The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-25 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

FAnstouin, Aran, 22.—The steamer Lady Mary Wood
arrived this afternoon with the Peninsular mails. The dates
are Gibraltar, I4th ; Cadiz, 15th; Lisbon, 18th ; Oporto,
19th ; and Vigo, 20th. Passengers—Messrs. Nuttall, Gazent,
Rutterford and ladv, eon, and servant ; Grimahaw and lady,
Lloyd, Garvey, Job, Cocknrn, Selbers, Page, Harmony,
Stuilley, Mursley, Douthez, Gossey, Hertlots, Mrs. Dunville
and two servants; 31iss. Hibbins, Miss Phelps and servant.
LISBON. Arnie 18.-e-The Infante, lately born, was solemnly
baptised yesterday at the Royal Chapel of the Necesaidades,
Capaceici acting, by procuration from the Pope, as godfather,
and the Princess Isabel Maria as godmother; a • grand banquet
was afterwards given to his Excellency,' at which the
Foreign Alinisters, together with' the Portuguese Ministers,
the Duke of Palmella. and members Of the house-
hold were present. The CranJ Crois of the Order of Christ
was given by the Queen to Monsignor Cappaeini on the occa-
sion. The town was illuminated in the evening, but the bad
weather prevented it. being very brilliant. hl. Capaccini had
the keys and the triple Croen in illuminated lamps in front of
his residence. Three Royal carriages, with a squadron of
cavairy cf the Municipal Guard, were sent to convey his Excel-
lency to the Royal Chapel, who was treated, in short, with all
the resrect shown. to Royal personages. The little Prince John
hese long string cf names, Gregory of course among them, and
has been created, by Royal decree, Duke of Ileja.
The Bishop of Leiria has been added to•the commission ap-
pointed to consider the Papal pretensions, and is reported to
be decidedly opposed to some of them. The Pope had clan-
destinely authorized some parties here to distribute bulls end
tyrant dispensations, and the Government had threatened the
parties in question with prosecution. On M. Capaccini's arri-
val, it appears, he at first refused to present himself unless cer-
tain bases were first established; and this difficulty being got
over in some cosy, the negotiations went on, and the Govern-
ment (M. Capaccini being authorized by the Pope to take the
whole affair of the bulls and dispensa•ions upon himself) agreed
that he should appoint proper persons to distribute them, &v. ;
tint the choice of the Nuncio fell on the very indi:iJuals for-
Merly clandestinely nominated by the Pope and disallowed by
the Government, and whom the latter now again objects to re-
cognize in that capacity. The French Minister supports all
M. Capaceini's pretensions, I hear, and the Court is said to be
in great dread of a quarrel with him. In reality, the country
has suffered so much from religious schism that a renewal is
looked upon as a much more terrible thing than twenty changes
of constitution. The Government want the Vicars-General
appointed by them to conduct the affairs of the vacant sees to
be made, by the Pope, Bishops in partibus, which M. Capac-
cini refuses, contending that the appointment of Bishops //gear-
tibus is the exclusive right of the Pope. It seems probable,
therefore, that the poor Vicars-General will have to remain
without the high-sounding titles of Archbishop of Lacedemonia,
Bishop of Ethiopia, &c. &c.
The execution of Mattos Lobo for the murder of his aunt,
two cousin=, ,and maid-servant, last autumn, took place oil
Saturday at the Boa Vesta, not very far from the site of the
murder. The criminal was previously conveyed in procession
from the pt icon to the house where the murder was committed,
where he was addressed by the ex-Prior of Marvao and another
priest, and his confession was rend ; he was carried ill a chair
borne by four condemned prisoners, being in a great state of
prostration. One of the clergymen who addressed him was
taken suddenly ill, and died at the foot of the gallows; and this
other fainted, and was carried off in the arms of the bystanders.
The father of Mattes Lobo was a respectable farmer, and died
some mouths since in consequence of the shock he received
from the report of his son's crimes. The latter had rather an
intelligent countenance, and not at all ferocious ; his confes-
sion was that he murdered his aunt in a fit of passion or jea-
lousy, and that the other victims were killed flout necessity !
The robbery he totally denied. The Revolucao to-day lectures
the people for the cries of indignation expressed b) them against
