The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-25 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Some firemen, being in attendance at the office
on business, were asked whether some carious cir-
cumstances, relative to a dog, known by the name
of the Fireman's Dog, an account of which had
appeared in some of the newspapers, were founded
in truth.

A fireman had not heard of or seen the account,
but the dog Tyke was an old acquaintance of his,
and he supposed that he was the animal to which
the paragraph alluded.

The MAGISTRATE asked, whether it was a fact
that the dog was present at most of the fires that
occurred in the metropolis.
The fireman, during their acquaintance, never
knew Tyke to be absent from a fire upon any occa-
sion that he (the fireman) attended himself.
The MAGISTRATE said, that the dog must have an
extraordinary predilection for fires. He then asked
what length of time he had been known to possess
that propensity.

The fireman knew Tyke for the last nine years,
and although he was getting old, yet the moment
the engines were about, Tyke was to be seen as ac-
tive as ever, running off in the direction of the fire.
The fireman replied, that Tyke liked one fireman
as well as another; he had no particular favourites,
but passed his time amongst them, sometimes
going to the house of one, and then to another, and
off to a third when he was tired. Day or night, it
was all the same to him, if a fire broke out, there he
was, in the midst of the bustle, running from one
engine to another, anxiously looking after the fire-
men, and although pressed upon by crowds, yet,
from his dexterity, he always escaped accidents,
only now and then getting a ducking from the en-
gines, which he rather fancied than otherwise.
The MAGISTRATE said, that Tyke was a most ex-
traordinary animal.
The Fireman—We have an annual dinner at the
outskirts of the town, which takes place during the
summer. If Tyke happened to be absent from the
firemen of our company for a week previously, he
is always sure to be at the house where we meet to
go in procession to the dinner, to which he accom-
paniesgAs TE that
asked he
us, as he well knows he fares right well on
those occasions. He gets a regular " blow out" of
whatever we have ourselves, and eats so ravenously
of
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MAGISTRATE
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petted to break out when Tyke was indulging with
them at their annual festival ?
The fireman did not recollect an instance of the
kind, but he was convinced, knowing Tyke's love
to be present at a fire, that he would leave the enter-
tainment, and scamper off to the scene of action.

Such was the demand for grouse in Buxton,
on the 13:h instant, that the sum of 18s. was asked for a
single brace....Aerby Reporter.

" That Nobleman has been received by the
Emperor and his whole Court in the most
flattering manner ; but the object of his mission
will have no better success than that of the Duke
de Nlortemai t, last year. There are details in
circulation of an interview which his Lordship
is said to have had with the Emperor on the Ist
and 2d of this month, which much resemble
those which several journals published last Sep-
tember on the audience of leave of the Duke
de Mortemart, The subject was Poland ; Lord
Durham entered upon this with all possible de-
licacy, and almost begged the Emperor to
change his policy with respect to that unhappy
country. Nicholas listened to him at first with
great kindness, and it was not till the English
Ambassador alleged the treaties of 1815 in their .
favour that the Emperor's countenance suddenly
became serious and gloomy. England and
France alone,' said the Autocrat, ' should never
dare to allege those treaties, You have violated
and trodden them under foot for the last two
years. But for your far from honourable C 011.•
duct in the Netherlands, I might certainly have
listened to your intercession in favour of a
tion which has cruelly insulted me, but which I,
notwithstanding, still love and esteem. I had
even conceived a grand idea to reconcile all this',
and to place on solid foundations the peace of
the world ; but the armed interference in the
month of August last, in the states of the King
of the Netherlands, which you arranged and ap-
proved, has changed every thing. I speak, my
Lord, without animosity. I love and esteem
your nation. But I cannot allow you the right
to claim and to violate at once the stipulations
of the same Treaties, as it suits your conve-
nience. The French Government has a sacred
obligation to fulfil towards my father-in-law, the
King of Prussia ; it had obtained from that So-
vereign Prince a promise to refrain from assist-
ing by arms his brother-in-law, the King of the
Netherlands, but on the express condition that
France should also refrain from interfering. You
know the so many ties unite the King of
Prussia and King William ; I myself, not-
withstanding my attachment to my sister
the Princess of Orange, have sacrificed all
my feelings to the desire to consolidate
the general peace. The French Govern
meat, notwithstanding, took advantage of the
embarrassment which the Polish revolution
caused me, to proceed to this intervention. Yet
the right as well of Holland as of Belgium to
break the armistice had been recognised ; the •
intervention of the Conference of London was to
be wholly amicable, even according to the posi-
tive wish of the French Government. You
cannot, therefore, allege any excuse that I can
allow of to justify this armed intervention, and
henceforth I shall consult only the interest of
my empire in regulating the affairs of Poland,
without permitting the slightest foreign inter-
vention in this question.'
" Lord Durham assured the Emperor that the
armed intervention of France was conceived and
executed by M. Perier, of his own accord ; that
the English Ministry had expressed their dissa-
tisfaction at it, but that the mischief having been
done, there was no remedy.
_ .

