The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-16 00:00:00

L *0 ND 0 IV,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1808.

- ACCOUNTS have been received from Lisbon, which
state, that. the Inhabitants of that City have twice
broke out into hisurreffion, and ,were not reduced
to.obedience without dreadful slaughter. The ,first
effort of the popuhice was, it is stated, on the 12th
ult. when the 'French Colours were sUbstitnte4 for
those of ',Portugal ; but, after fighting for several
hours, • the Portugnize were obliged to submit to
the superior discipline of their opponents.. A
lar fate attended auother•attempt made on the 15th.
A scarcity apprOaching to 'a
famine prevails
througliaut Portugal, and, in consequence of the
etrift blockade, nO provisions can be iMported into
that unforiunate Country.
The following Letters contain Some curious detail'
upon the subject.

CoRK., JAN Your. Ship arrived here in
safety last night (Sunday)', after a .passage of . ten
days. She left Cadiz on the 31st nit. Before ,the
Captain came away, he saw letters .from, Lisbon of
the 17th of December, stating, that ant insurrection
had taken place' there on the 12th ,at night.;--The
populace surprised the guards, a very severe: coal&
ensued,: and many on both sides were killed. On
the 13th, many of the leaders 'of the populace were
shot, by the order of General JUNOT, which so, in,.
censed the inhabitants, that they'rose again on •the
night of the I.sth,- wherithe slaughter was dreadfnl:.
.above 5000 persons on both sides were killed. The
accounts add, that the inhabitants were dreadfully ill
oil" for provisions. The greater pare of the wealthy'
had entirely forsaken the City. The French colours
bad been hoisted on board the Ships of War and on
the forts. When the accounts left, Lisbon, peace.
and quietness had not been entirely restored, and it
was thought that famine would rid the country of
the French and Spanish' soldiery. The Captain of
• the Ship, who is the bearer of this information, threw
all his papers overboard, having been chaced by three
Privateers."

DUBLIN, JAN. 2.—The following- highly interest-
lng intelligence has been just communicated by the
Captain of an American Vessel, which Arrived in
put- harbour this day, from Cadiz, which 'place he
left on the 3 I st

"It appears, that previous to his sailing, letters from
Lisbon, dated the teth and teth of December, had
been received, which stated, that on the. tab; at
night (the French' having previously taken possession
of all :the torts, and the remaining Ships of War, on
which they hoisted French c4lours), the populace;
in initriense numbers,cemmeneed an attack upon the
French and Spanish troops ; that ageneral..gegage-
ment took place in the streets, and that great norm•
bers were killed on both sides before the populace
were reduced to subthission. The following hurtl-
ing General JUNOT issued a menacing Proclamation,
threatening the ringleaders, which be said were well
known, with' the most dreadful punishment. The-
immediate execution of the prisoners taken by
.the
French, followed this Proclamation ; some were.
shot, and many were libtiged. These dreadful 6(
amplee, however, were not of sufficient force, to.
prevent a second insurreCtion, which took place
in three clays after, an the ibth, more dreadful and
sanguinary in its etreets than the former, in which
our reports state, " bet Ween five and six thcmtiat►d
Frencheand Spaniards were killed," and that the
mosttlteatlfti! disorder prevailed in the Capital when

ibelatt accoqnt.s,viete.p,nl,o,ff. greatey'part of

the troops stationed ,there are .Spanish. the
horrot,,of insurrp6\lots are added the miseries of
want;
,as a scpreity of the most dreadful
Sand
,
feotipg kind prevailed generally in and about Lisbon:l

IT is stated, and we believe accurately, that Sir:
Jontv MOORE is about to proceed on an Expedition
of consideiable importance. A reinfeicement has
also been ordered, to Halifax, under the command of
SieGEouoa PRESCOTT.

,
lAiTtiouon Prince STAHREMBERG hasidernbnded
his
~Passportsz he will not, we believe, -quit this
oountry until be receives an answer. to the Dis-
patches. sent off on Tuesday by. Count MEIN.

It is stated in a Morning Paper as a- circumstance
calculated to excite great surprise? that General
MACK i 8 in London, and that he has.had interviews
with the Duke of YOUK and• Lord CASTLEREAGH.

We are, strongly inclined to suspea that the Pa-
per in question has confounded General 11,14.a.crwith
General MERCK, who was taken' prisoner at
Domingo, and who has been in London a longtime.

