Star.
London, England, 1807-11-14 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

A morning paper of this day mentions a letter, of
the 3oth ult. having been received from on board a
valet in the Tagus, which flares, "that notwithßaa-
ding all that had paired, and the declared determina•
tion of the Court cf Lifbon to make common caufe
with France againfl Great Britain, the Royal Family,
and the principal Nobility, were then making pre-
parations to embark, and their property had begun
to he flipped for the Brazils."—The fame paper,
with great gravity, theta adds—" Under all the cir-
cumilances of the cafe, we conf►der the ftatement as
not altogether unworthy of credit."—We confider
the whole flatement as an unfounded forgery, nor
can we even guefa at its motive.
For the defeftion of Portugal from this country,
and for the diareffing neceflity of carrying on hotti.
lilies againft her, our Minitiry mutt have been
; long prepared. One thing we can alien, that we
were acquainted with the plan in agitation, as far as
experience, deduttion, and common fagacity could
make us certain of it. To our Readers we appeal
for a teftimony, that we have often founded this'
alarm in the ears of the Miniflers, and of the People.
in our article on the DtFINCE OT THE COUNTRY,
Oa. 23, we pofitively and exptehly (aid " The
fleets of Portugal are probably now in his (Boma-
r AaTE's) pofttffion. The report of the flight to Bra.
ail. is meant to lull this country into fecurity." If
means have not been adopted to (*tollgate this mea-
lure, we are not to blame. We have done our duty
to the Public.

Thus then we have not a friendly port from I
the Baltic to the Hellcfpont. Nay, if, as our ad•
vices from Gibraltar Rate, we have evacuated
Alexandria (which we hope is not true), we have
not one on the Continents of Europe or Africa,
with the exception of Gibraltar and the Cape of
Good Hope ; and thole, hecaufe they are in our
hands.
Several /*kits of enterprize have be loag pre.
Tented to Adminiaration—The occupation of Candia
in the Mediterranean and of Madeit iancl Nee Brazils.
The Monikur, it is true, tells us, and we fear with jai
lice, that religious antipathy will prefcnt as effeauat
abar to our fuccefs there, as it did in SpanitlAmerica.
, —To this we have an expedient in prop(, of which
we are fure of the fucccfs. Lct our inifolitic and

onchriltian exclution be abolifhed ; and let ns fend
Catholic Officers and Soldiers to South America.—

We (peak from the bell authority when we of that
with Catholic Officers, BuenosAyres would now have
been in our poffeffion. We have Diffenters in the
army and navy : they have done their duty. We
have the fame confidence in Catholics. As indivi-
duals we have no connexion with them; but as friends
f our King and Country, we Kith to arm every
hand in the public caufe. It is an event which mull
take place. We with it may take place before it is too
late.--That obvious and equitable meafure will give
us an additional difpnfable force of at kart 7o or
80,000 men: with this addition, and with this union,
we may defy the aggreffion of the Continent.

Our accounts from the out ports, received this
morning, wear the fame dittreffing afpea as thole of
the two lati days. It will be fom; time before the
extent of the damage occafioned by the late gilts be
accurately afcertained. At prefent we can nr.ly
lay the melancholy details before our Readers as we
receive them.
Accounts have alto been received in Town of the
hfs of three of our tranfports on the Dutch coaft,
returning from Copenhagen. The particulars we
have not learned, excepting only that one of t hem,
which had on b3ard 188 foldiers, t 9 officers, and to
women, was wrecked near Catwyck. We are happy
to add, that all the people were land by boats from
the fhlre.—They are now prifoners in Holland.

