The Sun. — 1840-09-08 (London, England)

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOSE JUSTINO TEIXEIRA, MILITARY GOVERNOR OF MARVAO, TO THE EXCELLENT SENHOR C. C.BARATA. " Illustrious Senhor—Weary of enduring the tyrannical measures adopted by the unprincipled men who have assumed the control of our destiny, I have this night resolved, in conjunction with the infantry No. 9 and No. 13, to raise the cry of Viva a Rainha a Senhara Donna Maria II," The Constitution of 1838? and Down with the Ministry.' It is necessary that this movement should be general, and therefore I hope that your Excellency will exert all your endeavours to effect that object. I have likewise addressed a letter to the commandant of the detachment. I entertain no doubt that your Excellency will spare no exertions, for I well know your patriotism and your character. At the same time I pray you to place yourself in communication with me, so that we may operate the more effectively. " Heaven preserve your Excellency. " MIGUEL AUGUSTO DA SOUSA, " Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. " Castello Branco, Aug. 26, 1840. " Senhor Jose Justino de Carvalho, Governor of the Fortress of Marvao."  " Portuguese soldiers and citizens ! Viva a Rainha a Serikora Donna Maria 11.,' the Constitution of  1835," and Down with the Ministry.'—These are the cries which it is our duty to raise, and to which no true Portuguese ought to prove himself indifferent. " Portuguese soldiers and citizens! The Ministry is composed of despots—of men whose caprice is their only law—of men who have betrayed, and who continue to betray, the confidence which her Majesty the Queen has reposed in them—of men, in fine, who have sold themselves to foreigners, as has been demonstrated by our embassies to England. These men have held us in a state of degradation, and, by their arbitrary and infamous acts, have reduced us to our present wretched condition—to misery and misfortune. They are unworthy to direct the destinies of the nation. It  is for you, therefore, Portuguese soldiers and citizens, to whom the country owes so many sacrifices in the cause of liberty—it is for you to arm and discipline yourselves, and unite together to avenge the outrages which have been perpetrated upon us, and upon the Constitution to which we have sworn fidelity, which we honour, and which it is our duty:to defend. Portuguese soldiers and citizens ! let us imitate our Spanish neighbours. They have driven away their traitorous Ministers, and substituted in their stead men of honour and character. With union and courage victory is certain. Viva a Rainha Donna Maria 11. Live the Constitution of 1838, and down with the Ministry ! " MIGUEL AUGUSTO DA SOUSA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commandant, " JOSE JUSTINO TEIXEIRA, Lieutenant- Colonel, Military Governor of Marvao. " Fortress of Marvao, Aug. 28, 1840, 11 A.M." [The project of law passed by the Cortes, and the measures taken to put down the insurrection, were given in The Sun of yesterday.]  Judge—Did you not express fears that Lafarge was ill ?—Ves, he was subject to head-ache. Judge—Did you not express fears that you should receive a letter from Paris sealed with black ?—No.  Judge—Nor run to meet the :postman with eagerness ?—This was possible. I was anxious for a letter.  Judge—lnstead of the small cake made by your one large cake war; sent to Laffarge, who was taken ill after e. ling it ?—I sent the small  cakes.  She was then asked to explain how she came to write twice, and so very politely, to the apothecary for arsenic ?—She said it was simply to kill rats. What was the white powder that Mdlle. Brun had seen her put i❑ Llffarge's drudt ?—SII(, said it was gum powdered.  The Judge asked how, on th 9 very day that her husband returned ill, she could think of writing for poison to kill rats ? The Judge observed she had sent for arsenic a second time, and recommended the servant not to speak of the object of the mess/ tge. The rest of the Judge's interrogatory follows close,'y the series of facts announced in the requisition.  The trial was then adjourned to the next day. The journals publish also three or four incoherent notes written by Madame Laffarg e to young Guyet, bar former lover, who has lately committed suicide. The purport of these is to beg of him not to compromise her, but to save her by his silel ice.