Though, as we .obierved yesterday, they State
Paper just issued by France, in answer to the re-
cent Declaration of the British Government, is some- ,
what less.violent in its, language than we have been-
.
acaustomed to see in the columns of the .gonttcyr,
yet it must be acknoWledged that it .manifests a
continuance of the same determined rancour against
this country : in , fad, though there is some inge-
nuity discoverable in parts of it, it is the ingenuity.
;of craft,, and is founded upon sophistry-and misre-.
preSentation. It never fairly meets the faCts and
arguments contained in the British Declaration, but
. endeavours to prove that the latter contains Contra-
•diCtions and inconsistencies in itself. As a speci-
men of the artifice and misrepresentation which
charaelerize this French Paper in general, it
May be sufficient to 'point out the following
passage, which meat indeed strike the least
refleEting mind in perusing it. It was observed
in the British Declaration, that the Emperor
of: Russ had Sliewn the first symptoms of
reviving: confidence towards England after Me Siege
of Copenhagen ; .but in the French Paper these
'Wards are changed to " after the Peace of Tilsit ;"
a very different thing indeed; for in the interval be-'
t weed" the' conclusion of the Peace of Tilsit and the
British attack
,on Copenhagen, . the Emperor 'of
, .
Russia miglik have become sensible of the impoliey
and disgraceful charaaer of that Peace, and might
naturally wish to return to amicable 'relations with
Great Britain. The inconsistency of Russia con-
sisted in her affecting to condemn our attack upon
Denmark, when she had previously manifested sen-
timents of reviving confidence. towards us though
that attack bad been made. But this is merely
French quibbling, and would not be worthy of no-
tiee, except to show the feelings from which the
French povernment wri!As, and the pitiful tricks to'
which it is obliged to resort, if possible; to fix blame-.
upon Great Britain. In one partof the French
Paper it unwarily makes an acknowledgment which,
inciependently of all other considerations, fully jus-
tifies our operations respecting Denjnark, for it ad-
mits that if Denmark had . accepted our 'terms,
France would have seized her Continental pos-
sessions. Indeed it ie 'so obvious that such
would have been the 'conduat of 'France, that
the ackowledgment was unnecessary, and there-
fore With the certainty, of such condoet, and
the probability that Denmark was about to become
.the passive instrument of Frances it would have
been worse than folly in us to have sutiered the
Danish Navy to tall into the . hands of our inveter;.
ate toe. . .

As to Prussia, the French Paper does not deny
what was said in the British Declaration respelling'
that unfortunate Country, but it aliedgcs that Prussia
has not been evacuated, because the Treaty bad not
fixed the period of evacuation? because the Contri-
butions 'laid upon the Prussian States during the War
had not been discharged, and beeause...the Prelimi-
nary Arrangements with the KING of PRUSSIA are
not yet terminated; because, forsooth, the Expedi-
tion to .Copenhagen` has repently thrown ,;pore un-
certainty into the afilfirs of the North of Europe.
To tier the latter reason as a plea for the confirm- -
ance of French Troops in Prussia, is the height'of.
absurdity. But indeed, from what is said of the
Prussian Cabinet in the French Paper, it seems evi-
dent that more misfortunes are impending over the
head of his Prussian Majesty*, and it would, not be
wonderful if he were at last deprived of all hiire-
paining possessions. The Paper passes over the int-
portant fad mentioned in the British Declaration, that
Prussian Subje&s were designated to instant death
on a charge of disrespect to the French Government.*
But the main consideration as to this French Docu-i
mew ' is its tendency on the great subject of Peace
* A Morning Paper of this ttay says, that the shocking fad
here alittcled to was first recorded in The Cvut ler de Lcndrer,
trft rite truth is, that it was first stated in TUE Suli or (MO.
bcf :rot. •

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and Way. We confess.that..we see nopacific senti•
menu, on. the part of the French Ruler. He avows
his determination to insist upon the destruCtion of
those Maritime Bights which we are determined 03
Enaikkii9. How matNts are to by decided in this
state, erutept by firmness, vigour, and a perso•
viring- sujtort of those rights, till the &scow
:tent mr.hicli BCONAPARTEI,II commercial tyranny
Must , spread all over the Continent may induce
him to abate in his arrogance, it. is difficult to
say. But it must excite the disgust of mankind
to hear the sounds of" honour," " respect for indc
.pendeth States," &c. &c. in the mouth of a mail
who'` decreed' the' downfall 'of the Throne of
Portugal bmause. the PRINCB REGiIINT would not he
guilty of the most dishonourable concluot towariN
'an Ally, and who, tinder pretence of respeaing tito
neutraiie)',, of other' States; has imposed such restric•
tints upon. "Glee Continental States as.totally annihilate
their Owly free-will, and oblige them to aubinit to the
most lamentable privations, upon pain of destru6tion
to their Vessels and imprisonment to their Subje6l6,
if by mere distress they hate been compelled to
touch at an 'English port, or to submit to the search
of a British Vessel, without any means of resistance'
Upon the' whole, the French paper seems to 1?t1
brought forward at therpresent moment in order to
furnish topics for the Opposition in this Country, au 1.
the approaching meeting of Parliament—a mease;l ..
of justice as well as gratitude; 'since the Writers is
the, cause of that Opposition have lately been very ''
sedulous in providing topics for France ar to raig{l,,
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the coquet of Great Britain. „
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intglligenco Ints been received of the safe arrival
of Lorti.Mttryo and General Hawtri in the Eas.t
Indies.

