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an 11, in favour of the ?tench aid thefi lowers. And to these heads I limit my protest, in order not to make too long a list, passing over other objects of less importance, such as the concession of 800 horses, which was made without considering that they almost all belong to Portugal, and thus cannot be considered as the property of the French ; that of the magavines of the army, filled at the expence of the country, and consequently only belonging by fact, not by right, to the unjust occupants of the country. (Signed) BERNARDINE FRIERE D'ANDRADE.' " Head-quarters, at the Encarmation, Sept. 14." It may easily be conceived that Ministers are much perplexed by the untoward circumstances in which the Convention has placed this country ; for many reasons and weighty ones may be asssigncd both for confirming and for annulling it. Against its validity we have to urge that it bears to be ratified by a Duke of Arantr.r. This must be a forgery.—No Frenchman could have a right to sub scribe the name of a Portuguese Nobleman—and such is the real Duke of ABRANTES. In favour of its completion it may be urged, that a Government is bound by the acts of its own agents ; and that if the French Commanders have done nothing to nullify the Convention, we must comply with its conditions.—But what right has a Di itish Comman der to settle the terms on which an enemy shall quit the soil that is not our own property ? But if the French have themselves violated the Convention, let them bear the consequences. It ap pears by the letters received from Portugal, that they continued to rob and plunder the natives subsequently to the date of the Convention ; and it is now affirmed, that in consequence the British Commanders, and par ticularly the Naval, have ordered their embarkation to be suspended. Among other circumstances of robbery it is stated, that S;gnor PEDRO DE AVELEA, a merchant, had, the day after the date of the treaty, been plundered of property to the amount of 10,000 dollars, including some family plate—that Signior PERRANDAZ, an Al cade, had been ordered to pay 6,000 dollars, and was thrown into prison until his friends had raised the sum. Upon his liberation, he demanded from the Secretary to General JoNor the cause of this fine and imprisonment, when he was answered that the con tribution was to enable the General to reward the bravery which his troops had displayed in the battles of the 17th and 21st.—A sum amounting to nearly 50,000 dollars has in like manner been taken from an English Gentleman named STEVENS, long resident in Portugal ; and numerous other cases, fully authen ticated, have been so strongly urged to the British Commanders as to compel them to delay the fulfil ment of the Treaty. The French Officers, on the contrary, apprehensive that the Convention would not be executed if time was allowed for the consider ation of its stipulations, were importunate to hasten it. We understand that so late as the 9th, no de tachment had been made from the British Army.— An Expedition had been planned, we understand, to Spain, but it had been deemed inexpedient to weaken l our forces in Portugal. To conclude our remarks on this subject—lf the Treaty be fulfilled, let the French take with them the whole of their own private property : but let the thieves be searched tit tt they may disgorge all the stolen Portuguese property. This will be no violation of the Convention. Every Portuguese who has been robbed has a right to prefer his complaint against the thief—and by the laws of Portugal as well as Eng land, has a right to get back his property. Suppose a French army were to invade Ireland, and strip the inhabitants of their effects. If they were defeated and obliged by capitulation to leave the island, would Government ratify a convention, by which a Sir HEW DALRYMPLE permitted them to carry off their plunder ? XTRACT OF A LETTER FRO:! AN OFFICER IN SIR CHARLES COTTON'S FLEET. a We are more in the dark in Portuguese politics than you are. We look to the London papers for information. One thing, however, we fully and sadly know—that our victorlous troops have made a treaty disgraceful to us and favourable to the conquered enemy. Sir H. DALRYMPLE ought to be ****** The whole fleet is dissatisfied. The Russians ought to have been ours. We could have blown them to atoms! " Captain Hots Ass dined a few days ago with Ge neral JUNOT. He has made us stare with an account of the princely magnificence of the General's house. Every room is hung with crimson velvet and gold fringe. All the Generals are covered with gold lace and stars of different orders. The dinner was served up in gold plate of immense weight. Captain Hot.