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London, England, 1808-07-16 00:00:00

PORTUGVESE STATE PAPER.

in the name of tie Prince Regent' of Porta:Ms
il„ luutu of the Supreme Government of the City
of Oporto makes known note all the subjects of the
said Prime, that the Fesiveh Government is en-
tirely alroltslied nnel estehainated fewn tits conn-
try, and the Royal Authority et our legitisuateho-
veseign is -restored, which be exercised fully
inglepenitiently by the aboye-montioneel Joint,
until the Covilmmeist eshilelishecl iii tha kingdom
by his Royal 1-lighueas,. shall Le restored; to con-
sequence of which the skid Junta order quit his
'toyed llighnessiiwli be proclaisne.l, and his Loyal
Aiwa be displuieel awl re-specie.' is they algkays
him; Leta, and skill he; nit4.l iliac all 4 rinetituted
autito.itie; shall act conforinalily, publishing aQ
their inikrs in the tissue t.f to I:eyal Rigiworas •
The iiezerali,sieseS
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Vt. We have, fur several weeks pest, constantly and
invariably maintaintd, that rat n *PARTE, whatever
Imply be the termination of his pn:.ent flagitious
and imprudent attempt upon Split, has sapped
tote foutalationo of his own greatneas, a..d arrested
Uir own fiii•ther progress. Every thing confirms us
in that opining. It is not because the tercets of
' ere day assail, the the French themselves have
• Amu against this scourge of humanity, and will
-mends war be made the vile instruments of his in-
. -1.; aimbitio:h or his crorinotis crimes; it is
• I.;e. beenner concurring testimonies seem to render
fir- babe the eleffeat of Durusr ; nor is it because
has taught the flame of patriotic iusur-
. veetion, in ituitsetien or eintLutizia of the Spaniards :
• • gl-Wese. fists and Assertions, whether true, or exact-
' /ended 0- MI do not constitute the basis
• )1,
-of our reasoning, nor the foundation of our con-
v;ctioo. That sentiment rests on other gronads,
which we shill eadeataar LI state with precision.,
It is indispensable, in order to prevent any self-de-
ception, that we rlinian exclude ell enthusiasm,
•while we are cnntenieliradg the present positioti of
Box aratirc, and iettemptim to calculate, or to
predict, his faturu destiny. It seems to approach
by furious strides, and to threaten a crisis of no
ordinary n..tivc.
After the acts which have taken place on both
sirk. of tie Pyrenees, there appear to be only
err.a• :nodes of extrication for Nateotaox,.from his
pmstatt emharriumment; The first is, the snbjuga-
tion and rerlertiois of the Sileanitirds to his complete
• obedience, by militory force. But, we believe, that
it is uaneves.ery to discuss this proposition. The
Corsicau himself ,e nimbly regrets that he has ever
attempted it : or rather he never expected to meet
in Sonia with a resistance so unlike the submission
or the indtflerelce with which the people of Hol-
- laid. Venice., Prussia, Piedmont, and Austria, be-
held the subversion of their Governments. He
Las. indeed, maniirs'ed, from the beginning, a
gross, sad, relative to himself, a fatal ignorance of
the nature and character of the Spaniards. He
usiiCit have governed no'l directed their energies,
as he has dune, he consulting their prejudices, cud
by respecting, at least ostensibly, their Monarchs.
But his itersetion of every sacred or honourable
tie, has awakened their indignaticru, and may pro-
duce his own fall. We think that event probable;
say. per:saps, imminent—yet we know and we
dread his capscity, of which Europe has received
Ouch awful proof. If he fall, hr will not parish
like NEIIO, or like Douertan—lie will exert, like
ItICH itre ut Bosworth, or like CATILINIt in Rome,
all tic ferocious energy of his faculties in the last
moments of his existence. The conquest of Spain
end of Portugal. for the fate of both is now hire-
parable, we are, however, convinced, exceeds his
utmost pone?. And the longer that he persists iu
so imoracticable an attempt, the more, in our opi-
nion, does ha accelerate his own ruin.
He may, neverthet-sr, retain, by military force.
fend or five provinces; sad, among them, New Cas-
tile, including Madrid ; and this is the second mode
of his extrication. We admit that he may effect this
object, though we are far from believing it. But,
ores thee, what has he effected ? All the uncon-
quered provinces, including, we may safely a,sanie,
two-thirds of the Monarchy, and fourAfths of the
coast, aloag the Atlantic, as wall es the Mediterra-
nean. must unite in Arm alliance with us, in order
to avoid passing under the tyrant's yoke. All the
Islands, Garrisons, Colonies, and Poeiessions of
the Spaiii..ll Monarchy, beyond sea, will be com-
pletely nut of his grasp. Their number, magni-
teal', and importance. in every !sortie:l of the
Globe, exceed calculation, and may open new
sources of commerce, equally immense. 'lle Ta-
gus. no less than the Ebro, the Guadiana, an 1 the
Goadalquiver, will be open to us. but shut to him.
If he should elen be alit: to maintain Josern on
such a Throce, it must he not only a precarious,
but a melancholy elevation, founded in violence.
upheld by ter:e.., and liable to hourly subversion.-
19 every event, i,e Tyratit's progress will be ars
ree.2o,and a fp, ' seers V/ ill open to Mankind.
The third alternative that remains to the Conti.
earl, is the remite4ation of his rash project ; ter-
giversation, nod • . ;:atria of the Feople whom he
has outragei and . I tempted to oppress, as well as
to subject to the kite coottrotil of another Conklin,
his !mother. fluni Ainting as this measure must be
to a mail rendered intractable, ant! almost furious,
by prosperity ; a•titogerems as it most he fur an
Usnrper, whose Throne stands in Wood. and is only
sustained by usiistasy force; yet we fear that Na-,
istuct, a 'mem adopt it. as his hest, or his only
ethanee of salty. But, even their—lie is 'fallen
from inst.:tn.—lie must humble himself before
tke SFauish station. in order to obtain their forgive-
ness. Like 84344, he most swallow other modi-
fications, betiefei fareFoing " the pound of human
ti s!1." inns mast re;eisse and restore the captive
ifriecos, whorn he fins so iieltenuoily and perfleli-
na-ly Ile mu .t even tellOttilee all fn-
Urn int-a:kroner: in tile ii!;iies of Sj'aio. He must

