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TUESDAY, MAY VT.
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The Channel Fleet, der the command of Admi.
olsornont, sailed on Sunday from Torbay,to resume
ide station off Brest. The fleet consists of the
piosouoirr, SPENCER, SAINT GEORGE, VALIANT,
Acuu.t.F., and NEPTUNE.

Extract of a Letter from the Captain of an Arne-
,
on vessel arrived fro - Cadiz :
• I received a note by a boat after I left Cadiz,
pting that an order was in the town to detain all
American vessels in that port. On the passage I
ooke an American vessel from London for New
vek, the master's name HOWARD, in company
„it a privateer, who had captured and was con-
,g her for Bayonne, supposed to be the Science,
royal', from London for New York, which sailed
from Cowes on the 19th ult.

PORTUGAL.
yesterday two ships arrived in the River from
Lisbon, by which letters to the 5 h inst. were re.
. An embargo was expected, in consequence
tivhich these vessels hurried away.
It was generally understood at Oporto and Lisbon,
BOYAPARTE intended taking a journey to Portu-
pi before he returned to Paris. The Palace lately
opied by the Patine REGENT wag fitting-up for his
peeption. Other letters, however, intimate, that
Wane will not deem it prudent to go into
Spain, during the ferment and agitation of the po-
?slat feelings in that country.
General QuraNEL, the Commandant at Oporto,
bas twenty.five French Officers in his Staff, but the
prison consists entirely of Spanish soldiers.
Mother vessel from Lisbon, laden with wine, salt,
and fruit, arrived yesterday at Cowes, and brought
over several refugee Portuguese, who contrived to
elude the watch of the French guards, and got on
board the ship while under weigh. They report that
the scarcity with Lisbon which had been threatened
sane time ago, had been happily arrested for a time
by a supply of corn received about six weeks ago
from Spain ; but that this upply was nearly exhausted
before they left the place, and farther aid had been
refused from Spain, on the ground that no more could
be spared. In consequence, great apprehensions of
an approaching famine had again revived, which they
bad no hope of seeing averted unless the belligerent
Powers would allow ships laden with corn to enter
their ports.
The Russian men of war still remain in the Tagus,
and manifest no intention to quit it.
General Ju NOT'S general conduct has, these refugees
say, been so moderate and conciliating as to gain
him a favourable character with the generality of the
inhabitants. The new Inirezdant de Police, on the cm-
eary, has conducted himself with all the rigour and
severity of an Inquisitor of the sixteenth century.
When the Emperor's army arrived in Lisbon, not
one man in ten had shoes : now they are well clothed,
and bear the appearance of fine garrison battalions.
The fears by which some of the inhabitants were
actuated, and the revolutionary pi inciples imbibed by
another party, secured to the French, on their first
a,-rival in Lisbon, rather a welcome, and consequently
a gratifying reception.—But now they arc execrated
finally by all ranks and conditions of the Portuguese.
" OPORTO, MAY 4.
" Of the contribution levied by General Junot, now
Duke de Abrantes, amounting to 40,000,000 of old
aowns, the first payment, one-third has been enforced,
and the greater part paid in. The few British sub-
jects (about twelve or fourteen) who remained here
were at first imprisoned, but were enlarged after a
few weeks confinement. There arc no French troops
here except the Commander in Chief and his Guards,
consisting of about forty horse ; but there are about
3000 Spanish troops under the command of the
Track General Quisnell. These troops are very
IPiett and the inhabitants being peaceful, no distur-
bance has occurred.
'There is no circulation of Portuguese money, but
some of Spanish dollars and French coin. Paper
money is at 28 per cent. loss. With respect to pro-
visions, we cannot complain ; bread and other neces-
saries are at a moderate rate.
" The Portuguese are so thunder-struck at the ex-
traordinary events which have happened, that they
know not what to do. The general wish is for peace.
They are much attached to the English, although
they begin now to exclaim against them, from a sup-
position that the English Ministry will not make
peace. A great number of persons have gone from
hence to the Brazils.
" It is expected that NAPOLEON will proceed ;from
Bayoene to Madrid, and from thence to Lisbon.—
The Prince's Palace, at Quiluz, has been directed to
be prepared for his reception, by General JUNOT.—
There is a report here, that most of the public offices
will be fined by French ; but as yet nothing has been
done, with the exception of the Principal Magistrate,

who arrived here a few days ago. The contributions
have been so arranged, that even the French houses
established in Portugal pay an equal proportion.

44 The Duke d'lcasinTaa has perMitied vessels to
load with wine and fruits, for neutral ports, and num-
bers are now taking advantage of this indulgence."