- SAM was plentifully served with the richest wines, and all his expressions were most closely watched. Sir C. COTTON did not choose to commit himself, but sent Captain HOLSAM. We cannot conceive that Sir CHARLES Will suffer the plundered property to be sent to France. No convention can justify it. Our Com manding Officers would subject themselves to equal detestation as the French ; for is not he that permits, as bad as he who commits, the crime ?" - When the Portuguese Messengers left Oporto, .11.7- NOT and his Staff had not quitted Lisbon, but the French army had occupied a fort three miles distant previous to their embarkation. There were 18,000 Portuguese troops at Coimbra, in high spirits and dis cip!inc. The ARROW schooner arrived on Friday, at Ply mouth from Gijon, in five days, with dispatches : she brings intelligence that the French are still in pos session of Bilboa, but that Generals CASTANOS and BLARE have closely invested the place, with an army of 40,000 men. Since our last we received some additional Spanish Papers, from which we have given several extracts.— From these it appears that the French have wholly abandoned the right bank of the Ebro, and concen trated their force in the forts and strong posts with which Navarre abounds. The Gallician army at the beginning of this month, had its head-quarters at Carrion de los Condes (about four days march from Burgos), and two strong divisions at Aquillar de Campo, a little to the Southward of Reynosa. The army under the command of PALAFOX had approach ed Tudela ; and the presence of the troops who were marching from Madrid was only wanting to complete the eavelopement of the enemy, or at least to so straiten them in their positions, as to compel them to give battle or break up. It will be seen from the in teresting letter of PALAFOX, that the Spanish Com manders proceed with that circumspection which is the best security for final success. Dutch papers have reached town to the 20th inst. and several German and Danish Journals. BovA. PARTE had not left Paris, but arrangemn s had been made for his dep4rture. Strasburgh irsti I mention ed as the place of his destination, and itstared that the Kings of Westphalia, Bavaria, and Wwtemberg, and other Members of the Confederation ofthe Rhine are to meet him there. Yesterday evening the Governor ikonteVidio . left town for Plymouth, to embai k for Monte Video. The expedition under Sir D. BAIRD remained in Cork harbour, on Monday last. A number of trans. ports arrived the day preceding, and a detachment of artillery re-embarked in them in the course of the day. They were a fine set of fellows, and went on board in high spirits. Saturday being the regular moving day for the Tower Hamlets Militia, the first regiment marched through the Borough, via Newington, to head-quarters at Deptford, from whence they will be dispersed to New Cross, Peckham, Camberwell, and Dulwich ; and the second regiment marched from thence to Middlesex quarters. Saturday morning the LAVINIA, Captain J. HAN• COCK, arrived at Portsmouth from Admiral THORN.. BOROUGH'S squadron, off Toulon. She is under qua rantine. She left the station off Toulon o. the 9th ult. where she has been cruizing nearly 26 weeks, as one of the in-shore squadron of frigates. She saw the enemy's fleet at Toulon, every day, twice, and sometimes oftener. They consist of ten sail of the line (two of whicb are three-deckers) and seven fri gates, in every respect ready for sea. GANTHEAUME commands in chief, having under him two Rear-Ad mirals. Two Russian line-of-battle ships got in there from Porto Fierrara, in the island of Elba, some months since : the LAVINIA saw them go in. They were immediately refitted and made ready for sea ; but now, from some cause, they are dismantled, and moved into the Basin. The SPARTAN, Capt. BREN TON, was the in-shore frigate with the LAVINIA. The French line-of-battle ships. (the Hannibal generally one) chased the in-shore squadron almost every day, but never to any distance from the harbour. They have lately launched at Toulon, two ships of the line, one of 80 guns, and the other, called the Austerlitz, of 120 guns. Admiral Tnoßtiaoßouon was cruizing about ten leagues south of Toulon, with twelve sail of the line ; a line-of-battle ship was always kept, day and night, advanced in-shore, to repeat the sig. nals from the frigates. Lord COLLINGWOOD sailed from Gibraltar on the 31st ult. to resume the com mand off Toulon, taking with him the OCEAN (flag ship), TERRIBLE, 74, Lord HARRY PAuLL-r ; Non- THUMBERLAND, 74, Capt. HARGOOD ; and the EXCEL LENT, 74, Capt. WEST.