The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-11 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

(From the Times Correspondence.)
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.
" LISBON, AUG. 26.—The immense resources which
Lisbon possesses are being made available, in order to sur-
round the capital with defensive works and redoubts, i❑
the same manner that Oporto was fortified. Many thou-
sand men are occupied in the formation of lines, some
forts have been erected, in which artillery is already placed,
and so early as four o'clock in the morning the Duke of
Braganza is to be seen amongst the workmen, and ap-
peared to communicate to all employed a portion of his
own natural activity. General Sildanha arrived here
yesterday from Oporto, and two steam-boats, with several
other small vessels, have brought down here the sth Ca-
qadores, and 15th Infantry, being about 1,000 men, of the
garrison of that city; the greater portion of the remainder
will follow immediately, vessels being chartered for that
purpose, as well as to convey the horses of the Lancers
and other cavalry.

" The lately besieging army of Oporto having passed
to Estremadura, has united itself to the late garrison of
Lisbon, and the forces which accompanied the Visconde
de Molellos, in his flight from the south, forming, accord-
ing to various accounts, from 15,000 to 20,000 men, the
greater part badly clothed and shod, and i❑ the worst
spirits. This force has stretched from Obidos and Caldas
to Santarem, and thence, re-passing the Tagus, has reached
Sarnora and Salvaterra, 10 leagues from Lisbon. To the
northward they keep at a shorter distance from us, but
move about in incursive parties, never remaining quiet or
stationary. From all the information that can be gained,
it is not supposed to be the immediate intention of the
enemy to invest the capital ; but to secure to theraselves
the two strong positions of the Tagus, Abrantes and San-
tarem, and thus retain the mastership of the most fertile
and productive portion of the Alemtejo. The news
brought from the country this morning does not lead us
to believe that the enemy is more closely approaching the
city, but rather that they have retired from Salvaterra
and Sarum to unite with their main bodies, that their
detached forces may not be cut off by the various bands
of Constitutional mounted guerillas and volunteers who
are scouring the province. In Algarve the enemy has
suffered much loss, and in several skirmishes in the neigh-
bourhood of Faro and Lagos no quarter was given to the
guerillas, and the major part of the enemy's troops in that
district have retired to the neighbourhood of Evora, where
it is deemed probable the head quarters of the enemy's
division will be established. The Duke of Terceira is at
Villa Franca, and receives daily reinforcements from hence,
which be organises in the best manner he can : nearly all
the regular troops that are considered fightable are with
him, and if he should deem it advisable to make a retreat,
he will be covered and supported by the vessels of war and
their crews, the greater part of which have been sent up
the river to co-operate in any manner with that di-
vision of the army. The road from this place to Villa
Franca (seven leagues) runs along the margin of the
river neatly the whole distance, and the Tagus be-
ing very wide there, no artillery could reach the
vessels from the opposite shore. The Lisbon people
wish General Bourmont and the rest of his French
companions at the -; they say it is only through
those persons that a portion of the country people continue
to be seduced from industrious occupations to become
freebooters, and that they being foreigners, and have
nothing at stake in the country, do not care into what
state of anarchy and disorder they precipitate it. The
inhabitants of Cintra have nearly all fled to the city, and
hundreds of boats have come down the river laden with
furniture and families who have abandoned their own
homes to seek safety in town. The new-formed national
battalions amount to nearly 7,000 men ; part of them are
in uniform, all in arms ; and they begin to go through
their exercise in a regular manner. If they only rival
the inhabitants of Oporto, all will be well, now and
henceforward ; not that 1 consider the contest otherwise
than virtually decided, as I am quite satisfied that the
more the Miguelitea fight, the more they will be thrashed.
"A straw thrown up will tell how the wind blows.
I went a dozen miles into the country the other day, and
not only on my way, but in one considerable village, no-
ticed upon the door of every cottage in the place one of
those miraculous prints of a cross, with certain mystical
letters within and about it, bequeathed by St. Zacharias
as a wholesome remedy for the plague (the name among
the common people for cholera morbus), the sale of which
bit of paper was one of the many manoeuvres of the priest-
hood for getting hold of the pence. One of the female
inhabitants with whom I talked on the subject told the
that some of the fine folks who lived in the city laughed
at all those thing., but that every body thereabouts knew
that it was a stare protection for all who had faith in the
Lord. When the numbers, wealth and influence of the
clergy are taken into consideration, their power over a❑
ignorant population, always accustomed to look up to
them both as their spiritual and temporal lords and mas-
ters, may easily be imagined. The city has been entirely
flee from excesses of any kind, eZeept those entirely of
a political nature ; perhaps halt a dozen persons
have been assassinated by the mob the open
streets. One of the victims was a roi;f-maker,
who furnished halters to the hangman ; and
in the red-hot zeal of his Royalism, offered Doi;
Miguel a gratuitous supply of 1,000 for the use of Mal-
hadoe. Two others lost their lives yesterday afternoon in
Black Horse•equare : a party of about 60 guerilla prisoners
were landed there from the opposite side of the river, and
had scarcely put foot on shore when it was discovered that
one of their number was a Franciscan friar : the mob
instantly cried out Kill him ! kill him!' and in less
than two minutes (the guard being insufficient for their
protection) I saw the lifeless bodies of the old friar, a gray
headed man of 60, and one of his companions, extended
upon the quay.
"Three young midshipmen in Donna Maria's service
rode out on donkies yesterday, on the other side of the
river, and were attacked by a party of robbers ; one of
them, of the name of Sayers, was killed by a musket-shot,
and the other two escaped to their ship severely beaten.
A party of marines was sent on shore in search of the
criminals, and owing to the assistance of the country
people, two of them were apprehended, one of whom is
the man who fired the fatal shot. They are at present
prisoners on board the Don John, but will, in all proba-
bility, be handed over to the civil power to await a tardy
DC never-coming trial.
(eaoar ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)

