The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-03 00:00:00

COPY- OF A' REPRESENTATION,
ADDRESSED TO THE Qtrzinr, THE ORIGINAL or WHICH WAS FOUND

IN Till BiGGAOIC or THE COUNT DE 3iONTEALRGE.E.

Madam,—At the Royal feet of lour liiiperial.Majesty, the
Count de Montealegre' has the honour of prostrating himself,—
the same who first dared to raiieltii Sari:A, and-to. proclaim the
inalienable rights of King Don Miguel 14 my lord; the august
son of your Majesty; -having an equal consideration to the indis-
putable justice by which the reins of the Government must fall
into the hands of your Imperial. Majesty, as the only legitimate
Regent of these kingdoms, during the absence of his Faithful
Majesty.
It was with the intimate conviction of these principles, that
while I had the glory of assembling the faithful officers of the 24th
regiment,- I communicated with my brother the Viscount de Villa
Garcia, respecting this unalterable resolution, and then trans-
ferred my residence along with them to the territory of his Ca-
tholic Majesty, the august brother of your Majesty, to whose
royal munificence and never-enough-to-be admired generosity, I
am, and shall always be, indebted, with the whole of the divi-
sion, for the most signal benefits, while for almost a month I
maintained and supported, at my own charge, that corps.
There I had likewise the singular honour of kissing his royal
hand, and that of the most Serene Princessei, the Princess of Beira
and the Infanta of Spain, having been on that occasion required
by the first to take the command in second, and to consider as
General-in-Chief my nephew, the Marquis of Chaves, that be-
ing the sovereign will of his Catholic Majesty, to which I sub-
mitted without any hesitation. In the mean time Viscount de
Villa Garcia exerted himself in Portugal in perfect concert with
me, to enlarge the Royalist party, and to excite the spirit of the
people in favour of a cause as sacred as it is legitimate. There,
having obtained his object, and having procured some assistance
for the troops, he set out to join me, arriving in the Spanish ter-
ritory on the 23(1 October.
I had at length the great glory of obtaining, in the month of
November, the necessary permission for the departure of our
troops for this kingdom, and having been enabled to tread on the
desired soil of Portugal, I had the happiness of gaining fruits for
the cause of the true and the only legitimacy ; on the 22d of that
month, we spent the night in Mofreita, armed and accou-
tered. On the following morning, after a march of more than
three leagues, we fought the hard-contested battle with the divi-
sion of Valdez, and the soldiers of the garrison of Braganza, the
titular cradle of the dynasty of our adored King, who, in spite of
the most obstinate resistance, yielded to the valour of the Royalists
and shut themselves up in the Castle, where, holding out till the
26th, they surrendered themselves prisommof war, preserving
only their lives and the baggage belonging to the private property
of the officers. The Royalist forces thus being crowned by the
God of Victory, in spite of the occupation of the province of Tres-
os-Montes by two Constitutional divisions, under the command of
Correa de Mello and Brigadier Claudino, the whole province de-
clared itself, with the rapidity of electricity, from one extremity to
the other, •in favour of the good and sacred cause ; and over the
whole it was successively proclaimed Don Miguel the first, as our
legitimate King and Lord ; and your Majesty, as his Vicegerent,
the Regent of these kingdoms, during his absence. The adminis-
tration of this oath I superintended, along with my brother, as
Vice-President of the Supreme Provisional Government, in many
towns ; and in others the Justices proceeded to do so, according to
circumstances.
Your Majesty will permit me, out of a feeling of zeal and truth,
to call your Royal attention to the said Marquis of Chaves, who,
having wandered much from reason, and lost that portion of in-
tellect with which God more or less had endowed him, was al-
ways with the division as a nominal chief, though the orders of the
slay in spite of him, evinced the will of his uncle, the Viscount de
Camelia&
He, however, persisting in a system which was secret and al-
most. unintelligible, gave reason to fear that he would endanger
the safety of the division by means of plans ill conceived and worse
executed, in despising the true march by the heights of Barrosa,
direct upon the province of Minho, and the entrance into Oporto.
He turned aside to that of Tras-os-Montes, and in place of attacking
separately the-enemy's divisions, for which he had the best oppor-
tunity, between Carrazedo and Franco, he ordered the movement
of the troops Under my command, by the road of Santa Maria de
Emmee, and that of his. own by the road of Zebres, instead
of retiring by Murcia, neglecting thus to cut off General
Mello, who was in. Carrazedo, distant three leagues from Passos
and Lamm, where our diviSions then were. He retired by Villa
Real, preceded by the division of Claudino, which marched to
fortify itself in Amarante, while the division of Melho did the
same in Villa Pouca, by the bridge of Cavez. I followed him
with my division to Villa Pouca, whence I wrote to the same
Viscount de Canellas, that he was to attack Claudino at Amarante,
while I was to attack him in the rear, directing my march by
Salto, pn the right bank of the Tamega ; and waiting his reply
from halt: nest 10 on the night of the 7th of December till the
afternoon of the Sth, he did not even deign to answer me.
He displayed, Madam, other sinister intentions, which showed
the design of dividing the army, the second division passing to the
province of Beira, to allow the first, under my command, to be
cut off. To avoid so fatal an event, I began my march on that
day at 10 o'clock, and succeeded in joining, at Villa Real, the second
division. I arrived on the 9th, at half-past nine in the morning,
and it was only at four o'clock in the afternoon that I could obtain
front him a reply to that despatch, the proposal of which he ap-
proved of, when it became impossible -to execute it, as he had
before detached for Lamego a squadron of cavalry.
It was, then discovered that the views of Canellas were directed
more to the safety of his own near relatives of Lamego and the
province of Beira, than to any other object ; perhaps in accor-
dance with his ideas to renew the final scene of 1823. This
want of confidence extended to all the officers of the army, and
obliged them by being provoked hy the same Viscount, who im-
puted to us faults which he himself had committed, to depose
him front the Adjutant-Generalship, causing hint to retire to

