The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-29 00:00:00

12.-THE YARMOUTH FISHERIES.

The fisheries of Yarmouth appear to your Committee
to be in a comparatively prosperous state, but suffering
much in their herring fishery from the heavy duty levied
at Nil:oes upon herrings exported thither, being 164. per
barrel, which for the last three or four years has amounted
to a prohibition, and consequently none have been ex-
ported to that country ; though it is proved that if this
duty were reduced, the exportation to Naples may be esti-
mated at from 10,000 to 12,000 barrels annually.
The &het men of Yarmouth also complain of the injury
they suffer, particularly in the herring and mackerel sea-
sons, from competition with the French fishermen, and
trom the illegal importation of those fish, especially
mackerel, when caught by foreigners, not being prevented;
this they earnestly request may be done, and it has already
been recommended by your Committee. The propriety
of prohibiting, in future, the importation of foreign-caught
turbots, free of duty, as injurious to the fishermen and
merchants of Yarmouth, Gas also Leen pressed upon the
attention of your Committee, and they are of opinion that
the suggestion which they have before made in reference
to this topic will, if alopted, prove peculiarly conducive

to the future welfare and prosperity of the fisheries con-
nected with this port.
A minor cause of grievance, as affecting the fishing
interests connected with Yarmouth and Lowestoff, upon
the same coast, has been also represented to your Com-
mittee ; and it appears that for several years past the
owners of fishing boats belonging to those places have
been compelled by the officers of customs there to pay the
sum of 6d. per head per month for every man on board
each vessel, as a contribution to the support of Greenwich
Hospital. This they consider as paid by them unjustly,
inasmuch as they represent, and which your Committee
believe to be true, that no such payment is required from
fishing vessels at other ports, nor from the same vessels,
which are occasionally employed and pay this duty at
Yarmouth, when employed at Scarborough and Whitby,
in Yorkshire. It is represented to your Committee that
he reason assigned for collecting this money from the
fishermen of Yarmouth and Lowestoft is, that they cure
the fish (principally herrings) on board, as soon as they
are caught, and therefore that they are not fresh fish, but
must be considered in the nature of a cargo imported.
If, however, this reason be correctly stated, your Com-
mittee cannot refrain from expressing their opinion that
it appears to them to be a strained construction for the
purpose of including these poor fishermen under the de-
nomination of " merchant seamen," a class to which they
appear not fairly to belong, and in order to compel them
to contribute to a fund from which they can never be
entitled to receive benefit. Your Committee therefore re.
commend that this imposition be further considered, and
unless some better reason can be assigned for its continu-
, once, that the parties he relieved from it. A large pro-
portion of the men so charged are stated to your Com.
mittee to he agricultural labourers, who are taken on
hoard the fishing vessels, during the herring season, to
assist in pulling and hauling in the nets.
The practice of stow-boat fishing for sprats, before
noticed, and which prevails extensively upon this coast,
is also the subject of much complaint ; as also the collection
of tithes upon the fish caught at sea, both herrings and
mackerel ; and upon which your Committee would remark
that the tithes are collected by the clergyman according to
the number of fish caught, and amount generally to
between 21. and 3/. per annum in respect of each boat;
but although called a tithe, the clergyman's share appears
not to be more than 1 80th part, after deducting the boat's
expenses.

Your Committee further think it right to notice, that
on interrogating a witness from Yarmouth as to the effect
that would have been produced to their mackerel fishery,
if the provisions of a Bill lately introduced into Parliament
for the better observance of the Sabbath were adopted by
the Legislature, they are incormed and believe that the effect
of those provisions would be to destroy, or, in the words
of the witness, to " completely annihilate" that fishery,
by reason of the perishable nature of mackerel. They
therefore recommend this opinion to the future notice of
the House, and as applicable to all other mackerel fisheries
in the Channel.

