_every demonftcation of joy. 
_moreover, that M. de Pinto had reached 
130f, ] 
had pledged itfelf to the Emperor, his fo- 
vereign, to treat with an envoy of the King 
of Sardinia. 
M. Otto, we learn, received no lefs than 
three communications in the courfe of 
twenty-four hours between the 18th and 
zoth df June. Bonaparte, if he be not 
honefi in thefe tranfactions and protefta- 
tions, is at leaft politic ; he has taken the 
cooleit and the wileft ftep to allay the f{pi- 
rit of domeftic irritation, and fhould the 
negociitions ultimately fail, which we have 
reaion to believe are {till advancing be- 
tween England and France, he will have 
the advantage of attributing the failure-to 
the Britihh Miniftry. 
PORTUGAL 
The invafion of this country has at 
length commenced. It appears by the 
French Journals, that the left wing of the 
Spanifh army has entered the Portuguefe 
territory w thout exveriencing any. effec- 
tive refitance ; and that the Spaniards have 
made themfelves mafters of Olivenza and 
fonte Major, two frontier towns of feeble 
fortificatins. Eloas, a town furrounded 
by works projeéted by the celebrated La 
Lippe, and about .a hundred miles from 
Lifbos, is alfo befieged; but it is juftly 
fufpected, that from the unwarlike fpirit 
of the people, this mafs of defencible out- 
works is not likely to make any very ftre- 
nuous or durable oppofition againft a for- 
midable attack. The entrance of the 
Spaniards, under the command of the 
Prince of Peace, is to be fucceeded by that’ 
of the French; the firft divifion of whofe 
army, deftined to this enterprize, and con- 
fitting of 1250 men, had arrived from Per- 
pignan, and been received inCatalonia with 
It is fated 
Paris upon an extraordinary embafly, and 
that he was fernifhed with full powers ei- 
ther for an armiftice or a definitive peace. 
The preliminary demand on the part of 
the French Government was, it feems, an 
embargo on all Englifh véffels, and that the 
Portuguefe ports fhould be fhut againft 
this country. The full powers of M. de 
Pinto do not appear, however, to have ex- 
tended quite fo tar as to fuch a propofition, 
for he has returned to Lifbon for additional 
inftragtions. In the mean while the Spanifh 
. - ! 
army is advancing towards the Portuguefe 
capital, and that of the French is approxi- 
mating its borders, if it has not already 
¢ntered upon them. 
RUSSIA. 
We are happy to find, that from the pa- 
tific difpofition or the political fyftem of 
.the Emperor Alexander, the difpute with 
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the Northern nations is on the point of be- 
ing put into a train of adjuftment ; and 
that the embargo upon Britifh taips in the 
different ports of Ruffia, has been recalled 
as a prelude to fo defirable anevent. Eve. 
ry thing of a doubtful nature at che Court 
of Peterfburg feems, to be adjulted, ex- 
cepting the Emperor’s intention of adher- 
ing to the principle of his grandmother’s 
maritime code, that free bottoms fhould 
make free goods; and we-have {till rea- 
fon to believe, netwithfanding the amica- 
ble appearance of the moment, that he is 
as relolutely determined to adhere to this 
principle as ever. It may perhaps be mo- 
dified in its application, and affented to 
upon fuch modification by Great Britain, 
in confequence of the liberality of the Em- 
peror’s prefent condu&, but we have no, 
idea that its bafis will be relinquifhed, or 
even eflentially departed from. Situated, 
however, as Rufhia is at prefent, be the 
motive of the Emperor: what it may, he 
could not poffibly have aéted a wiler part. 
To have detained and fequeftrated the 
private property of a few Britifh mer- 
chants, could-have been but:of little real 
fervice to the empire in the cafe of actual 
hoftilittes, and he has only refigned gratui- 
toufly what, from his own prefent imbeci- 
lity and the ftrength of the Britith fleet in 
the Baltic, it was obvious he muft have 
refigned by force, if he had rafhly trufted 
to the fate of war. All we can advance - 
upon this important fubje& at the moment 
is, that it exhibits a favourable omen; but 
the explanations about to enfue will con- 
ftitute an arduous tafk to whomfoever en- 
gages in them; and unlefs a more firm 
and indubitable bafis be eftabliflied than 
was laid down in our prior difpute with 
Denmark, it will have been unfortunate 
for us that we accepted of the armilftice 
now offered. In confequence of the po- 
lite demeanour of the cabinet at Peterf- 
burg, the embargo upon all Ruffian and 
Danifh fhips in the ports of Great Britain 
has been removed as indefinitely. 
Count de Woronzow, we underftand 
alfo, having received new letters of cre- 
dence, reinftating him with the charaSer 
of Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Ple- 
nipotentiary from the Emperor of Ruffia, 
had a private audience of his Majefty on 
the 4th of June, to deliver his credentials. 
To which he was introduced by the Right 
Hon. Lord Hawkefbury. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The principal circumfance which has. 
occurred in our parliament is the A& of 
Indemnity paf'ed in favor of the late mi- 
nifters. An act which we cannot approve, 
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