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London, England, 1808-05-21 00:00:00

KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL.

TIIE INTENDANT GF.NkRAL OF TIIE POLICE OF TIM
KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL,
Conformably to the Decree f ku Excellency the Dale D'A_BRANTILS
G.-•,•ral in Chief of the Army of Portugal, dad the Sth of
1808, orders di followe
(A BST R ACT).
Before the 20th of the present month, the proper Officers shall
deliver in a correct list of all the individuals of their respective
districts who disappeared at the same time with tile Ancient
Court, and those who have since fled.
All those who have since that time departed without passport
or regular permission, shall be considered, unless satisfactory
proof be adduced to the contrary, as having deserted to the
enemy's squadron, and shall consequently be inscribed on the list
of conspirators.
After the 20th of the present month, the time peremptorily
fixed for the returns, orders will be given for the sequestration of
the property of such persons.
All proprietors of houses, in which those persons resided who
have fied, shall give information of the same, with the date of
their flight, to the Corregidor, &c. The same obligation is im-
posed an those who inhabit the iIOUSSI, or have the care of the
property of the persons who have fled, upon pain of being consi-
dered as having intentionally secreted the property destined to be
sequestnted.
All communication being forbidden between Portugal and the
vessels belonging to the English squadron, all persons are enjoined,
by whatever means he may obtain from the said squadron, any
papers, letters, pretended proclamations. or other communications,
to deliver them Immediately tr the Intendant General of the Po-
lice.' under pain of being considered an Agent of the English,
and arrested as such.
The same disposition is applicable to all individuals who shall
hawk to the Exchange, or other public places, pretended news
derived from the said squadron, unless they specify the source
from whence they derived it, or the persons from whom they ob-
tained It.
There is opened at the Hotel of the Intendant General of the
Police, Place ae Rod°, an office for receiving information against
those who may attempt to escape to the enemy, against the pro-
prietors of boars who shall convey them, against spies and their
abettors, and for the payment of rewards to such persons whose
information in these respects should prove correct.
Thepresen :Ordinance so be duly published, Sce.
(Signed) P. LAGARDE,
Intendant General of the Police of the
Kingdom of Portugal.

Lisbon, April 7, 1808•

P.IRLI4,IIEi\IIIRr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY
Mr. MEI.LItiH and scin ral other Members of the House of
Core read a first time ;has were Ilse come private Wills, brought
up by Mr. G. Vansittart, Mr. Graham, Sir Martin Foulhos, and
other Members.
Stveral Lies on t:le table v‘iTC r:.%r:Var4Col ID their respective
6 ages.

APPEALS.
In the Roxburgh Appeal, " Kerr buses and Kerr." Mr.
Clerk was finally heard in reply.—To consider further of the case
to-morrow ; and with respect to bearing Counsel on the ether
parts rf it en Monday.
• The House proceeded to give judgment in the Appeal, " The
Furl of Wem)ss y. Macqueen." 'I his case is of great importance
tb the Clergy of Scotland, as it itivolves a question, Whether the
stipend of c Minister, having been once augmented since the year
1707, can legally rcerive a secord augmentation? The Court of
Session had decided in the affirmative.
The of LAUDERDALE, in a very lorg and able speech,
roittended, that the Court of Session had no power to grant a
s,:ciind augmentation, and moved to reverse the interlocutor of
tha,
The 1.4/liD CHANCELLOR, at considerable length, con-
tended, that the usage upon this point, in favour of a second aug-
mentation, ought not to be disturbed, and was of opinion that
the interlocutor ought robe affirmed, with some alteration.
After a few observations in reply from the Purl of LAUDER-
DALE, the Motion was negatived, and the interlocutor of the
Court of S:ssion affirmed, with the alterations proposed by 'the
Lord Chancellor.
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The L':natics Bill went through a Committe?, and the Report
%Vl9 ordered to be received trim, and the BiU to be recommitted

en Thursday next.
The Peon an! Now Forest Bill was read a second time, and
_ _ .

