The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-04 00:00:00

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1826,

We received on Saturday night the yrench Papers
of Thursday and the Mite of Friday morning, but
they do not contain any thing worth extracting. The

French Funds left off on Thursday evening, the 5
per Cents. at 99f. 85c., and the 3 per Cents. at 71f. 85c.

The Message of the Mexictut President, on con-
voking an extraordinary Meeting of Congress, has
been received,: It relates principally to objects of
local interest ; but that part of it which. expresses a
determination to support public credit is of mere
general application. We subjoin parts of it
" CITIZEN DEPITTIES —I have availed myself of the power
vested in me by the Constitution, to convoke this extraordinary
Meeting of Congress. • '
" Matters of the utmost importanee demand your most serious
attention. It is by the slow hand of time, that works, wisely
commenced, are brought to perfection. If it were possible to
transact in the two periods of the Constitutional Sittings of the
Chambers all that is necessary Jro the advancement of the Repub-
lic, this new claim would not have been made on your time—nor
would you again have been culled upon for a new display of pa-
tience, for new anxiety, and new exertions. But as the elements
of society unfold themselves, its necessities multiply, and the
cares or its guardians 9f necessity increase. It is for you then,
gentlemen, to guide the infait steps of this young republic—it is
to you she looks for these lessons of justice, And those oracles of
initruction, so necessary to her progress—it is to you she commits
the guidance of her destinies.
" She depends on her public credit—that basis on which all
nations depend. The civilized world fixes its eyes on the prudence
of the legislators of Mexico. Good faith in contracts, the due
performance of prionises, are the ties of friendship with one people
and another.

" Of all the laws necessary for the final arrangement of the tree-
,
the regulation of commerce is the most urgent ; because it
affects the interests of the first order, not only as it • concerns our-
selves, hut as it concerns the whole universe.
" There will be submitted, for the consideration of the Con-
gress, the treaties concluded between !Ida Government and foreign
nutions.
"The Frocutive will examine, with the greatest attention, the
compact of the great American Assembly in Panama.
." Agriculture, commerce, and industry, all demand the im-
provement of our roads.
" Desertion in an army ought to_be cut off like a cancer; and
the inefficient), and complicated nature of the existing laws ou
this subject are palpable.
" The Executive recommends very particularly this important
subject, as the army is the firmest prop of our independence. Mi-
litary justice at present is without a head, until the duties of the
Supreme Tribunal of War are regulated, which at present also is
charged equally with the affirirs of the Marine Service.
" The active Militia, which is the bulwark of the public liberty,
imperiously calls for the finishing hand to its organization.
" The Officers of the Commandants Generals' Veteran Com-
panies of the Coasts, and every thing necessary for the defence of
the nation shall occupy the attention of the Chambers."
The remainder of the speech refers merely to internal arrange-
ments, of no great interest to our readers.

It is stated by the Portsmouth Paper, on the au-
thority of communications with his Majesty's ship
Forte, which lately returned from Lisbon, that the
detachment of Royal Marines which had been landed
from our squadron in the Tagus, as a body guard to
the PalNcEss REGENT, had re-embarked, having
been relieved by Portuguese troops, which had re-
turned from the Algarves. The following is an ex-
extract oi a private letter from Lisbon

" LitißOX, ikol i an i: :1 ,
4,--. aae poolica, state of Portugal appears
tilumsgra.teia,t‘.4ctu_rotcnertainty ; which i* not so much pro-
still involved
thie
f;anifuhthings,
dueed by
orga-
nization of the new'
0ri.,1,
of
the public mind towards the
as by the encouregeMent
awnhditbhigiosttgeidvepnarbtres in the Government to the more factious
but such is the fact, that the country.bry It appears scarcely credible,
marchits even of pirate row-boats,
tea his own kingdom from tl►e insults even
who cannot pro-
has seriously dared to threaten toa force into Portugal, to
join the Royalists, as they are celled, and put down the Consti-