The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-06 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1832.

An Express from Falmouth arrived this
morning at the Portuguese Embassy, but it
brought merely a letter from the agent at that
place, giving a brief account of the battle of the
29th. The agent states that the loss on the
side of the Miguelites was estimated at 2,000,
and that of the Constitutionalists at 200, among
whom was a frightful proportion of officers. No
correct returns, 'however, could be obtained, as
the CorOance sailed so soon after the action.—
The Conflance fell in, on the way to Falmouth,
with some of the squadron of SARToRius, and
learned that the Admiral was proceeding to Vigo
in search of the Miguelite fleet, with a determi-
nation to engage.

Despatches have been received at the Admi-
ralty, from Admiral PARKER, dated the 30th

ult. They fully confirm the long and interesting
accounts given by our Morning Contemporaries.
The affair of the Childers is, we believe, re-
garded in a light which is not likely to lead to
any contention with Don MIGUEL ; but if Lord
PALMERSTON does not take some means of re-
pressing the violence of the Usurper's minions,
and the renegade Englishman who is in his ser-
vice, he will not increase his popularity at home.
By these accounts, it appears that the British
brigade in the service of Don PEDRO has suf-
fered dreadfully ; all the officers, except two,
have been killed or wounded. The arrival of
the officers who are just gone out, therefore, will
be a seasonable relief to Don PEDRO.

The last accounts from Portugal will, we
imagine, act favourably on the financial affairs of
Don PEDRO, and consequently lead to the
adoption of offensive operations against the
Usurper. Latterly the contractors for reinforce-
ments, alarmed at the pompous announcement
of an attack for the 29th of September, which
might frustrate all their hopes of repayment, have
dealt out their advances with sparing hands,
evidently waiting for some news which should
enable them to see their way more clearly. One
officer offered to raise 800 men at his own charge,
and to take wines at 161. per pipe in repayment
but the presence of the Usurper's troops in
Villa Nova, and the consequent difficulty of
obtaining possession of the wines, which were,
we believe, in that place, prevented the comple-
tion of this arrangement, the conditions of
which were, we are bound to say, highly
honourable to the gallant Major by whom
it was proposed. A wealthy merchant
entered into a contract with the Marquis of PA L-
MELLA for a reinforcement of 3,000 men, of
whom 1,000 were to be Poles. Of this army
Sir JOHN IVIILLEy DOYLE was to have had the
command ; but the prospects of Don PEDRO
darkened, and the contractor, with a prudence
which many will blame, but most, perhaps,
would have imitated, held back, awaiting, as it
would seem, more decisive accounts. The mo-
tives for delay, indeed, were differently stated.
At one time, it was a stipulation that SirJoHN's
army should form a separate brigade, a pro-
posal to which Count FUNcHAL refused to
agree ; at another, a demand that Sir JOHN
should have the nomination of all his officers,
the Ambassador refusing to allow such nomina-
tion beyond the rank of captain. Thus, with
one difficulty and another, the contract was al-
lowed to expire, without anything having been
done; and at this moment, instead of hearing of
the arrival of Sir JOHN DoyLE at Oporto, with
3,000 men, we hear it stated, that he is still
beating up for recruits, and that the number
already entered does not exceed 300 men.
This may be true or not, but it is quite clear that
money has not been forthcoming, for there are
thousands anxious to enter the service of Dor.
PEDRO if the means are afforded to them of pro-
ceeding to Oporto ; and such is the reputation
of Sir JoHN MILLEY DOYLE as a dashing and
spirited officer, that there are more than 3,000
men in Ireland ready to embark with him without
bounty. Of this we have been assured by an of-
ficer of the East India Company, who has been
to Ireland for recruits, and has returned without
obtaining one, all those who are willing to be-
come soldiers having declared that they would
rather fight for Don PEDRO under DOYLE for
nothing, than take 201. a-head as bounty to
maintain the monopoly of the East India Com-
pany, and sacrifice the opportunity of displaying
their courage in a good cause. There is little
to be feared, therefore, on the score of rein-
forcements if money be forthcoming; and as all
chance of the destruction of the patriots at
Oporto seems to be at an end, and very high
temptations are held out to those who are will-
ing to risk a little in the hope of getting a great
deal, we may expect to see the army of Don
PEDRO soon reinforced and on the way to
Lisbon, instead of being cooped up in a city
where even the most gallant conduct can only
prevent defeat.
Some of the wavering gentlemen who have
accepted commands under Count VILLA FLOR,
and denied the fact, lest they should incur pe.
cuniary loss at home, will now declare them-
selves, and it will be suddenly discovered that
the domestic arrangements which kept them so
long here are now complete. The conduct of
these persons is very unlike that of SARToRIUs
who, without compensation, and disdaining a
nom de guerre, has risked every thing in the
sacred cause which he has embraced.

