Star.
London, England, 1827-01-23 00:00:00

PARIS, JAW. 19.

M. Michaud has this day punlistieJ in the J. 0rn..1 of
which he is a pinprietor and pin -11.4 editor, a letter
rtlating to the thcasission which he has just sec
cutisiJ• rit ow' duty "to teprint it. It will add to the
interest which a disgrace never fails to excite when it
!las been puschased by an adherence to the rules of
conscience and honoor.

‘. His /16-sty named me one of his readers; he has

• • Murcia& la situated abort fief. league 4 to•tt twin Coimbra, and
stony five liners northeast from I.hbon, oh the toed from:Guar:l3
to Coimbra, tarbreat it would *mar. (b;yes Matilde& in
avoid the latter town, and to much 'bristly upon clic capital.—
if French Edstor.)

just withdrawn that ofg:e froni Me; I respect his w n;
yet may I not express snipe Wonder volt the ;silky of
Ministers should purstie me to the very feet of the
Monarch, where unfortunate tlelity so naturally seeks -
refuge. Let me he allowed to qii-ofe Upon this subject
a beautiful expression of it King of old Fi ince.. I The
house of a King is a tent*, and his feet are as an altar.'
—What are thewarcusations whets the Ministers havk
heard, which have led to the exercise of such official
riecri4 ? I am reproached with supporting in the Fi ench
Academy the proposal of Nl,Lacretelle, yet that proposal
which set forth the al-rrms of thre.tened litetatye, was
in reality noting but an eloquent and noble paraphrase
of the ancient adage'—.o the King hitt knew it; aria
th clime of the Academy, the crime in which I
,participated, was the expression 'of a desire that the
tlCinishould learnethe trail', and 'that he shaded lest
4frough those who were "most interested' in Mali%
acq,nainted with it. I was.far from believing t
' le Muses of Fiance who liaverTeeirecl such efficacious
ttoa
protection from t .e King. shonld be deemed gdilry of
eeditiop, or of violating the Wets of the State, in ime
ploring. the jostlee and goodness of their am; ust Pr. ii•ec-
tor. There is nothing • in:whiCh religion is more :lit?.
mately present than infrayer, when aiLfres-ed to Gov':
and, similarly, there is nothing in which loyalty iii more
manifest, than in a Prayer addressed to the King. Such
were the opinions which guided the discifstion in the
Academy. Such were the .entiments of Messrs. Lacre-
telle and Villernain, whir. have been struck as well AS
myself. I invoke the testimony of my Hon. Fiends,
who differed from the inajoil•y. I seek not to defend
either the feebleness of my talents or nor discourse ;but
this I can say, that, As a man of letters, and as a man of
Loyalty, my conscience in no respect reproaches me.—
Without either being proud or ashamed of what I mtve
done, all rdesWeir, Mouths disgrace which affects me,
mar ezcite.syinstaihy only in such hearts as respond tO
mine; and that, above al, it may not serve as a pre- .
test for those actions whic,h a_titaler our country. Oar
Ministets may lean that sane misfortune in addition-is
Ibut a small mater in my LOA and that it will effect
no ch Inge ether in my feelings, or my opinions. U.
voted to the cause of loyally, and to tfixt of literatiire,
which is also one if the glories of toolialchy. I shall
ever reriain the same; and whatever may be done,
nothing shall hinder me from loving a• king, !rho. •
I have always served, and frOm loving literature, hit "
has ever been my cousolation. • (sienaci) 7as, . .
• u MICIIMICI.
" Alembtr cif the French AcidentY. Nil
Director of the Quotirtiosae."
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I' LOX VIZ QUOTIDIRNNE.
. PARIS, Jas. 19.
A Bordeaux Journal, which at first denied the force
of the Portuguese •Rnyalitti, and of awards their suc-
cess, sow.auemirts to courest into a defeat, a move-
ment which proves that the M ircriis deehaves was, on
the 28th of December, in full march upon Lisbon. The
Paper citedisays,“ The Generals,' laudino and Azeredo,
entered Viieu nu the 28 h of December, and the Royal.
ists evacuated that city on the same day. withdrawing
is the direction of Mangoalde. Colonel Pinto, who
commands in Coimbra,hid been invited by Count de
Villa Fior to'repair to Marcella, where the Marquis de
Chaves must pass after having crossed the Mondeg4." '
The Slondego, on which the city of' Coimbra is
situated, crosses the road from Viseti to Lisbon. since
it is confessed then, that the Marquis de Chaves had
passed that river, it remains proved, th it he was match-
ing directly upon the capital. It is quite possible, that
Azeredo and Claudino, may have really entered %Tosco.
after the depatture of the Royalists ; bat 'as they did
not attempt to disturb in its march the army of the
Marquis de Chaves, it is obvious that they had not suf-
ficient troops for that purpose. Besides, the news in
the London Journals of the 17th. and the ,it of the
public funds. prove sufficiently the advantageous posi-
tion of the Portuguese Royalists.
The English, who form a part of the army of General
Clinton, do not dissemble, in their letters, the bad re-
ception which they have met with at Lisbon, a::d the
fears by which they are agitated. Every thing announces
that General Beresford will net k_ep one Portuguese
soldier under his orders. One regiment that has lift
Lisbon has deserted to a man, and the garrison of
ideas threatens to imitate that of Almeida. But the
English do not complain of the bad disposition of the
Portuguese soldiers; they accuse also the tardiness
of the Constitutional Generals; according to them,
Azeredo and Villa Flor have dune nothing, which asser-
tion is true, enough, and proves besiJes the confidence
to be reposed in these narrations; which represent the
Constitutional Generals as conquerors of the Royalist
troops. In the results, the last news from Portugal
appear to confirm the report spread abroad in London
on the faith of certain letters that on the 3d of January .
the Marquis ,de Chaves and the army were already
between Coimbra and Lisbon. As to Opotto every
thing announces, that if the Royalists have not .occu-
pied it, it was only from an understanding between them
and the Constitutional Commander of that place, that
he should not allow English troops to enter it. This
conjecture is so much t e more plausible, that neither
the Lisbon Gazelle nor the English Journals have
hitherto spoken of the disembarkation of troops at that
point.

TIOX THE cowsirtrunow
PARIS, Nit. Is.

The king of Spain has given orders to M. Recachn,
Di et to: -General of the Police, to s op the ci:eul ,ton of
M. de Chateaubt iand's letter againit the new project of
the law of the press, many thousand copies '.l which
have been sent into Spain. It is tvident that that pro-
ject, more Spanish thin French in its nature, is the
work of the Apostolic Juntrs. One would alnimt be
led to say. that M. de Nlnustier was tt Il at Madrid.