—The CESAR, Rear-Admiral Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, Capt. RICSARDSON; MALTA, Capt. OTWAY ; EAGLE, Capt. ROWLEY ; FORMIDA BLE, Capt. FAYERMAN ; and WARRIOR, Capt. SPRAN GER, are to come to England. The LAVINIA left Gibraltar three weeks since, when the FAME, 74, Capt. BENN ET ; REPULSE, 74, HOD. Capt. LEGGE ; ATLAS, Rear-Admiral Puavls, Capt. SANDERS ; and the BULWARK, 74, Hon. Capt. FLLstinc,were lying there. —The FAME and BULWARK were to follow Lord COLLINGWOOD. The ROYAL SOVEREIGN, CAESAR, RE NOWN, SFARTIATE, CUMBERLAND, EAGLE, COLOSSUS, WARRIOR, and MALTA, were cruizing off Toulon, when the LAVINIA sailed.—The MAGNIFICENT had sailed to the Bay of Roses, to relieve the MONTAGUE ; and the KENT, to cruize off Genoa. The CANOPUS, Rear-Admiral MARTIN ; and the SULTAN, Captain GRIFFITH, sailed from Port Mahon on the 16th ult. to j oin Admiral THORNBOROUGH.—..The LAVINIA spoke nothing on her passage from Gibraltar, except on the 9th instant, the MYRTLE sloop, Capt. Irma, off Lisbon, by which ship the LAVINIA sent dispatches for Sir C. COTTON, at Lisbon, which she received from Lord CoLListowoon ; and dispatches from Ge neral DRUMMOND, at Gibraltar, for Sir Hew DAY: RYMPLE* The MYRTLE left St. Übe's the morning the LAVINIA spoke her :. the ravages and exactions of the French in that neighbourhood, even after the signing of the Convention, were very great. A French Ge neral of Division had caused exactions, amounting to 1500 pounds sterling, to be made, which so exaspe rated the Portuguese, that a Portuguese General, with .5000 men, had determined to attack him on the night the Mi &ILK sailed. The LAVINIA sailed from Tou lon on the 9th ult. arrived at Port Mahon the 11th, sailed again the 17th, arrived at Gibraltar on the 24th, and sailed again on the 2d instant. The Spa nish squadron at Minorca had sailed for Carthagena ; two of them had sailed for South America. The LAVINIA took the Countess of Westmoreland from Toulon to Gibraltar, aad she has brought home Cap tain SHIELD, who is appointed Paying Commissioner at Portsmouth ; Captain J. N. MORRIS, of the Co zossus, and about 30 invalid officer; and men. Capt. ALFAANnER is wing Commander of the Colossus. DEAL, SEPT.2S. The fleet has returned to the Downs from off Flushing, under the command of Rear-Admiral GARDNER, in the BELLEROPHON 74, VENERABLE, 74, CHRISTIAN THE Vllth 80, BOMBAY 74, ILLtysTmous 74, LEVIATHAN 74, INVINCIBLE 74, HERO 74, and WARSPITE 74, leaving the FISGARD frigate, and two brigs at anchor, to reconnoitre the Dutch fleet in flushing, which has come down, and appears ready to put to sea, consisting of nine sail of the line, one .50 gun ship, a large guard ship, two frigates, and some small craft. A gale drove our fleet into the Downs. RUSSIAN FLEET IN THE BALTIC. The public mind was greatly elated on Saturday in consequence of a report, circulated soon after the arrival of the Gottenburgh Mail, that the Russian Squadron, which was compelled to take shelter in Rogerswick or Port Baltic, had offered to capitulate. After the very faint hopes held out in Sir JAMES SAU MAREZ'S letter in last Tuesday's Gazette, we little ex pected that any attack sufficiently impressive to re duce the enemy to this humiliation could be made upon him. It does, however, appear, as well from the Gottenburgh Papers, as the following Letters, in the correctness of the information contained in which we place considerable confidence, that such expectations may be reasonably entertained : EXTRACT PROM A LETTER, DATED STOCKHOLM, THE 12TH SEPTEMBER. " Lieutenant Colonel Gyllenschold sets out to-day for London, to deliver the flag of the Russian man of war Sew clod, destroyed by Sir Samuel Hood. Baron Lajerbjelke is arrived from - the fleet, with the infor mattn, that the Swedish and English fleets blockad- Isag the Russians in Port Baltic have fired on the bat es protecting the entrance ; that the Russian Ad -1 Kanikoff, after having moored his ships, in or to employ them as batteries, has sued for a capi tulation, on condition that the Russian fleet should be unrigged, and not serve during the war. This pro-' posal was rejected, and in place of it the Swedes and English demanded, that six of the Russian ships should be delivered up, and the remainder be unrig- ' ged, and not sent to sea during the war. But as the Russian Admiral would not agree to these conditions, the fire recommenced from the joint fleets. It is stated as a fact, that Sir James Saumarez has written to Mr. Thornton, the British Minister at this place, that he is almost sure the Russian fleet would surren der or be destroyed. . _ " From Finland we have no certain news. There is, however, a report that the Swedish army to the north of Abo has suffered much in an engagement and been obliged to retreat half a mile (three English.) We have lately had so much success that we must expect a check now and then. The Rmsians have lost more men in this campaign than is generally sup posed. The Swedish General Vegesack is at Chris tianstad, and General Lanlingshausen at Kasko.