The Sun.
London, England, 1807-12-22 00:00:00

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His Majesty's'Ship Hibernia, 2e Lepgues

Test of the Tagus, Dec. 1,1807..

Li aunt her, Dispatch of this day's..date, -1 ..have
transmitted aList of the Portuguese Fleet that came
stir of the Tagus on the. 29111 ultimo, .which Ire=
ceived that day' from the hands of- tM'Adruiral
cortinithdhig it, '),vheti I went on board the
.Realeto pay my viiit of 'respect and.congratulation
to his Royal
.Highness the ,Prince of Brazil, who
was embarked-ia that Ship. 1 here inclo%e the List
of those •left7„behind. The_ absence Of but one of
the four Ships is' regretted' by the Portuguese (the
Vasco' de Gima), she being under repair: her
guns have been employed to arm the Freitas, sixty-
four, a new ship, and one of those whicb.came out
with
,the Prince. The other three are • mere hulks ;
and there are also oneship:on the stocks, the Prin-
cipe Regente, ift•oniy.' in frame.:
The 'Prince said every thing than the most cordial
feelings of gratitude towards, and Contidrce in
Ois Majesty
,and . the British nation might. be sup-
posai to dictate. .

have by signal (for we have no other mode of
communicating in this weather) direfted Captain
Moore, in the Marlborough, with the London, Mk.;
parch, and Bedford, to stay by the body of the Por-
tuguese Fleet, and render it every assistance.
I keep in the I lihernia, close to the Prince's Ship..
4 copilot, ai yet send the.Foudroyant, .Plantagenet,
'arid Conqueror, on to Admiral Purvis,. according to
tl,cir Lordithlps: Order of. the I nth, which, I trust,
will be the less felt as an '.inconvenience off Cadiz,
as "they appear to have been ordered thither with re-
lerenceto the Russians being within the. Straits, be-
fore, it was known they were on my station.
I have the honour to be, &c.
• W. 'SIDNEY

List of the Portuguese Sid p's that remained in Lisbon.
S. gebastiao, 4'64 gunsi—unserviceahle without 4 thorough
rcir4r., ./
1k1.411.1 ?Hum, of 74 guns--unserviceable; ordered to be mad,
I into a Mating battery, but not yet fitted. '
Vasco. etc Gaya, ut guns .—tavier repair, i,nd neatly ready.
Prtucesa •ita kit 64 guns -LullthAtilied utdcrect to be
fitted as 4 t luau% Battery.
FitIGATES.
Fenix, of tS' guns —in need of thorough repair.
Amazona or 44 guns,—in need of ditto.
1)04,14 ofi44 guns—in need of ditto.
Tritao, 0f..39 guns—past repair'.
Vetkvy, ut Jo guns—past repair:
(Copy.) 'W. §IDNEY SMITH.

Hibernia, at Sea, lat. 37. 47. long.
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Stir, 14. 17. Dec. ti, 1807.

I have the satisLietion to acquaint yon, for
the information of my Lords'CoMmitisioners of the
\,l.niralty, that I succeeded in collecting the whole
of the Portuguese Fleet, except 'a Brig, atter the
galq, and, that the weather was such as to allow
the necessary repajrs and suph clistribution of su-
ligtitupgra.rls 0114 mm4o3 to b troadl as to

enable Vice-Admiral Don ltfanuel' d'Acinha Sotto;.
mayor" to report to Me Yesterday all the Ship; •
capable of Performing the voyage , to Ric) Janeiro,
except:one Line-of-battle Ship, which he requested
might be couduaed to
,an English Port: I Meant
to e..scart_lter•part of the way, btit she did not
quit: the. Alept with .me last night as settled.
Ifope,l.hpw.mr, she may 'arriVe safe, as she is not
in a bad state, being substituted for the Martino de
Pieitas, which was at first destined to gdia 'Eng-
land, in consequence of a "fiesh arrangement made
yesterday on the ',latter being found u the best
state for the -voyage of thetwo.
ed Captain Moare; in the Marlborough, '•With the
Louden, Monarch, and Bedford, to : attend the
yortnguese fleet to the Brizils. have -,though t
it my duty; in addition to' the usual order 10.
the above • ships under his orders, to' glYe
Capiain:tbloore one to hoist a broad pendant after '
pessingilvizitleira, in order to give him greater weight
.andiconsequence in the performance of .the import
ant and unusually delicate citifies I have,confidu4
to him. I feel the most perfect reliance in that,
Officer's judgment, ability, and zeal. •, • • -
The Portuguese Ships did not after their repartiiion
want more provisions or slaps from us than the
list
inclosed, which I supplied from this Ship and 6?