44 It is farther asserted that the grand idea
which the Emperor mentions on this occasion,
was to place Prince Leopold or some German
Prince on the throne of Poland, and to give him
his eldest daughter in marriage ; Russia would
have found a compensation in Moldavia, Wal-
lachia, &c. Though political affairs are more
complicated than ever, war is not thought of at
present ; first, the season is too far advanced ;
and then, influential persons are persuaded that
the first cannon-shot would be the prelude to a
general war, more terrible, perhaps, than that in
the time of Napoleon. It is therefore hoped to
procrastinate till winter, and that some fortunate
and unforeseen circumstance may lead to a pacific
solution ; at all events, nothing will be done till
the spring."

A Conservative Association has been formed
at Liverpool. _ _

A melancholy occurrence lately took place at
Venani. A tradesman, being suddenly called out of his
room on business, left upon the table a bill of exchange he
had just received. Whilst his wife was engaged i❑ bath-
ing her infant, another child, a few years older, took the
bill. and tore it to pieces. The father, entering at the
moment, became so enraged that he gave the child a violent
blow on the head, and it fell lifeless to the ground. The
mother dropped her infant into the bathing-tub, and ran
towards her elder child, but her assistance was of no
avail. In her despair she forgot her younger child for a
feet/ minutes, and on returning to the tub found her infant
d row ned. —French Paper.

On Thurday night last the neighbourhood of
Ballilihane colliery, in the barony of Ballyadams, was
patrolled by a large well-armed party of Whitefest, who
made diligent search for arms, without effect. Same
night the house of M. HOVENDON, Eq., on the land of
Tierenan (barony of Slieumariga), was posted with a no-
tice, threatening Gregory's death to any person who
should assist in cultivating a piece of land called Walsh's
Harm; and also ordering his workman KELLY, to leave
his employment, or else expect the same death. Mr.
1-lovENnort, owing to the state of the county, and some
visits which the " dearly beloved" paid him on a former
occasion, has been obliged long since to quit the country.
Groups of four or five persons are marauding this part of
the country, and by turns resting and consulting in the
public houses, which the inhabitants consider a symptom
of organization, with a view to an outbreak. Several
farms on the Bambrick estate ate lying waste, or rather
are occupied as common by the cattle of the Whitefeet.—
Dublin Packet.

