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tentatlves of his Catholic Majesty at these Courts, Or by
your Excellency, or by Count de Brunetti.
As the communications which the Duke de Rays lan
has made at Lisbon leave no doubt tiacKhis Most Chris-
tian Majesty has recognized the legality of the Govern-
Meat established in Portugal, and as your Excellency
cannot be ignorant that the Charge d'Affaires appointed
by her Royal Highness the Infanta Regent to your
Government has already had the honour of being pre-
sented to his Most Christian Majesty, I do not hesitate
to inform you of the 4 bjections which M. de Salmon
has made to my application, in the hope that your Ex-
cellency will think proper to obviate them so far as re-
gards the opinion of- your Government with respect to
that of Portugal, and that it will be pleased to cow-
municate to M. de Salmon that the opinion of his Ma-
jesty the King of France as to the changes which have
taken place in Portugal, coincides entirely with that of
the Cabinets of London, St. Petersburgh, and Berlin.
" In haste, &c. " Count De VILLA. REAL.
" To his Excellency the Marquis de Moustkr,
Ambassador from France.

" Being of opinion that the solution of the very com-
plicated questions contained in your letter which you
did me the honour to address to me last night, cannot
concern me, I beg you will trot take it amiss.that I con-
fine myself here solely to acknowledging the receipt of
your letter, whichl will not fail to bring to the know-
ledge of my Government.
“ 1 have the honour to be, he. the
" MARQUIS 'DE MOUSTIER.
" To the Count de Villa Real.
s! Madrid, Nov. 11."

amtnunition, and money, yet the sums collected in the'
monasteries, and among the people, allow every day
larger remittances of these articles.
The peasants of the country of Salinas alone have
collected 10,000 Teals. The Bishop has made an appeal
t. his Clergy, and processions have celebrated the re-
cent victories of the Marquis de Chaves. The Consti-
tutionalists made no resistance at Bragansa, and the'
subjoined letter which 1 have received may give you an
idea of the march of the Marquis ; it is from a Portia.
gnese Royalist: " MONTEFORTE, Doe. 5.
" We occupy this post in the mountains, and our
advanced posts are near Villa Poy and Laniego. The
last is an important point of operation, and our Royal-
ists will occupy it in a few days. We are lodged here
in a convent, and the good Fathers console us for our
fatigues ;we endure them for the good cause. ' Don
Miguel and the country for ever: We have not yet
met with any red coats ; it is long since they have op-
pressed our towns and the country. In the eyes of these
men we were a colony ; they must be driven back to
the sea. The Moors formerly occupied our provinces;
the Moors have disappeared; we are still brave sons of
the Lusitanians. We who have, as it were, given to this
world a new world, had no longer a country. The
brave Chaves is still with us. At Braganza, Montealegre
was at our head. We entered the city without any re-
sistance; what Portuguese could resist those who pro.
claimed their deliverance? We remember what that
General said to us-0 Children, you are told of indepen-
dence, but is there any independence with the red coats?'
We march from one. fete to another. The peasants arm
themselves as guerillas; their families welcome us ; the
' convents, the chateaus, and the cottages, are equally
I open to us. In a few days I shall write to you from
Oporto."
" A scene, at which I wish you could have been present, was the
reading in the University of Valladolid, of a letter written by the
Marchioness de Chaves, t►e heroine of Portugal, to our Bishop, to
thank him for the care he has taken of the Royalists. I can hardly
expreu the enthusiasm of the people. There is still here some-
thing of that chivalrous character which had its source in the old
faith, and the remembrance of the country. In my next letter I
shall send you an extremely curious document; it is a consultation
of the Lawyers, and of the corps of the Clergy of Salamanca, on
the rights of Don Miguel to the crown of PortugaL"