The accounts front Oporto come down to the 17th. The
position of the besieged and besieging parties is the ,,mer as it was. On the • 14th, a sortie was made by the garrison, Nr 111111, after some considerable opposition, drove the Miguelites. out of Villa Nova. They did not - stop, however, to improve their success ; nor, unless that it served to prove to the enemy the metal of the nu-11 against whom they. were -
pitted, does the sortie seem to have served anv rational purpose. Con- siderable disputes are said to prevail in the Pedroite army. lIonGhs,
who had the rank of Colonel, and who behaved with much gal;antry in the general attack on the town, has retired in disgust. The 1-.:nglish soldiers are said to have_ large. arrears due to thw»' and they comp-lain,. that while thanks were given • to the defenders of the Serra, the de-
fenders of Oporto, who suffered more and were equally successful, have not been so honoured. • The •Miguelite cenimander -has declared
Oporto in a state of blockade, and that he will destroy any vessel what- ever that attempts to enter the Douro. A battery that eommands the bar was attacked and carried by a party of seamen on the 14th ; but the guns—three howitzerswere -imperfectly spiked, from want of imple- ments for that purpose. The officer who led the attack was killed, and his party suffered considerably.
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