,
FEMALE HERO' SM .—On Monday nigh
last, about the hour of twelve o'clock, the daughter of a
poor farmer named QUINLAN, residing near Alitchelstown,
in the county of Cork, was aroused by a loud rapping at
the door, and on inquiring who was there, she was
inswered " particular friends of your father," and in turn
was interrogated as to whether he was at home, as they
wanted to see him. The girl lighted a candle, and on
opening the door a huge athletic man rushed in and levelled
A blunderbuss at her father, who lay in bed, but fortunately
it did not go off. The fellow immediately commenced
tdjusting the priming, on which the young girl seized
a metal pot, and gave him such a blow on the head
as levelled him to the ground ! At this moment another
villain rushed in with a case of pistols in his hands, one
,if which he presented and snapped at the old man, but it
also missed fire. By this time QUINLAN had arisen from
;Jed, and seizing an iron instrument used in cutting turf,
tie inflicted such a blow on the second fellow as laid him
instant the first villain was down she followed up the blow
in May last. It
prostrate. The young girl did not remain idle, for the
until she completely disabled him ; and the father and
stbhialltintghe vithins were in-
daughter ultimately succeeded in disarming both of them,
vitesitsitgoparfitoivobenable they would have cue-
sueledmsth
Limerick,te that taarnetdh eny:evarreei
QUINLAN, whose only offence was that el having paid his
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,•eeded in their murderous design on the life of this la or
man. The conduct of the daughter was must heroic Liid
praiseworthy, and is deserving of some substantial mark of
pprobatiou....CorA Constitution.

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DON PEDRO'S EXPEDITION.

(From the Times Correspondent.)
FALMOUTH, THURSDAY, Q 3.

The Columbia steamer, from Lisbon and Oporto, has
jest arrived, and the information brought by her is in one
respect important. She annonnees the return of Doh
Miguel's fleet to the Tagus, which they had all lately en-
tered on Saturday, the 18th,—the day the totumbia sailed.
In Lisbon all was tranquil, well no great danger of the
people being roused to resistance by foreign intelligence,
As all vessels of all toOntries are prevented from entering
Portuguese poets, Den Miguel thus volnOtarily undertak-
ing the thuet Admiral Sartories has in vienn, by Mock-
wting himself. The following is an account furnished by
a rentleman who was aboard the Columbia nut and
home. She arrived on her outward passage off Oporto et
al-lid-night, August the 14th, communicated with his
Majesty's ship Stag, and got under weigh in the morning,
Don Miguel's fleet having then stood Close in to Oporto.
With respect to the skirmish between the squadron, the
account is, that on the 10th instant, Don Miguel's fleet
was about 40 miles off shore, at half past 9 p.m., the
Dourado frigate, of 44 guns, being a-head of the squr.ficon ;
Admiral Sartorius observing tbi., bore dow't With the in-
tention of cutting her off. She immediately tacked, and
came under the lee of the .Dan Jett°. Sartorius with his
frigate passed under the stern of the latter, poured in
broadside, then shot up and took a position on her bow,
with the Donna Muria on her beam, and ah engagement
ensued. The ship of Admiral Sartorius received a 'shot
which struck the fish of her mainmast about six feet above
the gunwale, but did no material damage, Another shot
from Don Joao entered a port, killing two and wounding
three men. Sartorius then at In hours 45 minutes hauled
off, it being very dark, and be being afraid he should fire
into his consort, the Donna Maria. Next morning ob-
served that the Don Joao had lost her main top-mast.
The number of killed and wounded aboard her not yet
known. The total nut:oiler of killed and wounded on the
side of Sartorius,-2 killed, 8 wounded, 5 of them since
dead. Miguel's fleet, according to all accounts, consists of
seven sail, the, Don Joao, a frigate, the Dourado, 54
guns, 3 corvettes, and 2 brigs, while Sartorius had with
him only the two frigates, Peinha da Portugal and
Donna Maria.

