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THE BR.4ZELS. There were several &frivolo last feet frog the )wails. By one of that' we have received a letter from an officer of Hip! Majesty's ship Dedfurti. dated June 19, which mays--.. News front Eng- Mad comes stalely here; it is now font' ' , months gage we bail ang ; the fljaciAtk, Captain Davie, tbelitst ariwed.- r We are in great hopes of see ing a huge renrairceinent of troops here from Eng *Rd, en their way to Monte Video ; the disgrace of which no loudly deinatiiht a. great nation to retrieve, "rind which must hic wiped off.—On the 4th ofJuur, Eir Sidney Smith eatertaineil the Prince Regent slid Royal Pamilysif Portugal with a most sump 'tabu &trier, on board the Loudon ; to which ship -his dog was shifted Air the occasion.—Upwards of -one hundred persons sat dOwe to dinner.—The ship -was lama elegantly areerated ; over the table at 'which the Prince sat, were the arias of England and Portugal; le the eentre was a picture of the death of Gerd Nelson, flanked by portraits of the officers who served on tjec 14th of February, and 11th of October; and over the front part of tire poop, the arms or England. The evening concluded IT a -royal salute being fired.—The company alterwards retired to the opera, which was giv.ra to the Ad• mind that night by the officer, of the squadron.— This Is a charming tlelightfal country, and in otker loan& than lazy Portuguese, %Mild produce any thing. The Admiral has taken a house on shore, and every thing indimteo a long stay. C,aptains Graham Moore, Lee, Vl'ettern, and Walker, hare a gold medal given them by the Prince Regent.— It is tuiderstood that the same honour it intended to be eolirerred en all the Captains present at the emigration, and tliatstors are to be added, augnorn ansadeacies. the Lomb*, (flat-ship), Captain Western Monarch, 74, Capt. Le.! ; Redford, 74, Capt. Walker ; and Agamemnon, 'is, Capt. Rose, are at thin anchorage. The Ividdroyaitt, and 211 " 1 "tougA" 749 Capt. G. Moore, saited this wasesing as a cruise. The Surat:Mame, Confi owess and iirscintlt, are cruising an the coast." PROCLAMATION. Tut Dote OP ASRANTES, GENERAL IN CHIEF OF EVE • RII Y OP toatu• 10 TILE PORTO. SUESS. . 4 What frenzy agitates you ? Into what an abyss of calamities are you about to plunge you:selvq 'After seven months of the Most perfect tranquillity, • of tit must complete harmony, what cause have: yes to rush to take up urns-awl ligatiost whom Agaiost an array which was to secure- your ihde pesdence, which was to maintain the integrity of youreountry, and, in a word, without oho 4 you amid cease to be Portuguese. Who can thus tiros you en to betray your own interests ? Dorris that wish that the aucient Lusitania should hence forth be uo more than a province of Spain ? What eon you expect in a contest with an army, nume rous, valiant, and inured to war, in whose presence you would be dispenicd like the sands of the deiert, by the impetuous blasts of the south wind ? Do 'ern not perceive that those who mislead you, kirk" not to what may further year interests, but solely , to the means of gratifying their revenge, and, pro. sided the Continent is distUrbod, what signifies it to them how moth blood may flow ? Should those perfidious islanders laud on your territory, leave* ate to combat them ; this is the duty of my army ; yours is to remain peaceable in your fields. I pity your error ; but should you persist in it, should you coutiliae deaf to my voice, tremble ; your prinishinei.t shill be terrible. Can you re gret • Dynasty winch has abandoned you, and whose Government bad an humiliated you, that you were ao longer ranked among the nations of Eu • rope? What do you wish for ? To remain Poe tngueoe? to be independent ? This the Great Napoleon has promised you. You, yourselves, have earnestly entreated of him • King, who, aided • by the omnipotence of that Great Monarch, might raise up again your unfortunate country, and re place her in the rank which belongs to her. Doubtless, at this moment, your new Monarch is on the point of visiting you. He expected to find faithful subjects; shall he find only rebels? I ex pected to have delivered over to liem • peaceable kiariom, and flonrishlng cities. Shall I be' obliged to 'hew him only ruins, and heaps of ashes sad dead bodies ? Would he reign over a desolate country ? Certainly not. You wilt only be an un fortuuate province of Spain. Your customs, your laws, every