The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-14 00:00:00

XXXv,

An ACCOUNT of the Average Amount of Bills under Discount
for Bankers during the Year 1831.
In 1831 £844,077
N.B.—No separate Account of Discount for Bankers was kept
prior to 1831.

An .AccoiTyr of the Profits of the Bank of England, in the Year
ending February 29, 1&32, stating the Description of the Se-
curities held by the Bank, and the Sources from which the said
Profits have accrued.
Interest on commercial bills £130,695
Interest on Exchequer bills
Annuity for 45 years (the dead weight account) 451,415
Interest on capital received from Government
Allowance received for management of the public debt 0j1,8,g,
Interest on loans on mortgages
,684
and Royal 60,684
Interest on stock in the public funds
Interest on private loans
Profit on bullion, commission, rent, receipts on dis-
counted bills, unpaid, management of the business
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PORTUGAL.

(From the Times.)

The following is the intercepted correspondence from the
Spanish Consul at Oporto, mentioned in our news of yesterday.
It is proper to observe that the original of the first letter is in
Spanish, and the other in Portuguese :

" TO THE MOST EXCELLENT SENOR DON NAZARIO
DE EGUIA.

" OPORTO, Auo. 30.
" Most respected General,—My last communication to your
Excellency was on the 2~2d of this month.
" Don Pedro remains in Oporto ; his land forces are en-
camped within the lines which are being formed for their de-
fence. He carries on the fortifications of the city with admi-
rable activity, labouring at them by day and night. Don Pedro
shows himself on every point. It may be said, indeed, that
his followers here owe their safety to his presence. They
continue to enrol and arm people. Hitherto they have expe-
rienced no want of provisions, nor will they while they com-
mand the entrance of the port. Some resources have been
found in Oporto which give impulse to their enterprise. The
magazines of wine belonging to the company of the Upper
Douro, which are very considerable, over and above what may
be required for the use of the troops and the naval forces, and
for the consumption of the city, may produce them 50,000xx's
per day. They have already shipped 800 pipes for England,
which are worth 120,000 dollars. The Custom-house also pro-
duces them much, because by blockading, as they say, all the
ports of Portugal with their ships, all merchantmen are obliged
to come to Oporto to discharge their cargoes.
" The Royalist threes have advanced as near the city as it is
possible to come, and there they have remained for some days,
in sight of the lines which the Constitutionalists are con-
structing.

" Notwithstanding the moderation which the Government
wishes to observe, the armed rabble and some of the soldiers
commit aggressions, chiefly on Spaniards, natives of Galicia,
whom they compel to labour constantly at the fortifications. I
have been atrociously insulted for endeavouring to protect
them. Only yesterday two soldiers threatened my life. The
soldiers who served in 1828 retain an inveterate hatred of the
Spaniards. The English merchants established i❑ this city
make common cause with the revolutionists, in fomenting ran-
cour against the Spanish Government and the Spaniards.
" Not a day passess but I meet with some mortifying occur-
rence. I tremble when lam obliged to go out of doors.
" The English Consul, a prudent man, who has for many
years held that appointment here, is removed, with a very dis-
proportionate salary, to Corunna, and the Consul of that town
comes here. Such is now the power of the Consul's revolu-
tionary countrymen in Oporto.

" It is said here, that Don Miguel's squadron is to sail again
to-day from Lisbon, to fight Don Pedro's, and they do not like
this news in Oporto. I send you a list which I have obtained
of Don Pedro's ships.

" A Spanish emigrant, named Senor Juyo, has just arrived
here from England. lam told he is the brother of a physician
in Orense. lam watching him, and trying to discover the ob-
ject of his visit.

" I received at 10 o'clock this morning your very agreeable
letter, dated the 25th inst., to the contents of which I shall pay
the most particular attention. Your Excellency may relieve
yourself from all anxiety about thebusiness you intrust to me,
for I will neglect no opportunity for effectually serving our
Lord the King, and giving satisfaction to your Excellency.
" The news, reported by the peasants of Valenta that I took
down the arms of Spain and left this place, is false. Such a
step would be very wrong, and knowing as I do the conse-
quences, I will not take it, unless it be ordered by his Majesty's
Government. So much importance is attached to this point,
that I am assured there have been repeated examinations to
ascertain whether I still keep up the escutcheon of the arms on
my house.

