The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-24 00:00:00

Patriarch. _will learn to, sing the 'Constitutional
hymn, amid a cborns'of bishops;. Old Absolutp
will either be induced to go on her'travtlS, or
join in a reluctant viva to the 'Charter ; and the
humps of all the COrcUndas, civil and ecclesias-
tical, will'for a time shrink or drop rAf like the
mustachios of the military coxcombs of Naples,
on the entry of the Austrians. What'effect this
striking and novel event may produce in the
eastern part of the Peninsula, it Woukt he vain
at present to speCulate, upon ; though it may be
safienough tq predict, that if the French army
had previously been _ withdrawn, and the Holy
Alliance refrained from interfering, Spain in the
course of a twelvemonth Would have a Constitu-
tion,—ff not under a Bourbon, at lcast under
a Braganza Sovereign.

" LISBON, Aug. 13.

"OCCUPIENCES OF THE DAY.-DON PEDRO
AND THE QUEEN.

" In what I stated to you in a former letter or
two respecting the anticipated arrival of the Em-
peror Don Pedro; I but conveyed to you the
general belief of Lisbon, 'which I had at the time
Sao individual means of resisting or rectifying.--:-
The intelligence was spread so rapidly after the
arrival of the Apollo—it was supported so unhe-
sitatingly by those who had received letters from
Rio, and was diffused so widely through all the
channels of political information, with the appa-
rent consent of the Government Censor, that it
would have appeared an 'affectation of scepticism
to have doubted it. The fact, hoWever, which
chiefly weighed with me (as you will observe by
my mode of reasoning at the time ) was not so
much the assurances of private' persons, as the
inferences to be derived from the appearance of
public documents. Why print or publish the
obsolete or Abrantes decrees so long after the
date of their issue, unless the Emperor. intended
to show his resolution to enforce their execution,
and ho'w could he enforce their execution without
coming to Europe to superintend it in person ?
This conclusion appeared.to me irresistible, if
.the premises were correct. I therefore inquired
how these decrees came ?. I was answered that
they came, not printed in the journals of
Rio, but in separate half sheets, like hand-
bills. I even was shown some of theni, as they
came from the Post-office. The next question
was, did they
.arrive here directly from the Bra-
zils ? There was no Brazil post-mark on the
enclosures which I saw ; but some of them, I
have been assured, were received in letters from
cbrrespondents at Rio. This, however, proved
nothing with respect to the Emperor's intentions,
as the piinting might have been . effected by the
influence of Dr. Abrantes, as well as by the order
of his Imperial Majesty. That they were not
intended to be published at. Rio was evident;
otherwise greater notoriety would have been given
them. Why, then, were they printed, but to
serve some private end ? and whose private ob-
jects could they serve but those of the Doctor,
at whose dictation they were written, and by
whose persuasion they were signed? I have
since learned from authentic sources, that at least
the Emperor was not privy to the publication,
and that therefore the whole superstructure of
reasoning and. conjecture built upon-that assump-
tion must fall to the ground.
‘‘. Official dispatches have been received from
the British Minister at Rio, dated the Bth•of
June (two or three days before the sailing of
the Apollo), in, which he says nothing about the
Emperor's intended voyage, and states, in oppo-
sition to the official . publication of the obsolete
decrees, that his Majesty had received an ac-
count 'of their non-execution in Portugal, and
approved of the prudent discretion exercised by
his sister's Government in resisting them. His
Imperial Majesty even allowed that he was
wrong in having issued them, and fully admitted
the impolicy and danger 'of interfering in the in-
ternal kovernment of the dominions which he
had placed under the regency of his sister and
her responsible advisers. Thus the whole rea-
soning founded on the publication of these de-
crees is annihilated. But the matter does not
rest here. It- is said, upon official authority,
that his Majesty could not with safety leave his
Brazilian dominions at the present crisis, when
the treaty between him and the Government of
Buenos-Ayres has not yet been ratified by the
latter, and when his Chambers have shown so
little disposition to consult his personal wishes.
At any rate, lie would never encounter the ha-
zards and difficulties to which his absence might
expose him, till he had learnt from Europe that
Don Miguel had refused to proceed to Rio.
The vessel which carried out to Brazil that irri-
tating intelligence left the Tagus only about the
middle of June. It could not be expected to
reach Rio till. the middle of August, and conse-
quently the Emperor's voyage (made contingent
on that.arriial) could not be expected to be com-
menced for two. months subsequent to the sail-
ing of the Apollo.
The British troops, as I have already men-
tioned to you, = are now all within the lines of
Torres Vedras. They are stationed in a line
from Mika to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to Fort
St. 'Julian. To show the sincerity of Ministers
in their intention of retrenchment, nothing more
need be said than that the same orders for re-
ducing every. regiment by two companies have
reached this as well as other divisions of the
army. Invalids are to be sent home from time,
to time till the battalions are reduced to the proper
complement."

" LISBON, Auc.l4, 5 o'cLocx, P. nt .

" The rumour of the sudden arrival of Don
Pedro is now very much weakened in its effect
upon the public, and with those who have better
means of information , it is believed entirely
groundless. The Princess Regent's dispatches from
her brother (of which so much way said) con-
tained not a word on the Emperor's intended
voyage ; and she, in consequence, has expressed
great surprise at the confidence with which his
approaching arrival was expected. These de-
spatches are dated the Bth of June. Her Royal
Highness is excessively angry at the publication
of the decrees brought by Dr. Abrantes, which,
though they have come from Rio. printed in
separate half sheets, were never published in that
capital.
" It is a law in Portugal, that no decrees, or-
ders, or ordinances, pretending to come from the
Government, shall be published in any other,' our-
nal till they have first appeared in the Lisbon
Gazette. These documents, so far from pass-
ing to the public through that medium, were not,
even published by any paper of Brazil. Thus;
the law has•been violated, and, in other circum-
stances, the .peace of the country might have:
been endangered,.by this 'inconsiderate act. of the
Lisbon- Jo. nrnalists.- The dOeunients, besides,
are uneontti
tntilonal in "therttrlves,' as 'they are
ho signed by
responsible Minister, and pretend,
to dictate to the
ideas immatters solely within
her competeneceyfik-slie .
is allowed to continue:l
in the Regenq.'..Pits. her Royal Highness has]
receive() assurakeii front lief, brother of his re-]