cc*;—.itted for Monday.
he Duchess of Bruns-,sick's BiU was read a second time, and
ectr.•:dtted for Monday.
The Commissioners Military inquiry Continuance Bill was read
a second time, and committed for Monday.
The Stamp Duty Bill was read a second time, and committed

for Monday.
A 'Message from the Lords amine:lced that they had passed a
rill for Discharging Debtors imprisoned for small Debts iu cer-
tain cases, to which they desired the ascent of the Commons.
The Tanners' Bill was read a third time and passed, after a
abort conversation bet wcen Messrs Jones, Mellish,Davi,3 Giddy,
and I lawkins Browne, in which Mr. Jones opposed, and the other,
Gentlemen approved of the Pill.
Fir SAMljiii, ROMILLY brought in a Bill for providing com-
yensation for such pt rsons as had suffered long confinement for
suypesed offences.---1 he Bill was read a first, and ordered to be
read a sco•ond time on Friday next.
Mr. 1-iIISKISziON brought in a Pill for Improving the Land '
Revenues of the Crown.—Read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time on Monday next, and the Bill ordered to be
printed.
Mr. HTISKISSON presented a Copy of the Opinion of the
King's Prows, and the Judge Advocate, on the case of the ship
l'Etruseo.—Ordered to be printed.
ARMY (-LOATHING.
Mr. WARDELI. moved for a series of letters from the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to the Secretary of War, dated the ieth of
December Ir:e7, and also the copy of a letter from-the Comman-
d-r-in-Chia to the Secretary it War, respecting the hest niode of
supplyirg the Army with greAt coats for the year 1308. Ordered.
et:lLn STEALING HILL.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL wished to make one or two
nbservations en the wording of this Lill, as it now stood. 'the
taking a child's clothes was certainly an indictable offence, but the
taking the child itself, it w..s well understood, was not so now
certainly the object of the present Bill was to make it such ; het
from a certain il.sleCtra:y in the worlii g, as it now stood, that
object might in mar.y rases he defeated. For in.,tatic:: tic words
" sek,, with nectarines., intent," might coffins. the operation of the
Bill, and prevent it from applying to the case of the child stealer,
who tuck the child to beg with, or for any other purpose of gain
or lucre. Ile cited cases which had come within his knowledge, in
which the law evaded by the construction of the word mai.
ceovr. He should propose, therefore, to insert in the lfill, after
the words he had already cited, the words—orfir any ath.r polose
V. lucre n.
Mr. W. WYNNE was willirg to bow to the legal experience
of his Learned Friend, bat could not understand a cast in which
the stealth of the child would not be malicious.
Alm a few words from Alderman Comb.:, Mr. Lushlngton
as,l Mr. Sitneor, the amendment w-s egreed to, and the Bill read
a third time, passed, and ordered to the 'Lords.
S.R. PAIZIpt'S CLAIS.
The house then resolved i:self into a Committee of
'he whole ("TIM' to Cfenitien Mr. Palmer's claitn, when
Mr. LETHBRIDGE moved for leave to bring in a
Bill founded on the Resolutions el a former commit-
tee, grtnting him in future Si per cent, on the
iltt-
proved revenue of the Post Office, agreeably to his
contract with Government in the year I 759,
Mr. EANKES repeated his fireriter objections, and
asked teem what fund this per tentage was to be paid?
Mr. LY.TI-I)3RIDGE repligd from the revenue of
the Post Office.
Mr. BANKES said that revenue wLint into the Con-
s,. licinte,d Fend, that another Act of Parliament woul,l
be necessary, and quoted as 'an instance the pension
a.utefl eirs of Lord Lake. Ile then moved
Oat the word.' future" shoUld be left cut. •
.