Don 111ignel's squadron kept close together, all the
smaller vessels clustering round the Dcn Joao. The
sailors liken her to the hen, and the others to the chickens
seeking her wings for protection. his evident they labour
under excessive terror of Sartorius, otherwise, with such
an immense superiority of force, they would not content
themselves with merely repelling an attack.
On the 14th they stood close in to the bar of Oporto,
and the day after it fell calm, upon which Sartorius was
taken in tow by his steamer, with a view of closing with
his opponent. Before he could get up, however, a top-
gallant breeze from the N.B. sprunr, up, n hich enabled
Aliguel's squadron to escape and run obff the land, Sartorius
afte- them, but keeping to windward, to be between them
and shore. He continued cruising off Oporto until the 16th.
On the 17th, at 7 o'clock, p.m. they arrived off Cascaes
Bay, and the Providence brig went off at once up the
Tagus, and on the next day the rest of the fleet followed,
and came to anchor in the Thy of Pa go dos Areas. The
reason assigned for their return is shortness of provisions,
as they sailed from Lisbon on the 2d with only a month's
provision and water. You will see that is hut an excuse,
as they had been out barely a fortnight.
Sartorius anchored off Oporto en the 17th, to water
his fleet and get a reinforcement. According to present
accounts, Don Pedro's squadron there consists of. 2 fri-
gates, 46 and 42 guns ; two brigs, 14 ; and 2 schooners.
In the river Douro, 2 corvettes ready for sea, and two
fitting, which would be ready in a wreck.
As regards the army and the situation of Oporto, nothing
slew bas occurred ; all is quiet in the town ; and the army
in good spirits. The number of the troops around for
Don Miguel, persons ashore but for an hour in Oporto
could not judge of. They were necessarily obliged to take
such accounts as were given them, and these, if to be de-
pended on, are favourable, as they bring down the blockad-
ing army to 25,000, and increase Don Pedro's to 14,000
men. The town is strongly fortified, and the utmost vigi-
lance preserved. Attacks were expected ; but this is a
matter of course, where there are two armies watching
each other.
The Briton frigate sailed from Cascaes on the 18th, in
the afternoon, to relieve the Stag, ordered home.

EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM A SEAMAN ON BOARD

THE REINHA DA PORTUGAL :-..-

" At Sea, off Oporto Bar, Aug. 14.
" The first engagement we had with the enemy, at sea,
was upon the 3d of this month, about 11 o'clock at night.
We only fired three broadsides; our only force being the
Donna Maria, 36, and our own ship, the Reinha da
Portugal, 42. The second was fought on the 10th ;
from llto 1 at night. The Admiral turned the hands
up, and told us that he was determined to give the Don
sham, 74, a warming. We answered him with three
British cheers. We made all sail, and stood for the centre
of their line, when the whole of their force, consisting of
one 74, one 52-gun frigate, three corvettes, and two
brigs, opened fire upon us. We kept all fast till we
got within pistol range, and then the word was passed,
Are you ready ?" All ready ?" Fire.' And we kept
it up for one hour and 15 minutes, after breaking their
line, ourselves and the Donna Maria, the small craft
being ordered by the Admiral to keep to windward. We
had two killed, and three wounded; the Donna Maria,
one killed, and five wounded, and her nsizen-mast all but
gone. We received many shots about the hull, masts,
sails, and rigging. The next morning, about ten o'clock,
we were about four miles to windward of the enemy,
trying to find out what damage we had done to them,
when the Don Juan's maintop mast went over the side.
We gave three cheers, and stood down to them. Unfor-
tunately for us, it fell a calm, or else we would assuredly
have had her in tow. We are now off Oporto. Two
steam-boats and a cutter have come out to us, the latter of
which brings this letter. The Admiral has told us to-
day, that the moment that we can collect our force to .
gether, he will again show fight. Why don't they do it ?
—seventy two ! Don Miguel's fleet is now standing for
Lisbon. We are in chase—only two ! We have beard
from the Leveret British man-of-war, that the enemy sus-
tained great damage."

(From tbe-Morning Herald.)

OPORTO, AUG. 18.