The fishing vessels belonging to Yarmouth are stated
to be about 100 sail, averaging from 40 to 50 tons each,
besides about 50 or 60 vessels annually hired from York-
shire during the herring season ; and the number of men
employed at sea are computed at between 4,000 and 5,000,
besides a great number to whom employment is also given
on shore. The capital embarked is estimated at about
250,000/.
The fishery at Lowestoff, nine miles from Yarmouth,
employs about 70 fishing boats of 40 tons each, with a
proportionate complement of men.
In conclusion, your Committee desire to state that
time has not permitted them the opportunity of examin-
ing evidence upon the petitions which have been referred
to them from Plymouth and Bosham, farther than as the
evidence furnished from other places may bear upon the
complaints from these. Neither have they been able to
pay atten'ion to the communication addressed to them in
reference to the fisheries connected with the Scilly
Islands, which will be found in the appendix ; nor to in-
quire into the state of our channel fisheries connected
with other places than are mentioned in this report and
appendix.

- Your Committee also earnestly repeat their opinion,
that the present state of our channel fisheries satisfies
them that their interests have been too long neglected ;
and that it is of the first importance, as well to the
naval and commercial prosperity of this country as to the
local interests connected with the fisheries, that the future
welfare of these valuable establishments should receive
the further attention of Puliament, and of his Majesty's
Government in particular ; and they beg leave to submit
the various suggestions contained in this report to the
early and serious consideration of this House.
August 16, 1833.

Since the return of the Duke of Wellington
from \V*lmer Castle, there have been occasional meetings of
such members of the Conservative Clique as the active Whip_
per-in could muster. The manifesto of the chop-fallen and
almost hopeless expectants of place and power, which appears
in a certain Quarterly is indicative of their sadly perturbed
restless state and disappointed hopes.
A case of conspiracy has just been tried at
Wil;s sessions, where four persons, one a farmer of great
respectability, residing in the parish of Bromhatn, were
indicted for removing a female pauper, when in a state of
pregnancy, from that parish to the parish of Melksham,
for the purpose of settling her bastard child on that parish.
Mr. Gunning and Mr. S. Williams were counsel for the
prosecution ; and the circumstances elicited by Mr. Wil-
liams, in his examination of the young female, during
their afflicting detail, filled the court and jury with horror
and indignation. We will not offend our readers with a
repetition; suffice it to say, that the female, a most inte-
resting and delicate young woman, not more than 15 years
of age! appeared and told her story, with her infant in
her arms; and it seemed her master seduced her, and,
when actually taken in labour, at the hour of midnight,
her master, his wife, and mother, procured from the other
defendant his horse and cart, took the young woman out
of her bed, put on her clothes, and actually put her into
the cart, amidst her groans and supplications, and con-
veyed her away towards Melksham. On the road she was
delivered of her child; and although much impaired in
mind and body by this most cruel treatment, she was able
to attend and tell her story at the present Wiltshire ses-
sions. The parties were all found guilty, and sentenced
to different fines, and terms of imprisonment.—Bath
Journal.

DRAMATIC AUTHORS.—The Society of
Dramatic Authors was last week thrown into sudden
combustion by what they call an unexpected blow. We
only wonder that they have not foreseen it; and we
know that hints of the danger were thrown out very soon
after the passing of the Act giving writers for the stage a
property in their productions. It is known that Mr.
Duncombe and Mr. Cumberland have elch, from time to
time within the last ten years, purchased (often at rates we
should hardly have thought it worth while for authors to
accept) plays, farces, &c., represented at the different
theatres. So far they are the "assigns" of the authors—
a term employed in the Act ; but whether they are the
" assigns" for any other purpose is a different question :
they claim, however, to have the right to permit the repre-
sentation of any pieces they have published, anti they
have sent a formal notice of that claim to the
Author's Society. Hence the alarm that has seized
that sensitive body. It is said that Mr. Cum.
berland, in particular, has armed himself with
counsel's opinion on the question ; but it is almost a
proverb that a man may get an opinion on any side he
pleases, and that by the statement of the case; conse-
quently, without any fault, or corruption, on the part of
the barrister. Without the slightest interest, we will
venture an opinion directly the other way. The Act was
passed for the encouragement of dramatic authors ; and
when Messrs. Duncombe and Cumberland purchased pieces
of the authors, they never contemplated any such advan-
tage as they may flatter themselves the Act gives them:
they became the " assigns" of the authors merely for the
purpose of publication, and often drove bargains which
were anything but an encouragement to authorship. Take
the case of Sheridan Knowles. The copyright of most Of
his plays, if not all of them, was sold by him ; and,
according to Messrs. Duncombe and Cumberland, the
booksellers only would have the right to say to country
managers, " Pay us so much for the permission to
perform The Wife, William Tell, or Virginias."
Now, we know that the ten years' retrospective clause
was introduced into the Dramatic Author's Act prin-
cipally and avowedly that he—unquestionably lunge et
facile primus among our modern writers for th 3 stage
—might reap the full benefit of his labours in the
cause of our nation il literature. If any booksellers
could have such a claim as is now set up, those who
published Knowles's plays would, a fortiori, be entitled
to it, for in some cases they gave as many hundreds as
Messrs. Duncombe and Cumberland have given pounds.
We think, therefore, that the Dramatic Authors' Society
may make themselves quite easy upon the subject, and
that neither Court nor Jury, law nor equity, would give
a decision against them. What is now insisted upon was
never within the purview of the framers of the Act, and
if it were so construed, it would inflict an injury in-
stead
of conferring an advantage upon dramatic authors.
Messrs. Buncombe and Cumberland only bought, and
could only buy, what the authors had the power to sell ;
a year ago authors had no such property as the booksellers
now contend they purchased,—,Observei.

