much those young girls who moil
against their inclinations, but who resign themselves fur
fear of being deprived of their portion • they grow melan-
choly and -silent after their wedding, which they scarce
Villele had married Mr. Canning,
dare to acknowledge. We might almost say, M. e
ill calculated for the match, which produced already guch
high words.
The colleagues of • M. de .Villele, who do not appea!;,,,t!
have been initiated into the secret; have some little (1,1,
culty to pronounce the word alliance with England.
why should they feel so awkward if the conditions of tn,t't
contract are useful and honourable ? Why not
`rho
them to the Chamber for extunination, and to France, ich
would judge them in the last instance ?
and that he felt himself