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PORTUGAL, PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE, Linos, •KMT. 15. Several arrests have taken place here during the week, and many of the people arrested, it is said, are to he sent off in a Portuguese frigate. Among them are the following nausea : Mr. Ration, a French wurehant, sad Member of tha Board of Trade ; V,udrpi , a principal in a bowel of trade, and Member of the m•e Board ; Suntrap°, a Nobleman ; Judge Marcarceba ; Combas°, employed formerly by a late default er, wbo lived in his house ; Dufrurcq, a Frenchman ; Mar dank as English merchant ; Marchioness D'Atrito ; Jerome Ester's and son, of the Police Office , Dr. Almeda, a physi cian in the first practice; Brencamp, a merchant much re. special , Pellegrini, a painter, not long since in Loudon y McNeil, Estarcs, Jeseph Saldaaa, Sec. Sec. The subsequent paragraphs are cstracts trout some or our later' : " CURDY, sett. 14. " Lord W. hos takes up the line of positions be probably all Moog itteuded after the fall of Almeida; and hunger will, I hue', keep the French fiom advanring. Several great and rich, but suspected men, have been taken up sa parti sans of the sum,. It is said they are to be sent to the Brazils ; some merchants figure sway is the throes." aNOTtICR DST?. Treachery. 1 ant happy to say, does nor pervade the lower classes generally either in or out of Lisboa. I have lately rearmed (tom a nort►ern tour, and I find that the people every where are well disposed. Tbtir hatred of the Trench and love of the English is confirmed. " The British army, not including the Portuguese, now amonats to about as,noo men, without the late oedemas.— Farther reinfontenients are expected in our herbage daily, so as to increase it to ao,ooo, and then we need fear little. The French force directly opposed to ours dues not exceed, so far 'Lowe makers, about 50,00 o." CIIIRALtAk Matt: 011BRALTAS. iPT. il. The event which I have obw to communicate cannot fail to excite as much surprite in London, as it has this morning spread throughout the gar rison. The Satiate frigate has piss arrived here from Cagliari, with Mr. Adair, the British Minister to the Ottoman Porte, oti board. The Sakeite brings intelligence that Lucien Bonaparte has arrived at Cagliari, with his wife and family, and a nettnber of his relations, from Rome, for the express purpose claiming the protection of Mr. Rill, the British Minister, This siagular event, as might be expected, occa sioned much speculation at Cagliari, as to the ttio. tives and miser of so singular an occurrence. From a source which you may rely upon as authen tic, lam enabled to put you in possession of the facts which are briefly these : Not long ago his Imperial Brother, who is ex tremely anxious that all his relatives should be ma trimonially allied to such of the old Royal Stocks as can be induced to second his views, sent peremp tory orders to Lucien, immediately to divorce his present wife, as he had selected for him another f a rank sidled to the dignity of the Imperial Family. In the same message, he ordered him to take upon himself the government of the ancient capital of the world ; and, to crown the whole, accompanied his orders with a threat that Lucien should be con veyed a prisoner to France, in the event of the Eta peror's orders not being instantly obeyed. Lucieu, unwilling to repudiate his wife and bastardize his children, and at the same time well aware of the impetuous overbearing character of Napoleon, instantly adopted the only means that were left him to escape the vengeance and disho nour with which he found himself threatened ; em barked with his family, and what valuables he had at baud, on board an American vessel, and effected his escape to Sardinia, fur the purpose of chinning British protection against the lawless and unprinci pled tyranny of his own Brother ! Of course this protection has not been denied to him. For the greater security of these voluntary exiles, Mr. hill gave directions that they should im mediately proceed to Malta, under the convoy of the Pomone