PORTUGAL.

(From the Second Edition of The Sun of yesterday.)
LISBON, OCT. 20, ONE A.M.

Since the sortie of the 10th inst., we have had very
little news of any interest, and that not very certain ;
however, the Queen's army, after pursuing the enemy
across the country, has for several days past been sta-
tioned a short distance from Santarem, where it
is believed that the main body of the Mi
guelites are at present. A small force of the Miguel-
ites (about 400) have, however, passed to the south of
the Tagus, for what purpose it is not very clear, if
not with the intention of keeping the road to Elvas
open. The head-quarters of the Pedroites are at present, or
at all events were yesterday evening at 5 p.m. at Caltaxo,
a town about three leagues distant from Santarem.
It is reported several skirmishes have taken place,
hut certainly nothing material has occurred, and
the armies remain in statu quo. The Lancers, about
400, are always on the alert, and do excellent service.
Many anecdotes of pereonal encounter might be related of
their bravery ; but I Iswe no time to relate them.
Several gun-boats, it is said (four in number), have
been taken by the Miguelites, the boats having advanced
too far ; at all events the particulars are not known.
One sergeant, and 20 privates, with a number of barrels of
gunpowder were t +ken in them.

In considering the retreat the Miguelites have made,
there can be no doubt but it was well arranged ; no less
than 2,000 cars drawn by bullocks were at their com-
mand, and by this means the who'e of their heavy
baggage was removed immediately from their rear
to their front, and kept in advance of the army, conse-
quently in this respect they have lost nothing ; but their
wounded and sick were all left behind, such was the rapi-
dity of their march, and so closely were they pursued.
There is little fear of the Miguelites remaining long in San-
tarem. Their main object is undoubtedly to retire upon
Abrantes or Elvas. It is said they are fortifying San-
tarem ; but although a place well calculated to be defend-
ed in such a manner, yet I doubt the probability of their
doing so to any extent, or for any great length of time.
The Royalist cause must and will fail.
It was reported, last week, that General M'Donald
had resigned the command, and that the retreat was
conducted under the command of a General Lobo.
LISBON, OCT. 20, FOUR A.M.

The number of regulars in the service of Don Miguel
is estimated at 14.000, and pri bably about 10,000
volunteers, guerillas, &c. St. Peter's Dry was, this
day, commemorated by salutes, and the ordinary practice,
of gala days—general illuminations. Triumphal arches
were thrown over many of the streets, and the Queen,
with the Duke and Duchess of Braganza, visited, on the
night of the 19th, a pavilion, fitted up in the Arsenal,
where a numerous concourse of spectators were assemaltd
to express their satisfaction at their progress in warfare.
It is generally reported, that all the English officers and
men will leave the employ of the Queen, in consequence of
the wish of the Portuguese Government to place them upon
their pay, instead of that of the English Government's
scale, under which they were engaged.
I here enclose you the songs distributed at the Arsenal
meeting.
(From the Chronica Constitucional.)
NEWS FROM THE LIBERATING ARMY.
Ltsnox, OCT. 19.
_ _

Marshal Count Saldanha writes frotn his 'head.quariers
at Cartago, on the 18th in the evening, saying that
the relative position of the two armies was the same as on
the preceding day. The enemy still occupied Santarem.
Our pickets are posted near that town.
The enemy, having passed through Almeiriin with some
infantry, cavalry, and three pieces of artillery, for
the south of the river Tagus, descended as far
as the neighbourhood of Salvaterra, where they found
some of our gun-boats at anchor, against which they
commenced, on the morning of the 18th, a sharp
firing, destroying two, which, for want of water,
were grounded on the sand. The crews were saved, and
the enemy derived no other advantage from this little
affair.

