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(ti 11.• and which had been supplied plentifully to the French squadron. The Court of Portugal dtrtiea the Court of Franca to prodders any fact in contra die. I,m to this assertion, which is founded iu the most exact and impartial truth. • France received from Portugal, from• 1804 to 1807, all the coluniai commodities aim raw ma terials for her onsmuleietui Ch. The ellasiire ear dd lenu Portugal was useful to Franciti sad iu the depression suffered by the arts and industry, in consequence of a perpetual war by laud, and a dis astrous war by sea, in v..liich he only met se ith dekats, it was certainly a great advantage to France, that ' the commerce of Portugal should suffer no inter ruption ; undoubtedly it was equally useful to both countries. By ravaging Portugal, by subjecting her to excessive contributions, in au taithearal-of man.; ner, without war, or any resistance having been' made on her part, Frutiee has lint oLtaiiied that advantage, which a commerce, a eful to both coon trice, would have procured to her. The Court of Portugal might tfien justly, and with every kind of foundation, flatter itself that that of the Thud:cries would rispect a neutrality which it had acknowledged by a sclera treaty, and from which it derived such decided Wm:D T tages, a hen it was awaked froM its security, in the mewl) of August, lend, la: a formel declaration of the Minister of State for Foteign Relations, M. • Talleirautl to Lord Yarmouth, by which the for ' tiler notified to the latter, that if Animal did not "ssialc.a maritime peace, the Freliab Government woeld'eleclare war against Portugal, and order that country to be occupied by 30,Qpi) men. It was not with 30,000 men that the ievasibil of Portugal could be effected; lout the Emperor of the French, who knew the *sodality in which Portugal found herfelf, iu tioneeqnciale of the treaty of neutrality, thought hr could take her by surprise. and this was sufficient to instifjr his proceedings.. The • Court of Eaglaud was alarmed by the above decla ration, and potemsed and o•.ereel to that of Par. . all kind of succour; hut Frauci2„ which at that period had arranged every bung to crush the 'Pruetian Court, which then alone hid defiance. to - the sapetriar pewter of the Emperor of the French, 'while a tweiveulotith before it wool I not attack, and perhaps compel him to receive the law, and save Europa. jointly with P.ussia and Austria, found means to pacify the Court of Portugal, which he than choke to spare, and could not con ceive that a similar perfidy could be the attribute of a power, whose iresgriess ahonl l keep pace with that integrity and those (lit:tidied sentiments, which suit so well an exalted rink. The war which was afterward, coatiiined with Russia, and which might yet perhaps hove wad Europe, if the union of the Governments which -- .e1,„;..id0e-it. had been as claw us it should hare been, /lilt retarded the exccation 'of' the views of the . Emperor of the Frei.cii with regard to the Court of Portugal; and it was only by concluding the peace of Tilsit that the Court of the 'Thitillerie, in a dietatorial tone, such as might have become Charlemagne, addressing the Prince* whose 60. vereign lord he wee, caused the strange demands to be made to the Court of Portugal, through time medium of the Preuch Charge d'Affaires, and by the Spanish Analaissadorm-Ist, To shut up the ports of Portugal 'monist England. , 3cl, To detain all Englishmen who resided iu Portugal; and, 3d,To coofiscate all English property ; or, in case of re fusal, to expose itsellto an immediate war with France and Spain, because the Freud) Charge d'Affaires, and the Ambassador of Spain, had orders to deport on the Ist „So. shout three weeks after the mid proposal was made, in ease the Court of Pir tugal should not comply with all the pretensions of the two Cututs. The good faith of the French Government is no less remarkable, with regard to the celerity with which, ulcer having made that declaration, and without waiting for the answer of the Court of Portugal, it ordered all Porttignese merchant-ships to be detained, which were in the ports of Prance, and by that measure actually be gan hostilities, without any previous declaration of war, and thee carried a far greater length all the proceedings which formed