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YllO2l/1 THE IitONITEEIIi

PARIS; Nov. 30.
NCITES ON. THE CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH IN

PORTUGAL.
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army of,Py,. ytugal. has
,enCountered,Obstacjes
in the conquest of that:;kingdpirt, Which-arise %from
the very nature f t .of , and are the necessary re-
sult.of 'an inactive system of defence; which was
profoundly Meditated, and , ltas,. beep executed.
without restraint, ~‘cit h a,si ular barbarity unknown
in European, our Ehropea \mars, fo; the honour of ,States, and
meld. -
‘f, The Porttigtiese do not love the English; the
latter know it. They, haVe taken possession of the
-Portog-ucse army, by WILLI: it with English officets...
'The Portuguese General tsiicers are no longer ern,
ploYed; but.in the fortresses, iind with the militia..
the Brigadier‘„ one or two p"riiicipal•officers
each regiment, and a great number of subalterns,.
are_English.
,Part of the hiv.her order of Portuguese
Nobility followed the Prince Regent to.',the Brazils ;
there is another pitrt. in France; they hive 1-en-toyed;
from place title few that: remain. This system has
excited .great cOinplaihts. There have—been, and
still are,i,Arequent quarrelp, betwAi.tbe,pffisers of
the two nations..
- ‘,‘ Thecapture.of:Citidad
,Rodrigo,and partich
`lady of Alineitla, without any.attemptyaving :been
made to relieVe those two fortresses, aye great of-,
feoce to the Portuguese nation. The Junta of Go-
verninent wt as disS:itisfied. Lord
,Wellingtoit-per-;
c •iv,d that Le had not suffi:cient inifloence Over
.hs
n
lertibeN; it was determined, that E the nglish Am-
bay,atlot at Lisbon shat la I;ecohie a :ICletuner,ot,the
her icy,, and that no att of tovernmrni.bl ould. be,
e.xecoted,unlesi be,conseiited to it. Then appealed
s,ver,-il de; rep; of the there of Robespierre,—
„e 1 hibtled t tauesei:tknler ,toea,th,.
to talk -uni Mititary 'subje,:is, or to couverse, on arty
at her-dews
.tlian
:.w hat v:-as printe.i in the Lip.on.
Gazette ano; her decree ordered- the Whabitan;s,
u:lderltthe same pena4y, to evacuate the 'towns ar:d
viilaes,s4A7i,;o the E,,,,h4i,:sboud abandon, to carry,
witkllieirki,theiriprovisions and. theirc,attle,. tobiarn
dr :throw into the rivers what they could not remove,
to dtisp-oy the.ntlls, the Int niture, to burn.the crops
that
.w.eN,not. cut duwn, and .to let C.up wine run in
qtitistr:etS -
" At ille-sGegtnning of the :c..,9pth of ,September,-
thelViarslial Prtnee of Essling:assembled his cps
of the army.. in the .neighbourhood ut Altileida.—
Lord Weilingionimmectiate,ly,.evacnated 30 leagues
.or country.. took a posnipti 'at Ponte'Nlarcelk.
near Coimbra. This retrograde _movement threw
the Portuguese into consternation. The-Itegency
became' alartited ; the Portuguese troops began -to
desert•; it was a common report in the ranks, that
England intended to. embark them, to, waste them
atierwards in expeditions in the Webt and in
'lndia. ,LordWgllington removed the fears of the

. . . _
Regency, and appeased. he commencement :of . the
hisuircctioil.

