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how Mud) it desired to conii.in the good. under:
standing which was re-establishedbetwetm the two
Governments, and which ought to caose,to )1k; tor.:
gotten all the injuries it had suffered, and•whith cer-
tainly had never been provoked_ on 4ts part; The
condua of the French Government •\, very 4.111-fe,t
rent, as, from the first moment that peace i'ias re'r
established, it required all kind -ot unjust sacrifices
on the part of the PoftugueseGovernment in favour
of the most extravagant and unfounded pretensions
of France. Europe. ought then td have toreOen
that iii subjugation, from Lisbon to- Petersburgh;
'Was determined in the Cabinet. of the Thni;leries,
and that it. was necessary to combine to level the
.colossus to the ground, or submit to be his victim.
After a short interval, war broke ont ;mew he-
tween England,and France ; and the Court of l'or-
tugal having made the ,greateq sacrifices to ,void
war, and the harsh and 'humiliating prOpositions of
the French Government, thought itself, fortunate to
be able to conclude, with the retest sacrifices of
money, the/Treaty of 1804, in Which France pro-
mised in the 6th article as follows
The First Consul of the French Republic consents to
acknowledge the Neutrality of POrtugal during,the Presm;
War, and not to oppose any measures- that may be taken
with respect to the Belligerent Nations, agreeable to the
principles and general laws of Neutrality."
.The French Government from that time received
till the advantages. of such a treaty, it never had oc-
casion. to make the smallest complaint against trio
Portuguese Government yet was, it during the same
war, and after such a stipulation; that it required of
.the Court of Portugal, not only the ittfraCtion ot th 4
neutrality, but the declaration of war, in violation
of•all the treaties that existed bet Ween the two couu-

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• The Court of Portugal, after having kept a silence
suitable to the difficult circumstances in which• it was
placed, and to the moment when the seat of Govei n-
ment was established,conceives that it owes to its dig-
nity and rank among other Powers,.a faith: ul and ac-
curate exposition of its condua, supported by incon-
testable fasts, in order, that its
.subje(ts, impartial
Europe, and also the ino4. distant posterity, may
judge of the purity of its conduct, and ate principles
it has adopted, as well to.avoid the fruitless effusien
of, the blothl of its people, as because it could not
persuade itself that solemn Treaties, of which it had
fulfilled the burthensotne. conditions in favour of
Prance, could become a despicable infant's toy in the
eyes of a Government whose immoderate and in-
commensurable ambition , has no limits, and Which'
has but too much opened .the eyes of the persons
most prejudiced in its favour.
it is:not in invectives, or in vain and useless me-
naces, that. the. Court of Portugal will raise its voice
from the midstof the new ,Einpire which it is abont
to create; it is by true and authentic fads; explained
With _the greatest simplicity and moderation, that it
will make known. to Europe, and its subjeas, all that
.it has suffered; that it will excite the attention of

those who may still desire not to be the victims 'of tries ; and in which, in the case of war, acknow.
so unbounded an embitiOn; and who may, feel how ledged possible, it was determined how the se: idea
much the future fate of Portugal and the restitution of.the two nations should be treated; and alt this
of its States, invaded without a declaration•of war, I without Portugal having any cause of complaint •
and in the midst of profound peace, ought to be of against the British Government, whieli had even
consequence to Europe, if. Europe ever hopes to see given it every kind of satisfitaion when the Corn-
revive the security and independence of. the Powers wanders of its shipS of war had tailed in that reined
which formerly composed a species or republic that which was due to a neutral flag.
balanced itself, and maintained an equilibrium in all 3'he Emperor of the French, in the mean time,
its ditterent parts. An appeal to 'Providence' is the -caused one of his squadrons, on board of which wa4 -
coesequence of this exposition, and a religious Prince :his brother, to put to sea. It anchored in the Bay of
feels all the importance of tt, since guilt cannot al- All Saints, where it was received with every kind of
ways remain unpunished, and usurpation and vio- respect, and was -s-upplied.with all sons of refresh-
lence enfeeble and consume theineelves by the con- meets. Yet what is won by of attention is, that at lee
tinted efforts they are obliged to employ. very time the French Government received on the part
The Court of Portugal, though it saw with regret of thator Portugal so many marks of friendship and
the French revolution begin, and deplored the fate I consideration, the squadron burned somePnoervtleirgepeesi-e-
-of the virtuous King, with whom it was connected • vessels to conceal its route, with a promiSe of indent-
by
thteclosest ties of blood, did not take any part in nit), to the proprietors, which promise was
the war which the conduct of the madmen who then I formed. Europe may hence conclude, thefate which
reigned (by the confession even of the present Go- awaits it, shoitld the French Government- acquire an
vernment) forced all Governments to declare against ascendancy by sea equaleo that it has obtaired to
them: even when it sent succours to Spain for the land, and may :provrly estimate the foundation of
defence of the Pyrennees, it always endeavoured to •• the complaints it so loudly utters against the British
preserve the most perfea neutrality. Government. England neVenmadearty renionstances
In the year 1798, the French Government sent a i against the succours granted to the French SquadrOte;
Minister to the Court of Portugal, who was received for they were within the acknowledged* limits of the
with the utmost respect, but who was-not =know-- law of nations; but the Minister of Foreign Relations
}edged; fur then neither the principles of the Law of France has dared to assert, in the face of EUrope,
