The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-04 00:00:00

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.