"'The French, army entered Portugal : the orders
of Lord, Wellington were ,executed. The peasants
who did not fiy, and who were afterwards seized by
the English, were either shot or. transported. Their
very, troops pillaged and burnt the villages, whose
inhabitants hesitated to destroy their provisions 'and
furnitpre. The
.road from Almeida to Lisbon was
a complete desert. We did not meet 2000 peas'ints
in that distance.
ARO' the battle of Basset?, WellingiOn caused
Coimbra to be illdrninated, by the way of rejoicing;
the Iktnps employed on that occasion were still
burning when the English were already in full re-
treat'. Tfieiraroops pillaged oOhribra, and commit-
ted the greatest. disorders before they withdrew. In
six days. Wellington ran from the banks of the Mon-
dego tb his entrenchments at Lisbon.. By the rapi-
dity of his march, the districts 'of the valley of the
:Tagus cleaned the system of complete exterrnina-
nation. , The discontent was extreme ; the people
o'f Lisbon broke out into ingurrealiOn .they de-
clared that 111.4 wbuld prevent the English from
embarking in the rills of the Taps: Then was
imagined that absurd conspiracy of Go individuals,
nobles, priests, judges, merchants, former Iriends or
enemies to the French, the greater number uncon-
neaed with political patties whose only crime was
to attribute to the English A;lachiavelism the ruin 'of
their country, and to predict that their infamous
oppressors would finish by evacuating the Country,.
exposed by its very defenders 10 greater,horrors than
arty people have yet experienced.
" The ravage of -the 'Palatinate, for which 1"1-
vois :was so much reproached, perpetrated by an
enemy's army; was .nothing equal to :he ravage
.committed among the Portuguese by 'their Allies.
4mongthere pretended conspirators, those who had
'most influence on account of their bir th, their opia-
lake, their talents, were taken up, and sent to Lon-
don. 'Others were imprisoned, and afterwards
transported to the Brazils.
" The English send to South America the Portu-
vuese'families who are disposed to embark. They
_do every thing to prevail upon those who hesitate to
quit the country. The more people quit Lisbon the
fewer mouths will they have to teed. The situation
of the English is alarming; they are only 30,000
at— most, And by their side mu 40,000 discon-
tented Portuguese sUldiers. Behind these are 100,000
refugees in despair, and the immense population of
Lisbon. The English rule only. by terror ; they
treat the nobility and the public with the greatest
contetript. Every night is signalised by arl'estF, by
• seizures,; provisions are abo,e all price ; it is only
by enormous sacrifices of money they are enabled to
prevent an insurreaion. ,
" The English soldier receives at this time a
ponnd of salt meat,: a, half ration of biscuit, and a
certain •quantity of thin. The Portuguese soldier
receives bread,' but only half a pound'of meat, and
no rum. This- inequality of di,tribution is the cause
of discord between the two armies. ,
All the refugees who wish to go there are
transported to the Alentejo; the others are butted
and, bivouacked outside Lisbon. It is nor possible
to enter that city without,a card of safety. The Go-
vernment causes ,biscuit to be distributed to the re-
fugeeS. The occupation Of the Alentejo witi com-
pletely starve Lisbon, and produce a crisis fatal to
the English.'
" Ile enemy has a great many sick. They also

I°o a great cleal more by dcttE.;-tion than in any for-
mer,campaign7 They desert w avuicic9rpopl pun-
The French army is in good spirits; it has
confidence in its CoMmander. We -have nc),
de rtiun -from the national troops., The-army has
few foreign battalions. We
.may be_assured, what-
ever the English may 53y,. that there are no de-

steers.

