The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-27 00:00:00

DON PEDRO'S EXPEDITION.

Fatmourrt, MAY 25.—Yeoerday evening his Majes-
ty's steamer Canfiance arrived here from Li,bon and
Oporto, bringing • advice! from the latter place up to the
20th. The squadron of Don Pedro were off Oporto,
with 40 sail of merchant 9.ASeTM, waiting an opportunity
to land their cargoes. The wages of the sailors had been
nearly all paid, and the squadron were about t sail for the
Tagus, to blockade the entrance. Don Nligurl's troop
bad erected another battery, with which they l:d annoell
the town very mtn,h, and killed a good many of the in-
habitants. No action had taken place.

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There is now lying in Falmouth harbour the Britannia
steimer, with 240 soldiers and 20 officers, chiefly French ;
the whole are well-discipline f men, and fully accoutrt-d.
They are writing for another steamer, which is hourly ex
peered with 400 soldiers, and will leave for the Douro
immediately on her arrival.

OPORTO, MAY 1 2.—The occurrences of the past week
may be very shortly related. We have had three reviews,
the last t is afternoon, but offensive op,rations are told
suspended. A new road, practieable for artil'ery, has
been cut from the ricer side to the Serra convect. The
plathirms of the bridge-bolts are all repaired, the boats
them•elees are securely moral in a situation unexposed
to the enemy's fire, and the bridge could he thrown across
any night at a few hours' notice. As I have already
hinted to you, there has been some desertion from this
side, chiefly within the last fortnight, but although it has
been greater than I haver een plc ised to hear of, some tew
of the enemy have daily }tined our ranks. The great bulk
of the army is gettinu tired of privations and confinement,
and as the approach of the smuttier has not brought with
it a pao,tiful supp'y of good rations, the soldiers generally
are anxious to change their position, and some of tlo to
who were disinclined to eff ct that object by fighting,
have stolen over to the besiegers. It was found ne-
cessary to make an example yesterday of three vi-ry
rank offenders in this way (two Portuguese and one
French 1, who, having been found guilty, were ,•hot
together in the Campo de Ct.dofrira. Whenever
culprits are doomed to stiffer the extreme penalty of
the law in tbis country, dui ing the interval be
tween their condemnation and execution they ate
taken care of by ti e " Alisericordia," who allow then,
to eat and drink in any quantity whatever Vey have
liking to, and " cabla de gallinha" (chicken troth),
which is much e•teetned here, is in great request upon
these occasiims. In deference to this laudable custom, one
of the victims, wh, se inclination hal him to indulge
wine, took the liber y of passing into the other wt.
glotious'y drunk. The other two exhibited much ccntri
tion, and w, le wholly occupied in imbibing spiritual con
solution, and in embracing the ghostly tattlers who
avern'ed them in their last moments. The mutinou•
aff.ir in the British battali..n alluded to in toy last oa•
fimlly terminated this morning by the dismissal of five
officers, and by the acceptance of the resignations of eleven
others.

The city is in hil; spirits to-day, as an impression pr-e
veils that within a few hours an attack will be made upon
the htsi- gers, and the only anxiety of the troops is to be
all,:wed to face the enemy, as they look upon victory as
certain. If the expected reinforcements do not ininiedi
ately arrive, the universal cesire to fight roust be com-
plied with. A Polish General of the name of 11,,em, has
irLde a props sd to Dun Pedro to filing out 1,500 of his
countrymen. It appears to me that he has made his ap-
pearance at the 11th hour, as the first battle that is
fought will in all probability virtu ,lly decide the fate of
the country, and ti at event cannot be long delayed. Up-
wards of t,kerity military refugees landed on th, 9:h ins'.
from Lisbon, and on the carne night two gun-boats en-
tried the port with provisions from Vigo, the only sup
plits ti,at have come in sine,• my last. From the dep:r-
tn
e of the fleet, until the re-appearance of the brie
Villa Flor outside the bar yesterday, the watermen
would not venture to see for the purpose of landine goods,
as some Migu-lite gun-boats put off from 11Iattoxinhos
every evening. The rest of the squadron is once more
taking in provisions at Vigo, and on its return wil; either
ro-operate directly with the force on shone, or proceed
on another blockading expedition to the Tagus. A young
Eng,ishinan of the name of Barnes, supercargo of one of
the vessels outside, has been killed by a oischar.,ze from
the great gun Joao Polo. He was sitting with a few
friends over a bottle of %sine after dinner, to king of Old
England, when the shell entered the house, and strikini.
him upon the head, comple,ely ci rried away the upper
part of it; it then passed into another house, where it .x.
Foded and severely war urided an old woman. A new
loan, to -he amount of 400 contos (about 80,00010, has
been demanded, and a consitierahle part of tl e money re-
eeived. One of the conttibutor., named Di.urado, as
besiiied for 500 moidores, who did not come forward so
promptly as was desired, was quietly placed udder erre.
and this gentle hint at once induced him to furnish th.
money. Provisions still continue (bar. Fiour has ad-
vanced to *8 milreis per barrel; beef 16 vintems per
pound. The epidemic fever (not the cholera) is
thinning the nece sitous portion of the population, and th,
army, which is better supplied with food, is no! entire])
fret lento it.