its continued topic of reproach against England; which, after such a con duct, will be justly valued. The Court of Portugal might then will have adopted the knon ti maxim of the Homan', and been convinced, that disgraceful condition' fie qtietitly saved thine who refuse them, and brought destruction upon those by whom they were proposed; but on the one side it could not believe that the ciiiirt of theThuilleries made, in earliest, propos a l. which committed both its honours and its dignity ; and, on the other side,it hoped to ward oft the storm s desirous of sparing the blood of its people; and placing implicit eoulitlence in the friendship of His Britannic Nhiesty, its old and faithful ally, it ms 'deavoured to render the pretrosions of the French Government more moderate, by acceding to the shutting up of the ports, and refusing the two other articles, as contrary.to theprinciplemof the p u bli c law, and to the treaties, which subsisted kiettteen the two natioulii and. his Hnyal !Lewis:the Pri me •Regent of Poi tuguCliad no hesitation to declare. that those articles wounded crproily religion and tfia . ptinciplra ocmorality, from which he never!! viatea; aid oi4ich are, perhaps, the true cause of th q nosOakitit fidelity which lie has ii.perieuced ) IS ail part of his subjects. I • The Court of Portugal then began toadopt mea sures for securing its ietroaf‘to that part of the :Portuguesedominions which is not exposed to any : nivasion, the consequences of r h6ch might create alarm. For this purpose, it ordered all such ships of war as were fit t . keep the sea, to be fitted out, and also directed all the English to leave its doini ! Mons, and sel; tow property, with an inletaion to shut the ports aga list England, iii order thus to avoid un effusion of the blood of its subjects, which would probably have proved useless; mid to eadea vour to comply with the views of the Emperor of I the Freud', in einehe should not allow himself to be softened down .by that justice with which the Court of Portugal asserted the rights of its inde pendence, along with those which resulted from the treaty of neutralikv.cocaCiAia in 1804. Thc Court alf the Thuilleries, unwilling to agree to any ; conci liatory measnres, cud having demanded not only the shutting up of the ports, but also the impri sonment of all British suljeets, the confiscation of their property, and the dereliction of the project to retreat to America, his Royal Highness the Prince Re7eat of Portugal, who knew, on the one side, that .I hi; Britannic Majesty, his true and old .ally, informed of all the transactions which were going on, would cansent to the shutting up of the ports, in order to save Portugal from the invasion of the French, and ohs was convinced, on the other side, that there WS: no 1 roger any Eiiglish man iu Portugal, Olin was act 'naturalised in that country, and that all Eitgli.ll property limp lieu sold, sc•d even its an:oont exportial,adopted the resoluti on to shut up the ports og.tiost Loglesid, :and clam to comply with the re,t of the dematuls and preten sions of France, declaring, however, lit the same , time, that, should the Freud' troops cntrr Porto ;al, .his latoyal Highness was lit oily resolved to re move the seat of Coveruinetit to Bruit, 'which ! forma the most important and hest defended part of his dominions. Hi; lioy.l 11 , glinesi then Or dered the whole of his army to more to the toast nod seaports ; supposing th.it as France had essen tially obtained all she . deitiantied, she had nothing more to a-Ic ; cootpling in mit ' goticf faith, which ought to be considered as the fundaiiietilial pie ciple to every Goyerittneot which has ceased to be revolutionary ; and feeli.ig conscious that having done every thing in his power to secure the trail qnillity of his , eo l de, awl avoid an useless effu sion of blood, he had fulfilled all the duties of a virtuous Prince, adored by his subject*, and who, to the Supreme Being alone, has to sceoeut for Ms 'actions. The French Government there observed a line of conduct towards his Royal Highness and his demi nions, which would be uisprecedented in history, were not the iiivasioo of Switzerland by France, in the time of the Executive Directory, of a similar de scriptien. General ..lunot, without any previous do- ,claratioa, without the consent of the