Star.
London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

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lowers.
And to these heads I limit my protest, in order
not to make too long a list, passing over other objects
of less importance, such as the concession of 800
horses, which was made without considering that they
almost all belong to Portugal, and thus cannot be
considered as the property of the French ; that of the
magavines of the army, filled at the expence of the
country, and consequently only belonging by fact, not
by right, to the unjust occupants of the country.
(Signed) BERNARDINE FRIERE D'ANDRADE.'
" Head-quarters, at the Encarmation, Sept. 14."

It may easily be conceived that Ministers are much
perplexed by the untoward circumstances in which
the Convention has placed this country ; for many
reasons and weighty ones may be asssigncd both for
confirming and for annulling it.
Against its validity we have to urge that it bears
to be ratified by a Duke of Arantr.r. This must be a
forgery.—No Frenchman could have a right to sub-
scribe the name of a Portuguese Nobleman—and
such is the real Duke of ABRANTES.

In favour of its completion it may be urged, that
a Government is bound by the acts of its own agents ;
and that if the French Commanders have done nothing
to nullify the Convention, we must comply with its
conditions.—But what right has a Di itish Comman-
der to settle the terms on which an enemy shall quit
the soil that is not our own property ?
But if the French have themselves violated the
Convention, let them bear the consequences. It ap-
pears by the letters received from Portugal, that they
continued to rob and plunder the natives subsequently
to the date of the Convention ; and it is now affirmed,
that in consequence the British Commanders, and par-
ticularly the Naval, have ordered their embarkation
to be suspended.

Among other circumstances of robbery it is stated,
that S;gnor PEDRO DE AVELEA, a merchant, had, the
day after the date of the treaty, been plundered of
property to the amount of 10,000 dollars, including
some family plate—that Signior PERRANDAZ, an Al-
cade, had been ordered to pay 6,000 dollars, and was
thrown into prison until his friends had raised the
sum. Upon his liberation, he demanded from the
Secretary to General JoNor the cause of this fine and
imprisonment, when he was answered that the con-
tribution was to enable the General to reward the
bravery which his troops had displayed in the battles
of the 17th and 21st.—A sum amounting to nearly
50,000 dollars has in like manner been taken from
an English Gentleman named STEVENS, long resident
in Portugal ; and numerous other cases, fully authen-
ticated, have been so strongly urged to the British
Commanders as to compel them to delay the fulfil-
ment of the Treaty. The French Officers, on the
contrary, apprehensive that the Convention would
not be executed if time was allowed for the consider-
ation of its stipulations, were importunate to hasten
it. We understand that so late as the 9th, no de-
tachment had been made from the British Army.—
An Expedition had been planned, we understand, to
Spain, but it had been deemed inexpedient to weaken
lour forces in Portugal.
To conclude our remarks on this subject—lf the
Treaty be fulfilled, let the French take with them the
whole of their own private property : but let the
thieves be searched tit tt they may disgorge all the stolen
Portuguese property. This will be no violation of
the Convention. Every Portuguese who has been
robbed has a right to prefer his complaint against the
thief—and by the laws of Portugal as well as Eng-
land, has a right to get back his property.
Suppose a French army were to invade Ireland,
and strip the inhabitants of their effects. If they were
defeated and obliged by capitulation to leave the island,
would Government ratify a convention, by which a
Sir HEW DALRYMPLE permitted them to carry off their
plunder ?

XTRACT OF A LETTER FRO:! AN OFFICER IN SIR CHARLES
COTTON'S FLEET.

a We are more in the dark in Portuguese politics
than you are. We look to the London papers for
information. One thing, however, we fully and sadly
know—that our victorlous troops have made a treaty
disgraceful to us and favourable to the conquered enemy.
Sir H. DALRYMPLE ought to be ****** The whole
fleet is dissatisfied. The Russians ought to have been
ours. We could have blown them to atoms!

