The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-28 00:00:00

wring to the flames immense stocks of incalculable value
which were contained in them. This most scandalous
crime will doubtless attract the most serious attention of
the Government of her Most Faithful Majesty, in order
severely to punish the monsters who committed it, and the
just reparation of the damage they have caused.
" This is called for by the laws of justice, and the
rights of insulted humanity." .. Oporto Chrom.
ca,
Aug. 17.

" orortTo, AUG. 12.

" Excellent Sir,—By this opportunity I remit your
Excellency a duplicate of my dispatch No. 5, of the 10th
inst., informing your Excellency of the abandonment, by
the enemy, of Castro, Ervilla, and Serralves ; and I have
to add, that the castle of Queijo being too distant to be in-
cluded in our lines, I:caused its p►rapet to be demolished,
and likewise arranged a strong redoubt, which the
enemy had constructed beyond Serralves, and in front
of Vanzeller.

" Our small number of hands does not permit me to
make alteration in the first line of the enemy, moving the
stockade to our side ; our ancient line shall remain as the
principal one for us, all that which belonged to the enemy
being commanded by the artillery of Monte do Castro,
Ervilha, and Serralves; and as, notwithstanding the posi-
tion of the fosse, even the line itself would be a great im-
pediment to the enemy in any attempt to retake their
deserted positions, particularly under a lire from the
abovementioned redoubts, it may be properly said that the
first line which belonged to the enemy is at present ad-
vantageous to our own; on this account I opened embra-
sures in convenient directions in Castro, Ervilba, and Ser-
ralvet, and caused the Monte do Castro to be garrisoned
by the Irish corps, where they are very well lodged, inas-
much as that redoubt is a complete fortification in all
necessary accommodations. Our pickets of Nubegilda,
and beyond Ervilba, are formed from the garrison of the
Fez, those of Serralves from Lordello.
" As to the 2d and 3d line of the enemy, I have per •
milted everybody to go to them for firewood, and thus
promote their demolition. If we had a sufficient number
of carts, we might form a considerable deposit of cam-

" The Major-General (interino) of the armada captured
on the 9th inst., in Matozinhos, two gun-boats with two
pieces of bronze, of calibre 3, one 18-pounder carronade,
two swivel guns, and 200 balls, and some peasants
brought in yesterday two bronze pieces, of calibre 9,
which were dismounted in Lega. As I have already in.
formed your Excellency, the extreme right of the enemy
is in the Real redoubt, where he has plenty of force, and
yesterday he had seven corps in Valle Bom, and eight in
RlO Tinto, and his left, properly speaking, is in Carval-
hides : the head-quarter of Clouet are at Rio Tinto, and
Don Miguel slept last night at Oliveira de Azemeis, and
is quartered in the house of the widow Carneiro, at Car-
valhos : the enemy has fortified Avintes, which may be
considered his centre. The rebels are in force of 2,500
to 3,000 men in Villa Nova, and their fortifications from
the left marein to the Fez are garrisoned by a small force,
with little artillery.
" I believe the French Consul went over to Villa Nova
yesterday, with au intimation on the part of his Govern-
ment for the immediate departure of Bourmont, and other
French officers; in this matter your Excellency must be
better informed than I sin. The French General La
Rochejacquelin, notwithstanding the wounds in his arm
and body, departed on the 3d for Elvas, to take the com-
mand of the forces in the Alemtejo ; I believe that the
enemy's Generals repent having abandoned their extreme
right, as it appears that it was only done with the design
of inducing 1.19 to follow them, th it they might try by that
means to enter the city. lam informed that a 111iguelite
guerrilla is formed in Ville do Conde, of which a French
officer has taken the command.

"By mistake I informed your Excellency, in my des-
patch of the 10,11 inst., that 96 soldiers had presented
themselves on that day and the preceding one, whereas
there were only 79.
" Yesterday and to-day 52 have come over, six being
of cavalry, Lieutenant of Cavalry Jose da Silva, and Cornet
Frias, of the same regiment; these, as well as the six sol-
diers, bringing horses. I ratify to your Excellency that
the total number of deserters from the enemy, from the
26th of July to this day, are-2 Captains, 1 Lieutenant,
4 Ensigns, 216 rank and file of Infantry, and 28 o
mounted Cavalry.

" Conde de SALDANHA.
" Head-quarters at Oporto, August 12.
.' To A. J. Freire, Minister of War."

(From a Morning Paper Correspondent.)

