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lOREICN INTELLZGANCIL FRON THE MONITIEVIL PARIS. NOT. 30. NOM OW TUN CONDUCT OF TDB INOLISII IN PORTV 0 A L. " The army of Portugal ties enceuntered oh stacks in the conquest of that ktnadout, which arise from the very nature of things, and are the neces sary result of an inactite system of deleace, which was penfonudly meditated, sod has been executed without remnant, with a siogular barbarity an known in our European wars, for the houour of States sod men. • " The Pertuguree do not love the English ; the latter, lame it. They have taken posoessron of the Portuguese army, by Ailing it with English officers. :,. . The Portuguese General Ofieers are oo longer . ..- - employed. but to the fortresses, and with the mi lite. All the brigadiers, one or two principal offi cer, in each seglinent, and a gnat number of sub alterns, are English. Part of the higher order of Pil Portuguese Nobility followed the Prince Regent to the 'breads ; there is another part in France; they ... '-- have removed from place the few that remain.— • • This system has excited great complaints. There have been. end still are, frequent quarrels between the 'Seers of the two nations. " The capture of Cut-idiot Rodrigo, and portico • lark of Almeida, without so attempt having been • mode to relieve those two fortresses, gave great offence to the Portuguese nation. The Jane& of Govern ,. meat was diesatedirl. Lord Welliugtoa perceived that be had net soncient influence over its mem bers • it woe determined that the English Aral's*. gado at Lesbos should become • Member of the Itakency. and that no act of Governineut should he executed salvos he censeeted to it. Then ap peared several decrees worthy of the time of Ro bespierre. One prohibited the Porniguese, under pain of death, to talk on military 'object., or to converse on any other area than what was printed is The Lisboa Casette : another decree ordered the ialtabitauts, under the same penalty. to evacuate It. trams and villages which the Enehth should abandon. to carry with them th-ir provisions and , .. their cattle, to barn or eirOW into the rivers eh's. , they could sot remove, to destroy the mills. the furniture. to hurts the crops that were not cut , • • dews. sod to let the wine run io the streets. • . " At the begiutang of the month of September, the Marshal Piste, of Eliding asseuildt•tl his corps - ef the army is the neighbourhood of Almeida.— Lord Wellingtoaironsediettly evacuated JO leagues of country. He took a position at l'onte Marcella. near Coimbra. This retrograde movement threw the Perteguese into roneternatien. The Regency became alarmed; the Portuginise 'temps began to • deem; it was a common report in the rank., that Rolland intended to embark them. to waste theta aterwards iu expeditions in the West Indies, cud in lodic Lied We:Weston removed the feats of the Mreiteney. and sispeueed the eornotrueeustat of the ineerrection. "The French army entered Portugal : dog or dam of Lord Welliegton were execated. The pea. mots who did not My, and who were afterwards . Wised It tit English. were either shot or trouser's. ad. Their very wasps pilliced sod burnt the vil. WOW Shoat lohalsitaate hesitated to destroy litter prookietto and feroitart. The road from Abseil* -- . Illa L lsisasiso memee : deemeplets elevert. We did het west Istk psis eutris this &Mace. te after*, battle of Seems. Wellingtys caused Ceireitire to be illemmated. by the way of rejnit li the imps employed en that occasion were • l burning whets the English were in full re. Mot. Thew Aesop pillaged Coimbra. end coin- IMithr• the greatest eli• orders before they withdro-re. seFla eta dap Wellington ran from the banks of die Mousier to his intrenelowents at Li,bnu. By the rapidity of his march, the districts of the val. by of the Tagus escaped the velem of complete extesughistion. The discontent was a:trestle ; the, P"Plo of Lesbos broke oat into insurrection; they deelered that they would penal the Erogrwh from emborbitig as the. porta of the Tagus. Then was IIII: . ned that absurd conspiracy of silty indivi d priests. judges, merchants, former (Amide se meson to the French. the greater num bs" imassometed with political parties. whose only mime woe to attribute to the Englis• Mielsievelism the vase of their country. and to predict that their lotemmes *Northers would finish by evacuating the isomitty. expand by its very defenders to greater bowels then at I , people have yet experienced. " The ravage of the Palstinate, fur whrah Lim ? oak Via so much reproached. perpetrated by sit ostlers army. was Nothing equal to the