Conqueror,
This Dispatch, will be delivered by Captain Verb
of his Mjesty's Sloop Confiance, who has shpwil
great address ,and zeal in opening the cOrninualea-
tiOtu by Flag of Truce, whiCh it was the'interest
thipsein power, 'who were aghinst the measure of
ernigrat;on, to Obstrua.:: Lord Strangford of
his cpnana in terms of sirarm •apkobation ; on this
ground I beg
:leave to recomthend him to their
.LOrdshipk, to Whom his general Media as an Officer
are already, well known. Having been in Lisbon
without, restr4int Burin the intercourse, he is quad
lifted to answer any questions their Lordships
maY
wish .to poi to him.
1 have the Honour to be, Sx.
W. SIDNEY

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MEMORANDUM. • •
Then Diana Merchant Vessel, having on 13°30
about: Sixty British Subje6ts, who had been detained
ita constquence of the Embargo, came out of the
Tagbt.in-cornpany.with the Portuguese Fleet„ tyol
it is suppoted that she bore up for England at 00
commeocement of the gale..

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THE S U :IST.,

soi.vsl QUISUtRE FALSUM AUDIAT!

LUND° IV,
TUESDAY, DIiCEMBER 22, 1807•

THE Gazette Extraordinary, piblished this morn-:'
ing, contains such ample details horn Lord STar,l43'
von! and Sy SIDNEY SMITH, respeaing the. ell".
hark:uiou of the Portuguese Government, aqci
Causes which irnMediatelY led to it, that we blis'
little to add upon the sub' ct p t
je, . re% tous o tlrP.„,•
lug of the Portuguese Fleet, Sir SIDNEY had to',
reinforced by Some Sidi a, h inererizied
force to nine Sail of the Lae ; four ' of which, '°s
we have already plated, he.detached under,the
mand of CoMmodore Mona to.. accompany
Portuguese Fleet.. It was at ,tirst retiorted 41:(1.
PRINCE -REGENT intendedto go to Niadeiray .and
was not till after the 'Fleet. had, Cleared -the '',11409
that his determination to proceqd for the ,8400 vSs
made known. We trust that His.. Royal, 'Nigh'
ness will, . upon his arrival at the Brazils, be 'in°
dueed by; the WiSe•and upright, men he has=
taken to his Councils, in the place:of the, (IPsigPing. •
Traitor,hy, whoirOie was. betrayed to France'
adopt a wise and liberal. policy, and: remote those
im p
po/iticreStri&ions which have hitherto "ot de/e
'the commerce and industry, of the ildiabitants 010
of the finest Countries in the world, cambh2 oflor
.e 6 of
plying
.not only the necessaries, but the our!
life to many millions of people.

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-We . have been favourcl with. the perusal 0t.:4
Letter from Gibraltar, 'dated the 28th ult. which"
states„. that the Master of a I,tllSSlfill Yeti.so,l had ar''
rived -thew from 'Algesiras, Before he left tlll4 '
place,,.aecourits had been received there thatia al'° a orlll'
of 11,000 French Poor' had entered Madr

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the middle of lait month : the po' PUlacelinthecliately
rose; and an Engagement took place, in -which, the
French 'of course prevailed; 'and if the '.French
- accounts may he credited; above 30010 inhabitants
Were killed, and only 36 French ine9. 'Other 'ac-
counts state the loss of the French to. have" been
more considerable. Notwithsttrnding this =severe
check, the inhabitants , seenied- 'dispoSed •to .fria ke
another . attempt ; but. .tbe. French General. de-
claring that he came to support the PIUNCE.
ASTURIAS, tranquillity was restored. the'down-'
fall of the Pampa of PF,ACE was consitleted as
inevitable. The French army in Spain, amounted
to 90,000 men ; and it is confideptly reported -that
they are immediately 'to commence the siege of
Gibraltar.

LAST night Data: Papers of a late date reached
town. The only articteof any importance Atihich.
they contain is, a Treaty concluded between Frinco.s
and Austria, relative to some territorial arrange-
, •
rients.

Quit Readers Will find in our last Page a very
interesting. Article respeaing the importance of the
Brazils. -

No State PaPet;-bas-apPeared-- lot a Tong time
- • Which has appeared so fully to meet with the ap-
-4 Probation of. all parties; as the Declaiation of His
lea: tasty, which we inserted on Saturday.
We think it quite unnecessary to give any thing,
by way of Abstrata, of a Paper Which. has .been read
at every fire-side in the Kingdoin, or to comment
upon. fads and arguments which speak so plainly as
'to be understood by the Mostignoratit, and so 'for-
cibly as to'conVince the most. sceptical reader. 1
A few observations, however, are called fOr'brjr

