Star.
London, England, 1807-12-30 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Letters have been received in town, from Litbon,
of the 29th ult. the very day on which the Portuguefe
fleet let fail for the Brazils ; they contain a variety
of details relating to that interelling event: Prior
to the departure of the Court, Come difturbances
had taken place, iu confequence of the fcarcity of
provifions. On the 251 h, the day after the embarka-
tion is hated in Sir SIDNEY SMITH'S firft difpatch to
have taken place, a Proclamation was iffued,inviting
the inhabitants to volunteer and form three regiments
of national guards ; but not a tingle volunteer had
offered on- the 29th. It war on the 57th that Lord
Sraaworoan returned to Lilbon, when he found that
the Portuguefe fleet had aftually embarked dnring
his abfence. In fad, nothing could equal his alto.
nithment, when, after he had got up the Tagus, he
reforted to the Palace and found it empty, the whole
Court having already quitted it, and gone on board
before his arrival, and without his knowledge. The
molt powerful operative cattle of the emigration was
reiraer more ncr left than the deimociation uttered
by NAPOLEON.
Don Romero°, and Don JOHN D'Attastoa, were
on board the Principe Real along with his Royal
Highnefs: A gaup was on board the Minerva fri-
gate, but not, as reported, in difgrace : and the Por-
tupuefe atreit that he has done nothing to deferve
it. The Prince 1. laid to have particularly defired,
that Captain MOORE, the officer appointed to accom-
pany him, might take only four fail of the line, and
not proceed beyond a certain latitude. It is farther
hated, that only one Englifh land officer (General
Foanes) has gone with the Prince, and not one of
the many Brititls tea officers who were in the Por-
tuguefe fetvice. Perhaps his Royal Highnefs may
have entertained fume apprehenlions as to the effea
which the prefence of a Britifh force might have on
his tranfmarine Catholic lubjeat, who have hitherto
been moll religioufly withheld from all intercourfe
with Proteflants.
Don FSDRO:a Spanith Prince, nephew to the
Prince of ASTURIAS, is likewife Paid to have quitted
Portugal along with the Royal Family of that
country. He is now about 18 years of age, and has
been educated at the court of Lifbon from his in-.
fancy. It is not furprifing that he fhould prefer
sharing the fortunes of his earlieft friends and pro-
teaors, to returning to his native land, befet as it is
with danger', and agitated by inteftine difcotds.
On the very day on which the Court embarked,
an Aidn-de Camp of Jumor's reached the capital,
and brought intelligence of the arrival of 6000
French troops at Santarem, a place fituated at the
diftance of about g 6 miles from Linton. This in-
formation being confirmed, the Pattres got every
Thing ready f tr his departure by the 28th, and when
on the eve of failing, the Aide de-Camp requeded
an audience of the Palace on board his Chip. He
was received by his Royal Highnefs with polite-
refs ; but nothing fuither is mentioned with refpea
to the ohjea of the conference. As loon as it was
generally known that the French were at hand, many
of the failors expreffcd their diffatisfaaion at being
taken away from them rooive land, when the Prince
immediately Coffered t:.? malcontents to proceed cn
fh-oe. It was fuppofed to have been the cbjea of
the Aid de Camp to amufc his Royal Highnefs with
. new offers, until his retreat fhonld be cut off by the
French troops getting pcfrefficn of the forts St.Julien
and Calcaes, which, it appears, they were ftrenu-
ottfly endeavouring to accompiifh. By this time they
bad approached Within a few miles of the City ; but
fearing to create a hidden alarm, and with a view,
no doubt, to cover their real defigrs, inflead of pro-
ceeding diresftly to the capital, they took a circuitous
route to Loires, from which place they intended to
have marched towards Fort St. Julien and Cafcaes.
The Prince, in the mean while, having dropped
dosot the river, lay, with the fbips, at tingle anchor,
till the following mornipg, the 29th, when theFrenclo
;flan was landed, and his Royal Highnefs having
pitted Sit Stoat! Sattpt, took his Anal departure.

There were only al that time one hundred French
troops in Lilbon. .The main army WAS ilia at force
diflance fromthe Capital, and confequently am fur-
ther removed from the poffibility of feeinethe junc-
tion of the two fleets.