It is quite true, as stated by a Contemporary,
that the sittings of the Conference have been
suspended until the arrival of an answer to the
despatches which have been sent to the Prussian
Cabinet. We are enabled, from an authentic
source, to state, that the despatches in question
contain an offer of mediation on certain points
to the Cabinet of Berlin, it being believed (by
whom ?) that the King of PRUSSIA is most
anxious for a settlement of the Belgian affair.
The chief motive, however, for sending to
Berlin, is stated to be the proximity of that ca-
pital compared with St. Petersburgh, or even
with Vienna. 'Will the juggle ever end ?

The accounts of the Revenue are still satis-
factory. Last week there was a surplus, and
another is expected this week.

No official accounts have yet been received
at the French Embassy of the completion of the
French Ministerial arrangements, but no doubt
is entertained of the Duke de BROGLIE having
accepted office.

We regret to see that several Journals, pro -
fessing liberal opinions, have given insertion,
without comment, to the following paragraph :

" EXCESSIVE LIBERALITY.-At a General Meeting of
the Registering Barristers under the Reform Act, held a
few days since, it was, after some debate, resolved not to
demand their five guineas a-day for Sundays I"
We suppose that the paragraph must have
originated with some Paper which wished to cast
discredit, by a side wind, upon the character of
the gentlemen in whose hands a very important
part of the working of the Reform Act has been

placed, and .that it has been copied by others of
the Press from a desire to gratify a vulgar pre-
judice. No doubt there are barristers liable to
the charges which the mob of all ranks casts
upon the professors of the law generally ; but,
that as a body, the members of the bar are one
of the most liberal and disinterested, as well
as the most enlightened, in the country, is
acknowledged by all whose opinion is worth
any thing. We must presume that gentlemen
of unblemished character and high honour
have been chosen from this body to act in the judi.
cial character required of the registering barris-
ters by the Reform Act. Instead, therefore, of
pandering to the vulgar prejudice respecting
lawyers, it is the duty of a reforming journal to
endeavour to do away with it, and place before
the people in its true light the character of the
gentlemen who are to decide upon their rights.
V% ith respect to the sneer conveyed in the above
paragraph, it is perfectly uncalled for, for the
registering barristers claimed no merit for re-
signing any pretensions to payment for Sundays,
notwithstanding that the 57th clause, upon
which the question turns, is so worded as to
make it a point of some doubt whether they
might not have been entitled to it.

A pamphlet has just been published on the
subject. of the Magistracy of England. It is in
the shape of letter addressed to the Lord CHAN-
CELLOR, enumerates the different grievances of
the present system, and advocates the establish-
ment of a paid body of gentlemen to perform the
duties of the magistracy, but contains nothing
strikingly new. The minds of all not interested
in the maintenance of abuses have long been made
up on the subject of the evils of the present sys-
tem, and the only cause of hesitation as to doing
away with it, has been the expense of a substi-
tute. Coolly and dispassionately examined, how-
ever, this expense would, in all probability, turn
out less that that which is now indirectly
incurred. Any alteration that made the ex-
pense—even if greater—direct and tangi-
ble, would so far be an unalloyed benefit.
If proof of this were wanting, it would
be found in the following anecdotes from the
pamphlet before us. After speaking of the want
of responsibility in the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions, the general ignorance of law remarkable
amongst the magistrates, and the consequent un.
certainty of their decisions, he states :

