Star.
London, England, 1807-10-17 00:00:00

DECREE.

" Taking into confideration the fiagnrion which, wider the
prefent circumftances the trade of i.ifbon has (uttered, and that
the funds for payment of engagements oti the days filed may not
be ready, owing to embarraffinents which could not be fore-
leen : and walling to apply a remedy which may preferve unim-
paired the credit of the merchants, I deem it proper, that the day
on which the liland Bills (and no others) (hall fall due, may be
prolonged three months, at the end of which they arc to recover
their full force, as well towards acceptors as drawers and hider-

fag ; it being neverth,lerb undcritood, that payments may volun-
tarily be made within the time granted, at the Olfaction of there

that may chufe to d.. fo."
[Here follows the Prince's Rubrick.]
This Decree, which in Portugal has all the effc
of law, operated as might naturally be fuppofcd, to
augment the popular alarm, which was aggravated
to fuch a d:gree upon the departure of the French
and Sitanifh Ambafradors being known, that the fol-
lowing communication to the Royal Board of Com-
merce, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Naviga-
tion, was fent by Antonio d'Aranjo Azevedo, the

Secretary of State for the Home Department, to
Geraldo Vercelfas Brancanfe d'Almeida Cattalo
Branco, Secretary to that Board.

"6 Our Sovereign, the Prince Regent, has not bad It in kis
rower- to prevent the departure of the Atnbaffadors of his Catho-
lic Majefty and of his Majelly the Emperor of France and King
of Italy ; he has notwithltanding well grounded hopes that their
abfence will only be temporary, and that it will not be followed up
by any hoßilitks on the part of the above Sovereigns, with whom
it is his Royal Highnefs's with to maintain that good harmony
and correfpondence which has hitherto fubfißed between them,
which I think provr to Rate to your Excellency, that you nsay
make the fame kuown to the Royal Board of Commerce, to be
vublithed by them wherever it may be neceffary. (Signed)
" ANTONIO DC AKAN,J• AZEVEDO."
" Palace of Ajuda, Odoher 1."

The object of this .Eullairs evidently was to appeafe
the agitation of the people ; but upon what the
Panics REGENT Tells his " well.founded hopes" we
cannot even form a conjeaure, unlefs he-means even
yet to propitiate the enemy by complying with his
demands. The moft objeetionable of thefe demands,
we underßand, to have been the furrender of the
perfins, and the confifcation of the property of the
Englith. But when fuch perfons and property shall
have been removed from his territni y, (and that re
moval is accelerating with every poßible expediti
perhaps the PaINCE REGENT may not feel the fame
difficulty in conceding to France.
The letters from Portugal are fo contraditliry,
that no precife npinicn can be formed from them,
excepting only the general ore, that the crills is moll
alarming. In confequence of this, a Deputation of
the principal Merchants in the Portugal Trade waited
upon Mr. easNING, on Thurfday, to obtain informa
lion relative to the date of affairs at L.% In. We un
derdand he acquainted them,that,by the ire( advices
he had received airurances from the P..rttignefe Go
vernment, that no circumaances should oblige it ro
adopt meafures hoflile to the intereßs cf England,
and thereby interrupt that good underaanding which
had In long lubfifted between the two Kingd
He, however, admitted the probability that the ports
of Portugal would be !hut against this c-'untry.
It is the hope of many, that a refpeetable Britifh

force will proceed to the Tagus to proteft the Court,
lhould it pertill in the determination to emigrate to

the Brazils, or at any rate to prevent the Portuguefe
Navy from fal,ing into the hands of the French. Its
force has been under.rated.
The following is a lift of the (hips of war lying in
the Tagus (Li(bon), in September, 1806:
Names. Ghat. Tbdr State.
Princepe heal g 4.( Lower mails rigged. and the
Priccepedt 84 lower yards arc actors.
Rainha de l'ortcg.l 74
AV-onz, de A Ibuquei cr." 74'l
Lower matt, rigged, top marts
Princere de Abejle "4 up. and down the lower malls,
infante de P.dro 74 jib booms on the howfprit,
Medufe 74. r cable bent to the fpare an-
-13 6
k km e.hors ; appear to have their
Maria Princripa 74 ballait on board.

•St ;rbatt;nc
Name unknown
Name unknown

Santa Antonia
Prince Regent

The. iza
Gulfit,ia

74_
74 1 Ditto, ditto, ditto.
74

Amafunis

Pcn,lo
Aetive
Psiiicef7

7o In duck 7 years and 3 months.
74 Building

iso Lower marts rigged, and jib-
-44 boom on the bowfprit; juft
so caulked.

so Lower malls rigged, aid the
36 top malts up and down the
36 malls; an:hors on board, and
32 one eablu bent.

ee Abiens

n..
nkinnia ha

Vepus

361 Repairing, and preparing to
,6

Ullufes
Real Fonn,r
8011 Ventura
• Ser;ems
legente
Gaieoca
Real Forza
Fereta (schooner)
Benjamin

36
.., lieave down.
28 Juft r••paired, and fitting.
26 Caulking.