" I have today forwarded to the Governor of Tuy a de-
spatch for your Excellency, with the public papers. I beg of
your Excellency to transmit the whole to his Excellency the
First Secretary of State, with the assurance of my anxious wish
to render myself useful to our Lord the King. I place myself
with the greatest pleasure at your Excellency's disposal.
" I kiss your Excellency's hands.
" TOZE ROIZ CASAES."

[Here follows an endorsement in Portuguese, with the pub-
lic seal of Oporto, certifying the recognition of the marks on
the above letter and the genuineness of the signature.]

LIST OF. THE VESSELS WHICH COMPOSE DON PE-
DRO'S SQUADRON.

Ships.
Guns.
Reyna de Portugal, frigate
Donna Maria Segunda, frigate 4B
Amelia, corvette 2O
Portuense, corvette
Constitucion, corvette l5
Vinte etrez de Julio, brigantine
Conde de Villa for, brigantine l6
Regencia, bark-brigantine l6
Minden°, brigantine l4
Fayal, galliot-brigantine l3
Liberal, galliot-brigantine
San Bernado, galliot-brigantine 8
Vela Gracioza, galliot
Yela Terceira, galliot
Coquete, galliot
Esparansa, galliot brigantine

" Besides the vessels mentioned above, it appears that they
intend to fit out some merchantmen as ships of war."
[Here follows a certificate in Portuguese, stating that the
above letter and note were sealed with the seal of the Spanish
Consulate in Oporto, and addressed to " Don Nazario de Eguia,
Captain-General of the army and kingdom of Galicia, Santi-
ago." The marks are then described.]
The original of the following is in Portuguese :

" Most Illustrious Senhor—Anxious as I am to be able to
send your Excellency some agreeable news, unfortunately the
wished-for opportunity has not yet occurred. The Royalist
forces have approached as close to this city as possible ; but
there has been no fighting, except in some partial recon-
noissances.

" The Royalist squadron, as we are assured, is to sail again
to_day from Lisbon, under the command of Rosas, to bring
Don Pedro's squadron into action. It appears that they pre-
tend to blockade all the ports of Portugal. They continue to
make trenches and fortify Oporto ; and also, with a shocking
despotism, to oblige every person to take up arms. As }et
they have experienced no want of provisions, only bread is very
dear. They will not leave their trenches unless they are re-
solved to fight. The delay in attacking Oporto becomes every
day more prejudicial to the cause of Don Miguel. As soon as
I shall have any news which may be interesting, I shall corn-
municate it to your Excellency at the same time that I forward
it to my own Government.
" Oporto, Aug. 30, 1892."

_ .
The superscription of the above letter is—" To the Most Il-
lustrious Senhor, the Superintendant of Viana." Underneath
the superscription are three marks (rubricas), properlycertified,
recognized, &c. (A true copy)
ANTONIO JOAQUIM DE TORRES MANGAS.

CAMPAIGN IN sYIIIA•

F.XTRACT FROM A LETTER DATED ALEXANDRIA, 20TH JULY.

........._ _
" The vessel by which our letter of the 17th instant proceeds,
being still in port, we are enabled to transmit to you another
bulletin of the successes of the Egyptian army in Syria, which
we think will be more than sufficient to shake the faith of the
firmest believer in the statements of the Monitcur Ottoman.
" Should this conveyance be detained two or three days
more, we shall be able to announce to you the entrance of Ibra-
him Pacha's army into Aleppo, for which place it was to
march on the 12th ; a regular daily post by dromedaries to and
from Syria having been established ever since the invasion of
that country.
" By a French brig of war, arrived yesterday, we learn that
the Turkish fleet was on the 9th, at Castel Rosso, near Rhodes,
on its way to Satalia, where it was to embark a division of irre-
gular troops for Scanderoon. Either of these places would be
very favourable for an attack by the Egyptian squadron."
FIFTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SYRIA.
" 9Tit OF THE MOON SAFIR, 1248 (7TII OF
JULY, 1832).

