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I iuclofed, which I fupplied from this ihip and the Conqueror. This difpateh will be delivered by Captain Yeo, of his Maje9y's (loop Confiance, who haa (hewn great addrefs and zeal in opening the communica tions by flag of truce, which it was the intereft of thole in power, who were againit the meafure of emigration, to °barna. Lord Strangford (peaks of his condo& in terms of worth approbation ; on this ground I beg leave to recommend him to their Lord !hips, to whom his general merits as an officer are already well known. Having been in Lilbon without rettraint during the intercourfe, he is qualified to aufwer any queftions their Lordihips may with to put to him. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH. MEMORANDUM. The Diana merchant veffel, hating on board about tiny Britifh fubjeas, who had been detained in con fequence of the embargo, came out of the Tagus in company with the Portuguere fleet, ltd it is Coppola that the bore up for England at the commencement of the gale. We mentioned yellerday that an Edia had been publifhed by the Pima LUCENT before the depar. ture of the Royal Family from the Tagus. The following is a Copy of it : PROCLAMATION or ma PRINCE REGENT OF PORTUGAL. " Palace of the Ajunda, 27th Nov. t 807." Haitng endeavoured,byall the meansin my power to maintain the neutrality hitherto enjoyed by my faithful and beloved fubjelts, and having exhaußed my Royal treafury, and made other facrifices, pro ceeding even to the extremity of shutting the ports of my dominions againa the fubjeEls of my ancient Royal Ally, the King of Great Britain, thus eapofing the commerce of my people to total ruin, and confe. quently flawing the greaten loffes in the colleeiln of the revenues of the crown ; I find that troops of the Emperor of the French and King of Italy (with w:iom I had united myfelf on the Continent, in the hope of being free from further moletlation) are allually marching into the interior of my kingdom, and are on their way to this Capital ; and defiring to avoid the fatal eonfequences of a defence, which would be more dangerous than profitable, ferving only to occafion an effution of blood dreadful to humanity, and to inflame the aninnfity of the troops which have entered this kingdorn, under a declaration and promife that they will not commit any the (mal let hoaility ; and knowing alto that thefe troops are molt particularly defined againa my Royal Perfon, and that my faithful fubjees would be under legs apprehenfions were I abfent from this kingdom, I have refolved, for the welfare of my fuhjees, to re. treat, with the Queen my Mother and all my Royal Family, to my do.ninions in America, there to eta blifb unfelt in the city of Rio de Janeieb until a ge. limit peace; and moreover, confidering the import- ance of leaving the Government of thefe kingdoms in that good order which is for their advantage and for that of my people (a matter which I am el fentially bound to provide for), and having duly reflehed on all the circumfances of the moment, I have refolved to nominate to be Governor and Re• gent of thefe kingdoms, dining my abfence, my truly beloved Coufin the Marquis d'Abranti9 Francifco da , Cunha de Menezes, Lieutenant General of my forces; the Principal Caltro (one of my Council, and a Rigidor de Mica) Pehroda Meller Braynez, alto of my Council, who will ad as Prefident of my, Treafury during the incapacity of Luis de Vas Con cellos e Seuzis, (who is unable to fulfil that func tion at preterit on account of illnefs) ; Don Fran cifco de Noronka, Prefident of the Board of Con fcience and Religious Orders ; and in tht abfenee of any of them, the Conde de Cant.° Maxim (Grand Huntfman) whom I have nomin‘ted Prefident of the Senate, with the Alliance of the Secretalies thereof ; the Conde de Sampayo, and in his abfence, Don Miguel Perira Furgaz ; and of my Attorney Gene- Jocco Antonio Salter de Mendenea ; on account of the great confidence I have in them, and of the experience which they poffefs in matters of Governs nrent ; being certain that my people and my king dom will be governed and ditched in fuck a manner that my confcience will be difcharged, and that this Regency will entirely fulfil its duty, fo long as it fhall pleafe Goo that I fhall be abfent from this capital ; adminiffering juftice with impartiality ; diftributing rewards and punitiments as they may be merited.