1• , .. ! v • • The day barer* yesterday, the Splora - ;tiers and *soldier* ate she military depot at Aliens and in the vicinity , tank' fheiath of allegiance to their-new King, after, the tieVrenetßiitraViit been read to them. Nothing was heard IstsA arclamatiota el 66 Long live .the King, Don Joseph Napoli's!" The French Gerrral Dupes gave a grandeatertalaiseht .tit 'the bilkers. After dinner. the health of thenew Icing WM drastic. and repealed several times with unbounded' applause.. ...The Commander of the depot is Seignior Hennosiflas. . , . seteememmi . 'STATE PAPVIIS. • • paociaNATtoN By _SIR CHAS. COTTON, DART.: sismtaatror THi SLUE, &C. CONMANDEII 1!1 C 111111 7 ., " TWITARITANTS OF PO RTUMA t—peptitations havinprroilts ,, ed me from all parts of the kingdom, soliciting succour, aid, and assistance, and stating to me the loyal, brave, and manly deter mination of the people of Portugal to establish the Covertnnent of their lawful Prince, and emanci . pate their country from French oppression " 4 send, agreeable to your requests, ships, troops, arms, and ammunition, and ba,ve'directed the standard of his Royal High ness the Princeitegent of Portugal to be reared, round which every loyal Portuguese is- hereby invited immediately to rally, and to take 9p arms in so just and so glorious a cause. " To besuccessfol, Portuguese, you must he unanimous; and, joined by your brave neighbours and friends the Spaniards; you must not be intimidated by menaces, nor seduced by promises. " Some 14011018 Experience mast have convinced you of the ef fect of French friendship ; it is now to British faith and, assist ance, aided by your tiwn energy and efforts, that you will, I tress, be indebted to the restorattou of your Prince, and the in dependet.ce of your country. (Signed) . 0 " C. COTTON. 66 Hibernia, off the nes, .10:y 4, 1898." FANIFESTO OF THE PRINCE REGENT OF POrill- GAL AGAINST FRANCE, OR JCSTIFICATORY EXPOSITION OF THE CONDUCT OF TINS COURT OF PORTUGAL WITH it ESPEcT TO FRANCE, FROM • THE COUHENCENENT OF THE REVOLUTION TO THE TIME OF THE INVASION OF YONTUGAL, AND OF THE MOTIVE'S THAT COMPELLED IT TO DECLARE WAR AGAINST THIS ZSIPEROIT QF THE FRENCH, IN CONSEQUENcE,OF THAT INVASION, AND THE SUBSEQUENT DecLARATioN OP WARi WADE AFTER THE REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF FO REIGN RELATIONS. —oollr [Aner a few general observations of State-formality, and sus enumeration of the circumstances under which Portugal was placed last war, in respect to France, which are so well known, the Iliunifesto proceeds thus :] " No sooner wzis the Treaty of 1801 conclUded, than the Court of Portugal hastened to fulfill all its burthensome condi tions, and to slit w b . . the religious and punctual observation, of all its euogement, how much It desired to confirm the good iineerstandiog whit h was re-established between the two Go t;er..ments, and which ought to cause to be fbrgotten all thel, injuries it suffered, and which certainly had never been pro, ; coke milts par • The conduct of the French Government will vry dliPrek) , as from the first moment peace will re-estabs 1 tidied, it required all kind of unjust sacrifices on the part . of the l'••rtuglese o.crnment, in favour of the most extravagant and' 111.fou ded pp Rcm ions of France. Europe ought then tohave fore et th,ll its subjugation from Lisbon to Petersburgb was de ermined in the Cabinet of the Thuilleries, and that it was pece , sary fit. c mbine to level the Colossus with the ground, or submit to be b's victims. " After ash interval, war lsreke out knew between Eng land and France, and the Court of Portugal having made the greatest sacrifices to avoid war and the harsh and humiliating prupositioas t.f the French (iovernment, thought itself fortunate to be able to conclude with the greatest sacrifices of money, the Tr aty or 1801, in whiff! France inutnised in the Sixth Article as full , iws " ' The First Consul of, the French Republic consents to ac knewiedge the neutrality of Portugal during the present war, 'find .1.. t t!, oppose nay measure's that may be taken with respect ri the bellLsrent nations, u&revably to the principles and gene ,•,-11 laws of neutrtilit).' • " The french Government, from that time, received all the web a haat, ; it Reyes had occasion to make the- t t , I ' * 1 1 $ 11 . sl ' 1 .. * r: 4 1 4 1111 I'. 4 1. t r, : . \ N i ti t , ..li H. t/ c i 1 ...„ . 1 1 , il. ~.. ;; t 4 1 i .. li ' tl i i 1 1 J !