Star.
London, England, 1808-10-08 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

We also lay before our readers some farther ac-
counts from Portugal.
Letters from that quarter speak in high terms of
the humane and kind attention bestowed upon our
wounded countrymen by the Portuguese.
It appears not a little singular that it was not till
the 15th ult. that our troops entered Lisbon, and till
that time the Spanish troops, whom JUNor had dis-
armed, remained prisoners on board the ships to
which they had been consigned !
The Oporto papers contain many details respecting
military operations, with which we have before been
made acquainted. But the Bulletins relative to the
commencement of the Portuguese resistance to their
invaders, and which were published at the time
by sh; NOT, though his career of cruelty is now ter-
minated, ought not to be wholly suppressed.—ln the
second one we have more than an announcement of
the system intended to be pursued by these humane
invaders ! We have a practical illustration of its be-
nign inflictions.—At Beja, where the French were
victorious, "all those taken with arms in their hands wire
put to the sword, and all the houses from which the French
had been fired site* were burnt to the ground."
To the very men who perpetrated these enormities,
and who might every one have been " taken with
arms in their hands," was a safe passport and convey-
ance to France granted by the DA LRYM PLEConvention !
It is among the fatalities which have produced this
disgraceful event, that the right wing of the British
army, formed of three fine brigades and consisting
of 9000 men, was not ordered to intercept the re-
treat of the enemy after their repulse in the action
of the 21st. It is scarcely to be credited, yet
we speak from indubitable authority, that on that
day the soldiers of the above brigades actually
piled their arms, eat their dinners, and each re-
ceived a pint of wine on the field ; and at two in
the afternoon reported their readiness to advance,
and waited in expectation their orders for that pur-
pose. The post of Tones Vedras, through which the
French were from necessity compelled to pas by files,
in their retreat to Cintra, was but a march of eight
miles from their position, and this they would have
reached by five o'clock, while the enemy, beaten and
dispersed, was distant from it upwards of thirteen
miles, and actually passed through the town at eight
in the evening in detached and scattered parties, many
of them without their arms, which they had thrown
away in their flight.
Such was the impression of the consequence of the
victory made on the French General (BRENIER)
that when taken prisoner and conveyed on board
ship, he requested a letter might be conveyed from
thence to Torres Vedras, " for (added he) you will
doubtless be in possession of the town before night."
—Even KELLERMAN has since been heard to say that
had the two armies changed positions, the English
would have been all prisoners.
All the French Officers at Lisbon embarked with
the first division of the French Army, the sailing of
which we have already mentioned. The second division
was to have sailed the day after the PLOVER.
The French are understood to have carried with
them immense treasure in ingots, as part of their mi-
litary chest.

Paris journals to the 26th ult. Dutch to the Ist in•
start, and letters from Holland to the 4th, have been
received.

NAPoLzoN, on his route to Erfurth, arrived at
Mentz on the 24th ult. whence he was to set out the
following morning at tour o'clock, for his destination.
ALEXANDER, according to letters received in Hol-
land from Liebau, passed through that town on the
15th, and arrived at Koningsburg on the evening of
the 17th ult..