The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-17 00:00:00

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bill Ono, in every particular coqforming In the practice Qr the
Custom House at Lisbon,
And as it may possibly happen, that your Excellency may not
yet End yuurselfauthorised to consent to the sale of such cargoes,
earnestly request yin( that at all events •y on will be pleased to
itlksw that they should he landed and properly warehoused, and
*Mt yoq will order that the ships should moor is that
tong there with their crews, without molestation, until vour'tx-
cellency shall receive the instructions and orders of his Royal
/lighness the Prince Regent on this head.
: Your Excellency a ill observe, that the hearer of this letter
taught also to present to you with the manifest of the cargo, coo-
• firmed by me, and the licence of the Ilritish Privy Council ; to
fulfil the conditions of which, your Excellency as ill be pleased to
• order the Officers of Customs to deliver to the hearer a certifi-
• case of time regular discharge of the articles specified in such ma-
ni fest,
Conditions agreed to by the Merchants, for the Admission (pro-
visionally until his Royal highness's Resolutions arc known)
into the Port of the Island St. Catherine, of all such Coiods as
wcte heretofore imported into Portugal.
Ist. That all Merchants wishing to make adventures to the
ilrazilts without waiting for the Regulations of his Royal
liighness, should be ohli;ed to take' a licence from the Privy
Council, which will point out the port that will be agreed on
by his Excellency, Mr. Canning apd me, and to which alone
they must give bond to go,
That every Master, and every Shipper, will give the
usuai bonds at this Custom-how, Air the due delivery at the
Custom-house cif the said port,
Besides, every Master and Shipper will bind themselves
fo pay at the Custom-house of the said port, the same duties
that were paid in Portugal upon every such article, or in lieu
thereof, such as mav have been already established by his
oyal flightless the Prince Regent.
According to your oiler, and to ascertain that no con-
traband goods are exported thither, the manifest of the said
cargo, sworn and authenticated as usual at this Custom-house,
will he signed by the Agents and Consol-General, M. John
Charles Lucena, and liv me,
.;ithly. On these -evaiditions, which contain all that fair trade
caix wish for at presept, I will most willingly provide every
Caittain with a letter of mine to the Governor of said port, in-
forming him of what I have done, and requesting him earnestly
to reitoire immediate instructions from the Rio de Janeiro, in
case his Royal llighacss is already arrived I and should his
Royal llighoces lie not yet arrived, requesting him besides not
so enforce the existing law, but to suspend them until he re-
ceives the instructions required, which cannot be long in coin-
. jog, and in the mean while not to miaow, but permit the 'aid
ships to wait peaceably for the new orders; unlossint-shetild he

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withorised by. his former instructions to admit the entry of such
goods, on paying the same duties as in Portugal, and to allow
the Captains to iivest their proceeds in the produce of the coun-
try, in which case I will ardently request the Governor to faci-
litate this trade,

P. S. I need not say, that upon application with the licence
pf the Privy Council, &c, &r. citc, the Manifest will he
pined by me, and my letter to the Governor will be delivered
immediately without the least expence to any of the concerned.

To his Excellency 1). Luiz Mauricio na Silveirat or whom-
soever ks at present tiMertlQT QI the bland of St. Catharine,

Na B. I request their Excellencies the Viceroy and Governor
of the different ports of Brazil, which this ship may enter in
di,,tress, that they will cause it to be accompanied by a guarda
rota to the Port of the Island of St. Catharine, in order to
avoid any unjust .suspicion against the Captain, of illicit com.
gaeree.
From bis Royal Highness's Envoy at Landon,

rE-APPEARANCE OF A THEATRICAL HEROINE, !!