Mr. MARRYAT objected to the t generally- now in Ills Majesty's confidence, which he
vcontenstatda
of
The question being then loudly canon:, the gaiter: was unjust and untrue, from a cosn
ytar
was cleared, when the Committee divided. For tle existing circumstances, with relation to the time when,
atie e
original motion 63—against 3L —Majority 12. 'l'llt the expeditions originated, and'whem they were de-
motion, without any amendment, was then. put an/ fated. To establish these points, he entered into a
carried, and Mr. Fuller (the Chairman) was orcterel most luminous account of the treaties between. Ile
to hraig in the Bill. • Confederate Powers, and by giving an histcnical &-
After a short conversation between Mr. PON tail of events since the period when Mr. Pitt's A
whole
i-
SONBY,, Mr PE RCEVAL, and Mr. TIERNEY, nistraticm ceased to the present time, during the
the farther consideration of the Report of the Sugar
Cotnmittee was deferred till Monday. of which he was repeatedly cheered by
dent House ;
from the whole of which detail, he coul but de.
DA RDAISELL vs. precate the rupture with the Sublime Porte, which he.
Mr. TAYLOR rose to make his promised motion condemned as impolitic and unwise. He admitted
relative to the Dardanelles Expedition. In the be- the propriety of preset-wing amity with Ru
it ssia, but he
ginning of the Session, he had moved for papers on did not consider, and ihe result justified , that by,
this subject, Which papers, when the House read, he breaking with the Ottomans we could preserve the re-
was sure would incline them to condemn the Expedi- , letions of amity with the Court ef St. Petersburgh ; for
tion. The entire system of the war he utterly discre- the attack on Constantinople only skewalledto our a narown
row
dited, as contrary to the dictates of justice and ge- and grasping selfish policy, directed
neral policy. We ought to view the situation in interest, and wholly neglecting the interest of Russia,
which the Ottoman Porte stood with respect to Rus- as our ally. From these facts, he contended, that the
sia ; a Treaty had been concluded betneen them in i Right Honoureble Gentleman was rather unfor-
the veal 1795, the object of which was offensive to I tunate in the attempt, therefore, which he made to
France; a Convention was also formed in 1800, I justify the conduct of the late Adrninistratien, or of
which Cenyentien was infringed by the Porte, owing I vindicating their policy eithe't with respect to their
to the deposition of sonic Hospodars ; it was cer- demeanour towards the Sublime Porte, or the manner
minty no business of ours to interfere in such dispute, I they cenducted their hazardous attempt of
and thus commence a war unjust in its principle, and warfare against them. He condemned with anima-
. unsuccessful in its prosecution. [He here read some i tion, and the most singular irony, the treatment
papers, from which he stated Mr. Arbuthnot's opinion I which was practised towards that Power, who, tut
to be similar to his own.] The Right Honourable j being our friend, was to be quarrelled with ; m ho, for
Geatleman proceeded to read several letters purpor-ibeing our Ally, was to be bombarded ; and n ho, fur
theto be, as far as we could collect, from Officers in I making or so aing to keep peace with all the world,
the army in Egypt ; and he also adverted to many ! was to be annihilated. After placing this in a most
of the papers before the House, and found fault with !ludicrous point of view, he proceededsto support his
the way in which the orders for the execution of this ; a legatious to tins effect from the Paper on the table,
enterprise had been arranged. By passing the Dar- ! which bore him out to the fullest extent: be ridiculed
dandles, which we had no right to do, we had cow- ,f
the folly of that Administration in entertaining alarms
menced hostilities before negociation. The Ambas- I about the Turkish Government, or any injut y they
sailor
had been unwisely trusted with too much dis- I could possibly do this country by their fleets or their
cretionary power. To attack the Turkish skips was I armies. He desired the Hoese at reflect on the local
useless, the number of ships not being equal to the I situation of Constantinople, the tempt to bombard
en el prize, and Lord Collingwood ought to have I which was nothing short of extreme wickedness ;
teen allowed to choose any Officer he pleased to con- especially when all reasoning men must acknowrom
duct the Expeditien. With respect to the Expedition ledge, that it was not only not necessary,
but, f
to Alexandria, on the ground of his not being able to their own shewing, wholly unprovoked ; which did
sec its object and policy, and because it had been so more injury to the political character of the country,
mismanaged, as to • bring dishonour upon the British than it slid even dishonour to her arms. But die
arms ; but from the very low tone in which he read great imputation to be cast on the expedition to the