thing has been preserved. Is not your religion ours? Has it &offend the slightest I Are not you, on the contrary, those who violate it ? Yoe yield to the seduction and gnid- NOM of heretics, whose only wish is to destroy you and your religion. Ask the unfortunate Insh Ca tholics what oppression they groan under in their own country, and by the orders of their own Government. Is it not you who violate it, by obeying the Ministers of that Holy Religion, (wham lint precept is obedience And submission to the lairs: when they dare to instigate you to cows mit murder and Illipar«ination upon men who lived in the midst of you as brothers? Let them trem ble They will pay dear for the calamities which they itillset sa l ami you ; hut you, Portuguese, will.' be the unfortunate vietisns of their crimes. If there still existed a few abuses in the Anti nistratioss, the experience of each successive 47:, Imo diminishing them. My decree of the t:th of JutleJias already regulated on interesting' branch of the finance*, by settling the pay of the soldiers On a sure footing. The salaries of the Adminis trators and Judges are regularly paid. The Em peror Napoleon, satisfied, ice conveq acme of my re ports, with the public spirit in this kingdom, liar just remitted the half of your contribution ; and it is at the institet that he is accomplishing all your wishes, that you permit yourselves to be hurried away by the influence of a few iiiiscreents ; it is at the moment of reaping the fruit of your tranquil lity-,4,1044 the instant that happiness is within your wimp; that you deliberately Lust sway from y r even the most distant hope of it. %Veil ! Portegtiese, you have only the interval of a mu meat to implore the clemency of the Emperor, and to disarm his wrath. Already, his armies in Spain approach your frontiers ; if you hesitate, you are undone. Lay dowo your arms ; return in peace to your homes; imitate the tranquillity- of your capital, and the adjacent provinces; follow your agricultural pursuits; reap that fine harvest which Heaven has sent you, after sb many alarms of a dreadful fu:uine, from which 1 have been able to preserve yop. Expel with horror from among you those wretched miscreants whose only object is the pillage of your cities. Merit pardon by prompt submission, and a prompt obedience to my orders; if not, think of the punishment which awaits you. Every city, town, or village, which shall take up arms against toy fences, and whose inhabitants shall fire upon the French troops, shall be delivered up to pillage, and totally destroyed; and the Wm bitants shell be gnat to the sword. Every iudividual takes is arum, shall be iu stand), slat. Done at the Head-quarters, in the Palace of Lisbon, Juue 26, IsoB. --• MONDAY, AVGCST 15. • The homeward-bound East India fleet, comist- Mg of the Lord Castletagrk, Metcalfe, Charlton, Castle Edea, Marquis Weilastey. City of Leaden, Lard lissekesltury, Airig Conk, Starry and Windham. smirk-it yesterday itt the Downs.. They left St. Helena an the . 19th June, and have I.roaght bowie with them a French frig-ate, (vie be lieve the Pieciareataite), which has made many cap ture; and done much mischief in the Indian - seas. The Captain of the English yowl that engaged the frigate it is said was killed in the action. A Purser arrived yesterday, at wise o'clock, at the India Howie. with the intelligence of the maim* or the fleet. It was also officially announced at the Ad miralty. The SatelGte, Captain Itu•ttw'oars, arrived on Saturday morning at Portamoutli, from Berbadoes, having seen the homeward-hound •hips from the Leeward lala‘nds into St. George's Channel.—She separated from the Caatifis and Rosario, with the ship' bound for the River under convoy. In the ,course of the day they palmed Portsmouth for the Downs, under convoy of the Camilla, with a strong westerly wind. Their arrival in the Downs was announced yesterday at the Admiralty, by the Telegraph. We give, in our subsequent columns, an inte resting report of a trial for a riot in Yorkshire. It is the fir►t of the series of state trials, in conse quence of the recent disturbances in the manu facturing ditpricts in Lancashire, 'Warwickshire, and the borders of Yorkshire. The Casette bf last night contains a proclama tion, proroguing the Parliament until the Ist of November. It is in the usual forni of intermediate proropitions, and not in the technical language, which evinces a determination that it shall certainly