— And thefe Regents and Adminifirators will farther Jit,lj this to be my pleafute, and fulfil my order in the form thus mentioned, and in conformity to the indruftions figned by me and accompanying this decree, which they will communicate to the proper departments. (Signed) 411 THB PRINCE." One of the letters received from Lilbon notes that the French were however very fangnine in their ex- Inflation of reaching Lifbon in time to feize on the Fatima Rector. At a dinner given to General YONOT, in the Capital of Old Collat. that Officer was heard to exprefs his confidence that be &mild dine at Li(bon on the 27th ultimo, and be the agent for making the Portuguefe Government " feel the con (menet. of its infidelity to the cattle of France and Spain." SPAIN. The following is a copy of a letter received yeller. day, as that handed about at Madrid, purporting to, be addreffed by Boasearra to the Panics of MTV. alas. Whether it was written to that Prince pre vioufly or fubfequently to the difcovery of the eon (piracy, we have not been able precifely to afartain, as no date appeared on the copy. " BILOVRD PIINCr, " Receive from the hand of the Count of Hero, the (word which the Mtereft of my Empire, the honour of the Spaniards, and the opinion of your excqUent accompliftments require to be made ova to the Chief of the Troops deftined to revenge our arms for the repeated grievances withwhich our en emia have thought proper tow:rage them. ONt DAY YOU WILL GOVIIIN YMt FtOFLE YOU NOW FLY TO CONVaa, and France will have in you a Friend to diftinguik among its neighbours, to concur with us, fuppreillog a their Might, and changing thole that may be difpo(ed to pro mote Woad. I have therefore thought proper to command Ge neral Junot to make known to the army, that your Cured Perfon, placed at its bead, reprefents mine, and that of your Father, my dear Ally. I am proud in moulting atyfelf, that by thefc means that frit:Whip which i fo mush value will be encreakd. " NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French, Sec. &c." The letters from Madrid of the 16th tilt. Teem to diferedit altogether the report, that the Prince of ASTIMAS had denounced any of the confpirators with whom be was Paid to have been implicated.— Indeed, if any fuch confpirators had been arrefied and fent to trial, it is but fair to infer, that Tome mention would have been made in the laft letters of their names, the progrefs of their trials, or even per haps their fentence. The omilLon teems to juflify a prefumption generally prevalent among the Spaniards in the City, that the curtain has dropped upon the farce of the confpiracy ; that the piece was fo unpo pular, that it will be !nerd of no more. In one of the letters we have Peen, General Junov and his officers are Rated to be very conciliating in their demeanor towards the Spaniards. A letter of the atR ult. from a Spanilh port, Rates, that a body of t 00,000 French troops are expelled to form a cordon along the Spanifb coal in the Atlantic. What is the objed of fuch a force ? is it to guard again( or to attempt invafion ? GIBRALTAR. We yellerday received letters from Gibraltar. Some of their contents have been anticipated by other arrivals, but the following are worthy of a perufsl: GIBRALTAR, NOVEMBHR so. The Spaniards Rill continue to cut off all corn. munication with this Garrifon in the moll rigid manner by land, but we have frequent com munication with Spain by lea in fpite of all their precautions. All our intelligence from Spain men tions the fiege of this place being determined upon, and that a large French army is on its march for that purpofe. The Spaniards have, however, made no preparations in this neighbourhood that indicate On the t 3th the Masa frigate arrived from Malta. She brought the accounts of the evacuation of Egypt by our troops, and of their having arrived at Md. fina on the t 6th ult. The Turks gave up all our pri foners previgso to our leaving the country. The army at Meffina were under orders to be in readinefs to march at the ffiorteft notice. The lick were all embarked along with the heavy baggage, and no Officer was to be permitted to carry more then 24 pounds weight of baggage along with him. The utmo(l fecrecy is