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••—••••••
Ilte Court of Portugal, after having kept a si-
h-nce suitable to the different circumstances in which
lit- was placed, and to the moment when the seat of
Governnient was established, conceives that it owes
to its dignity and rank among other Powers, a faith-
ful and accurate exposition of its conduct, supported
by incpntestible facts, in order that its subjects, ins,
partial Europe, and also the most distant posterity,
may judge of the mity of its conduct, and the prin-
ciples it has adopted; as well to avoid the fruitless ef-
fusion of the blood of its people, as because it could
not persuade itself that solemn treaties, of which it
had fulfilled the burthensome conditions in favour of
France, should become a despicable infant's toy in
the eyes of a Government whose immediate and
io-
comniensurable ambition has no limits, and which
has but too much openet the eyes of the persons the
most prejudiced in its favour. It is not in invective;
or in vain and useless menaces, that the Court of Poi--
ttigal will raise its voice front the midst of the new
Empire which it is about to create : it is by true and
authentic facts, explained with the greatest simplicity
and modeiation, that it will make known to Europe
and its subjects all that it has suffered ; that it will
excite the attention of those who may still desire not
to be the victims of so unbounded an ambition, and
who may feel how much the future fate of Portugal
and the restitution of its states invaded without a de-
claration of war, and in the midst of a profound peace,
ought to be of consequence to Europe, if Europe ever
hopes to see revive the security and independence of
the powers which formerly composed a species of Re-
public that balanced itself, and maintained an equili:
brium in all its different parts. An appeal to PRO.
VIDENCE is the consequence of this exposition, and a
religious Prince feels all the importance of it, since
guilt cannot always remain unpunished ; and usurpa-
tion and violence enfeeble and consume themselves by
the continual efforts they are obliged to employ.
44 The Court of Portugal, though it saw with re-
gret the French revolution begin, and deplored the
fate of the virtuous King with whom it was connected
by the closest ties of blood, did not take any part in
the war which the conduct of the madmen who then
reigned., (bye the confession even of the present Go-
vernment) forced all Governments to declare against
them ; even when it sent succours to Spain for the de-
fence of the Pyrenees, it always endeavoured to pre-
serve the most perfect neutrality.
44 In the year 1793, the French Government sent
a Minister to the Court of Portugal, who was received
with the utmost respect, but who was not acknow-
ledged ; for then, neither the principles of the law of
nations, nor of public law, authorised by Govern-
ments to acknowledge extraordinary changes unless
they were known to be legitimate; and no nation is in
that respect to judge for another while its indepen-
dence exists. The French Government, without any
declaration of war, or any formality, began to detain
the Portuguese Merchant vessels; and Ater the peace
in 1801, demanded and obtained indemnities for those
which the Court of Portugal had detained to obtain
legit:mate compensation, without paying any regard
to the claims and remonstrances of the Portuguese
Merchants. The Court of Spain, which had required
succours from Portugal, and which, by the confes-
sion of the French Generals, was obliged to acknow-
ledge how useful and necessary they had been,
when it made peace with France, not only forgo. s
Ally, which it ought ta have caused to be declared
in a state of peace with France, since -the Court of
Portugal in succouring its Ally, to fulfil the condi-
tions of the Treaty -of Alliance which existed be-
tween the two Sovereigns, had no intention to make
war against France; but what is perhaps unheard of,
or at least very rare in the annals of history, Spain
then Made a common cause with France, to furce
Portugal to receive unjust and ludeiliating condition.
of peace, nor did Spain cease to declare itself the ene-
my of its Ally till the monrent when the Treaties of
Badajoz and Madrid were signed ; employing even
the forces ofFrance to arrest from Portugal a small
extent of territory of the Province of Alentyo, on the
side of Olivenza, thus leaving to posterity an eternal
monument of the wretched recompence she bestowed
on an Ally who, notwithstanding the ancient rivalry
of the two nationsi would not fail to fulfil the condi-
tions of a treaty of alliance which existed between
them.
" The treaties and peace of Badajoz and Madrid,
in 1801, are likewise a new proof of bad faith in the
enemies of the Court of Portugal, since the treaty of
Badajoz having been signed there by Lucien Bona.
pane, the French Plenipotentiary, and the Prince of
the Peace, on the one side ; and by the Portuguese
Plenipotentiary on the other, the French Government -
refused to ratify it, and forced Portugal to sign a
new treaty at Madrid with much harder conditions,
without being able to assign any other motives than
its caprice and ambition.