meet on that day. It is not true that Louts the EIGETECNTH had an interview with His MAJESTY. at Kew, on Mon day last, as has been asserted in some of the Morning Papers. Loot! the EIGHTEENTH visited Kew, in the day above-mentioned. accompanied by the Duke of Bounnon, and walked, dining some time . , in the gardens ; but he never was in the Palace. While the FRENCH KING was in the gar dens, a Messenger, sent by the Count D'Arrois. front London, brought him the grateful intelli gence of the surrender of DEPONT to General Cawratios. Louts the EIGHTEENTH afterwards returned to town. in his barouche, and dined with his brother, in South Audley-street. There has not been, perhaps, in the whole course of the revolutionary titum which we have witnessed slum . 17e9, a moment of more anxious and painful suspense then the present. Td whatever quarter ne direct eat view, a degree of doubt still remains. Even DIPONT's surrender, though it cannot be called in gitestion, and rests on concurring evidence or testimony. yet is not gavial. OfJuXOT and Sir ARTI4:3t IVELLESLEr a, know nothing. The ar rival of.losrPn BON at Nladria is not bet ter authenticated than his precipitate departure, or t tlit, place to which be has direct/id his Sight. We %either know where Bussistrs is, nor the /*number pf his :urea. CCIEST.t's march to Sala.s..ix. ..J P. .1 the tuntious or operations of BtAxv, are eqatly obscure. Of Pet roz, a i aril as of MONCIY and LL.FESTRI!, we have alumat lost sight attegether. Except that NAPOLEON had arrived at Pau, we are unacquainted with his movements ; and though prot.ably h, must long. ago have reached Paris, we are ignorant of the day, or of any particular relative to his reception. No Munitesers nor Dutch Pa pers mention it. This anxiety, cannot, however, last long, and may, perhaps, be dissipated before this paragraph is perused. Those who have Lees accustomed, during near nine years, ever since November, 179 u, to con ' template, in N APOLION BONAPARTE, a perfect model of deep and well-regulated ambition, of su perior military skill, and of succe.,sfid crime, to wards the attainment of whatever object his exer tions were directed; such persons cannot easily be induced yet to believe, that his career has met with a serious check. As little can those few, who, dur ing the short truce, improperly denominated peace, which took place in 1601, were able, by visiting Paris, to form an accurate conception of the ma chinery which enabled the tyrant to chain down the French people, while he gave to his military usurpation the mane of ass election ; as little can they be induced to conceive that, under any/risi ble circumstances, BONAPARTE has the slightest reinon to apprehend internal insurrection. Ad ' witting, iu its fullest exbst, as we do, the energies of his character, akd convinced, as we equally are, how firmly rivetted are the chains which he has imposed on the inhabitants of France, yet we think that the error, independent of the atrocity. committed by NAPOLEON in the conduct of the Spanish enterprise. may eventually overturn the whole edifice of his greatness, constructed with such consummate skill. That error. of which many were long led to doubt, seems now to become tan gible, palpable, and clear to demon stmtion. Time, which unveils the secret springs, and exhibits the results of human wisdom or imprudence, has al ready rendered us able to appreciate the policy of NAPOLEON'S conduct in attempting, by an act of mingled perfidy and lawless power, to transfer one of the greatest monarchies oo,eartk. perhaps, in cluding its colonies, - the greatest and richest of the European states, from the hne of its ancient Sore . reigns to his own brother. So vast a project, it must be admitted by those .who look up with most terror and reverence to the talents of the Corsican Emperor of the French, far exceeded, in difficulty, any enterprise which he had Hitherto achi&ed. For Sprain; unlike Aus tria or Prussia, was net engaged in war with Francs; nor Could he, unless .by an unprovoked attack un his nearest allies, enter Catalonia, or Bis riay, or Navarre, as he • broke into Austria and Bmndenburgh. lie might, indeed, as in effect lie did, ensnare the So►ereigns of Spain, imprison, and depose them ; and he might then, by the ir resistible plenitude of his authority, give away the vacant crown to • mean foreigner, of very mode rate abilities, destitute of any military talents, and whose principal or only