The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-24 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1827.

FOREIGN• INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
• (From the Moniteur of Saturday, July 21.)
ANCONA, JULY 4.The steam-packet of the
lonian Islands, which, in the regular course, could
not have arrived here till the 9th, entered this port
yesterday, the 3d,. with extraordinary dispatches
from Corfu, for London: The following particulars
are extracted, from private letters, which it brought :
General Church, according to accounts from Zante,
occupied the positions of Dervania. Colocotroni and
the other Greek Chiefs were posted in different
places about the Isthmus of Corinth, to oppose, if
possible, the. march of Ibrahim.
It is reported that Lord Cochrane, at the head of
the Greek fleet of seventy sail, has dispersed the
Egyptian fleet, off the coast of Candia.
LISBON, JULY 4.—On the 2d the Portuguese
ship, Admiral Pacheco, arrived here, in 68 days from
Rio. The armies in the south had taken up posi-
tions after the bloody battle of the 21st of February.
The Brazilian cavalry had joined the rest of the Im-
perial army.
A new expedition was preparing at Rio, but the
arrival of Commissioners from Buenos Ayres, to

treat for peace, delayed the departure of the forces,
:and it is generally believed that the differences will
be adjusted to the satisfaction of both parties.
We expect here General Correa de Mello, Go-
vernor of Tras-os-Montes ; his post is filled ad in-

terim, by General Benedicto.
The letters from the Northern frontiers are very
satisfactory ; they state that the 'Spanish Authori-
ties of Galina have given the strictest orders to
arrest and disarm the Portuguese rebels, who from
time to time re-entered our territory and committed
all kind of excesses. It is Colonel Ignacio Perreira,
of the Militia of Orense, who is charged with this
Commission, the same who so strongly declared in
their favour, and has always assisted them. It
seems that ie Cabinet of Madrid is inclined to use
conciliatory measures towards Portugal.
Considerable promotions and numerous changes
have been made in the army ; some changes have
also been made in the staff of the fortresses.

PARIS, JULY qo.—Some Journals receive with
fir too much readinesS the news.which officious cor-
respondents send them respecting the affairs of the
Peninsula. We feel it to be our duty to inform
their readers, that the letters we received from Ma-
drid and Lisbon are far from justifying the alarms
conceived ors propagated by thosegournals. The
hope of Europe, in the wisdom of the determina-
tions which will insure the repose of the Peninsula,
will not be disappointed. We shall not venture, as
some have done, to foretell or to indicate the ar-
rangements that may be mate ' • but we can boldly
contradict the news published by papers of various
opinions, in every thing that they may state contrary to
the just hopes of peace and order, which the two
kingdoms of the Peninsula have reciprocally gua-
ranteed to each other.

(From the Constitutionnel.)
" CAM; JULY 3.—The Governor of Gibraltar
has refused :to admit privateers (South American)
into the bay. That, however, is not considered
enough; for it is wished that he should prohibit the
embarkation of provisions and military stores from
the place, which certain individuals supply to the
privateers.
"The Spanish ship The sweet Name of Jesus,
Captain Emanual Echezuria, bound to Mundaca,
has been taken and burnt near Santander, by the
Colo►nbian privateer General Arntario the Spanish
ereN were sent to Mundaca, where they are under
quarantine. Within these few days this privateer
has made a great number of prizes; she is the terror
of our mercantile navy, and the ruin of our, com-
merce.

MADRID, JUNE 28.—The day before yesterday
the Duke of San Carlos had a private audience with
his Majesty.
"The Duke de Villa Hermosa has received the
order of the Golden Fleece, as a reward for his ser-
vices as our Ambassador at Paris.

" The rumours respecting the evacuation of Ca,
diz and Barcelona still continue to circulate.