11 Lower malts rigged ; anchors
sz and cables On board.
11
16
3 Fitting for tea (new).
1a Corvette (French).
Lower malts rigged, top malls
44 and (pars on board ; juft
1
caulked.
* Jolt undergone a good repair, and afloat.
N. B. One 74-gun chip failed the latter end of Auguft, and the
Rainha dc Portugal arrived.
The Portuguefe (hips are, for the molt part, of a
very fine collar uaion, and fitid to be in good repair.
1, LISBON, OCTOBER 3.
" Nothing can equal the conftemation we are all in at the blow
that has been (truck at Portuguefe independence. The greattft
preparstiont Rem to he making by the Government for going
away; but the more I think, the more I am inclined to believe that
Portugal is playing her 0121 game. in giving way to Borm4aTa's
impetton! demands by halves, with a view, if potable, to lave her
ineependence. The diftrefs painted in every countenance too well
thew.. our anxiety at this moment for the prefervLtion of our fa-
milk. and prn;:erty. On former occaflons, our Government fent
us a flea 'and tranfpotts to get away. The Taft threat againft this
country brought to us the Channel fleet ; but, on the prefent aces-
aon, what leas been done ? People are difpofing of what they can
at prodigious lots ; few being inclined to buy from not knowing
whether the new pnfliffors will he able to rttain what they get--
1u OcTt, it is inviable ' o ddcribe the difficulties that fo many are
placed in, from thin fudden change, and front the total overthrow
of all bufilit6, and every tit grec of s‘tekitoce. Several families go

Triton

by this packet; the next will alto go ert.wided,befitiesthc fceambh.
: there is to get ranges in the merchantmen.
$6 Xi 'e have been cheered to-day by the report of a Britifh rpm 1
I dron being lo ff the coalt. Mr. GAIT at en told me he had received i
Inch intelligence from Belem, and he in confequence fern down to'
I know if it teas fo ; but although my fight rea:bcd furttter than
ulna in the expedlation of feciogfo happy a circumflance, I coul,l
not perceive any fuch thing a little before fun fet. We have had,'
for the hit two dap. a report of part of Lord Cott.taiGWOOD'ls
1 fquadrou :nming hither, whicb I trust in PROVIDENCE will prove
Ito b. the cafe. If a fluadron appears, it will have a prodigious
; r ffret on us all, for in this unprotected Rate it is horrible. The
1 Pritice will yet give way, after the Englilh are gone, to the will of
, Bota4rwar e : fuch is the French opinion here ; and thia the
i French and Spanifh Minir. ens will return !"
ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE.
. - -

" Much alarm at prefent prevails here, in corfequence of offi •
vial intimation to the hritisr merebants.of the neceffity of removing
their property and perfons as loon as poflible. The Pi ince Regent
publdhed yefterday a Declaration to the People, that he had not
been able to prevent the departure of the Spanifh Ambalfador and
French Charge d'A Mire s ; but he had well grounded hopes, that
their abfencc would he only temporary, and that it would not he
foil Awed by hoftilities. Several of the Portuguefe men cf war 0,-e
ready for lea ; but it Teems yet drubtful if the Prirce will cinb:irie
for the Brazils. The Commander of the RAtiltN, which is Ra-
tioned outride the Bar. has diredions to caufe all veffels that may
arrive from Newfoundland to wait at Cafcaes Bay, until an arifwer
be received from the Confignees. The I.lv, tv frigate and Ccphalus
brig of war are here. We have been hoping for a BritUb fquadron."

This day we received the Hamburgh Cornffpowients
to the 3oth ult. The following are the only articles
they prefent worthy of notice :

LOWER ELBE, SEPT. 29.

The recent proceedings, near Lubeck, where they
have already taken feveral (hips bound to or from
Ruflia, feem to indicate hoftile defign.—Off Barn.
holm fome Ruffian frigates have been teen, they are
probably cruifing there t I bferve the movements of
the Engli(h fleet. An Englifh frigate is arrived in
the road of Travemonvl.
LUBECK, SEPTEMBER 25.

This morning the Enid'lh friga. e, mshich arrived
yellerday, took from the Road CApsain fhip.
loading here, and bound to Itiga ; the Alio sonkabrig
with her to fea three other thin , viz. rw s Lobrckers
and one Hamburgher. A fleirper, wh.) we. t him
Itoftock, for Copenhagen, with paffengers, has been
ordered back by them. Ag,s- r.sble to the moll recent
advises, the Englith have t s;:sfl in the 1311 is fevetal
(hips under the Lu )eck fl‘g. is isf,:rred Iran) this,
that a rupture between J zwo powers ii unav)idable.

STRALSUND, SEPTEMBER 22.

The French Isnperial Dccrer. of 2c.11 of lall
N ivemb:r, 1806, has nnw !net* publi(hed here, f
bidding all commerce and correfrndence with Eng
1 intl.

By Mal fh Brune's order, all the boats put in re•
gnifition there for the French army, are if° on the
eve of being reilored to the owners, on pro‘ing them
to be their property.