, LISBON, OCT. 19.
According to the latest intelligence the Miguelite army
occupies Santarem and its environs, but it is not supposed
they intend to maintain themselves permanently in that
situation, as it does not afford the necessary resources for
the support of the army, and the band of people (perhaps
nearly 2,000 of both sexes) who have followed the party
of Don Miguel ; nor is it a point of sufficient military
strength to resist a vigorous assault en the part of our army.
The division from Peniche, which was commanded by
Bernardo de Sa, has marched through the country from
Obidos without opposition, not having fired half-a-dozen
shots, and is now very near to the enemy (scarcely a
league's distance), ready to combine in operations with
the main body, now nearly collected together at the Ponte
d'Asseca, the bead-quarters of General Saldanha, distant
two leagues from Santarem, and it is fully believed that
within a very few days a final and decisive encounter will
take place between the two armies.

The retreat of the enemy upon the positions they now
occupy must certainly be admitted to have been conducted
with considerable skill, or there must have been some
bungling on our part, as no portion of their force was cut
off, with the exception of a few guerillas, most of whom
were i,artantly put to the sword, the wounded in their
hospitals at Lumiar and Loures, and two or three score
of straggling soldiers who were at times overtaken by th e
cavalry. The desertions to our side during their retreat
do not exceed half a dozen officers, and about 100 privates
and non-commissioned officers. They saved all their bag-
gage and artillery, but left a good quantity of round shot
and grenades behind them.
I was at Cartaxo, two leagues and a half from Santarem,
the day before yesterday. Saldanha bad then his head
quartets there, with all his artillery, and was awaiting
the arrival of the remainder of the force from Lisbon,
most of which I met on its in trch in my return to the
city. In passing throtteh the rich and extensive plains of
the Tagus, in the neighbourhood of Azambuja, I was glad
to perceive several thousand head of cattle quietly grasing,
which the enemy had not had sufficient leisure to drive
away.
Colonel Bacon is promoted to the rank of Brigadier-
General, and I have heard the Portuguese cavalry officers
speak enthusiastically of the services he has rendered the
army on its march.
Candido Jose Xavier, Don Pedro's most confidential
and favourite Minister, died on the 14th instant. He is
succeeded in the post of Minister of the Kingdom by
Joaquin Antonio d'Aguiar, one of Jose da Silva Carvalho's
followers. Francisco Sinmoes Margiochi, one of the
Saltlanha party, has been nominated Minister of Marine;
and Agostinho Jose Freire is temporarily charged with the
Foreign Affairs.
It is said that Don Miguel has issued a proclamation
to his army, stating that it is his intention to retire to
Tras os Montes, in order to avail himself of the many
resources which his uncle, Charles the Fifth (alias Don
Carlos of Spain), has promised to place at his disposal.
It is affirmed here that owing to the influence of the
Cabinet of England, the Regency of Spain will recognize
the Government of Donna Maria in Portugal.
Two vessels have arrived from England with about
400 recruits for the service, under the command of Major
Kelly.
The Talavera has been relieved by the Revenge, and
the former vessel will proceed to the Mediterranean.
The Nautilus carries home the mail of this day, and on
her arrival in England will be paid off. Her commander,
Lord George Paulet, who has the art of rendering himself
respected and beloved by everybody, has been promoted to
the rank of Post Captain.
The Forsoken, Schroeder, laden with salt, was captured
in coming out of Figueira, and has been sent in a prize.
The vintage around Lisbon is concluded, and the wines
are expected to turn out of a mature and superior quality.
The accounts received from the Upper Douro state, that
in that district the vintage has likewise been a favourable
one, and that part of this year's growth will quite equal
that of the favourite ones of 1812, 1815, and 1820;
in the neighbourhoed of Regoa, the chief town in the
wine country of the Douro, the price of wine of last
year's vintage varies from nine milreis to forty milreis
metal (21. ss. to 10/.) per pipe; but owing to the civil
war these wines cannot he transported down the river to
Oporto; therefore in that city the price has advanced at
lea,t 61. per pipe, and the article may be there quoted at
301. to 521. 10s. per pipe. Company's "I3ilhetes" are
at 22 milreis to 24 milreis per pipe, with every prospect
of a further advance, as no fresh bilhetes have been issued
by the Company for the last two years, therefore very
shortly there may be none to be obtained. Although the
hand of reform has been busy in every other quarter, it
would appear that this Royal %Vine Company is still to be
upheld with all its abuses, and that port wines shipped
to England are to continue to pay an exclusive tax (not
imposed on wine exported to other nations), contrary to
treaty, to the diminution of the consumption of the article,
and, consequently, to the injury of the revenue of Great
Britain. The present junta of directors are likewise
for the most part ignorant men, with strong pre-
judices against the English merchants, probably
originating in the rivalry of trade : one of them,
whose manners are peculiarly coarse, told a foreign
merchant the other day, that " neither he nor any of his
brethren were wanted at Oporto ; that the Portuguese