.
THE HEATRE.—rThe tragedy_ of Othello was at-
tended, last, night by a.yery: pnineronsanclience at
CoVent-gard'en Theatre, a pipper compliment to its
dramatic ekcellence,-and, wa mayi4dd, to the gene-
, rai merit of the acting. Mr, YOpNG sustained the
part of the noble, buttOo credulous Moor, with great
ability ; we, however,';conceivedthat he at tithes
pitCh44,his voice rather too high, a practice, indeed;
tbo'common on the stage. -Mr. C. KEINIiLE; for
.tite,
first time, venturedam the p.art:of • ./aco "his Cassio
Was so able a perforthance, that it mig'ht be thought
somewhat.iodiacreet to resign a part in which his
merit walliftivers,ally admitted, and to follow a ,po-
pular actor in a character in .tv,hich that..actor was
liupposed to be parfaajilarly, stincessful.; But as Mr.
•kamßeE himself declined to resume the part'oflugo,
in which he dist.layed -,a" critical precision, that was
only understOod by ..real jodges{the; par(o.vas vacant;
and Mr.,C. KEM..lll.gclesery4 credit for riSki n his re-
.
.putation for the interest of4ae::Thea:re,;,: but the
public aud himself have no Teastan.for regret; on the
.coutt'afy he considerably added an hiszeputation, and
highly gratih,ed the audience. , He Supported. the
rpart throughout_ with easy spirit and :wellfm.anaged
subtlety, So as to proVe .that he had s-Ludiedi he cha-
racter; aud lint he. brought to the invesi;gition
capacity to 'welt,: the. full meaning of, the Author.
;He was particularly' Succ'essful in the soliloquies_,
,and displayed, great •versartliy playing upon the
folly, *of :Roane;
.and. in kindling the jealousy ;of
01itillo.--B,HUNioN made respectable stand. ip.
Cussio, and FARLEY wait very whitnsi li calsin oderi4q.
.
I:he elder . .D.IIIDLN, we Und9-431,1(1,..11as 01.ke9
12perii ready, one of which, as we before stated,
is to, come forward.. tbis season at (..;;,tvent-Garden
. Theatre.; he musical
,geoids ; ,and, inveniive .hur
motif of this lyric veteran are. in full vigour, and
the 1:541ic Will, doubtless, give a cordial welcome tV
anv production of so. loyal andpatriotic a writer.
Tlf6re were seized last week at Greenock, on
,board :the ,sloop Asko/Re, LEITC Li . master (a regular
trader 'bet ween, 4is port .and Londonderry) upwards
of 2.60 gallons of Irish whisky, artfully concealed in
barrels of beef and apples, kc•
An eagle was shot a few days ago, on Treadak4, in
Lanteglos, near Powey, whilst feeding
.on.the car•
case of a sheep. It was three ree long from.the.
ex-
tremities of its bill and tail. The expansion of its
wings was six t ten 'inches., Its
.hody, neck, and
, head, „Were' brown, their plumage eleg.mtly varie-
gated with shades of rlarkr )wa,' 'When sepi:. •
. rately examined, .the feathers on 'its headiancl heck'
wrrenarrow' and' sharp pnitrie.t, and white, except
their points, whiki.were ve'ry' brown The feathers'
on its'b,ody wete ,white, diversified with pale brown;
their extreme-ties were very ' dark brown. Tile tea-.
thers in the 'pinions of 'its Wings were black, those
next to them brown, hod the 'reat white, here and
*there shaded with pale brown'; -their extremitibs"
dark brown. The feathers in its tail were• eleven
inches long, glinost all white, spotted partially Wiih
light brown ; their
.extremities very dark brown.
ItS thighs were covered with reddish brovvn'teathe.rs;
and its legs partly with feathers Of the same colour.
Its feet were yellow, its toes armed with long, curv-
ed, black talons. Its bill was curved and black, and,
from the appearance of its bill, talons, and' feathers,
the bird was 'young. ' When this mighty aerial ad-
venturer descended ors
.the sheep's carcase, the Mag.-
"pies. and crows feeding thereon, in ' haste, with
shrill chatter and dreadful cries, forsook their' prey,
and:sought shelter in the neare,t trees and thickets.
Early on Sunday morning, the premises of Mr.
Long; Copper-plate-printer, in Clement's-lane,.
Strand,' were entered by some 'villains:" They got
into the prernises, it' is supposed, by climbing over
a wall in the yard 'of the next, house, where it t 5
thought they had concealed themselves until the
family had gone to bed ; they then broke ,open the
kitchen windows,. got into the kitchen; and froth
thence proceeded up Stairs, where they forced open
the parlour door by tneatis of a picklock'key ; they
then proceeded to the cupboard, and broke.it open,
whence they took silver plate„-table-cloths, and other
valuables, to the amount of upwatds of 6001. They
afterwards went. into the pantry,and took several sil-
ver table-spoons, salt-sellers, &c ,and afterwards
put the keyi of the doors into the locks, packed up
the plate, &c. lett the door of-alehouse open, and
got clear off. -
A gentleman resident in the city of Doblin, stav-
ing becianie-embatrassed in • his circumstances lately,
determined to dest %toy himself. With this intent he
took his case of pistols, and loaded them with pow-
der and ball—then retiring to hiS study, he put one
of them to his head, but
-the fear of having his body
buried, as a jelo de se, in the highway, with a stake
driven through it, arrested his arm, and- a thought
struck hint that he might,accomplish his purpose
without incurring that dreadful ignominy. He aci-
cordiegly rang the bell for. his man-servant, to
whom, on entering the rootri,he communicated his
purpose, and having thrown himself into a chair;
he ordered him; in a positive tone of :voice, to take
,up the pistols, and shoot him through the Jtead with'
one, and through the heati with the other. • Pat, as.
a faithful and attentive servant, immediately pro-
ceeded to obey his master's &okra but just as he
was drawing the trigger, a thought struck him also,
which delayed their' execution. 'ln hti 'Various ser,
vices he had attended his masters upori. many occa-
sions of duels, where they went: out to be shot by
other people, on all of which he recollected; they ne-
ver failed to be accompanied to the ground by a
surgeon. He therefore concluded that the" same
precaution oughtro.be used .on the present occasion,
and he accordingly ran off to' the next street, and
called in a very eminent surgeon to be present at
the fatal ceremony.--.-It is alinost needless to observe
that the surgeon, on his arrival, prevented the affec-
tionate and dutiful domestic from shooting his Inas,-
ter. The latter, disappointed in his expectation of
treeing, himself from his cares in this way, set off
iunuediately .for, the Isla of Man, when he Dow is.