Letters from Holland give the following particu•
lays respecting the French Emperor's visit to Bour-

deaux :—On his arrival in that city, he gave an au-
dience of two hours to the President and some of the
Members of the Chamber of Commerce, to whose re-

presentations he paid a very marked attention He
said he felt very much for the injury which Bour-
deaux had sustained in consequence of the loss of its
foreign trade, a most important branch of which was
the exportation of wine. In order, therefore, to alle-
viate as much as possible the distress which that part
of France sustained, he promised the Proprietors of
the Vineyards a Loan of 10,000,000 pyres for five
years without interest. This money, he stated, should
be advanced to them by the Imperial treasury, on

proper security being given, which might consist in a
certain quantity of wine lodged for sale in the Govern-
ment depots. He further remarked, that the mer-
chants ought to employ their capital in arming letters
of marque, and offered to take a share as an indivi-
dual partner in every private ship of war which might
be fitted out. He gave the Deputation -very little
reason to expect a speedy termination of the war.—
The prospect of peace, he was afraid, must still be re-
garded as very distant, for, he informed them, that he
was determined not to sign any treaty, unless it were
likely to prove durable ; but, he assured them, that
when peace did arrive, they would be amply rewarded
for all they now suffered, by the great extension
which their commerce would then obtain, and, in par-
ticular, by a new source of wealth which a free trade
with South America would open to them. We may,
therefore, regard this trade as one of the stipulations
in the treaty with Spain, lately concluded at Bayonne.
This important intelligence is collected from letters
dated Bourdeaux, the 2d instant, and is confirmed
by an American Gentleman, who has arrived in town
direct from a French port.
In a preceding column. we have inserted some ar-
ticles of foreign intelligence, extracted from Ham-
burgh and Altona Papers received last night.
The report that the Swedes have met with a check
in Norway, though not confirmed by any actual ad.
vice, is particularly interesting at this moment. It is
no longer necessary to conceal the fact that our arma-
mmt is destined to co-operate with the Swedes in the
reduction of Norway. Our countrymen are, proba-
bly, by this time, actually descended on the coast,
and we shall therefore look with extreme impatience
for every account from that quarter. The population
of Norway is thin ; but they are a brave, a simple
and a robust race of men. A momentary impression
was made on the country by the inroad of the Swedes,
but the panic has subsided, and Sir JOHN MooRE
will find a resistance which it will be difficult and
glorious to overcome.

The Governor of the Isle of Wight, the Right
Honourable Lord FITZIIARRIR, is arrived at Cowes,
and occupies his newly purchased marine cottage.
The report that Austria had declared war against
Prance proves, as we expected, destitute cf any real
foundation. It is more probable, that for " France"
we should here read " Sweden."
The POPE'S Nuncio the Archbishop of Nista', who
arrived last week, is a near relation of the PRINCE
REGENT of Portugal. He sailed from Portugal with
the intention of going to the Brazils, but was forced
back by contrary winds. The MEDIATOR met the
vessel at some distance from Portugal, and brought
the Nuncio and other passengers to Plymouth, where
they arrived on Wednesday last.
The Lady of General MOREAU arrived in the city
of Bourdeaux from America, in December last. No
sooner had she set her foot on her native shore, than
the servile Municipality put her under arrest. This
conduct proved, as these gentlemen had calculated,
perfectly agreeable to BONAPARTE, who immediately
confirmed the arrest. His recent visit to Bourdeaux
was considered a favourable opportunity, by the Lady,
for intreating her release. She accordingly requested
an interview, but in vain. His Imperial Majesty was
inexorable, and she remains in confinement.
We have this day extracted from a Foreign Journal
some further particulars of the loss of the Lubec ship
Agatha, and with her the young Lord ROYSTON.
Sorry should we be, indeed, to increase the affliction
of his Lordship's surviving relatives, by detailing the
incidents of this melancholy occurrence, if it were only
with a view to gratify cold curiosity ; but we think
that the public has something like a right to sympa-
thise in the grief of a parent, as it is likewise unhap-
pily a partaker in the.loss which occasions it; for we
believe a more promising young Nobleman was never
given to a country's hopes, or more untimely snatched
away. At an age when most are content to study
the ancient authors with a view only to attain the
language in which they wrote, his Lordship was so
thoroughly master of their contents, that he translated
the most obscure of them with a spirit and clearness
which greatly surpassed the original. It was from
the desire of adding to the store of antient and mo-
dern learning, which he possessed, the advantages
that result from personal observation, and from travel,
that his Lordship quitted the spendour of an affluent
home, and encountered the dangers under crbjeli he
finally perished. His title devolves on his brother,
Lord CHARLES
Uno avulso nett deficit alter
" Aureus, et sista frondescit virgs roetele
By the death of Lord ROYSTON, the reversioppgy
interest of the Earl of Hminwicit's family, in the pep
tent place of Clerk of the Common Pleas; in the Court
o. Exchequer in Ireland, is reduced to the ere lives
of his Lordship and 120 surviving pcsh