‘ t ! , . ~', i •,1 _ . snialleircoviiplatit againit, the Portuguese Government , was li'dpritig this same wur,assuk aftes_cuoli.a.stipulation, of Coiirt . Of Portugal, not only the i n f ract i on .1 Ise neutrality', isatt the citrtlafatinif of wir, in violaticin 00treat4es that existed haween the two entinities; a l which, in the• tae e,' sear, acknowledged pessihts, it sv, terminid .how the subjects of two nations should be trei l tid aadall this without Portugal havitig Any cause of Anit, against the British Government, whiCh had eien4v,- every .kiad e 4 satisfaction, when the 'commanders of its , of ,war had failed in that respect. which was due to a newt - . `! The Emperor of the French, in the mean time, enticed hr, of his squadrons, els board Of which wOs his brether, to sea-. ancho red in the Bay of all Saints, where it WA' teived ivitit.every. kind 'of respect, and was supplied ;xi sorts of refreshments: Yet, what is worthy of attend, that at the very time the French Government received, on _pert of that of Portugal, so many .marks of friendship and sideration, the squadron burned some Portuguese vessels conceal its route, with a promise of indemnity to the Pr( tors, which promise ivasnever performed... Europe may conclude the fate which awaits it, should the French C, ment acquire an ascendancy, by sea, equal to that it has tainted by laud, and may properly estimate the foundar 'the complaints it so loudly utters against the British Go mem. never made • any remonstrances against it( cours granted to the French squadron, for they were wish; acknowledged - limits of the Law of Nations.: hut.the - h1; of Foreign Relations of France has dared to assert, in 11 of Europe, that Portugal gave assistance to the English . cooquest of hlonte Video and Buenos Ayres; while it is . known by all the world, that that expedition which saiied the Cape of Good Hope, received from Portonl nei'her money, nor men; nor, in tine, any merchandize considered contraband in time of war; and that the English .squ. duiing this war, obtained nothing at Rio de Janiero, other ports of Brazil, except what is not refused to an (ion, and which had been supplied plentifully to the r squadron; the Court of Portugal defies . the Court of France produce any fact in contradiction to this assertion, w founded in the most impartial truth. " France received from Portugal, from 1804 to ISOT, coltiniat commodities and first m;tterials for her ntunfactu. The alliance of England and Portugal was useful to France la the depression suffered by the arts and industry,. in (pence of a perpetual war by land, and a di:astrous sea,. in which she only met with defeats, it was.certaittly• 'advantage to Fr.ince, that the commerce of Portugal shot ter no Wert-owlets ; undoubtedly, it was equally useful I iyuntries. 'By ravaging Portugal, by subjecting her to ex, t*antributions in an unheard-of manner, without war, or • sistance having been made on her part . France has not of that advantage which a commerce, useful to both cow would have procured to her. • " The Court of Portugal then 11#gich to adopt measures curing its retreat to that part of the Portuguese dominion is not exposed to any invasion, the consequences of whicl to create ;aim. For that purpose, it ordered all the . war fit to keep the ten, to be fitted out; and also (Weil the English-tts leave its dotninions and sell their property an intention of shutting the ports - against England, in ordi to avoid an effusion of the blood of its subjects, which probably have proved uselesS,.and to endeavour to comp! the views of the Emperor of the French, in case he slut allow himself to he softened down by that justice, with the Court of Portugal asserted the rights of its indepct along with those which resulted from the Treaty of Net concluded in 1804. The Court of the Thuilleries was tin's Jongree to any conciliatory measure', and having demanded 'only the shutting of the ports, but the imprisonment of tish subjects, the confiscation of their property, and a dirt of the project of retreat to America. His Royal Highness Prince Itegent of Portugal, who knew, on the one side, Britannic Majesty, his true and Wally, informed of all the transactions which were going on, would Consent to the shuttio,: 'up 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 net naturalized in that country, and that all English property had heels sold, and even its amount exported, adopted the resolutions to shut up the ports ag ainst England, and even to comply with the test of the demans gad pretensions of France, declaring lowever, at the same time, that should the French troops enter • - • • • it I 1 Pliga yet Al .that tion of 2115 of all yo' and in sral vas de- and vatted ; the iltiiat sui 'yen' i t ing s 1444 rti neutral in fe ied n r „. ct put to o' VII' re- a tith all Lion is, on the ncl con. selo to 'roprie.. y hence tax 06. 'lion of .soyern. Hie sue- • qtin.the tiiri ter lice faee fur t►le cd front vessels, erect as - uattrons •••• , or the. any Ila- Frewlt . • ranee ta • lath is all the Ce ; and • conse. war by ' a great mid bur- in bot h %erosive any re• obtained mottles, !s for se- as Which .h tight ships of !eted all ty, unit -der thus • h would ply Is it lt ould not :I; w/I . i • e k cadence, !tomtits - Ins% tiling .oiled not all Bil- reliction ',mess the that his I all the shuttitor ta.sion Of ide, that was not •••mmilloll