The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-27 00:00:00

BANKIUJPfS.

W. Forster, Strand,-silversmith, to surrender Oct. 7, 14,
Nov. 7, at Guildhall. . Solicitor, Mr. Popkin, Dean-street,
Sohn.
It. Shirley, Bucklersliary, carpet manufacturer, Oct. 7, 14,
Nor. 7, at Guildhall. Solicitors, Messrs. Walker, Rankin,
and Richards, Old Jewry.
G. and Ttinnichtf, Stone, Staffordshire, grocers, Oct. 4,
5, Nov. 7, at the office of Mr. Dent, Stone. Solicitor, Mr,
Wheeler, Castle-street, Holborn.
J. Anderson„London, mariner, Sept. 30, Oct. 7, Noe. 7, at
Guildhall., Solicitor, Mr. Collins, Great Knight-rider-street,
Doctors'-commons.
It. Costley. Friday-street, Cheapside, warehouseman, Oct.
7, to, Nor. 7, at Guildhall. Solicit or, M r.‘l'itde, College hill.
.1. and S.-Walitie, I atstnn, Cumberland, manufacturers,
Oct. 12, 1:3, Nov. 7, at 'the Ki:;g's Arms, Carlisle, Solicitor,
Mr. Clennell, Staples-inn.

DIVIDENDS.
0ct.28,J. Perkins,Tiiertnn, Devonshire, timber-merchant
—Oct. 28, J. Hirst, 'l'44er-street, cotton-t;rolier—Oct. 28, J.
Dewar, Stamford, npholsterer—Oct. 1,7, P. Leigh, \Viridian),
Cheshire, farmer—Oct. 19, S. Woods, Ha rantine, Southamp-
ton? grocer—Oct. 28, J. S. Voysey, Itatelltf-highway, grocer—
Oct. 25, Coates, Worcester, woollen-draper---Oct. 18, J.
Gandy, Liverpool, merchant—Oct. 213,1). Cricliett, Haughain,
Kent, timber-merchant. •
CERTIFICATES-oer. 17.
P. Mullen, Nortonfalgate, hosier—C. Dunkin. Horsier
down, lighterman—J. Scholefield, Saddle worth, Yorkshire,
woollen-cord-manufacturer—H. and M. Daniels, BUI y-st reel
St. Mary-axe, merchants—E. Jones, Great Sutton-street,
Clerkenwell, coal-merChant---W. H. Browne, Bristol, broker
—F. Downing, liuddersfield, grocer.

The Duke of DuvoNsninE entertained a select
party of his distinguished friends yesterday, at
his villa at Chiswick.

PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

LL' BON, SEPT. 13.

We are authorized to publish the two PRO..
CLAMATIONS inserted, below : the first from the
Commandant of the troops assembled at Coimbra,
by order of the Goyernor of Oporto% and ad-
dressed to ,the peoplAf Beira; ;the second from
the General of the troops' in the province of
Minh.° to the inhabitants and soldiers of the pro-
vince of Tras-os-Montes. The impartial public
will not fail to perceive In the first, the rude and
indecorous expressions which its author employs
against the person of General Victoria ; and the
calumnies, equally false and absurd, with which
he attempts to discredit the legitimate Govern-
ment. But above all will be remarked the Ina-

lignity with which he promises the peasants
exemptions from the duties and manorial services
due to the Lordships. It attacks likewise openly,
not only the institutions of the Monarchy, and
manifestly opposes its own Government, which
swore to preserve them, but attacks likewise the
sacred rights of property, without which no so-
ciety can exist. Such was ' the march of the
French Revolution in the most odious period of
its existence—such was the spirit of the revolu-
tionary chiefs at that most disastrous epoch. It
cannot be expected that the sophism with which

the author of the Proclamation endeavours to re-
concile such dangerous principles with the mainte-
nance of our holy religion and loyalty to the King
our master, can impose upon the well-affected.
This sophism is enforced with the greatest energy
by the General of the troops of Minho, in his
proclamation to the people of Tras-os-Montes.
A convocation of the Cortes of the kingdom, and
a Constitution which determines its righits, is cer-

tainly a flattering prospect which he presents
to the people ; but the legitimate government
having already acceded to this unanimous wish
of the nation, it was necessary for him, in order
to bring them over to his party, to persuade
them that the Government of Oporto had
alone the power and the wish to realize their
hopes. This assertion, however, is entirely
refuted by the call already made by the Re-
gency of the kingdom on all the Corporations
for the desired assembling of the Cortes.
The intention which the above-mentioned Ge-
neral attributes to his opponents of precipitat-
ing the troops and the people under his com-
mand into the horrors of civil war, is not less un-
just, since to him alone, who is the aggressor,
may be imputed these intentions, and their fatal
effects. The impartial public will not fail, how-
ever, to observe the excess of his vanity, when
addressing himself to the people of Tras-os
Montes ; he pretends that his resolution should
serve them as a rule, and that his example was
sufficient to guide them in the path of honour.
lie endeavours by these means to corrupt the
officers and soldiers, who, observing subordina-
tion and fidelity, remain under the standards of
the legitimate Chiefs ; and, that nothing should
be wanting to these characters of deceit, he fol-
lows the suggestions of vile interest, so repug-
nant to noble hearts. It is equally easy to ob-
serve his inconsiderate policy, when he threatens
with the most severe punishment individuals and
towns which never swore obedience to the new
Government. For if, as he dreads, such a repug-
nance and such a resistance exists, it is an incontest-
able proof that the adherence to his principles isnot
unanimous, and a dreadful means of conviction it
is when a resort is had to armed force. This odious

means, even when conformable to the laws of
peace, and when it emanates from legitimate au-
thority, is never employed among us except un-
der the gravest circumstances. The loss of lives
and of fortunes to individuals, and much more
the privation of rights and privileges to bodies,,
exceed the limits of military authority. The So-
vereign alone could justify the use of such severe

measures, with the approbation of the Cortes
and the Tribunals of the kingdom. The rigour,
therefore, of this Proclamation, and the style of
its composition, reminds us of the Proclamations
of the French Generals, who at different epochs
of the French Revolution, and under different
pretexts, invaded foreign countries. And how
can the Portuguese, who have already been
victims of this scourge, forget so calamitous an
analogy ?