The Arkansas advocate., 1832-06-13
FOREIGN.
FROM THE BOSTON cESrISrL.

V teresting letter from highly esteemed correspondent.
 A friend who left the .Azorcss two months since, has communicated to me some items of information:
 Don Pedro had at St. Michaels lO,OUO troops. Of these, 6,000 were regulars, hired by the government, and paid by d very general contribution ot the Islands; 1000 are volunteers, chiefly young men of education, probability, and property. These receive no pay, and theyscIothe and equip themselves. One volunteer corps of 50O, is composed wholly of students from the University ofCoimbria. They arc fine yonng men. All the volunteers choose their own of ficers, wSiIio ire distinguished from pri- yates by no other badge than an addi- tional strip ofgold lace galoon round the cuff. Their boards have grown so long as to reach their breasts for they have made vow nat to shave until the tyrantis hurled from his throne.
 General Count Villa Flor is brave, but has not the confidence of the pee- pie. They think he is patriotic and liberal by circumstances. One even ing at the theatre in Tereeira, he gave the vivas of "Donna Maria and the ssRegency,n but omitted the Charte Con- stitufional. Upon this the audience chafed and became enraged. They rushed at the offender, tore his box all to pieces, and broke every thing which came ir their way. They would not have spared his person, if he had not timely made his escape. The theatre was immediately surrounded by troop. but there was no doubt but they would take sides with the people. Villa Flor to appease the storm, came into the house and apologized, saying that il Was an inadvcrtenee that he omitted the charter, and then uivoted it three times, in which the people united, and became quiet and orderly again.
 Don Pedro was expected to bring 5000 good troops from England and France, making I5,000in the whole.- The volunteers are expected to flght with uncommon bravery, and if neces- sary with desperation, because they ase almost all fngitives from Portugal. whose fathers have beer murdered, or their families and friends in some waz ~persecuted, or themselves put in dan ger by Miguel and his minions. They fight for their lives, their homes, their fortunes, or to revenge murder.
 The rumor that General Saldanha, was not going with Don Pedro, is not true. On the contrary, he is the most popular commander they have. The young Marquis of Louie, who married Miguel's sister, and whose father Mi guel murdered, is also extremely popu- lar. He is republican in principle and has written and published in Paris, "a political work, which IS universally read and admired at the Island.
 My friend estimates the executions and banishments to Africa b, order Of Miguel, at 5000. For many days af ter the insurrectien ofthe fifth and six teenth regiments at Lisbon, from twen- ty to thirty executions took place daily. The people became horror.stricken. and Miguelhimself deemed ita prudent measure to prosecute his further butch cries pripately. So the prisoners were sent on board the Don John VI. 74, and there at the latest advices his miscre- ants were continuing to hang and sink Sy tying cannon halls to their heels, from ten to fifteen per day. A sailor from the Don John, escaped to the Islands. He had been on board three months, and every day there was hang ing going on. ssBeautiful young men, , he said, 'swere brought on board the dreadful ship; and in some instances, they looked as if their eyes would start out of their head, with terror and des- pair" These sights, were more than this sailor could bear. IsThc yictims,n he said, sswould call upon God; but Migueps officers would reply ssyou viii lain, you call upon God! you Mason you Republican,
 The most gratifying fact which lhave learned from my friend, is the entire abo- itson of slauery in the dominions which are, or are to be, under the government of Donna Maria. Slavery was abol ished before, when Pedro first establish ed the Chdrte Constitutional, but upon the usurpation of Miguel it was restor- ed. Now the slaves in the Azores arc all free again, and that too without any compensation to their masters. The restoration of the constitution. will have l q mostimportant bearing upontiiie slave siiavvv i trade Ill Africa. The Portuguese now