ravage eisilitte4l moosig. the Portuguese by their Allies. itreereg dome petended coespirators. those who hod moot ioseeence on account of their birth. their epitome s their talents. were taken up, and sent to Leedom Others were imprished, sod afterwards thesported to the Besets. fo The su g lish send to South America the Por tuguese families who ore disposed to embark. They de whey thin to prevail upon those who hesitate to quit the country. The more people quit Lisbon, thy fewer osemiss will they hear to feed. The si tuation of the English is alarmism : they are only WOW at most, mil their side are 40,000 dow cootooted Portuguese soldiers. Behind thy*. are HOW reflexive in despair. end the immense pn palatial of Lisboa. The English rule only by ter ror I they tied the nobility and the public with the ream co 'tempt. Every night is signalised by arrests. by misurer ; provisions are above all price; it is only by enormous sacrifices of moon that they eve able to prevent so insurrection. • The English moldier receives at this time • • posted of salt meat. a half ration of biscuit. s o d • certain quantity of rum. The Portuguese soldier seceiho bread ; but only half a pound of meat, sod so rum. This ieseetuility of distribution is the moo of dotard between the two *rabies. a. All the refugee. who wish to go there, are transported to the Aleatet The others are hutted and luvoisecked estaide •sbou. It is not possible to rater that city without a card of •of.ty. The Governeseot ceases biscuit to he distributed le the refugees. The occupation of the Aleut. in will completely starve Libbers. sod pollee( a cnsis fa. Issl to the. English. " The enemy has a great many sick. They also lase a great deal mote by (lumina thee to soy termer campaign. They desist la avoid corporal punishmeot. " The Frames assay is in pod spirits: it bas eonfideoce is its Commander. We have bad no desertion from the national tramps. The army has few foreign battalions. We may be assured. what ever the English may sap, that there are tie de serters." PRISMIERS OF W.M. The following is s Copy of a Letter which the British Goverment has ordered the Commissioners of the Transport Huard to send in reply to all the demands of French Officers here to be released. It proves that, although the negotiation is broken off, our Government will still soften, u much at possible, the misery of individuals, and exchange, on the principle of man for man, and rank for mask, such of the• French prisoners as may obtain the consent of their own Government for their release. Tramport.Offics, Landow: “Sta—. The Commissioner' of His Majesty's Transport Board have received your letter, dated the —.and they have directed me to inform you, that it is the determination of His Majesty's Go vernment. not to send back French Officers to their own country, until the French Government here 'timed some English Officers, in exchange for the great numbe► of French Officers who have obtained this favour from the British Government ; or until the French Government have consented to a cartel, upon the fair principle of man for man, and rank for rank. conformably to the constant usage of ci vilised nations; which His Majesty's Couitunisioners have frequently proposed, though their ettirts to accelerate en exrh,nge have always been ineffectual. " ono, however, to inform you, that if the Presich Governmetit will send back to England en Officer of your rank in exclisti4e for you, or even ceri.fy officially to Ili• Britaunic M3jedy's Coin missiu: ..... And, upon your arrival in France, an English prisoner of your rank shall be released, you shall instantly lanai', yaw release. You must see, that in the present state of af fairs, your Got ernineut alone is the cause of your detention in this country ; bat if you think prier to make any represeutitions to your Government, you may rely upon it that His Majesty's Com will faithfully transmit them. I vin. Sir. •• Your very humble and ohedivnt Servant. " ALux. 11.Ccm. Secretary." THE BRITISH PRESS. lON DON, SATURDAY. DECZYIIII S. The following Bo&tin was silent, jcstenl ty at St. James's Palace : " Wiad•nr Castle, Dee 7. • I. I4s Ittist.ave'A iutlispets:tian i r e i a.ra t:troli g h the day )evterilay ; but hr has had some hours' sirep iu the uight, v.. 1 is ti-t.rt this =suing." ( . ...leed o vnial.) The evening Bslleitiy our raiders are seam has been discontinued since Wednesdiy. Some of the papers assign the improved mop of Ills %I IJEst!'s health as the cause of this t h •voutiuuancr.