of Nations, nor of Public Law, authorized. Govern- that Portugal gave assistance to the English for the •
meets to acknowledge extraordinary 'changes,. , conquest of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres; while it
they are known to be legitimate : ,and no nation is is a tea known by all the world, that that Expedition,
in that respect to Judge for another, while itsinde- which sailed from the (lye of Good Hope, received
Pendegce exists. The French Government, without from Portugal'neither vessels, money, nor men ;' nor;
any declaration of war, 6r anyforreality, began to in fine, any merchandize conside!ed as contraband in
detain the :Portuguese merchant vessels; and after time (If war ; and that the English Squedfeihs dui-
•the peace in -1801, demanded and obtained mug this war obtained nothing 'at Rio de Janeirb, or
nities for those which the Xurt of Poatugat detained the other ports of .Brazil, except what is not refused
to obtain a legitimate compensation, without paying' to any nation, and which had been supplied plehti-
any regard to the cleiMs and.remonstrances of the felJy, to the French Squadron. .The Court of Poi-
Portuguese merchants. • tugal defies the Court of Francelo produce any feet
The- Court of Spain, which bad required .in contradiction to this assertion, which is founded
cours from Portugal, and svhiah, by the confession of in; the most exa& and impartial truth. e •
the French_ Generals, was obliged to acknowledge
France received from Portugal, from, 1804 to 107,
how useful and necessary they had been;! when it -all the colonial commodities and first materials for her
made peace with France, not, only forgot its Ally; manufaaores. The alliance of England end Portu-
which it ought to have caused to be declared in a legal wa'S useful to France; and in the depression sae*,
state of peace with France, since Ole Court of nee. feted by the arts and industry, in consequence of d
toga', in sin:cow-tag its ally to fulfil the conditions of perpettlal War by land, and a disastrous war by sea;
the treaty of alliance which existed -between the two rn which she only met with defeats, it was certaitily
Sovereigns, had .no intention to make war against a great, advantage to France, that the coinmerce of
France. But what is perhaps unheard ofe or aettast .Portugal should suffer no interruption ; undoubtedly
very rare in the annals of history, Spain then made it was equally, useful to both couturier. By ravaging
a conmeop cause with France to force Portugal to Portugal, by subjeeting her to excssive contributions
receives unjust and humiliating conditions of Peace ; in an unheard of manner, without war or any resist=
net- did Spain cease to declare itself the
,enemy of ante having been made oo her part, France has not
its Ally till the moment when the Treaiies of Bade- obtained that advautage which a commerce useful to
joz and Madrid were signed, einploying even the • both •coutitries would have procured to her.
threes of France to wrest from Portugal a small ex- The Court of Portugal might- then justly, and
tent of terriiory of the'province of Alentijo, on the l with every kind of foundation, flatter itself that that
side of 0 iseuza, thus leaving to posterity an eteteal j. of the Thuilieries would respeel a neutrality which' it
morietnent of ehe wretched retiornoence she be- had acknowledged
.by a solemn treaty, and from
slowed on allally, who, notwithstanding the ancient which it, derived such decided advantages,. 'when it
rivalry of the two nations, would not fail to fulfil was awaked from its secuiity in-the 'month of Au_.
Lb ceuditions of a-Treiliy of AlVance which:existed gust. tee 6, by a formal declaration of the Minister of
between them. f State for Foreign Relations, M. Talleyrand to-Lord
The:Treaties-of Peace of Bedajoe and Madrid, in ''Yarmouth, by which the former notified to the lat-
-1801, 'are, likewise new proof of bad faith in the ter, that if England did not make a maritime peace,
enemies of the Court of Portugal, since fhe Treaty the French Government would declare war aeetinst
of Badajoz having been stgued there by LuCien &one- , Portugal, aed:order that catintry to be occupied ,by
parte,- the French Plenipotentiary, end the Prince of 30,,000 men. It was not with 30,00 men that the
Peace, °lithe one side, and.by the Portuguese Pleni- i ievasion of Portugal couldhe effeCted; "but the Em-
potentiary on.t he other, the ,French GOvernment re- j peroeof the French; who knew the security in which
fused to ratify it, and forced Portugal 'to sign a Portugal found herself in consequenCe of the treaty
• new Treaty at Madrid; -with much harder conditions, i of Neutrality, thoughf he could take her.by scirpriee,
without being able to assign any other motivts than and this was sufficient to justify his proceedings.— 7
its caprice' and ambition. This latter Treaty was The. Court
,of England was alarnied• by the above
signedelmost at the same time with the Treaty of .dechteation, and • proposed and offered to that •of
London, between England and Fraeee, which mo- i Portugal all kind of succour ; but France, which at
e'ee.eed some conditions too oppressive to Portugal, that
.period had arranged every thing to mash the
and fixed the limits of the Coast of North' America"; ! Pruseiati Court, winch thee alone bid oefience to the
con s'e_ ation Etiglii
which was ceete-ee'l by the Peace of Amities ; end aup.erierpower of the Empeyor Of the French, while
frond Means tope.-
•arneeet . Ally, before It sev
tnitil!dlaf\i,,,o;:aant(tiacsakeaEndurtspie3er-,
was; in ;:ee eyeS of France, a new proof of the Set-
vinideeitel --b,:ntlage \vie*. the Elieish Govern- jo'uttey•with Rnssta.ano..4
went held that Of . • cif)! t Ceert et Poitueal, Which she thep, awe to
spare, end conk". not cotecalte that a similar perfidy.
tht...Ncoosuproenocrt. srv),:rsttt,i.oheattriei,a:tstae, Oriefdt Eittoi t
::,:tii.i::bsee,nttlil.:ne:intrish::tbeicohfsuaitPos:::::hose greatness
nice WO, o•-e nareerao, a.„) .ea ~•
thensaiee•cetelitions.; and ecr sliewz by the religious e`• - • •
end puha:Au:A obserVation of all its engagaluente, • •
which —7 --a-7 wg.
- • exalted rank.