The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-08-11 00:00:00

Books to Theology, just puhlished by J. 31:0131AN,
ho. 2:2, Poultry :
l. MILE TEMPLE of TRUTH; o-. TI. best
1 System of Reason, Philosophy, Vine- and Morals,
analytically arranged. Second Edition. in One large VV.
louse, atm. as. boards.

Sy the same Author
2. STIMI ES ; Sacred and Pfulotopiiie : adapted to the
Temple of Ti nib. Han•lsoracly printed, in One large Vo-
lume, ern. fus boare:

3. A 81/UY of TtiliALoflY, principally practical. In
a Series of I.ccturcs, with a copious Index. By holart
Fehoacs, A.M. Oxon.

These Lectures embrace the most momentous Questioes
iu Theology, and the most importaot duties in Attests, with-
out say naistwe ,of sectarian discasslon or polemical as.
perky. They are 58 iu number; and while it is hoped that
they will prove interestiug and instracti•-e to the gemwal
master, they u iil furnish the Clerry.witla a court( W Scrinous
fur the Year. In Two large Vulvae!, mos. Iss. in boards.

By thc-,inic Astiort
•. A BRIEF TREATISE ors 1/EATII.
Moraßr, mud Practically emu,dercd• lu suolacv 4w, je.
h 1,4144:

3. A MANUAL of PIETY, adapted to the wants and
eakulated for the Improvement of all Se; is of Chris.
timid, extracted from the Holy Using and Dying of ,
Jeremy T., tor; with • Preface, Life of Autl•ur, and Add.- E
toms. By Robert Felkores, A. M. Oxus. aro. prier 7s. P
bOardlt.

6. SERMONS on VARIOUS SUBJECTS Ry the Ree.
Joseph Townsend, Rector of Peltse. Wilts, and Anther of
' A journey through Spaio, kr. Ae. net). as. boards.
7. An ESSAY on the NATURE and IMMUTABILITY
of TRUTH, in oppootioo to SoPlil/4 MY anti SCEP-
TICISM. By James lie‘Gie, LL.D. Professor of Moral
Phibetophy and Logi; iu the Marisebal College and I in-
versive of Aberdeen. Scent'. Cdni.ny 'eo. ye boards.
a. 0...RN104S u., • FUTURE STATE, aoo
RECOGNITION •f each othtr, and on other Subjects.
If) the Rev. R. Shepherd, Archdeacon of Bedford. aro. 6s.
boards.

9. By t►e saute Anther, NOTES CRITICAL and
DISSERTATORY ea the 00SPIEL and EPISTLES la
St. JOHN. In one volume ato. 11. se. &nerd.

to. SELECTIONS from t►e 11ttR151tif TAYLOR.
HOOKER. MILTON, HALL, BARROW, sod Lord
BACON; with au Anotysis of the Advancement of Learn-
ing. By Basil Montage, E•q..t.M. &road Edition, two
vultinws, fwolscap ave. on superSoe wove paper, too. tivi.
hoards.

11. A DISSERTATION an the hest means or civilising
the Sohjeet, the !kith& Etn,ire in !nail. mad ufilitiusing
the Light of She Christie& Rel'imon tlir..iighurit the Eastern
%World. By the Rev. Francis IVrangliam, M.A. F.R.S srf
Trinity College, Cambridge, pr.er
12. Thirtcrii PRACTII'AL SERMONS, fimeded ova
Dal:fridge's Rue and Progress of Religion is the Soil. To
which are ani.es.ed, Rini. is &e. By the Raw. Francis
Wrirmghun. Second Edition, ON. BIM. boards.
13. 111E3fS, eontaiaii.g the ilestoratioo of the tars, •
Status Prize Poem, !1794), and ciao, Transhitiat.s. By Ilse
An. Prowl Wrang.how. es. Crown Iwo. honi,,e.

u. OIiSERIFATif INS upon Pone I'ASSAG I 2, io SCR! P..
TURF., which the ea•mies to Reog;oti have thon;ht te.rt
ishooxions, and attended with difficulties not to he sue-
Netn.iiteil. By Jacob Bryant. In one volume, •W. Us.
bonnie.

is. SERMONS nn Tarions Suhierts. By Simnel Stan-
hopeasith, It.D. President of the Collar of Parirjersoy.
Alocries, Saw s. bd. boards.