—We wish Neat it was in our r seer to eutifi , in their awes unlit ; but the Bulletin► of the two 14. t days are at variance wiih it ; and we are Autry to add, that our pirate accounts are to the full as utif.vonrable ns the Bulletin.. Another and mere probable cause has heirs assigned, and it is this:-The evui• , >; Bulletin* were nut Oined at Windsor unlil after nine o'clock. au hour ton late fur then. to reach town in time for publication in the morning papers of the following day. or confae none but a few pcismi at iVin-lsor ha I the benefit of them on the night of their signainre, and they did not reach town until the next day. when they arrived in company with toe Bulletin of the morning. For any London purpose. therefore, it is obvious that two separate Bulletins were un necessary. and that the contents of both might be consolidated into ono. This, however, might have beeu avoided, if the Physicians had condescended to make their evening report at 7.instrad or g o'clock at night : in which epee is (0,11,1 be received in time for publication in the Morning Papers, end the great mass of the people of this immense metro polis would not be left the whole forenoon totally uninforined upon this most interesting subject The alteration for only one Bulletin in a day to be issued on the Case of 114 NI AJEMT T. was made by Mr. Itvocit, as Secretary of State for the Ilwrie Department. when he was at Windsor nn %Verities diy with the Docto7s. when he and the Earl of Lteca,not, leaf ups ords of an hour's conversation with them upon the state of as Majesty. The Speculator is arrive at Falmouth, Roes Lisbon, with an account, as we stateJ yesterday, that Geueral CUT Coll had cut oft 3000 men, the rear or Manitsrs's army. They are Stair.' to have been boned in • wood, in • wretched condition, and to have been taken without any loss on our side. There is • mistake in the number. They must hays been the 490 which were taken at the cominencrinent of the etien”'s retreat. The Spe rutator sailed before the Jasper, which brought Loril WILLINGTON's sad Admiral etaneist's dispatches. The brig Experiment, Captain DOTY, arrived at New Verb on the 7tb of October, after a passage of 95 days, from Batavia. The Captain reports, that two days before he sailed, the Commander of the Spice Wend. (fiT7) was shot by order of the Go vernor-Grueral, for having given up those Wends to the English. A number of Engineers had joust ar rived at Batavia from the I•Ie of France, fur the pur pose of constructing fortificatiens. The mat of Go. tamest bad bass removed from &MA& to But. Sestet, a place about 50 sass from Batario, where the Governor-General bu erected a most splendid palate. An English squadron passed up die Chinese Seas about the 25th of :June. We have copied from The Meniterr a philippic, published by the French Go. ernmet.t in that I vet. r against the conduct of Lord IVt. Lit...soros and the British Army in Portugal. " We declare," says .he Carrier, " that the ac -1 counts we have received from our Army, whether official or otherwise, have less raised our hopes and spirits, than the observations in our Opposition Journals."—lt is a poor compliment to a man's understanding, to say that it is impenetrable to truth ; that it is en obstinate in error as to be inca pable of receiving a right impression; and that. seeing only through the medium of prsjudice and party, every thing unfavourable to it appears dis torted and inverted. The Editor of The Courier having made this confession respecting himself, we hare no right to question it. But perhaps we miss take excessive vanity for humility; and that, in this expression, he does not mean to acknowledge that his mind is so pt ly formed as to receive from arguments an ironic:aims the very reverse of that which they are colculsted to make: but, en the contrary, that the arguments of his opponents upon themselves, and estaldisli the points which they are brought to relate. Supposing then this to be his meaning, let us see how the we stands. The Treasury Journals represent the retreat of Masse's& to Santarem us a defeat on his part, and gloriois victory on the part of Loid WIII.I.InOToN ; while the Opposition Papers consider it may a te; moral to a convenient powition for the arrival of the enemy's reinforcements end supplies, and • move ment that places the Albs d Army in a less adv4n tageous situation thou that which it lately occupied. There is little room for sophistry in arguing this case; (.call the points nee•loary to elucidate it are simple, and stand admitted even by the Treasury Juorsials. Santarem is one of the best and strongest positions in all Portugal. During the time the French A rmy lay in front of the Allies in their late strong lines. Massexa was fortifying