,: The criticisms of our co-temporaries.
Whether the word astonishment is properly ap-
t;
plied to the tergiversation of Russia, is a matter `of

minute and uninterelting discussion. If, however,
twe were.not.astonis4ed, it was- because we were
*Ware of the weakness of - charaaer which untortn-‘
Dately governed Russia';---as it is not usual in State
Papers to talk of topics like these, we were ,bound
to consider ALEXANDeR as having atied upott.49n2e.
pripcipleor plan, and in this view his conduct ts,..tm!-
queitionably so injurious to his permanent interest„
• as fully to'excite surprise.
We were not prepared for the. attack which has
been Madeupon that licit Of the DeclaratiOn 'which
;elates to the conduct of the late Ministers. We
'lid hope that their advocates wouldltate thought it
first to suffer this topic to pass into 'oblivion. We
are convinced that the manner in which it is treated .
.ins tho Declaration is the most consistent with the'
'dignity of the Governmen4, and the fairest towards
thV late Ministers, that, under
certain difficult cir
• cumstanees, could have been adopted.
Ilse Morning Chronicle tiow Says, that "we
• Were falsely and grbundlessly accused., in the Pt.is-,
Si-au -Declaration, of having negleaed.to.second Abe
piilitary operatiOnSol" Ittissi4.",—.-Does.*thelEditor re-!
'tolleel that but-a fAw:days have,-elapsed since admit!•
ting the falls, he vinclic“tcd the condo& of hiSpa-
trons ? •He excused, but did not denyutite.want of
co-operation. Which 'of these lines &ea he .410 W
Mean to adopt.?
In the preSent Declaration, the Ministers .have
wisely forborne from any such , discussion. The
-point was in itself of no importance, -becabse, sup-
posing the negle4 to It:tve been flagrant and nude-
.sajable, it never could bave.. jOstifled Russia in hosti-
lity tcrwards us, though if aright haVe been a reason
her withdrawing from the Confederacy. The
.Peace of Tilsit ought'to hate put strand to all com-
plaints founded on the conduct of the War. Any
detailed refutation of this charge of llussia was not

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to be e.v.peaecl in the Devlaration, nor would such
...a detail have answOed any 'national puriwie what-

ever.

But some absurdities in the treatment of this sub-
Jeet; in the Emperor's Manttesto, were so striking,
as to destroy completely the littleietred which, bet-
ter supported, the charge might have bad. These
the Declaration has ekposed in a puinted style. Let
us read the whole of the Paper which refers 'to
them

" The Declaration asserts, that his Majesty the
-Emperor of Russia has twice taken up .artus in a
,
cause in which the interest of , Great Britain was
more direct than his own, and founds uporti• this
assertion the charge against Great Britain of baying
neglected to second and support the military ope
rations of !twain.

1' His Majesty willingly does justice to the motives
which originally engaged Russia in the great struggle
against France.. His Majesty 'avows With egtial rea-
diness the intermit Which Great Britain has uniforin]y
aken in the fates and fortunes of the Power of the
Contitient. But it would surely be ditliculicto prove
that Great Britain, who was herself -in ,* state of
hostility, with Prussia when the' War broke. nut be-
tween Prussia and• France, had an- interest anti a
duty more dire & in e4on,ing the Prussian quarrel
tban the Emperor of Ile. sbia,'the Ally ()ills Pvissian.

Miljesty, the Prote&or of the North .of. Europe, and
the Guarantee of the Germanic Constitution.

".It is not in-a public Declaration that his Ma-
jesty. can discuss the policy of having at any.parti-
cular period of the war effe6ted, or omitted to effect,
disembarkations of troops on the coasts of-Naples.
But:the instance of the war with the Porte is-still
more singularlycllosen to illustrate the charge against.
pleat Bcitaiu of inditterence to the interests of her
Ally : a war Undertaken by Great Britain at the in-
iaigation of Russia"; and, solely for the purpose of
tnaintairiing"Rassiart interests aglinst the influence
of France."

• Then comes the paragraph, with which the
Mornine Chronide is most affefted':—" 'lf, now-
EVER, the Peace of Tilsit is indeed to be ciwsidered:
as the conequence :ind the punishment of the
pitted inaaivity of Great 'Britain;" and The
Declaration goes on to state the " confidence
satisfitaion" with which the Emperor acknowledged
the assurances of support, which he received from.
the present Now, Stirely,-' fa& be
so: (and we are confident .that it will be•proved to the
satiSfaaiOn .of Pdrliament)s—if the alteration which
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took . plaCe in the British Councils' ill the course
of
.the :year did a,r;t:tally produce a correspond-
.ing, change • in the professions of-Missal,. the
publicatino of this circumstance to 'the world is
neither the result of ." Party spirit,", nor does i t
necessarily imply. any " censure upon rite former
aas of the king's Goveratnent,"
It is still open to the friends'of:the Whig fAibn
either to .deny, the faa, or to vindicate theparty up-
on an admissiOn of die fae!s ;• hol4 IvhiYh they have:
eametimes dune. If, however, they are prudent,
they. will,reermsider the Documents in the Foreign
Office before. they fix either upon the denial ut yin-'
dicaticin ai,their plan of
,defence.:
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Lord'SigtANGuotto, it is said, will be. sent as' his.'
.111A:tisTVS Itepre4e,ntative to the Court of the Bra-
zils. St. SArastiati, at the mouth of the Rio JanLiro,
will proba!)ly be the. seat of *GA-ern tnet it.
„ The alacrity of the'lqerchants to avail tlictuseles
of the acquisition of anew market, ,was evinced yes-,
tOrday it, the .ttoticesthek upon 'Change, of several',
Vessels bOund for the -It'azils.
' Tile gallant,Captaitt.Y.v.o, who,was the boner of
the llispatches from Sir SinNkli, S.t4t-ru, announc-
ing the escape of the 'Portuguese Fleet, with the
floy Al. FAMILY on board, was yesterday. made
Post.

