1 flame the animosity of the troops which have entered this kingdom with the declaration and promife of not committing any the smallest hoftility; and know ing also that they are most particularly destined against my Royal Person, and that my faithful fubjects would be less alarmed were I abfent from this kingdom; I have refolved, for the benefit of my fubjects, to retire with the Queen my Mother and all my Royal Family, to my Dominions in America, there to establish myfelf in the city of Rio de Janeiro, until a General Peace. And moreover, confidering the importance of leaving the Government of these Kingdoms in that good order which is for its advantage and for that of my people (a matter which I am eflentially bound to provide for); and having duly made all the reflections prefented by the occafion, I have refolved to nominate as Governor and Regent of these kingdoms during my abfence, my truly and beloved coufin the Marquis de Abrantio Francifco de Cunha de-Menezes, Lieutenant-general of my Forces; the principal Caftro (one of my Council, and a Regidor de Justica), Paetro de Mello Breyner, alfo of my Council, who will act as Prefident of my Treasury, during the incapacity of Luis de Vasconcellos è Sanzi (who is unable so to do at prefent on account of illness); Don Francifco de Nerocha, Prefident of the Board of Confcience and Religious Orders; and in the abfence of any of them, the Conde de Caftro Mazim (Grand Huntsman), whom I have nominated President of the Senate, with the affiftance of the Secretaries there of; the Conde de Sampaye, and in his abfence Don Miguel Perrura Forjaz, and of my Attorney-general Joas Antonio Salter de Mendenca; on account of the great confidence which I have in them, and of the experience which they pofiefs in matters of Government, being certain that my people and kingdom will be governed and directed in fuch a manner that my confcience mall be clear, and that this Regency will entirely fulfil its duty, fo long as it shall please God, that I should be abfent from this capital, administering Justice with impartiality, diftributing rewards and punishments according to deferts. And these Regents will further take this as my pleafure, and fulfil my order in the form thus mentioned, and in conformity to the inftructions figned by me, and accompanying this Decree, which they will communicate to the proper Department. (Signed) THE PRINCE. *Palace of the Ajuda, Nov. 27, 1807. The French Papers announce the arrival of Gen. Junot at Abrantes on the 20th of November; and add, that the troops which entered Portugal marched ten leagues a day through bad roads and continual rains. After alluding to the retreat of the Prince Regent, which is attributed to intrigue, it is added, that on the 1st ult. the anniversary of the day when the House of Braganza rose against the Spaniards and hoisted its ftandard againft theirs, the Braganza flag was replaced by that of the French. To this circumstance the following remarkable one is fubjoined as a fact: A horrible earthquake occurred fix hours before; but as foon as the French flag was hoifted, the tempeft ceafed, and the weather became ferene!!! It is afferted, upon the fame authority, that the French found in the docks along the Tagus four fail of the line, fix frigates, twelve brigs, and an arsenal well-stocked with timber and iron. It is not neceffary to make a fingle comment upon this statement, which is so evidently an exaggeration, and which has been so completely falfified by the dispatches from Lord Strangford and Sir Sidney Smith. Gen. Junot's Proclamation upon entering Lisbon stated in substance, that the French army entered that city to save the Prince and the country from the influence of England; but that the Prince, fo respectable for his virtues, has fuffered himfelf to be guided by the advice of fome bad perfons about him, and has thrown himfelf into the arms of his enemies; that these persons infinuated apprehentions for his perfonal safety; his fubjects have been confidered as nothing, and their interests have been facrificed to the cowardice of fome Courtiers." Inhabitants of Lisbon," adds the General in Chief, "remain quiet in your houses, neither fear my army nor myself; we are only terrible to our enemies and to the wicked. The Great Napoleon, my Mafter, has fent me to protect you: I will protect you!" ITALY. Lucien Buonaparte has returned to his refidence in the neighbourhood of Rome; having, it is stated, rejected the conditions on which his advancement to regal dignity was dependent. One of these conditions, it is added, was the repudiation of his wife, to whom he is tenderly attached. The Government of Piombino and Lucca also issued an edict, on the 25th of December, 1806, in confequence of which every inhabitant is obliged, under the penalty of 100 livres, to declare, immediately, whenever any perfon is attacked with the Small Pox in his family. The informer who makes a difcovery of any concealed patient is to receive 50 livres: and any house afflicted by the natural Small Pox is to be furrounded by