and improving it. Ile bas now retired to it for the ecsavemence of obtaining his supplies and reinforcement*, and may there a' it their ariival in safety. It op. tor his communicas lions with Rertural a,:l Spain, turf from thence hr ran draw provisions ; and the convents and churches of the place are sufVient to accommodate his whole Army—while- the Allied Army most re main ben, it, hutted, and exposed t• all tio• priva tions and distresses of a winter campaign. The si tuation of the two armies is thus completely re. versed. ASitENA. at Santarem, possesses all the eviroisla:zes which Lord WELLINGTON enjoyed at T ,, rrea Ve Ira—he is within donee, the Allied Army is witliont—the pursuer is become the pur sued ; the assailed most new in his turn become the assailant. Wu are argniog upon thy state of things of the dale of the last accounts, which are to the 2.11 . What may hare happened since we do not pretend to say. Masseaa may have since retreated still farther. He may hate takes, Abrantes, or he may hive fallen hack to Castel Branco. Oar arett 'sent, on any or all of these events is not afficted by them. The relative situation of the two Armies will be the same as it was at Santarem. The ques tion then resolves itself into this—ls Lord Wee al N aro l'o sit tuition improved by the change?—or has he let slip the glorious golden opportunitv of fighting • battle with greater advantages than he is ogsin likely to possess?—for the idea of destroyi g the enemy by routine is, we believe, now given up. Indeed, how the hope of being able to reduce Mantua by famine came to be so confi dently mentioned by Ministers, we cannot con ceive, as he had it in his power to retreat when he plea.ed, and to shape his course through an no. touched country. Ministers may not be able to live without Cabinet Dinners, hot more homely and 'tensity fare will satisfy a soldier ; and of stil u. s tione, the French can, perhaps, supptat nature with less sustenance. and are most ingenious in the dies covery of enbstitutes. Ewen men ass-t 1 to luxuries OM learn to suffice privations that kipear interim- StIaILsPEAIII6, that great master of human nature, in his Play of Antony .Nd Cleopatra, puts the following address iota the month of Casa& " Antosy, Leave thy lascivious vassals. Whew thou roes Wait beaten front Modena—obey* thou slyest Dirties sod Patna, eonsols—at thy heel Did famine follow; whom thus fonittt'at 'phut, The daintily brought up, with patiesee mart Than "'air" could saffer...-Ilhou did,* drink The stale of haws, sad the gilded paddle Which besets would rough at I thy palate thou did dsige The roughest berry ow the rudest hedge; Yea, like time stag. when sue. the pasture sheets, The barbs of trees thou breased'st —Os the Alp., It is reported, thou didst eat sraage Scab, Which sante did die is Look as !—A eel all this (It wounds thine lower flies II speak it mu) Was borne so like • soldier, that thy chiefs SO with as leak's sat l" Masser • has also erased the Alps; and be suf. fered. whea shut up is Genoa, p r iv a ti ons li tt l e short perhaps of those endured by A istwer. If then Portugal is to he used, a battle mast be fought. There is, we fear, no other nat of doe ing the French out of it. lite y triple rf Fogleaul Dever expected soy thing else. 'Wlisn Lord Wet.- LINGTUS begat; his retreat at Almeida, llinistera tilt favourite j u7so r t ' l . for w c i e n t "la t i rie ll o 6 be di6trnted hi.nsr I • e ith repultio 4 th e en , et Baum, we ware desired to !wee pet Le be meant to defend Coimbra .1-,1 the the mender,: and when he sib,os.lo•reet we were told that he did not mean to tight had olit6tied still greater etlesatage. hoth Lion and rcilifuroe tient., and reached Tom" d.es, which he c insulered the kid on 1 oro position in all Portugal.—Frota MAMIE N A I sy before it, althorn ni,ks .g a, wt it is pretty clear Coat he th.ruglit any *me Ity.t be hopeless. Here then we hare a saca co..t of hi. own ioferiority. The moment, the, when he collator-need his retreat, was the very meta in which Lord Wm.:Airman cart ht availed himself of his superiorq, rid the enemy with every prntpect or euee ,,. Lordship'. declaration, his conduct, the history of his retreat from Almeids to Tarr- 5 dram, distinctly sheer that this wits the n,tateht, this the position, when and where he nt;4!it risked a battle with greater advantages flesh he previously possessed,' or cam now etpect. In event of 111 Allaseea defeat, In all prcleilalit ) a man of his army would ewer reach Fi.kacr, the event of his auscrea, and th e lime„oi nr the Allies, they had their emu.: immtibutely iii their rent to fall back aA If MASSE N a'il retreat to Santarem he poly of position with a view to supplies and a la i menta, this revioning we conceive to Le Mt I: I td : but how mach stronger Jars ii apply, if, Toe t-tity J. urnela contend, lie be runin::. tinder the pressure of watt, a *writ of elis;us.tnt i some other calamity?