could carry on their commerce very well themselves !"
and this to one of a body of men whose capital (although,
no doubt, for their own interest) has gone further to give
encouragement to Portuguese industry than the whole
batch of the illustrissimo junta put together. It is a fact
worthy of record, that the enterprize of foreign merchants
in the pursuit of gain saved the brave inhabitants of
Oporto during the last siege from the alternative of abso-
lute starvation, or unconditional submission to a hated
enemy.

Don Carlos left on the 4th for the Spanish frontiers,
and on the Bth the Infantas and his wife, and the Princesa
da Beira, followed him in that direction ; and I have just
now heard that these illustrious ladies are performing
quarantine at Elvas, for which place they have given di-
rections to send the baggage they have left here, but for
the present our Government has not consented.
Lord W. Russell has had for these ten days a courier on
the Spanish frontier, but who has, to his astonishment, not
yet returned ; neither has the Spanish Consul heard from
his Government since the 4th.

On the 14th death deprived us of the most moderate of
our Ministers, who was intrusted with the home and
foregn department; the latter has been filled up by Jose
Augustinho Freire, Minister of War and Marine, giving
up the latter portefeuil, which was given over to the
Councillor of State Margiochi, and the Home Department
has been bestowed on the Member of the Supreme Court
of Justice, Aguia. The two new acquisitions are
colleagues worthy of Freire and Jose da Silva Carvalho.
We have now a compact ministry,—viz., they all four
have been on the ultra liberal side in the Chambers of 1820.

General Saldanha is commanding in chief the ad;ancrng
expedition, and enjoys the full favour of Don Pedro, who
had the gallantry to take to him at Villa Franca a Chronica,
in which was published the reinstating of his grandfather's
bust (the Marquis of Pombal) on the statue in Black
Horse-square, and also a diamond star (gracha) of the
Order of the Tower and Sword.

Our city is improving with supplies—the water again
is becoming plentiful, and the mills give flour sufficient ;
but, notwithstanding, best quality American would sell at
14 dollars per barrel.

(From the Period;co dos Pares, No. 67.)
LtssoN, Ocx. 14.—Since the official intelligence re-
specting the glorious operations of our army on the 10th
and 11th, we have been enabled to gather the following
from a trustworthy source :
The rebels, who had retired in the direction of Laures,
knowing that road was cut off by the forces under the
command of the Baron de Sa, took the one of Tojal, and
thence followed in the direction of Santarem, as we
announced in our paper of Saturday. In Lumiar, where
Don Miguel was quartered, we found, besides many
other things, two large coffers, which, from their
weight, were supposed to he full of money or hullion.
These his Imperial Majesty ordered to he sent to Lisbon,
and they are now deposited in the Royal Palace of Neces-
sidades. On the 12th our troops continued the pursuit of
the enemy, almost at the point of the bayonet, making a
number of prisoners in the neighbourhood of Valonga.
The enemy, in his precipitate flight, evacuated Villa
Franca during the day of the 12th, and our army passed
during the night there.

