The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-08 00:00:00

'THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MAY 8.

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.


Laotian,
SUNDAY, MAY 0, 1808.


POLITIC.IL SVENTS OP THE WEEK.
The Expedition sailed from the Downs and from Har-
wich on Wednesday last. The vessels remained at anchor
of Orfordness, in consequence of a temporary change of
wind, but as the breeze soon veered to the southward, they
have probably proceeded. MI the armaments are to ren-
dezvous in Yarmouth litiads. There were eighty-four
transports, of which four and thirty contained cavalry.
Nearly three hundred flat-bottomed boats too, were on
board the transports. The following is the Staff of the
Expedition :
Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Moore, Commander in Chief; Major-
Geo. Nl`Kenzie Frazer, second in command; Major-6en. Clin-
ton, on the Staff; Col. Murray, Quarter-master-Ueneral, Major
de Maguire, ditto; Inspector of Hospitals, Dr. Franks ; De-
puty ditto, Mr. Ferguson ; Physicians to the Forces, Drs. Lar-
kin. Tyce, and Morris; Staff-Surgeons, Montague, Lindsay,
Dynlv, and Kratziesen ; Apothecaries, Henderson, and !toffee;
Purveyor, Assistant Mates, ditto; Deputy Commissary,
Kennedy, Esq.; Assistant. Mr. Gatintlett.
Under such a General as Sir JOAN Moonz much may be
atchieved. It is long since British trnops have gained a
victory abroad, untarnished by the disgrace of injustice:
and we hope that the dreadful example which our
.Govern-
vernment has received of continental resentment for the
seizure at Copenhagen, will teach them hereafter to season
their active zeal with some few sprinklings of prudence
and justice, although they may be too proud to make a
verbal confession of their error. This Expedition is said
to he destined for the Baltic : if the last had not gone out,
it would never have been necessary. But oar :Minister s,
as if afraid lest the courage of our soldiers should grow
rusty, dispatch one set of men to irritate the nations of
the Continent, and then ship off a second parry to contend
with them when they are irritated.
It has been said, that another Squadron, unacccmpanied
by traesports, is about to sail from Cawsand Bay, having
seakd orders, and provisions for six mouths. The ships
mentioned were the Tonnant, the Gibraltar, the Bellero-
phon, the Brunswick, the Dragon, and the Neptune, men
of war.; two frigates, and two sloops. All these were to
be commai;dcd by Admiral DE COUXCT.
Within these few days arrest number of emigrants have
arrived from Portugal, at Plymouth : they came in a trills-
port from our fleet off Lisbon. Our Squadron .11:.d been
apprized of the arrival of the Prince Regent at llio.laneiro
en the 6th of January. He had entered on his functions as
a Sovereign, and formed an Administration, which was ap-
proved by the people. It is said, that an Englishman has
the superintendance of the Admiralty. Orders had been
given for the immediate construction of ships of war ; a
declaratibn of hostilities had been issued against Spanish
America and sixteen millions of dollars belonging to
spain had been sequestered.
In Portugal the rage of emigration bad become so gene-
ral, that any person detected in leaving the country, was
subjected to death and confiscation of property. At Lis-
bon provisions were not scarce. On Monday Mr. FA
cvEn, from our Government, requested Mr.
to communicate a Circular Note to the Merchants employ-
ed in the Brazil trade, that the Portuguese Minister was
read) to give licences to British or Portuguese ships, to

carry out British manufactured cotton goods to the Brazils,
under certain instructions: and that licences would be
prepared on Tuesday morning by the Lords of Trade.
An Order of Council will shortly appear for the restora-
tion of all such property detained in this country as belongs
to Portuguese subjects, now in this kingdom, or in the
Brazils with their sovereign : and a reference will he made
to the Prince Regent concerning the properly of those
Portuguese who are under the denomination of France.—
Thus will be preserved the property of those who have the
courage to adhere to their Monarch : and the possessions
of those who have submitted to the enemy, will allOrd the
means of relief to loyal subjects.
The American ship the Osage arrived at Falmouth on
Saturday the 30th of April. she brought only tiree pas-
sengers, Mr. Louis, Mr. MORGA N, and Mr. aloe ase. The
last is said to have come only ou mercantile business, and
Mr. Lours is reported to have brought dispatches from
General ARMSTRONG to Mr. Piscasis.
Every circumstance that we can gather, proves the vi-
gorous disposition of the French Go% erimmat towards the
Americans. BONA PA RTE, it is said, w it. here no acetrals:
and he has even refused passports to the Americans is
France. Mr. M oRG AN made his escape on board the Osage.
Nay, the Osage herself, after her arrival at L'O; ieut, wee
seized because she had been spoken by a British cruizei oa.
that port. Accounts received last week from Bayonne ac-
tually. state, that BONAPARTE issued a Decree there on the
4th of last month, ordering the capture and coademnation
Of all American vessels.
We should be sorry to see any unnecessary acrimony
.employed against America : we have wars anew alreltly
upon our consciences mid upon our purs.:.!s: but we
that .Government will make no abject concessions for lee
sake of American friendship. America's friendship is but
a time-serving amity : she can do us little good, she can
do France little harm. Now that Treace appears to have
completely shaken her off, she may wish to beim the best
terms with us Rut let us cons;der that she comes to us
from necessity, not. from love; and that we have a right to
make the best bargain Ave can.
On Thursday last 111 r. PIN cEN ET had a conference of se•
veral hours with fir. „
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In another yart of our Paper we. bee given 1 detail of
the operations of the Swedish war. They are of a nature
highle honourable to the F;ailoatry and miiitary skill of
our Allies, and we trust that he will continue to purs.:a
the ca.Ter he has begun, until he shall have tweeted to
hires& and his country, by the pronis of Swedish spirA
led independence, the solid advantages of en honourable,
and pecinauent peace. For pi-ninthly there is no mode of
;Naming security from P.9N-A PARTE, except. the provirg
to him that he has it not his i.o.ver to prevent teat se-
curity.
It is said, that a vessel has just arrived farm Holland--
that the men were not immediately saalosel to land, but
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that three women had obtained that permissioe. It is
added, that an Austrian Messenger, supposed to bear dis-
patches from Vienna, lauded at Harwich at two o'clock
yesterday morning. We have not been able to ascertain
what faith may be due to these statements.

The report of a revolution in Russia, of the truth of
which we expressed some doubts in our last ft amber, now
appears, as we suspected, to be totally without fcstitd
Letters were received in town on Monday Irmo fti. a, hick
make not the slighest mention of any ache:ices in
St. t'ctersburgh.
The Court of St. Petcrsburgh has published the
.ing Notification, which will 41oubtiess be iliterestini; to all
those concerned in Rusiian Commerce:—
" The Imperial Col:ege of Commerce notifies, that in conse-
quence of an Imp •rial Edict, issued on the Stit November, 1507-,
for the establishment of a C ttttt tnii•sion to liquidate all acrnUnts
.uVisting between the llutai.to and sultjects in St. Peter-:.