The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-13 00:00:00

NEWS FROM OPORTO.

The Hermes arrived at this place on the 6th, and
sails I the same day. Desertions, from 100 to 200 per
day, from Din Miguel's army, were taking place, and
his forces had, in consequence retired three days' march
from their former position. The militia were returning
to their homes in great numbers, owing to a great scar-
city of provisions. The people were in high spirits, and
were enlisting very fast in Don Pedro's army, which, on
the sth, had incresed to 13,000 effective men, whilst that
of Don Miguel had decreased to half the number they
mustered on the 22d July. A corvette of 28 guns, a brig
of 22 guns, and two heavy gun-boats with 33-pounders,
were nearly ready for ara, and others in preparation.
Don Pedro was most indefatgable in his exertions from
morning until night, and personally inspected the troops.
The Captain of the Don John Portuguese 74, the
commander of a corvette, with other officers, and two
ecclesiastics, amounting to the number of 57, had taken
refuge on board the Donna Maria. Eight vessels cap•
tured by Admiral Sartorius at the entrance of Lishon,
were lying at Oporto, with cargoes valued at 120,000/.
one-tenth of which is to be given to the capturers, and
the remainder deposited, or restored, according to circum-
stances.

About midnight, on the 4th, a sharp firing commenced,
and was distinctly heard on board the English squadron,
but the darkness of the night prevented the result being
known. On the morning of the sth, Admiral Sartortui
was seen to the leeward, beating up with all his squadron,
and a Portuguese brig of Don Miguel's squadron making
for the harbour with a heavy press of sail, but no tidings
could be given of the remainder of Don Miguel's squad•
ron. Admiral Startorius had evidently out-manceuvred
them, but what had taken place we have yet to learn.

FALMOUTH, FRIDAY, 11, F. M., AUG. 10.
His Majesty's steamer Hermes, Lieutenant Bastard, has
just arrived mown Lisbon and Oporto. Her departure
from the former place was on the 4th inst., and from the
latter on the 5t,. The Lisbon accounts continue to repre-
sent the inhabitants and soldiery in the city as manifeoing
such strong constitutional feelings as to leave Miguel and
lij Government without the guarantee of their continu-
ing another week in power in the kingdom of Portugal.
The divisions of Miguel's army in the interior, which
bad been placed under the command of Sir Juhn Campbell,
had evinced such discontent, that it compelled the Gene-
ral to return to Lisbon on the 3d inst., and give in Lis re-
signation to the Government.

The lack of money with Miguel is stated to be very ap.
parent, and arrests continue to he made in the city for
the procurement of it. On the 4th, a wealthy merchant
was sent to prison for not immediately complying with the
iniquitous demand.

The accounts further state that Don Miguel has bad the
temerity to order his fleet out cf the Tagus : it consisted
of a line-of-battle ship, bearing an admiral's flag, one fri•
gate, and five smaller vessels. S ,rtorius perceiving their
movermnts, waited till their near approach, then slipped
and stood out to sea. He was joined by three of his fleet
which had been cruising. On the evening of the 3d, the
squadrons neared each other, a few exchange of shots took
place in the course of the night, during which Sartorius
got the weather-gauge, and was succeeding in his first ob-
ject to draw them off the shore, and then endeavour to
force a separation, by which they should more easily fall
into his hands.

The Portuguese Government had some difficulty in
getting the ships to sea, by a refusal on the part of the
sailors to work ; it was not ol4viited until they had dis-
tributed about 3,5001. through the squrdron as pay.
The greatest activity still prevails in making the coast on
e !II side the Tagus in as complete a state of defence as
possible.

The Emperor and the constitutional troops had not, up
to the sth, proceeded beyond Oporto and its environs,
and only a few skirmishes had taken place subsequent to
the last advises, but the greatest activity prevails at
Oporto in disciplining the volunteers and peasantry.
Don Miguel, it is announced,:will fortify Coimbra, and
despatch three large bodies of troops from different parts of
Portugal to repel the assault of Don Pedro on his southern
march. The inhabitants of Coimbra had, in general, va-
cated the place, and had taken up their quarters at
Abrantes. At Oporto, Pedro was particularly active in
his defensive operations : many of the streets are ban i-
eaded, and intrenebments have been made in those parts of
the city most exposed.

Sailed this morning, his Majesty's steamer Columbia,
Lieut. Ede, with mails for Oporto and Lisbon ; and the
Camden packet, Tilly, for Brazils.

OFF• LISBON, AUG. 4.

