The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-23 00:00:00

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By the Conceit:lto, arrived at Lisbon, letters of
the 12tb of November have bden received from
Bahia. The expedition from Lisbon had arrived
at,fialiia on the 30th of October, acid as soon as
the troops landed, General Al.t»EntA prepared
an attack can the head-quarters Of Gen. LABATOU
for which purposcea body -Of about /100 men em-
barked at Bahia, and attacked the Brazilians at
Cahrito, tc IMP another detachment of equal
force tparched by land to Riraja. The result of
their joint attack, according to the letters from
LiNboll, wassaid-to have been the tlefeat of the
Brazilians, with the loss of 250 men and I,ve
field-pieces. There.ere letter's, however, written
by persons at Bahia, whic!l claim the victory for
the Brazilians, who, as they assert, drove'Gene:
ral 141,touncA's troops back to their entrench-
ments, and recovered the field-pieces that had
been captured. I't' is impo.sible, of course, to
say nhicli of these letters is entitled to the
greatest degree of credit ; nor world these petty
encounters possess sufficient interest to be men-
tioned at all, were it not that this province is the
chief hold of Portugal on and that on her
efforts firmly to establish her ;t,,eendeney thyre,
depend, ht bey 'estimation, all hope of 'recovering
the remainder. It appear,, however, by the fol-
lowing letter from Gen, MA RI to his Go.
vernment in,Europe, publkhed in the Mario do
Gooernq c,f the 3fst ult., that this zealous and
filittlfUr 50'vant, of ,Portugal felt lie had little
chance of%preserving Bahia

" TO TH I: Kt NO.

. .......... . " Senbor—Since I bad tlu bottom,- to write to, your -11,14kic.stY
my letter of the 13th currciit, no ex traortlittai-
y count has occur-
red ln this province; but every thief,' shows that the revolt!. . .
limits dinky becoming,,mere firmly establish-d; and a proof of
this is the Continued desertion of the troaus, persons employed
in civil serviees, and other individuals. The Junta of I. mance
,
cluplains that there is an extreme want of money; the pay-
ment of the. Navy anti the salaries of public officers are greatly
in anear.

" Several articles of provision, of the first necessity in this
country, have not been received in this city for sonic days past ;
and I am assured that the Prince Regent has adopted vigorous
measures in the other provinces for preventing exportations to

" The trops from Rio de Janeiro,: which disembarked at
All oas' are expected in the Reconcavo, and are to be joined by
some from Pernambuco. This force., commanded by Labo-
ur, is.to he united to the levies of the Reconcavo, in order to
gtve the whole a more advantageous diwesition, anti to enable
them to attack us mere'eflixttially.
" Every day our advancettposts are fired on.
" The misfortunes of Brazil have extended themselves to the
division of the Royal IrolunteerS, as your Majesty, will see
from No. I. I have called together the merchants of this
place, aui stated to them what the divif.lon requires, respecting
which I wait fin- their decision.

" God presery (i;lrMkjesty many years.
IGNACIO LUIZ MADEIRA E MELLO.
" Oct. 2.1 "
This refers to a representation from the military council of
the troops in -Montevideo who remain faithful to Portugal.—
They ask of Madeira three things Money to pay the
arrears. 2. Some armed shim, which, in addition to the Thetis
frigate, already at Montevideo, might be sufficient to prevent
'the blockade of that port by a naval force from Ilia de Janeiro.
3. Transports to convey the troops to Bahia in case it should be
found necessary to evacuate Montevideo.

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