Star.
London, England, 1808-07-21 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE PATRIOTS.

Yesterday his Majesty's ship la GLOMS arrived at
Portsmouth fr, m ti e Tagus, with Admiral °TWAT
on board.

_..,amations and manifestoes published by the
Supreme Council of 'Government in Oporto, on the
19th, 20th, and 24th of last month, declare the
French Government entirely abolished and extermi•
naffed in Portugal, and that of she Prince Regent re.
stored. They breathe, in general, ne same admit•
able sp' -4. as those lately published in Spain.
A dispatch, addressed to General Jusor, has'
been intercepted by the Patriots, the purport of v.lich
is, that a general ferret prevails in France, and
-that an universal disposition to rise had been math.
jested by the people.
The defeat of the French General Lorsox seems
to be confirmed ; and a report prevailed at Oporto
that MCRAT had been defeated, and that only 20,000
French troops remained at Madrid. The following
are extracts from private communications:
" H. M. S. ELIZABETH, OFF LISBON, JULY I-
" We expect every day to go into Lisbon, cons&
quently the Russian ships will fall into our hands...*
We have spared the Portuguese all the small arms
from the fleet, and our Marines are now landing to
the Northward : 9.5,000 Portuguese are in arms
at Oporto, and are now moving towards Lisbon.--
General Jusor has about 8000 men in Lisbon. The
Russian Admiral lately lost his main-mast by light.
ning, and has not yet got another. In short, every
thing in this quarter appears favourable. Throughoet
Spain, it is supposed, that not less than 600,000 men
are in arms.. General DUPONT is every day expected
to surrender, being completely surrounded by about
20,000 men.
" Yesterday Admiral Tim= arrived here, and
has superseded Rear-Admiral OTWAY, who goes
home by the vessel that brings you this letteJULYr."
OPORTO,
' " As to our Government and measures of public ssfecltusi'
tors and ill-disposed Portuguese are taken up and lodiedigla
Yesterday two ringleaders, In the diabolic plot of batterkl."
part of our city with heavy ordnance, were apprehelidalliny
tied to prison.
" Report states, that a strong French force is on its slei
this City. Should this prove true, we shall be joinedbytiella
Coimbra and Figueira, and march against the enemy
no doubt, but we shall soon witness the exit of Juno; XI the,
Viral). of Lisbon are in arms.
" By two expresses arrived from Atones, intelligevalbs 111/
been received of the arrival of 3000 French in that pica,
were joined by General Loison, in order to assist in the 400
of the plot above-mentiened.
" The first battalion of Vista marched this morniegianiit
be followed, in thecoarse of this day, by the Road betolloo
Oporto. How will the French stare, to see the latter WWI
opposed to them, which was so al-meted, disarmed, siti •
banded with infamy, by Junot's order, in Caldas do Rsiale
ANOTHER LETTER.—SAME DATE.
" All the intelligence we obtainAbof the most pkesinl
Letters which were yesterday received from Spain, state,
the Frenth army in Madrid has been telexed, and that blifj
has no rthre than 20,000 men left.
" General Loison was on his match from Braganla to to
by the way of Amarantbe, but the people of Bangs, Gustollo
Dowra, sit Villa Real, formed & junction, attacked =deem°
him. He led to Almeida with the loss of his baggage, asMil
milidery chilt, and 600 men killed, wounded, or taco Prisill
it The earrespoodente between this city and Lisboa is

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!speed, lest the French, who still oeenpy the latter plate, thong
be made acqUainted with oar plans andoperations. The seques-
tration of English property, ordered by the French, hut been re.
moved, and a convoy is ready to sail for England in a very short
time. "
It is certain that the Spaniards have lately intercepted dis-
patches intended for Junot, by which it appears that a consider-
able prevails in France, and that parties are forming in
that country which indicate a -strong disposition in ihe French
peoplwto rise against the great Usurper of Europe."

PROM THE PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

OPORTO, /ONE 23.

"Eanr.—The Provisional Junta of the Supreme Government
erected in this city; having ordered to be Levity organized the
two regiments of the garrison of the city, who had been disband-
ed and dissolved by the intruding French Government, with the
view of oppressing our liberty ; and wishing to create other new
regiments, and that as far as netessaq, to establish a respectable
force, that inay secure, in this city itself, and throughout the
whole kinvioni, the hippy reign of his Royal Highness our
Prince Regent, so g'oriously restored by the valiant and loyal
Portuguese hearts,•duea not judge it necessary, considering the
very laudable national ardour, to order conscriptional recruits or
levies to be made fur the t purpose ; and, on' the well-grounded
hope that the valtent Portuguese youth will run cheerfully to en-
list themselves in the said regiments of this city, it assures by this
Edict, to all those who will so enlist themselves within the space
of twenty days, to be counted from this date, not only the one
reward of the service they may do, in case they shdittld wish to
continue in it, but likewise an honourable discharge to all those
who voluntarily should apply for it when the present exigencies
are over, which shall be given them by their respective Com-
manding-Officers, without any farther order or dispatch but this
present Edict ; and they are to receive during' their service the
pay which is mentioned in the Edict of the 20th of this month.
" The BISHOP, President a:.3 Governor."