It is ascertained that Don Miguel's Government will
not allow the English packets to come into the Tagus in
future, in consequence of their touching at Oporto.
They will not allow any of the English vessels lying in
Ca•caes Bay to go into the Tagus.
A French vessel, in ballast, bound to Lisbon, was
boarded by her most Faithful 111 jesty's squadron on the
22d ult., allowed to pass, and was compelled by orders
from Fort St. Julian to proceed again to sea, in conse-
quence of her having had communication with Donna
Nlaria's squadi on.

Arrest; are taking place daily at Lisbon ; amongst
others Antonio Fonseca, a rich merchant.
On the 3d instan•. Don Miguel, in person, directed the
sailing of his squadron, consisting of the Don Joao VI.
line-of-battle ship, a frigate of 40 guns, three corvittes,
and three brigs. Admiral Sartorius slipped his cable to
join the Donna Maria frigate in the offing, and the Emalia
corvette, and Eugenia schooner. After some mai.aauvring,
Sartorius got to windward of the enemy, and was watching
an opportunity to cut some of them off (4th inst.)
Don Pedro, on the sth inst., hid increased his army to
13,000 effective men, and was personally indefatigable in
the training of the recruits. An officer, with 30 of the
enemy's cavalry equipped, came over to Don Pedro on the
❑ight of the 4th inst. stating th it their commanders would
all do the same whenever an opportunity offered. (They
were detached on a foraging party.) In the action of the
22d of July the enemy had 13,000 ; on the 2d inst. he
could only muster Aim,. 2,800 intn. The greater part
(militia) had dispersed to their homes, disinclined to fight
for either party.
Sir Jelin Campbell returned to Lisbon from the army
on the evening of the 2(1 instant. It was asserted that,
in consequence of his having found the Migueliie army in
a state of insurrection (2d and 4th divisions) he would not
take the command of them.

General Povoas, commanding the 2d division, has been
super'eded, and it was currently reported in Lisbon that
he had gone over to Don Pedro. The shopkeepers of Co-
imbra had tied to Abrantes. Don Miguel had given orders
to fortify Coimbra. Tne late Captain of the Don Joao
VI. and one of a corvette, with other officers, and two
ecclesiastics, to the number of 57, were on board Donna
Maria's squadron as refugees.
In the Douro were fitting, and nearly ready for sea, on
the sth instant, a corvette (twenty-eight guns), a brig
(twenty-two guns), and tis o new schooners, with a mid_
ship brass gun.
Eight Portuguese vessels had arrived at Oporto the 4th

instant, captured by Admiral S irtorius, entering Lisbon,
with cargoes, valued at 120,0001. They were ordered
to be sold,—one-tenth to the c iptors,—the remainder to
be deposited, restored, or distributed, according to circum-
stances.

LISBON, JULY 25.

(FROM THE LISBON PAPERS.)
(OFFICIAL)

" have the honour to lay before your Excel-
lency the despatch sent me by Colonel Vasconcellns, of
the battalion of the Royalist Volunteers at Braga, on the
action of the 18th instant, in Paredes, near Penafiel, and
afterwards, in that town. I had ordered the battalion of
Braga to pass to the north of the Douro, in order to
hinder the small parties of the re'.els from infesting the
province of Minho and the district (Portido) of Oporto;
and it was on this occasion that the battalion of English,
in the service of the rebels, which was at Recarein, which
place they sacked, learning the passage of the battalion,
and being opportunely reinforced by a battalion of the 18th
regiment, with two three-pounders and 25 students of the
number of those who fled to the Azores, followed the bat-
talion and attacked it at Paredes, near Penafiel, in two
columns, to the number of, in all, 900 men. Colonel
Vasconcellos retired amidst the firing. of the sharpshooters,
till he was joined in the town by 300 Guerillas, by whose
assist ince he was able to make an obstinate resistance in
the streets of the town, till the ammunition of the Gue-
rillas and of the battalion being exhaused, he was obliged
to evacuate the town, which the rebels entered, and set
fire to the Convent of the Capuchins, which was reduced
to ashes. They plundered thatrof St. Bento, carrying ofl•
the sacred utensils, and committing scandalous profana-
tions, after which they set it on fire in three places, but
without farther injury, as the rebels could maintain their
ground in Penafiel only five hours. In this action the
rebels had 42 men killed, all English, except two Portu-
guese; two Englishmen were made prisoners; the rebels
carried off eleven carts with wounded by Ponte Ferreira,
of whom the country people counted 35, and some of
them died yesterday in Vs-Hong°. Among the killed is a
superior officer. Colonel Vasconcellos highly commends
the bravery of the peasants ; and the battalion behaved
with honour, as it had at Villa Nova de Gaia on the 9th
and 10th. All which I have the honour to communicate
to your Excellency, that you may lay it before his
Majesty.
" Head-quarters of the 4th division, camp at Ponte
Ferreira, July 21.