guards, and every communication with the the people within it cut off. Any perfon endeavouring to escape from fuch a house is to be imprisoned forty days. DENMARK. Copenhagen, Dec. 15, Among the prizes which our cruizers are daily fending in, there arrived one yesterday evening in our harbour, which has occafioned our Crown Prince to perform a grateful and noble-minded action. One of the two prizes brought in by our cruizers, the brig Paulina, had on board the English Ambaffador Garlicke, on his return from Memel, where the King of Pruffia had just refused to receive him. As foon as the Crown Prince was informed of this, he inftantly ordered that a veffel should be prepared to convey this Gentleman (whose honourable conduct during his embassy justly gained him the esteem of the Government and the Publick), with his servants and effects, from the prize-ship to the Swedish harbour of Helfinborg. This was carried into effect immediately; and the Minifter is already arrived there. SWEDEN. The Vaccine Inoculation has met with very great fuccess in Sweden. On December 6, 1806, the King granted permiffion to the Board of Health to expend 900 dollars annually, in rewards to those physicians who have most contributed to the fuccefs of this inoculation. These rewards, though fmall, are in proportion to the wealth of Sweden. The most important intelligence from this quarter relates to the intended retirement of Mr. Jefferfon from the Adminiftration of that Country. The Politicks of this Gentleman have of late created him numerous enemies; and we believe that the general opinion in America was, that he would not be again returned to the Prefidency. He has, therefore, perhaps only anticipated the decifion of the people, and refigned to avoid the difgrace of being dismissed. The following are the terms in which he has communicated his intended retirement: "Gentlemen, I received some time ago from the Speaker of the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, an.address from the two Houses, to which, on public confiderations, it was thought advifeable that the Answer should be deferred awhile. I now ask permiffion to con vey the Answer through the fame channel, and to render you the affurance of my high confideration and refpect. T. JEFFERSON. To the Hon. P. C. Lane, Speaker of the "To the General Affembly of Pennsylvania. "I received in due feason the address of the General Affembly of Pennsylvania, under cover from the Speaker of the two Houses, in which, with their approbation of the general course of my adminiftration, they were fo good as to express their defire that I should confent to be propofed again to the public voice, on the expiration of my prefent term of office. Entertaining as I do, for the General Aflembly bly of Pennfylvania, those fentiments of high respect which would have prompted an immediate answer; I was certain, nevertheless, they would approve a delay which had for its object to avoid a premature agitation of the public mind, on a fubject so interesting as the election of the Chief Magistrate. That I should lay down my charge, at a proper period, is as much a duty as to have borne it faithfully. If some termination to the service of the Chief Magiftrate be not affixed by the Constitution, or fupplied by practice, his office, nominally for years, will, in fact, become for life; and history shews how easily that degenerates into an inheritance. Believing that a representative government, refpontible at short periods of elections, is that which produces the greateft fum of happiness to mankind, I feel it a duty to do no act which shall effentially impair that principle; and 1 should unwillingly be the perfon, who, regarding, the found precedent fet by an illustrious predeceffor, should furnish the fift exam ple of prolonging beyond the second term of office. "Truth also requires me to add, that I am fenfible of that decline which declining years bring on-and feeling their phy fical, I ought not to doubt their mental effect; happy, if Lam the first to perceive and to obey this admonition of human nature, and to folicit a retreat from cares too great for the wearied faculties of age. "For the approbation which the General Affembly of Pennsylvania has been pleased to express of the principles and meafures purfued in the management of their affairs, I am fincerely thankful; and should I be fo fortunate as to carry into retirement the equal approbation and good will of my fellow-citizens generally, it will be the comfort of my future days, and will close a fervice of forty years with the only reward it ever wished. "Dec. 10, 1807. T. JEFFERSON." A fimilar letter has been addressed to the Legiflature of Maryland. Dreadful Dreadful Shipwreck. Capt. Ruffel, ar rived at Salem on the 13th November from Petersburg, communicates the following diftreffing account of the lofs of the English transport Alexander: Oct. 20, lat. 47, long. 51, W, fell in with a boat having on board 21 living perfons, among whom were a woman and child in a moft dreadful fituation. They failed from Monte Video on