the murderer on the way to the gallows, and cads out for the
abolition of the punishment of death altogether.
The exports of wine from Lisbon to all parts are as follows
In 1837 there were exported 18,604 pipes ftom the Custom-
house of the Sete Cases, of which 1,200 were for ports within
the kingdom of Portugal Proper. In 1839, 19,302 pipes were
exported, of which 500 to ports within the continent of Por-
tugal. In 1840, 18,806 pipes, 816 of which to ports in Por-
tugal. Last year the exportation fell to 15,664 pipes, of which
764 to Portugal Proper ; of the rest 921 pipes to Portuguese
possessions, and 132 pipes to the islands, Azores, &c. The
bud: of the remainder went to Brazil, which took 10,593 pipes ;
England, 1,241 ; Russia, 1,233 ; United States, 337 ; Hol-
land and Belgium. 140; Sweeden, 113; Spanish America,
86; and France, 77 pipes. There has been a considerable
falling (Sof late in the amount sent to Brazil.
The Government has ordered a full investigation into the
outrage committed on the two gallegos at Oporto, which I re-
ported last week.
The new contract for loan between the Government and
the tobacco contractors for the supply, in instalments, of
1,060 contos cash, has been published in the Dimio. '1 he
contractors are to be repaid partly out of the decima, and
partly out of the proceeds of the tobacco revenue itself ;
but for 500 contos in cash, the contractors engage to take
from the Government 1,250 contos of the Anglo-Portuguese
bond (5 per cent.), agreed by the former contract made
by Senhor Avila to be purchased by the Company of National
Credit, and made over to the Government. The parties to
the new loan being nearly identical with the ether, the effect
will be, that only 750 contos will be purchased and cancelled,
instead of 2,000, as reported upon the best possible autho-
rity in such matters. The Government, in fact, instead of
receiving the other 1,250 contos in bonds, will receive 500
contos in money.
Baron Lagos' plan has been before the Council of State, and
I hear is not yet decided on. Its advocates say that Portugal
can never pay the prospective interest of five and six per cent.
on principal and arrears; and that, therefore, the creditors
will do better to secure the present addition which is offered
them by Baroa Lagos' plan of conversion, viz., instead of 211
per cent. on the principal and arrears payable in London, four
per cent. on the principal payable in Lisbon ; the difference is
lather more than one per cent. The argument the advocates
of this plan use against this scheme of conversion now going on
may be turned against themselves. lb per cent. additional in-
terest would require an additional annual provision of nearly
400 contos per annum ; and, quasre, whether in the present state
of affairs such an annual charge in addition to the 1,000 contos
per annum, now payable for the half dividends, can be
securely provided for? I doubt it very much; the last dividends
have been paid by leans, a great deficit still remains, and
claims of various kinds, which had been agreed upon be-
tween the English and Portuguese Governments, have not yet
been discharged. The Peninsular officers, for instance, have
100,0001. of arrears owing to them, which I mentioned last
year had been agreed to be paid in twelve instalments, at three
months each ; well, nothing has yet been paid them. There
are other claims due and equally unsatisfied. Under these cir-
cumstances, I do not regard the plan of conversion into a Por-
tuguese Four per cent. stock as one likely to benefit the perma-
nent holders. No doubt a single dividend could be provided
for, which might enable speculators to gain and some large
holders to shift their burdens on other shoulders at a good
profit; but until the state of things here is very different to
what it now is, the prospect of Portugal being able to-go on
paying four per cent. seems a very doubtful one.
The French ships Jena and Africainc left on Wednesday
last. They were, I understan-1, to touch at Cadiz and Tangiers
or Gibraltar, on their way to the Mediterranean. A French
sailor, who was proved to have killed the Portuguese boatman,
remains in prison. M. de Varences wanted him to be given
u 2 to French justice, but the Government refused.
The Indus and Lynx remain. The former has been down
at Pace d'Areos three days, practising firing at SOO yards.
Lord Howard and a party went down the river on Saturday in
the Lynx, to witness the tiring, and I hear were highly gratified
with the excellence of their practice.

