The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-30 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Brigadier-General Viscount da Serra do Pilau is
appointed Governor of the fortress of the same name
on the north side of the river Douro, which, it may be
recollected, he go bravely defended against the Migu-
elite forces during the siege of Oporto.
The 7th and 27th regiments of Infantry have been
ordered to tnarch from hence ; the first to Elvas, and
the second to Peniche ; the '22d battalion in Castello
Branco is ordered also to Elvas, and 23d in Viaoo do
Minho to Abrantes.

The lines of the capital are in an active state of prepa-
ration : about 2,500 persons are daily at work in
them, and 26 pieces of heavy artillery arc already
mounted. In the course of a very few days it is
expected that they will be completed with 180 guns.
The lines of Almada, together with its castle, on
the south side of the Tagus, fronting Lisbon, are also
in a similar state of progress. Great indisposition to take
up arms under any circumstances has been evinced, the
enlistment rolls up to the present day being meagrely
filled up in proportion to the census of the inhabitants.
A depot for recruits has been established here and in
Oporto.
The impressment both for the land and sea service,
has been very warm. All the ships of war, 15 in num-
ber, comprising 486 pieces of cannon, are forthwith to
be fitted out, and in case circumstances require be sent
to sea, the greater part in 15 days, and the remainder
at 20 at the furthest—query ? viz.-
1 ship of the line
6 frigates
6 corvettes 4B do.
2 brigs
2 brigantines
2 schooners
I3esides these vessels 3 corvettes, 2 brigs, and 2 armed
transports, arc absent from Portugal.
A new journal of this city, the Portuguese, in the
ministerial interest, made its appearance a few days since.
The decirna of 600 contos de reis for the first six months
of the economic year of 1839 to 1840 has been contracted
for by the Confiaace Company, thus giving 500 contos in
cash, and 130 in Government securities, to be paid by
monthly instalments of 100 contos. The first was paid
into the Treasury yesterday; as a guarantee, the whole
year has bean mortgaged to the Company, the Go-
vernment receiving one-third of the second half-year.
A loan of 1,200 contos de reis (275,000/. sterling) is
also on the Lapis, at an advance on the tobacco contracts.
By the Portuguese schooner Dourado, lately arrived
at Oporto from Leanda, bringing intelligence up to the
9:h of August last, we learn that the Tejo brig of war
captured on the 130th of July ultimo the schooner Ner-
eida, with evident proofs of her having been employed
in the slave-trade.
Arrived on the 18th the Sardinian war-steamer Tri-
poli last from Plymouth, in five days for coals ; on the
22d the Montrose steam packet from Gibraltar, Cadiz.
Sailed on the 20th the steam-vessel Seahorse, for
Sydney, her repairs having been completed. On the
21st, the Sardinian war-steamer for the Mediterranean.
Foreign ships of war in the Tagus, La Coquette
corvette, French ; Brandywine frigate, United States ;
and Marie Louise schooner, Belgian.
I subjoin a translation of the Decree of the Amnesty,
and of the appointment of the Duke da Terceira to the
command in the northern provinces. The packet front
England with the mail of the 12th instant has not yet
arrived.
" Secretary of State's Office for the War Department.
" Wishing to give public testimony of my
Royal clemency towards those of my subjects who,
deluded and dragged into the crime, were instru-
ments of the attempts and revolutionary move-
ments which took place in the capital on the night
of the 11th to the 12th of August last ; on the 27th of
the same month, in the city of Castello Branco ; and on
the Ist of September, in Portalegre, I akin pleased, hav-
ing heard my Council of Ministers, and using the attri-
butes conferred upon me by the political constitution of
the monarchy in the 82d article, 11th paragraph, to
decree, as follows :
" Only Article.—That those Portuguese, who, de-
luded and dragged into crime, were the instruments of
the attempts and revolutionary movements on the night
of the 11th to the 12th of August last, in the capital,
27th of the same month in Castello Branco, and of the
Ist of September
.in Portalegre, be pardoned, to be no
more persecuted, and a perpetual silence placed upon
their respective processes.
" Only Section.—Excepted from the benefit re-
ferred to, and against whom legal proceedings will
take place for the crimes of insubordination, military
sedition, and desertion ; all those officers who in con-
tempt of their most sacred duties of honour and fide-
lity to the army and navy, placed themselves at the
head of the above-mentioned attempts and revolutionary
movements, or took part in them. The Ministers and
Secretaries of State for all the departments have this
understood, and will cause to be executed.

" THE QUEEN.
" CONDE DE BONIFIM.
" RODRIGO DA FONSECA MAGALLIAES.
" ANTONIO BERNARDO DA COSTA CABRAL.
" FLORID() ROI)RIGUES I'EREIRA FERRAZ.
" Palace of Necessidades, Dec. 16,1840."
" Secretary of State's Office for the War
Department, Dec. 18, 1840.
" ORDER OF TILE ARMY—LETTER PATENT.
" Honoured Duke da Terceira, my nephew, Ma.
reschal of the army,-1, the Quicen, send greeting
to one whom I much esteem. Taking into conside-
ration the extraordinary circumstances of the country,
and knowing how much you are interested
in the support of the national glory and independence,
I have resolved to nominate you, as by these letters
patent you arc nominated,Commandant of the Army of
Observation, and particularly charged with the defence
of the Northern provinces, the which I deem proper to
communicate to you for your information and execution.
" Written in the Palace of Nccessicludes, on the ltith
of December, 1840.

."THE QUEEN.
"Count do I3OMFIM.
" For the Honoured Doke da 'rereeire, my nephew,
and Mareschal of the Army."

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THE RHINOCEROS HUNT.—The people
habiting, the woods in the province of Tshantburi arc in
the habit of hunting indiscriminately tigers, bears, add
rhinoceroses, as well as stags and wild cows. Their m aode
of dealing- with the rhinoceros is very remarkable. Four
or five men will arm themselves with poles, made from
the bamboo, after taking care to harden the
sharp
point which they give to one of the ends in the tire.
Thus equipped, they sally forth and make for the ani-
mal's haunts, calling out and clapping their hands, for the
purpose of alluring or disturbing him from his overt.cvrt.
As soon as they see the enraged animal appro
the ch
(and his rage is expressed by his opening and snap.
ping his :huge jaws vi,lently together), y pre-
pal e to receive him, by holding out the point of the pole in
a direct line with his foaming mouth ; and, upon the fa-
vourable moment presenting itself, they drive the pito
with astonishing nerve and adroitness not only d?vvn
throat, but into his stomach, and then take to their heels
right and left. The rhinoceros sets up a frightful howl,
falls down on the ground, and in an agony of pain rol!a
himself about in the dust with hideous howlings and dis-
tortions : the hunters in the meanwhile begin clapping
their hands and vociferating their songs of triumph, in the
midst of which they rush upon the monster, as soon as he
appears fairly exhausted by loss of blood, and despatch
him without hazard or difficulty.
The well-known racer and brood-mare Gipsy, by
Tramp, dam by Orville, out of Arbutcs' dam, the property
of George Walker, Esq., of Eastwood, near Nottingham,
has blipped a colt foal, with five legi, by Velocipede.