Prince. Regent of Portugal, entered the kingdom with the vanguard of his army, assuring the people of the country through 'Midi he marched, that be was going to succour his Reyal Iliglicseas against au invasion of the English, and that he entered Portugal as the General of a friendly dad allied hver. He received, on his journey,cconvincing proofsof the good faith of the, Portuguese Government ; for he witnessed the perfect uneasiness which prevailed with regard to France ; and that all the Portuguese troops were near the comit. • His 'Royal Highuess the Prince of Portugal, surprised in such au extraordinary men net', 'mot have rallied around him ►he body of troops, which were at a small instance from bites,• caused the English fleet to cuter the port of Lis bon, and thus cut to pieces the small and miserable corps with which General Juaot was advancing, ' with a degree of temerity which would have been ridiculous, haul not General Junot, whose conduct at Venice and Lisbon hes but made I ton wall known, relied on the feelings of a virtuous Priam, who would never expose his people to the most dreadful of calamities by a sure first louvres, which only could have served to chastise the audacity of a man, who, like matey others, abased the power with which► he was entrusted, or who acted in pur suance of orders which cannot lie justified. His Royal Majesty the Prince Regent then adopted the only measure which could suit his si tuation, according to the principle which he had constantly followed, to save the blood of his people, and in order to prevent the criminal plan of the French Government from being carried into execution. which had nothing less in view than to *mute his Royal Person and the whole Royal Fa oily, in order to divide, at its own will ■nd plea sure, the epode of the Crown of Portugal mud the Portuguese domisions. Providence recouided the efforts of. a just Prince, and the magnaiiiinous re solution-which his Royal Highness adopted, to re tire, with his August Royal Family, to Brazil, dis concerted at once the efforts of the French Govern ment. and exposed, in the clearest light, in the face of Europe, the criminal and treacherous' views of a government which aims at the nonverbal domi nation of all Europe and of the whole 'world, if the great Europcno Powers, reused from the lethar4ic stupor into which they are stink, do not make common cause vigorously to oppose an ambition so immoderate end exctirsive. Since Ins Royal Ilig'itiess's safe arrival in his tiptainiens, its Road, lie has learned with horror, Hot only the u►urpation of Tortuga!, and the loge and pluudcr practised in that country, but also the ►hameful proceeding of the Emperor of • the French, who, as th 4 true dictator of Europe, dares to reprevent it as a crime of his Royal High ness's, that he as removed his ►eat of Government to Brazil ; and in his faithful subjects who followed him, to have accompanied a Prince, whom all his people revere, still more on account of his vir tues, than of the rights of his August Royal Family, which he has inherited, and by virtue of which ht• reigns over them. His Royal Highness has, wit nessed with horror the hardihood with which on attempt has been made, in an offieial paper, to proscribe the rights of his Atigust Royal Family to the Crown of Purtugul, with which he will never part ; RIO lie is entitled to demand of the Emperor of the French, from what code of the law of nations he has drawn similar principles, and received such an authority, claiming to this subject the most serious cousidt ration of all European powers, who cannot see with indif ference what has here been stated, and the intro duction of a new Government in Portugal, without his consent ; as well as the raising of an exorbitant contribution, demanded from a country which opposed no kind of resistance to the entry of the French troops, and which, on this very ground could not consider itself as being at war with France. The must remote posterity, us well as itnpartiul Europe, will see with grief similar transactions, the forerunners of ages of barbarism and misery, sneli as those which followed the downfall of the Roman Finpire, and which cwmot be avoided, un less esev thins be tirade to restore the er t ulimoitd of Europe, by an unanimous effort, and with a total rthlivioil of all ideas of rivalship, winch