On Saturday a part of the volunteer cavalry, com-
manded by the Conde de Farrah°, and two companies of
the infantry, went out to clear the districts of Belem
and Adjuda of some guerillas and pirates, who had there
committed their accustomed rapine and vexations, and
succeeded in apprehending many of those infamous peoplt.,
as well as some of the higher actors of the time of the
usurpation, and amongst the latter the well known De-
sembargador Alascarenhas, councillor of the extinct Senate
of Lisbon.

(From the Periodico dos Pobres, No. 68.)
Lisson, OCT. 15.—Alter what we yesterday pub-
lished respecting the glorious operations of our army, we
have not been able to learn much with certainty. Our
vanguard, which left VIII, Franca yesterday morning, on
arriving at Castanheira, learned that the enemy had halted
at Villa Nova da Rainha ; in consequence our Lancers
advanced at a trot, and discovered the rebels forming in
columns in the fields around that town. At the same
time our gun-boats advanced up the Tagus from Villa
Franca, for the purpose of incommoding the enemy on
that side and supporting our operations by land. The
Lancers in this march made prisoners of many of the
enemy's straggler., and put to the sword some guerillas,
who, favoured by the rebel chiefs, bad committed the
greatest robberies in the country in their occupation. The
enemy perceiving themselves threatened by our cavalry
and the gun boats, immediately commenced retiring upon
Azambuja, which they effected previous to the arrival of
the remainder of our force, thus evading the attack, and
retarding their complete destruction. As our troops had
marched without baggage or knapsacks, and were unpro-
sided with rations, it was necessary to allow them a little
rest, and in the mean time await the necessary supply
from Lisbon. The army consequently encamped be-
tween Villa Franca and Castanheira, the vanguard
occupying the ►oads of Santarem and Leiria, where they
separate beyond Carregado. In the mean time the divi-
sion under the orders of Baron de Sa, which, as we have
said, had marched by the highway from Torres Vedras
upon the enemy's left, having arrived at Bucellas, was put
in communication with the rest of the army, and, in
combination with it, continued its match by the way of
Sobral de Monte Agraco, in the direction of Alenaquer,
to operate in the way of flanking the enemy. As it ap-
pears, the enemy still continues his retreat towards San.
tarem, where k e will probably halt, on account of the
favourable positions which that town affords, in order to
re-unite his routed and dispersed forces, to the end that
his retreat may be continued in better order, which,
according to some deserters, will only be discontinued in
Alemtejo to be afterwards resumed by from thence passing
into Spain. The number of prisoners and deserters have
within the last few days been considerable.

LISBON, Om 13.—We did our enemies too much
honour when we supposed that the 12th would decide
their fate ; for this to happen it was necessary that they
should await the combat, but finally taught by the lessons
which they bad received on the 10th and 11 th, they agreed
that the best thing they could do was to seek in flight
the advantages they could not gain by resistance. Ac-
cordingly towards midnight of the I 16, they commenced
their flight along the road of Valonga. Fear had the
effect of discipline, and this delicate operation was so
perfectly carried into execution that the silence of the
night did not betray it. When we were prepar-
ing •at day-break to combat them, they had
disappeared. It may be said that they have not executed
so good a manoeuvre during the whole campaign. His
Imperial Majesty having posted his army in echelons, as
far as Sancto Antonio de Tojal, resolved to give his troops
some repose, and to wait for a column which was coming
from the position of Torres Vedras to join him. Having
placed the troops in these positions, his Imperial Majesty
returned to Loures, whither he was called by the necessary
care of the wounded, especially of the enemy, recollecting
the neglected state in which he had found their hospital at
Lumiar on the 11th.

