The Sun. — London, England, 1807-12-30 00:00:00

arr. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAV AT TWEI.Y O'CLOCK. C01f:3313 - Iced. Anu. - 63 k THE SUN. lALSUI4 ACLIAT L N D 0 N, Ver3l)Ndi),ol; . DECEMDEU 30, 1807. Yesterday evening Sir Jc n Moors arriveei.at St. 1-Ioeus*, in tl.z Euryalus Frigate, from Gibraltar, .after a passage of thirteen ddys. Nearly 40 Sail of tianspurts; with g or 10,000 men on board, arrived at the same time. The, force , rethaining in Sicily amounts to about the sainenutuber. -A- Flag of Truce from France arrived yesterday ,evening at Deal. It is inpposed that it brings some Diipa;ches,for the Austrian Minister. Private Letters have been received ffona Lisbon, of a later date than the day on which theßayal Family departed, , They 46 'not contain any 'thing . lle%ir or interesting. They; hoWever',contradi6l he . report, that Art4u3o, - the Minisier, was disgraced; and say, that in the opinion of the Portuguese, he has tlCit Con4iaed himself inwroperly: . It appears, that on the day hen the .PrinCe Regent'embarked, an Aid:-de-Camp of GeneraOuN . or arrived at bon, with the inform:it - lOn that 6000 French Troops had reached ,Santaretn, 'about fifty 'miles from the Capital. .I-le.,Vequeited an ;audience of the Prince', on beard.hia Ship, onr.tl)o , eve of de- - parting, 2nd it was evidently. his intention to cojole (* the 'ru ce with flattering 'kiffers,• till Isis retreat - should b cut 04 . , in consequence 01 ti of St.. an&Ciacaes getting into the - pLkssess:on of ihe French. 'I he Prince; however, %Vas more, pOlitic Jima the Frenchman, nitd drinised t 1 latterwith opliarqnt negotietions, till the f0110 , .k ing morning*, when lie *as sent on,shore, .and.the Royal Family retreated from impending rarer, under the ptoteeiion of a Britidi force. Porerun4r.' holds ouf,. at this a.great example to the rest of Europe, by. strewing that 'there is no other - alternative for . :ithe Stales of the Continent, thin the most perf i e6"slibtuissioe to the will 'of BuotriP4' ATE,* or the' .adoption of those areacitul extremities which may extricate them from the yoke of :the 'insatiable Tyrant. The Court of Lisbon-had tried every irnaginable method of gads= fying the Despot ; she had agreed to shut her Ports . against her most antient Ally, and submitted to the loSs of an intercourse, not only advent:T(loos, but, essentially necessary to the very subsistentte - of her People. :All was . to 'no purpose. The House of Bragatrza refused to plunder the English Fa&lory, and, from that .moment, she' lost PortUgal! In 'de:- spite, however, of the Decree pronounced b:, the scourge of mankind, she has not ceased to reign, since free, and pewerful, and illustrious,. she is about, to role over a mighty .Empire; *bleb neither. violence nor rapine can iipprOaCii...,' If,' instead of • adopting the only measure which, 'interest and nom' conspired to ,reconurtend, th&etinrt of Lisbon had preferred a shameful submission to a tiorious flight, then indeed she would have'eeesea to reisn ! 'Mien,' indeed, despoiled of her power, and of her *lndent 'splendour, this House might 'from the depth of .inisery, rich . some clegive of , envy, On the present te,ate, of the House of 1441dt:1 . 14 burgh ! Russia yields a blind ohecileneelo.,Ave NA '.. rxitTe, Portugal re.ists ; "end thus apt:oll . 6'd character of dignity and grandeur , to whiel; Russia appe.arS to. haye'no longer :a right tcfpl'eten.l. 2'114 rank of the two Powers is contbuilded and -revereed; The ' Portuguese Government, transfeued to the new world, may there develope energie3 of thO noblest ,kind, and attain to a matchless degree of prosperity. Tile 'Government, removed to one of the extremities of Europe, with no Allies but Hol iand,,Sw itz,:rlaild; aod.Spain, has no longer any thing to hope, or acquire, but the bievitable ruin and disgrace of en impolitic war, and a disastrous enterprise, under the immediate coutroul of Bud , - NA ILARTS I. Portugal strongly retninds uS . Of Athens retiring in a body on 'board' her ',Fleet, at the tip , p..