SEVEN O'CLOCK IN TIE MORNING, MAY 13.-A

vessel i.as at length erriv,d with the reinfoicement 01
French troops, so long waited for. A portion of then,
ware landed last night, ttLether with a good quantity of
previsions: the rest will come on shore this evening.
They are tuLy clothed in the same manner as the last lot.
MAT 16.—T0-day is the annivet vary of the cons itu
timid' rising in this city in 1828, and with the enemy it
has been a frival of vengeance. Since sunrise this rem n-
big upward,' of 2,000 shot and shells have been poured it,
upon us. The new battery on the Gaya hill, in Villa
Nova, whish now contains three mortars and two heavy
guns, has, from its disagreeable proximity to the city, done
more harm than all the rest. Scarcely a building is ithio
reach of its tire has escaped injury, amt such houses as were
3tnown to belong to adherents of the liberal patty were par-
ticularly marked out for destruction and fit ed at as targets
all (lay long. Ibe English residents have not abogethei
escaped, as a shell fell into the habitation of Mr Hely.
agent for Lloyd's, severely wounded his servant maid, i en
an infant ; another entered the counting-house of Mr.
Ormernd, so alarming his bookkeeper that be jumped ou
at the w.ndow at the peril or his and another tell
upon a table, at which Colonel Pacheco, of the 10th in-
fantry, was writing a note, but only slightly woureleti
him with a splinter. A Colonel of militia was killed in
his bed, and two other officers wounded. As far as I
have been able to learn, the total number ef men, women.
end children, maimed and wounded on this occasion will
rather exceed 100. The same battery of Gaya likewise
ihrew 151 shell, into the town betole breakfast on th,
10-ruing ut the 14th, but these were only considered as
experime nta! 51 sus. Five hundred anti odd French
Mtn, fully equipped, have been landed from a hog,
transport, theretere I may now announce that ih,
111erslial will instantly m ;ke an attack in force upon
lbe enemy ; d, he is mu -h blamed for not hav-
ing done so before ; but, as it was well known to
him that this inportant reinforcement was on its pas
sage, he was perfectly justifi d in waiting for it. Tio
;soups generally are in the highest spirits, and eager for
he fray ; but the English, for want of other occupation,
e quorraing amongst themselves. Two young gentle-
men, Ensigns Wooldridge and Chadwick, had an affair of
bon,ur yestet day, when the former received a shot through
lbjs body, but it is said not to be fatal. A number se
Pesauguese merchant schooner'', which were anchored so
fbe nuethern bank of the river, were likewise sunk this
imputing by the enemy's fire. It was, perhaps, suppose,
that their own,rs tnight endears. ur to get them to Ilea,
and employ them in the provision trade for the supply ti
the pat. Wally the Commanctr in Chief of the besieging
army seems only to aim at making war upon property.
One halt of the atomu,i,ion expended vi +thin the 1 al
twelve hours would have effected a pre, ticable breach in any
part of our lines, lint it wog preteired to employ it in the
destruction of a noble city. The village of San Juan at
at the mouth of the river, is almost a heap of ruins.
One half of the houses (mostly the property, and built sat
of the many yeas' savings of industrious fishermen) will
require entite rebuilding.
SUNDAY, MAY 19.—The monster Joan Paulo has been
brought back to Villa Nova again, and for the last two
days has rev ularly played away upon the city. Three of
the Scotch Fusileers were killed by one shot yesterday,
par, of a crowd of them who had been drawn together by
curiosity to witness the enemy's gunnery. The hospitals
and nunneries having suffered rather more than their full
share of damage front the bombardment, Captain Glas-
cock, of the Orestes, from motives- of humanity, waited
upon General Limes, the commander of the M guelite di-
vision of the north, represented to him that it had always
been customary in the warfaie-of civilized nations to re-
spect hospitals and convents, and entreated him to spate
from destruction three receptacles of the. unfortunate.
Lernsta promptly complied with his request, and ordered
b, stings of the different buildings of the said description
to be taken, and commanded that as far as possible
the artillely should not be pointed at their vicinity. I
saw three deserters n ho came over yesterday, and another
this morning, all of tl e 2011 Re 4 i men t, whose accoutre
resents wee in excel ent order. Two minutes ego a shot
*buck a house not ten yards from toe in the Rae de San
Joao, and on going to the ctintioar I saw 8 torrent
nI
blood lushing from the body of a chili about six years of
age, who had just bees killed ; it was instantly surrounded

