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common cause vigorously to oppose an ambi- 
tion so immoderate and so excessive. 
“€ Since his royal highness’s safe arrival in 
his dominions in Brazil, he has learned with 
horror, not only the usnrgation of Portugal, 
and the pillage and plunder practised in that 
country, but also the shameful proceeding of 
the Emperor of the French, who as the dic- 
tator of Europe, dares to represent it as a 
crime of his royal highness, that he has re- 
moved his seat of government to the Brazils, 
and in his faithful subjects who followed 
him, te have accompanied a prince whom all 
his people reveres, still more on account of 
his virtues than of the rights of his august 
foyal family, which he has inlrerited, and by 
Virtue of which he reigns over them. 
- His royal highness has witnessed with 
Horror the hardihood with which an attempt 
~ hhas been made, in an official paper, to pro- 
scribe the rights of his august royal family 
fo the crown of Portugal, with which he will 
' never part; and he is entitled to demand of 
the Emperor of the French from what code 
of the Jaw of nations ke has drawn similar 
principles, and received such an authority, 
claiming to this subject the most serious con- 
sideration of all the European powers, who 
Cannot see with indifference what has here 
been stated, and the introduction of a new go- 
vernment in Portugal, without his consent, 
~ as well as the raising of an exorbitant contri- 
bution, demanded from a country which op- 
"posed no kind of resistance to the entry of the 
+ French troops, and which on this very ground 
~ could not consider itself as being at war with 
_ France. The most remote posterity, as well 
“as impartial Europe, will see with grief such 
transactions, the forerunners of barbarism and 
’ ot Die as those which followed the 
downfall of the Roman empire, and which 
cannot be avoided, .unless exertions be made 
to restore the equipoise of Europe, by an una- 
‘nimous effort, and with a total oblivion of all 
ideas and feeling of rivalship, that has hither- 
to been the true cause of the elevation of that 
ot power, which threatens to swallow 
ip all. ~ 
_ & After this correct and-true statement, 
_ Made by his Royal Highness the Prince Re- 
_ gent of Portugal, to Europe and to his sub- 
jects, of every thing which has taken plae 
ween the Portuguese and French Govern- 
ments; and as the Emperor of the French 
has not only invaded Portugal, and laid that 
‘ounitry under the most dreadful, and almost 
Tncredible contribution, under the cloak of 
_ friendship, but has also long ago withdrawn his 
_ embassy trom his Royal Highness’s court, and 
* €ven caused Portuguese merchant ships to be 
_ Seized which were in his ports, without any 
mi tious declaration of war, and contrary to 
_ am express article of the treaty of neutrality, 
_ from which he derived the greatest advanta- 
and, lastly, déclared war against him, 
rding to the report of the Minister for 
eign Affairs; his Royal Highness, after 
Wing resigned his giusy into the hands of 
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the Almighty, whorn he has every. right te 
invoke in so.just a cause, thinks it due to his 
tank and to the dignity of his crown, to make 
the following declaration :-. 
“€ His Royal Highness breaks off all com 
munication with France, recalls all the 
members of his embassy, if any should yet 
remain, and. authorises his subjects to wage 
war by sea and land against the subjects of 
the Emperor of the French. 
‘¢ His Royal. Highness declares null and 
void all the treaties which the Emperor of 
the French has compelled. him to conclude, 
and in particular those of Badajoz and Mae 
drid, im 1801, and. that of meutrality, in 
18045 because he has violated them, and 
never respected them. : 
‘¢ His Royal Highness will not lay down 
his arms, unless in concert with his Britan- 
nic. Majesty, his old and faithful ally, and 
will never agree to.a cession.of Portugal, 
which forms the most ancient part of the ins 
heritance, and of the rights of his august 
royal family. ! 
¢¢ When the Emperor of the French shall 
have satisfied in every point the just claims 
of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent 
of Portugal, and shall have relinquished. the 
dictatorial and imperious tone in which he 
lords it over e@ppressed Europe; and when 
he: shall have restored to the crown of Pore 
tugal all he has invaded in the midst of peace 
and without the least provocation, his Royal 
Highness: will avail himself of the earliest 
opportunity to renew the connection which 
has always subsisted, between the two coune 
tries, and which ought to exist hetween na~ 
tions that would never be divided but by 
those principles of inordinate ambitions 
which, according to the experience of ages, 
have always proved destructive to the welfare 
and tranquillity of all nations by which shey 
were adopted."” 
“6 Ria Fanciroy May 1, 1808.” 
NORTH AMERICA. 
The following article is extracted from 
the New York Oracle :— 
Preparations are making throughout the 
Union, for ceiebrating the thirty-third anni- 
versary of Amerioan Independence, with the 
greatest splendour. Since the date of its 
first celebration, the United States have not 
been placed in a more critical situation than 
at the present period. Menaced by the Eu- 
ropean. belligerent powers, and treated with 
the greatest indignity, until national patience 
is-exhausted, there appears to be no remain- 
ing resort but to war. Sufficient provocation 
has been given both by France and Enyland 
for this. measure, and on the score of justice 
we would have-been justifiable, if, long ere 
this time, retaliation had been exacted for num- 
ber'ess indignities offered to the dag of the 
now only independent nation in the world. 
The measures pursued by England and Vrance , 
have been of great detriment to themselves. 
The former, particularly, is deprived of a 
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