The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-27 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF PEERS.

LissoN, FEB. 12.—The Deputies appointed to present to the
ge which this Chamber addressed to
Princess Regent the Messa
Don Pedro IV., acquitted itself of its commission on the 9th.
On this occasion the Vice-Presideiit made a speech to her High-
ness, in which he said that the Chamber had judged it highly
important to the interest of the kingdom, distracted by
factions,
to implore his Majesty Don Pedro to adopt the only means of
putting an end to so many evils, by which the Chamber means
that he will send us as soon as possible our august Queen Donna
Maria 11., whose appearance, even in her minority, will draw round
her throne all the members of the Portuguese family, like so
many children round their n mother who will bless the day of her
arrival.
Her Highness answered that she would transmit the message to
his Majesty, who would act as be in his wisdom shonld see fit.

CHAMBER' OF DEPUTIES.
FEB. 13.—Senhor Ramiro da Costa gave an account of a dis-
patch), from the Minister of Foreign Main, trromaitting a con-

vention concluded between the Portuguese and British Govern-
ments, respecting the expense of the auxiliary troops in Portugal.
Ordered to be placed in the archives.
Senhor Claudino read a motion to the following effect :

" In times of civil war the flame of revolution has never been
struck by mild and moderate measures. lam convinced that the
rebellion against the legitimacy of Dorf Pedro IV., and the insti-
tutions which he has given us, owes its origin and progress tO the
want of a law which, causing the rebels and their adherents to be
promptly and infallibly punished, shall deprive them of all hopes
of impunity. The Honourable Member then read a project of
martial law in six articles. The necessity of the measure was en-
forced by the President, who, after a discourse of some length, in
which he declared that the inhabitants of Tras-os-Montes were
less criminal than deceived, being the most ignorant of the people
of Portugal, and that with the exception of the Silveiras and the
Pintos, the rest, with few exceptions, were friends to the King and
the Charter, concluded by saying that prompt and severe punish-
ments would alone save the unhappy province of Tras-os-Montes.
The greater part of the assembly interrupted the President with
loud acclamations.

The Chamber of Deputies continues the discussion of the law
on the freedom of commerce. An additional article relative to
the coin trade, met with great opposition, and it was as follows :
Grain shall be admitted for trans-shipment, deposit, or re-ex-
portation, paying, in case of trans-shipment, or re-exportation,
a duty of 1 per cent.; it shall also he admitted for consumption,
paying, viz.— Reis.
Flour per Arroba
Wheat ... Ditto
Millet Ditto
Barley and other grain Ditto
The article was rejected, and it was resolved, that the law re-
lative to the corn trade should remain as it now stands.

By the Goldfinch packet, from Buenos Ayres, we received the
Mensagero Argentine to the 4th Dec., at which date the Brazilian
squadron blockaded Buenos Ayres. The force consisted of 26
vessels. We have not space for any extracts, but the details are
unimportant.
Gibraltar Chronicles to the Bth February have been received at
the North and South American Coffee-house :—His Majesty's
frigate Pyramus had arrived from Malta on the 6th, with part of
the 85th Regiment on board. The Sardinian brig Eloisa,
Captain Nattino, had arrived on the 7th, in fifty-seven days ; she
brings a confirmation of the Emperor having sailed from thence to
join the army, opposed to that of the Buenos Ayres Government,
and adds that the Empress was so ill, that she was not expected to
live many days after the sailing of the Eloisa.
Letters from Tarragona of the 15th Feb. mention that in the
night of the 10th inst. a dreadful storm arose at Barcelona, in
which nearly 40 vessels of all descriptions were either lost or
driven on shore. They mention that the storm was confined to
Barcelona, and that the vessels, both at Tarragona and Salves had
received no damage.
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We are glad to find that Lord JOHN RUSSELL
has the nerve to speak about Bribery at Elections.—
We are quite satisfied that the Noble Lord would
on no account practise any thing so wicked him-
self, but we were afraid that Sitting for a Close Bo-
rough would have made him feel rather awkward on this
subject—as the distinction between close and rotten
boroughs, between byluence and bribery, is not quite so
well understood by the unlearned, as my Lord JOHN may
suppose. Many people have a stupid trick of suspecting the
Whigs of insincerity, in their high profession of public virtue
(theiipri vate characters not being generally better than those
of their neighbours), and we hope that this impression may
not be strengthened by the great advocatc of Reform,
sitting, as we understand, for a Borough in which a cer-
tain Whig of the highest rank of Nobility is supposed to
have the power of returning—we were going to say—his
Grace's footman, but certainly any gentleman who is re.
commended to them. Of course, the conge d'elire is about
as valuable in such cases, as that exercised by the Dean
and Chapter when a Bishopric becomes vacant.
The debate on this subject was interesting, and Mr.
MARTIN'S speech seems to have occasioned much merri-
ment. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER retorted
pretty sharply on the Worthy Member for his attack on the
Marquis of CLANRICARDE.