The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Lisbon Gazette, March 3.)
" WAR OFFICE.
" SIR,—In reply to the despatch that your Excellency sent me
on the 21st of this month, I have 4-the honour to inform your
Excellency that I have taken the same measures as your Excel-
lency communicates to me, and which appear from my despatch
of the 23d. Gen. Mello began his movement on the 1 Sth,lit not
being anywise possible to make the squadron of the 11th regiment
of Cavalry, which was to reinforce him, march earlier, as I in-
formed your Excellency. On the 19th I learnt, that the rebels
had their forces united in Chaves ; and as the Cavalry of General
Mello is in small force, and this in the very worst condition, the
horses being knocked up, it was necessary to defer for one day
the march of General Mello, as the remainder of the Cavalry of
Count de Villa Flor was only ready on the 22d, as he then thought,
but in fact it could not march till the 23d, which was also the
case with the artillery. Your Excellency will have the goodness
to reflect on the duties which the troops have done for two months,
and the badness of the roads through which they have passed, so
that it cannot be wondered at, if they are in absolute need of some
repose. The squadrons too are reduced to companies ; the same
has, doubtless, happened to the rebels, but on the occasion when
their force was annihilated, ours has suffered losses:very difficult to
repair. On this account I have determined to accelerate the
movements in Tras-os-Montes.

" I have not received any news from General Mello. The
Count de Villa Flor arrives to-day at Amarante, where he is to
be joined to-night by the column of Colonel Vasconcellas, com-
posed of the battalions of Cacadores, Qd and 9th, and the 16th
regiment of infantry. All this force is destined for Tras-os-Montes.
The 9th regiment is to march, on the 27th, for the line of the
Tamega, in order to keep up the communications with that
province.
"My bad health still confines me to my bed, and thus hinders
me from marching to Tras-os-Montes, but I hope to be able to do
it in a few days, and, meantime, I have desired the Count de
Villa Flor to take such necessary measures, and such as I judge
most advisable.

" Head-quarters at Braga, Feb. 25, 1827.
(Signed) " Marquis de ANGEJA,
" Commanding the Forces of the North.
" To his Excellency Candido Jose Xavier."

" Sts—Since my despatch of yesterday, nothing important has
happened. I have not yet received any news from General de
Mello, but I have learned by two officers, who escaped from
Chaves, on the 21st, that, in the evening, there was a great
tumult in that place, arising from the misunderstanding be-
tween the Rebel Chiefs, and the complete insubordination of the
soldiers.

" On the 19th, the 11th Regiment, and abolished Regiments,
17th and 24th, left Chaves, by Valle de Passes, the Battalion of
the 7th Cacadores remaining in Chaves, because when the Rebel
Marquis wanted it to march out, this corps mutinied and demand-
ed the heads of the rebels, Magessi and Texeira, who were obliged
to fly, and the mutiny ended with the soldiers of the 7th going
into quarters, and those of the I I th, 17th, and 24th, returned to
Chaves, in the morning of the 21st ; but, learning on this day
that our troops were advancing, general disorder ensued, and the
officers taking advantage of the confusion, escaped, and went in
the morning of the 22d to General Mello, who was in the
Boticas, and was marching towards Chaves. It is probable
that, taking advantage of the moment, he is gone in pursuit
of the enemy, and that, to %his we must attribute the entire
want of news.
" Count de Villa Fletl-gestepday united all his forces, at Ama-
rante, and to-day enter% (Viitt Real. Mesao Frio was occupied
yesterday by the Militia, nroler, the command of Colonel Serpa,
charged with the defence of the Tamega, from Amarante to the
Douro ; and to-day the communication with Lamego will be re-
opened, in order speedily to reinforce General Azeredo, in case the
Rebels should attempt to repass intO-,Beira.
" Head-quarters at Braga, 26th Feb., 1827.
(Signed) " Marquis de ANGEJA."

" LISBON.
" CHAMBER OF PEERS, FEB. 29.
" The Order of the Day was the Debate on the proposal of the
Committee of Finance, that, on the arrival of the Queen, Donna
Maria 11., a hundred contos of reis should be given her from the
public treasury ; which, after some debate, Was agreed to.

"CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FEB. 24.

" The President gave an account of the reception of the depu-
tation which wept to the palace of Ajuda, to present to the Princess
Regent the address intended to be presented to the Emperor Don
Pedro, thanking him for giving the Charter to Portugal, to which
her ILlstmetees gave cs, vary gracious answer, promising to transmit
the address to her brother.

" Senhor Gam, Lobo made a motion that the Government
should be required to order immediately the disarming of all the
militia, who, having joined the rebels, afterwards left them, and
are now at their homes. He enforced the necessity of this mea-
sure in an energetic speech.
Senhor Borges Carneiro said, he was a friend to moderation,
but, in truth, to confound moderation with the most scandalous
connivance, is intolerable. Provinces are suffered to be laid waste,
and the rebellion to spread, without taking any repressive mea-
sures; honourable families, loyal to Don Pedro IV. are plunder-
ed and full of terror, and the rebels unpunished, and boasting if
their speculations do not succeed, they will give them up ; and
all this is called the necessity of the casus fcederis—an unheard-
of ignominy—a connivance unparalleled in the history of nations.
" The motion was seconded by Senhor A. J. Claudino, and
supported by the President.
" In the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the let March,
a statement was read of the territorial Magistrates, who, by the
decree of the 27th Jan. were dismissed from their offices, with the
charges against them.' This statement was sent by the Minister
of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice, and the Chamber decided by
acclamation, that it should be read.
" In the Sitting of the 2d, the Chamber of Deputies com-
menced the debate on the proposed loan.
" The first article, authorizing the Government to contract a
loan of 4,000,000,000 reis, was agreed to."

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
I. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to amend the Slave Trade Consolidation

Act.
2. Dr. Lushington—Copies of all Dispatches received from Jamaica, re.
specting an attack on the Wesleyan Missionary meeting and dwell-
ing-houses in the parish of St. Ann in the month of December last.
3. Mr. Harvey—Papers explanatory of a Return recently made of Pro-
secutions under the Customs Laws, by the Solicitor of the Customs.
Also, an Account of Fees received in the various Stages of bank.
ruptcy from Ist October 1825 to Ist October 1826, stating by whom
they were received, and the application thereof.
4. Mr. Henry Grattan—Report of Commissioners directed by the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland to inquire into the state of the Richmond Pe-
nitentiary in Dublin. •
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.

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I. Crail, &c. Burghs Petitions—Ballot for Committee at three.
2. Sudbury Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half after three.
3. Copyhold Estates Bill—Committee.
4. General Turnpike Act Amendment Bill—Committee.
5. Distresses (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
6. New South Wales Act—Committee thereupon.
'7. Rum and Spirits (Newfoundland)—Committee thereupon.
8. Duke and Duchess of Clarence Annuity Bill—Committee.
9. Ways and Means—Report (26th February).
10. Spring Guns- Bill—Second reading.
11. Corn Trade Acts—Committee thereupon.
12. Canada Clergy Reserves Bill—Second reading.
13. Marine Officers Widows Pensions Bill—Second reading.

NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Wednesday, March 14.
Lord Viscount Lowther—That the new List of Committees on Private

Bills be printed