It is impossible to describe the state of wretchedness,
neglect, and filth, of the hospital at Loures; the sick
without medicine, the wounded without attendance, the
lead without sepulture, all were confounded in that abode
of misery and suffering. The poor patients were in such
a state of excitement, that at the entrance of his Imperial
Majesty into the house of the Conde de Penafiel, where the
hospital i., those who were able endeavoured to escape
through the windows ; others tried to crawl to some
place of concealment, and the others lifted up their hands
to the conqueror, supplicating him to spare their lives,
so persuaded were they that his Imperial Majesty would
put them to death. The Duke of Braganza, with his
natural affability, endeavoured to quiet their apprehensions
and irnme ;lately ordered bread and water to be given to
them; and that, while our surgeons, and those of the
neighbourhood were engaged in dressing their wounds,
some soldiers were removing the dead bodies, some of
which had been there for three days, persons appointed
as attendants should prepare the food necessary to preserve
their lives. It was interesting to see how the counte-
Dances of those unhappy persons became animated ; they
acknowledged the error under which they bad hitherto
laboured, anti blessed the name and the goodness of their
liberator. Besides the patients in this hospital, there
were eight others in a house and two sick women in an-
other, destitute of everything, and locked up, their inhu-
man goaler having taken away the key. Among the sick,
whom the enemy had been able to remove, was one of our
soldiers, of the battalion of Cacadores, No. 3, severely
wounded, whom they deliv, red to a sergeant of the same
battalion, their prisoner, and because the soldier could not
follow the march of the battalion, they killed him ; the
sergeant was thus able to escape, and rejoined his battalion.
His Imperial Majesty, having thus regulated the hos-
pital, and given the necessary orders for the following day,
returned to Lisbon.

Oa the 13th his Majesty left the Palace des Necessi
dades at half past nine in the morning, and, embarking at
the marine arsenal, proceeded to Villa Franca, in which di
rection the gun boats had been sent to observe the march
of the rebels. At half-past six in the morning these
gunboats were in sight of Villa Franca, by which the
enemy bad passed at half past three in the morning, and
when the Commander hoped that the tide would enable
them to get up to Villa Nova, Brigadier Joao Nepouw-
ceno met the vanguard of the Corps of Obstruction at

Torres Vedrv, being informed very late of the progrok,
the attack. From the difficulty which occurred in Wipalpeti
the communications to him in time hecouldscarcelYat
Bucellas on the evening of the 12th when the Bari
Sada Bandeira found him with the main body
troops, and in the night of that day be placed
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with it in the front of our army, which advanced iro„
morning of the 13th with the view of attacking the er'erosti
A deserter from the rebels who proceeded along the .01,
of Villa Franca said they were going to Santareini;o:
that it was currently reported in the army that they fr
to march from that place to Spain. Our lanlnipg,
its positions at Tojal at five o'clock this nwroor
and learning at Castanheira, that the enemy p,aefront
at hand, the cavalry advanced at a trot, and in '
of Villa Nova fell in with the rebels who were fCrioolje
their troops in close columns; in this march We The
some prisoners, and cut to pieces some guerillas'
„or
rebels who, while they were placing those column,/ our
gun boats approach, began to retreat, without givi"dfor
infantry time to come up. Our yin-guard occol'' ore
two roads of Santarem and of Rio Major, and nurbeirP
encamped in the environs of Villa Franca and Clean erre'
The division of whit we spoke as coining from
Vedras to BucellaQ, came to-day to Sabral de ,
Agraco, whence it will march to-morrow to Aleltbe
Such is the relative position of the two armies
night of the 13th.

ACCOUNTS FROM THE LIBERATING I°l);ti'i
LISBON, OCT. 17.—Our army, which on the, cijs
occupied Alemquer, Castanheira, Carregado, an" till
Nova da Rainha, the reserve being in Villa Fran?,
Restauracao, advanced, on the 16th, to Azandl,
Atalerin, and Cartaxo, in which last place the
quarters were fixed. de
On the 16th, in the morning, the Marshal C°P:filli
Saldanha made a reconnoissance towards Santarentil,s,
caused a piquet of cavalry to advance beyond foot
d'Asseca. The enemy posted all his cavalry in front()
lid
advanced posts, supported by battalions of infantr% fe.
scarcely had our own cavalry formed in line than I'
treated to his positions.
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Our troops were animated with the greatest
siasm, desiring again to encounter the enemy, wh°t tbi
gage, provisions, and heavy artillery are retreating 1" if
direction of Abrantes—all which indicates that WI
not intend to make any vigorous defence of Santarem' 1Y
LISBON, Auc. 19.—(Here follows the account o'l'
destruction of two gun-hoots by Don Miguel's troe
Lisbon Chronica to 19th Oct. inclusive.

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