IThe Court of Portugal, after having kept x si-
lence suitable to the different circumstances in
which it was placed, and to the moment when the
seat of government was established, conceives that
it owes to its dignity and rank anion other
powers, a faithful and accurate exposition of its
conduct, supported by incontestible facts, in
order that its subjects, impartial Europe, and
also the most distant posterity, Nifty judge of the
purity of its conduct, and the principles it has
adopted, as well to a%uid the fruitless ciliation of
the blood of its people, as because it could not
persuade itself that solemn treaties, of which it bad
Walled the burdensome conditions,, in favour of
France, could become • despicable, an infant's
toy, in the eyes of a Government, whose immoderate
and incommensurable ambition has no limits, and
which has but too much opened the eyes of the
person` mast prejudiced in its favour. It is not
ut itivectirts, or in vain and useless menaces, that
the Court of Portugal will raise its voice from the
midst of the uew Empire, which it is about to
create ; it is by true and authentic facts, explained
with the greatest simplicity and moderation, that
it will make known to Europe, and its subjects, all
that it has suffered ; that it will excite the attention
of those who• may still desire not to be the victims
•f so unbounded an ambition, and who may feel
how much the future Att. of Portugal, and the
restitution of its States, invaded without a decla-
ration of war, and in the midst of profound peace,
ought to be of consequence to Europe, if Europe
ever hopes to see revived the security and independ-
ence of the Powers which formerly composed a
species of republic, that helanced itself. and main-
tained an equilibrium in all its different parts.—
An appecl to Providence is the consequence of
this expes,tson, and a religious Prince feels all the
importance 'of it, since guilt cannot always remain•
unpunished ; and usurpation and violence enfeeble
and consume themselves by the continual efforts
they are ob:iged to employ.

The Court of Portugal, though it saw with rel
gret the French revolution begin, and deplored the
fate of the virtnniis kiug with whom it was eon:
nected by the closest to •; "•f blood, yet did not take
any part in the war, which tlie conduct of the
madmen who then reiet.=-1 (by the confession even
of the present Geyer 1111 l cut) forced all Govern-
ments to declare against them ; even when it sent
succours to Spain for the defence of the Pyrenees,
it always endeavoured to preserve the most perfect
neutrality. •
la the year 1793, the French Government sent an
Enviy to tile Court of, Portugal, who was received
with the utmost respeci,,hpt who was not acknow-
ledged; for then neither the principles of the law of
nations, nor of public iv., authorised Governments
to acknowledge extracriliaary changes, %Oen they
are known to br legit:in:de; awl no nation is, in
that respect, to judge for another, whilst its inde-
pendence exists. The French Government, t% ith-
out any declaration of war. or oily formality, be-
gan to detain the Portuguese merchant vessels;
and, after the peace I:1 11101, demanded ■nd ob-
tained indemnities for these which the Court of
Portugal detained. to obtain a legitimate compen-
sation, without paying any regard to the claims
and remonstrances of the Portuguese merchants.
The Court of Spain, which bad required succours
f om Portugal, and which. by the confession of the
French Generals, was obliged to acknowledge how
useful and necessary they had been, when it made
peace with France, not only forgot its ally, which it
ought to have caused to be declared in a state
of peace with France, duce the Court of Portugal,
in succouring its ally t•o fulfil the conditions of the
treaty of alliance wll;th existed between the two
Sovereigns, had no intention to snake war against
Fraziee; but what is perhaps unheard of, or 'direst
very rare in the annals of history, Spa:u then
made a common cause, with France. to force Port-
tugal to receive unjust and humi.iating conditions
of peace, nor did Spain cease to deciare itself the
enemy of its ally, till the moment when the trea-
ties of Bads* and Madrid were signed, employ-
ing even the force, of France to wrest frsm•Por•
tugal a install extent of territory of the province
of Aleutejo, on the side of Olivenza ; thus leaving
to posterity an eternal inotiumeat of the iv- tched
recomperse she bestowed on an ally, who, u• t
w,tirstaoding the ancieut rivalry of the two na-
tions, would not fail to fulfil the ennditiot s of a
treaty of siti time which etisted between them.