-oecli of X..erxes, and thus rc,ierving herself . for a ,nobler destiny in happier . tunes ; while Russia ex bibits nothing but an example, whirls ‘c , a 6 not needed, of those political vat :11.1060E13 ‘4l)itill_ so fie-, (pettily 'forerun die decay and tail of mighty Mcr , narChithi. The Court, of Lisbon eontra4s elo6e 011i:ince , with Englark.Vi Neause than pre . - SerVe her from being dishonoured, impoyerishecf, and reduced to the must ignominious state ot shi very; in a word,. the Court of Liobott, dares to adopt the line of CondtV::l which lionom: intereat'pre. scribe to her: while Russia, twice the. most 'de clared enemy of : the revoliiti,smoiry Usurpation, is now, for the second time,.'"the, Ally 'Of - lieoNA , FA RTE ! Russia, not' Many orioriths since, fought against the Oppressor of th e Contiti,nr.4 thisday, s l l6 .oories in her conneetiou tbe toaP who dilates intuiting laws to Leone; Vitt) the man .to wheat her armies relUCtantly gave way ! Portugal follows the sfithestions of coerige,* and .. Russia l, li,tens to the counsels of tear ; the one appears td asinine a neve.. esisteucp, while _the ether seeins_te. •lese that which she possessed among independent • Nations! `The Emperor Atexasmott, since the k . iSt,]; of Tilsit, has, contraCted a baneful alliance with Alf. the crimes- of the Usurper; while ' the Princtio . of n at •Rio Janeiro, will be *ery.sar6 iithstO sea •Monsieur u 2 Cattz.s.rDicouaT If the contrast of the conclua of the Prince Re_ gent with that of the Emperor of. Russia be calcu, lated to attraa the eyes of Europe, as it will as suredly attract those of posterity,- there is yet another. not less striking, and which it behoves the friends 'of justice and of Epgland to present inceS: santly to the admiration of:the, world ; it is the contrast of the barbarous laws diet ated, by the ty rant, with the moderation of this Country't4wards the.feeble . States*oppressed by BuoeslialiTE., We .have already lied an, example of .fhis.moderation in the exceptions made, in favotiref Prussia, to the .vigoreus measures adopted by . the Cabinet. The condu& of Government towards Portugal; affords an instance still More pleasing, still more grateful to liturpnity; in • those days of terror: when the feeble appear Ito be abandoned., whhout *resource, to. all the enter p rises of, the powerful. .Portugal had agreed .to shut her Ports against . .England, arid We should have overlooked this act' of 'hostility im posed on thepoyerptnent, if the Prince Regent had not take') ,4 Measure still more hostile, and issued an order for '--the seizure 'of the English, and the :confiscation. of Die - fr - Property,. While,. the iinpli cable Usurper could, not pardon the Prince:for-not 4eseending , to the t; bantam' . of a hirittliiyttr,ll, and refusing. to plunder peeseful living. un-. der the prOteClion of the PorttiglSte En : ;Lind passed over . 100'31 of fir' Silently Ceirt‘..of Cuban, and '‘i;litclied for tholiVeurable • moment to counsel. and vroteCt her. itio * .*st4w4l'li would grant nothing to..the.probity of ihe Prine4 of Brazil,;.while. we pitied and forgave the injutice of a povett*nt menaced by a barbarotei Enemy Th* emigratiete of the Court of Lishon 'will form an epoeh in the history of this calamitous period..--, The Prince. of Brazil, while heabantlons t0.8 . 0b- NAPARTE4 sterile fragment of the Portuguese Alo narchy, -gees to enjoy, in another hemisphere, far happier regions, and a nobler destiny. I-Ie flies. this Europe, desolated by crimes, and debased hy.coW-. ardiee. lI flies tt Contini4rit once che,...abode of base, of '6l ‘tiow thiiT theatre of Verpoto:ll wars, of tnurilerg, of . dethrone). ments, and of all those bloody scenes which. hereto- fore were only known to the terrified slaves of the East. 11 abandons tins heritage, whi6l) the valour of his ancestors : rescued from the yoke of the Mottarohy, and Whick) is now ravishect from him by the rapacious !misters to whom Spain herself has snbmitfed the• wining no:k ,Y;Piee of lto nout sonnded in the eirs of the Prince, and her vicewas not in vain she ci...eijused him to retnig9 from those ceuotries where a i s itelei- i tyrant `. cised with impunity his robberies,,hi4 ma'ssatare, and his iteu„ rogct't:atielsltoyas, fogpll4o . giAriuTi'i' He ,did 'remote; and he will net .