From Portugal; we have very-little that is -new. PEDRO'S troops
still remain in Oporto'. which has been fortified against an attack that will hardly be attempted in the face of a force of ten or twelve thousand men... The chief want of the Liberal party is said.tillie..flour.; the Guerilla of MIGUEL, or rather of MIGUEL'S priests, having destroyed the mills. This is,- however, a - want which will soon be supplied. :PErnio has money, and the harbour. is open. . The forces of the Usurper are variously estimated. One account makes them amount to 40,000; perhaps, including the irregulars, they may muster one half of that number. MIGUEL'S fleet put forth a short time ago from the Tagus, where it had lain in quiet emitentnient -fOr So niafif niontha with the double view of raising the blockade of Lisbon, and instituting a blockade of Oporto:. :It:hae-been foiled in both attempts. On the 10th, while he hadbut a.couple of small vessels and a steam-boat with him; SAE.- Toxins boldly bore down on Minusi.'s fleet; and had not the frigates of' the latter sought shelter under the lee of the San Joao, a line-of-battle ship that.cariries the Admiral's flag, he would in- evitably have captured some of them. Having poured two or three broadsides into the Admiral's ship—with what effect is not known—he was obliged again to haulhis Wind. On the 14th, the hostile squadrons were off-Oporto ; when SARTORTUS again offered battle, and the Miguelites again declined engaging. On the 17th, after they had been a fortnight at sea; the latter once more sought refuge in the Tagus. The pretence was shortness of provisions :and. "water.
- Whether the issue of- the.presentstruggle will-be the restom- ileri:nf lawand .* the califiiiitatien of .despotism and mis- rule in Portugal, we order, yet'ioc;:feW, tants to naide us even. to guess.- " -Fe! tile Resent.„.!.,Ithere . appears „nothing in the position of Iheliv.adersito',wevrant that :despondency of tone which Some of their excessively candid friends are disposed to assume. 'PEDRO'S troops are in excellent spirits; they want for nothing; and in every rencentre with the enemy, they have been successful. Levies to a considerable amount are at present making, with a view to theit reinforcement; and an officer of high estimation and tried military talent, a member Of the British Parliament, will, it is stated, assume, in a few weeks, an important command under PEDRO.
Notwithstanding all their talk of neutrality, Spain continues tel. be looked on with a suspicious eye ; but„from certain facts, small but not inconclusive, it is conjectured that the Spanish troops will' not be hasty to act on their master's hints. Gold and silver. —of. French and English coinage—are said to have made their appearance in the hands of the officers of FERDINAND'S Army of, . Observation, where copper wont to be.
MIGUEL'S journals boast of some advantage gained over a party of the invading army on the 7th; where the victory is equally. claimed by PEDRO, who was the assailant. An account from Coimbra speaks of a Constitutional Guerilla of 500 men being formed in that neighbourhood, which had captured the baggage of two regiments of infantry, and beaten the militia force sent tn-. repreSs them. The Lisbon accounts mention the every-day deser- tion of some of PEDRO'S followers ; while the accounts direct from Oporto state that only one officer and one man had deserted since. the expedition landed.
