Star.
London, England, 1807-11-26 00:00:00

LISBON MAIL.

The Wallingliam packet has arrived, after a paf-
fage of eleven days. The For cutter of Portfmooth,
which left the Tagus on the 15th infant, has alfo
arrived•

The Walfiugham is reported to have brought as
• that a Ruffian huadron of liven Juli of :he line
and two frigates had arrived in the Tagus before the
failed.—The Fix brings intelligence that feven fail
of the Portaguf:lb of the line and fru, 4.. d a
fchooner were ready for fea. The rtualb,:r of vdrels
is theft two Statements being the fame, induces a
belief that there is f,:me miflake in one of them, and
that the fame Chips arc intended by both. But
though there may be fume inaccuracy, the general
fubflance is core .f,)r on the Leh i .ri...zirt two fail
of Rulan men of war entered use Tagus from Gi-
braltar ; and on the nth three rail mere, and four
frigates.

It is therefore plain that tht Ruffian fleet wh7ch
was lately at Gbraltar is now at Oporto. Under all

the circiimftances, what fhluld be inferred from the

Ruffian fleet entering the Tagus at the iirefent im•
portant Crifia ? Does ALEXANDER co-operate with
Narov...ow in his virtuous defigns againa the Houfe
of Braganza ?—or arc we to confider the appearance
of the Ruffian fleet in the Tagus as a matter of mere
accident, and no way conneeled with the execution
of the threats denounced againft the Court of Lifbon ?
To us the vi is of the Ruffian fleet, to that quarter,
appears to have been premeditated and to call for
vigilance on the part of this country.
That Portugal was doomed to pats under the yoke.
to yield and deliver her fats, her fleets, and her
independence, to the Leviathan of the Continent, has
for Come time been manifefi. But it was hoped,
vainly hoped 1 that the Royal Family would be Inf.
feted to still by that tenure, which is yet allowed to
the nominal Kings of Bavaria, r f Saxony, of Wit.
temberg, and of Pt uflia.-,,But every Rep, the 'rpm!:
takes. be fii,lcs deeper into barbarity.
It i, now natural to expel that he will extend this
fyftem of banifhing the ancient ruling Powers, and
that the Kings of ns ble race remaining in his vaffal
States mull give way to the creatures of his hand.
We find ace-Adingly that the former every day meet

with Dew aft( of infult and aggreffi They will
be driven at !aft to refi:nr, or to remonatate, and
this will be the fignal of their overthrow. &is
st NA. AUCFRLAIJ, ()T other firniler characters, molt
be rewarded for their ft:vices ; their interefls mull
be identißed with his. They muff be feared on thrones;
and Spain, Pruffia, Denmark, Sax ,ny, Bavaria, Cat-
tale, At i agon, Auftria, Hungary, Turkey, are dd.
t ined to be the feats of new dynatlies, in the perfon
of the ruffian inArtirn,:nts • f his power.
We fhall infrance cite of thofc indignities praflife
on the ancient lioufes.. A few weeks agl, a Frenc
f.:ifaron officer appeared on the page at Noningibufg,

'n all the gewgaw enfignt of his 'M'a,er'r, li•r;e9, with'
a difplay of the badge of the Legion of Hosiour, and
other ornaments. He was univerfallyv sifted; bet
three Pilllrian officers, whole bravery and loyally
have been proved in the late Oar: save been fingledi
out by the tyrant's fpies, as the leaders of the facri•
legious all The King of Pruffia has yielded fo far as
to imprifun them.
TMs is tinfatisfattory ; the Tyrant demands their
blood. The King has refilled ; hut permits him to
feize them, and give a new reprefentation of the tra.
gedy of the Duke d'Enottisa. It remains to be leen
whether the poor degraded King wilt have his choice
of murdering thofenoble-minded Officers, or of abdi-
eating his throne. However this may be, we pro•
phefy that his reign will be as fhott as that of the
Grand Seignior.