The town is about three miles from the bar, and all the
oper.itions of the fleets can be seen from many of the
windows. The house where lam stationed commands
an excellent view of the whole bay. Last night I went
down to the bar to see Sartorius' vessels at anchor about
two miles from it. The enemy had gone to the westward,
and it was said, by way of joke, that they were off to
retake Terceira and St. Michael's. It should be under-
stood that Pedro's squadron are worked principally by
English sailors, and commanded by English captains,
while Don Miguel has only Portuguese, who are good
sailing sailors, but cannot be depended on in action. The
main question would in a great degree be affected by the
result of an action, and I heartily wish they would come
to close quarters, for the purpose of bringing things to an
issue, or of enabling us to see our way out of the mist in
which the prospects of the expedition are now involved.
I should not fail to report that Sir Thomas Troubridge
and the English ships are acting with the strictest neutra-
lity, always getting under weigh when the hostile fleets
are in sight ; but the steam-boats work under English
colours, and the transports which brought the troops
from St. Michael's all carry our flag, and during the fighting
of the second day, when the steam-boats came into the
river to cover the crossing of Don Pedro's men to Villa
Nova they had the English colours flying,—circumstances
which may lead to some misapprehension of the part taken
by our navy in this contest.
With regard to the land operations since the battle of
Ponte Ferreira, or Vallongo, which, stripped of all ridi-
culous exaggeration, was extremely creditable to Don
Pedro, his troops have but once crossed fire with the
enemy, and the result was to his disadvantage, amount-
ing to nothing less than actual flight and defeat, though
the Miguelites did not follow up as they might have
done. Don Pedro is confined to the city of Oporto, and
the circuit of about two miles, to which he pushes his
picquets, and there is at present no possibility of his ex-
tending his operations beyond it. I have been to the
advanced posts to see the nature of the service, and the
ground on which the rival armies have to act. The
whole country in this vicinity is broken into a mass of
irregular hills, covered with fine woods, so that every
hundred yards there is a fresh position and shelter on
every side, and the two actions which have taken place
have been more those of bush-fighters than of regular
troops. The Miguelites have abundance of cover of
wood, and stone-walls, which they availed themselves of at
Vallongo and Sonto Redondo—and unless where they
were charged by the foreign brigade, there was nothing
approaching a regular combat. I have forewarned you,
from old experience, what Portuguese warfare was likely
to be—and I find that hitherto I am correct in my anti-
cipations.
Don Miguel's troops are not in force in the immediate
vicinity of Oporto, though the country is open to them;
but they push their advanced pcs's within a mile or two
of ours, and the English sentinels ti 11 me they occasionally
st e their patrols:on the hits in front. It is difficult here
to ascertain the correct situation of the Miguelites; but I

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understand that Santa Nlartba is between Baltha and I'se-
nafiel, with about 8,000 men, and that Gen. Pavoas is
in the south of the Douro, about 6 miles from this, a
little to the'eastward of the Lisbon road, with about 7,000.
The condition of these troops I am not able to judge of,
and hett, of course, every one speaks in their disparme7-
Merit; but the English brigade tell me that at Porte Fer-
reira they fought much better atm was expected. How-
ever, it is evident tbat.tl4Y or their leaders are without
much of wlia-t we can ptuck, as they keep at so civil a die-
tance, and allot: Don Pedro's handful of men to occupy
the Second city of the kingdom. Every day a new report
ti'.'ses of their determination to attack the town ; but,
nothing like a demonstration is as yet elicited, and we are
in the same gate on lint, a's tie are at sea, waiting for
their Himont's to dratv by the onrtain and begin the play.
Don Pedro's forte consists of about 8,000 regular
troops, nsmtly, 6,000 of the line, 1,000 volUnteers or
ernizrants, brigaded altogether; 400 English, more than
half of which are acting i'a marines in the fleet, and 350
French. Colonel Hodges commands the English, and the
Count St. Leger the French ; Schaulbach, a German, the
{,fight Division ; hut the only foreign men are French and
English. The two latter are high in the confidence of
Don Pedro, and they, with one regiment of Portuguese,
have the whole advance posts of the northern and eastern
roads in their hands, the other side of the Douro being
given to the volunteers and the Light Division. There are
about 4,000 National Guards now drilling in the streets,
among whom the musk-ts, shipped by the Brocklebank
from London, with the Tower mirk, are distributed; and
who, though cot formidable in appearance, will do for
food for powder as wall as better. These, with only 50
cevairy, and eight pieces of cannon fully equipped, consti-
tute the whole force of Don Pedro, and with which the
conquest of this country is to 1e attempted, with what
pro.pecr'of success you can reason as well as I.
The town is an open one, but every road to it is com-
manded by rocks and hills, on which cannon have been
planted; barriers of stone and mortar are erected at cer-
tain distances within two miles of it ; the opening and
centres of the principal streets are defended by similar
posts, or barricades, with deep trenches cut outside of
them, and as touch as it is almost possible to do to put
an opn town in a state of efficient defence has been
carried into execution. So much so, that the citivas who
have joined Don Pedro are perfectly at ease for the secu-
rity of thews, lvse and property, and undoubtedly if the
garrison valid to their arms, an assault from any but a
regular army would have but a poor chance of success.
The Miguelites are not equal to the attempt, but it re-
mains to be seen whether they can bring up fresh troops
from Lisbon and Coimbra sufficient in number and well
handled enough to dare the trial. There are four roads
to Oporto on the north of the Douro, where all those pre-
Cautions have been taken ; and though Villa Nova, a
southern suburb, is equally protected, it is supposed that
the river, over which there is only one bridge of boats,
which c,n be destroyed at pleasure, is a sufficient
protection on the south. It is the opinion of every
person with whom I have spoken, among whom are
British officers who served in the Peninsular war, that
Oporto is able to resist any force likely at present to he
brought against it. If, however, Don Miguel could bring
up from 20,0000 to 25,000 men, and attack it on the four
roads north of the Douro at once, Don Pedro's troops are
not sufficient to resist them. They are equal to meet one
assault, however formidable it may be, but the chances are
very doubtful against a well-directed combined approach
on the four roads I speak of. Independently of the regular
troops, Don Miguel's Generals are attended by a horde of
guerillas, who come within three mi'ea of Oporto to
plunder always during the night, and who vanish at the
show of resistance. They are a valu,ble assistance to his
operations, and in case the city should be carried, it is
from them that pillage and excesses of every sort are to be
apprehended.
From all this it is evident that Don Pedro's situation is