merit seems to consist in his dissimilarity to the ferocious tyrant, his bro ther. But, in order to insure success to an attempt without any precedent, for history presents no ex ample of a throne so obtained, and permanently preserved, it was indispensable either that the Spa nish nation should see the transfer a ith indifierener, and remain perfectly neutral, or, more properly speaking, null; or, it was necessary that NAPO. LEON should have been able to quell and suppress every effort of resistance, throughout the penin sula beyond the Pyrenees. If this despot, who appears, in almost every ob ject that he has hitherto attempted, to have ma turely weighed, and to have admirable anticipated the impediments attending it, did presumptuously amid ignorantly assume, that No Spans& people ex. rated, his greatest admirers must admit that he has committed an error of no common magnitude. But if, as is far more p►obable, F.. expected some fermentation, and, perhaps, an armed resistance, in the provieces of so wide extended a ceuntry ; in that ease it seems evideut that he did not adopt the precautions indispensable to coerce a popula tion of nine millinpa of inhabitant*. He ought to have known that the Spaniard, diasevered front the other Continental Nations, bore little resemblance to the selfish Hollander, the phlegmatic German, or the superficial and fickle Pule. He ought to have Letter appreciated the moral operation on the mind, of so black and so horrible an act of per fidy and violence, as that, by virtue of which lie pretended to place on the throne of FERDINAND and ISABELLA, a vile Italian adventurer, who was to found .new dynasty of Corsican Kings. Even if he allowed himself to suppose that a great na tion, high-minded, loyal, and religious, was ne vertheless an base and profligate as to be insensible, to its own degradation and slivery; yet he should have secured himself against any effort of their despair. He unquestionably might have dote so, by greater precautions, and less precipitation. It was not eitowrli to hare made himself, a, lie did, master ofthe capital of Biscay. Navarre, and Catalonia, while he left Arra4on, Valenti., Cadiz. Ferrol, and the co.+A. of Astoria unoccupied. 1-1-nce has arisen the defeat and discomfiture of all bis plmn. Forty thoosand more troops introduced into Spain, previous to the attempt on the Kings of that country, would probably bare retained in obi t . the.blonarchy, if DUPONT, 'with on l y ten thousand men, had entered Cadiz, while t.trillltt had been admitted with eight thousand into Ser a , goses„ and Moues' had occupied Valentin with a similar number. no commotion of consequence could have arisen on the Ebro, or on the Gua dalquivir. Corruption, would bare suppre sse d every spark of discontent in the eastern and Medi. terrancun provinces. The squadrons of France and Spain would have continued to act in concert; while Juttcyr held Portugal in submission. Above all, the Comiciut, in other occurrences Ito acute and provident, seems to have naglectedlis usual precut. tioits, iu Asturitand Gallicia. He ought to have re. collected uotonly the tuountainotis nature of those adjoining provinces, ant: the independent character of the Cantabrian inhabitants. who twice liberated Spain from the Moors ; he ought to have dreaded their local vicinity .to England, and 'the facility with which, from their ports aid hirimiers, they could open a communication with this country. Twelve thousand troops, distti tinted along the bay of Biscay. at Coritinia. Gijon, and St. Auden). would have rendered even a kitowlittlge of their dis content impossible to have been easily transmitted from Oviedo to London. Happily for mankind, these measures, • ap. parently so obvious, natural, and easy, have been overlooked or despked by NAPOLEON. He is, we trust, about to pay the forfeit of his imprudence, if not of his crimes, and to find the terniinattou of his further conquests in a country, ,there, four months iwo ' he expected to have laid th e founda tionsP of a new dynasty of Corsican Sovereigns. We have given, in our preceding columns, 'a Pre elamation issued atLisboo,.byJoNOT, signed under his new title of Duke of •ASRANTEC Every line of it betrays the imminent danger of his situatioo, and liis terrors at the risiag spirit of the country. The ferocious threat with which it concludes, is the language of a barbarian driven to despair. It is stated in a letter from Amsterdam, that a Russian