obfervetl refpelling the caufe of thee preparations. NOVEWBIR 26. On the 24th the Ann gun brig arrived with dill patches from Plymouth in ten days. She was attacked in the Gut by a (warm of gan beats and priva teers, and would inevitably have been taken if a breeze had not fprung up kilt as they were going to board her. She behaved with the utmoft gallantry, and difmaßed one of the gun boats, and handled fome of the others feverely. A Spanith privateer fchooner which the Ann had captured on the coati of Portu gal, and which was in company with her, was taken by the gun boats and carried into Ceuta. Three of the Ann's crew were killed on board of the fchooner. Several gun boats were manned from our (hipping to AIR them, but they were as ufual too late to be of 1 any fervice. From having no ctews belonging to them, fo much time always elapfes before our gun boats can be manned; that the twenty which are lying rotting here are no protedlion whatever to the Gut or Bay. Our lateß accounts from Spain mention an infnr reetion to have taken place at Madrid againa the French troops, in which above Soda of the inlutbio tarns were killed or wounded, and Come hundreds of the, French. The number of French troops now b Spain amounts to about yo,ooo, and many more are ex. , pelted. A large proportion of them are Paid to be ' diained for the liege of this place. nocapArre has appointed the Prince of Afro. RIAS to be Commander in Chief of all Ow French Army in Spain. The Spaniards are iifiremely alarmed at fo large a French army enterllitilteir country. The accounts refpeaing the ',MI and fate of the Prince of PEACE are extremely coatradiaory. Some (peak of his being atfaffinated, and others that he is imprifoned, He was the richeft fubjea in Europe, being worth upwards one Intrirlrd millions of dollars, and it is fuppofed that a confiderable part of his trearares will find their way to Paris. ' The above letters are from our regular Corretpon dent at Gibraltar. Accounts from thence, dated the 28th November, to a Gentleman in town, Rate, that the Mager of a Ruffian velrel had arrived there from Algefiras. Before he left that place, intelligence had heed received there that a Corps of 11,000 French Troops had entered Madrid about the middle oflast month : the populace rote; and an engagement took place, in which the French prevailed; and if the Freneih accounts may be credited, above 3000inhabi. tants were killed, and only 36 Frenchmen. Other ac counts Rate the lofs of the French to have been more confiderable. Notwithftanding this revere check, the inhabitants feemed difpofed to make another at. tempt ;• but the French General declaring that he came to fupport the Prince of ASTURIAS, tranquillity . was renored. The downfall of the Prince of PEACII was confidered as inevitable. The French army is Spain amounted to 90,000 men ; and it is confidently reported that they are immediately to commence the liege of Gibraltar. ALGIERS. We have now to dire our Readers' attention to l an event, certainly of no great dignity or fplendoor in our militarf or diplomatic concerns, but dill of fome importance at the prefent moment. We copy below a letter written at Leghorn, on the gth ult. and received yefierday ; it contains a Ratement, de rived from the American Conful at Naples, that war has been declared by the Day of ALGIERS againft France and all her Allies, and at the fame time againfi America. The letter alfo contains an account of captures made by the Algerine pirates. All the veffels at the command of the Day have been fitted out for privateering. This fudden aft of hoftility is i confidered as having arifen from the negle& to pay the annual tribute demanded by the Algerines of all who court their friendfhip. Certainly we cannot boalk of our Ally ; yet we may derive advantage from him in viClualling Gibraltar. This latter fer vice is more important, as we fee in the German Papers, that it is rendered a capital offence for any Spaniard to correfpond with Gibraltar. The. Foreign Papers, in which we find repeated mention of a newly-purpofed liege of that fortrefs from Spain, I have alto fuggelled that Boma rear': had fecured the Barbary Powers in his interefl, to prevent the IMP' imitation into Gibraltar of articles of provifion. ■ LEGHORN, NOV. s 6. 