'Yesterday the Princesses AUGUSTA .sand M.E9Vr,
honoured Lady C. FINCH with a morning visit, 0
her aparttnent3 in St. James's Palace.
Yesterday, about two o'clock, the Princess of
Wm.Es and the Duchess of BRUNSWICK arrived at the
Queen's Palace, and partook of an early dinner WO
their MtvasTlas :and the PutwassEs. Soon alter
five o'cicck, their Royal Highnesses set off on their
retuin. to Blackhea►h. . .

In the evening their Majesties bad a sele& po.rtY
to lea.and cards.

,There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at 11'4
Foreign Office, which was attended by all elf,
Members- of Administration in town. The subjc-,
of these deliberations was said to he the disPrito6
received on ,Thorsday morning from France;

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NDI A -1-10USE.—Yestenlay a Court of .t.,41"r-rT
was held, when Captain J. 13. SAMPSON was sivbrA
into the command of the Ship Earl St. Vincent/g?:
signed to Bombay. The Court adjourned
o clock:till Wednesday next.
The Sir Stephen Lushington, Captitin G4A-I',,
homeward-bound, had . arrhed at 'St. Helena, 12"
from the Cape of Good Hope, and was expetted
sail from thence about the Bth of Qeceinber.

The Transport Board continues to engage •largO
coppered Ships for long voyages. Many of the
Vessels are to proceed to India for the purpose .
bringing home hemp. The Direttors of the f.. 347
India Company having enNed to furnish Goverir
ment with twenty thousand lons of hemp ::nnuOt/
for the next three years, the whole of which is
be broUght ' home in Ships especially fitted ill),
prepared for the' purpose, so as to prevent the g"
tide from imbibing an improlter heat on its voy4
to Engi•mrl • .
The aly of Algiers is said to' have finally adju4o4
all his differences with the United.' Stites of At
Biers three or four prizes, 'had been direaci
ries: Cruizers, after havttig brought into' .1V••
to
silt. America, it is added, is to ply immichotd)(
the sum of 35,000 dollars to the Dey, in lieu of tirl
annual tribute.

A New-York Paper states, that the' slaildil
Madeira' has been taken possession .of by a nit 3
force.. Though this may be the case,^ it is 11103;
sonahle expeet the first inseiligetice of such 'll
event by so circuitous a route.

n ronsequonce of the war with Russia, the Bus;
sian Naval Wheels, employod. in our service, hilvt
been,ordered to return to Russia ; accordinglY,
Saturday, seven young Rnssian Midshipmen +o.'d
removed from Harwich, on board the ihickiati,
Packet, Capt. DEAN, to he conveyed to Gotteaburb '
on their way to Russia.
A the
Captain BALA is appointed to the command
0.
Omit Sloop of War, at Sheerness.
Lieut. Hilavav is promoted to the rank of Vim;
minder, and to the command of the CephatusSlo°l
of War.

There was a". Grand 'Military. Ball given at Love`'
in SuSsex,last Tuesday, which was
.attendedbv
Most of the distinguished persOnS in that neig`);
bouthogai' indea a more beautiful and 04;1111
assemblage of the female world has seldom
seen on any 'similar nec:asion. The graceful and 3C,
tompliiheu Misse.s Mu'ants and SMlTH.were
cularly noticed; but the whole was a splendid scei)'
of taste, fashion and gaiety.
PRINC4 of WALES'fi LOYAL VOLUNTEERS..."-Tbe
follnwing• were elected last Tuesday to fill 01) the
yacancies, arising by the resignation in the, ao—
corps.

CAPTAIWS—Nie;.,;;. Stone, Fymnore, Cooks. vv.
FIAST LIiUTENANTs—POIIOek. 13•OW'ell,
lor, Rrtnt
Steetro turitNANTs—Otridge, Drummond, t-Vintle.
lislorie.y, Mortis', Goriclen, Suttnont.
, 11
:there: were about thirteen unsuccessful 1,,
:there:a
dates.. ,

.
. At the close of the Poll on Thursday at 14, Incolot
the ntunber wtre—

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For the Earl of A9exLc;ro•:igh - 639
Colonel Harcourt - • - 34
Majority--•--29t
Lord MEADOROUGII, we uuderstand,
clay returuvri duty eleaed.