A trifling occurrence, in which our Government
is undoubtedly altogether innocent, yet, which, ne-
vertheless, will not fail to cause it much annoyance,
forms at the present moment the subject of much
remark in our diplomatic circles. The facts are

these :
" A depot of Portuguese refugees, consisting of
a Brigadier, a Colonel, and eight other officers, and
about 70 soldiers, lately received an order to march
from La Riga, where these troops were assembled,
,to two small villages between Salamanca and Nava-
redona (Old Castile), in each of which the half of
this small depot, that is, 35 soldiers, four subalterns,
and a superior officer, were to remain in garrison.
At the place where the troop was to separate into
two parties, it found horses, arms, and two Spanish
officers, who led it into Portugal, where it pro-
claimed the Infant Don Miguel, and committed some
excesses in three or four villages, after which it
again sought rerige in Spain, on the fourth day of
this glorious expedition. Complaints on the subject
were immediately addressed to our Government by
that of Portugal.'
" A curious account has just been published; it
is of the subscriptions made by the different religious
communities, by the corporations, ecclesiastical as
well as civil, by the different municipalities of the
kingdom, and by several private individuals, for the
organization, equipment, and support of the Royalist
volunteers of the kingdom, from the end of the year
1823 to that of 1826. The sum of the whole, in-
cluding the expences of religious ceremonies, the
blessing of banners and other casual charges,
amounts to 119,000,000 of reals (31,535,000
crates.) At present the taxes imposed on every
kind of provisions, crops, merchandises, and importa-
tions, for the support of the Royalist Volunteers,
has arisen to two-thirds of the ordinary contribu-
dons; and it is remarked that all the villages which
l#ve no Royalist Volunteers pay as much of the
contributions as those which have.

(From the Quotidienne.)
LISBON, JULY s:—The Government has received
an official communication of the answer given by
the Infant Don Miguel to his brother Don Pedro,
wherein he pleads the state of his health as prevent-
ing him from proceeding to the Brazils. A grand
Cabinet Council was held on this subject some days
ago, when the Ambassadors of Austria, France, and
England were called in. A note from the Cabinet
of Vienna was submitted to the Council, wherein
that Cabinet manifests an opinion respecting the
expediency of investing Don Miguel with the
Regency of Portugal as soon as that Prince attains
the age of majority.
The Princess Regent tid not hesitate to ask the
Ambassadors' advice on this project. The Ambas-
sadors of France and Austria expressed, it.is said,
their opinion against the embarkation of the Infant
Don Miguel, as his presence in Brazil would -be
useless, whilst it might become necessary in Portugal.
The English Ambassador spoke less decidedly, espe-
cially with respect to the Regency ; but he declared
that with respect to the voyage to Brazil, his Go-
vernment would subscribe to whatever decision the
Portuguese Cabinet might come to.
The 'Portuguese Ministers then delivered their
opinions, and all, the Home Secretary excepted, de-
clared in the name of the Princess Regent, that her
Highness would with pleasure give up the direction
of affairs to her brother, the‘lnfant Don Miguel:and
that her health was not the only motive that deter-

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mined her to this step, which she heartily desired,
from the conviction that her brother was, on account
of his activity, wisdom, and talents, more capable
than herself to direct the affairs of the kingdom ;
That, however, as she had received the Regency
from the hands'of her brother the Emperor of Brazil,
he considered that she ought not to relinquish the
same without his express order; and that she
would, for this reason, despatch a vessel to Rio Ja-
neiro, for the purpose of asking his instructions, and
then she would conform to the will of his Imperial
Majesty.
The Home Secretary (or Minister of the Inte-
rior) fully concurred in the advice of the French and
Austrian Ambassadors ; he even voted for the imme-
diate return of the Infant Don Miguel to Portugal.
On the 3d instant a brig was sent to Rio Janeiro
;with despatches addressed to the Emperor Don
Pedro, to apprise him of what was going on here.
It is very probable that the return of the Infant
Don Miguel to Lisbon, and the plan of investing him
iwith the Regency has been preconcerted between
the 'three great Powers, and that the Princess Re-
:gent,yielding in yieldi to the councils of her inorher,
ur-
.thers this project, which undoubtedly will be carried
into execution long before the return of the brig that
has ,been despatched. It is asserted that the Infant
:Don Miguel will not await the completion of his
'2sth year before he leaves Vienna, but that he will
arrive in the course of next month. His presence
will change the aspect of affairs. Tile Powers who
meddle with our ebneerns are Ivell aware to what
extent these changes may go; and they are likewise
aware that by delaying this movement, which is ine-
vitable, they would run the risk of a disastrous crisis,
for all resistance to the prevailing opinion would
hereafter become both useless and dangerous.