" Captain Hots Ass dined a few days ago with Ge-
neral JUNOT. He has made us stare with an account
of the princely magnificence of the General's house.
Every room is hung with crimson velvet and gold
fringe. All the Generals are covered with gold lace
and stars of different orders. The dinner was served
up in gold plate of immense weight. Captain Hot.-
SAM was plentifully served with the richest wines, and
all his expressions were most closely watched. Sir
C. COTTON did not choose to commit himself, but sent
Captain HOLSAM. We cannot conceive that Sir
CHARLES Will suffer the plundered property to be sent
to France. No convention can justify it. Our Com-
manding Officers would subject themselves to equal
detestation as the French ; for is not he that permits,
as bad as he who commits, the crime ?"
- When the Portuguese Messengers left Oporto, .11.7-
NOT and his Staff had not quitted Lisbon, but the
French army had occupied a fort three miles distant
previous to their embarkation. There were 18,000
Portuguese troops at Coimbra, in high spirits and dis-
cip!inc.

The ARROW schooner arrived on Friday, at Ply-
mouth from Gijon, in five days, with dispatches :
she brings intelligence that the French are still in pos-
session of Bilboa, but that Generals CASTANOS and
BLARE have closely invested the place, with an army
of 40,000 men.

Since our last we received some additional Spanish
Papers, from which we have given several extracts.—
From these it appears that the French have wholly
abandoned the right bank of the Ebro, and concen-
trated their force in the forts and strong posts with
which Navarre abounds. The Gallician army at the
beginning of this month, had its head-quarters at
Carrion de los Condes (about four days march from
Burgos), and two strong divisions at Aquillar de
Campo, a little to the Southward of Reynosa. The
army under the command of PALAFOX had approach-
ed Tudela ; and the presence of the troops who were
marching from Madrid was only wanting to complete
the eavelopement of the enemy, or at least to so
straiten them in their positions, as to compel them to
give battle or break up. It will be seen from the in-
teresting letter of PALAFOX, that the Spanish Com-
manders proceed with that circumspection which is
the best security for final success.

Dutch papers have reached town to the 20th inst.
and several German and Danish Journals. BovA.
PARTE had not left Paris, but arrangemn s had been
made for his dep4rture. Strasburgh irsti I mention-
ed as the place of his destination, and itstared that
the Kings of Westphalia, Bavaria, and Wwtemberg,
and other Members of the Confederation ofthe Rhine
are to meet him there.
Yesterday evening the Governor ikonteVidio. left
town for Plymouth, to embai k for Monte Video.

The expedition under Sir D. BAIRD remained in
Cork harbour, on Monday last. A number of trans.
ports arrived the day preceding, and a detachment of
artillery re-embarked in them in the course of the day.
They were a fine set of fellows, and went on board in
high spirits.