`oe Otsti#!4l ti)"ptir chase, at Brazil, either e:f his Si..thjeeti, or the independenee a his cuninits'Ee: Portugal, under sir abhorred desto;:;. , do)), will speedily fail into that 'deplorable ehyss . •or misery to which the frantic projefts of BtrozzAPAItTE Co s ndenlil very S which he wi , dica to . nuke the ,iostrtimeet, of . 1.114 hatred 'against Gre.r -whilo.theirtinseese in the bosom of •which il."(Ettit has e4ta; hushed his abode, will reeeiei icont'ltis pit:settee>, pledge of pe.aei; of prospt;rity„ and of joy. There is yet another point of view it) which the departure of the Prince Regent requires Lobe con. lidered. Emote, dazzled And confOunded by the splendour which Fortune has throWtrarouddA`iii7 minal Usurper; decrees him the paid!' which is stip, posed to be ulerittd by his profound , views,, by his dextronr. policy ; in a mica& by all those magnifi-,', cent results which, cover h; baseness and his Now, then, we would ask , those sem, I ~m this sepnos* • sition renders, .esit were, the zealous apologists of the Tyrant.—we would ask those of our couutrymen, %vile are never weary ei; celebrAtlyg the talents'of this - ft - tonic Dtntroyer—we would 'ail: all ,Finne4, ttory prostrate at 10...0t . d till% trenietidotis Id What poSsible light the condoa of BeoNosrAterr. - towards, Pot togal,.r tan 'be regarded as the fruit of, -retleCtion and fork:fist ? I:ortiagal paid ettottneus' contributions : to the Despot,.who;,..will' ue s z -hi ! ; o h... liged to nourish Portegal in his turn, 'rho hour's of this Country were 'no longer ' : open to • out coitunerce; and , if - the Prince of ht,izil been porolitted to stop at this measure Of ‘ ,.fOrr..ed hostility, we should ha continued to respect the • ve . sitoatioe of our antient Ally. . The Ti''ausatlatiile . rossi.-!stiions of Portugal coeld not, then, have tweet - tie. new Pov, , er, nor have of a new career to our industry t at, least, the contibual tare of alarm id .vernment .frgm th;3 fatal consequences of a timid tratisaetiOn,to which, at one moment,. it appeared but tog well: inclined. But why .has the inienin F erate, •rashness of the Usurper, SO glaringly succesblul other eases, been only.follewed.in that of Portugal by the natural consequences of great political errors? Because the Portuguese Government, after a few doubts and, hesitations; finally adopted the measure which 'conrage and'good sense anncurrea in recotir mending to its choice beeause Lord STAANGFORP prevailed over the secret pattisps of tyranny, and closed the can . ; of the PEINCE REGENT to the'coun cils of pusillanimity ! If BUONAPARTE diaated the Peace of PresVirgh; it Was not'because.he manifested. the extent of his genius in permitting a - formidable Coalition to. be formed against him: it was because the Austrian generals were it owardt and traitors; it .was because he Prusi;',an Monarchy was governed by a HAUGWITZ ! If the French Army .triurnphod. en the Banks of the Pregel, amidst. ,Barren sands, and a rigorous season, it was not because :tom prudence of IluoNArs,itT# . had removed every:ob.-4 Stacie, and stnoothed every diffiCulty, in the way of his wretched 'conscripts : It he diaated, on. the Banks Glthe Niettign shameful col4tions, to thoSnc 7 iissor and to tlre Niiti9n of Pk:Tun the Gra.:Ap, it was not 11 'iuse the defeated Russia:l,, wer , .: illar 6:041.th aseptidan.;..-y of t 2, sir openly. Ihe Irussisivr . venouisiwd by peace, was, indeed, dqtroyed by war; but 4uossiaj:: in spite of her disasterS, stilt p..eserved the force and energy of a mighty people.: . and yet tlre.l:reaty • 41,f Tilsit was signed!, 1t was, because the Emperor ALE/tNnita had not . attout him; a ,Negociator as I(4nm:fie as LiordSTßANolvan : it was, beeausehe prefurred making the , most deplorable concessions,. to adopting the extreme, but necessary, resolution whieklus honour, and, We will venture to add, his safety, prescribed ! The Piti4oiltuogriT. ot'Por tOgaliolleCived a ditrcivio. - NrOotz4 and,' from that moment, the designs of BUONAPARTU turned to his own confusion; from that niotnent the andlciot , s tnadneii of the Tyrant produced the etfett, which happily wits .neither prevented by the weakness, nor the stupidity of his enemies! Let us suppose for a moment that Lord STRANG FOitn, alter returning on beard the Blockading fleet, ba , .l nut been heard by the PRINC# OX Brazil, or that on hisreturn,he had ineffeduallyiaboeted town vince him of the clauger to which he . 