Don PEDRO'S situation becomes daily more and more embar- rassed.
He has been shut up, on the land side, ever since he reached Portugal; he is now enclosed by sea also. The blockade which was announced some time ago is strictly enforced ; and even a British vessel of war, attempting, a few days ago, to cross the bar, was fired at, and forced to come to an anchor. No merchant vessel can go in. The blockade is not enforced on vessels going out. A sortie of 1,500 men, under the command of Colonel SCHWALBACH, took place on the 17th. They succeeded in level- ling the walls of some batteries that the enemy were engaged in erecting, and in destroying some huts by which their advanced picquets were sheltered. This mighty feat was accomplished by a loss of 136 men, killed, wounied, and missing. There was a mutiny on the 16th among the English; 200 of whom marched up to the palace, with their bayonets fixed, to demand the arrears due to them, and full clothing and bedding. They were appeased for the time by Sir JOHN bOYLE. SARTORIUS, it is reported, means, if he cannot readily get the detachments that are expected from England introduced into Oporto, to carry them South and land them in the Algarves, where the people are well disposed towards Don PEDRO, and where MIGUEL has not more than 600 troops. It is pretty plain that something must be done, from within or without, to draw off the besieging army, or the cause of PEDRO must speedily perish. Marquis PALMELLA. has again visited England, with a view to move Ministers, if he can, by a true statement of the position of the two parties.
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