Saturday being the regular moving day for the
Tower Hamlets Militia, the first regiment marched
through the Borough, via Newington, to head-quarters
at Deptford, from whence they will be dispersed to
New Cross, Peckham, Camberwell, and Dulwich ;
and the second regiment marched from thence to
Middlesex quarters.
Saturday morning the LAVINIA, Captain J. HAN•
COCK, arrived at Portsmouth from Admiral THORN..
BOROUGH'S squadron, off Toulon. She is under qua-
rantine. She left the station off Toulon o. the 9th
ult. where she has been cruizing nearly 26 weeks, as
one of the in-shore squadron of frigates. She saw
the enemy's fleet at Toulon, every day, twice, and
sometimes oftener. They consist of ten sail of the
line (two of whicb are three-deckers) and seven fri-
gates, in every respect ready for sea. GANTHEAUME
commands in chief, having under him two Rear-Ad-
mirals. Two Russian line-of-battle ships got in there
from Porto Fierrara, in the island of Elba, some
months since : the LAVINIA saw them go in. They
were immediately refitted and made ready for sea ;
but now, from some cause, they are dismantled, and
moved into the Basin. The SPARTAN, Capt. BREN-
TON, was the in-shore frigate with the LAVINIA. The
French line-of-battle ships. (the Hannibal generally
one) chased the in-shore squadron almost every day,
but never to any distance from the harbour. They
have lately launched at Toulon, two ships of the line,
one of 80 guns, and the other, called the Austerlitz,
of 120 guns. Admiral Tnoßtiaoßouon was cruizing
about ten leagues south of Toulon, with twelve sail
of the line ; a line-of-battle ship was always kept,
day and night, advanced in-shore, to repeat the sig.
nals from the frigates. Lord COLLINGWOOD sailed
from Gibraltar on the 31st ult. to resume the com-
mand off Toulon, taking with him the OCEAN (flag-
ship), TERRIBLE, 74, Lord HARRY PAuLL-r ; Non-
THUMBERLAND, 74, Capt. HARGOOD ; and the EXCEL-
LENT, 74, Capt. WEST.—The CESAR, Rear-Admiral
Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, Capt. RICSARDSON; MALTA,
Capt. OTWAY ; EAGLE, Capt. ROWLEY ; FORMIDA-
BLE, Capt. FAYERMAN ; and WARRIOR, Capt. SPRAN
GER, are to come to England. The LAVINIA left
Gibraltar three weeks since, when the FAME, 74, Capt.
BENN ET ; REPULSE, 74, HOD. Capt. LEGGE ; ATLAS,
Rear-Admiral Puavls, Capt. SANDERS ; and the
BULWARK, 74, Hon. Capt. FLLstinc,were lying there.
—The FAME and BULWARK were to follow Lord
COLLINGWOOD. The ROYAL SOVEREIGN, CAESAR, RE-
NOWN, SFARTIATE, CUMBERLAND, EAGLE, COLOSSUS,
WARRIOR, and MALTA, were cruizing off Toulon,
when the LAVINIA sailed.—The MAGNIFICENT had
sailed to the Bay of Roses, to relieve the MONTAGUE ;
and the KENT, to cruize off Genoa. The CANOPUS,
Rear-Admiral MARTIN ; and the SULTAN, Captain
GRIFFITH, sailed from Port Mahon on the 16th ult.
to join Admiral THORNBOROUGH.—..The LAVINIA
spoke nothing on her passage from Gibraltar, except
on the 9th instant, the MYRTLE sloop, Capt. Irma,
off Lisbon, by which ship the LAVINIA sent dispatches
for Sir C. COTTON, at Lisbon, which she received
from Lord CoLListowoon ; and dispatches from Ge-
neral DRUMMOND, at Gibraltar, for Sir Hew DAY:
RYMPLE* The MYRTLE left St. Übe's the morning the
LAVINIA spoke her :. the ravages and exactions of the
French in that neighbourhood, even after the signing
of the Convention, were very great. A French Ge-
neral of Division had caused exactions, amounting to
1500 pounds sterling, to be made, which so exaspe-
rated the Portuguese, that a Portuguese General, with
.5000 men, had determined to attack him on the night
the Mi &ILK sailed. The LAVINIA sailed from Tou-
lon on the 9th ult. arrived at Port Mahon the 11th,
sailed again the 17th, arrived at Gibraltar on the
24th, and sailed again on the 2d instant. The Spa-
nish squadron at Minorca had sailed for Carthagena ;
two of them had sailed for South America. The
LAVINIA took the Countess of Westmoreland from
Toulon to Gibraltar, aad she has brought home Cap-
tain SHIELD, who is appointed Paying Commissioner
at Portsmouth ; Captain J. N. MORRIS, of the Co-
zossus, and about 30 invalid officer; and men. Capt.
ALFAANnER is wing Commander of the Colossus.

DEAL, SEPT.2S.
The fleet has returned to the Downs from off
Flushing, under the command of Rear-Admiral
GARDNER, in the BELLEROPHON 74, VENERABLE, 74,
CHRISTIAN THE Vllth 80, BOMBAY 74, ILLtysTmous
74, LEVIATHAN 74, INVINCIBLE 74, HERO 74, and
WARSPITE 74, leaving the FISGARD frigate, and two
brigs at anchor, to reconnoitre the Dutch fleet in
flushing, which has come down, and appears ready
to put to sea, consisting of nine sail of the line, one
.50 gun ship, a large guard ship, two frigates, and
some small craft. A gale drove our fleet into the
Downs.