Ye fierday morning his MAJESTY left Windfor foon
after ten o'clock, in his traveiiing carriage and four,
efcorted by a party of the Royal Horfe Guards
(Blues), for Blackheath, on a vita to the Princefs of
WALES and Duchefs of BauNswictt. In the evet,ing
his Majerry returned to Windfor.
Oa Thurfday the Duchefs of Your: and fuite ar•
rived at Windfor, on a vifit to their MAJEsrtss. He;
`Royal Highnefs remained there yefleray.
On Saturday, as the Dula of CUMBERLAND was
hunting in the neighbourhood of Windfor, his Royal
Highnefs was thrown from his boric, in confequence
lof the tlirrup having broken. He, however, imme•
diately remounted, and was in at the death of the
I (tag. The back part of his Royal Higlinefs's neck,
on which he lighted in his fall, was confiderably
broiled, but we are happy to State, that he is now
perfettly recovered.
Yefterdav a Cabinet Council was held at the
Foreign Office. The Members prefent were the
• LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl CAMDEN, Lords HAWKER
/WRY and MULGRAVII, Mr. Carman, and the CHAN•
cst.Loa of the EICHECUIER- _ _

I)ifpatches were yetlertJay received from Lord
Cowsnwoi-D, at Malta ; they were brought by the
Nlelpomene frigate, Captain PARKER, vhich is ar-
rived at Portfmouth from the M,d:•e+-anean.

The MELPOMENE frigate left Admiral Potty's on
the r7th uh. The Toulon Squadron, we underßand,
though it left Toulon, never ventured further than,
the Hyeres 'Rands.
Letters from Sicily and Malta, of the date of the
23d of September, mention that the Britifh army at
Alexandria had embarked, and were hourly exec led
at Meffina, to reinforce the army of Sicily. The loth
regiment had alfo strived from Gibraltar.
Mr. SYLVESTER, a Mellinger, was fent off from
the Foreign Office at a late hour on Thutfday night,
with difpatches. His deftination was kept a profound
fecret, and it was not known to himfclt till juR be-
fore be left the Office.

The naval flag is boiled on the new Naval Afylum
in Greenwich Park, although no Governor is yet
declared. The appointment, it is faid, lies betweeat
the Captains Penrofe and Dacres.
COURT MARTIAL.—The trial of Lord Vifcnunt
FALKLAND, Of his Majefty's fhip QI/RBEC, finithed,
at Sheernefs, on Thurlday. The fenteuce wa:, that
his Lnrd(hip be difmiffed the {hip.
Some difpatches of a fingular and highly important
nature, were lately found on hoard an American fnip
(the Caroline), detained and brought into Plymouth
by an Englifh privateer. The Caroline was b•uad
from New York to Cherburgh, and the difpatches
were from the French Minilier in the United States
to TALLETRAND. There are in the p,,freffion of Go
vernment, and are laid to have communicated force
circumflance, of high importance.
American papers were received yeßerday up to
the 7th ult. Their contents are unimportant. The
Mayor of New Yvrk has ailed a proclarnatiln, inter•
di&ing the intercourfe between that city and Charlef•
ton, in confcquence of the prevalence of the yellow
fever at the latter place.
The Paris Journals announce a decifion of the
French Knitter at War, by which it is decreed that
the ',droners of war belonging to foreign powers, if
they with it, may obtain permiffion to remain in
France, provided they conduCt themfelves properly,
and betake thetufelves to any induthinus purfuit, by
which they can fecure their fupport. This, beyond
a doubt, is an infraelion of one article of the treaty,
both with kullia and Pruffia, in which it was Ripu•
laced, that all the ptifoners on both tides should be
reflored.
A letter from Memel of a recent date, (fate, that
the French thew no fymptoms of an intention to
evacuate the Pruffian States ; on the contrary, their
Generals have already made arrangements for win-
tering in Brandenberg and the capital. The pretence
for this infraaion of the treaty, is our late proceed-
ings in the Baltic. The blockade of Graudenz .is
as [trialy kept up as if hotlilities had not been decla
red to have ceafed, and it is probable that the garri.
fon will be obliged to evacuate the fortrefs, for want
of proviii•ins. The Court mean to pats the winter
at Memel or at Elbing, provided the French retire
on this fide the Oder.
A letter from Ennis, dated OElnber 27, fays.
" A few days ago a duel took place between Mr.
D. M.M—, and Mr. H. C—; when, after a few
shots, the Gentlemen were bound over to keep the
peace. Foitunately the autagonitla did not receive
the lcalt injury.", •