44 This latter treaty was signed almost at the same
time with the treaty of London between England
and France, which moderated some conditions too
oppressive to Portugal, and fixed the limits of ch_
coast of North America, which was confirmed by
the Peace of Amiens, and this consideration of Eng-
land for its ancient ally was, in the eyes of Franc:,
a new proof of the servitude and bondage in whi.h
the English Government held that of Portugal.
44 No sooner was the treaty of 1801 concluded,
that, the Court of Portugat.ise•aenecl to fulfil all it.
burtkensome conditions, and to chew, by the r,Ai-
gious and punctual observation of all its engip.-
wants, hew snuck it desired to malaria the good tit),

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derstanding which was re-established between the
two Governments, and which ought to have caused
to be forgotten all the injuries it had suffered, which
certainly had never been provoked on its part. The
Lir
conduct of the French overnment was very differ-
ent-r-from the first moment that peace was re-esta-
blished, it required all kind of unjust sacrifices on the
part of the Portuguese Government, in favour of the
the most extravagant and unfounded pretensions of
France. Subject Europe ought then to have foreseen,
that its subjugation from Lisborkto Petersburgh was
determined in the Cabinet of. the Thuilleries, and
that it was necessary to combine, to level thecolossus
with the ground, or submit to be his victim.
gg After a short interval war broke out, anew be-
tween England and France ; and the. Court of Pox-
tugal having made the greatest sacrifices to avoid
war, and the harsh and humiliating propositions.of
the French Government, thought itself fortunate to.!
be able to conclude, with the greatest sacrifices of
money, the treat); of 1804, in which France promised
in the 6th article as follows :
The First Consul of the French Republic consents
• to acknowledge the neutrality of Portugal during
44 the present War, and not to oppose any measures
eg that may be taken with respect to the belligerent
• Notions, agreeably to the principles and general-
" laws of neutrality.'
" The French Government from that time received
all the advantages of such a treaty ; it never had oc-
casion to make the smallest complaint against the
Portuguese Government. Yet it was during the same
war, and after such a stipulation, that it required of
the Court of Portugal, not only the infraction of its
neutrality, but a declaration of war, in violation of
all the treaties that had existed between the two coun-
tries ; and in which, in the case of war acknowledged
possible, it was determined how the subjects of the
two nations should be treated, and all this without
Portugal having any cause of complaint against the
British, Government, which had even given it every
kind of satisfaction, when the Commanders of its
ships of war had failed in that respect which was due
to a neutral flag.
gg The Emperor of the French in the mean time
caused one of his squadrons, on board of which was
his brother, to put to sea. It anchored in the bay of
All Saints, where it was received with every kind of
respect, and was supplied with all sorts of refresh-
ments. Yet, what is worthy of attention is, that at the
very time the French Government received, on the
part of that of Portugal, so many marks of friend-
ship and consideration, the squadron burned some
Portuguese vessels to conceal their route, with a pro-
mise of indemnity to the proprietors, which promise was
never perfOrmed. Europe may hence conclude the fate
which awaits it should the French acquire an ascendancy
by sea equal to that it has obtained by land, and may
properly estimate the foundation of the complaints it
so loudly utters against the English Government.—
England never made any remonstrances against the
succours granted to the French' squadron, for they
were within the acknowledged limits of the Law of
Nations ; but the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
France has dared to assert, in the face of Europe,
that Portugal gave assistance to the English for the
conquest of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres ; while
it is a fact known to all the world, that that'expedi-1
tion, which sailed from the Cape of Good Hope, ro:•1
ceived from Portugal neither vessels, money, nor men,
nor in fine, any merchandize considered as contra-
band of war; and that the English squadrons during
this war obtained nothing at Rio de Janeiro, or the
other ports of Brazil, except what is not refused
to any nation, and which had been supplied plenti-
fully to the French squadron. The Court Portugal
defies the Court of France to produce any fact in con-
tradiction to this assertion, which is founded is the
most exact and impartial truth.
" France received from Portugal from 1804 to
1807, all the colonial commodities, 'and first mate-
rials for her manufactures. The alliance of England
with Portugal was useful to France, and in the de-
pression suffered by the arts and industry, in conse-
quence of a perpetual war by land, and a disastrous
war by sea, in which she only met with defeats,
it was certainly a great advantage to France, that the
commerce of Portugal should suffer no interruption;
undoubtedly, it was equally useful to both countries.