ley a crowd of mbrlpltlng manen, and its mother has thl
moment carried it eff in her arms, the head ouspende
on'y h}• a em II integument of fish, and the chest an+
lungs beaten to atoms,

Preparati,,ns are milting for the attack, and within 9
very few days it will take place: may it be surc,ssfol
My own Opinion, as already expressed, is, that it will be
attempted to pn the port, and if the Marshal can hut
succeed in that obj-ct, the revenue of Oporto will accom.
plish the ',At.
The Villa Flor went down to Vigo the other day with
a large slim in dollars, and I h,ve just heard tbit the
Don Pedro and two other vetmds have made their ap-
pearance off thefar. I am to'd that money is new so
plentiful in the navy, ti-at a vessel called a burn butt has
h.en selling. bottled porter at nearly the prier of chsut-
paene ; and as the beer is " up," and J el: having his
pockets lined is likewise up to skylat king the tars amuse
themselves by squirting it into etch other's eyes An offi-
cer of the squadron, who was lately on shore, has fur-
nished me with the fol'owing account of the recent
mutiny. On the aferneon of the 7th the Don Pedro
made the tele2raphic sign -I to the Admiral, " Men
prepare to load guns, and weigh anchor at four A.M. of
the Sth."- The flag-ship and the Donna illoria were at
this juncture at some distance from the Don Pedro; but

both frigates immediately weighed, and took positions
on her how and quarter, whilst the Villa Flor brig
anchored across her stern. At siven o'ch•e•k, A.
of the Bth, a signal was made from the fig ship
for " all armed boats " They were immediately sent
on board the Don Pedro, where the men were found in
possess'on of the ship. They hail taken charge of
the arms and ammunition, appointed a captain and
,fficers, and had resolved upon keeping the master
to n ivigate the vessel. After half a dozen words, and
very little trouble, the ringleaders were pit-kid out
end seni on board the schooner San Bernardo to be con-
veyed to Oporto, and the worst characters amongst the
r main•'er were landed on the Biyona Islands, until an
opportunity might offer of sending them home to England.
On the first breaking out of the mutiny nn hoard the Dos
Pedro. between seventy and eighty well.disposed men of
her crew. who would take no part in the project, quitted
the ship, and got on hoard the other VeSS,I4 of the
squadron. The Admiral had previously been on hoard rn
,ssure the tarn that they would he paid immediately after
the crews of the two other ships; but they refused to hear
~im, and he left the vessel. Her crew had not at that time
two months' pAy due to them. At present all the older
hands in the fleet have r.ceived four months' pay, the
others three, and such as wished to en home were provid ri
wi+h pass ices on hoard tt.e sloop of w.r Constitution,
,king hi Is nn London for the balance of their arrears.
In the course of a few days every man on hoard the fleet
will be paid up to the 30th of April, to which date their
accounts are to be male nut and cleared off.
The supplies I 'rated during the week hive been very
eonsiderahle, and provisions are more reasonable in price.
The Alunivipal Chamber having purehss-d ,1 cargo of ha
calhao, which they retailed to the poor at 5 vintems
f.• pound, the artier immediately fell to that price. Reel
of the best quality is still about 12 vintems, but that which
comes on shore drowned is selling at 6 vintems p-r lb. ;

