The National Register. — London, England, 1808-05-08 00:00:00

'THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MAY 8. TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. Laotian, SUNDAY, MAY 0, 1808. POLITIC.IL SVENTS OP THE WEEK. The Expedition sailed from the Downs and from Har wich on Wednesday last. The vessels remained at anchor of Orfordness, in consequence of a temporary change of wind, but as the breeze soon veered to the southward, they have probably proceeded. MI the armaments are to ren dezvous in Yarmouth litiads. There were eighty-four transports, of which four and thirty contained cavalry. Nearly three hundred flat-bottomed boats too, were on board the transports. The following is the Staff of the Expedition : Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Moore, Commander in Chief; Major- Geo. Nl`Kenzie Frazer, second in command; Major-6en. Clin ton, on the Staff; Col. Murray, Quarter-master-Ueneral, Major de Maguire, ditto; Inspector of Hospitals, Dr. Franks ; De puty ditto, Mr. Ferguson ; Physicians to the Forces, Drs. Lar kin. Tyce, and Morris; Staff-Surgeons, Montague, Lindsay, Dynlv, and Kratziesen ; Apothecaries, Henderson, and !toffee; Purveyor, Assistant Mates, ditto; Deputy Commissary, Kennedy, Esq.; Assistant. Mr. Gatintlett. Under such a General as Sir JOAN Moonz much may be atchieved. It is long since British trnops have gained a victory abroad, untarnished by the disgrace of injustice: and we hope that the dreadful example which our .Govern vernment has received of continental resentment for the seizure at Copenhagen, will teach them hereafter to season their active zeal with some few sprinklings of prudence and justice, although they may be too proud to make a verbal confession of their error. This Expedition is said to he destined for the Baltic : if the last had not gone out, it would never have been necessary. But oar :Minister s, as if afraid lest the courage of our soldiers should grow rusty, dispatch one set of men to irritate the nations of the Continent, and then ship off a second parry to contend with them when they are irritated. It has been said, that another Squadron, unacccmpanied by traesports, is about to sail from Cawsand Bay, having seakd orders, and provisions for six mouths. The ships mentioned were the Tonnant, the Gibraltar, the Bellero phon, the Brunswick, the Dragon, and the Neptune, men of war.; two frigates, and two sloops. All these were to be commai;dcd by Admiral DE COUXCT. Within these few days arrest number of emigrants have arrived from Portugal, at Plymouth : they came in a trills port from our fleet off Lisbon. Our Squadron .11:.d been apprized of the arrival of the Prince Regent at llio.laneiro en the 6th of January. He had entered on his functions as a Sovereign, and formed an Administration, which was ap proved by the people. It is said, that an Englishman has the superintendance of the Admiralty. Orders had been given for the immediate construction of ships of war ; a declaratibn of hostilities had been issued ag ainst Spanish America and sixteen millions of dollars belonging to spain had been sequestered. In Portugal the rage of emigration bad become so gene ral, that any person detected in leaving the country , was subjected to death and confiscation of property. At Lis bon provisions were not scarce. On Monday Mr. FA cvEn, from our Government, requested Mr. to communicate a Circular Note to the Merchants employ ed in the Brazil trade, that the Portuguese Minister was read) to give licences to British or Portuguese ships, to carry out British manufactured cotton goods to the Brazils, under certain instructions: and that licences would be prepared on Tuesday morning by the Lords of Trade. An Order of Council will shortly appear for the restora tion of all such property detained in this country as belongs to Portuguese subjects, now in this kingdom, or in the Brazils with their sovereign : and a reference will he made to the Prince Regent concerning the properly of those Portuguese who are under the denomination of France.— Thus will be preserved the property of those who have the courage to adhere to their Monarch : and the possessions of those who have submitted to the enemy, will allOrd the means of relief to loyal subjects. The American ship the Osage arrived at Falmouth on Saturday the 30th of April. she brought only tiree pas sengers, Mr. Louis, Mr. MORGA N, and Mr. aloe ase. The last is said to have come only ou mercantile business, and Mr. Lours is reported to have brought dispatches from General ARMSTRONG to Mr. Piscasis. Every circumstance that we can gather, proves the vi gorous disposition of the French Go% erimmat towards the Americans. BONA PA RTE, it is said, w it. here no acetrals: and he has even refused passports to the Americans is France. Mr. M oRG AN made his escape on board the Osage. Nay, the Osage herself, after her arrival at L'O; ieut, wee seized because she had been spoken by a British cruizei oa . that port. Accounts received last week from Bayonne ac tually. state, that BONAPARTE issued a Decree there on the 4th of last month, ordering the capture and coademnation Of all American vessels. We should be sorry to see any unnecessary acrimony .employed against America : we have wars anew alreltly upon our consciences mid upon our purs . :.!s: but we that .Government will make no abject concessions for lee sake of American friendship. America's friendship is but a time-serving amity : she can do us little good, she can do France little harm. Now that Treace appears to have completely shaken her off, she may wish to beim the best terms with us Rut let us cons;der that she comes to us from necessity, not. from love; and that we have a right to make the best bargain Ave can. On Thursday last 111 r. PIN cEN ET had a conference of se• veral hours with f ir. „ --;•••111r 641 In another yart of our Paper we. bee given 1 detail of the operations of the Swedish war. They are of a nature highle honourable to the F;ailoatry and miiitary skill of our Allies, and we trust that he will continue to purs.:a the ca.Ter he has begun, until he shall have tweeted to hires& and his country, by the pronis of Swedish spirA led independence, the solid advantages of en honourable, and pecinauent peace. For pi-ninthly there is no mode of ;Naming security from P.9N-A PARTE, except. the provirg to him that he has it not his i.o.ver to prevent teat se curity. It is said, that a vessel has just arrived farm Holland-- that the men were not immediately saalosel to land, but • • that three women had obtained that permissioe. It is added, that an Austrian Messenger, supposed to bear dis patches from Vienna, lauded at Harwich at two o'clock yesterday morning. We have not been able to ascertain what faith may be due to these statements. The report of a revolution in Russia, of the truth of which we expressed some doubts in our last ft amber, now appears, as we suspected, to be totally without fcstitd Letters were received in town on Monday Irmo fti. a, hick make not the slighest mention of any ache:ices in St. t'ctersburgh. The Court of St. Petcrsburgh has published the . ing Notification, which will 41oubtiess be iliterestini; to all those concerned in Rusiian Commerce:— " The Imperial Col:ege of Commerce notifies, that in conse quence of an Imp •rial Edict, issued on the Stit November, 1507-, for the establishment of a C ttttt tnii•sion to liquidate all acrnUnts .uVisting between the llutai.to and sultjects in St. Peter-:. ,_ ~ .-