MEMOIR OF M. kGUADO. THE
SPANISH FINANCIER.

M. A. Aguado was born in the year 1786, in one of the pro-
vinces of Spain, and was, at the time of his death, in his
fifty-sixth year. At the age of twenty-two be entered the
army, and was a captain, of dragoons in the service of Joseph
Bonaparte. On the termination of tue oar of independence,
he supported himself by selling wine: but when the Royalist
loans became desperate in their state, M. Aguado, who was
ale ays a keen speculator, immediately put himself forward to
undertake the management of the deranged finance, and be-
came, in a sl:ort time, the agent of the Srat.ish Government.
From this period the history of the finance of Spain is, virtu-
ally, the history of M. Aguado's life and well managed
transactions.

The Spanish loans have so long filled a large portion of
space befora the public eye, M. Aguado being the manager an..
contractor of every cne of those which have bean made since
the fall of the Constitutional Government, except the first,
which, amounting to 334,000,000 rcals vellon, was contracted
by Guebhard, of Paris, with Senor Erro, who was in 1823
Minister of Finance, that the fittest thing we can do is to set
them out in a distinct and intelligible form, and to deduce from
them the actual proceeds which they have given, as well as the
loss which from Al. Agnado's successive authorizations, arising
out of the distracted state of the country, the Spanish Govern-
ment has sustained.

SECOND LOAN.— The decree relative to this loan was pub-
lished in the Madrid Gazette, Bth March, 1824, and the
Spanish Government, whose financial difficulties were increas-
ing from year to year, authorised M. Aguado, on the 9d co:
May. 8-28, to negotiate to the amount of 18,787,000 reals
vellun,* on account of the stock created bv the decree of
March. The commission was four per cent.,r.nd the interest
payable at Paris at an exchange of Lif. 40c. per dollar.
-Turku LoAN.—This was contracted with M. A. Aguado.
Oct. 15, 182, for 300,006,000 reals vellon, at 471% per cent.,
commission 5 per rent., interest payable in Paris at an ex •
'change of 51. 40c. per do.lar. The sums arising from this loan
thus managed by M. Aguado, amounted to 153,1 911,000
veilen real value. This sum enabled the G.iveinment to dis-
Charge the half-year's interest, paid ens sertes of the Royal
loin, arid satisfied other demands on the treasury..
Lows —This was contracted with M. A. Aguado
on the 25th January, 1830, for 9.93,400,000 rests vellon ; the
price was 56 per cent., payable in thirteen monthly instalments,
the interest 5 per cent., and commission b per cent. The pin.
ceeds of this loan amounted to 117,448,300 r. v. real value
which were employed to meet the various demands upon the
Spanish treasury. This loan made up the amount of
800,000,000 r. v. as created by the decree of the Bth March,
1524. •

FIFTH LOAN.—ThiS was one of the most difficult pieces of
M. Aguado's finsncicrship, and %rah ably and creditably ma-
naged as fir as he could control the circumstances over which
he had to employ his talents. This loin was created by au
autograph decree of •llst February, 1-831, for an indeterminate
quantity of 3 per cent. stock, not exceeding 1.000,000 dcll irs.
The principal object of this decree was the recognition if th,
loans contracted by the Cortes, and they were to be conyered as
follows:—For a bond of 100 dollars stock of the Cortes' loans,
an inscription of 9_'o dollars 3 per cent, stock was given, and
the remaining 80 dollars were capitalises, and exchanged capi-
tal for capital for certificates of deferred debt, convertilsle one-
fortieth in each year into 3 per cent. stock ; the dividends iu
arrear wire also exchanged capital for capital for the like cer-
tificates. M. Agoado was entrusted wish this conversion at a
commission of 3 per cent. lie effected a conversion to the
amount of 73,4:10,000, nominal value, into 3 per crnt.. stock,
and 480,456,000 reals vellon into certificates of deferred debt.

Since then, a sum of 24,038,000 teals vellon, nominal eapi-
tal of three per cent.stock, has been emrloyed in paying cti
the two first fortieths of the deterred debt; and the balance of the
1,000,000 dollars has been subsequently negotiated by AI.
Aguado at different prices in Amsterdam, Ltwerp, Park
and London, amounting to 50,136,000 teals vel'on ; and ha,
been ernploed to meet the various doom& upon the Go ern
ment at Madrid.

From the above we proceed to form the following summ:try,
which will show at a coup trceil M. Aguado's ht-iour as far a,
he was the instrument of Go►ernment, along with their results:
Beals
' Summary of the Cortes Loans in 33 m0nth5...2,098,961 ,b 75
Praceeds in actual money._

Less to the Spanish Government 1,.91,5,7,791
Summary of the Royal Loans in 10 vcars,viz —1.745.890,666
Proceeds in actual money ......... .. 739,595,106

Loss to the Spanish Government..... 1,006,295,560
The whole of these loins have been formally reeogniP•ed by
the Spanish Government: In addition to these, alo;iu,canes;
the Itcgcrry Loan, has been contracted by the Spanish Go-
vernment; the amount was 4,CM.0001. sterling at 60 p, r
cent:, making nearly 7,000,0001. sterling cf Stuck. It was
taken by Mess:s. Ricardo of London, in conjunction with corn,
French bankers, and settled Nov. 20, 1834, with Cuunt
at Madrid. •• ,

* Twenty reals are equal to 4s. 2d.

