18 SEPTEMBER 1830, Page 3

The four English vessels captured off Terceira have been given

up by the Portuguese Government, and the officer who took them disgraced. It is said that, had our Consul at Lisbon been suffi- ciently firm, they would have been given up at once. It is possi- ble, that our Consul at Lisbon dares not be firm, as it is called, so long as the Portuguese Government have, in Lord BERESFORD, an active and a faithful advocate in the British Cabinet. Had the slightest wish to repress the enormities of MIGUEL been expressed at home, there is no fear that the Consuls abroad would have been firm enough.