4 OCTOBER 1834, Page 8

TO TAIL ZDITOR. OF TIIE SPECTATOR.

SIR—Although a stranger in Portugal, I was lately admitted to a meeting in Lisbon, where some of the British officers in the service of Queen Donna MARIA signalized themselves by one of those acts of generosity and justice which is rarely followed, and never exceeded by any otter country ; and, presuming it may be gratifying to all who have wished well to the canse of liberty, and flattering to those offirers also who served in the same cause, now domiciled in England, 1 take the liberty of addressing these few lines to your valuable paper, as one which has been instrumental in realizing the ardent wishes of the suffer- ing portion of the emigrants, and propping up the fainting exertions of the warriors who underwent privations and encountered difficulties which had quenched the spirit of ordinary men, and to whom they are much indebted for a just exposition of their circumstances when their prospects were barren, and their hopes often on the brink of desperation. The righteous cause of Legiti. macy at length prevailed by the subsidiary power of those hardy sons of Albion who embarked their lives, fortunes, and reputation in it, conjoiutly with the native troops, who, adhering to their acknowledged Queen, expelled the ignominious Usurper from a throne he neither merited by heritage nor virtue. The commendable exertions of Colonel 'WILLIAsts, who commanded the BritOk battalion an.: British brigade, were appreciated and approved by all, especially by his own brother officers. At n splendid dejeune given by Major C. WALsII, of the Grenadiers, and Aid-de- camp ta Marshal SOLIG NA c, on a suggestion made by their munificent host, the officers simultaneously embraced the opportunity to present their valient Colonel with a sword, in token of his gallant conduct, as well in the day of peril as in the hour of relaxation from the thud war, which bail endeared him to the hearts of all his brother officers and men, and made the Portuguese sensible of the value of his cooperative influence, by stimulatiug his soldiers to feats of magnanhuity worthy the glory of the Peninsula. After the toasts of the Emperor Don PEDRO and of his high-minded coadjutors, Duke Dr TrheruiA, M. DE SALDANita, Admirals NAPIER. and S.Sul-0::11:S, given with enthusiasm, another and impoi tint toast was dchie rtely introduced by time gallant Major \Vaasa, in an addrese replete with feeling of Feet hey, announcing the real object of the me, fog—which waf, to present to th in- mmci iterious Colonel some distinguislinl mark of their fed- i igs towards hint, and especially of his military virtue. The unanimous acquiescence 'did honour to the hearts af Britons, and, re- fleeting credit on the gallant proposer, demonstrated to all the fact, that the generous feelings of Britoil officers are demonstrated to foreign lands, and that extraonlinary valour, skill, and intrepidity, are as surely followed by extraordi- nary testimonials of approbation, serving at once for a beaeon to by aspi- rants, amid as a compensation for recent toils. The subscriptions raised during the evening amounted te 501. and the prospective contributions will compass three or four times that sum.

The swonl is to be given with an appropriate inscription, and to be presented to Colonel Mere Aels he a Committee nominated to receive the subserption of each officer—viz. :V., with a correct copy of the proceedings of the meeting, re- onestina his kind acceptance of ON trilling testimony of the feelings of all who have lei'd the honuur to verve under him.