The Sun. — 1839-02-05 (London, England)

JAN. 18.---The correspondence from Villa Vicosa, which is published in this number, has been delayed for some days In the press, as we could not give implicit credence to so horrible a fact w:thout further confirmation. At length by this daN's poSt we have a letter from eur correspondent at Alandroal. and also the following from Villa Vicosa, and both of them agree as to the truth of what the said correspondence alludes to. It also adds that on the following day the judicial authorities went to the spot where the crime was committed, accompanied by thy. Commandant and some men belonging to the detachment of Villa Vicosa, and insinuated that the deal had been perpetrated by the Mi. guelites and officers included in the amnesty, when the son and brother of the murdered family came forward, and pointing to one of the soldiers, said—' That is the uniform worn by the men who yesterday murdered my father, mother, and brothers.' The three soldiers are already in custody,put one of our correspondents remarks that the prosecution is to be conducted by the ex-President of the Chamber. " ' Villa Vicosa, Dee, 28.  " ' Mr. Editor—l am about to relate to you a fact, perhaps of a mare horrible nature than any recorded up to the present time. On the 19th of this month, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, three soldiers of No. regiment of Infantry, went to a farm called Sabola de Baize, and knocked at the door. The owner called out that he and his family were at supper, when they said, ' Open the door, here are soldiers.' The owner, fearful that some evil might happen to him, hesitated, and remained quiet, when his wife said, ' Open the door, poor fellows, they are soldiers, and perhaps want to warm themselves, as it is very cold.' The husband immediately rose, went to the door, and upon opening it one of the soldiers, with the butt end of his musket, gave him such a blow on the right side of the forehead, that it brought him to the ground, when the others completed the murder by thrusting a bayonet into him. One remaining sentinel at the door, the other two entered the house, and in midst of the cries and screams of the unhappy wife and children of the murdered man, said,' Give us the money you sold the pigs for, or every one here dies ;' they replied that the pigs were not yet sold, and they had scarcely been able to raise a trifle for the landlord of the farm ; but they, void of the grace of God, consulted amongst themselves, and came to the determieatton of murdering them all. They then seized the mother, already half dead from fright and pain, piercing her with bayonets until they put an end to her life. Unhappy mother! She was four months advanced in pregnancy, so that it was not her alone whom the barbarians murdered. They then corn_ pelted a daughter, twenty-three years of age, to take the rings from her  other's ears, covered as she was with blood, and a corpse. They obliged the eldest son to light them over the house while they searched for gold and silver. They seized the female servant and violated her; murdered the daughter; and, going to the spot where her parents were lying dead, and hearing the cries of an innocent child, three years old, not even that could escape death, for they seized it by the throat and strangled it. The mai: servant of the house and the eldest daughter found means to escape, taking refuge in a corner of the piggery. Such is this unheard of and horrible event that has just taken place in Portugal, a country to which I am ashamed to belong.' "