Star.
London, England, 1808-02-04 00:00:00

oBER 595'81

FOREIGN lATELLIGENCE.

enviS OF THE SENATUS CONSULTUWYM
REONAUD DE ST.
UPON TIM CON-
ON OF 1809, DLCLARED
' jug D'ANGEGY, MINISTER OF STATE.
al SENATORS--IVhen your -wisdom called out the
-pt., of 1808, your wishes were directed towards
the peace which signal victories had prepared—you
fished to ensure new means of conquering and paci-
fying, The success surpassed your hopes—the flames
are extinguished upon the Continent—a dura-
ble peace has been sworn between th
has e sreatest Sove.
reigns in the world, and Europe. time to breathe.
t there is a Government to which the repose of
is despair, to which peace is terror, to which
&tor is necessity, and war, hope. England hasreplied
m the offer of a generous mediation offered by the Ern.
pror of Russa, by carrying fire and the sword into the
territories other most ancient ally, by professing more
solemnly contmpt of there of nations, by proclaim-
more inhumanly the principle of eternal war.—
The iedignation of all Sovereigns has'replied to the
injurious manifestoes, to the cunning ckelaration.:-....
to the barbarous acts of the Cabinet of St. Jams's.—
The predictions which the orators of his Majesty
nude to you in this Tribune a year ago are rea-
ussd. •It is,' we said, 4 from the bosom of the Con-
tinent, which England would set in a flame, that
henceforth a terrible war shall be waged against her.
'lt is by applying to her, on all the. European shores,
the principles she has applied on all seas, that we
shall bring her back to- the ancient principles of the
law of Nations and of civilized States. It is by
oiling her ships from all the coasts where we have
soldiers and allies, that the English Ministry will be ,
punished for their culpable refusal of giving Peace
to the World.'
“ Such, Senators, were the words we addressed to
you in speaking of the Conscription of 1808 ; '1(.1 be-1
hold a sacred and powerful league is formed to punish
the English Oligarchy, defend the rights of nations, and
avenge humanity. From the Baltic to the Mediterra-
xan, from the Nile to the Marva, but few points re-
main to the English ships, where they can land, or
where they awe not forbidden to touch. But it is not
nifficient to have, by a just reciprocity, pronounced
against England that dreadful sentence of outlawry ;
she must not be permitted to be at rest in the seat of
kr iniquitous domination, upon any of her coasts, in
an of her colonies, under any points of the globe
which are not yet interdicted to her. It is necessary,
that, repelled from one part of the world, menaced
is all others, England should know not where to di-
rect the little military force of whicle she has the dis-
posal ; and that our armies, more formidable than
ewer, should be ready to carry into her possessions
our victosious and avenging Eagles. Such, Gentle-
wet ate the motives which have determined his Ma-
jesty to &wad a new Conscription. The levy of
the preceding year has been, as you foresaw, the
pledge of Continental Peace: the levy of this year
will be the presage of a Maritime Peace. The pillage
of the arsenal aad port of Copenhagen • thee:figration
of the Portuguese fleet, have not yet left the Continent
without ships. Our legions can yet reach the English
Militia—lreland may yet hope for succour against op-
pression—lndia may yet expect deliverers ; and while
our ancient phalanxes shall march to haasten the day of
justice, new legions of young warriors shall be trained
to discipline and to battle, under the paternal eye of
those warlike Magistrates, of those Senator-Generals,
who with so happy a zeal have already for Med brave
men to replace those whom war has snatched from
the country, or who have been restored to their fami-
lies. His Majesty will have a superabundance of ,
means to realize his pacific views, or to execute his
warlike projects. To the formidable armies of his
faithful Allies, his Majesty will unite, for common
safety and triumph, so formidable a mass, that suc-
cess will not long be doubtful. So just a cause will
not be in vain defended by so mach force, and pro-
tected by so many Powers. A league so imposing
in its elements, so generous in its policy, so just in its
• object, so great in its means, will at length bring hack
our enemies to justice through fear, or to submission
through victory."

PORTUGAL.•
&ZPORTS OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS BELA-

viva TO PORTUGAL.
[Published in the Moniteur of his. 54.1
The first Report, dated Oct. 21, is as follow :
" There is DO Sovereign in Europe who does' not
acknowledge that if his territory, his jurisdiction should
be violated to the detriment of your Majesty, he
would bt responsible for it. If a French ship were
rized in the port of Trieste or Lisbon, the Govern-
ment of Portugal and the Sovereign to whom Trieste
belongs, would have to consider that violence and
damage done to your Majesty's subjects as a personal
outrage they could not hesitate to compel England
ti force to respect their territory and their ports—if
they adopted a contrary conduct, if they became ac-
complices of the wrong done by England to your sub-
iects, they woul‘place themselves in a state of war
with your Majesty.
" When the Portuguese Government suffered its
slips to be visited by English ships, its independence
was as much violated by its own consent, by the out-
rage done to its flag, as it would have been had Eng-
land violated its territory and its ports.
" The enemy ought to be placed in a state of inter-
Ilia, in the midst of the seas of which he pretends to
reserve to himself the empire. In this poEition, all
powers could and ought to expect from each other a
mutual support.
" And at what moment did Portugal betray the
cause of the Continent Ought England to expect
still to have an ally, when, exercising her violence on
every sea, she menaced the new world as well as the
old; attacked, without any motive for aggression,
the flag of the Americans, and dyed their own shores
.with their blood ; when, scandalously famous by the
disasters of Copenhagen, which she surprised in the