" OPORTO, JUNE 26.

‘' Enicr.—The Provincial Junta 6f the Supreme Government,
taking into consideration the difficulty under which the inhabi;
tants labour, in carrying on their law suits in the Courts of Jus-
tice, or account of their being all employed in the conservation
and defence of the Government of our Prince Regent, heroically
restored be them ; has ordered that till new measures are taken,
the progress of all suits shall be suspended, as well in the Court
if Appeal, as in the other Courts and Audiences ; excepting,
however, all those which regard the police, necessary to the pub-
lic safety ; with the declaration, that this measure does not alter
or cause any damage to the right of the parties, which is safely
re,erved to trim ; and agreeably to this. an order has been issued
to the Chancellor, who exercises the place of Governor of the
Justices,

" It has moreover been dete.-.airted, by an order issued on the
game date, that the Derirnbargador, intendant General of the Po-
lice, shall, without loss of time, proceed to the trial of all the pri-
soners of state who may be accused, from the period of the happy
restoration of his Royal Highness henceforward, admitting all
accusations, proofs, and documents, deposed before them by any
one of the people ; and that, upon the conclusion of the trials, he
shall proceed to pass senter.ce on them in the Court of Justice,
agr -!e,bly to the laws which the Derembargadores, Toao de Fi-
guesedo ~..t.tnio Pedro d'Alcantra sa Lopes, Estevao Machado
de M !lo c Pastro, Jeronimo Gaetano de Aranjo e Bessa, E. Nu-
no de Fariada de Matta Castello Branco, as Co-Judges; appoin-
ting, in case of equality of votes, the Derembargadores, Antonio
Jose De Carvallo Pires, E. Francisco Martins Du Luz, all which
has been ordered to be made public by this edict.
" 13101-10 P, President and Governor."

It was reported yesterday, that MURAT had ordered
the massacre of several Spaniards in cold blood at
Madrid, and that in consequence of this order, or the
attempt to carry it into execution, the people revolted,
anl put hint to death, together with several of his
companions in awls. Of this we could learn nothing
authentic. Some letters, of so late a date as the 23d
ult. were yesterday received in town from Madrid,
bat :hey make no allusion to any thing of this nature.

Vae last accounts from France are understood
to convey an assurance of the most unequivocal dis-
position on the part of BONAPARTE to comply with the
wishes of the American Government. It is stated
from authority: that BONAPARTE has exrressed his
readiness to allow free conimerce of neutrals, pro-
vided England consent to it also ; that is, in effect,
to rescind the Milan decree, provided our Govern-
ment repeal the Orders in Council. We give this
intelligelike as we have received it. If true, it can,
of curse, Foceed only from a desire to conciliate the
Americans, for no other neutral is worthy of consi-
deration.

A letter received by one of the Spanish Deputies
fri-m a rel.ition at Cadiz, sap, it was understood in
that city as a fact, that two divisions of the French
army had been defeated in Catalonia ; the one at Ma-
ruessa, and the other at Tortosa. Both these divisions
arc stated amount to 10,000 men. The letter which
contains the foregoing fact adds, that a variety of
measures were taken to harass the French, and par-
ticularly to compel the surrender or evacuation of the
garrison which occupies the citadel of Montjui. -
Captain DA COSTA, who was the bearer of the last
dlspatches from Oporto, yesterday made his public
appearance on 'Change, dressed in his uniform : in
his hat he wore the Patriotic Cockade of Portugal, on
which was inscribed " Viva 0 Noun Principe Regente."
Between the hours of seven and eight o'clock on
Thursday morning last, at Folkestone, the tide flowed
and ebbed twenty-five feet in three minutes. This
very remarkable circumstance has never before been
witnessed by the oldest fishermen of that town.
On Monday, as one of the Canterbury coaches was
going down the hill, near Chatham turnpike, a wheel
gave way, and the coach fell over ; one of the passen-
gers had his collar hone broke, and several others re-
ceived considerable injury.
Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, as the workmen
were taking down an old house, which stands on the
scite of the intended right wing of the Office of Ord-
nance, in Pall-Mall, the floors fell in with a tremen-
dous crash, and buried a workman in the ruins.
A melancholy accident happened .on Tuesday, at
the house of Mr. SHEPENTH,.ChaIk-farm, Hertford-
shire. A servant belonging to the farm had been em-
ployed during the morning at shooting at rats, from
a cow-house window, and whilst he was at dinner a
youth, a relative of Mrs. S. was amusing himself with
the gun, which was incautiously left half-cocked, and
it went off. *Ca. t contents were lodged in the
body of a little girl, who was playing at a parlour
window, fifty yards from the cow-house, and killed
her on the spot.