the gth of Auguft, in the Alexander, Capt. Howard, an English tranfport ship, No. 421. They had failed under convoy of the Unicorn and 'Thetis. There were about 110 persons on board the Alexander; on the 20th October, the ship being in a very leaky condition, they were under the neceffity of carrying short fail, by which means they loft the convoy; and on the 22d the leak fo increased, that with both pumps going, and bailing at the hatchways, they could not keep her free. The Captain took a small boat for his preservation, and rowed around the ship feveral times. Meantime the long-boat was got ready and hoifted out, but unfortunately bilged in going over the ship's fide. Thirteen failors, 15 foldiers, one woman and a child, however, kept in the boat, and found means to keep her from finking. They had not get far off, when the ship feemingly blew up, and foundered immediately. They afterwards spoke with the Captain in the small boat, who told them to steer N. E, and N. E. by N. as that course would carry them near the coast of England, from which he faid they were but a short distance. They had only four biscuits in the boat, three gallons of fpirits, and one pound of raisins. They had been in the boat fix days, during which seven soldiers died for want (two of whom lay dead in the boat when she came alongfide). They had cut one man up, and eaten part of his flesh; some remained in the boat when they saw the thip, but, on seeing her, they threw it overboard. Capt. R. and the Captain of another American ship took the remaining fufferers on board, and carried them to Salem. The Jamaica Papers contain eight Resolutions, which had been brought up from a Committee appointed to inquire into the effects of abolishing the Slave trade, and which refolutions were read, and unanimoufly agreed to by a Committee of the whole House of Assembly, on the 29th of October last. The Gentlemen of the Houte of Affembly exprefs their feelings very warmly, both on the subject immediately under difcuffion, and alfo on a variety of others which are connected with the flate of the Island. The first Resolution ftates generally, "That the Act of the Imperial Parliament fot abolishing the Slate Trade is pregnant with evils to this Island, militating not only against its general welfare and interest, but threatening its total deftruction as a British West India Colony." After explaining the evils which are Jikely to refult to the Colony from the Abolition Act, the Resolution diverges into a variety of other topics illuftrative of the caufes of the present distressed state of the British Planters, such as the relaxation of the Navigation Act, as far as it imposes restrictions upon neutral Powers, and the rigorous enforcement of it in relation to our own fubjects; the consumption of a foreign brandy in the navy, and otherwife; the continuing a high duty upon coffee, &c. The Resolution concludes with a recommendation of the Committee, adopted by the House, to appoint another Committee "To prepare a most humble address to his Majesty, setting forth our grievances and oppreffions, earnestly befceching his Majesty's commands on his Minifters to adopt proper meatures for our relief and redress." The fecond Resolution ftates the Abolition of the Slave Trade to be, "not only a breach on the part of Government of the conditions under which his Majesty's subjects embarked in the fettlement of this Iffand, but a novel, unjust, and unconstitutional interference with its internal government and affairs; calculated to defeat and fubvert our laws, to deprive us of our dearest birth-rights, the trial by Jury, to raise envy and jealoufy in the breasts of the fettled negroes; fubverfive of an antient and admitted principle of the British Conftitution, that no laws can be binding on those who are not represented in the Parliament which enacts them; placing not only our rights and properties, but also our lives, in the moft imminent danger, and tending to promote disaffection in the minds of his Majesty's most loyal fubjects," The third Resolution claims for the Legiflature of Jamaica the fole right of legiflating for the Ifland; and declares, "That it is their duty, by all conftitutional means, to refift the attempt that has been, and every attempt that may be made, to destroy or to abridge that right," The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Refolutions contain a threat, that all fupplies afforded to his Majesty's troops, for the building of barracks and other military purposes, will and must be fufpended from and after the 31st of December, 1808: till which time funds are appropriated for that purpose.