The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-17 00:00:00

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Fe.':ocii Government for the e.Y.eti, ss'Ofilfigexpence
'bey ~irt the estimation to belri:k.i ,birilMh parties
ot• the value of the magazines- delivered up to. the
.I.3ritidi Army.

The provisions on board the Ships of War, in
possession of the French Army, will be taken on
account by the British Government, in like manner
with the magazines in the Fortresses.
-Art: 111. The General Commanding the British
troops will take the necessary measures for re-esta-
blishing the free circulation of the means of subsist-
enPe between the country. and the capital.
.11one and concluded at Lisbon this 30th day of
-August, 1808.
(Signed) GEORGE MURRAY, Quarter-
Master-General.
• KELLER MANN, le Gen6ral de

Division.

Nous Doc D'Abrantes G6neral en Chef de I'Ar-
mee Francais-, avons ratitie et ratifions les Articles
Actditionels it Ia Cotiveritionet controic. pour etre
executes suivant lour thrme et. tencur. ,
LE MX D'ABIUNTES.
(A true Copy) :'•
A. J. DALRYMPLE, Captain, 4iitttry.Secretary.

Admiralty-Office, Sept. IU, I 8 () .

Captain Halsted, First Captain to the Squadron,
under ,he command of Admiral Sir' Charles Cotton,
Bart. Commander in Chief of. his Majesty's Ship*:
and Vessels on the Coast of Portugal, arrived yester-
day at this Office, with dispatches from the Admiral
to the Bon. William Wellesley Pole, of Which the.
following are Copies •
SIR, Hibernia, off the Tagus, Sept. 3,180 S.,
Inclosed herewith, for t14..-information of .the
Lords Commissioners of the. Admiralty, is a Copy
of a •Convention * entered into by :;11eiVienant-
Colonel Murray and General-Kellermiguifor the
evacuation of Portugal by the French ,Appy, ; ,such
Convention having been ratified by Lieut.-General
Sir Hew Dalrymple, myself, and the French Com-
mander in Chief. British Troops, consisting of the
3d and 4e,.'d regiments, were on the 2d inst. landed,
to occupy the Forts of Cascais, St. Antonio, St. Ju-
lien, and the Bugio, and no time shall be lost to em- I
bark the French Troops,' agreeably to the said Con-
vention.

Ciptain Halsted, First Captain of this Ship, and
Captain of the Fleet, who is the bearer of dispatches
to their LordshipS respe&ing the Russian Squadron
in the Tagus, is in full possession of my confidence,
and will be able to explain to their Lordships the
motives inducing w to ratify the .Convention in
question, as t% ell as give any further information
that way be thotight necessary.
J have the
(sii-igiciiendo3or.,to, be,cBr. cc
9N4r:
•
Hon. W. Wellesley Pole, &c.
,* A Copy of the .Convention inclosed in the Letter from
Sir Hew Dalrymple.

9IR, Hibernia, ofFthe Tagus, 4th Sept. ad,
Herewith I have the honour to inclbse to yOu far
the information of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admhalty,, a Copy of a, Convention • entered into by
me, with Vice-Admiral Sernavin, commanding the
Russian Fleet in :he Tagus, by which ;t will appear
to their Lordships that such Fleet has been surren-
dered to me, to be held by his Majesty as a deposit,
until six motAhs utter the conc:usion of a Pe:.ce be-
t weem Russia and England.

I have charged CJstain Halsted, First Captain of:
the Hibernia, and C.iptilin of the Fleet,. with,the
delivery of this Dispatch to their Lordships; he was
sent by me to negotiate the Convention with Vice,
Admiral.S,niavin„and will be abie to explain every
,particular.
To Captain Halsted I feel greatly indebted-for his
able advice and as,istance upon all points nfsi•vice;
his zeal and diligence have been exemplary, and en.
titiv him to my highest commendation.
Rear-Admiral Tyler 1414 been direaed to super-
intend the first di: ision of the Russian Fleet, which
I purpose ordering; under his protection immediately
.
to Spit head; to him •(sinee with me) I' have been
.indebted for every assistan,:e; and, to the Captains,
Officers, and Crews, of those Ships that- have been
einp.toyed throughout a tedninsly protracted:blockade
(by whom every exertion has been made with a
degree of cheerfulness doing them infinite honour)
I, feel extremely graieful, and deem it my duty, to
off:r every possible testimony.of, my approbation in
their tat our. Phan the honour to be, Sec.

(Signed)
Pion. W. W. Pole,- &c. 4c. Zrc.

C. COTTON.

ARTICLES of a CO NV E 3\l TI 2N entered into between
Viee-Ad.niral Seniavin, Knight of the.Ooter Of(Stt-Ate.x.
ander, ;and other Russian 0 mers, and Admiral t.itr,cirlr;es
Cotton, Baronet, for the Surrender of the Russian Fleet,
now ;Ith:flored in the River Tagus. tr .
• Art. 1. The Ships of
,War of the Emperor of
Russia now in the Tagus, as specified in the annexed
list, shall be delivered up to AdMiral Sir 'Charles
Cotton, immediately, with all their stores as they
now are; to be sent to England, and there held as
g deposit by his Britannic Majesty, to be restored to
f his-Imperial. Majesty, (within six months after the
conclusion of a peace between' his Britannic Majes.!
ty and-his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the
Russias.
Art. 11. Vice-Admiral Seniavin, with the Officers,
Sailors, and Marines, under his command, to return
to Russia without any condition or stipulation te-
speating their future services ; to be. ronveycd there
in Men of War, or proper'Vessels, at the expenc&of
his Britannic Majesty.
Done and concluded on board tit,. Ship I,'Werday„
in the TaguS, and on board his Britannic Ma-
jesty's Ship Hibernia, uti: the mouth of that
River, the 3d day of September, 1808.
(Signed) DE SENIA VI Nr.
(Sigt:ed) CHARLES COITON.
• (Counter-signed) by command of the Admiral,
L. Stvss, Assesseur de College.
(Counter-signed) by command of the Admiral,
JAMEti KE:44NEny, Secre;ary..
Lis. of the Ships reterr.dto io the foregoing; Convention.
T‘ve:day, Vice-Admiral Seniavin, Captain du ter rang Ma.!,
;-,y-n, of 74 guns, and 736 men.
du rer rang Schelling, of 6p guns, and
.3 4 dm'.
Si, .env, Captain du znd rang Bitehenskny, of
,74 guns,
598 :Twit.
S. ..atetiel. Captain 'du zud rang Roshnofr, of 74 guns, and
O to men. •
Ratviiau, Captain du zd rang Rtishehofr, of 66 guns, and
7549 men: • •
Sifnuy, Captain-Lieutenant Malygruin, of 74 guns, and
604 men.
Motchnoy, Captaip<Liegenant Rasvosoff -of ,4 guns, and_
62.9 men. •