frigate ; and there they are to remain till the pleasure of Government is known as to their future disposal. A. the vessel which carries this letter is on the point of sailing, I have only time to add. that up wards of 1100 French deserters have arrived iu this garrison within a month put. ♦cornea Lyn's'', HA& DATE. " We are lafonmed that Regaier, with a cumidereble forre, • has crossed the Taps, sear Almatsra, to proceed to the Southward., His motions are watched by the triple ander Gesteral Hill, and the Spanish army wader Marquis Reiman. Thu load•quartere Lave bees removed to Gooses, but the cavalry wader Gamma Cotton stilt remains at Celeste°. " The Portuguese Army under Marshal Hanford has re medied from the impression made by the fall of Almeida. They, es well as the British troops, are in hip health and • Ppirits; while the French ere rappelled to suffer every dc privation, and in every mired. as in a "miserable condition." •NN 888 LETTIII GADS DATIL " The news of the fall it/Almeida begins sow to be mute- what leas thought of, hat it has had a great effect on the Portuguese in ',bend. Thu dsd Regiment marched a few Aday, ago for the army ; the 79th Cameroaiass are now ping. Oar army ham retreated a little; t►e bead-quarters are now at Goners: Minimal Hereford is at Moitaenta de Serra.- our cavalry, woke Getters! Cotton, are still at Celorico. The country from whence oar army is removed is deserted by the ishaintruts From Spain the accounts continue is be very favasrable ; there use very formidable bodies of Spinier& all ever the kingdom Souse Portuguese cavalry have lees seat la Badajos, and are now united to the Spanish army wader Ra man*. Part of the army under Replier has crewed the Tagus to the mutts side ; Gescral Hill's brigade will follow them. Great numbers of people hare beta arrested this week, some of high rank; all of whom are speedily to be seat out of the kingdom." ANOTIMIL LZITER, 11• MC DATIL. " The new Kersey appear to be acting with as excess of patriotism, in their endeavours to eradicate any symptom of corruption which may exist in the country. During the last week a very large number of persons have been arrested in this city and other places ; the exact cunt thereof is isei .kowwas. Never were the powers of the 1 tettaisit lon carried to greater extent; the individuals lake■ up, consist of several of the male and female nobilky, priscipal Friers, and an immense member of Ilereigaewi ; ancougst them some Irish men ; is short, soot but the English appear to have been exempted. They have out had any charge made agaiust them ; but as suspected persons. ordered is hold themselves in readineas to tabs& leniently fur the Porteguese colonies We cannot bat approve every precaution of t►is nature, how. ever we may regret the situation of several at the iodividuals whose truly fault is, that they see foreigners ; amongst these is nor friend Mr. Caaihiaso. The Soglisle:Payneaster-lienernl, who has been living with him the last two years, and who has his offices in the palace 4r. C. occupied, offered to the Government to give personal and monied security to any smoant: but the utmost lie could obtain, •as perinissiou for Lim to embark for England, which he avails himself of by to mocruw's packet. " inaoa , SWF,. IS, 6p. re. ' tlavii gjust heard that the British pocket closes at eight o'clock, only gives me time to acquaint yno of our srrival Mere on the szgth ult. from the Isle de Leon, which place ws left at twelve boors' notice. Of news I ran give you hut I ttle. B; a letter I received yesterday, dated from tia 11th inataiii, the essay were pukitiog on their columns tu• lentils Castello Branca, the British falhng back to their strung posts at Tumar and Villa Urines, to cover Lisbon, and to present bting out-flanked. LosgSVelbugton was at Ovum& " A plot, or a most sanguinary nature, has jolt breo found st it. Above one hundred most revealable inhabitants haws been apprehended, among them the Marquis Orontes.