Star.
London, England, 1808-03-11 00:00:00

STOCKHOLM, FEB. is.

We have received certain intelligence from Finland,
the Russians having advanced upon the Swedish
territory ; the war may, therefore, be regarded as
egun. The measures which we now see every where
leave us no longer in doubt as to the urgency
the danger. All the Swedish regiments have re-
Ned orders to proceed, by forced marches, to the
.ntiers. The General in Chief, Count Von Kilns-
left this on the 10th for Finland. Colonel Pey-
is appointed acting Adjutant• General of the army.
BANKS OF THE MAINE, EEB. 19.

The Archduke Charles, if his health permits, will
thi spring undertake a journey to Paris. ale will
accompanied by the Archduke Joseph. According
letters from Milan, Etruria, tFe Mark of Ancona,
Civita Vecchia, are to be joined to the kingdom
Italy. -
Fee: 20. L—The litest letters from Vienna announce,
tt 40,000 Austrian troops have been set in motion,
td are to march to the Turkish frontier. When
certainly
ng arrives, 're= events will take_ place
. ,
tit easy

PAPERS RELATIVE TO PORTUGAL.

:Among these Papers, though not of a recent date, there is one
that deserves particular attention ; as it shews the prinelpb by
which the then Government of this Country was actuated at
that time. We therefore give :t aplace.]

No. I.—DISP.k7'CH-4Vonl Mr. Secretary Foe to the Eirb of
Ros strn and Sr. VI tic *tor, and Lieutenant-General Simon,

dated Downing-street, Aug. 9, 19C6.
MY LORDI, AND Sta—intelligence has been received by his
Majesty's Ministers' of an intention on the part of France ins-
mediately to invade the Kingdom of Portugal; and the French
Government has, by its own dechrations, left little or no room to
doubt the truth of that intelligence.

It has even been formally announced by that Government to his
Majesty's Ar.thassador at Paris, that an army, said to be compo-
sed of 30,000 then, is actually assembled at Bayonne for this pur-
pose, and that the object of this invasion is nothing less than that
of dethroning the present Royal Family, and destroying the very
existence of the Portuguese Monarchy ; the provinces of which
are to be partitioned out, one part to Spain, and the other part,
with the town and port of Lisbon, to be given as a separate do•
minion to the Prince of Peace, or to the Queen of Etruria.
In that case his Majesty has thought it right to direct that the
force now embarked, consisting of the numbers stated in the mar-
gin, should be sent forthwith to the River Taps, there to L•
met by a competent Naval Force which has been in like manner
directed to repair to that station. And his Majesty has thought fit
to give directions, that the land force appropriated to this service
should receive successive augmentations as fast as the means of
transport can be provided.
In addition to the command of the Naval and Military Forces
which he has intrusted respectively to the Earl St. Vincent and
to Lieutenant-General Simcoe, his Majesty has been pleased to
direct that full powers should be panted to them, conjointly with
the Earl of Roislyn, to negotiate with the Court of Lisbon on all
matters that may concern the joint interests of the two Courti lit
the present conjuncture of affairs. lam therefore, in this Dis-
patch, to explain the principles on which such negotiation is to be
conducted.

The object most desirable, if it should be possible to be obtain-
ed, would be, to arrange suillcient and efleetu 41 measures hy.con-
cert between the two Courts for the complete defence of Portu-
gal against the threatened invasion of Portugal; al object which
it ought not to be difficult for Portugal to provide for, if the lava-
ding force should not exceed the numbers stated by the French

This is therefore the first point which is to be proposed to the
Court of Lisbon, and if that Court, either singly by its own re-
source►, or by such co-operation a; it may be able to obtain from
Spain, where it is probable the plans of kr.,nce will create much
more alarm than pleasure, should be willing seriously to engage
in vigorous and effective measures of defence; the King will ap-
, prove your expressing his Majesty's disposition to support them
to the full extent of such means as his Majesty may be able to
apply to this object.
You will however understand distinctly, that this instruction
applies only to the case not merely of assurances, but, as I have
already expressed it, of vigorous and effective measures, bona fie
adopted by the Portuguese Government for its own defence : a
resolution which seems to be so strongly called fur by the urgen-
cy of the present crisis, that one might look with some confi-
dence to its adoption, if former experience did not give too much
reason to doubt of it even under such circumstances.