Canellas.
The command devolving upon me, I resolved to enter into the
prov:yice of Minho, and caused the army to march to the left
bank of Ole Tamega, near Amarante, where, placing my hi
contact with the inhabitants of the right bank, I was prepared
for the surprise of the enemy's troops on the day when new in-
trigues excited attL.9 head-quarters of the Marquis obliged me to
a sudden, nocturnal, and precipitate march from thence to La-
znego, in the night betweert the 17th and 18th of December.
Here the said Viscount de CAnellaa came again upon the stage,
and placing himself in contact with the Viscount de Varzea, whom
he calls his son, because he is married to his niece, the Viscount
being his cousin, to whom he gave a portion on her marriage, after
attempting in a manner, as perverse as efficacious, to de rive me
of the command of the army, they succeeded, by means of an
is -
surrection of the troops, and this conduct being punished by the
Divine vengeance, they ordered a march upon Vireo, with the in-
tent of uniting with the divisions of Magessi and Telles Jordao.
Having arrived at that city, they began to enlarge their party,
by inviting to join it, Viscount de Molellos, whom they commis-
sioned to go and treat with the said Magessi and Telles Jordan.
After this we set out on the road to Celorico, and being in the
village of Sampaio, on the 29th of the last month, I set out on the
same night to have a conference at Celorico with all the said Ge-
nerals. Then the said Viscount de Canellas returned to the exer-
cise of the Adjutant-Generalship. The two Viscounts de Varzea
and Molellos being appointed to form a plan for the operations of
the campaign, as if the Viscount de Canellas was not himself suf-
ficient to paralyze us, or if there were not sufficient facts to save
;:idividuals from conduct more or less suspected. But, Royal
me,iain, that which I hold as decided is, that we have consumed
time Qselessly, and without gaining for ourselves any ground to
promote :he sacred cause. In the mean time, we are losing public
opinion, anal the adherence of the people is weakened, or prepared
for revolt.
These evils, s.i,jch deserve the highest consideration of your
Majesty, derive their prigin in a great part from the forced in-
action which the Viscount de Canellas has imposed upon the Su-
preme Provisional Governme);.t, which he net only disobeys, but
which, after having been installed in Braganza, sworn to and re-
cognized on the 2Sth November, he, of his own will and plea-
sure, declared dissolved. In this manner this Viscount consti-
tutes himself the irresistible arbiter of the future fortune of the
Royalist Army. The respectful love which I entertain towards
any legitimate Sovereign, to your Majesty, and to ray dis-
tracted country, having determined me to save it, or to die
with it, in proportion as it shows the purity of my zeal, con-
vinces me of the necessity of bringing to the knowledge of your
Majesty these truths, not remote from your high penetration
and wisdom, recalling to your Majesty the necessity for your
Royal care. Perhaps on the preservation of this Government,
installed and recognised in Braganza, depends the salvation of the
cause in which we are engaged, this Government being authorised
by your Majesty not only for creating concert in future opera.,
tions, and for providing subsistence for the troops, but likewise to
carry on the war and to remove intrigues. Your Imperial
jetty has only to command in order to be served.
May God protect the sacred life of your Majesty for many years.
Head-quarters at the Ponte de Abbade, Jan. 6, 1827.
At the feet of your Imperial and Royal Majesty, I kiss your
august hand. Viscount de MONTEALEGRE.
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The remainder of the battalion of Marines, which
had been some time stationed at Lisbon, have arrived here in the
Windsor Castle and Ocean.—Plymouth Journal.