The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-13 00:00:00

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LONDON,
IVEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. la, 1626.

The proceedings in 'Parliament last evening, have
thrown new lustre over the glory of Great Britain.
National faith and national honour have been not only
preserved inviolate, but advocated with a zeal and
fervency, by men of all parties, honourable to our
country, and cpnclusively proving, that at any sacri-
fice, and under any circumstances, Great Britain will
! fulfil her treaties, and that her co-operation may be
depended upon by her Allies in the hour of danger. To
describe the magnificent Speech of Mr. Canning on
this occasion, or the effect it produced on the minds
of all who heard it, would be as impossible as to de-
scribe the wind and its power. His matchless elo-
quence was' fired with patriot zeal, 'and' irresistibly en-
gaged in the holy cause which it dwelt upon, every
man whose feelings were . not blinded, by the sordid
considerations of interest, to. !the sacred duty
of performing.. the conditions of solemn engage-
ments. •TO the report of his • speech, therefore,
and to those of Earl BATHURST and other Noble
Lords and Honourable Members, alike breathing the
language of honour and good faith, we mint refer our
readers, reminding them only that the page of our history
will record the events of the past days as the brightest
in our annals. The fulfilment of a Treaty was asked
on Friday Jest ; on 'Saturday it was determined by Mi-
nisters to fulfil these engagements of the country ; on
Sunday his MAJESTY gave his full approval to the
measures proposed ; on Monday his Royal Message
was deliveredlo Parliament ; on Tuesday both Houses
cordially and triumphantly sanctioned the intentions
Of the Government ; this day a fleet and an army
are upin ; and, before ten short days are passe4,
the Standard-of England will be planted in Portugal,
" not for the .purpose of g.overning or dictating to her
people, but to afford her defence from foreign hostility
and foreign dominion."

In his magnificent address to the House last night,
Mr. CANNING somewhat too distrustingly, we think,
alluded to the spread of opinion, which the approach-
ing war with Spain might engender. He seemed to
think that we were letting loose a monster on society,
who would never cease his devastations till Europe
sunk beneath his sway. Surely this is an overstrained
view of the subject ; the public opinion, which Mr.
CANNING deprecates, is no monster—but a Redeemer,
a moral and political Redeemer, who associated in re-
collection, with all that is great and glorious in
European history, has now come in the ninth hour
.to free Portugal, (and, perhaps, the world), from the
Jesuitical despotismof a besotted bigotry. It is not
revolutionary opinions that the present crisis is send-
ing forth to the world ; but those by which "we have
acquired our past, and secured our present triumphs ;
namely, an enlightened toleration in religion, a tem-
perate freedom in Government, and a limited and
legal monarchy...' These opinions the Spanish war
will, undoubtedly,' spread far and wide, but these,
thank God, need never be subjects of apprehension to
us. We now draw our 'swords in the holy cause of
freedom, while the despotism against which we go
boldly forth to battle, is on the eve of being, offered
up as a sacrifice to those opinions which Mr. CAN-
NING deprecates, even while his enlightened mind
adopts them. With regard to the Spanish Govern-
ment we should say (might we venture to indulge in
speculation),
the present war ends in mere smoke, or whether the
blast of the British trumpet shall be heard sounding
the call to freedom through every part of Spain, mat-
ters not ; the free opinions of England have gone
forth, the minds of all Europe have been stirred, and
the vast moral avalanche that hangs tottering over the
head of FaRDINAND, wants but the breath of such
excitement to dislodge it. So much for public opinion;
-against which Spain has for years been warring, and to
which she will at last be sacrificed.

In the Second Edition of our Paper of yesterday,
we announced the arrival of Lisbon Papers to the sth
inst., and intelligence from Oporto to the 2d.
These
papers, and private letters received at the
MIME time, abound with matter of the highest import.
mice and interest, but in consequence of want of
space' we can offer no observations on their contents,
but must refer our readers to the extracts from them,
which will be fotind in` another column.

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Li addition to the extracts from the Lisbon Papers,
we subjoin a Proclamation from Major-Gen.
STUBBS,
Governor
O.
Oporto,
upon the inhabitants
f
to aid in the military defence of the City against the
Royal Forces:—

4, PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL STUBBS.
" Portuguese !...The traitorous faction of our -desertion have
dared to pass the frontiers, and to attack Braganm
where they
met with a vigorous resistance. Their'perfidious emissaries, im-
posing upon the simple inhabitants of Trite-oil-Monte', by mean.