. Copt.,IAMES MEIN is appointed to the comnyind
of the ..Prioiratp,Sloop,, of ;t t 3 guns, lately built 41„
FOWey, and no`Vo fitting out for ~ervice at Plymouth.
with the greatest w,tpedit,ion. The Pfinaosg,,is said
to be one of the finest Sloops in the Navy.
The,following.intelligence,• which was yesterday,
comtnanicated at 14,(Avo's, ?turves' to show—that the
actively proceeding in their hosiilities
against America :
,f the Mary Ann,, SIJEFTIF4.I), ;from, New. York
to Naples, the riolet, Iron) 11/2oston to Leghorn, and
another-American Ship and a Schooner were pken in
the Mediu:am-leo the, end of (_)tober, by an 4lge-
rine Frigitte of 44ginisi the former is:retaken"by the
captain and people left on
,board,,and arrived•at Na
pies the 4th ult." , . , .

A; the public in general. may not be acquainted
with the, infamous trine saaion to which that passage, in
the recent DECLAit'ATIONT our Court, in answer tc,.
the late Russian Metnifesto, alludes, where it says,
that -`‘‘ the `Deer of France is exercised over Prus-
sia with suchihemeless tyranny, as to designate anti
demand for inseam. death individuals, subjects of his
PruSsian MaieSry,
,and 'resident in his dominions,
Upon a charge of ditirespea towards 'the French Go-
vernment," we think it necessary to repeat the fol-
lowing article, which first appeared in Tan ,SUN of
the 3 tst of last Oanber, • aud, which me then com-
municated to our Readers from a source of "tile best
information—(See THE SUN of the 3 t st October).----
beginning—,, A:private Letter from • Berlin relates
eircnffistancowhich we • :should lx unwilling to
state, on the ground Of its iMprohability, if the fate
of the unfortunate 1),5.i.:4 did not tend to lessen our
incredulity. Sone eller Berlin was resigned again
to the Prussian Governenetet„ a Play was performed
in the Theatre of that City, in wldch there were
charaaers of a German and a Prussian Officer. Thell
Actor .who perfottned the first, disposed to pay some 0
compliment to the French t Not's, who still j 1
• remained in the' Capital, appeared in the insignia of t;
the Legion of Honour. ;the mutt net this badge j
appeared, the audience burst into the strongest
pi'ess.ions of indigUation, which could not be appeas-
ed till the PertnienerS withdrew . and removed th'e
offensive mark. An account of-this'event. waS itn-
mediateltsent to Paris, and &JON A RTE., accord- j
ing to report, flew into a violent passi9noted
patched a messenger.•to.General KNormesnom,ll
pointing out two Prussian Officers who were said tot I
be Chiefly instrunientel kiudling•- !
he considered as a personal insult to hien4f; and
mending that they should be immediately taken one
and shut. General Klsoleixse*.alFr feturned ate itil
mediate answer, stating, that tumults i' ere very,coni-;
mon at apublic Theatre, and 1,16 was persuaded
Officers itt question were not' likely to have taken;
any active part on the occasion), and imploring'BOo-
'N*l),lll.l?&S' so far,
front 'appeasing BuorrispoTE, is said to hive en,
raged Wm still more, and ,that lie,,,theo di/patched an
order to the French Coinniander at ..Berlin, to eixe4
cuteithe sentence upon #0 two Officers. The result
we do not know, but wo. have reeeived the
geuce from a.quarter. in which we have reason to
place much cotefidenee,""
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A very hot press took -place upon the River be.
low Bridge on. Sunday night,,when several se,ttneu
weft picked' up by,the gangs, and sent oii board
the ender ; ct grat punllwr were likewise taken
4ut of ditferent houses along-shore, on both sides of
the water— .

,To day Bread NV as ordvred to b raised one )t,:nny
per piC 1.

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