not a very flattering one, and I do not see any means that
he has of improving it, unless he gets foreign assistance
on a large scale, both of men and money. It is in vain to
deny the truth, however painful it may be to proclaim it.
Don Pedro does not feel safe to advance on the road to
Coimbra, where, if any where, there is a Constitutional
party. If be advance from Oporto it would be instantly
occupied by the Miguelites from the north ; so that he is
reduced to the cold policy of intrenching himself here per-
haps for the winter, trying to collect horses, and to drill a
National Guard. I have heard it said the troops are more
than two months in arrear. Don Pedro draws about
3001. daily from the sale of the Oporto Wine Company's
stock, and the receipts of the Custom House and local
taxes.

Don Pedro is making wonderful exertions—he is up
and stirring every roorniag at five o'clock, working with
his own hands in the arsenal, visiting the advanced posts
nr inspecting the barracks, and setting an example of ac-
tivity to every one about him. All his orders and regula-
tions for the government of the city are judicious, and
give great satisfaction ; and, so fir as the maintenance of
good order is concerned, nothing can be more efficient or
less coercive than the means he has undertaken to secure
it. The town is quiet both by day and night, and, were
it not fi)r the few military demonstrations in the streets, a
stranger would not imagine that he was in a place under
a state of siege, or in a country where civil war existed.
There are various rumours in circulation this morning
of Constitutional Guerillas having shown themselves in
the neighbourhood of Coimbra, and of the prisoners that
were removed from hence to Almeida having risen and
secured that fortress; but they have not been traced to
any good source.
The conduct of Don Miguel's Generals is most unac-
countable. It is understood that Don Miguel ordered
that the expedition should be allowed to land, in order
that it might be crushed with his preponderating force ;
and, indeed, I am old by our squadron it was impossible
that he could prevent the debarkation, Pedro's ship of
war lying in deep water, close to the land, and covering
the whole movement. But why Santa Martha did not
attempt to cut off the army on the march to Oporto is
most wonderful. With 5,000 men he could have done
the most important service to Miguel's cause, as the road
lay through a wild country, and in one place through a
defile, where the men were obliged to pass in single files.
The Miguelite army are in force on both sides of the river,
within a few hours' march of the town, and they do
not prevent Don Pedro to go on, fortifying the ap-
proaches to, and putting it into such a state of defence as
will take them, in a few days, double the number of
men to reduce it that would have sufficed a month,
or even two weeks, ago. They have a flock of gue
rillas at command, but they have made no attempt to
cut off the supplies of the town ; and the bread for the
consumption of Don Pedro's army, as well as of the city
in general, is brought from Valongo, where the mills and
bakehouses have been established for years without inter-
ruption. There is abundance-of all sorts of provisions in
Oporto, meat being as low as 3d. a pound.
The greater part of the friars have been expelled the
town, and their convents converted into barrack.. It is
said that some few lurk in disguise among the people,
exciting them against Don Pedro; and a proclamation
has just come out, instituting severe penalties for those
churchmen who do not wear the customary dress of their
orders. The guerilla parties who are now scouring the
environs are paid, and said to be principally urged on, by
these gentry.
Don Pedro's fleet, who were anchored off the bar las
night and this morning, are strengthened by the arrive
of some small vessels from off Lisbon; but still Sartoriu
is unequal to attack the whole of Don Miguel's. The.
latter have not been seen yesterday or to-day, and there is
a report that they have put into Vigo Bay.
The mail for England closes at four ; but A Cronica,
which should appear at two, is not out, and therefore you
will not find it with your papers ; but if it contains auy
article of interest I will find means of getting it to the
steam -boat.

