POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.
SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.
Intelligence of the total defeat of the Miguelites at Terceira has just been brought to the Portuguese embassy, by a gentleman in the service of Donna Maria. On the 11th instant, Don Miguel's squadron attacked the Villa de Praya ; and out of 1200 men that dared to fire, not one escaped: 700 were killed and wounded, and 500 laid down their arms, and are already in the ranks of the faithful. All the vessels had cast anchor under the batteries of the forts, and were obliged to cut their cables to escape : 1200 muskets, 2 twenty-four pounders, and 2 gun-boats, fell into tile power of Count de Villa Flor. The Consti- tutionalists had only 11 killed and wounded ; the enemy lost several officers of rank, among whom were Lieut.-Col. ..9..zeredo, Major D. Gil, brother to Count Mesquiletz, and D. Antonio de Alveira.
The following is an extract from the proclamation of Count Villa Flor.
"The enemy has left your shores, covered by the dead bodies of his men, which he sought to inundate with your blood. The sanguinary brders which they brought against the garrison and the faithful people of this isle, Providence, which frustrates, and 'al- ways will frustrate, the efibrts of crime, has turned against them. More than the half of his soldiers have perished by your fire or the waves, or have received from their gene- rous conquerors that reception which religion and humanity dictate, but which the or- ders of tyranny prohibited them from giving to your defenders, and even to you if we bad been conquered."
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