Courier, with dispatches Irons Prince ‘Vo- LONSKY, at Paris; to his Court, has Loren murdered in the Department of La Meurte, and his papers carried off. It is likewise stated, that a Nlessetsger from Vienna to its Minister LAMM Vfl 114.3iNT, at Paris, was some time before attacked in the same neighbourhood, but escaped, although severely wounded. At the date of the last accounts from the Isle of Trance. an Expedition was fitting out there, but the object of it was uuknown. A Letter from Bombay, dated the tut of March, mentions, the receipt of advice) from Shinsz, that the Emperor of PRIMA had been attacked with a violent hereditary disorder which was hourly ex pected to terminate his hie. Some popular com sootious had arisen in consequence of a report of his death, and au army, which bad been ordered to proceedlo the shores of the Caspiau sea. fur fo reign service, had refused to march, waiting the issue of.the malady. The Loire frigate, Captain SCHOMBEIG, is to take on board mousy fur Cadiz, and sail imme diately. General LELTU and suite go to Spain in her. The Tigre, 80,. Capt. Ktaa , is under or ders to join the Channel fleet; and the C.'enturien is appointed convoy for Itali fax. The Abundance store-ship, Joa, Far az, master, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday evening, at sun-set, from the Cape of Good Hope--The wind blew so bard that she bad uo communication with the shore. A letter from the SEctErAay at IVaa to the Commandants of Volunteer Corps, states, that w it may be inconvenient to many corps, desirous of transferring their services to the to as semble for etercile during the ensuing autumn, it is not His MtJarrY's intention to call upon such corps as volunteer into the Local Militia to as semble for exercise until next spring. An opinion has obtained. iu consequence of the above notice, that the Local Militia Act will not be carried into effect this yer.r, in regard to thaw corps which wire already volunteered into it. The Cambridge Militia, now quartered at Yar mouth, under the commund of Line Right Hoo. Col: YORKE have volunteered their services to :icy part of Europe. The numerons attacks upon Sir Pat sets BARIIIG in the Ministerial Journals. in which his conduct, in giving the President *nil the United States of Atnerim as a toast at the late dinner iu the City. iu honour of the Spanish Patriot*, has I.era severely censored, has produced and called forth a public answer from the Worthy Baronet, in wlr.L be says _ " I have always considered it to he the duty at a Clair. man to act with impartiahry and propriety, and mot In kir truAace any toast at a public dancer to a clandestine owe. nee. To i.core that I had no such ioteution, :Le &yams were printed, with a translation for the inforonsti.ie of the visitorv, and distributed at the table at alio L I sat, :admirals I believe they were only partially circulated at the ether tables. All the friendly Governments, with tbtw taapial:tre Sovereigns, weer given m regniar Inclusion : Spate, Par begat, Sweden, Sicily, crwirluiling with Ansert74. 32, site. *bon was a public one, and it wits sot permitted fur Ise to indulge a pets ate °piston or feelive •, rtrict impartiar.to auvi tiered propriety demanded that I should propose, and dot omit, Arne: with shorn we are to amity ai.d placing that country on IRO equal footing with the rat .la American Mirist.r is beta ; we have one in Anieriete; a state of peace mast therefore be supposed ewe 0 ; end st would bate been presumption for me, in sue Chair a sa respectable an Assembly and in the pm.eiget His v jestC Ministers, to have decided - whethe r th e isr e Fe ut sl4ll of t CullueCtwas between the two countries vial more as Ins friendly.".. Tnotsis linonew..Esq. is returned to sane in the prevent Parliament, for the Borou g h 01 Dor.- cialk, in the room P4Talak CRAW CORD Harr i. ho has scredted the office of titsmani or i;.* MUMMY'S manor of East need:val. ►n the couu.y or Berks. The Ayrohire Militia. Colonel Sir DAVID HE N . Tea BLAU,.. at Gosport, have volunteered t 1 it st-rviees in the cease of the Speuish Ihscifl limiter Wait is wen itattlitied to ku! :Ls French a merry dance. ■ (Signed) The Duce of A BRANTES. -44, THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, G: Gelb! Men kr.ll 11, I Lc d WTI N.. chin, Mr. Eyre L Ls irwit Wee 17r I bake ac. 1 i~~o~ ever hrati Win hoe 1 7 ti 'flu' Itli tii it l' CO rod pn pal 'a Si 7C 111 I LIP 110 ILO and rur tlir 1310,1 c:r: