The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-08 00:00:00

LIES OF THE DAY.

The Constitutionnel—M. de Semonville has sent back
an invitation which he received from Count Appony.
The Quotidienne—The Bank, in its report, has pointed
out the distress of our merchants, and the unexampled
efforts of its capital to assist our commerce (1).
The Constitutionnel again.—Plan of the Ministry for the
next year. The land tax will be reduced two-thirds, the
patents suppressed, and the number of electors reduced to
25,000. The deficiency in the Exchequer will be made
good by the stamp on leather, woollen cloths, cotton
shawls, &c. (2).
The Same.—lt is by bribery that the Minister of Fi-
nance has obtained the particulars of our receipts, expel).
diture, &c. (3)
The Constitutionnel and the Courtier * * * * (4.)
(From the Journal de Paris of Monday.)
PARIS, FEB. 4.—A letter from Marseilles of the 29th
January, says one of the Journals of Lyons, contains what
follows :—The correspondence of M. Eynard, and the re-
ports which are in circulation rtlative to the intervention of
the Sovereigns, for the emancipation of Greece, have pro-
duced a great sensation here. A speedy arrangement
seems certain. Lord Cochrane himself is so convinced of
it, that he completely renounced the expedition which he
contemplated. We learn that he has suddenly changed
the arrangement for his-departure. He leaves Marseilles,
but he is not going to the East.
(From the Quotidienne.)
PARIS, FEB. 4.—We have had no official news from the
army in Georgia since the 18th of December; the last
news from Adjutant-General Paskewitch, dated Nov. 7,
announced his having passed the Araxes, and the favour-
able results which such an enterprise was likely to lead to.
It appears the Persians have retired into the mountains
and rocks on their frontiers, and entrenched themselves
there. The weather, and the state of roads, do not permit
the Russians to follow them. The campaign is then sus-
pended until the return of the favourable season—that is,
till March. General Yermoloff is then to adopt such
manoeuvres as must insure the total destruction of such

Forces as oppose him, unless the Shah shall have succeeded
'n concluding a peace with Russia, through the mediation
of England. It is certain that the Russian Government
is, in the meantime, disposed to push on the war next
Sprieg with all possible vigour.
(From the Constitutionnel.)
LISBON, JAN. 20.—(Extract of a private letter.)--Count
Villa Real, Peer of the Kingdom, is setting out With his
family for London. Public opinion is strongly against him
ever since the expression of certain sentiments by him in
the Chamber of Peers. The recollection of his former in-
timacy with the Marquis de Chaves has multiplied unfa-
vourable conjectures respecting him. Besides this, he has
ever been a man of rather equivocal character, and injurious
to any party he has undertaken to serve.
Since the arrival of the English packet the Duke of
Marlborough, yesterday, the report spread is, that the
Duke of Wellington will shortly arrive here. Great pre-
parations are consequently making at the Palace das Neces-
sidades, in which it is expected he will reside.
We are assured that the Princess Regent is occupied
with a prospect for placing the Chamber of Peers on a level
with the intelligence of the nation, and in harmony with
the Second Chamber, which is as patriotic as it is enlight-
ened. For this purpose, the plan observed by Louis
XVIII. of France is to be adopted, to call to the Upper
Chamber distinguished characters of all kinds in the nation'.
MADRID, JAN. 27.--(By Express.)—The defeat of the
Portuguese insurgents has been simultaneous in the three
provinces Minho, Beira, and Tras-os-Montes ; but those
who came here from these two latter provinces, have re.
turned to Portugal; some at Hinojosu, and others at
Freixeneda ; and though it is probable that those from
Minho have also returned, their entry is not yet known.
Not only have the refugees from Beira and Tras-os-
Montes re-passed the Douro without the least opposition
on the part of the Government, but they have even found
the means of providing themselves, in Spain, with arms,
which a great many of them had thrown away in their re-
treat, to lighten themselves. It is, moreover, certain that
on the 12th inst., the day on which the retreat of the Por-
tuguese rebels was known here, a sum of money estimated
at eight millions of reals, was sent towards the frontiers,
where the refugees were passing, for the purpose of
enabling the latter to make a second invasion. The dis-
missal and bringing to trial of Longa, Freyre, and Llo-
rente, is but a concerted expedient, which has imposed
neither on Mr. Lamb, nor Mr. Lima, who promptly de-
manded of M. Salmon, why the Spanish Government,
whilst the operations of the refugees left no doubt as to
the points by which they would enter into Spain, had left
all these points unguarded, and collected troops in other
parts, where they were quite useless—at Talavera and its
environs, for example. Though M. Salmon has written to

explain this matter, these Ambassadors have respectively
informed their Governments of this transaction. Mr.

Lamb's courier set out on the 23d instant.

General Longa, whose command had been given pro-
visionally to General Parthoux-Muxica, is replaced defi-
nitely by General Monet, one of the Generals who lately
held command under General Laserna.
A Spanish Priest has lately formed a band of 160 men,
infantry, and 4.0 horse, with which he has passed the
Minho by Orensa ; but his expedition was so badly ma-
naged, that he had scarcely set his foot on Portuguese
ground when his force was beaten and dispersed and him-
self taken, and, as they say, immediately shot.
A despatch from General Aymeric, Governor of
Cadiz, says that the regiment of Ceuta, destined for the
Canary Isles, manifests a disposition to proclaim the Con-
stitution.

The Bishop of Segovia, one of the most violent per-
secutors of all those who appeared to wish well to the
(1) Our readers may judge of the assertions of the Quoti-
dienne. The merchants' bills discounted by the Bank in De-
cember, 182&, are 156 millions ; in December, 1826, 105 mil-
lions ; the merchants, therefore, wanted 51 -millions less. Cash
in the coffers, in December, 1825, 94 millions, and in December,
1826, 121 millions. Advanced on the deposit of bullion in De-
cember, 1825, 42 millions, and December, 1806, 22 millions.
Notes in circulation, December, 1825, 199 millions ; in Decem-
ber, 1826, 187 millions.

(2) We shall have the budget this week, and every body will
then be able to judge of the truth of the assertions of the Con-
stitutionnel.

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(3) We have already replied to this lie, by reminding the Con-
stitutionnel, that the Minister had to consult the Stamp-office,
the Post-office, and the Royal Printing-office, to know all that he
stated. But the Constitutionnel does not write for him.
(4) We were going to insert here some new lies ; but they are
so gross, that they cannot be placed under that term ; a chapter
of calumnies should be made for them, and our pen refuses to
bring them forward.
We said that Don Miguel would not come to Brest ; but we
never denied the arrival of the Brazilian vessel.—(Notes of the
,toile.)

Constitution, and who, on that account, had been obliged
to barricade himself every night in his chamber, has been
found dead, and thete is no clue by which to discover the
murderer.

(From the Journal des Debats of Monday.)
MADRID, FEB. 27.—(Private letter, by express.)—On
the 23d instant M. Salmon, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, addressed a note to Mr. Lamb, containing in sub-
stance that his Catholic Majesty has seen with indignation
the course lately pursued by General Longa, and by the
Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, who, in contravention to the
orders transmitted to them, to disarm the Portuguese rebels
who might return into the Spanish territory, and to send
them into the interior, at forty leagues distance from the
frontiers, that they displayed so little zeal in the execution
of his Majesty's commands, that the Refugees who entered
Spain on the 12th instant, by different points, on the banks
of the Tormeo, succeeded in re-crossing the Douro at
Hinajosa and Freixaneda, and to re-enter the Portuguese
province of Tras-os-Montes, and that in consequence of
these events, General Longa and the Governor of Ciudad
Rodrigo had been recalled, and should be tried by a court-
martial.

Mr. Lamb replied to this note, " that he had already
apprised his Court of the facts, to which the letter of M.
Salmon related, but that he should add to his first dispatch
the Note of his Excellency :
" It is easy to perceive, as I informed you in my last
letter, that the Government has not in any manner changed
its system, and that it has only corrected the execution of
it, for all the troops hitherto put in motion have been sent
where there was no likelihood of their being of any use;
whilst Castile, which was the point by which the Portu-
guese Refugees might have been expected to return, has
been hitherto, and still continues to be, quite as bare of
troops as it was during the first invasion. This observa-
tion has been repeatedly urged by Mr. Lamb to M. Sal-
mon. I can likewise assure you that the latter expects
that the next dispatches from England, and from Portu-
gal, will bring a fresh ultimatum, when the dismissal of
M. Calomarde, of M. Eguia, and Quesada, will be re-
quired, not as a guarantee, but as a preliminary condi-
tion, previous to settling any other points ; from which
circumstance the preservation of peace will hereafter de-
pend."

