The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-05 00:00:00

lecree has been passed, summoning them to meet in
he beginning of September.

OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.

A new proposition has been made by Spain,
which I have no doubt is intended still more to em-
barrass the Portuguese and English Governments.
That proposition is, an engagement to send to
France every Portuguese refugee in Spain whose
name shall be mentioned, on condition that Portugal
orders out of the country every Spanish refugee
whose name shall likewise be given. Nobody be-
lieves that Spain will sincerely execute such an en-
gagement, though every body believes that Portugal
must act up to it if she enters, under the guarantee
of England, into such a stipulation. The Portu-
guese Government has, therefore, demurred on the
proposal, not from any desire to prolong the present
state of agitation on the frontiers, but from a doubt
of the good faith, or the power, of the Cabinet of
Madrid.

To show how much importance we attach to the
idea of being faithful to our engagements, I need
only mention a recent instance. Some 50 or 60
Spanish refugees, tired with their stay in a country
which afforded them so little encouragement,
lately chose rather to return to their ov►n homes,
than to remain en starving allowance in Portugal.
—They therefore set out in a body for their
own country. Their departure was mentioned
to our Ambassador here by some of the
conservators of the peace of Europe. He could not
neglect the intimation of such a fact, which he
knew would be aggravated into a hostile invasion of
Spain from the Portuguese frontier. He, therefore
called upon the Portuguese Government to afford
him the means of justifying to the Government of
Spain the misfortune which had just happened.--
We (the English) had protested against the entry
of Portuguese refugees into Portugal armed and
equipped from Spain ; and now Spanish refugees
were about to enter Spain armed and equipped (as
at least might be pretended) from Portugal. Some
strong notes have, as I understand, passed between
the English Embassy and Portuguese Ministry on
the subject. The latter has, of course, from a desire
to consult the general peace, sent out couriers in all
directions td arrest the fugitives; but they have not
yet been found. England, which has so strongly
objected to the conduct of Spain in allowing an in-
vasion of Portuguese rebels from her territory, can-
not of course, justify the entrance of Spanish pa-
triots into Spain on the side of Portugal.
There seems, in all the provinces, to be a general
state of discontent and suspicion. An insurrectionary
feeling agitates the troops. The late change in the
Minstry has animated the Corcundas. Every body
seems to look with anxious interest for what is to
happen. Unfortunately, almost nobody expresses his
opinion energetically against a change. The friends
of Don Miguel are so active in the North, that se-
veral English merchants of Oporto have written to
Lisbon to know the meaning of the movement.—
Some of these letters are very ominous. Should an
internal movement in favour of Don Miguel take
place, how are we to act ? In the first place, we
have no troops capable of resisting any expression
of popular feeling; in the second place, our prin-
ciples would not allow us to interfere in a contest
purely national, though we had the power to do it
successfully.