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old and faithful ally, it endeavoured to render 
the pretensions of the French government 
--@nore moderate, by acceding tothe shutting of 
_ the ports, and refusing the two other articles, 
as contrary to the principles of public law, 
and to the treaties which subsisted between 
the two nations; and his royal highness the 
Prince regent of Portugal had no hesitation 
to declare, that those articles wounded equal- 
ly his religion and the principles of morality, 
from which he never deviates, and which are 
perhaps the cause of the unshaken fidelity he 
has experienced on the part of his subjects. 
« {he court of Portugal then began to adopt 
measures for its retreat to that pare of the 
Portuguese domiyions, which is_not exposed 
to any. invasion, the consequences of which 
e@nght fo create alarm. 
€© For this purpose it ordered all such ships 
of war as were fit to keep the sca to be. fitted 
out, and also directed ail the English to gu 
its dominions and sell their property, with an 
intention of shuiting the ports against Erg 
land, in order thus to avoid an effusion of the 
blood of its subjects, which would probably 
have proved uscless, and to endeavoyr to com- 
ply with the views of the Emperor of ‘he 
French, in case he should not allow himself 
to be softened down by that justice with 
which the court of Portugal asserted the 
rights of independence, along with those 
which resulted from the Treaty of Neutrality 
concluded in 1804, “The court of the Thu- 
illeries was unwillicg to agree to any conci- 
Jiatory measures, having not only demanded 
the shutting of the porte, but the imprison- 
ynent of all Rritish subjects, the confiscation of 
their property, and a dereliction of the project 
to retreat to America. His royal highness 
the Prince Regent of Portugal, who knew, 
on the one side, that his Britannic Majesty, 
his true and old ally, informed of all the 
transactions which were going on, would con- 
sent to the shutting of the ports, in order to 
save Portugal from the invasion of the 
French; and who was convinced, on the 
other side, that there was no longer any 
Englishman in Portugal who was not natu- 
ralized in that country; and that all English 
property had been sold, and even its amount 
£xported, adopted the resolution to shut the 
yports against England, and even to comply 
with the rest of the demands and pretensions 
of France; declaring, however, at the same 
dime, that should the French troops enter 
Portugal, his royal highness was firmly re- 
solved to remove the seat of Government to 
the Brazils, which formed the most impor- 
tant and best-defended part of his dominions. 
His royal highness then ordered the whole of 
his army to moye to the coast and sea-ports, 
suppasing, that, as France had obtained all 
she dersanded, she would have nothing else 
to ask, confided in that good faith which 
pught to be considered the fundamental prip- 
ciple in every government which has ceased 
go be revolutionary, and feit consciors chat 
Portuguese Manifesio. 
‘traordinary manner, might have rallied around 
_ and treacherous views of a government, which — 
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having done every thing in his power to-se< 
cure the tranquillity of his people, and avoid — 
an useless effusion of blood, he had fulfilled 
all the duties of a virtuous prince beloved by 
his subjects, and who has to account to the 
Supreme Being alone, for his actions 
‘‘ The Fiench government then observed 
a line of conduct towards his royal highness 
and his domjpions, which would be unprece- 
dented in history, were not the invasion of — 
Switzerland by France, in the time of the ~ 
executive directory, of a similar description. 
General Junot, without any previous declara= 
tion, without the cons:nt of the Prince Re- ~ 
gent of Portuval, entered the kingdom with 
the vanguard of his army, assuring the people 
in the country that he was matching through 
it, to succour his royal highness avainst an 
invasion o. th plisn, and that he entered & 
Portugal as the geoeral ‘of a friendly aud ale 
el power. He recetved on his journey cons 
vinc'ne proofs of the good faith of the Portus 
Evesc government ; for he witheesed the pera 
fect easiness which pfrevatled with regard 9 
to France, and that all the Portuguese troops 
were near the coast His royal higiness the 
Prince of Portugal, sut rized in such an exs 
him the body of troops which were 2t a small 
distance from him, caused the English fleetto 
enter the port of Lisbon, and thus cut to ~ 
pieces the small and rviserable corps which — 
General Junit was advancing with a degree of 
temerity which would have been ridiculous, — 
had not General Junot, whom his conduct in 
Venice and Lisbon has but too well made — 
known, relied on the feelings of a virtuous 
prince, who would never have exposed his 
people to the most dreadful calamities by a 
sure first success, which wouid only have 
served to chastise the audacity o!_a man who, 
like many others, abused the power with — 
which he was entrusted, or who acted in pure © 
suance of orders which cannot be justified. 
*¢ His royal highness the Prince Regent 
then adopted the only measure which could 
suit his situation, according to the principle 
which he had constantly followed to save the 
blood of his people, and in order to prevent 
the criminal plan of the French government _ 
from being carried into execution, which had 
nothing less in view than to secure his royal 
person and the whole royal family, in order 
to divide, at its own will and pleasure, the 
spoils of the crown of Portugal, and the Por- 
tuguese dominions. Providence seconded the 
efforts of a just prince, aid the magnanimous © 
resolution which his royal highness adopted, 
to retire with his august royal family to Bra- 
zit, discancerted at once the efforts of the- 
French government, and exposed in the cleare 
est light, in the face of Europe, the criminal 
aims at the universal domination of all Eu- 
rope, and of the whole world, if the great 
European powers, roused from the lethargic 
stupor into which they are sunk, donot make ~ 
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