The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-27 00:00:00

LIVING AT CALAIS.

PRIVATE CORRE,SPONVENCE.

. . . ,. . ' LISBON, .—TheFalcon man-of-war tender,
Calais may,' for various reasons; be •lOoked ! . , Nov.•
'• '
upon as. one of the dea,eSt tOvvisa in . . sails to-morrow morning ' day-break England,
at day-brea for
having on .board the Hon. Captain -Datidas. I
An excellent seite:of furnished. apartments may
hasten to inform you that the: Decree for the as-
be had in (Pee of .the most ,respectable private
, sembling of-. the Cortes wes published yesterday,
houses in Calais, consisting of a sitting-room, but in as dissatisfacto'ry and inefficient form as the
three bed-roorn—s,- and 'a kitchen, for twenty shil- chicanery of the knavish lawyers, selfish Churchmen,
dings a week, and smaller. ones in proportion; ! and hungry Nobles, now carrying on the Govern-
down to five shillings a week for a bachelor's Iment of Portugal, could possibly invent. The
apartment. This, however, does not include at
inecessity of the meeting of the Chambers to receive
I the oath of the Infant was evident to every man who
tendance of any kind ;. and, with. few exceptions,
knew the nature of a Constitution and of 'popular re-
the apartments can only be taken by the month.
presentation ; yet the heads' of the nation, those
The price of meat is flied- by a tarif,. at a
men who hold the reins of. the State under the
maximums of sixpence per pound for the very best. Charter, opposed, delayed, and, at length, reluctantly
It varies, therefore, between that price and four-':assented to assemble the Chambers, but they fixed
pence ; and this pound contains something more no day. In vain did the English Ambassador (Sir
than ours. Poultry is still cheaper in proportion, or W. A'Court), to whose exertions the cause of
rather in.facl.. My dinner to-day consists, in part, freedom in this corintry owes-its safety, state the
of an excellent fowl, which cost Bd. and a pan of proceedings which in England, or in any well,regie.
lated country, would he adopted on similar teepee
delicate ducks, which cost 15. 6d. The price of
bout Lions. The tricking Councillors would pot have
bread is also fixed by law, and amounts to a
the Chambers assembled by 'the Princess Regent,
teVo-thirds of the present price of ours in Loos
who eould have stated t,ile. reasons for their es-
don. Butter and eggs are excellent, and always .
traordinary meeting were the approaching arrival of
fresh ; the first costs from 9d. to 10d. the pouncl the Infant .Don !Niguel, the necessity of his
of 18 ounces ; and the latter 10d. the quarter of I taking a public oath, and assuming the Regency
a hundred. Vegetables and fruit, which are all jin their presence, as well as lof her laying it
of the finest quality, and fresh from the gardens down at the same moment. Alter a speech to that
of the adjacent villages, are as follow ;—aspa- eifeetothe Princess could prorogue them to the day
Tagus, at the 'rate of Bd. or' 9d. the hundred ; of her brothers arrival, and then they could
peas (the picked young ones) 3d. per quart ; new present
the
l adadtresseese,ilarelldhisstoataeththeTirilreeaddeicniedssdto meet
potatoes (better than any we can get in Englandgremcoome..-
strances' of °thee British Ambassador haVein
fronted ones), three
except what they , call the pelled them to issue an order to call the Chambers
pounds for a penny.; cherries and currants together, they, after three weeks' etreggle, agreed,
(picked for the table,) 2d. per pound; straw- but their deeree%states no more than that the Mem-
berrieS (the high flavoured wood-strawberry, bers of the Cortes were to be in Lisbon about " the
which is, so fine with sugar and cream), 4d. for 20th of November', in order to assist at the Royal
a full quart, the 'stocks being picked of. (This Session, in which the act of takiog the oath of the
Infant would take place, and of which day and hour,
latter is a delicacy that can scarcely be procured in
at a competent period, they were to receive notice."
England for any price.) The above may serve as au
This trick
is elident •,. their object is to have the
indication of all the rest, as all are in proportions.
Members i . n Lisbon in an unauthorised form, 400
The finest pure milk is 2d. per quart'; good black when • - comes, the -"lnfantthe Chambers must be
••
or teas, 4s. 6d. per pound ; and the finest
green opened by the Regent's authority. The Regent
;green gunpowder tea, is.; coffee, from ls. '3d. then, in the opinion of some, :will be the Infant ; and
to 425. ; good' brandy, is. 3d. per quart, and the •it may be doubted that •he will, if he is in the least
'Very best, 2s. (I do not mean the very finest old averse to the Constitution, call them together to bind
Cogniac, which costs 3s. 6d.) Wine is dearer hire in the chains of a Charter. if the Princess
waits•untit the arrival of the Infant before she really
in Calais than, perhaps, in any other town in
opens the Cortes, the chicanery of the Portuguese
France, that could be named ; but still you may lawyers and statesmen will persuade the populace
have an excellent table wine for Is. per quart
that the meeting of the Cortes, after the coming
bottle ; and they make a very palatable and of Don Miguel, will be void, and of course that
wholesome beer for 1-id: and 20. per. bottle— his oath will be mull also. There is another scheme
:the latter of which has all the good qualities of in the affair, which is, that the populace of Lis-
our porter, and none of its bad. Fish is not bon may be bribed to cry out ' for the Absolute
plentiful at Calais, except the skate, which King, and prevent the Members from coming to the
you may have for almost nothing, as indeed Chambers. Their schemes, will, howeverebe pre-