have hi thetto Ikea the true causes of the eleven iou of that uluala.traua palaver which threatens to swallow up all. After ilea correct anal true statement, mark by his Royul Migliners the Prince Regent of Pc:Ain-gal, to Europe and to his subjects, of every thing erhich has between the Portuguese and French waver:in:eat ; and as the Emperor of the French has not only invaded Portu,,al, and laid that coun try under time most dreadful and ulmost incredible contrilintions, under the clnuk of frie:alship, but has also long a j o withdrawn his emu hil&S) from his Royal Highness's Court, and even caused Portuguese menma.ai Slaps to be seized, which were in his ports, sithoot any preview. ttttt of war, arid 1:00. trif rt to an express article of the Thuty of Neutrat lityjneu wheat he derived the greaten advau tages ; and, lastly, declated war against hint; according to the Report of the Minister foi Foreign Affairs: his Royal llighneso, after hating resigned his arose onto the hands of the Aaglity, whom he hits every right to invoke in so just u-e• ease, thinks it chic to his rank, anal to the dignity alms crown, to mirky the following deelovation : His Royal Hog:meta 'breaks off all communi cation w,th France, recalls all the nieur!..irs of lams Embassy, if any should .yet remain, and :authorises his subjects to wage war, by sea slid land, against the subject* IX the Emperor of the French. His Royal Highness declares null and void all the treaties which the Emperor of the French has compelled him to conclude, and in particular those of liadajoz and Madrid, in tsui, amid that of situ trality in lao4, because he has violated, sod never respected them. His Royal Highness shall not lay down his arms, unless in concert with His Britannic Majesty, his old end faithful ally, avid will never agree to a cession of Portugal, which forms the most ancient part of the iolieritimee and of the rights of his August Royal %%lieu the Emperor of the French shall have ea. tidied, in every point, the just claim of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, and shall hare relinquished the dictatorial and imperious tone in which he lords it over oppressed Europe; and when he shall have restored to the Crown of Portu gal all he lots invaded in the midst of peace, and without the least provocation, his Royal High ness will avail himself of the earliest opportunity to renew the connexion which hasalways suLststed be tween the two countries, and which ought to esi-t between notions, which will never lte divided but by the principles of an inordinate ambition, a hich, at-- cording to the experience of ages, have also proved destructive to the welfare and tranquillity of all tui tions, by which they were adopted. Rie Janeiro, /day t, lass• SPAIN. (Front 71, Ceneee Cosine.) lIIADIUD, JULY 27. Authentic intelligence has reached this city, that General Dtipont has surrendered, after the complete defeat of his army, which consisted of 20,000 men, on the 21st of this month, between 11.1t.it and Andujar, in Andalusia. troops had eommitted the greatest outrages in even• place which they had entered. The Freud) army were delivered np as prisoners, to the disposal of the Junta of Seville.—The attacks which were inade upon his army lasted from the 15th in the morning. " General Mouc•ey, who was iii Valencia with 11,000 men, has returned hither with the small remains of his army. The Arragenesc &tin& ing themselves with this utmost bravery agrunst the attacks of the French. " The troops of!elicit which, it is wad, are coming to besiege this city, and rescue it tom slavery, amount to about 45,000 men.—Thos e Andalusia to 50,000 ; those of Estratnadura to -m,ituu, and of Murcia to 20,000. A part of thet a have already arrived within eight or uitie league. of thi. city. The populace are in a state of the im most ferment. as MANZAN•L, JULY 30. " The head-quarters remain here. 011 our Ii ft we have the enemy at Leon. The exercising awl new organization proceed a ith the greats !irony. tude, and the Generals, Officers, and Suldiir, i i ~patient fur the moment of coming to action with the enemy.