and spoke, we cannot venture to give any report of capital ot:- the Turkish Empire was, that with an :ti-
the remaineer White Honourable Geatlernan's speech, fectation of proceeding upon an amicable negotiation,
for fear of being liable to the charge of having mis- an attack was made on the out-works of that capital,
tai.;' or misrepresentte I the same. He concluded by Iby attacking and passing the Dardanelles. Having
readine seeeral Resolutions as his motion ;the first of thus reprobated
py thistra unfortunate expeand 'dirdition,ect he
ridi-
en-
which-was read from die Chair as follows : tered into a
h Test it n t'.l.: opinion of this House, that his Majesty's fleet, cute on the discordant objects that must have been
ueasr the comitinn,l of Sir I.'l'. Duckworth, arrived before Con-
stantinopie on the '2oth mi. rebruary, 1807, and remained there :
`accomplished, even.jf that expedition had shcceeded,
ten days without effecting any important object ; and that it was i between our own interest, that of Russia, that of the
the opinion of the House, that to
the had not been made , Hopodars, and the Sublime Porte itself, which he
by the then Ministry' adequate to occasion." I established to the ample conviction of the House. It
Mr. GRENVILLE observed, it was with great I was in the lefiowledge of the House, that this discus-
satistacton he hailed the moment, which, after so I skin was not sought fur by any of his Majesty's Mi-
long a delay, had at len arrived, that afforded him Inisters ; that they neither desired or courted it ;
but
an opportunity of answering the charges which had !that it was urged and provoked by the Right Hon.
so often been made against the late Administration ; I Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. Grenville) and his
on the subject of the pedition through the Darda-lfriends. . The cui bttno he could scarcely understand
nelks, and the intended attack on Constantinople— I fort he imagined that by it he either vindicated the
charges which had been frequently made, but not in last, or convicted the present Administration, he would
I
a form which admitted of an answer. He imputed find himself, by the decision of that House, compleatly
what had been accidentally said by the Right Hon. mistaken, by suffering the very reverse el what the
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Secretary of State (Mr. Canning), to the impetuosity warmt opus is fancyhad pictured to him, and the consc-
of his temper, and the desire he had to obtain a tern- . quence of speech, like the result of his expeditions,
porary triumph, rather than a deliberate intention to would be pretty nearly the same. It would not Nandi-
misrepresent any important points of this Expedition. catti el ate
ou Ald not restdministration,
the fit wienould not conv
the Otiict tho-
e
Many topics touched upon by the Honourable Mem- present,worefriendship of
ber who brought this subject forward tonight, ap- man Porte, it would not defeat the ascendancy of ,
peered to have been adverted to without that full in- French influence in her councils, it would not bring
formation which was requisite for the right under- back the good will of Russia, nor restore us either the
standing of them, and which he shotild pass over, city of Alexandria, cure the injury done to our wounded'
unless he should find that some person of weight character, or retrleve oer political impeletance in the •
and character in the House should think it necessary eastern part of Europe. The Right Honourable
to discuss them. This he said without any dispa Gentleman imputed misconduct to the late Admi-1
=gement of the Honourable Gentleman who brough nistration in fitting out .the expedition, and read a
.the subject forward. He then proceeded to main- letter sent from Admiral Louis to Sir John Duck-,
tain, by way of justification of the conduct of the worth, stating, that more troops were necessary to
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late Administration, that by the Triple Alliance, effect the enterprize. It was necessary to attack the ,
we not only had a right, but there was in fact imposed castles of Cestos and Ahydos, in order the for the
upon es an imperious duty, to interfere iu the manner pasage of the Dardanelles. From the account
in which we did. This he maintained we had a right transmitted .by Admiral Duckworth, these castles
to do by the provisions of the treaty of the .sth of Ja- were formidable, and had the Turks been allowed to ',
' nuary, 1799, in which the parties were Great Britain, raise fortifications another k,
Russia, and the Ottoman Porte. He maintained' that impossible to force ' the passage. It had also been
instructions winch had been given to Mr. Arbuth- said, that SOOO men were in Constantinople, and what ,
not by the late Administration, wete not only coa- could 2000 British troops do against such an army?
form:dile to those issued by previous Administrations, The truth was, that the troops were not employed
but had been imitated by that which had followed in the Expedition, but were sent to Alexandria,