By ravaging Portugal, by subjecting her to exces-
sive contributions in an unheard of manner, without
war or any resistance having been made on her pal t,
France has not obtained that advantage which a
commerce useful to both countries would have pro-
cured her. The Court of Portugal might therefore
justly, with every kind of foundation, flatter itself
. that that of the Thuilleries would respect a neutrality
which it had a*nowledged by a solemn treaty, and
from which it derived such decided advantages. It
was, however, awakened from its security in the
month of August, 1806, by a formal declaration'of
the French Nlinis•er for Foreign Affairs, M. Talley.
rand, to Lord Yarmouth, by which the former not'
fied to the latter, that if England' did not make ai
maritime peace, the French Government would de.
dare war against Portugal, and order that.country
to be occupied by thirty thousand Men.. It was not
with th;rty thousand /nen that. the invasion of Portu,
gal could be effected, but the Emperor of the French,
who knew the security in nhich Portugal remained
in consequence of the Treaty of Neutrality, thought
he could take her by surprise, and this was sufficient
to justify his proceedings. The Court of England
was alarmed by the above declaration, and.proposed
and offered to that of Portugal all kind of succour ;
but France, which at that period hid arranged every
thing to crush the Prussian Court, which ds'en'alone
bid defiance to the superior power of the EMperor
of the French, while a twelvemonth,before it 'would
not attack, and perhaps compel him' to receive the
- law, and save Europe, jointly with Russia and An,
stria, found means to pacifrthe Court of Portugal,
which she then chose to spare. The Court of Portua
gal could not then conceive that a similar perfidy.
would be the attribute of a Power, whose conduct
ought to keep pace with that integrity and those dig.
nified sentiments, which suit so well an exalted..rank.
• The war which was afterwards continued with Russia,
and which might yet perhaps have saved Europe, it
the union of the Governments which divided it hid
been as close as }t-should have been, still retarded
the execution of the views t f the Emperor of the
French with regard to the Court of Portugal; and it
was only by concluding the Peace of Tilsit, that the
Court of the Tlmillestes, in a dictatorial tone, such

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as might live become Chaileaasgni measure which eel& wit his situ-
, thestinciple
_which he had
.con.
Prince% whose Sovereign Ford he ' save the blood of his people, and
strange demand to_" tie ma 'make the criminal plan &the' French,'
thrOugh ' the Medium of the . carried
V.:lA.46re!) and by the Spanish Amt
to-shut the ports of Portugal against 1
Tet detain all Englishmen. who resided in Portugal; .ng lebessinign view thanTntton secezeelluretinn''his
Ii
..eyal 1...., _
_,, ead_the whole Royal
and, Sd, To confiscate all Eitgllth property j or, in to divide et- and- pleasure d .
Fnin
theilyspoin order
case of refusal, to expose itselito an immediate war the Crown oUtartugal and the Portuguese omt-
with.- :France. and Sirain,_rhe French: Charge crAf. pions: PacrYlPmscx secmded the eff,'" of. a Jus
faires, and the Ambassader of Spain, having. orders Prince, and the magnanimpus resolution.
hiswhich his
io depart on the Ist cif `Sher, three weeks after Royal Highness adopted, to renre with August
she said pie) ' siuen Was 'made, in case that the Court Royal Family to Btizll,lisedneerted at once . e eft
ista
6f Port - should not comply with all the pretest- forts ofthe French Government, and exposed in the
'tons bf • two Courts. The good faith of the French clearest light in the face of-Europe the cnininal and
poveroment is no less remarkable With 'regard to treacherous view of a Govenunen twoich aims at unie
the celerity with which, 'after,havlig Made that de- versal domination of all Europe and of the whole
.claration, and without waiting for the answer world, if the great European Powers, roused from the
bf the Court of Portugal,
beit ordered all Por. lethargic stupor into which they are sunk, do nor
,tnguese -merchant ships to • detained which were make-common cause vigorously to oppose an ambi.
in the ports of France, and by that measure actually tion so-immoderate and excessi
s's ve.
cornmencing hostilitiee-Without any previous 'tittle, , 46 Sin ce his Royal Highnes safe arrival in his
ration df war, thus-earrying• to a far greater length ! diminions in Brazil, he has learned with horror, not
all the proceedings which formed its continued topic ' only the usurpation of Portugal, and the pillage and
of reproach against England, which, after, such a plunder practised in that country, but also the shame-
conduct, will be justly valued-
44 The Court of Portugal might then well have as the Dictator of Europe, dares to represent it
adopted the known maxim of the Romans, andbeen ' as a crime of his Royal Highness, that he has remo-
convincedabat disgraceful conditions frequently saved ved his seat of Government to Brazil, and in his
'those who refuse them, and brought destruction over i'faithful subjects who followed him, to have accompa-
[those by whom they were proposed ; but on the one Lnied a Prince whom all his people revere, still more
side it could not believe, that the Court of the Thu;:ron account of-his virtues than of the rights Of his au-
illeries made in earnest proposals which committedliust Royal Family, which he has inherited,• and by
both its honour and its dignity ; and on the ether : virtue of which he reiens over them. _•. . .