-The 8th and laft Resolution fums up the whole of their grievances; and demands, "above all, an abandonment by the Imperial Parliament of every pretention to an interference with their internal government or affairs." On 1 On the 16th of October, Curaçoa was vifited by a tremendous hurricane, which commenced at one in the morning, with the wind at South-east. The fea fuddenly rose to an uncommon height, burst into the water-fort, washed away the batteries, the custom-house, the ordnance-office, the wall of the church-yard, and the dead from their graves; befides destroying a number of private houses,, At a small place called Petre de May, a short distance from the town, many houses were carried off by the fea. The point and reef batteries were partly deftroyed, but little damage was done to the shipping, A place called Little Curaçoa was under water for feveral days, and was so much washed away, that it is scarcely visible. Some lives were loft, though we have not heard to what extent of number; but the scene was rendered doubly distressing by the concourse of human bodies which were washed from their graves, and seen floating about the harbour. General Miranda is faid to have made an important offer to the British Ministers; the substance of which is,"That a British Naval force, of from three to four fail of the line, should be fent to the Spanish main, to convoy and convey a landforce of about 7000 men. Immediately upon effecting a landing, it is propofed to proclaim the independence of the Spanish provinces; and to invite them to form themselves into a federal Republick, under the protection of England during the prefent war, and under the direct pledge and engagement, that the British Government should procure the acknowledgment of their independence in any treaty which might ensue for a general peace." COUNTRY NEWS. Dec. 26. A most daring and outrageous robbery was committed near Pocklington New Inn, Yorkshire. As Mr. Lee, a farmer, was returning from York market, he was accosted, between 7 and 8 in the evening, by two armed footpads near Mr. Wilberforce's gravel pits, defiring him to deliver up his purse, on pain of being shot. With much resolution, and trusting to his horfe, he darted forward; but, unfortunately, not with impunity, for one of the villains fired, and lodged a pistol ball in the off shoulder of the horse, which immediately difabled him; whereupon the villains feized the farmer, and after beating him severely with the butt-end of their pistols, robbed him of above 831. Mr. L. after lying two hours in a deplorable state in the mud, was taken up by one of the Hull coaches. A reward of 50l. is of fered for the apprehenfion of the villains. Dec. 30. The hurricane of last night was particularly felt at the hamlet of Tumby, in Lincolnshire, where, for a while, it drove almost every thing before it. A peculiarly neat building, juft erected by Sir J. Banks, intended as a barkshed, 120 feet long by 30 wide, it completely deftroyed. The tiles, walls, &c. were dashed to atoms, and the roof and every other part of the wood-work literally shivered into splinters. It alfo tore up many trees by the roots, levelled the hedges with the ground, unroofed houtes, barns, stables, corn and hay stacks, &c. and injured, more or less, whatever was exposed to its fury. Liverpool, Jan. 2. The Glenfuechen trading veffel, between this port and Londonderry, was wrecked and totally loft in the late gales, and all-on-board perished. A trunk, with Brigadier-general Spencer's name upon it, washed on the coaft of the ifle of Anglesea, and protected by Mr. Jones, agent to the Earl of Uxbridge, has afcertained the melancholy fate of this veffel, on-board of which it is feared there were a number of paffengers. The whole of Brigadier-gen. Spencer's baggage, and alfo of his family, was shipped on-board this veffel at Liverpool, to a very confiderable amount, and not infured. Jan. 4. An alarming fire broke out this night at the manfion of Mrs. Freegrove, at Stowe lodge, Berks, which confumed the greater part of the interior of the house, during the abfence of Mrs. F. who, with her fon and three daughters, were on a visit about two miles distant from home; and whilst the fervants were merrymaking. Jan. 5. A few days ago, as James Graham, Efq. of Borrock Lodge, was proceeding in his carriage to pay a vitit to the Archbishop of York, at Rofe Castle, in pafing over Hawkefdale-bridge, one of the horfes, being very fpirited, made a plunge over the battlement, and hung suspended in that fituation, until, in order to prevent the carriage from being dragged over, the traces were cut, and the animal precipitated into the bed of the river, and killed on the fpot. Plymouth, Jan. 7. We are extremely concerned to have to report the lofs of the Anson frigate, of 41 guns, Capt. Lydiard, which was wrecked on Monday Dec. 8, in Mount's bay on the coast of Cornwall. Capt. Lydiard (fee p. 88) and the first Lieutenant were loft; the second Lieutenant was faved; the number of men preserved is not known, as many who got on shofe deferted. She failed from Falmouth on Christmas Eve for her station off the Black Rocks, as one of the lockout frigates of the Channel Fleet. In the violent storm of Monday night, it blowing about W. to S. W. she stood across the entrance of the Channel towards Scilly, made by the Land's End, which they mif took A took for the Lizard, and bore up, as they thought for Falmouth. Still doubtful, however, in the evening, Capt. Lydiard