them ; and this was something of an authority, al- I when they might have taken possession of the castle
though net conclusive. He contended that it was the lon the Asiatic side of the Strait, without annoy-
duty of the Government of this Ceuntry to support mice from the 'forces at Constantinople. It was ob-
the interest of Russia on this. occasion, and main-; vious tint the Expedition might have done more
tamed that we had a right, under the treaty to which ! than it diet, notwithstanding which, he found the late
he alluded, to send ships with troops through the ! Government placing confidence not only in the jus-
Dardanelles, for the relief of the Ottoman Porte ; tice, but likewise in the policy of the enterprize. He
that the
and that it was our duty to insist on that right. It i did not think, under all the circumstances,
became necessary for us so to insist, as allies of ; policy and conduct of a Right Honourable Gentle-
Russia ; and that from the Note of Sebastiani, by j man and his Colleagues ought to be nicely called in
which a claim was made on the part of France, in a ! question when they were out of office ; but he had
manner which had characterised the diplomacy of ! been induced by observations on the other side of the
that country, claiming an entire ascendancy over the House to express his epinion, and he had given his II
Ottoman Porte, and insisting on that power joining , sentiments fairly. As he conceived the subject had •
France against us, with which we had too much reit.' already occupied a considerable time, he would not
son to be convinced it was the intention of the Porte prevent other Members from expressing their o s
pinions,
to comply. We had, therefore, sent instructions to but conclude by moving, that the other order of the
Mr. Arbuthnot on that subject. And here he called day be read.
the attention of the House to the excellent Commen-• On the' question being put, Mr. WINDHAM re-
tare of Lord Howick on the violent Note of Sebas- plied to the observations of the Right Hon. Member
tiani, advising Mr. Arhnthnot to continue, if possible, who had just sat down, and accused him of maintain
a good understanding between us and the Porte ; and ing a wild 'sort of combat, by argument not unlike
although the Porte should refuse to accede to our the movements of wild bears, that puzzled their pur-
proposal, yet he was not to make that the ground of suers. He observed, it was not knoren that more
immediate war. It became, however, necessary fcr troops were requisite for the expedition, until Admind
us to send a force against the Ottoman Power, on ac- Louts wrote to Admiral Duckworth, on the 22d of
count of the decided influence of France over it, and January, fur an additional force. Eight days previous
of the danger then to Russia from that ascendancy. the Admiral had said, " I can go up with three ships,"
We had accordingly bent a force, and he maintained I and it was evident that a sufficient force at ope time
it was a three, adequate to its object • in support of was not sufficient at another., He then contended,
which he quoted the opinion of Mr. Athuthnot him- that the expedition had been fitted out wish policy
self, made from personal observations, and upon which and bill and that hew a
of the enterprize
Lord Collingwood had himself acted. could tbe attributed to any miscestduct on the part
Mr. CANNING began by charging the Right of the late Governmen
poke at some length, endeavour-
t.
Henpurable Gentleman with inconsistency, in hiving, Colonel WOOD s
at the commencement Of his speech, acquitted his Ma. ing to spew the impolicy displayed in conducting the
testy's present Ministers of design mill will tuwards expedition to the Dardanelles.
him ; and yet, before he finished, proceeded to a con- A loud cry of Quatitns !
tTaSt between the two Administratiens, thelast and after which Qaestion ! then took place;
the preeent, and deducing eaere y)aing hus*eo those Me. TAYLOR use in reply, and vindicated him-
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self from certain aspersions and attacks that kad be.in
' made upon him ; and %holiest, that thougk after the
imendment of a Right hon. Gentleman he should
not divide the House on the question, yet the discus-
:ton would be of great advantage, as sheaving that
the measures of every GOVellUllellt. MUST. become the
subject of discussion.
The question was then negatived without a division.
Some conversation then'took plae as to the prc-
,ceedings on Monday, and Mr. Lushingtcn agrt,:!‘i to
put off his motion on the subject of the Etlas,3 to
Tuesday, it being urged by Mr. Ponsonby, Sir H.
Mildniay, and Admiral Harvey, that may delay in
corning to a decisiou with regard to the ques,iun as to
the Distilleries,would prove injurious to the public in-
terests'
The Disiillery question was then fixed for Mondav,
and the other orders of the day were disr.ised 01, „-lien
the house adjourned at Half-past Two o'Clock.
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