Star.
London, England, 1808-07-27 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

A Commissioner with proper Credentials from the
Bishop and Provisional Government of Oporto, is
appointed to come to this Country, and is arrived.
—This Commissioner is Mr. FERRA6, who was the
Conservidor, or Judge of British Claims in the Su-
preme Court of Justice at Oporto, previous to the
emigration of the Royal Family. Mr. FzusA is con-
sidered a man of great intelligence, and the object of
his coming to this country is supposed to relate to the
arrangement of measures for rendering effectual the
aid we have sent, and are to send, to the Portuguese
Patriots. The report of Mr. FERRA6, as to the dis.
position and resources of the Portuguese Patriots, is
extremely favourable. Nothing farther in the shape
of military proceeding had taken place. Jusior was
stronger than was at first believed : According to one
report he has received reinforcements ; if so, it must
be the detachment of Loom from Almeida ; but the
fact is highly improbable--but he certainly has taken
infinite pains to strengthen the fortifications on the
Tagus, so that it will require great exertion to deli-
ver the country.

It has been remarked that 4, The delay in the sail-
ing of Sir ARTHUR WitILLSLEY'S armament has ken
most seriously calamitous, If it had been on the Coast
when the Patriots rose ancheized on Oporto, tile emir.

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potion of the French would have been certain and easy
l..,bet therhave had time to recover the shock, to ascer-
tido their strength,and to take measures for resistance.°
Bat, if it had sailed, would it have been on the coast
of Portugal ? By what kind of intuitive knowledge
could the rising of the Portuguese have bees antici-
pated by Ministers, before intelligence of 'the event
reached this country I—We regret, as much as any
person can, every thing that tends to delay the sen-
ding off those succours which our antient friends and
allies may need, but Ministers ought not to be blamed
for being ignorant of what itwas impossible to known.

THE POPE.
The official correspondence which passed between
the Papal Government and the French officers and
ministers relative to the seizure of the Ecclesiastical
States, has been recently published at Palermo by
of his Sicilian Majesty.
The French troops entered Rome in the month of
February, but did not, until the beginning of March,
shew much indication of attacking the power of the
Pope.

OFFICIAL PAPERS.
" Palace of the Wane% Mate! %ISO& ,
" The French Commander $s proceeded to such an excess of
violence and outrage, within these few last days, that the patina*
and resignation of his Holiness, without being in the least altered,
have yet been found to exhibit ante signs of just indignation.—
The above Commander, on a sudden, seized the General Post
Office, with a piquet of soldiers, and displaced the Superintendent,
to examine all the correspondence, in defiance of the public kw.
He incorporate' by violence the troops of the Pope into the
French army ; he baniahed from Rome Colonel Brood, for behig
faithful to his Prince ; and lastly, be put guards upon all the
printing-offices, that he might deprive the Head of the Church of
the liberty of using the press.
" Each of these attempts would be sufficient to shew what was
meant by the Note of February 23, which announced that the
Frtneh army would direct its march to Rome, under the pram.
at freeing that city from those whom it chuses to call Neapolitan
Brigands. Each of these attempts ,hews what excesses of out-
rage and irreverence have marked the insults offered to the dig-
nity of the visible Head of the Church. But the French army
has not confined itself within these bounds. In order to crown
ha atrocities, the French soldiers have dared to lay hands on four
`Cardinals, have dragged them from the arms of the Holy Father,
and condaeted them to Rome as state criminals.
. " Violence and abuse of power could not certainly be carried
farther. His Holiness, who has lately seen himself deprived of
the attributes of Sovereignty, who has seen his power end his
dignity insulted under a thousand forms, by an army which be
was still willing to consider as friendly, could not, however, have
believed that it would have proceeded to this extremity, which
has, above everything she, struck the deepest to his heart.
" The Holy Father, who like a lamb, has suffered la silos
and with resignation this excess of insult, was roused only by
this latter instance. He commanded the undersigned m wrks
once more, and to transmit to your Illustrious Highest% in is
strongest and most energetic language, his complaints, to by bakes
you all the horror of these hostile proceedinp ; and to represent