Should it be found that either the means or energies of the
Court of Portugal are inadequate for ouch a purpose, the next
endeavour must be to inspire that Government with a resolution
which they are understood formerly to have entertained, and
which in the case supposed h the only one that could he adopted,
either with dignity or prudence ; namely, that of withdrawl.ig at
once from their European territories, and removing themselves,
with all that they can carry with them, to their possessions be-
yond the Atlantic. -
Should such be the disposition of th • Court, every encourage-
ment must be given to confirm them in that intention, and the
strongest engagements may be entered into, that in such case his
Majesty wal not only by his Naval Forces protect and secure
such retreat, but that he will respect and even guaranty to the
Court of Portugal the independence o 7 its dominions in the Bra-
zils, as well as the possession of ail ships and other property that
may be carried there by virtue of any such arrangement.
A case however must be provided for, diiferent from either of
the two preceding, and unht•ppily not the least probable, in which
the Gcvernment of Portugal, abandoling all idea either of resis-
tance or eseape, should gait in fearful acquiescence the approach
of the danger, leaving the Country with all that it contains to fall
an easy and certain prey into the hanis of the enemy.
In that case Hs Majesty would feel himself impelled, as well by
every consideration of duty to himself, as of regard even for his
Ally, to take such steps as might be necessary to diminish the evil,
by preventing the enemy from acquiring that accession of force,
particularly of Naval }twee, which the possession of the port of
Lisbon, in such circumstances, would give him, and which may
have had a principal share irrprompting him to the present inten-
'ded outrage.
You must, therefore, from the beginning, so regulate all your
conduct, as to keep in view this ultimate object, the only one pos-
sibly which may at last be left to you to accomplish.
This, of course, should it ultimately become necessary, must be
done not by neguciatiou, but by demonstrations, and possibly by
actual measures of force.

But even in this case, it is very material, that you should en-
deavour to Ct.-_ tamest to iinpress both on the Governtnent and on
the People of Portugal, that the steps resorted to are taken with
no feelings or object of hostility towards them, but are the result'
only of that unhappy necessity. which else injustice and violence of
the enemy, and Use weakness of Portugal, impose upon his Ma-
jesty.
Conformably to these impressions, if at any period before the
ships and troops'of his Majesty arc withdrawn front the coast,and
even after rneasures of force shall have been mutually resorted to,
the Court of Portugal shall be disposed on better consideration and
further evidence of the danger, to accept the proposal of removing
to their possessions on the other Continent, you will offer them
every assistance for that purpose, and make all such engagements.
as may best soften and conciliate their minds to so painful an
euremity.
In all your proceedings you will carefully avoid any thing that
may give to the enemy any handle for misrepresenting the just and
upright intentions of his Majesty on this occasion.
Nothing would be more acceptable to his Majesty, than that
the Court of Lisbon should continue, if it were possible, in theen-
joyment of a secure and undisturbed neutrality. It is matter of
great regret to his Majesty to look in any possible case to the ne-
cessity of employing force against the territory of a friendly
power—and it is of great importance that his Majesty's conduce
on this occasion should be represented in its true light, both to the
Court and to the People of Portugal. It will therefore be proper
not only to deliver in official notes to this effect, but to print and
circulate in the Portuguese ianguage a manifesto, in which those
circumstances should be openly and frankly explained, which jus-
tify by the exident necessity of the case, the securing beforehand
those military resources which the enemy has openly evinced, and.
formally declared, his intention of seizing for his own purposie.
His Majesty has no desire to derive from this measure any
*other advantage than that of depriving his enemy of means of
annoyance, which are intended to be used both against the inte-
rests of his country, and fur the purpose of attack against the co-
lonies of Portugal herself. In order to avert these evils, his Ma-
jesty authorizes you to agree to anyplan by which the Portuguese
ships of war, if placed in his custody by that Government with-
out resorting to measures of force, shall be either retained in trust
for Portugal, or shall be purchased from that Government by his
Majesty, according to their full estimated value. He cannot fore-
go those measures, which are necessary to prevent the Portu-
gueze navy from becoming an accession to that of France ; but
he is desirous of executing this purpose in such way as may be
least offensive to thedignity of injurious to the interests of an ally
in wt om his first wish would be to find the disposition and the
Imeans of opposing an effectual resistance against the common
enemy.