hotter 720 r, is per lb. ; In !lin ^ corn 14 testoons pa
dlquler, about 110 Q. per quarter.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Br.ussims, MAY 24.—The late di3turbances at An-
twerp, with the crluinny and vituperation in which they
originated, and even the signature of a conven•ion be-
tween Eogland, France, rind Holland, containing the ee-
claration of such an indefinite armistice as will enable the
Belgian Government to reduce two thirds of the free at
°resent under arms, have all stink into temporary oblivion
before the more exciting events of the eeneral election.
The returns, as far as known at the hour at which the
denimtches fir the packet must be closed, although gene-
rally favourable to moderate principles, are not very satis-
factory to the Ministers themselves, inasmuch as two of
their number have already been personally deft-a ed, and
if they are to have seats at all, must seek for them else-
where than in the districts they formerly represented. M.
Lebe,u, who used to be distinguished by General La-
inarrrie in the French Chamber of Deputies as the Se-
hastiani of Belgium, has been thrown out in his native dis-
tiiet of Huy, in the prov nce of Liege, through the
influence, it is said, of his nearest relations, who,
in their turn, are supposed to have been influ-
enced by other interests beyond the frontier. It is
not doubted, however, that M. Lebeau will still be re-
turned for the city of Brussels, which he forrnetly repre.
...need, and where the election does not take place until
Thursday next, the 30th instant. The defeat of General
Goblet at Tournay, in the province of Hainault, is still
incite unaccountable, as it is not possible to understand on
principle the electors hive acted, one of the four
Inembers returned by them, M. Trenteseaux, being de-
c:deilly ministerial, while the other three, Diimorth-r,
Dolma, and Doignon, belonging all to d fferent shades of
,be Opposition. Duinortier. a violent Republican, has
;ad the go-:d fortune to be returned by two different dis
riets, whil, his friend, M. de Robaulx, has failed wherever
ne has presented hirmell as a crrolidate.

The actual returns, as far as yet known, may be classed
as follow. :
Aluderate Catholic or Ministerial.—W. de Merode,
Vandenhove, V :nderbelen. Quirini, Vandenbroucke, de
Teib-rq, Hypolite Vi:ain XIV., de Witte, Charles Vilain
XIV., Deman d'Attenrod.,, Bouequeau de Vilh-laye,
Polf-
vliet, De Foe'e, De Muelenare. Donny, Ttenteseaux,
PosOet, Eloy de Burdinere, De Theux, Stambi:r de Vi-
letia, and Dugniolle. In all 21.
Toe Opposition of every shade but Orange, which will
ave no represent-itive whatever in the new Charnbat,
counts already the following names :
E. de Stnet, C. Rodenbach, Angillis, Dumortier,
Dubuc, Doi2non, and d'Autrebande, the successful com-
petitor of M. ',beau. 11Iaking in all 7.
Among the doubtful returns are M. Beeckaert Back-

I •nd, a new member, whose opinions are not yet known,
ind 11M. Dorris and De Roo, who in the last se..ion
voted sometimes with Alinisteis and sc.metimes against
them. In all 3.

There are thus 31 returns already known, of whom
two thirds are moderate and ministerial, but of the re-
iinimr, '7l requir,d to make up the 102, of which the
v hole Chamber consists, the Ministers themselves do not
,•ount, it is said, on so large a majority.
For the district of Antwerp, in the province of Antwerp,
ey reckon on 4 ; Turnhout, in the same province, 2 ;
Brussels, province of Brabant, 5 ; Bruces, West Flan-
lers, 3; Ypres, ditto, 2 ; Fumes, ditto, 1 ; Ghent, Etst
F anrl.•rs, 4 ; Oudetiartio, ditto, 2 ; Mons, 1-Linault, I ;
Charleroi, ditto, 2 ; Ath, "itto, I ; Liege, 5 ; Verviers, 1 ;
Lusemlaug 4 ; Namur, 1-38.