side, it hoped to ward off the storm, desirous of j " His Royal Highness has witnessed with horror
sparing the blood of its people, and placing implicit , the hardihood with which ad attempt has been made
confidence in the friendship of his Britannic Majesty,lin an official paper to proscribe the rights of his Au-
its old and faithful ally, it endeavoured to render the I gust Royal Family to the Crown of Portugal, with
pretensions of the French Government more mode- ; which he will never part and he is entitled to de-
rate, by acceding to 'the shutting the ports, and ee.! wand of the Emperor of the French from what code
fusing the other two articles as contrary to the princi.dof the law of nations he has drawn similar principles,
ple; of public law, and to the treaties which subsisted I and received such an authority, claiming te this sute
between the two nations; and his Royal Highness ject the most serious consideration of all the European
the Prince Regent of Portugal had no hesitation to . Powers, who cannot see with indifference what has.
declare, that those articles wounded enually his re. i been stated, and the introduction of a new Govern-
ligion and the principk of morality, from which he . meat in Portugal, without his consent, as well as the;
never deviates, and which are perhaps the cause of raising of an exorbitant contribution, demanded from;
the unshaken fidelity which he has experienced on the ; a country which opposed no kind of resistance to the'
part of his subjects. 'entry of the French troops, and which, on this, very ,
4, The Court of Portugal then began to adopt men- I ground, could not consider itself as being at war whir
sures for its retreat to that part of the Portuguese do- • France. The most remote posterity as well as impartial
minions which is not exposed to .any invasion, the; Europe, will see with grief such transactions, the
consequence of which ought to create alarm. I forerunners' of barbarism and misery, such as those
44 For this purpose it ordered all such ships of which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire,
war as were fit to keep the sea to be fitted out, . and and which cannot be avoided, unless exertionarbe made
also directed all the English to quit its dominion; to restore the equipoise of Europe, by in uncommon
and sell their property, with an intention of shutting , effort, and with a total oblivion of all ideas and feel-
the ports against England, is order thus to _avoid alt I ing of rivalship, that has hitherto been the true causes
effusion of the biped of its subjects, whicli.Would ; oithe elevation of that monstrous Power, which
probably have proved useless, and to endeavour, to ' threatens to swallow up all.
comply with the views of the Emperor of the French', ' 66 After this correct and true statement, made by
in case he should 'not allOw himself to be softened I his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal,
'down bythat.justice with which the Court of Vortu. Ito Europe and to his. subjects, of every thing which
',al asserfedthe rights of its independence, along with' has taken place between the Portuguese and
Noose sv:iich resulted from the Treaty of Neutrality I French Governments ; and as the Emperor of 'the
concluded in Iboi.•
French has not.only invaded Portugal, and laid that
44 The Court of the Thuilleries ,was unwilling' tn, country under the most dreadful, and almost incredi-
agree to any conciliatory measure. havingnrit only , tile contribution, under the cloak of friendship, but
demanded the shutting the ports, but the imprison- has also, long ago withdrawn his embassy from his
merit of all British subjects, the confiscation of their Royal Highness's Court, and even caused Portuguese
property, and a dereliction of the project to retreat to merchant ships to be seized which were in his ports,
America. His Royal 'Highness the Prince Regent iwithout any previous Declaration of War, and con
of Portugal, who knew, on the one side, that his-Brie' trary to an express article of the Treaty 3f. Neutra
tannic Majesty, his true and old Ally, informed of lity, from which he derived the greatest advantages,
all the transactions which were going on, would con- and lastly, declared war against him, according to
sent to the shutting the ports, in order to save For- the report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, hisl
tugal from the invasion of the French ; and who was Royal Highness, after having resigned his cause into
convinced, on the other side, that there was no longer , the hands of the ALMIGHTY, whom he has every right
any Englishman in Portugal who was not naturaliz. ! to invoke in so just a cause, thinks it due to his rank
ed inthat country ; and that all English property I and to the dignity of his Crown, to make the foliew-
had been sold, and even its amount exported, adopt- I ing declaratial Highness breaks off all communication
ed the resolution to shut their ports agaiest England, " Hisßoy
I
and even to comply with the rest of the demands and , with France, recalls all the Members of his embassy,
pretensions of France, declaring, however, at the ,if any should yet remain, and authorises his subjects
same time, that should the French troops enter Per- I to wage war by sea and land against the subjects "of
tugal, his Royal Highness was firmly resolved to re- the Emperor of the French ;
move the seat of Government to the Brazils, which I " His Royal Highness declares null and void all
formed the most important and best defended part of , the treaties which the Emperor of the Frenchhas corn-
his dominions. 1 pelled him to conclude, and in particular those of
44 His Royal Highness then ordered the whole of ; Badajoz and Madrid, in 1801, and that of Neutra•
his army to move to the coast and seaports, suppos- [ lity in 1801•, because he has violated them, and never
ing, that as. France had obtained all she demanded, , respected them ;
she would have nothing else to ask, confided in that I 44 His' Royal Highness will not lay dearer his arms,
good faith which ought to be considered the funda- unless in concert withhis Britannic Majesty, his old
mental principle-in every Government which has and faithful Ally, and will neveragree to a cession
ceased to be revolutionary, and felt conscious that , of Portugal, which forms the most ancient part or
having done every thing in his power to secure the I the inheritance and of the rights of his august Road'
tranquillity of his people, and avoid an useless effie-1 Family. • .