" Viscount DE SANTA MARTHA,
" Major-General Commanding the 4th division.
" To his Excellency the Conde de Barbaotna."
The accompanying despatch from Colonel Vasconcellos
is of the same tenor as the above. The Colonel says that
lie had not a single man killed or wounded—that among
the enemy's wounded was an English Colonel, and that he
sends to the General the two English prisoners, whom he
had great difficulty in saving from the fury of the people.
His dopatch is dated from Amarante, July 20.

Pinto Coelho, belonging to the squadron, bravely charge],
with Portuguese courage, above 80 paces iu front of the
squadron (as I myself witnessed), and Captains Guerreiro
and Monteiro, of the horse artillery, succeeded in dislodg-
ing, with their artillery, those who had formed to the
right of the charge of cavalry on a very high bill. The
efforts and progress of this column of the enemy were pa-
ralysed for the rest of the day. At three o'clock the
enemy gave way on the whole line; hut the remainder
of their forces coming up at this moment, they main-
tained their position, and the action became more ob-
stinate on the left with Brigadier Cardozo, and on the

centre with the 4th brigade of Colonel Fonseca; and the
24 of Brigadier Oz trio, the regiment of Girsmar Icy, which
occupied a height where the b ittery of Captain Guerreiro
was posted, distinguished itself. This regiment kept
up a platoon and c'ose fire with as much steadiness as
on the parade, All the officers behaved nobly, and the

Colonel Baron de Villa Papca maintained on this day
of Portuguese fidelity the reputation of his illustrious
anc,stois. The second battalion of infantry of Almeida,
commanded by Major Mauritz, and placed on the left of
the militia of Guimaraes, also did its duty. The fifth
bittabon of this regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel
D. I. D'Abreu da Lobo was more to the right,
. . _ .

being led by Brigadier Ozorio, to support the first brigade
under Col. Russel, and a battalion of infantry of Chaves.
A Colonel M. de Magalhaes Peixoto, followed the noble
example of Colonel Peixoto, and the Commander of the
brigade, Colonel Fonseca ; Lieut.-Colonel de Reza, com-
manding the cavalry of Chaves, was conveniently posted to
support two positions of the artillery and of the Guirnaraes
regiment of militia ; and notwithstanding the efforts and
perseverance with which the enema attempted at seven in
the evening to gain ground, and their positions in the
centre, they constantly failed. The same happened on the
attack against Brigadier Cardoso, where there was a
squadron of cavalry of Chaves, commanded by Captain
Raivozo, and that of the police of Oporto, under Major
Carvalho. At sun-set the firing relaxed, and at night-
fall wholly ceased, and the corps of this division being ex-
tremely fatigued, as they had all been in the fire for nine
hours, on two successive days of a sanguinary battle, att. r
such harassing marches, and considering that some corps,
as those of the 4th brigade, had been led to action a few
hours after they bad reached the camp, from the want of
rations, it having been impossible, in so short a time, to
organize the service on this side of the Douro, I found
myself obliged to move the division during the night to
&altar, and on the following morning to Penafiel, a little
more than three leagues from the positions at Grabja,
which had been so valiantly disputed. The rebel forces
retired to the city of Oporto, and I have not learnt, up to
to-day, that they have made any movement from it. The
troops on both sides fought with the ardour of adversaries
who thoroughly hated each other, and though the enemy
brought into the field all the force he had, including
the artillery (not employed in the service of the artillery),
who were armed as infantry, and even some of the
seamen, there was no remarkable advantage on either
side, both retiring to their places of operations ; so that I
am of opinion that if the 4th division had had, at seven
o'clock in the evening, one regiment that had not been en-
gaged, and that could have charged the centre of the re bell,
their mad enterprise would have been ende I on that day,
and the rebellion at once finished. Yesterday and to day
forty-nine deserters from the rebels, almost all of the late
(extinct) 18th regiment, surrendered at our outposts.
They all affirm that the enemy suffered a dreadful loss in
killed and wounded in the two days' battle ; so that they
were obliged to prepare a second hospital, in which there
were 300 wounded, the military hospital being also full ;
the peasants, who have fled from Oporto to escape being
forced to enlist, agree with the deserters, and as, accord-
ing to the lists which I have the honour to enclose, we
have 267 killed and wounded, we may suppose, without
exaggeration, that the rebels, who in their attacks were
much more exposed to the fire of our good artillery, lost,
in the two days, 600 killed, wounded, and prisoners, not
including above 90 deserters, who have surrendered at our
outposts since the 21st, all of whom have been sent to
Beira and Coimbra.