•
The general objects which are in view being thus explained to
you, the pariicular course in which they are to be pursued, whe-
th:r in truaseres of negotiation or of force, or by a mixture of
both, is left with full confidence tP the discretion of the persons in
whom his Majesty Vai vested such ample powers, and by who._
entire and pf•riecteo-operation in Lvery step of Whatever deserip-
tic n that shall become necessary, the objects in view can aione be
accomplished. '
The precis.: period of the demand to be matte for the debarka-
tion of the'rtopps, add for`the
,placing them in a situatiyn of se-
curity, IS peqsaps the most imports= among these points—and
next to ttilit,The Mode and time of the tespisptton, that the Por-
tugueze Ship's; in the Tagus should be placell.lti such a state, as to
be esti able of king immediately •rattivid .oti the approach of in
enemy.
.

It win not escape you/ attention, that these ere measureswirleh
mnstispially be adopted, in each of thb three cases above stated.
If Portoialkinteads, with the aid of this couettry, to, defend her-
self, if the Court should meditate • removal to the Brazils—or,
lastly, if a necessity should exist for measures of force, with •
View to the removal of the ships ; in every one of these cases, the
King's troops must bo landed, and a position must be occupied,
that will both place them in safety, as far as possible, and raid
facilitate the execution of such measures as it may be necessary
ler the King's naval forces to adopt for the removal of the shies.
As this step therefore must at all events be taker(, it would seem
desirable that as little time as is practicable should be allowed for
the preparation of measures of resistance against this indispensi-
bit step.
In this state of indecision to which it is not improbable the
Portugueze Government may now be placed, you must naturally
expect, that the existence,or at least she urgency of the danger
will be denied to you ; and it is indeed not absolutely impossible,
that circumstances may in fact occur to delay the match( f the French
army, how fixed, as we are told by France, for the 15th of this
month. Of this you will of course have the means of procuring
without difficulty, authentic intelligence from Bayonne • but you
will remark, that the measures now adopted are founded to no
light surmises, but on the declaration of the French Government
itser—±at it is the habit of that Government thus previously to
announce its acts of violence—that other measures of a like na-
ture w re in like manner announced, and have actually been since
carried into execution ; and that therefore any temporary forbear-
ance that may occur in the execution of this particular design af-
fords no motive for delaying measures of necessary precaution
; against it.
If it should be urged, that the admission of the King's Forces
will be considerod by the enemy as a violation of the neutrality
of Portugal, and will therefore afford either • motive or at least a
pretext for the invasion of that country, you will remark that the
neutrality of that country is at an end from the moment that a
design of ir.vading itE territory and subverting its Government is
openly announced by one of the belligerent parties; and that' nei-
ther justice nor prudence require, that we should wait for the ac-
tual execution of such a menace,before we take measures for aver-
ting er lessening the evil, And experience has but too plainly
sbewn, and in too many instances, with what facility the French
Government finds or makes pretences for such measures, when
once announced.
If on your arrival at Lisbon you should find that, either from
alarms excited by any accidental circumstances, or in consequence
of requisitions and demands made by the French, the country
should have been put in such a state of preparation and defence,
as to make the execution of any enterprize of force more difficult
than it is hoped it would be found; and particularly if you should
judge from these or any other circumstances, that the safety of
the army entrusted to your command would be compromised by a
debarkation, or by the measures to be afterwards pursued ; the
King relies on your discretion not to adopt any step which might
lead to the probable loss of the forces.
In that case the whole negociadon would at course assume
merely a pacific shape.
It would be stated, that the mops are sent to co-operate in the
defence of Portugal, if desired by that Gaya-omen ;bat that suck
desire not being there entertained, they would proceed to their
former destination.

In that case, however, as Indeed in every case of discussion
with that Government, it must always be impressed upon them,
that the certain consequence of submission to France must be, the
loss of the Brazils, which, in such event, this country must oc-
cupy, for its own safety. I am, &c. C. I. FOX.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 10.

In the Appeal of Richard v. Traile, Sir S. RehliLL Y was heard.
Further hearing postponed.
The inspector of Public Accounts presented to the House an
Account of the Imports and Exports during the last year : and also,
an Account of Shipping which had entered the Port of London.