According to this estimate the ministerial majority
.vouul b. quite too narrow if the Oppo-ition could be re
yarded as a compact body, or if al the 43 members on
vhom they do not reckon as regular support-rs could be
regarded as their sya•rmatic opponents. This, howtver,
is believed will not he the case. According to pres nt
tppearances, the new Chamber will be more moderate than
he last, although not precisely of such materials as the
Government could have wished. The priesthood will

~,ve even a greater ascendancy than formerly, but the
Cathoie priesthoA in 13.-Igium consists of a much more
-easonable class of men than perhaps in any other country
Euiope. Doi do not rule over the people with a r.,d
f non, as in Spain and Portugal, and tiny are nat the
ait•ets of eon,entpt or d. tewation as in moat of the towns

Jul in many of the rural distriuts of France. I is wonder.

ill, in fart, how often you find among the m mere men of the
eorld, who seem io 'hare in the feelings of their fellow men,
although cut off from among them by their Vows of celibacy.
I is io the priesthood, however, that M. Lehean and General
Ci,blet are supposed to be indebied for the loss of their
elections. Among 0 e.e clerical gentlemen M. Leheau is
srigmatixed as le Minislre philosophe, and M. Gobi t as a
indifferent to religion of any kind. Had they
g-one more regulary to M,as, and etlismtd therme;ves mote
ievoutly in public, it is not doubted th it both would h fee
ieen returned by overwhelming mkjorities. Yet althi,ugh
11. Ragier is openly denounced on the same authority as
an uncomixemi,ing Atheist, it appears that this extreme
,a not considered so dangerous by the clergy as the indif-
'erence of M. Goblet, or the philosophy of M. beau,
since it is perfectly understood that no serious opposition is
to be wi Ale to M. Rogier's return.

On the other band, no less than three of the most violent
of the Opposition leaders have already lost their seats, in
the persons of M. Robatilx, M. d Elhougue, and Al
Fl-usser, and they have not the same chance as Gubiet and
Lebeau of la: it:g reqtrrod f)r ot►:er districts.

On the subject of the late di•tut b tnees in Antwerp. you
could not ask fix better information than what is con-

t ined in the fol owing extract from a letter this moment
received from a gi ntletuan of the highest respectability and
intt lligence, p ifectly unbiassed by prejudice and long
resident on the spot.
" The Recounts you have seer," I e says, " in the public
papers of what passed here on the evening of the 21st,
tie greatly exaggerated. The inenn•iderate, I may say
r. h. absurd conduct of the soi-disatzt chail.pions of 01 ange-
sm, for some time hark, has been such as was evidently
to le.ol to a collision with the more exalted of the sup-
porters of things as they are. Had the Litter con ented
themselves with ducking the Orange leaoers under a hump,
there would have been no great cause of regret, but the

rough treatment of the twd brothers Geelhardt, and par-
ticularly the att,,ck n the ho❑-e of Derue, the miseralde
proprietor of our nicknamed Journnl de Commerce
savoured a little ton much of anarchy, though I think
from what I saw, no it ore took place than was delibe-
rately intended. In allowing matters to go so far as they
did, I dare say the military awhorities con-ulted only
their own judgment. Great effect• are evidently making
to magnify the whole aff,ir, but as quiet will now be
maintained, it will soon blow over, and en sadly fright.
ened have the Orange Champions bec2rne, that I think
we shall be spared for a while tl.e renewal of their chit
ish blasting."

It is needless to trouble you with what has transpired
here g.n the subject of the convention, as, with the ex,ep
tion of the fact that it is really sit!ned, there is little to

add beyond what was previously known, and in Loodon
you must he much more masters of the stPlect than we are.
At the moment of closing this letter several additional
return, have arrived at the, office of the Minister of the
Interior. Of these eight are Ministerial : Jadot, Dugi-
none, de Seen, Thien,ent, Dumont, Milcausps, Cols, and
Count V. tie 111 erode. F.,ur belong to the opposition :
viz. Liedts, Van Hee,Konck, de Fieume., Pirs')o, and De
Afeer de Aloiselle ; and one is doulatul, M. Brizhe. Toe
Ministers have now therefore 29 returns ; the opposition

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of every nhade have 11, and 4 are doubtful ; 44 returns are
known, and 58 remain undetermined. It was reported
morn!ne that M. Jottrand, the Bou•ingot editor of
the Courrier Beige, had carried his election ar!ainst
Count V. de Merode, but the fact has niure turned out to
be otherwise. T.