A Russian Cabinet Courier left Lisbon, on the 23d, and
arrived here to-day. At his departure from Lisbon that
town was perfectly tranquil, and the last reports from
Count Villa Flor were still dated from Chaves.
VICTORIA, JAN. 28.—T0-morrow night ths first column
of the Swiss troops coming from Madrid will sleep here.
It is said they will stop till the 30th of January, and are to
be followed by a second column, which is to arrive on the
31st, and to leave on the Ist of February.

As to the third column, and the sick, it is said that they
will not pass through our town ; and respecting the report
which has been spread, that the Swiss were to remain in
our province, it appears absurd, as there are no prepara-
ions making in any part of it for their stay.
(From the Quotidienne.)

" MADRID, JAN. 26.—The unexpected return of the
Portugese Royalists to Spain was occasioned, as I have al-
ready informed you, not by the superior force of their op-
ponents, but by the want of provisions. The number
which returned to Spain has been much exaggerated, and
on that point I must correct what I have already written
to you. From the most correct information, the number
of Royalists who have crossed into our territory does not
exceed 1,200 or 1,300 men. These troops came to Ciu-
dad Rodrigo, whence they marched back to Portugal,
after being supplied with ammunition of every description.
The Spanish troops, who are in great numbers on this
frontier, did not in any way interrupt the march of the
Royalists. It is not at all impossible that our Generals
may have received secret instructions to favour their de-
signs. We are convinced that the measures adopted with
regard to Generals Longa and Fleires (Governor of Ciu-
dad Rodrigo) are only vain demonstrations, the object of
which is, by saving appearances, to avoid affording
grounds for a rupture with England and the Lisbon
Regency.

M. Salmon has notified to M. Lima, the Portuguese
Charge d'Affaires, that General Longa is superseded in his
command by General Monet; and that proceedings are to
be instituted against him and the Governor of Ciudad
Rodrigo. M. Lima, who had been informed of the events
on the frontiers, has sent off a courier to his Court, with
despatches, including M. Salmon's note.
" General Monet has notyet set out for Valladolid. He
is one of the officers who lately served in Peru. When the
Constitutionalists landed at Guadamar, he was employed
to disperse them. He was afterwards appointed to the
Government of the province of Cuenca.
" Letters from Galicia state, that a corps of Portuguese
Royalists, which entered Spain by way of Chaves, has re-
crossed the frontier, and defeated a Constitutional corps.
Other letters dated from Miranda de Douro and Zamora
state, that the Royalists who had appeared at Alcanizas
have also quickly retaken the road to Portugal. From Al-
canizas they proceeded to Zafra, Fermozelle, Mazueco, and
Sonselli, where they passed the Douro to enter the south-
ern quarter of Tras-os-Montes. We are assured that the
Marquis de Chaves has established his head-quarters at
Bemposta, on the extreme frontier. It is certain that the
Marchioness has arrived at Madrid.

" Gen. Sarsfield, who is to have the chief command of
the Army of Observation, is expected here to-day on his
way from Catalonia.

"One of the steam-boats which lately arrived at Lisbon
has brought several Spanish Constitutional refugees from
England. It is also known that some officers who have
bad unlimited leave of absence, embarked at Cadiz on
board the steam-boat which touches there on the passage

from LisbOn to Gibraltar. Threewell-known leaders at
Gibraltar arrived in this steam-boat from London:

"We are assured that the Commandant of the French
troops at Cadiz has had some warm discussions with the
military authorities of Gibraltar, respecting the frequent
visits lately made by English officers to the Isle of Leon.
Some have been caught m fishing-boats taking plans of the
works and bearings of the islan.
" It appears that the difficulties which had arisen be-

tween our Cabinet and that of the Tuileries have been

removed.

"M. Salmon and the Superintendent of Police are often
at the Prado. The Ministers often meet there. A Con-

sul-General has arrived at Madrid, but it appears that he
is not permitted to exercise the functions with which
he is charged, as Spain has not recognized the Empire of
Brazil.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.