— On the S 2 gth of this mouth a general massacre of the British *ea to have taken plac►. The conspiracy ',Mewls throughT oat the country; at Tomer. Coimbra, and ritlitr towns in the interior, drp a irt• of arms have lima bead. ln consequence uf` the settni;icv of mourners confined, I ►aw just learnt, tram good asikkirity, that the Regearyaxpect a moue, and which was solutes taken place, or oily take place, this night. It was arrasspoll Is this manaer :—.This day the Cathedral, it helot the esseneenary of the expulsion of the Frauds from Lisboa, tamed oat a grand procession of Priests, &c. This evening they are to go mond again. Aboat tirto of the rebels were to be clothed SO British uniforms, and which have this day been donari ; the Priests were to be fired on, in order to make the populace smagioe that it was by the Si iti.ll soldiers °thin were lo eat elf as many of us as they could find, and others to release the primmer' confined at a small insulated curt near Belem. In order In he on one vinyl, officers are ordered ap to the east l.• , here our men are quartered, (Minter bullets is tows. Tilt business of t►e remise most either take place to night n• to- morrow, as those prisoner, are to he embarked fur Snail on Meetly. I 1 is a mind vile enarpirar7 a Pori tug married to a Freed' General, wade the happy illiaeuver)." THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4. LCCIEV BONAPARTE.—DEFEAT OF bIASSENA. - We this day present our readers with ■n account from Gibraltar of the arrival of LUCIEN BONAPARTS and family at Cagliari in the Island of Sardiniu. With Ins departure from his beat near Rome, for the avowed purpose of settling in America, we had been apprized through the medium of the foreign papers; but this was only a pretence to cover his real object, which was to seek British protection.— Haring lauded at Cagliari, lie placed hiinself, with his family, in the hands of Mr. 1111.1„ our Miaister there, who has sent him to Malta for better secic 7 iity. until lie has learned the seatiments of Go vernment on the subject, and received their in structions. From the reception given to General SAILRAZIN, we may presnine that the Brother of BOSIAPSILTIi will prove a Welcome visitor.—Nothing can be more calculated to mortify his pride, and to defeat his ambition, than this step of Luctsw. In NAPOLICON'S absence from France, he was the guardian and preserver of his interest and reputstinii ; and on his return, it was to his promptitude, energy, and talents,in the Council of Five Hundred, that he owed his elevation to the Consulship.—But Luct sn appears to have been a sincere and staunch Re publican, amid as such he became disgusted with his Brother, as boon as he proved by his conduct that the character was only as sumed in aid of his inordinate ambition.— From that moment he refused all co-operation, and withdrew into private life.—There are some, how ever, who impute this conduct, not to principle, but to prudence. They suppose, that in the eyes of Luctett, NAPOLSON aspired ton high ; and that the dazzling elevation which lie has attained is incom patible with perinanense or safety.—But to what ever cause it is to be attributed, certain it is that the most tempting offers of power and dominion have been repeatedly pressed upon him 11 NAPCI Leon, and have been all peremptorily rejected.— Among these, was the offer of the hand of a Prin cess of one of the old Royal Houses of the Conti nent—an offer of course implying previous di vnrce from his present wife. This is aV. signed, in the Gibraltar letter, as the imme diate cause of the extraordinary step wbish he has taken ; but had it hesu the real cause, it must have operated long since. It is possible, however, that NAPOLION's patience was exhausted, and that he renewed the offer with more than usual earnestness. To found a BONSIPARTIS Dynasty has beets his great object; sod the defection of Louts. froi the cow. visions, aci mach of of Lora the date of the td ult. lilr..lataaosi had zeturaed from a tour to the northward. in the steam-boat fr4ln Albany; and Mr. Molina, our Cbarge des Aft - aim. left the Vatwv on the With, and arrived at New Yoilt in the pilot-boat ou the fullo ‘hig d 4y. *gnarlier' Thursday. A woodcock was seen last week in Went , Gifin°rgamhirrs the property of It. Jss sta. The early appeannuce of there birds has e ben rally considered the iire,art et a severe 'tinter' lidded to the dif f iculties of JOSEPH in twilit, twat ' e t *--..., have tendered Lucien more essential than ever to his 0.4 is 7N7 ' 4 pia. To free himself, therefore, from further perses .7 .4,..