—General Cuesta Ia gode to Salamili c4 to orzauise a (owe there. " C0R1:W.44, ACC. " The Tunnant, of AO gnio, au Eughsh e of those taken from the French ut the Nile•, lb Colll.' into our port." THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, Aucurr 11. By the Swallow brig, the arrival of whieh we mentioned yesterday, we have receive.' Como. oil Papers to the SEII instant. Poor J.s.i:teir appeci co be destined the victim of NAPO I. EU *hunt and caprices, mid brother LUCIEN, who refused to Net a principal part in the drama which We so keg been a tragedy for Europe, already a ppear s the mist sagacio us politician of the family. tide has turned completely against' NAPOLEON.... l'he Patriots are advancing to Whid, acid Jostra is preparing to run away from it ; while BESSILILI, who was advancing to Andisj.sr, is falling lisieLto cover the retreat of the unfortunate 6/CSEPEL The Manifesto of the Court of Poitagal, dat•d * Rio Janeiro, May 1, justifying its recent comliwt in relation partieolarly to Fniner, ix given iu stir preceding Accounts of a very satisfactory and important nature were yesterday received by the Spani,li Ministers, front the Hague. The Chevsl . ot D'Artumtea, SCI.I to the Nobleman of that name, whom long resided here in' London, in a puhhe character, left the Hague only 6ve days ago, en till Sth inst. He declares, that previous to hie quitting Holland, it wait Weil 'known that the Austrian (ie. remanent had dsa*uded or Box•ipiaTt. to :eta that the a'relich troop-, quartered iu the Prussian dominions, should immediately evacuate that country,. in compile et with the stipulation and artiefes of the Treaty of Tilsit. If Iles intelli,,;eace is authentic, a war between Frinee aid Au-tria may be considered as tanniueet an .nevitaltle. Nor eau Prussia, so fa.: as that Powei lerivesses any enema of resistance s or cf oGe..ee, remain a mere spectator of each a contest. In lisly, the indignant fermentation, e by the outrages, viobenc , and excesses of tha Corsican Tyrant, is every where rcalbt to burst nee action. Throu4nout t . e Neupolitai k t . eresiory, par ticulerly in the Provi See of the Afirezzo, which is con' Iguous to the Panel_ doe l inions, aid nntless ia Calsb in, the inhabitaitts sit t may the ri-c ui on their r.ppres ors. In the city of Naples it self, lint less than ersons are knowti tohlite sigl.itie d, through %brie agents, to the COurtof lertne, their &tenni tuition to Lila:: up arms agslii‘st the two Brothers of Ajoiccio, %believer the mo ment was considered to be favourable. It been, for three months past, the coo-state of of the Sicilian Governineet to repress this spirit of loyalty, and to restrain its effect*, tilt. they ini K :it produce the best consequences. The precautions and exhortations adopted in Tuscany .by :phut. in order to quell or to mollify the popular detesta tion, Ruffigiesitly manifest the apprehensions of tier French Government at Florence and at Legh‘r.:. —Even the Piedinnotesc have exhibited. timilir sentiments and a similar disposition. I)uroxf3 surrender may not improbably light up these com bustible elements into a Mame. BONAPARTE, from whom such circumstances could not remain coo ecaled, may, therefore, notwithstanding the deli cate, precarious, and critical position of his affairs beyond the Pyrenees, have regarded his extant to Paris, or to the Rhine, as indispensable. 'it is, in deed, difficult, or impossible, on any other prin ciples, to ex: ditin his departure from Bayonne, be fore he had even 'scented intelligenee of his brother's arrival at Madrid. The Thunder bomb, Charger, Piercer, and ril r• &sleet gan-briv., sailt•J from Multiuse on tlic June, with a fleet, consisting of seventy- ax sail, bound to the 13altic. When ',early abreast of the. South end of Sultholm, the wind l:ega.: to slat ken. About 5 p. m. the Danish sailing and gnu-boats he• gall to attack the Lo.ivoy. The Tarbeleora main ton-mast liming shot sway, she was obliged h , etr.ke. The Charger and Piercer being m the van, far distant, and the wind unfavourable, could' mot mast the rear. The enemy then formed ea both quartets, and a-stera of the Thinakr, two eta-pounders were got nut naafi, and the lire krl't up from 6 to lb p. m. and alien the cuemy only seven shot, out of their complement of 1..0, were left. lied the Thraider been captuted, thing could have saved ti ne convoy ; and is conse quence of the great evertions of Captain Caul... FIELD and crew, only twelve fell i:.to the hinds of the enemy, several of which west ilenerted. by their crews, te•fo:e the enemy's near. T