" I have often heard it said, by an attorney in good
practice, that he has lost as many appeals that he expected
to win, as he has won those which he bad not the small-
est expectation of winning.
" This uncertainty and irresponsibility gives birth to
endless litigation ; and an appeal against an order of re-
moval is lodged, and tried as a matter of speculation. I
knew an overseer for a very populous parish, who, when a
pauper's family was brought under an order of removal,
always gave notice of appeal immediately, without know •
ing anything of the merits; in which course he found his
interest. So much for the uncertainty and imbecility of
this court. Bad as this court is, there is no assurance
that there will be any court held to appeal to. Unless
two justices give their attendance, there can be no court ;
and I knew an overseer, who was obliged to attend at
Pre•ton in Lancashire twice ; be attended in the year
1826, and there was only one justice ; he went home
again, with a great many witnesses ; he was obliged, with
his witnesses, to attend another Sessions. I have known
sotnetim,s 60 magistrates in attendance, and sometimes
only one. This is the economy of gratuitous services, as
they are called. The overseer above-mentioned expended
above 701., as appears by a document of his now on the
table."

The Bill for the appointment of judges to every
court, to go circuits in each county, laid upon
table of the House of Commons by Lord
BROUGHAM, might have been made to do away
with a mass of grievances, which, petty as they
may be individually, are in the aggregate intolle-
rable. A prick with a pin may be nothing, but
who would bear pricking all the year round. We
trust that the LORD CHANCELLOR will be able
early in the next session again to bring forward
his Bill. He will now find no strong party op-
posing a useful experiment, merely because it
may lead to improvement.

We quote the following from the Edinburgh
Evening Courant of Thursday, by which it will
be seen that Scotland is favourably inclined to a
public subscription for the redemption of Ab-
botsford:—

" SIR WALTER SCOTT.

" The esteem in which Sir Walter Scott was held by
his countrymen, has been evinced since his death by the
universal lamentation which that melancholy event has
excited in every corner of the land ; and it will be ob-
served, that it is now proposed to express this feeling in a
more substantial manner than by barren lamentations.
The pecuniary engagements in which Sir Walter was in-
volved in the year 1825, are well known, and these his
unremitting and successful labours during the remaining
brief space of his life were insufficient to discharge. It
has been proposed, from feelings in the highest degree ge-
nerous and honourable, that a general subscription
throughout the country should be commenced, with a
view of satisfying the demands of his creditors ; and it is
mentioned by the Editor of the Times journal, with
whom this proposition originated, that subscriptions
had been voluntarily sent to that office by various
friends and admirers of the deceased; and that one indivi-
dual had offered the sum of 1001. One of the proposed
objects in discharging the debts of this illustrious person is,
to preserve the house and grounds of Abbotsford in the
exact condition in which they are left by him ; and to
those who have seen the residence of Sir Walter Scott
and the interior arrangement., it will be unnecessary to
state that it ought no doubt to be preserved at any cost
from the intrusion of profane hands, as a most splendid
and striking relic of the deceased—we may say, indeed,
as a picture of his mind, as a classic spot which he de-
lighted to adorn with all the existing memorials of ancient
manners. The exterior of the building is in admirable taste;
it is in the antique style, in the castellated form, and has seve-
ral ancient stones, with inscriptions on them, built into the
walls, and through the grounds are dispersed other
similar and curious remains. In the interior are hung
up on the walls, and most tastefully arranged, com-
plete suits of ancient armour; coats of mail, from
the helmet downwards ; in one of them the long and
heavy sword in use among the giant warriors of the olden
time; others with the arms suited to the times in which
they lived ; while in other parts are shirts of mail, knives,
swords, and old muskets or matchlocks, belonging to
known characters ; the whole presenting such a picture of
ancient manners, that the eye is rivetted on it in deep and
solemn admiration, and at the same time it gives such an
idea of the master mind which presided over all those de-
tails, that, for our parts, we must confess, that the longer
we gazed on this most curious collection of antiquities, we
felt a deeper interest and a more intense delight. To dis-
perse these precious relics, or to allow them to be brought
to sale by the common hammer of the auctioneer, would
be an act as barbarous and as unworthy of an enlight-
ened age, as if we were to lay profane hands on
some venerable ruin of antiquity, such as Dryburgh
or Melrose Abbey, and to level them with the
ground ; and we have no doubt, if it were necessary,
that thousands would willingly come forward, in the most
efficient manner, to redeem the residence of Sir Walter
Scott from all claims, that it might remain, along with
his grave, in the detached ruin of Dryburgh Abbey, a con-
secrated and classical spot, like some of the venerated
places of pilgrimage in the East, the resort of thousands.
But though the generous dispositions which have been
displayed in the South are worthy of all commendation,
we understand that his family, with that true dignity and

