There has been an arrival from Lisbon, bringing accounts to
the 29th of December. The only military operation mentioned, is the destruction of certain flour-mills in the neighbourhood of Torres Novas, by the troops of PEDRO. The value of this achieve- ment may be estimated from the following remarks of' the Times' correspondent.
" There is something Quixotic in this war against windmills ; but it is of little use ; as I perfectly recollect that when the seine game was played by the be- sieging army of Oporto, every coffee-mill in the city was used for grinding corn, and two hundred or three hundred hand-mills were rapidly put up in dwelling- houses, by working which so many poor females were enabled to gain a liveli- hood, who would otherwise have depended upon charity for support."
The official Gazette of the Lisbon Ministry contains a document of some importance—a sort of general amnesty to the Miguelites. But no signatures are affixed to it; so men scarcely know in what light to view it. Some imagine that PEDRO, in 11;s wisdom, thinks be shall delude his brother's followers individually into uncondi- tional submission, in order that he may hereafter treat them ac- cording to his sovereign pleasure : but though there are many who would perhaps come over if they had a sufficient guarantee for the performance of the promises which this amnesty holds out, mot a single Miguelite will be caught by the present contrivance.
It is announced on official authority, that PEDRO agreed to abide by the arbitration of England and Spain for the settlement of his quarrel with MIGUEL, but that the latter. .positively refused to ac- cept their mediation. PEinto probably was certain of his brother's refusal : Mice's'. must have known that the terms which the two mediating powers were prepared to offer him would amount to a relinquishment of his pretensions to the throne ; and it would have been strange if he had accepted their mediation under such circumstances.
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