food off again to the S. when a confultation being held, it was once more refolved to bear up for Falmouth. Running eaftward and northward, ftiil under the fatal perfuafion that the Lizard was on the north-west of them, they did not difcover their mistake till the man on the look out a-head, called out" breakers!" The ship was instantaneously broached to, and the beft bower let go, which happily brought her up; but the rapidity with which the cable had veered out, made it impoffible to ferve it, and it foon parted in the hawfehole. The sheet anchor was then let go, which alfo brought up the ship; but after riding end-on for a short time, this cable parted from the fame cause, about eight in the morning, and the ship went plump on shore, upon the ridge of fand which feparates the Loe-pool from the bay. Never did the sea run more tremendoufly high. It broke over the ship's masts, which foon went by the board; the mainmaft formed a floating raft from the ship to the shore; and the greater part of those who escaped, paffed by this medium. One of the men faved, reports, that Capt. Lydiard was near him on the mainmait; but he seemed to have loft the use of his faculties with horror of the scene, and foon difappeared. At a time when no one appeared on the ship's deck, and it was fuppofed the work of death had ceafed, as Methodift Preacher, venturing his life through the furf, got on board over the wreck of the main-maft to fee if any more remained; and fome brave hearts followed him. They found feveral perfons ftill below, who could not get up among whom were two women and two children. The worthy Preacher and his party faved the two women, but the children were loft. By three o'clock no appearance of the veffel remained. We are alfo concerned to learn the lofs of the Pert brig, formerly the Buonaparte French privateer, of 16 guns, Captain Donald Campbell, on the 16th of October, on the ifland of Margaritta. Mr. Stroughton, Mafter, and ten men were drowned. The accident happened in a hurricane, in which the drove from her anchors. She had taken, the day before, the Spanish packet Alarme of fix guns, from Ferrol, bound to the Spanith Main. Captain Campbell came home in the Alexandria. Jan. 9. The King has been pleased to grant unto Elizabeth Latham, of Quenby Hall, in the county of Leicester, widow and relict of William Latham, late of the fame place, efq. deceased, elder of the two daughters and co-heirs of Shuckburgh Ashby, late of Quenby aforesaid, efq. also deceafed, and now, in virtue of the family entail, fole poffeffor of the eftate of Quenby, enjoyed for many centuries by her ancestors, his Royal licence and authority, that on this account, as well as for the particularaffe&ion and respect which she bears for her faid family, the and her iffue may take and use the furname, and bear the arms of Ashby only, fuch arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's office: and alfo to order that this his Majesty's concession and declaration be legistered in his College of Arms-London Gazette. Jan. 15. Laft night a tremendous gale of wind arofe from the North-weft, accompanied with an immenfe fwell of the fea and a fpring tide, which making full upon the town and harbour of Margate, not only effected a confiderable breach near the head of the pier, and shook the pier to its foundation from end to end, carrying the outer parapet nearly the whole length over into the harbour, but alfo demolished the jetty or defence against the fea on the West side of the Highstreet, and occasioned several fmall vessels then lying in the harbour to break from their moorings, many of which were totally destroyed. Notwithstanding these disastrous circumftances occurring in the harbour to feveral of the small craft belonging to the town, yet, in evidence of the utility of the harbour, four veffels of upwards of 100 tons burthen each, one of them of the burthen of 194 tons, and another (in ballast) of the burthen of 230 tons, actually came into the harbour for shelter, and were fafely moored therein. The damages done by the storm to the pier and harbour, and to the Weft fide of the High-ftreet leading to the pier and harbour, amount to the fum of 15,000l. and upwards, exclusive of the very heavy loffes fustained by individuals. The storehoufes on the pier, the harbour-mafter's house, the three heaps of cannon-balls, the short cannon, and upwards of 25 feet of the North fide of the pier, were completely washed away. The cellars of the Fey-boat public-house, kept by Mr. Stannard, were filled with water, in confequence of which feven butts of porter burst, which blew up the whole of the flooring of the tap-room, bar, and parlour, befides confiderably damaging the house. The large fishing boats in the harbour, as well as the Good Intent packet, were stove to pieces. Two collier brigs and two yawls were carried over the wall on the Parade, close under the windows of the hotel the last are mere wrecks, and the bries have received confiderable damage. The water overflowed King-ftreet as high as the Fountain Inn. An |