to you bow much he felt Mosel: degraded In die thee el Europe,
by the vioknt and unheard-of measures wide% the French army
has cempkted in attacking the dignity of the Cardinals, which is
an emanation from his own. The Holy Father, placing all his
confidence in GOD alone, will wait, in conformity with the prin-
ciples of his sacred duty. to see bow far the French army is 'm-
dined to abuse his meekness and his patience ; and if at length it
will put an end to the unmerited insults and outrages which it has
committed against the Sovereign of Rome, and the head of the
Catholic Church.

" Such is the positive order which the Pro. Secretary of State
hasreeelved from his Holinesl, and which he feels it his sacred
duty so fulfd without the least deviation. He renews to your 13.
lustrious Highness the assurante of his sincere consideration.
(Signed) • " G. CARD. DeILIA PAIIMLL"

" To &For Lefebvre, French CM* d'Affahis."
No. IL dated March 13, 180 n, h a sharp and spirited remora.
•trans spinet the Imprisonment and threatened removal of some
Wirers of his Holiness's army, who protested against its incor.
poration with that of France, and declared that they would not
continue to serve under such an arrangement.

No. IIL dated March 28,1808, is a copy of a letter, written by
order of his Holiness, to all the Cardinals who were ordered to re-
tire from Rome. He commands them byjthelralkgiance not to re-
move from the capital, except they were compelled thereto, and
not to continue their journey longer than such compulsion excited.
Among these Cardinals we find the name of his Holism's Mini-
ster, CardinelPasnfill, who was succeeded by Cardinal Oebrielli.
No. IV. " March 27, 11103.

" Cardinal Gabriel'', Pro-Secretary of State to his Minas,
has received positive orden from the Holy Father is person, to
inform your illustrious Highness, that the vin s oWiansitted
against the persons of the Cardinals, =dyes of the *Oa of
Naples, sever would have been believed, if It bad sot boosatep
noted against the persons of the Cardinals born is the &imam
of Italy, and the countries united to France.

" The Holy Father cannot at present be ignorant, that it is not
only intended to deprive him of his temporal authority. but that
there is also a design to destroy the Spiritual °overstate* of the
Church of Rome, represented by the Sacred College, which fa
the Senate of the Sovereign Pontiff.
" He has seen with horror and surprise those principles inik
maxims which break the most leered bands by Which the email.
nab are united to the Pope by all the form of a soya ask
preceded and followed as they have been, by all die larlfamelsa
which the Head of the Church has been exposed. Examples of
such enormities are only to be found in the time of the Republio,
when Rome saw the most sacred prised** trodden ender foot.
4 If a Secular Prince, professing the Catholic religion, and b
Seeing that he has a right to detain in his territories, as his slab:
Jests, Cardinals of the Church of Rome; finds himself still tidell.
the necessity of treating them with that respect due to tlitkiffir
neat dues:tee by which they are connected with the HolfPikel
tiff, it follows that be has no right to banish them, or to reek/pr
them by open force, thus tearing from the Chief of the Universal'
Church so Many of his Allow-labourers.

" This attempt, weld will be a diem of reproath in the pre.
sent and future age, has particularly wounded the feeling naiad of
his Holiness, as well on seems* of the u*lardpof insult which
has beets offered to the Cardinal dignity, as the outrage to Isie
holy person by which it was secoeipacied ; his Vicar and Prime
Minister having no more been respected than the Whops lib*
were tore from their respective dioceses.

a The Holy Peshertaenum stall the alb which these cruel and
violent amesurst mut nacessati3y cease to the spindlel governs.
mew of tie Church. bee coormanded tie undersigned to protest
' Kra* 'phut them, and to revise at the same thew that the I
Cardicalssfordbly raveled or against every principle Oahe rights