ion of blood, he had fulfilled all the duties of a vir- I 44 When the Emperor of the French shall have sa-
tuous Prince adored by his subjects, and who to the I tisfied in every plaint the just claims of his Royal
SUPREME BEING alone has to account for his actions.l Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, and shall
44 The French Government then observed a line , have relinquished the dictatorial and imperious tone
of conduct towards his Royal Highness and his do- I in which he lords it over oppressed Europe—and
minions which would be unprecedented 'in history, I when he shall have restored to the Crown of Porte-
were not the invasion of Switzerland by France, at gal all he has invaded in the midst of peace an::
:he time of the Executive Directory, of a sintilar de- without the least provocation, his Royal Highness will
scriPtion. , avail himself of the earliest opportunity to renew the
. 44 .Getteral Junot, without any previous deciara...connection which hat always subsisted between the
tiont without the consent of the Prince Regent 'of two countries, and which• ought to exist bet Ween =-
Portugal, entered the kingdom with the vanguard of lions that would never be divided butlsi those prin.
his army, assuring the people in the country that he ' ciples of inordinate ambition, Which, according to the
was marching through it to succour his Royal High, 'experience of ages, have always p_roved destructive
nets against an invasion of the English, and that he' to the welfare and tranquillity of all nations by which
entered Portugal as General of a friendly and allied . they were adhopted.
rower. He received on the journey convincing proofa. • " Rio Janeiro, te lei May,.lBoa"
of the good faith of the Portuguese Government, for
he witnessed the perfect uneasiness which prevailed , •
with regard to France, and that all the Portuguese- '
troops were near the coast. . . e .
" His. Royal Highness the Prince of Portugal, sue-,
prised in such an extraordinary manner, might have
rallied around him the body of troops which were at:
a small distance from him, caused the English fleet
to enter the port of Lisbon, and thus cut to pieces
the small and miserable corps with -which General
Junot was advancing, with a degree of temerity'
which would have been ridiculous, had not General
Junot, whom his conduct in Venice and Lisbon has
but too well made known, relied on the feelings of it.
virtuous Prince, who would never have exposed his
people to the most dreadful calamities by a sure first
success, which would only have served to chastise
the audacity of a man who, like many others, abu-
sed the power with which he was entrusted, or who
acted in pursuance of orders which cannot be justified.
44 His Royal Highness the Prince Regent then

OFFICIAL PAPER-PROCLAMATION.

BY SIR .CITSRLISS COTTON, BART.
.ADEILAL or TEL ELUL, HiberniaMAND
off the Tagus, July 4.
Istnasiratirs or POITLICIAL!
Deputations having reached me from all parts of the kingdom,
soliciting succour, aid, and assistance, and stating to me the loyal,
brave, and manly determination of the people of Portugal to esti-
-Wish the Government of their lawful Prince, and sinandpote
their country from French oppression.
I send, agreeable to your requests, ships, troops, arms, and
ammunition; and have directed the Standard of his Royal High-
ness the Prince Regent of Portugal to be reared, rtiund which
every loyal Portuguese is hereby invited immediately to-relly and
to take up arms in so just and so glorious a cause.
To be successful, Portuguese, you must be unanimous ; and,
joined by your brave neighbours and friends the Spaniards, 700
must not be Intimidated by menaces, nor seduced by promises.
Some months' experience must have convinced you of the effect
of French friendship--; it is now to British faith and assistance,
aided by your own energy and efforts, that riswill, I trait, be
indebted for the restoration of your Prince and then indeibendetiet
" your country. (Signed) C. COTTON.

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