" AUGUST 26, 10 P.M.-Yesterday we had the plea-
sure of seeing General Count Saldanha arrive from Oporto.
As soon as he landed he went to the Necessidades, and
dined with the Duke of Braganza, and after dinner went
in a chaise with his Imperial Majesty to the arsenal, and
attended to the landing of the sth Cacadores regiment.
The Emperor mounted, and in a colonel's uniform, with
Saldanha on his right, headed the regiment, which marched
through the principal streets of Lisbon, where crowds of
people were assembled, who received these brave defenders
of freedom with every possible demonstration of joy. The
arrival of Saldanha will have a great moral effect upon our
pop-ul ation, and strike the Miguelites with terror.
" COlonel Hare accompanied the Duke of Terceira when
he left this for the army.
" An exprets has arrived this moment from Coimbra,
and brings the fo!!ovring news:-
44 Count San Locreago has asked his dismissal as Mi-
nister of War, and Marsl.l'l Bourrnont has been named to
that situation, without losing ,;try of his other places.
" Colonel Campbell is so disgusted With affairs here,
that he went to Figueira to embark for England, and not
finding a vessel, is now going to Spain ; the sane happens
to Carlos Mathias Pereira, who bought the steat.ners for
Don Miguel in England.
44 Viscount Santarem has asked for his diamissal. The
Spanish Minister, M. Cordova, is gone to Abrai;tes, where
all the Infantas and Don Carlos are following. .This is
the road to Elvas and Spain. The Marquis of Tanct,:-
Don Miguel's intimate friend and Aide-de-Camp, died on
the 19th, in Coimbra, of the cholera.
(FRO3I ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
" Aucusz 24.—The Lisbon Chronicle of the 23d
instant contains an official communication from the chief
magistrate of the city of Beja, in Alemtejo, stating that
having
learnt that a body of nearly 1,000 guerillas had
assembled at Ourique' he had proceeded there on the 14th,
with the whole force at his disposal, including a corps of
Constitutional Volunteers, which had just before joined
him from Lisbon, and
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dcomtplkeitnely routed and put them
t, 0 flight, after killing and a
i‘ In Lisbon itself evesrnyothw masteringcgo of nit7inupersisoinnerst.atu quo.
all the country
Don Pedro, however, is
within 2(3 miles on the right hank of the T
being, more or less, the boundary
ag Lord
Wellington's lines,
his dominion for the present ; and the Duke of Terceiraof
has gone to establish his head-quarters at Alhandra, a
town twenty miles up the river. A corps of 4,000 men,
being the advanced guard of the army destined to attack
the capital, has now occupied Santarem for some days,
and, it is believed, will await the arrival of the main
body before proceeding any further. As the position is
one of immense strength, and tenable by a comparatively
Intet'sltitill force against tar superior numbers, the Duke has
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1Z not ind d _ it prudent to attack it ; BO that DO collision
:. has as
is: en place, with the exception of some skit.-
m fire n the reconnoitring parties sent out from
_,..... each ne of which four police dragoons, and a
fear` ' _ `'rs were taken prisoners and sent into Lis-
bon- u day last. The intervening space hetwevn
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