" At break of day our army, composed of two regiments
of infantry and four of cavalry, besides a body of Bedouin
horsemen, left Kosseir, in order to pass the night on the east-
ern bank of the lake Tatli Gucul, at the distance of two leagues
and a half from Horns. Early on the following morning, at
the moment of our forming in marching order, the ex-Itche-
tchokhadar, Ibrahim Aga, commanding a body of 2,000 Be-
douins, composing our vanguard, perceived approaching from
Horns the several Pachas, at the head of their united troops
They amounted to nearly 25,000 men, commanded by eight
Pachas, under the supreme command of Mahomet Pacha, Go-
vernor of Aleppo. Ibrahim Aga, having immediately com-
municated what he had seen to his Highness Ibrahim Pacha,
the latter delivered the following instructions :
" The 2d and 4th regiments of cavalry were placed before
and behind on the right wing. The Body Guard of Infantry,
six pieces of ordnance, and the 11th Regiment of Infantry,
took the centre, whilst the 3d and 7th Regiments of Cavalry,
together with the Bedouin horsemen, were placed on the left
wing. The enemy arranged himself in three columns, to ha-
rass whom, a few of our Bedouins were sent forward, in de-
tachments of forty or fifty men. A few cannon-shots were
scarcely fired ere the enemy retired to the distance of a league.
"On their side four regiments of infantry, and three of
cavalry, had been so d spored as to allow between them, sepa-
rately, two pieces of cannon.

" Our body guards opened a cannonade, which lasted about
half an hour, and the enemy's troops, which had advanced,
were repulsed by continued discharges of shot. One, however,
still continued firing, when the Ist and 2,1 battalion of our
Guards, under the command of Khourchid Bey, having formed
two columns, together with the 3d and 4th battalions, headed
by Selim Bey, charged the enemy with such vigour, as to throw
them into completedisorder, whilst our 2d and 4th regiments of
cavalry helped to put them to the rout.

" Oil the side of the enemy there were present in this action
7,000 regular troops, 2,000 of whom we put to the sword, and
made prisoners, amongst whom were many wounded.
Their 2'sPachas took to flight with their usual promptitude, leaving
loins by night, and conducting the remainder of their army
towal fls Hama:.

" On the following morning we took possession of the am-
munition, tents, and provisions of the enemy—the former con-
sisted of '2O pieces of cannon and I mortar. Had not their
defeat and flight unfortunately taken place at sunset, not au
individual of these pretended regulars would have escaped from
the hands of our brave soldiers.
" The hasty flight of the Seraskier, Mahomet Pacha, had
not allowed him time to carry off his papers. Many confiden-
tial letters and documents were found in his tent, and given

up to the Commander-in-Chief, who has despatched them to
his Highness the Viceroy.
" The names and titles of the Pachas commanding the de.
feated army are as follow :

" Mahomet Pacha, Governor of Aleppo and Scraskier ; Os-
man Pacha, Governor of Maadan ; Osman Pacha, Gover.
nor of Kaisseri; Ali Pacha, ex-Governor of Damascus;
Osman Pacha, ex-Governor of Tripoli; Mahomet Pacha,
Candiot ; and Neghel Mahomet, and Dilaver Pachas.
" These nine Generals are all Pachas of three tails ;
in the army of the enemy were also other Pachas of
two tails."

EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF HIS HIGHNESS
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, IBRAHIM PACHA.
" I have never witnessed such a defeat as that which has
been just experienced by the enemy; nor do I hesitate in as-
serting, that 200,000 or 300,000 similar troops would not cause
me the least anxiety. By God's help we will ever chastise
such fellows whenever they may fall in our way.
" The prisoners have been sent to St. Jean d'Acre, where
the Divan Effendi has received orders to enrol those who are
willing to enter our army, and to send to their homes or into
Egypt such as may be desirous of going thither.
" We reckon 102 slain and 162 wounded, and have lost 172
horses."