„ ...-e_ 6 , SO eutien, and redid the violence tb he apprehended '-' •- L:irtEj se ium - - .' from a longer opposition to the wishes of NAPO* , . . , N,..... , \„, LEON, it became necessary to place himself beyond p i s Me his trash; aud, unfortuuately, in the present state wise 1 redo of Europe, there remitted no safety but on British Mr. Laioisgvhhets.o.oausaospuvLeu,oyra:dielELl:nis,:ridniennbieeslivctheitsil;ric_h...i: grounds or ground protected by British arms. t t o re th la e st ß i :of f s: The Hornet, American brig of war, arrived late di'faelsiseeerevs'ee/sedruledyucasfitpirilisdiesaaiulfirardur.iseagisreciesemSaisede g e s e u ve s r aa r l ev l y ss ll vd ee ra i T en r, 1 , 1 / 4 blir the es ening, were unanimous in t ie h n e7 ' thr"gl4lll 11 the on Tuesday night at Portsmouth, from Havre. She asserts, that, on Monday, accounts were receiv- ed at that place from Paris, dated the a 9 th last, ,tivhAiiis;it felaa:er:rarr:sliniue•eitrainegi,,,eiisearoebaddlepgtptoeoe:bijtreeuaedulaegiee,oavonAefdltdrecieLs re u o ri v iii P E: u b e d l e l r i : ii i ag e e i : which state that a general action had taken place person, in the character which he assiiin G ed, u 4j on will middle rio, tarter. in Portugal, in which Massewg had sustained a very expres bi ve . There are few clima t al ' : decisive Defeat. The Hornet le ft Havre on Mon- day evening.—The following is a letter from antenue, a Th i r n Officer on board the Royal lEilliarte l on this sub- range of Comedy more diffieult ret l y:hi be iiice :r th a cc e e s n e , 4l . jest : with effect, than that of Lord Oirleby. f t . . ° 1 ; ..d, tic it Royal William, sltithead, 7 o'cluck, bait of a nobleman of the old schools -br ed ale , Tuesday Evening. all the maxims of Chestertitidian polit.r iela il l The di lam confident you will le..' happy in hearing gallantry—aud piquing himself highly on the dig: ouse l news so favourable to the country. I have the plea- ni u tL e o s f s rb a le birth—but , eievulee with h all his foibles, ail Hit P merce with the world has not ! e t , sure to inform you, that this morning an Officer from the American brig of war, Hornet, came on rate. It is a species of ehaiac!er ereir e is c‘ e j ° ,' L l ' t . '' m : ii board our ship with the intelligence of Lord \Vet, the present day ; and, therefore, t pe l de ie rfoe p ar e asedt r e ilisi the r nart i c c l ly s 7'1 1 d: 1 ° 111 C : 1 i. Li SOTO N having completely deflated M AMIE NA. not, as in other cased, copy from nature—he c.i.•- a ,; • by an aCc C u a r i a t t l e i th s e try u s:f rs l i tt fm author t iej' a th loce cit e -. ' ll l' '' '' cl The news reached there, where they were, and which they left yesterday evening. The O ffi cer hope to uerprit himself with exccllence. ENO r a) he w :l l i ill . race% stated also, that the American Ambassador hod s t yle in tr i i n i ei w ts hi :li d s : e M ov i d .L hissi t o: thu g :i d : : quitted that country.—There was great despon- dency in consequence of the defeat of their army. part appeared P very correct--anisdcrTePperlir an t le •e' g/ The American Consul-General left France on the was generally marked by a chaste n p-O K " e e i , . r e all atsth ult." manlier exhibited considerable boomer. witho ut . • IS M _ generating into that grimace and contortion co : i ll in We stated yesterday, that Lord WELLINGTON we have not nufrequently seen mistaken for the ,r : „a n had retrograded, sod removed his head-quarters n hi u s i s n e ci s • u ir u c t o i r l e r iz. , P h r i i l o u r s t i o tt L e. g e r - d ie O ts g/ u tr i by th ' t r h s e e e p sztee , , d 's , ti c r e d from Celorico to Gouvea. His cavalry, which maid, gives an accurate portrait otitis Lordship• we are apprised of the delicate state of his ysoh-- 'a i i i: made a simultaneous movement from Alveres, at . , et the same time occopied Celorico. Deserters who from his einuneration of the various midcarms . ay came 111 on the 12th ult. report, that Mama A had 'which 1;-• must make use of, ere he is it to g. e lese moved his army to the right and left, along the through the fatigues of a day.