'expcseil fitl(by yielding, at discretion, to BUONAr4ti4g.:: , ..l4 t , 03 . 61114)03U that the POrttlgtlebe . GOV6rbill 4 ll l . 4 had persisicd in. the'resolutiOn Which they seenit.:3 taken when his LordshipremoVed the. arms . of . land'frotn,the door of his p.dace, , and that Geturrar srosoT had been. speedily . at Lisbon What General, RAPP at I.) - atitzlc--Wl - clt py,arimiorrE is at 11ainbur,g11—and wl,4t those countitiss tt~rrrtfts are,; Wll9Ol BuOliaPAL I - 15 has scattered the Continent to faci.biate the execution of his will in such an lirpotlis, v...eteg to know, whether we should tm tho.prolound sagacity w tv htid planned the hunn;ia t ion of the of A:, 7itttri tilt; SUbiOga , - t ii)ll of Portugal ? Shot.fla be compelled to attn.; butt; to the vast talents of the Usurper, the success of au cntrpriZe which. the itubeeility of the.,,Portu gne;ie Goverulnent k . J.Luie.cauld haye.reitclered fortu nate, but which the prodence ' of that same Govern ment has Inure than sufficed to mak , : us regard as a measuie.voicl of commonsense, and contrary to the very interests ' oldie krant If the Prince Begent and hi . Sjki . tinisters had them selves betrayed their own 'cause, triumph ..of BUONAPARTE , would have been si ( tylltat to Niso which h e liasl;4>taitieti . ov ' er so tiranyother States but the cora 'Of I.isboti reje 6 bAPlk cowArtily or per fidith is - mild the (011,1 d& of 81.701 , 1 r A itTE stantly ttilies its real denomination; of Otitrageous violence androil} Thii the true . pr ' ineiple which , we should !tdupt, an 4 which futurity . cemtinly wig, adopt, in judging of - 140 event, of this important =period, no. less memorable, alas ! for the error'; hits than for their tnislortorws. ,V,'w Yolk Papvs arrived this uwroitig to the>4th We,have 'wade the folloviing Extraastiptu tllCt►t :-- N v. , P ng.c: The Philadaphitz True iimerican'of NlQhday, cojitaineti, the fullawiog at- tivle : " Pleasing hifurmalion.—We arc informed, by which the Court of Lisbon woul'.l be kept would a Gentleman, upon whose - correaness and vrra have presented a formidaWe obitackOto -the cum , ,,l.Eity we can implicitly rely, that' Mr. JEFFLIISON mercial transaCtions of Olio Country with Braill, .:bas,latett obscried, that ample reparation would still subject to a tributary Govertrmunt. But jothis, •Themade'hy the British Government for the affair as in almost every other. a6tion of -his life, .Isl;oz4A-;.::of the Chesapeake; and . thar the other points of PART; was 'guided by nothing but .the staden siicin,ld•pioceid in a train of Amicabla pulse of inconsiderate animosity, and headlong am-` ejustment.-- Further, that Mr. 4.FFERSQN now, . bition. Ho wished to punish the House Vraganza says, that War with Great Britain needs not Le ap. for having remained so long the faitli4.4lly of s prearttled." Great Britain ; and he resolved that the Court of Lisbon' should not dare, With . impnnity; to dispute the*iecntion of any of his commands. This is the secret ! . hruvght General Juwo'r into ,Portuy . gal, and this happily preserved the Portuguese We are pot disposed•to.attach much importance to the proceeilings of the American Congrins, of which we gave Extraas in our Paper of yer,tcr(lay. The House of .Representatives is se cotnpL:tely rit tinder the influence of Mr. JEFFERSON that their L condu& provei nothing more than we had previously gathered from .the President's Messages ` The language in which he bad .spaken of the af. fair of the Che.capeake is echoect f by the'Committee of Representatives ; and the disregard with which the President's ?reclamation,. ordering all British Vet• sels to depart from the Waters of the United Stated, Was received by the British Squadron, is noticed as a further violation of their jurisdidion.. Ignorant GI ti?e circumstances attending the con tinuance of theZieepard and other Brittsh• 'Vessels en •the American Coast, we cannot give any opinion a° to' the condutit. of eur•Cciurnanders in .this respea• We have on former occasions Stated our convi4l.oft that the cendutl of Captain Hu 4 El.; be jostified as an 'hasiiite . 