you may at many of our own sea-port towns. .vented, for it is thought that the Infant will not pr:
rive here in reality until the beginning of Januery
But you may always have good sized turbot
—say the 10ths--by which time, according to the
iiougli for six persons for 35., and a cod weigh;
words of the Charter itself, the Cortes must have '
ing -from twelve to fifteen pounds, for half that met. One of the Artielesa the Charter appoints
sum. As to the wages of female servants, they the 2d of January as the day for their anpua meet-
can scarcely be considered as much cheaper, ing; all the contrivances of the lovers of Absolu-
-nominally, than they are with us. But then the .tism will, therefore, be baffled on this point, if Don
habits of the servants, and the cost of what they Miguel. should not come here until the ordinary
Cortes shall have met. The mode of assembling
eat, make their keep and wages together amount
• the Chambers now is by a circular letter, addressed
to not more than half.what they do with us.
by the Minister of the Home Departmentthe
It only remains to tell you.of what is dearer
uke de Cadaval, President of the Chit.m toeof
than. it is in England.. I have tried all that I can
items peers, awl to the Titular Bishop of Coimbra, rPre-
to find out belonging to thislatter head, sident of the Chambers of. Deputies. Some of the
and have succeeded in two alone—namely, sugar Absolutists hope, by ;Wets of injury and maltreats
and fuel. You cannot have brown sugar under ment, to prevent the Members now in the country'
Sd., and indifferent loaf sugar costs ls. 3d. And from coming to Llame • isbon. Bimperfect
the very t
i publi bed
cation
as to firing, it is dearer, 'nominally alone; and in of this Decree, nd 'as is, has
wint Of fact, does not 'cost, to a well regulated very good effect, for the lovers of freedom raise
s the heads, and say to each other, " Things must
family, near so much, 'in the course of the year,
still go straight." The . Gazette of yesterday sold
as. coals do in our houses.—Letterfrom Calais. rapidly, and the halfpenny papers of to-day, which
contain the Decree, have too a large sale—one man
pnrchesed 200 of them in my presence. Except on
such occasions the newspapers of Lisbon are worth-
nothings for there is not one word of home news in
them.
In the provinces there are occasional cries of
" Viva Don Miguel, the absolute King," hut no-
thisig decisive has occurred. All are in expectation
of the infant's cowing. The Absolutists have their
plans laid for proclaiming him absolute, but they.
doubt whether he will consent. The presence of
the British troops, the going of the Infant to Eng-
land, and the meeting of the Cortes, have humbled
them not a little, Their opponents are not, how-
ever,
sure, for their experience of past times, their
dread of the Infant's ardeet temper and impatience
of eontroul, as well as the pusillanimity of even the
champions, give them the appearance rather of
grown-up children than of freemen. The want of
Men of talents was never so evident as in Portugal
at this moment. This is the crisis—they all know
it—yet not one man steps forward to support the
system from which alone they can hope for their
country's prosperity.
The namesday of the Queen was celebrated by
the Princess Regent at Queluz on Sunday, where
the Court was held on that day, The Queen did
not make her appearanee, as the Gazette says, on
account of her delicate health. There was a rumour
this evening that her illness was alarming in a great ,
degree. Her Majesty is undoubtedly a bad subject
for a serious attack, which would soon carry off a '
female who, at the age of 52, has all the appearances
of 70. Her.death new would have great influence
in the political arrangehients of this country, and
there are persons here who do not ,scruple to wish
her in Heaven—to obtaih which she has leboiired and
prayed so long. There
.ate also others who Nee
her, and who contend that she has long been an in-
jured and calumniated Queen, Don Miguel Pe-
reira Forjaz Coutinho, well known durieg the Penin-
sular war as a member of the then Regency, and
who was since created Conde de Feira, died suddenly
yesterday. The soldiers and artillery have just gone
. to his funeral, according to the Portuguese fashion.
The English ship of war the Warspite sailed yes.
terday evening, for the Mediterranean. There were
signals made this evening for another English vessel,
and a brig pf war and a transport, being in sight. I
have not heard their names.
- '.fhe Editors of the, 'ate newspaper, called The
Portuguese still continue inprisren, where they have
-leisure to regulate their plans for another .attempt to
instruct the Portuguese nation in the doctrines pf
freedom according to the Liberal school. But it is
hoped that Don Miguel 011 have such Councillors
as' will save this country as weft from the shelves of
despotisea es the hurricane of revolution, There is
now no cornenerge in the country—trade is at a
stand. All hope for some improvement on the In
fant's arrival. The wise and experienced pray that
he may support the Constitution—the ignorant and
the prejudiced think timings ought to go on as they
have done these last . three years. But if Don
Miguel attacks the Charter, and the British troops
mug, there will be a bloody revolntien soon at
work, 44 in less than twelve mouths, many of the
men who now 4ncy that Don Miguel alone will
suffice to guide the people will know, to their cost,
that there is too much demoralisation for the old
systeee to counteract their worst passipp„ It is bet-
ter to have the wounds of the State probed folly,
and to the quick, slew,
than to leave them to fester
and mortify for a few months longer.