honour which is so congenial to the spirit of the deceased,
entertain different views. oryl ;t in contemplatign to
come forward themselves with a proposition for the pay-
ment of the debts still due, which being definite and imme-
diate, cannot fail to he in every view more satisfactory to
the creditors than the chance of payment from a public
subscription ; and which, all will admit, accords bean;
in every respect with the known and independent cha-
racter of the great Author of Waverley."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, OCT. s.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Duke of
Kent, Flett, from Guayana ; the General Moira, Leruns,
from Quebec; the John, Moxey, from the River de Loup.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
Bussorah Merchant, Aloncrief, from Batavia, sailed the
26th of August.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 4,.—Wind S. W. %V. S. S. W.—Arrived
the Confiance steam-packet, from Lisbon, left the 28th
ult. and Oporto the 30th. On the day previous the Mi
guelite force made an attack on the whole line of batteries
at Oporto, and after a severe action of some duration, they
were forced hack with great loss on both sides ; that of Don
Pedro is estimated at 500, and the Miguelites 1,500 killed
and wounded. Colonel Burrell, an English officer, was
killed, and every other English officer, with but one excep-
tion, was either killed or wounded. His Majesty's ship
Asia, Admiral Parker, was off the bar of Oporto. Ar-
rived the Sorton, Duncan, from St. Domingo.
MARGATE, OCT. s.—Arrived off port—the Bredal-
bane, Chalcott, from Limerick.
COWES, OcT. b.—Arrived the Brooke, Warburton,
from Matanzas.

STANDCATE CREEK, OCT. s.—Arrived the Harwood,
Weighton, from Odessa ; the Henry Brougham, Clark,
from Palermo ; the Arno, Murray, from Gergenti ; and
the Alert, Way, from Malaga.
PooLE, OCT. 4.—Arrived the Perseverance, Watts,
from Quebec.

TOPSHAM, OCT. 4.—Arrived the Susannah, Morris,
from Miramichi.

BRISTOL, OCT. s.—Arrived the Friend., from Palermo.
HOLYHEAD, OCT. 4.—Arrived the Robert, Wake, from
Quebec.

LIVERPOOL, Om 4.—Arrived the General Wolfe,
Mann, from Rio Grande ; the Hercules, Hockenler, from
St. Thomas's ; the Nimrod, Atkins, from Charleston ;
the Nethsall, Smith, from New York ; the Sir William
Wallace, from Quebec ; the John Bentley, Robertson,
from St. John's, New Brunswick ; the Hope, Gregg,
from Cape Breton ; the Amity, from Smyrna ; the Alex-
andro, Cursegleg, from Palermo. Off port—the High-
lander, from Brihia; the Hopkinson, from Demerara; the
Aurora, from St. John's, New Brunswick; and the Gnat,
from Newfoundland.

CORE, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Brilliant, Mordaunt,
from Buenos Ayres ; and the Billow, Mackay, from St.
John's, New Brunswick. Off port, the John Walker,
Elder, from ditto.
BELFAST, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Elizabeth, M'Alpine,
from Quebec.
ABERDEEN, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Fairy, Welsh, and
William and Ann, Leston, from Davies' Straits.
LYNN, OCT. 4.—Arrived the Salamis, Royal, from
Quebec.

The Hector, Canmish, was driven on shore near
Shoreham, yesterday, during a heavy gale at S.W.

The Fatna, Rosho, from Bahia ; Mariana, Almeda,
from Pernambuco; and Esperito, Sante, from Liverpool,
all bound to Lisbon, have been captured by Don Pedro's
squadron, and sent into Oporto.
From the agent to Lloyd's at Figueira, dated the 23d
of September :
" This port has been blockaded since the 17th inst., by
a schooner belonging to Don Pedro's squadron."