his own Mitre ambition, tyranny, atnl
elevation. 1-ht will he no bobre the
Narustott ;" but a beaten, disgraced
, covered with crimes and shame, foiled in
attempts, and abhorred even by the slaver
styli retains in his fetters.

shame and his disgraces, we venture to
predict, a ill not stop there. The Spaniards will
compel him, after restorkg to than Fea-
DtNAND the SIiVENTH, their King, to replace the
Head of the Catholic Faith and Church, whom he
has deposed and degraded, as fur as he could de-
grade such a character, with equal barbarity and
folly. we could far a moment doubt of the feel-
ings and conduct of the Spaniards on this t
delicate subject, we have only to look at the man-
ner sod language in which the " Proclamation is-
sued by the Scrams': JUNTA, at Seville, ou the
54.1 of Live," stigmatizes this impious act, so re-
pugnant to the principles of a religious and ortho-
dox nation. We have'stlways considered that mea-
sure as having struck at the root of. Nsremeom's
greatness, though we could not foresee how soon it
would operate to produce his fall.
Other degradations may follow these. The
Spaniards cannot, its a generous nation, easily make
peace with un Usurper; who withholds Naples from
the Brother of CHARLES the Fouterit, and the
Cluck of rERDINIAND the SCVENTH. They will not
lightly acquiesce in his brow', as well as unpro-
voked expul►ion of the Dan...;hter of CHARLES, and
the. Stater of F Elio, NAND, from Tuscany, follow-
ed by her imprisonment. It is not easy to guess
what restitutions may be exacted f oin the Ty-
rant, when Duce his sceptre it broken.

Various letters, received in town from English
officers who hail joined Genera: CASTANOS army,
in the vicinity of Seville, concur in stating that it
was that Commander's deter .iinatiou to attack
DUPOINT before he could receive reinforcements.
According to all calect.ition, if CASTANOS did exe-
cute his intt;ition, it v ou4l have been about the
time ,:hen the actio:i is stilted to have happened,
in the letteN received from Vigo. We may there-
fore hope that the vi .ory asserted to have been
gained by the Patriots, is not an imaginary one.
But we must wait for further information from that
quarter of Europe, before we venture to pronounce
positively upoa it. .

Letters, received in London, three days since,
dated from Rome and fiont Ostia, assert a most
curious fact, if implic:t reliance may be given to it.
They say, that after the deposition of his llolineoa
the Pops, the violent extioction'of his spiritual
power, and the arbitrary seizure of his temporal
authority, by BONAPARTE. the Papal functions
being thus extinguished in the permn of Pies the
Vlltb, as Sovereign Pontiff, the Cardinals were
ordered by General 111101.1. ts to quit Rome in
two days. The deprivation and confiscation of all
their property was to follow their non-compli-
ance. In the short interval, however, allowed
them to retire to their respective diocese, or abodes,
it is pretended that they met, and having formed
a conclave, instantly proceeded to fill up the va-
cancy of the Holy See. Their choice, if we may
believe these accounts, fell on the Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Psutamo, in Sicily, who is out of the
reach of the Corsican's power. lie, therefore, may,
it is presumed, Lance against this Usurper and
Tyrant, from that secure retreat, the thunders of
the Vatican, excommunicating him, and declare
him the common enemy of God anti man. Nor
should those censures be despised, however little
we have been accustomed to respect the Papal In-
terdicts in these latter times. In the present state
of the human mind throughout Europe, particu-
lar,: in Austria, in Italy, in Portugal, and in
Spain, NaroLeos tatty not find such a weapon
to be, like the spear of Pause—" Muni imbelle
tine ictu." We do not, however, guarantee the
authenticity of the anecdote here stated, though we
consider it to be entitled to some credit.

Reports of insurrections in the interior of
FrdiIICC have been accompanied by others, stating
that TALLETRA Nln Prince of Benevento, has been
put under arrest at Paris, by order of his litn.c-
CORSICAN MAJESTY. The discontents ■nd
mutiny of the Conscripts in the Duchies of Berg
and La Marek, as well as at Dusseldorff, are
reluctantly acknowledged in the French newspapers,
The Tyrol«, likewise asserted to be lit a state of in-
surrection against the Elector King of BAVARIA. In
Calabria, and along the shore of the Terra di Lavori,
in which Naples stands, symptoms of revolt against
JOSSINN have likt wise openly manifested them-
selves. That' Most Catholic' King may find it dif-
ficult to secure either of his two sovereignties. The
Continent is cvideutly in a state of fermentation in
many parts; but we know so little of its real state-
that time aloe can disclose the truth or the fulse,
hood of these various r ••.oats.
We have received Latch Papers to the eth inst.
fro", which we have made some extracts. They
indirectly admit that the insurrection against the
French is general in Spain. The districts of Se-
l;oTi+t, Valladolid, Placentia, Arragon. and Navarre,
are acknowledged to have been in a nee of comino-
tion, by the very assertion which states that they
have been rostorcd to tranquillity. The French
tuition is furth._tr comforted with an assurance that
the mast pefislred part of the Spanish people die-

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