• After an absence of two years, carefully employed in the
rtrysiii:ition of notoriety, this Lady has re-appeared upon the
London boards--a fair candidate for public approbation !! !
When we saw her name first announced in the bills of Covent-
eardenli heatre, we confess oitrastonishment. We were, however,
si:ent, confidently expecting that the chastisement of vice would
prove the consequence of its effrontery, certain that =he would af-

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ford an usend lesson to future heroines, telling them if they cannot
be virtuous, they should at least he prudent ; nor, after havilig
vilely sullied the purity of private life,presume to shew with what
facility a virtuous public can be duped into forgivenc.s.
event, however, has not justified our expectation—the Lau; has
been tiilerated, and %%e should consider ourselves ncgtecti.-i; the
duties of a moral pritsi, did we any longer withhold our senti .
ments on the subject. Nitich as the propriety of scenic exhibi-
tion has, hitherto bean questioned, «c shall certainly never ap-
pear in the list of their opponents, sa long as this stage continue.;
to he the vehicle of public morality—the mirror in which vice
may shrink at its retlexion—the voice through which virtue
shall be consoled in its fall, and applauded in its elevation..
Now this effect we think ran never he produced while immoral
agents are employed in its fulfilment ; and certainly when, a
tnoughtli”s parent takes hi child to witness the representation
of a.moral character. by an actress notorionsly the contrary, we
can consider it in no other light than as inculcating to the youih...
fill mind how easily virtue may he acted, and how effectually
the h% pocrite may deceive !---We are fully aware that this
remark may be retorted by those who may choose to differ from
its in opinion—there arc certainly a class of thnitacten in which
the notoriety of Mrs. 11, .T's re;.l sinintion need not destroy the
illosiou of her fictitious onc, and so long as the lady contents,
herself in the line of the Bizarre, and Mil/wood:it we will lavish
on her all that panegyric which a perfect portrait n,f *tam
depicted with admirable talents must ever jtkattflit

PORT NEWS,
nnEtnyuL AT.
EXTA %CT or A LETTER FROM De st.% .t kNir. Yester-
day the wind having shifted suddenly from about S. S. W. to,
N. W. it began to blow Tiolentiv, and during the night in.-.
creased to a perfect hurricane. The morning light presentees
most distressing spectacle--shies parting from their anchor:.
others drifting ; some with the loss of top-masts and bowsprits,
and some standing out of the Downs without either anchor or
cable left; but providentially none have drove on shore, nar
can lat present learn that any have been lost. This day ha
wind continued with increased siolence, and brought in a 111(1,
tremendous sea, which At one time even threatened the destrucs
tion of the town. The finindatiaus of a great number of house.;.
next the sea have hien undermined, store-houses have.
been swept away with their contents, mid the grouod
tier of the dwel /Mg-houses, tilled with water. The
sea, during the tempest, made s 1 considerable breach 4,-.
tween Saadown Castle and the battery No. I. Is hich has inurt-
dated the chambers, and forced such, a torrent of water into the
lower streets of !Avid, that the cellars have been completely
filled, and property to a large amount totally destroyed. In a
row of hOuses adjoining ter Alfred-square, 'the torrent mac to
deep that boats were obliged to be got down, and the ankrrable
inhabitants taken out of their houses from the chamber windows,
Several quays in the Beaeh,street, which had braved the furs
of the elements Lora series of years, base (tern totally destreyed,
and the timber washed oat to sea,--Quarter past four, p.
The whld has now somewhat abated, but we fear a return div-
ing the night. I have this instant been told that a brig,. Hare
unknown, foundered at her anchors about three o'clock this
morning, and all souls perished—Pray God it may prove entree?
M A at:ATE, I t x. asevere gale last night this harboar
and town sufkred material damage : the wind during the night
was at N. W. attended with a remarkable high title, w hick has
made a breach through the Pier Head, and eompletely washed
away the parapet-walls tram the Pier to the Marine Parade,de-
stroying all the bathing-rooms except one.
The Isabella and Ann, Rook, from Newfoundland, and then
Percy, Meek, from Quebec, for London, have put in here, o ith
the loss .of anchors and cables ; and the hark Betsey, of Poole,
from Ness foundland, for London, is on shore, about three miles
above this place; crew saved.
Co w 1.14, Av. 15.—During the whole of yesterday and last
night we experienced here u dreadful gale of wind, during Ns hich
there arrived a large fleet of transports from Ireland, those late
from Buenos Ayres, under convoy of a gne-brig, which, together
with ten sail of the tran-ports, and an American ship, is ere drove
ashore between this place and Yarmouth. The gun-brig. Is
three sail of the transports and the American ship, got safely oof,
but the other transports still remain on shore. it is now mime
moderate, and it is hoped they will he got oft without material
damage. , The umbels of three of them now on shoreare,2lo,
.115, and F. I,