M. Aguado received a patcnt of nobility from Ferdinand
thlitle of Marquis de los Marismas. He was a
-great lover Of the fine arts, and his-gallery of pictures eimtainei
some exceilmt uturdios ; he possessed also in hit coliectron
Cartova's celebrated statue of the Magdalen, wh.ch he pur-
chased for 3,1)0W. His immense property, said to amount to
50,000,000 of francs, acquired by si eoula. ions in the fends since
1623, remains to be divided among hit widow and three sons.
The eldest °fill. Ac uado's sons, aged 28, is married to a daugh-
ter of Mr. Macdonald, an English Gentleman, who was Co,rsul-
General, upon wilier he gave up his commission in a catalry
regiment, and entered dirlornacy; became sttoched to the Em-
hassy at View' a, and is at present a member of the Le,ration at
Florence. The trio younger sons of the late Marquis, one
seventeen and the other frurteen years old, ate rursmng their
studies at the College Bourbon. Al. Aguado was a nrtive of
Spai9,- but became a naturnli,ed Freechman and colonel in the
army, in khich capacity he returned after the Spanish wr in
1804. Mum. Aguado is a Spanish lady. A part of the Mar-
quis's suite, with his equipages, arrived at Bordems on Tuesday.

DEATH OF MAUSHAL MONCEY.
veteran warrior, Duke .of Conegiiatio, Lnd Gmerno
of the Royal Hotel of Invalals, eith ye,r,
la.,t week.

Adrian Mnrcey, Marshal and Peer of France, was lua n at
Besancon, in France, in the July of 1754, in which place his
fatter sr.is an advocate. Youre4 Muncey entered the army
early, and first served as a grenadier in the Regiment of Chum-
psgne. In 1773, he made the campaign on the coast of Brittany,
and in the following, year entered the gendarmerie at Luisevihe.
Four years after he took the rank of _tib-Lieutenant of Dra-
goons, among the volunteers of Nassau-Siegen. • Captain in
;791, he commanded thii same regiment, which then ma:i
part of the army of the Pyrenees, with which, in 1794, he els-
, lodged the enemy, and caused to be effected t.herehy tlie passage
of the Bidassna.- He shortly became General of Brigade, and
on the deposition of Muller, undertook the command of the
left wing of the French army, in which among others, the
celebrated Latour D'Auvergne, at the head of Ins grenadiers,
acted. On the 27th October, 1794, he gained a signal victory
mar Villa-Nova, and afterwards a series of rapid sueeesses at
Castellena, Villa- Real, Mont-Dragon, Eybar, and Bilea.
On Bonaparte's obtaining the command of the army, he ap-
pointed Aloncey • commander of the 15th . military division at
Lyons. In the war in Italy, on had under Lis orders 20,008
men, with whom he effected several important military
movements. The 4th of December, 1801, he was named In-
spector General of the empire, chic/ of a cohort, grand officer
of the Legion of Honour, and successively Duke of Corm‘r,-
liano, and Piesident of the electoral college cf the department
of Doubs. In 1808 he pa,sed ire() Spain, where he re-
strained the insurgents of the kingdom of Valencia, and
bivouacked before Saragossa. 'The Emperor, in 1810, en-
trusted him with the command of the army of reserve in
the north. He distinguished himselt in the campaign::
1812 and 1813, and became, in 1814, the second com-
mander of the Parisian National Guard. On the return of
Napoleon to Paris, he was created by him a member of the
Chamber of Peers, and on the abdication of the Emperor, he
sent in his adhesion to the Royal Government; he refusOds
however, to pr side on the trial of Marshal Ney, for which ilfe
was degraded from• his honours and confined. • In 1823, het
accompanied the Luke d'Angouleme in his invasion of..NparO,
and added greatly to the succe,soiti•cttlerde
liFyrteinrechzrs ti,hoant.
country. 1 his General, famous as a warrior. had for the
of hi
latter years of his life bemi sadly an
the young and brave Colonel Moncey, whom the array had
begun to look up to ssith pride as the worthy successor of his
father; he perished when only in bis twet.ty-fifty year, the
victim of a deplorable accident. While hunting, he endei.-
voured to leap a ditch ; he used his gun as a leaving-v/le,
which suddenly exploded, and shattet ed his head.
Marshal Moncey, according to one who well underskiod his
character, wa simmane by uwure, honourable in conduct, aria
a cautious, rather than a bold Gmeral.