Colonel Hare, wbo came out with Lord William Russell
is at the head-quarters of Don Pedro—l presume a military
correspondent to our Government. The only other British
authority at Oporto is Mr. Crispin, the Consul.
Sunday, Four o'Clock.

The steam-boat from Lisbon is in• sight off the bar.
There is not a single new incident ; we are all perfectly
quiet, and I have nothing to add to my letter of yesterday.
Sartorius is at anchor off the bar, and there has been no
account of Don Miguel's fleet since Friday.

Extract of a letter from Admiral Sartorius, to a friend•
in London :

" On board the Rainha da Portugal,
"off Oporto, Aug. 14, 1832.
" lam now waiting for the arrival of the City of
Edinburgh steamer, and shall then seize the opportunity
of doing sonnthing. All my vessels are dispersed. Those
fitted out at Oporto have never joined me. When they
do, I shall be able to attack the enemy unsparingly, for
you must bear in mind that I feel great reluctance to at-
tack without a strong probability of success, as I am bound
to consider the cause I serve, as well as the honour of my
British companions in arms, who are now engaged
with me.

" All my men behaved like noble fellows. Their en-
thusiasm and courage is not surpassed by the brightest
periods of our own service, whenever the enemy is in
sight, or when there is a prospect of fighting. They have
not been in their hammocks two nights fur these last three
weeks, and still they are cheerful, contented, and of ad-
mirable behaviour. I have never witnessed any thing

that can be comp tred to them. The other night we had
to contend with our 88 guns against 240 pieces of artillery
of much heavier metal ; but their firing wts infamous,
though by no means deficient in rapidity, and this was
the cause that tie bad only two killed and two wounded in
the Painha da Portugal, and one killed and four wounded
in the Donna Maria. Finding that they formed in a close
line, I regained the weather-gage, and I am now sticking
close to them, to avail myself of any chance that may
turn up.

" The object of tilt, Outlay appears to be, 0 cruize of
Oporto for the purpose of co-operating with his troops on
shore; but they never permit any of their ships on any
account to go out of pin-shot from the Don John VI., as
well from fear of being cut off as from the danger they
apprehend of 'heir joining Donna Maria's forc:2s. At all
events, I shall be able to prevent this clumsy lubber from
giving any effectual assistance. It is probable that the
enemy may get into Lisbon again, if my small fry does
not jlin us in time ; but, I hope, not without losing some
of his vessels."

The officer of Cag tdores, who caused the partial disas-
ter of the pith, by retreating without, or contrary toi or-
ders, has been tried by a Court-martial, was foun I guilty,
and condemned to death ; but the Emperor commuted his
sentence, spared his life, but ordered him to be broke,
stript of his honours, epaulettes, and uniform, and doomed
him to hard labour on board the squadron, by way of an
example.