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France and Prussia, has been enjoined to us 
by his Royal Majesty in the most rigorous 
manner, and on pain of being dismissed {rom 
our offices, and other severe punishmentsj 
therefore, we have strictly directed and ins 
structed all our subordinate officers carefully 
to watch over all cases of transgression, and 
as soon as any such cases shall happen and 
take place, immediately to reportthem to us. 
_. While we thus give the public notice on 
_ the said subject, we at the same time advise 
and warn all merchants of this place not to 
render themselves guilty of a contravention, 
which from the measures we have adopted 
will certainly be discovered, and not to expose 
themselves, on account of a small illicit pro- 
fit, to the confiscations of their goods, and 
other severe criminal punishments. 
Royal Prussian Court of 
ae Navigation and Trade. 
Memel, Sept. 2, 1807. 
PORTUGAL. 
On the 25th of September nothing cer- 
tain was known respecting the face of 
Portugal; but there appeared ground to 
suspect that a compromise had taken 
place, and that Portugal had purchased 
a. little longer respite from the destruc- 
tion which finally awaitsit. ‘The follow- 
tg were among the particulars collected 
from the Lisbon Mail, which throw a 
heht upon the present state of affairs in 
Portugal. ‘The people (say these let- 
ters) continue in the most alarming state 
of suspense. Never was the fate of a 
country more seriously at stake. The 
Prince Regent had resolved, should Buo- 
naparte put his threat of invasion into 
execution, to embark for the Brazils, 
rather than to submit to his demands. 
Most of the ships are getting ready 
with the greatest expedition ever known 
in that country. 
The Walsingham packet left the Ta- 
gus, and arrived, after a seven days pas- 
sage, at Falmoutn, the 16th of Octo- 
ber. ‘The Prince Regent, it is said, re- 
mained firm in his resolution, rather to 
withdraw to the Brazils, than submit to 
the demands of Franec. The following 
notice had been sent to the British 
factory: 
«© Sin—As one of the committee, I have 
it in charge to inform you of a communica- 
tion made yesterday by the consul, the sub- 
stance of which is, that the French minister 
and Spanish ambassador have absolutely de- 
manded their passports; in consequence of 
which, itis presumed that British subjects 
have no time to lose in preparing for their im- 
mediate departure, and securing their eflects. 
As the British vessels here are already ere 
gaged, the consul proposes to engage Swedes, 
ai he is empoweied to take off the alienage, 
but he wants to know the guantity of tonnage 
BRARL. 
State of Public Affairs in October. 
[Nov. 1 FY 
required, and each member of the committeé 
is commissioned to make enquiry to that pur- 
pose of a certain number of members of the 
factory. You are one of those Lam to make 
enquiry ef, and therefore I beg you will Jet 
me know as goon as you can, what quantity of 
tonnage you want. ‘The consul said that 
there is a brig of war going for England to- 
morrow, and that he will forward any letters 
that may be sent to his house to day. - 
Sept. 27, 1807. ** Your’s, &t.” 
Private letters down to the 80th cons 
tradict the previous reports of Portugal 
‘having succeeded in obtaining a respite 
from Krance. It issaid, that on the 30th, 
positive information had been received 
at Lisbon that the French were in full 
march for Portugal, from Bayonne, 
The British factory and subjects were 
thrown into the greatest consternation, | 
having been but afew days before as- 
sured that British property in Portugal 
was perfectly secure. 
The. French and Spanish ministers 
had obtained their passports, and were 
expected to leave Lisbon in a day or 
two. The convoy for England, was still 
lying in the Tagus, but so full of cotton, 
&c. that there was no recom for em- 
barking the families, much less the pro- 
perty oi the British residents at Lisbon. 
MEDITERRANEAN. 
Dispatches have arrived from Rear- 
Admiral Purvis, who succeeded to the 
command of the fleet off Cadiz, after 
the departure of Admiral Collingwood. 
The Serapis sailed from Malta on the 
23d of August, and frem Gibraltar on 
the 21st of September. The papers 
received by this conveyance, give a 
favourable account of the situation of 
our troops in Alexandria. They con- 
tinue there unmolested, healthy, and 
amply supplied with fresh provisions. 
Some of the Mameluke Chiefs had come 
down from Upper Egypt, and negociations 
were carrying on between them and the 
British Commandant, the issue of which 
was expected to prove favourable,. The 
Gibraltar Papers contradict the report of 
the Spanish troops in the neighbourhood 
having received orders to hold themselves 
in readiness to proceed to Portugal. 
“Nothing,” they add, “ can be more 
contradictory than the accounts received 
from Spain, respecting the affairs of 
Portugal, it beng pusitively asserted 
by some, that she is decidedly to exclude 
us. from her harbouis, and by others, 
that she has purchased, with a large sum 
of money, the permission of continumg 
neutral a little longer.”——All the accounts 
received at Gibraltar from Turkey re- 
present 
