The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

RUSSIAN FLEET IN TIP, E UTIC.

A Mail from Cottenburgh arrived yesterday. It has not
been found practicable, we understand, to attack the Rus-
sian squadron in Port tAttic, the Russians having fortified
both scl;:s cf t!!c narbour ; but they aprar to be in great

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consternation and ,coutusion, bare struck yards .and tbp.
!masts,. and moored so close to tho shore,. that a strou4
'north-west wind would, it was atiprehended, drive them
oil shore,' , •
• A private Letter from Gottenburgh states, that our
Admirals obtained sonic fire-ships from the Swedes, and
int them into thepifirt, ship I: ere I)*Eng,
,Which set fire to some magazines.; the Russian
offered to dismantle his •ships until a peace, which our

Admiral refused. .
In additioo to the accounts brought by the Gottenbur;;h
Mail of yesterday, we hare the pleasure of communicatity;
the arrival of dispatches at the Admiralty from Sir lust.,
.SAU!IAILSZ. They announce the important fact, that
consequence.. of a szuxessful cannonade and boinhardmeot
of the fortifications thrown up by th© Russian fleet vi
RdigitAtitriE Talitette; witttiritirminated in the dr-
;structitm of the priueipal works and batteries, the
Admiral had sent Cula Bag oTtrvee, offering to giVe up
'all his ships, on conditiort' of their being restored at tht.
definitive condesieit of race. The, Offer was rejected,
nand we rejoice to legi•ntßiitlfßf tibconditional capture is
inevitable. 'How very diffeyent are our affairs conductt.l
in the Baltic and the 'rain* I •

UNEXPECTpD CHANGE .IN PORTUGAL.

"We haw' the Shtilfaction to announce-the arrival in town
of two Portuguese Melisongers, rho were on Friday landed
at Bristol: They are charged witlithe pleasing °flire of
comktunicatiiit the deterusinntion of the • Provisional
Cu-
vernr+ and OM:people of Portugal nut to accede to the
disgraceful Con4444tion of Ointra. Suck was the iniligna-
tiiinf we'tniderstand,• of the people-of Lisbon, on learning
the • Articles of the Treaty;'.-titin ;they rose against their
plenderers and. Oppressors, and -massacred eight hundred
of JUNivet; troops. It was not without a very great effu-
sion of blood, that the insurrection was suppressed. It is
this moment confidently reported, that Sir C. COTTON had
iiicroified to .levor.his fetal disapproval of the Convention.
and his decided resolution to• oppose that part of it uh.rh
related to the Russian fleet in the Tagus.

The last accounts from Germany end Holland prove be-
yond a doubt, an immediate rupture between Austria and
France. The French are collecting a formidable army in
Friuli and the Tyrol, and a large army of reserve under
the command of Marshal KELLEitmAis, is forming on the
Rhine, from Strasburg► to Wesel, of s% hich a considerable
portion of the troops, forming the contingency Of the
Rhine, are forming a part. Austria is not inactive; she is
making exertions proportionate to the danger. Her ar-
mies, under the supreme command of the enlightened and
patriotic Generalissimo the Archduke CII*RLES, have been
divided into eight divisions, each to be commanded by a
Field Marshal, who has already distinguished himself by
his services and skill.

Sir William Scott, the chief English Civilian, is gone to
Portugal. We know not that he-has any pnblic mission,
and his friends say, that he is merely taking a voyage 1„r
pleasure. A visit to Portugal, where so much may. depend
upon a construction of the Law of Nations, by this truly
learned person, who has spent a great part of his lift!, either
iu discussing, or administering that does, bowe"r•
leadlis to hope, thattsoineenquiricli ate-on-foot relative to
the general validity of the late lamentable Conyeution.

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