— Our troops are in high spirits. The Russians have sent a reinforcement of '20,000 fresh troops into Fin lanzl. And private accounts from St. Petersburgh state, that there is no likelihood of a peace. Alex ander is daily closeted with the French Ambassador ; and it is said, that it is by the advice of the latter, that these 20,000 men have been ordered to Finland, It is really a pity that two neighbours should destroy one another in this way, for no rational purpose on earth. Russia will never be the sovereign of Finland, but it is the policy of the French to keep her employed in that quarter." " GOTTENBURGH, SEPT. 16. " Sir Samuel Hood, after burning one line-of-bat tle ship, has, in conjunction with the Swedish squa dron, been bombarding the Russian fleet in Baltic Port, and has actually rejected the offer of the Russian Admiral to lay the Russian fleet up until after peace. He demanded the surrender of five ships of the line and six frigates. This the Russians would not or could not submit to, and so the bombardment against the fleet and fortress began anew, the result of which was, that a powder magazine was blown up. They had received four Swedish fire-ships, and four more were preparing, with all possible expedition, at Stock holm, to join them. Thus we shall soon have a good account of this fleet." His MAMMY, with his wonted beneficence, on hear in g of the calamitous destruction of Covent-Garden Theatre, sent Mr. BRAUN from Windsor, to Mr. HAR RIS, with a gracious message, expressive of the Royal regret for his loss. DRURY LANE THRATRE.—On Saturday Mrs. JOR DAN made her appearance in her favourite character of Miss Peggy, in the Comedy of The Country Girl, and was welcomed by the repeated plaudits of a re spectable but not very numerous audience. We per ceive no alteration in her person, excepting that she is less en ben point. The melo drama of Ella Rosenberg closed the performances.—Amongs the company were The Countesses of Clare and Earrymore, Lord and Lady Hol land, with several of the Spanish Deputies, Viscount Petersham, Sir Francis and Lady Burdett, the Honourable Wellesley Pole, the Hon. Mrs. Stanhope, and several other people of fashion. A new and singular conscription has lately taken place in the Austrian States, namely, of old women, for the use of the army, or rather, we should say, for the service of the hospitals. Every district is called upon to provide a given number of veteran females, who, in the event of being wanted, may be immedi ately distributed in the several caserns or hospitals, as laundresses, nurses, &c. The exportation of Peruvian bark has been prohibited by an Aulic Decree. Don ;Mirandas, and six other Spanish Officers, chiefly of the regiment of Villa Viciosa, reached Fio nia after the departure or the Marquis Romana, and seized a boat with a view of following to Langeland; the French, who were apprised of their intention;-suf fered them to embark, but fired on them as soon as they left the shore, and sunk the boat, when' they were all drowned." The Duke of Sudermania has acsumad the corn. mand of the Swedish army on the frontiers of Norway. N4fUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOU rH, SEP l'. 24. 0 Ye3 . er lay morning the CALEDONIA, of 110 guns, A(.4znir.d Lord GAMBIER, came 1.,411 Earn .tze to Cawsand Bay. Came in the LOIRE, of 38 guns, from off Cadiz; ARIAZON, of 38 guns, from off Ferrol ; CUCKOO schooner, from the Westwatd. Sailed the NEPTUNE, of 98 guns, to the NVestw ird ; CHAMPION. of 24 guns, on a cruize ; VALIAN r, of 74 guns, to the Westward ; MORRISTOWN armed ship, with a fleet f r Wales; INTELLIGENT gun-brig, to the Westwar.l, said to be for Lisbon, with Capt. DALRYMPLE ; EN^OUN• TER gun-brig, with a Beet, for the Downs ; tlia CON.. POUNDER gun-brig, and SNAPPER schooner, on a cruise. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 9.5. Arrived his Majesty's ships FURIOUS and AMC. mt. with a fleet from the Downs. Wind E. S. E. DEAL, SEPT. 24. Arrived the BELLEROPHON, Rear Admiral GARS NEE, with the HERO, VENERABLE, BOMBAY, CHRIS TIAN SEVENTH, WARSPITE, LEVIATHAN, INVINCIBLE, and It.l.usrmous, ships of the line, and ZENOBIA sloop, from a cruize off Flushing ; CENSOR gun brig from Yarmouth. Sailed the PHOSPHORUS fire brig on a cruize off Boulogne. Arrived from Yarmouth se veral sail of transports, having on board the 95th re giment and a detachment of Royal Artillery, which have sailed under convoy of the ROYALIST sloop and CENSOR gun brig for Falmouth. SEPT* 25.