—When Mr. LOT GROVE made his appearan ce , re: . the audience M a . frontiers of Portugal , extending from the Tagus to diately recognised the orrginal of the pletare-- , . .C:1 ' the Douro ; and that, having "eaten up "the beheld consimption, weird., and rhyme US, per To country. and nearly exhausted his stock of pro- sonified-s-ood a burst of applause followed, . A , visions, it was found impossible any longer to pro- greater than even the acklion !edged liber.l,l! I ( cure subsistence for the troop* while they remained London audience is in the habit of be-stoma t a Olei so . deliutant. If the exterior of Mr. Lomat-at 'u „ 'i n a complete iirmv.—We are tired of hearing possessed the audience so greatly in his it, .. •sas much of the starvation of the French—, : his delivery of the dialogue, his easy actin, TO a Man wants but little here below, the expresticris which beamed is his comma . ~,, Moe wards that little lung;"-- as the varied nature of the scene called it fen and a Frenchman, we know from experietice, cao (wh e th e r con t em pt f or th e vulgarity of the malt that it live any where, and upon almost nothing. It is citizen—delight at the idea of his sup;nued to wit' therefore probable, that this movement of Mass est—or a momentary vanity occasiolied by 0 nasal se A is only a feint, either to bring on a general flattery of his Swiss servant) l eave them boo „ ~ I , te to regret that prepossessum. Ile sustamerfiheci i Aro action, or, in the event of that being declined, to ratter with great fidelity throughout. Ili march one division of his army along the left bank scene. where his flattering dream of love gives I rl' as ' of the Tagus to Lisbon, and the other by the right to the more appropriate feelings of beneen TSn of the Douro to Oporto.—The dispatches from was finely performed, and excited i enthu;iitt , ic • logos. Lord WELLINGTON, referred to in the letters by i p i l l a s u a s m e. e fe ln w j i u u s s t t i au ce ; es , hoz i v s. eri iu szt uau t u bs se r i e s;s t si slime the Lisbon Mail, have not yet been received by His the dignity of the character : though generally ' s " MAJESTY'S Ministers. tinct in his utterance. his enuneistion was, hated --......—. times, so much hurried. a to mar the +emetic Thus Various particulars of the late Plot at Lisbon ore and he frequently exhibited a mama of lid . p age given in private letters from that city, extracts from ing with his singers, which was neither *prop . Quer which we have inserted. To it some will not fail to nor becoming.—But when there is so much to a. I , ,rea impute t he long inactivity of Massesig. tie may plaud— Noe cgs timid that I possibly have wished to wait un til it find been car- oriendar moths, qua' lan inane twilit the li rigid into execution, arid Lisbon had become a prey. The C i ll u a t ni h ca um e a r n o s f P n u a n n ca y tvi aas ast s ur rLined by Mr the I' to all the horrors which it 'was. c a lcul a t e d t o pro - EDWIN With great e ffect. The scene in whreh, they r duce. Those who coolly reflect and consider how reprobates the addresses of Sir Jan Melville, % ley, ei long that city was in possessing of the French, will worthy of her acknowledged powers. Mrs. SPA& bd. not feel great supprize at this discovery. wi t h was the Heidleherg of the evening s . _lt is ' a s s ch s a r, the ha their address and tale n ts f o r i n t r i gue , i t wou ld b e — ter a s u t s r l ic s t) e y s w ir i es tli s i ed u t u he sco nd pl pe s e o d f i t t h ad 1-'1 4. 