Orowro, Auc. I9.—The Miguelites having returned
since my last in force from the south, and reinforced their
position about Villa Nova with 8,000 men, infantry and
some heavy artillery, which could not be embarked at
Arintes for the want of a sufficient depth of water, a
heavy canonade was opened between the batteries on the
opposite side, when four houses in the Rua de Calvaria
were as well mauled by the Paya and Pinhal battery as
during the hottest part of the bombardment, the fire con-
tinuing till late on Thursday night.
On Friday Do❑ Miguel out-did himself, and eclipsed
all his former acts of ferocious and wanton barbarity, and
at one fell swoop ruined, and consigned to starvation,
thousands, nay, myriads of silly simple folks, that put
their trust in bim, for, as Shakspeare says—

" You take my life,
If you take the roans whereby I live."
and this he did in the c-.ae of innumerable widows and
orphans, large and salad capitalists, convents and corpo-
rations, who had im-ested their all in ahQ Oporto TVine
Company, whesc 10dgi..65 and wine stores he, on that day
ordered to be blown up, burnt, and destroyed, with the
most fiendlike and stupidly barbarous cruelty. Unable to
consume, convert, or remove the bulk of the said Wine
Company's stock in trade, consisting of 25,000 pipes of
port wine and brandy, and, since the turn the civil war has
lately taken, equally incapable to continue to occupy much
longer the town of Villa Nova de Gaya, opposite Oporto,
where the said wines were deposited, he ordered the wine
lodges of the Company to be undermined and connected
by trains of combustibles, and what the French call "sau-
cissona," or sausages filled with gunpowder. His myr-
midons having failed to procure terms in purchasing the
wines for a Bong, the trains were fired at a quarter past
two o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, the 16th of August,
from a distance, the avenues being ,under the cannon of
the Serra, which fired upon them, and instantly they blew
up with a tremendous explosion, followed by a great many
successive shocks.
The British merchants are mainly indebted for the pre-
servation of their property to the decisive steps taken by
Captain Glascock of his :Majesty's ship Orestes, who, re-
gardless of the hesitating etiquette of diplomacy, landed
with some armed boats' crews, and 20 marines with fire
engines to arrest the flames. Baron Hader, the Miguelite
loan agent, offered 121. per pipe, which being refused, he
was deemed a collateral cause of this destruction, and
has since taken refuge on board his Majesty's ship,
Orestes, being equally afraid of trusting his person to
Aliguelities or Pedroites.
Now for a fresh victory. General Saldanha attacked
the Miguelite forces at Ariosa yesterday morning at four
o'clock, defeated and drove them back beyond Vallonga.
The enemy's main corps was upwards of 3,000 men
strong. Saldanha having marched his troops from dif-
ferent points during the night, outflanked and turned
both their wings in a masterly style, took a powder maga-
zine of 600 barrels deposited in a church, captured their
forts
t‘c and batteries of Cruz de Ragatiera, Bicea, Cantimil,
•, took one Colonel, four officers, and 140 prisoners in
Fort St. Miguel' which surrendered to Colonel Dodgin,
drove the rest back over Vendee Novas and the valley el
Rio Tinto, entered Vallonga in the evening, and would
have pursued them farther had not the troops been too
much exhausted by a long march
distinguished them-
and fatigue. The
10th Cavalry formerly the °
selves particularly, as
well
Bacon is said to have lost as the Lancers. Colonel
Frenerhee horses of his own. The
British, Scotch,
Volunteers, 2d and 15th Caßelgians, the Queen's
`'adores, anAdmBewerel
fought w;th great gallantry.
the wounded is
Captain Pizzi, of the Italian battal?ionng, who lost his left
arm, in which he had twice been
wounded.
yet been re-
The returns of killed and wounded hi3arveevt°n3lY
to be
aaa bays no in: e
qltimeaui,adr t forer
The enemy's troops, according to the Prisoners
aerters from the Sth Cavalry, are in complete confusion,
and incapable of re-forming or halting. The northern
shore of the Douro, it is expected, will be evacuated, in
which case the numerous artillery collected at Braga
WOuld fall into the bands of the Pedroites. The Braga
road, in the vicinity of Oporto, is quite cleared of the
snarly, whose barracks andTeunescadmaypmmeonrtnsinwgereAbuugrn2t.o.
At two o'clock this morning the rear guard ot the 3.li-
guelite army, about 5,000 men stro_ng, evacuated Villa
Nova de Gaya, and fell back upon Grip, without
had
a single house, store, or wine lodge, as they previ.
ously threatened. The bridge is not yet laid over the
Douro, but will be ready at noon. At daylight this morn-
ing a number of Pedroite troops and volunteers crossed
over in boats, and displayed Donna Maria's flag upon
the Gaya battery, which together with the Pinbal and
Benders battery, were immediately set on fire, and are
still burning. The Constitutionalists were picking up a
number of Miguelite stragglers in small parties of three
-, -h,. 'lnt n ebrit it fired Tula/ by them.