4261 infetteltiti .40 riLl 4 M e fif "eric4 t 5x4cin4..a74,41„deg:.i.n.i;.,4 our des6lers. • • , • f the attack upon the 'Clas, , ipra;e' such a partial .stir of, hostili - ty„ the coriritinake of the British S - quAdron:tn the Water4'after • notice of . the President's prOltibitioi, i iiti - ilt4ps to be const-. as of,the IC, as is coereilikal villes,4lle.coeduc't of the . Lecipattil nothing More tlattn:attortiirilry'exer ,cise of the , rights of l'4ations, at:amity, it, seems that the British Cottrnatiders ou;ht, without hesitation,, tohave attettchA to an InterdijtiOrt which . this Presi-. Olt w, s undoith! . :.‘diy, toentoroo on the, cuayts of .his e.wn . country. • That our G'overnar.nt . v,:eulx.tbe justified , in con sidering the issue of MT. JEprifriiiiivs P - roclamptieu aim:. aggression, is, a:question which, we shall per e decide, but it certainly 'aloes not appear to be 5u4,40., a& as calls forresistance;w:thout the - authority of Of, State. The Committee observe, that whether itte.rngs taken from the Oseitipenke were or were 'not citit • zees of the United States, the eltaraoer .of the;, of taking them reiz;tins the sanle.'' Thilt may be very true, if that ett was intended as au ea. perfectly justifiable in' a state of profound Paco. bet by no_ means . if considered as' an exercise , of modified hostility„ In this cas6, it is DU doubt, extremely important to inquire, whether' the s taek upon which: that .hostiliv was grounded ! were or were. net, as- stated by the party Which cxercadv, ~. It.. the ganst confess AdlnirayßE it N.t t,FY's Order,. :1 4 at the scgch should be teciprocui, jw.titics tbo Americans in ...considering it as, intended to be 3 .pacitio transa . etioui and this viv,v, we tnu . ot red., peat, the whole is founded upon erruneuns, pies, This ertor..involves the:atfair in such hillier/ and confusion, that ire .cituotot. attempt: to tnirao l -i t Witbotlf,tliaCfurther clucidigiOn whidt - the Late. sigr proceedings w Cougrelissay.4 in Parliament' will, c .A..ch bt prokitice, 4 Oa kisaday the. ~ Duke. of Yottt, arrived at.,litrinda.. sot - , an:l telisa4ed business with . I'. \I - '' 4 . us .. A.TETY Or a : , , .• .. i • -com - olera e time. , - , ~ . , . . ; w rit i l .t o k :o is t u h t l :;: - .1 - b u u v p t s ii , ei j al li D w o u r y p e t :o ti t:C::: s. 7: f u zi l l Y i p ti o c i n a n N : t r i bd i a l le !. % l l3 . lol ll l°t ! ing fi s iT. N oi l l it . ' i s -u a r s . T l V d l'. l .l Cl °l l l lOC ride ont on horsebacirz.Y o ".' , .. terday mortiiil 0 the weather b4itig very 4it 14% . 0 ' qr' ; , a , ' atria. • , His . Mit"JET 7 is Flotitzpeavil in t OWe D i thi kes-tis-. q 1,. , Yesterday, about one ()clock, the uuf bli BEIMAND called upon Air. l'EacevAi., at his liousc in Downing-street, and remained in conversation .., with him for near an hour. ' „. The *Leap CHANCISI,LOR and Lord Mut.okAvi l . trarisaeled tipsiness with Mr. PMICEVAL in the Oho of the morning. A policy of insurance has been done at tioinig, . on a vessel bound to-the Mediterranean, in which' this clause is introduced- 0. with liberty to .call a `Cetitli." * A Deputation-from the American Merchants wait" ed upon tie enkrzcaLLott Of 'the 'ExcititatYca• 0... - iiaturday, for the . purpiss4.l of an:titling intnrtnation. ai; to Some peitus.t.lonneeted with the late Orders ot , Council', and panic:l,l;loy to'aseertaio - •whet hef i t ` tas • intended to imptiselapy t ot ,on.tirMes..tyl..-Apo).Con- produce. on ),ward such Americalrbhips,iii,shoulf, pursuant to their Orders, . touch at . British Ports', The inquiry of the Deptitation4iis principally di'„,, retied to the article of Cotton, • and th e answer do - Air. PE RCP:VA L, Was, WC Un(terstand; quite decivive,. .. tthat' t rosters ‘lo inn `id to 'ProPose a ,(Uaiy: L l ll 9 _ ll _ ltliat article. Upon a,hing, wnether such Anterloich", ',Ships, as ,sboald -net,' in consetinence ot t iie, Trt Decree, tech it sail 'w proceed Co altE 1 ' 0) ;: b : a i: after having4Ouchcti ~ in- this. Connery, w.Pulu ) - (be -, 103:ecl a. licence to sail in any other ltirection . 1 ~ . It ~ 'lOlO4l I° an's',V2r. was, that no F. t.ence wo •...1 —L) j pal el" an)" other ttian the ?Art of st.ch .riii , 's one citation. N 3 k