1 .rii• time strange indeed if they had not m ad e p art i zans an d oauua made her first appe arance y as Alin Sin . la lII' friends, particularly among tbs. takeex, of whom her performance was spirited, and recelsed the e t „ we find some in the list of the conspirators. From 'need of approbation. Mr. Sterling. the Pe h i , i, accounts so various it is impossible to ascertain the proud citizen, the very inverse of Lard Of l e r. i , a 4 v, precise state of the ease. All we k now w i t h certa i n . e s l i c N el m le a n d t e l y h l: s er fi ro ni r t m : d P e b s y cii M u c r e ' P this " 5 ,,,, " „ ) ,. , . as porn ey is, that an extensive Plot was formed in favour led/. His instal was received with applause. web of the French, and that it has been defeated by a did great justice to the little which the char: ,„,, i) timely discovery. The principal parties having afford% tiel ] eicias been arrested, tranquillity was completely restored Ti i at the date of the last accounts from Lisbon. I. :i tl:. , v By the Leona, 44, just arrived from Melts, we Colonel TAT Lon, and Lady ELY, rode in the C _ S lift la .r ilig .: 4 , lma Eton . r°cr:lilini I g:114. accom p anied r i e.I Hi s lil l b ti rP4l:lZArd:BlGTWvenAeursaildils fliPiiii. ra:.! learn that the Lively, 32. Capt. M•litaxes% with Park till half-past twelve. n Rear-Admiral BOWLES s ad su it e on b oar d, went ashore ou a ledge of rocks on th e n i g ht th e y made Tuesday morning, His MAJESTY and fri B A noteeira arid SOPIII A took the i r usual .vo, siring to Windsor Great Pink till two s• fills, the Island. The ship is gone to pieces; but the a g i a ld lla c n r t e A w. dm ag i e nil id , i Ca u p v t ed sin . 11 w li th lint al t.r th , e h dol is Olaffirsceorna a rc t Au t u e lu n Ei d ile. ed ul Ttoo b A y rks, Lad uana. y aiT E rinh t. ge e, Q G us e s n m er s a u l dFpitriiinamols.E Es cna gl wa s board. Gardens. _.„..... A meeting was held yesterday at the Stack Ex- Ti T iesty P . rin p e a e id o a r 14 vi r s A it " W iltoli H rIrri e :glis r efi bi A:atreESlll;Ft. foul ' change, of the Gentlemen who have accounts with more Lodge, and afterwards visited Princess A Tr the Messrs. Gold:matins. But as there was no lAA: in the eveuing returned to Loutiocnstan Dc ilnali proofs of their having refused to settle any bargain, Dos MondayanC nigh t t L S C r lals:rilviettraTiplugusta Led' as is nothing decisive was done, and the meeting was Windsor, when they held • consultation with tie I adjourned till this day. Pure, stopt the night, and next morning retu • „ ,,,at Th 2 Funds yesterday experienced • little im- to London. l provern-nt. C3neuls left riff at 651, and the Die- Princess‘care A S: E lTy ciA tozy o t i ts: u h u e r h u li p o ss y s a l r il e ma i gi'enZ 1' : 4 ;: t count on °annum fell to 61. of her recovery. beat Lady lisserrn are So w ,' , 7 1 . qu a IVhen the Q u eee. Charlotte pa c k e t sa il e d f rom visit to the Earl and Countemof LUDY , a t ^ 11, Cadiz, the 94th regiment. and one company of the ley, Lancashire. 95th (rifle regiment), were tinder orders to embark LAdy I IEITIRCOTE returned on Sunday for f•uno. for Lisbon, in addition to the troops which had been house in Grosvenor-square, from Nornig s gte_ e r a : flees rresiously sent from that garrison, to reinforce Her Ladyship entertain:led • select partYll o t u r_. l qua Lord Wet.i•increntes army. ' His Royal Highness the Doke of Gr. to-mo r row. „ gel General GIADSTANE% who lately returned from intends to leave the Isle of Wiht torrao ": sikr the West Indies, is appointed to Sir JOHN DOT Les Southampton. On Saturday his HI" hot , ad Staff at Guernsey. ' ceeds to Winchester, and returns to latigs We have a s e ri es of Papers from New York to Monday, and is expected at his house in Pert" lull the date of the ad ult. Mr...lacesoe hail returned square on Thursday. me i 6 from a tour to the northward, in the steam-boat A woodcock was seen last week in Werv is v a _ , sad from Albany; and Mr. Mouse, our Cbar A re des Glamorgenshins, the property of It. die ' l _ isc. Algires, left the Venus on the with, slid arrived at • The mirly appessenuce of these birds has been Ii New York in the pilot-boat Oil the follo ‘ tug day. tally considered the presage el a severe w inter . ne ton from board had from accol preci been