(Here follow commendations of the officers.)
" Dated from the Head.quarters of the 4th Division;
at Penafiel, July 27, 1832.
(Signed) " Viscount DE SANTA MARTHA.
" To the Conde de Barbacena."

The list of the killed (55) and of the wounded (212)
is annexed ; among the first are named two officers, and
among the second eight.
By an order of the day of July 30, his Majesty expresses
his approbation of the loyalty and valour of the 4til Divi-
sion under General Santa Martha, and of the ability of the
General himself.

A decree of the same date promotes several officers at the
recommendation of General Santa Martha.

AUGUST 2.—A despatch from Mijor-General Alvaro
Xavier de Fonseca Continho e Povons, commanding the
second division of the army, dated head-quarters, S. Joao
da Madeira, July 27, gives an account of a skirmish, in
which he had none killed or wounded.

The Lisbon Gazette gives two extracts of letters from
many towns in the kingdom ; as Oliveira de Azemeis, of
29th ; Pena6el, 25th and 27th ; Lamego, 29th ; Coimbra,
the 30th ; and S. Joan de Madeira, of the 29th. The
latter says, " This morning early, part of the second divi-
sion and artillery marched to Grijo, the rebels retreated
into Oporto. Our last accounts from that city say, that
many persons continued to emigrate, and that the le' els
were in despair at not having gained more ground, and at
the noble resistance that the nation makes to them. The
desertion continues, and some of their soldiers daily sur-
render at our outposts. At Cirvoeiro there are above
5,000 guerillas, from Lafaes, Vizeu, and Serra de Estrella,
animated with the greatest enthusiasm in the sacred cause
of the nation."

All the letters announce the arrival of numerous de-
serters.—Lisbon Gazette, from July 29 to August 4,
inclusive.

(From the Oporto Chronicle of Ist August, 1832.)

" DECREE.

" It not being plssible for the Portuguese ships at pre-
sent to carry on the coasting trade, not only of the islands
of the Azores, but also from this to other ports under the
legitimate government of her Most Faithful Majesty, 1 am
pleased, in the name of the Queen, to grant permission for
foreign ships to engage in the said trade in these islands
and ports abovementioned for the space of three months
from the date hereof ; at the expiration of which period
the former laws are to be in force, without further notice.
The Minister of Finance will cause this to be published and
executed.

" Given at the Oporto Palace this 30th July 1832.

"DON PEDRO, Duke de Braganza.

"JOSE XAVIER AIOUZINE-i0 DA SILVEIRA."
From the Oporto Constitutional Chronicle of 3d Aug.)

DECREE.

" It having been determined by the first paragraph of
the Decree of the 14th July ult. that Portuguese citizens
in any part of the kingdom shall. from the Ist January,
1833, and thenceforth, have the privilege of transporting
their wines to the city of Oporto, and of selling them for
the consumption of its inhabitants, I am pleased to grant,
in the name of the Queen, to the said citizens the imme-
diate t njoyment of this beneficial measure, the said decree
relating to brandies remaining still in force. The Minis-
ter and Secretary of State for Finances will cause this to
be executed and publi.hed.
" DON PEDRO, Duke de Braganzs.
"JOSE XAVIER 1110UZINHO DA SILVEIRA."

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has published a
proclamation prohibiting the holding of Donnybrook Fair,
this month, for a longer period than 21 boors.

MR. COOPER'S NEW NOVEL, " THE HEI-
DENMAUER."—" These volumes are at this moment afford-
ing very general entertainment to all the lovers of fiction.
Mr. COOPER loses no attraction on new ground ; we can-
not but remark on the versatility of his genius, which im-
parts equal life to the wild Indian, the weather-beaten
sailor, the picturesque pirate, the romantic and mysterious
tyranny of Venice, and the bold spirit of the middle ages.
In this very work Huiticit, the burgomaster, is a perfect
Flemish picture."—Literary Gazette.
Ne hope,aut authorized
and indeed
to settle
M. VAN DE WEYER has been commissioned
to come to this country to announce to our SOVEREIGN
the marriage of Prince LEoroLD with the Princess Louisa.
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independence. In truth it is quite time that thisexpect,affair relative
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for acting, with certain public exhibitions, to prove the
advantages of her system in the improvement of her pu.
pits. Nothing can be more wanted at the present moment.
The QUEEN has most graciously promised to give Miss
of DEVONSHIRE, within the last week, has come forward,
in the kindest and most liberal manner, to afford every
KELLY all the countenance in her power ;
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prospects. assistance, bothshe iwnilhliosppetnibhliecr asynsdtepmrivbaytesocmape
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entertainments, if we are rightly informed, in the nature'
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