44 We are ferry to be under the neceffity cf infor ming you of an event, the intelligence of which has kali reached us by the UR mail from Naples. Fre derick Degen, Efq. the American Conful at that place, writes as follows : " By the report of Captain Sheffield, of the fchoo ner Mary Ann, of New York, who arrived the 4th inftant from America, it appears that an unexpeded war has taken place between the Regency of Algiers and the United States. He has declared to the American Confulate, upon oath, that on the 26th ult. he fell in, within the Streights, with an Algerine frigate, of 44 guns, by which he was made a prize, and which, almnft without any examination, took three men out of his fchooner, and ordered her into Algiers, under the charge of nine Turks, including a boy. He was in their polleflion till the 29th, when, being near the Barbary (bore, he determined to en• deavour to retake his veffel, in which he fucceeded, having thrown four Turks overboard, fecured four ethers whom he embarked in a boat, and kept the boy, who is now on board. Captain Sheffield has further declared, that the brig Violet, of Bolion,laden with Colonial articles, fur Leghorn, was takes with in fight of him by the Paid frigate ; and that he alto heard they had captured an American (hip, and a fchooner, a few days before." HOLLAND. Dutch Papers to the 18th and upwards of goon letters from Holland, were received yelierday. Tbefe letters detail feveral infiances of the rigour with which it is determined to execute the prohi bitory Decree againli our commerce. All the merchants throughout Holland, fufpated of holding any mercantile intercourfe with this country, have been placed under thefitrveillexce of the police ; and enormous fines have been impofed upon fuch as have had the misfortune to be conviaed. A letter from Rotterdam, of the t Bth inR. Rates, that a fine of no lefs than 80,000 guilders was de- manded of a merchant in very humble circumilances, in that city, for violating the anti-commercial decree; but being unable to pay the fine, he contrived to efcape from arreft and fled from the country, leaving his property at the mercy of the Government.— Several other merchant' at Rotterdam, and at other ports in Holland, who had been put under arreft, in 1 confequence of charges fimilar to that of this Gen• tleman, have, we underhand, retorted to a fimilar expedient for fafety. A number of CDROM Hoofe Officers, aecufed of conniving at the violation of the decree referred to, have alfo been larded andcommitted to clofe cu Rody. One letter flares, that font of them have been tried capitally, and that.fotw of tbsos have been fenteneed to execution, at the port where , their alledged offence was codrittitted. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. Porrswousit, Dac. 21.—Arrived the Lady Sin. clair, Captain Jacasow, from London, bound to New South Wales. The Jupiter tranfport is on Shore on the Hie of Wight; the troops are taking out and putting on board the Eoterprize, Captain CLIsRIC.— Wind E. thick weather. DIAL, Doc. 21.—Arrived the ByErtra gun brig from a ernize, and remains in the Downs with his Majefly's Ibips,•&c. as per hair Wind S. Gamuts!), Dec. 2 1.-4'afred by the Lord Nelfsm, ANDEKSOII, from Surinam, and Enteritrize, Baoucts. Ton, front the Baltic. The Nova Aurora, Codicil°, from . Oporto for Liverpool, and three other Portuguefe veffels from Oporto, put into Lifbon on the tph intl. with much damage. 411111 It is reported, that four or five fail of wads are 101 l at Newfoundland; among them a Weftlndiaman. The Providence, Davis. frOm Plymouth for Swan fea, is put into Scilly in dithers. The Albion, Crawford, of Glafgow, is loft at Trepaffey. The Vigilant, Brown, from Peteriburgh for Lon don, is captured off Bronholm. The Harriet, of Hull, Captain Rofe, from Litton, was loft at Bornholm on the 24th ult. Several other veffels were on Store near that place. The Swiill4w, Painter ; and the Harriet and Ann Wilkins, from Cornwall for Swanfea, have foun • dered off the Land's End. We are concerned to (late the 141 of the Alarm packet, which failed from Cork for Bad on the 23d ult.