—for in this latter caw art was not to a fl4:tting cJodution, and tallest on easy prey to British phy. , /.41 str•-a:';1 3 relonr.—Although these obe.na.i.ins tray he to diaaterestel persoiA, we can c.ett y retry why they do not taske any itopreti , iun or creatives of Ministers-a-et !riot none that y *limit. A brilliant terrain-16On of the yen ,n they expected, would give the sprear.ince.Sowl and suhrlity to their cu WIN its. In the 111 tre IlllertSll of the Allied Arms in Postugsl, and deliversnre of the eos.try front Frencn 1- they hove.l to rind' au answer to the r hinge, 'grow the in of weak en and locals& illy. Lt WE 1.1.1.4 GT., 14 their last prop—the if;ce of t field, Ite!:i..ti si hose shield the li tie licco• cf Nltaility call only hope to find 'motet teat. ' therefore, li;s Lordship, and to itirp the pohlie mind aMt tritr4vsg.ot hope., a .1 even Ilse most brilsimot success totsl.l net re ti i. the policy of t hasp whose luta-rests are cool with the fate is the present Ministry.' Extract of ■ Letter trona en (Meer in the riven (.; bralter. %TV. 7. lei " The fever which made its apitratahte here, bee., al i t o.t emnieet-ly sob hied, and I do think we have tine thing to diesel. lam cousin 1114 ereiy pestileutial di.ea.e et this nature may checked, by the saute UMW, on its first app. mire. The sirk have instantly be removed out the gar r imin into the hospital fitted ty for them, a all who ere7e in the house were 11;ar removed in lassies's of oinicircatinst fur a certain, period. to CertIVII wlu thrr they hal caught the contagion. AlJvib; .ti cases urthe fever appeared, of which have proud fatal. In mar of the transports whit. came from Carthagemt with go men on board, 111. man las fi.st taken ill—two the second day—tit the third—thirteen the fourth—rod thirty-fire the fifth day after its appearance. The affair.. Spain are gradually hienditig, and the Catalowso are carrying on the war with great success. not • .1 • in their own country. but they have made 'tiro"! into France. and destroyed fifteen villages, brought off immense quantities of cattle mud min plunder." The following is an Estract of a Letter from British Officer. dated off St. Dotniagn, the 1 : 1•N Judy :—•• To shew you what a derided char.ei. Cnitearrient I', and what examples he malty., few days agri he beheaded a Colon,l, and decima ed • whole regiment • upwards of eighty wet either shot or bayonete d. TM' was done in rouse (relict of an action a short time before with the 1 , 1 swell, in which this regiment dnl not behave *O.' It is mid that Central Ams,carract has wsittru the American Secretary of State, that Boasessti has offered to restore FIRDISAND to the Sp throne. provided he will accept it as • grant fro. him,rlf. and consent that the country betseen Pyrenees and the Ebro *ball remain to France. We have authority to state. that Lord BAlfsix .l and Viscoant Fit isonen b o th em s( ' eu Thenolet the 29th last. in the House of Lards. against Ea S 'a Amendment. These two Peers were intentionally omitted in oar List of the Majority 0. that occasion. . Yesterday a Court of Directors was held et !IA East ladia Honer, when the extra elsipe— • eambeiefee n.d Lord Wellington, foe Mackin, sod Dengal, were ordered to ie siloet the eel Iv of J 111.10.13. ISM David Stott, Marian aed Renal; mew Ship brill at Chester, far Madeira owl Usbay i • 111 i Moffatt, CH B , ; to he allow oh of March. . . 'Uranus Pitt, '1..001y Logibiaataa, sad Lard Forbes, Dosed diseet, to he afloat sth of April seal. The ship Warren Hastings as taken up. s:' alalittord for China direct.--The Court adjoartu , at six o'clock till Tuesday next. ' la cos-equettce of a Petition front the Contr tors fur the I..sn, auJ Holders of Ossalas. to ' Governor 113/11 Dtrectors strike Bonk of England. : extrud the periad of the payments for snooty a vowed by the Bank on Oansissat, SIC. Hits C. inunicated to the Stu. k karltange Thursday. the batik afoul.' accede to tht if mildest ; and 81 " 4 of the 1110/.ICO he sad repaid on the nth Jtouarl . tis..l, the poyasint• were to I,e fallow per coat. on the •Ict of F. lon i.er test. ou the 13th ditto ; and 40 pe► not. v . h vi Islastb., e?c, We 11 b et . o y, fc Xll 1 11:un.e Yr; ELIZ a o , olt LAP , Cl , lll WI .1 OJAI le fri Ifted Pr • 011 Igkhe its town 11Vt. . !le olio Eck vitl4,l , 1 taw INe 44er Crow Ott kv Mr.