—Sailed the NASSAU, of 64 guns, for the Baltic ; QUEEN, of 98 guns, for Sheeerness ; ZENOBIA sloop on a cruize. Arrived the TRUSTY, of 50 guns, from Falmouth ; and BLOODHOUND gun brig from a cruize off Boulogne. hi TNt DOWNs.—Prineess of Orange, Bellerophon, Warspite, Hero, Leviathan, Illustrious, Invincible, Bombay, Christian. Seventh, Venerable, Trusty, Clyde, Indignant, Bloodhound, and Satellite. HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 25. Sailed this day the Auckland packet, Captain %ME, for Heligoland; and the Prince of Wales packet, Captain THOMAS MASON, for Gottenburgh, with mails and passengers.—The Earl of Leicester packet, Captain HAMMOND, arrived yesterday from Gottesiburgh, with mails and 20 passengers. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 25. Sailed the CALYPSO sloop of war, and BRUME% gun brig. Arrived the SEALARK schooner. Remain the ROEBUCK, Admiral DOUGLAS ; SKYLARK, Admi. ral RUSSEL ; MURDERER, ST. ALBANS, and ROSA. MOND the three last are under sailing orders. Two Swedish ships put in here yesterday, having parted convoy, bound to Lisbon and Gibraltar. A Naval hospital is to be built on our downs, and form a Martello tower on this beach between Gorles. ton and Caister. GREENOCK, SEPT. 2% Arrived here yesterday, the Hope, Fox, from Ber bice, the last of the Leeward Island fleet for Clyde ; also arrived at Port-Glasgow, the Diana, Bitow/c, from Quebec, in twenty-nine days. Left there the Joan, SM►TP, for this port, loaded, and to sail in three days. The iusannah, MOFFAT, of Irvine, was be ginning to take in a cargo for Newry. On the 23d of August, la leagues below Quebec, spoke the ship Reliance, WYLLIE, of London, out eight weeks, all well. On the 24th, 11 leagues west of the Island of Bique, spoke the ship Watt, of Liverpool, out forty five days, all well. On the 15th instant, in long. 13 W. spoke the brig Thetis, from Halifax, bound to Workington, blowing fresh—could learn no parti culars. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GaAvawwD, Sarr. 25.—Arrived the Nimrod , —, from Tortola; Rover, Reay, from Mogadore ; and Industry, Kirby, from Quehec.--Satled the Twilight, Twaddle, for Corunna ; Heroine, Gray, for Halifax; True love, Penfold, for Cadiz ; Margaret and Betsy, Caithness; and Minerva, Laidler, for Got tenburgh ; and Catherine, Davis, for Cork. The following extract of a letter, received by a re. spectable house in Liverpool, from their Correspon. dent in Jamaica, will be read with great satislaction : " KINGSTON, JULY 81.—Ten days ago an express vessel arri ved here in twenty-two days from Cadiz, with dispatches to this Government, and accounts of the revolution in Spain, which have already opened an intercourse between this island and all the neighbouring Spanish colonies of Cuba and the Main, for which immense purchases have already been made here in dry goods, for Vera Cruz, Corthagena, the Caraccas, and Cuba, and which will open a very large vent for the manufactures of Manchester, in which the demand for these colonies principally consists, viz. printed cottons, coloured velverets of all kinds, British muslins platillas, cotton stockings, hats, &c. The influx of Spanish tra, dery to this port has, within these few days, been so great, as t• have drained the market." Saturday night's Gazette contains an Order in Council, dated the 21st instant, proceeding on the narrative of the deliverance of Portugal from the con troul of France, and therefore, ordering that all Por tuguese Property shall be forthwith restored to the respective owners thereof, or their lawful agents such property remaining subject to the legal charges thereon, and ezpences incurred in respect thereof; and all questions respecting the ownership of such property, where any doubt shall be entertained by persons appointed by the Orders in Council of the 6th of January, for the care and management of such property, respecting the same, and the charges and expences thereon, are appointed to be decided on sum marily by the High Court of Admiralty, or Court of Vice Admiralty, in which such property may have been brought to adjudication. This Gazette also con tains an Order in Council, continuing for six months after this day, the Order in Council of the 23d of March last, allowing the importation of hides, dec. in foreign ships or vessels. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, SEPT. 2r.—There is an abundant supply of Wheat arrived this day, ;n part new, of light quality, which is about 6s. and Bs. per quarter cheaper; but tine old nearly at Fnday's declension in price.—Barley in ple ity, and, with Malt, nearly at our last currency.—White Peas are higher.—ln Beans but little variation.—The supplies of Oats are considerable, and prices nearly as cur 'al.—Rape Seed is rather dearer; and Flour has fallen 55. per sack.