-with a great number of paffengers, among(t whom were the Lady of Jona Evams, Lfq. of Mal low, and Mifs M. MANSILL, youngeft daughter of the late Jossrn MaNSaLL, Efq. of Limerick. Me lancholy to relate, every perfon on board periled. ' A letter from Quebec, Nov. i, iBo7, fays--The Jane, Captain SCOTT, made her appeirance two days ago, and brought us the pleating intelligence that a frigate was waiting the arrival of the fleet at Elie. IRELAND. CFROM AN EV6141140 PAM.] It was lately reported that a very important do cument, pregnant with danger to this co untr y, an d ligned by MAl'Ol.lOll and TALLRYRAND, had fallen into the hands of his Majefly's Miniflers. The known charatter of the French Ruler and his chief Agent induced many to treat this report as weak and idle, as it was hardly to be fuppofed that men fo fubtle and wary could ever have committed themfelvesfo much as to fign any fuch document, and expofe themfelves to the hazard of deletion and defeat ; but, accord ing to another Ratement which has been made re. rpeeting this document, the matter does not feenz to be fo improbable as it was at 6rR fuppofed.--. It is pofitively laid, that the Pore lately aired a Bull, addreffed to the Titular Bilhops of Ireland, exhorting them in the moR forcible• terms to ex. cite in the minds of all people of the Roman Ca. tholic per fuafion, under their influence and direftion, an ardent devotion 'to the views and objeds of Bosi. raters, and an expetiation that by his affißance and proration they might eventually obtain an uncon trouled exercife of their rights, religious and politi cal. It is alto Rated, that this addrefs from the Roman Pontiff was accompanied by another paper, containing a folemn declaration on the part of the French Ruler, that it was his firm determination to give the Roman Catholic religion the afcendency in Ireland. Thofe curious documents, which coml . . pond very well with Come expreffions of pity for the fate of the hi& Catholics, which have appeared its the State Papers iffned by the French Government s as well as in the difcande of a French Bilbop, came into the hands of Dr. MorLaw, Titular Bilbop of Cork, who, with the fidelity of a loyal fubjeB, Cub-. mined the important documents in queßion to the Duke of PORTLAND. It is fo obvioufly the aim cf the French Ruler to make an impreffion on Ireland, that it is by no means improbable that he has endea voured to prepare bis way by the meafure which k is (aid has been thus fortunately developed. Captain Yso, who was the bearer of the difpatches from Sir SIDNEY SMITH, announcing the etcape of the Portuguefe fleet, with the Roirm. FAMILY on board, was yenerday made Poll. The alacrity of the merchants to avail then Lives of the acquifition ola new market, was evinced yef terday in the notices Ruck up on 'Clunge, of (canal veffels bound for the Brazils. A letter from Bourdeaux to one of the molt re lpeetable merchants in the City, which was received yetierday, dated the 4th ult. Rates, that four Arne., rican chips, which .were proved to hav e come f rom Englilb ports, had been, upon that ground, jug con demned. This account proves that BONAtARTR did carry into execution againft America the provifions of bis decree for blockading the Britith Wands, and that too, before our Orders of Council were even acted. The Court. Martial on the trial of Sir Curia Las HorHaM, Colonel of the Beverley Buffs, Rill comic noes to fit at Chelfea College. The proofs for Cub. Itantiating the fira fix charges were heard on Satur. day. It is exptEted that the profccution will dole on Thurfday ; after which Sir CHALLIS will enter on his defense. On Saturday a meeting of the Shareholders of the Eagle Infurance Company was held by adjournment at the London Tavern, for the purpofe of entering a protea agaioll the Diretiors. After much cootro• vetfyand confofion, the Direaors agreed to refign, and oftaetfiemfelves again for eleition. All difpntea then fubfided, tied they were all re•chofen. Thurfday fennight, the Glafgow Shooting Clnit held a meeting in a park a little north from that city, to (hoot at a target two feet and a kalf in diameter, for a filver watch as a prize the difiance 'so 'paces, the 66R of three thots. The gums were all rides. So completely was the centre of the target perforated, that the bull's eye was obliged.to be moved to the fide of the t. The pair of ( hots which g a i ne d the prize = w arred together only three and a quartet' inches from the centre of the bull's eye. There were about tso fhots fired, a very few of which miffed 14 target.