The tikcies of peace of Iladajos mud Madrid.

are likewise a new proof of bad faith
the enemies of the Court of Portugal ; since the
t.esity of Parlajot having been signed there by Le.
cien Bonaparte, the French Plenipotentnary, and
the Kince of Peace, on the 0312 side, air(' 'oy the
PoAtigtiese Plcuiuotetitial on the other, the
French Government recussd to ratify it, and forced
Portugal to sign a new treaty at Madrid, with
much harder conditions, without being able to as•
sign any other motives than its caprice and
ambition. This latter treaty was signed almost
at the same time with the treaty of Londou,
betwera England and France, which mode.
rated some conditions, too oppressive to Portugal,
and fixed the limits of the coast of North America,
which was confirmed by the Peace otAinieus, and
this consideration of England for its ancient ally,
Was, in the eyes of France, a new proof of the servi.
tude and bondage in which the Eugheh Govern.
went held that of Portugal.
No sooner was the Treaty of 1801 concluded,
than the Court of Partagal hastened to fulfil all ite
burdensome conditions ; and to shew, by the reli.
ghats and punctual observation of all its engage.
ments, how much it desired to confirm the good
understanding which was re-established between
the two Governments, and which ought to cease to
be forgotten all the injuries it had suffered, and
which certainly had never been provoked on
its part. The conduct of the French Go.
vernment was very different ; as, from the
first moment that peace was re-established, it re.
ieired all kind of unjust sacrifices, on the part
of the Portuguese Government, in favour of the
most extravagant and unfounded pretensions of
French subjects. Europe ought then to bare fore.
seen that its subjugation, from Lisbon to Peters.
burgh, was determined in the Cabinet of the Thud.
leries, and that it was necessary to combine to level
the Colossus with the ground, or submit to be his

After a short interval, war broke out anew be-
tween England and France ; and the Court of Por.
tupl hating made the greatest sacrifices to avoid
war. and the harsh and humiliating !Propositions of
the French Government, thought itself fortunate
to be able to conclude, with the greatest sacrifices
of money, the treaty of 1804, iii which France pros
wised, in the sixth article, as follows
,! The First Consul of the French ilennteliC
consents so fickaowledge the neutrality of ,Portia:.
gal duriag.tlie ;modem war, and not to oppose any
measures that may be taken with respect to the
Belligerent natioap, agreeably to the pnncip!es and
ienerel lawj of nimaa:ity."
The French Government from that time received
all the til/antages of such a treaty ; it never had
occasion,.to make the smallest complaint against
the Portuguese Government ; yet was it during the
same war, aid after such n stipulation, that it re-
quired of the Court of Portugal, not only the in-
fraction of the neutrality, but the declaration of
war, in violation of all the treaties that had existed
between the two countries, and la which. in the
tra6e of war acknowledged possible, it was deter-
mined how the subjects of the two natiorts should
be treated, and all this without Portugal having
any cause of complaint against the British Govern-
ment, winch had even given it every kind of sotto.
faction, when the Commanders of its ships of war
had failed in that respect which was duerto a neu-
tral flag.

The Emperor of the French, in the mean time,
caused one of his equa.lrous, on board of which was
his brother, to put to sea. It anchored in the hay
of All-Saints, where it was received with every
kind of respect, anti was supplied with all sort of
refreshment. Yet, what is worthy of attention
is, that at the very time the French Govern-
ment rere.vcd, on the part .of that of Por-
tugal, so many marks of friendship and con-
sideration, the squadron burned some Portu-
guese vessels, to conceal its route, with a pro-
mise of indemnity to the proprietors, which pro-
mise was never performed. Europe may hence
conclude the fate which awaits it, should the
French Government acquire an ascendancy by sca
equal to that it has c'Jtained by land, and may
properly estimate the foundation of the complaiiits
it so loudly utters against the British Government.
Ei:;.-laricl never made any remonstrances against the
succours granted to the Fretich squadron, for they
weep within the acknowledged limits of the law
of nations. But the Minister of Foreign Relations
of France has dared to assert, in the face of Europe,
that Portugal gave assistance to the English for
the conquest of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres;
while it is a fact, known by all the world, that th..t
eapeditiqu, which sailed from the Cape of Good
liope,. rece.ved from Portugal neither veserit.,
money, our m.m ; nor, in fine, any merchandise
considered as contrabalid in time of war; and th..t
the English squadrons. du.i this war, obtained
nothing at Rio de Jareeiro, or the other parts cr.
Brazils, excrie. what s r.ot refused to any nation,