The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Constitutionnel.)
" Letters from Madrid of the date of the 26th of December,
state, that the Spanish Government has ordered a body of troops
to be sent into Estramadura and Old Castile. It is to be com-
posed of seven regiments of Provincial Militia, one regiment of
the Guards, and one regiment of Chasseurs a cheval, in all '7,000
or 8,000 men. These troops will be under the order of General I
Redd, whose command will be independent of the Captains-lie-
nerals of these provinces."
" We see that the talon tour still perseverei in preserving the
most profound silence as to the acceptance of the ultimatum by the
Cabinet of Madrid, of which the English Journals have been talk- ,
ing, and of which the rumour has been spread in Paris for some I
days past. It is true, that in this pattern-government, what was
true in the evening become false the next morning. Besides, the I
Aristarque announces to-day, in the most positive manner, that
the King of Spain has formally refused the ultimatum of Mr.
Canning.
.If this news be confirmed, war between France and
Spain becomes inevitable. What resolution will the French Mi-
I nistry then adopt?
" The Quotidienne says to-day that the King, Don Miguel,'
is a prisoner at Vienna.
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
" Malmo, DEC. 25.—According to a report that has reached
the office of the Minister at War, the town of Laguarda and the
militia of Coimbra have revolted. This new revolt, however,
does not cause any anxiety at Lisbon, not only on account of the
presence of the .English troops, hut because the national troops
begin to be well disciplined, being conducted by chiefs entirely de-
voted to the Ministry."

(From the Etoile, dated Thursday, Jan. 3.)
" Pants, JAN. 4.—The following is the manner in which the
Journal which first spoke of the entrance of the Marquis de Chaves
into Portugal gives an account of the answer of King Ferdinand :
" We are informed from Madrid that the ultimatum of England
wits reduced to three principal points. That power demanded of
the Spanish Cabinet.
" 1. The sending of an Ambassador to Lisbon, and the ad-
mission of a Portuguese envoy at Madrid.
" 2. The recognition of the Portuguese constitution, and of
the Government established in Portugal.
" 3. The dismission of M. de Calomarde, and the removal
of the three Captains-General, who are accused of having fa-
vented the Portuguese Royalists.'
" His Majesty King Ferdinand answered on the lst point—
" That the Portuguese Ambassador at Madrid had withdrawn,
of his own accord, without any provocation on the part of the
Spanish Government; that it was the Portuguese Government
that had declared to the Spanish Ambassador at Lisbon that his
mission was terminated ; therefore it was the Portuguese Go-
vernment, and not the Court of Madrid, which had interrupted
the diplomatic relations between the two countries, relations,
which the• Court of Madrid was perfectly well disposed to re-
establish.

On the second point, the answer was, that the Spanish Go-
vernment no more interfered with the internal Government of Por-
tugal, than it would suffer an interference, with that of Spain ;
that with respect to the present Government of Portugal, the
Court of Madrid, imitating the other Cabinets on the Continent,
had recognised the Government appointed by the testament of King
John VI. At the time when that testament had been notified in
the usual form to all the Courts of Europe, that it was not very
certain that France itself had recognized the Government estab-
lished at this moment at Lisbon. .

"Lastly, on the third point, which tends to nothing less than
to impose Ministers upon the King of Spain. His Catholic Majesty
has caused it to be answered, that M. de Calomarde had the con-
fiden,.:2 of his Sovereign, and that so long as his Majesty should
judge the services of that Minister advantageous to the country,
he would retain hint in his council.
" As for the General Officers, who are accused of having fe,
vavred the projects of the Portuguese Royalists, these officers had i
done nothing which could render them deserving of being de-I
prived of their posts ; that, besides, the-three Captains-General in'
vestiun had at no time done any injury to the English Govern-
ment, whereas it was notorious that the Government at Gibraltar
bad received the factious Spaniards, and permitted them. to be
arined and equipped in the town, in order to be thence conveyed'
on boaid English ships to the coast of Spain, where they had oe-
easioned such disorders that the French troops had been obliged
to march against them.
" That the same port of Gibraltar served as a place of refuge to
the privateers of the pretended independent States of America, and
that great injury resulted from it to the Spanish commerce.
" Lastly, that the British Cabinet, whose agents had suffered or
, induced these acts of hostility had itself, arid, alone, of all Govern-
naents recognised the existence of the new Republics of America,
and this in contempt of the existing treaties between England and
Sp'. in.
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ktr4-nst, a 'secret communication ? Either it is an abuse of confi-
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