DREADFUL SUICIDE.

.
A truly. tragical event has" occurred in a village
,
but a few miles distant from this city. A young
man, about 20 years .of age, of respectable con-
nexions, had for Some time fixed his affections upon
an amiable girl; moving in the same sphere as him-
self, and sought her hand, but w
thho refused his
his
dresses. Although.; however, e ct of
attachment had unequivocally and candidly made
known to him that she could not !iecome his wife,
his visits were permitted to the house of her parent,
where he ever meta hearty Welcome, And," with the
kind notice of herself and friends, their mutual fami-
lies having long heen'in the habits of intimacy. On
Sunday afternoon, as was frequently his custom, he
drank tea at-his sister's, and called in to spend the
evening at the residence of the moths.. of the female.
He appeared cheerful, and conversed freely with
those present, including three young men besides
-himself; but just as supper was announced, he ab-
ruptly left the house. The family, although sur-
prised at this eircumstance,and little imagining what
the sequel was to be, retired to rest at the usual
hour; but about 11 o'clock they were alarmed by a
violent knocking at the door, and which they found
proceeded from their visitor, who had returned, and
who earnestly implored to be immediately admitted.
The mother, therefore, went down, when she ob-
served him at the pomp drinking water, and laving
his lips with it. On her accosting him, be prayed
that might be instantly
.called up—he wished
to see her, he said, for he should,be " but a short
rime here—he had taken poison I" Horrified and
startled by this declaration, yet unwilling to give
credence to it,
,she - remonstrated with him on the
nnreasonableness of his request and behaviour, be-
seeching him to go home; he, however, per
hersisting
in 'it, was called, and to whom, upon ap-
pearance, he repeated the fatal sentence he had ut-
tered. to her mother. It was then proposed to send
instantly for medical aid, but this he forbad, and ac-
tually slipped himself from his coat by which it was
endeavoured to bold him, and ran from the house.
Upon this, one of the men• servants was sent to se-
cure him, and found him concealed in a shrubbery
near, whilst another was despatched for his father.
The latter, on his arrival, gently rebuked him for his
conduct,, arid altogether discrediting his *statement
that he had attempted self-dostiuction, put bin) on
horseback and took him home. Unhappily, how-
ever, soon after reaching there, it became too mani-
fest that he had actually committed the sad act he
had disclosed; he was seized with dreadful wimir-
inO, following by those other symptoms which are
-occasioned by the deadly workings of mineral poison ;
meighbouring, surgeon was sent for, and arrived with
all p(b:lsible speed, but who soon saw and pronoun-
ced it to be a cage, utterly hopeless, and after
4n interval Of great suffering and agony, about seven
o'clock in the looming the hapless young man was
d Corpse ! The hoer fellow retained his senses till
the last. We do not icarn that he assigned any rea-
- son for the rash deed,. but it is thought by those ac-
quainted with the circumstances that it was prompted
by the fear and belief that one of the three young
men he had met in the evening was destined to the
happy lot he had himself long cherished the hopes
of enjoying. He, however, confessed to the sur-
geon that it was arsenic he had taken, and which
was most evident on the body being opened, as well
as that the quantity was sufficient to have destOoyed
a dozen lives. He said that on quitting the house
so suddenly as stated above, he hastened to an inn-
close by, where he drank two large glasses of brandy,
and from thence went home, and administered to
himself the fatal drug in soap and 'water. An in-
quest rots held upon the body on Monday evening,
before Mr. SMith, when a verdict of ‘! Insanity"
was returned. We cannot describe the distress and
consternation into which this afflicting occurrence
has plunged the friends of all partixs.— Worcester
Herald.
.Major- -
‘jor-c3eneral TON concluded his
llalf-yearly inspection of
ci4 the Pith ,arat.ops in the Northern Die-
trict, on Satni
72d Highlanders, stationed
, by reviewing the depct of
the at Armagh.--Dublui
Xvening Post;
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MORTALITY JN THE BENCH OF BISHOPS!
—The present year has bp..en remarkable for an extraor-
dinary mortality among the Benoh sif Lawn Sleeves.----'
Since its commencement the following Prelates have died :
_Dr.„ pgumm, of Lincoln ;
Dr. LEOGE, of Oxford ; Dr.
Kirta; of Rochester ; Dr. GoonExoucir, of Carlisle, and
Dr. ToMLINE PRETTYMAII, of Winchester. At present his
Grace thet Archbishop of York is the father
,of the Epis-
copal Bench, haying been consecrated to the See of Car-
lisle in 1791, and it is somewhat singular, that the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury should be the next in seniority, as
well as rank, to his Grace, p h 4 was consecrated to Nor-
wich in 1792.