MP . .THE NAT I( __ " After this -correct 'tied tees stsitemeog qiffie by Isla Roll& Ilischness the Prince Regent of Portage' la Zarope, and to his tukeett' of every thing which has taken place between the Por tegueseend French Governments ; and as the Emperor of the Freitag has sot only invaded Portugal, and laid that country un der the most dreadful, and almost incredible, contributions,. un der the cloak of friendship, hut has also long ago withdrawn his Reshassy from his Royal Highness's Court, and even caused Por merchant ships to be seized which were io bit ports, tsgeese any previous declaration of war, and contrary to an ex press article of the Treaty of Neutrality, front which he derived the greatest advantages, and lastly declared war against hitu, ac cording to the report of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. His Royal Highness after having resigned his cause into the hands of . the Almighty, whom he has every right to invoke in so just a cause, thinks it due to his rank, and to the dignity of his Crown, to make the following declaration :-.... " His Royal Higitness breaks -off all communication !fit .1 . France, recalls all the Me m be rs o f his Embassy, if any s 1 ~..4 yet remain, and authorises his subjects to wage war by sea land against the subjects of t h e Emperor of the French. H 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 Madrid in 1801, and that neu trality in 1404, because she has violated and Dever respected them: hit Ft(k3i highness will not lay dawn his arms unless 14 consent with his Britannic Majesty, his old and faithful ally. aa4 - 111 - . co.sion of Portugal, w Bich forms the mast inheritance, and the rights of his AAtgust Royal Emperor of the French shall have satisfied its .laim of his Royal Highness the Prince Re- I sfriall have relinquished the dictatorial and At.), he lords it over oppressed Europe ' ,and restored to the Crown or Portugal all he has of peace, and without the least prawns :laws' will avail himself of the earliest op :be connexion which has always subsisted countries, and which ought to exist between ~ v er be divided hut by the principles af an :, which,aceording to the experience of ages, destructive to the weltare and tranquillity of 'h they were adopted. s Ist Mag, 18Q8." f WEST IN DI ES. . 18.—The outward hound Jamaica Fleet of June. In a' posteript to the Jamaica 11th of June, it is stated, Mad in a detach , recruits of the 2d West Oft Regiment at rushed out of Fort Augustww4th their arms, any Sop could be put to them, killed Major Darby, • Ern , Sixteen were `a ought to a Court Martial, 1114 , , and sentenced to death: 'Seven of them shot on the $lll, and the rest were respited. runs AT WAILI4OI7TM Y 28.—Between the htinis of eleven and night of Tuestity last, the dreadful ety of direction. • jit began in the retaitiihop of the centre of Church -street, which, iu:de-, tertian, soon beeemegeneral on i hop(,itis pert of which i s k urn t down. The houses of Messrs. Campbell and Ellk a andl and Co. and an the otherside in Market-i those of Mrs. Blake, which were sooacon.. l '.bought the ealamity , a ould end,' but, alas ! wind, the fire crossed the street to the large on and Black, then to Mr. Hawthorn's, and Co. Mr. Nl‘Carthy's, Miss Rippon's, part by Menrs. Wood and Callunsi.Mrs. big'', occupied by Mr. Thomas Mitchell, to. Mg Steel's, then t o th e B arrac k , ink of • r. Kelly's extensive buildings, Us. a . c. 'the Custom-house, Rtc.•• in fact, loth Sides the street, with the execUt ion of • (...iirneUl flitioi'.a.ltratase, and. the Trelawny wharf, prey to IbisAlevnaring element. Many hansesto Cornwall 'they streets'' horns down, but the principal loss appenrs lestruction of the greater pact of Altlrket in the. West Indies, alt of aisich,.stored Ifurtatiou were entirely consumed.. .;/F.: , • r ill S li 4 " i t I; C l i ' P 4 } ! t , , i I 0, 1 i i / . • will never agree to a I , ancient part of the ints, Family. When the Er C • every point the just cl i ii!i . , gent of Portngal, and imperious tone in whi, 1 when heshail have rc prrtirled in the midst c •:. i } lion'. bit Royal Hight aortunity to renew tls il between the two c o o n i li I nations which will ne l 1 inordinate ambition, w have also proved dent 1' \ ' 11l nations by which tl • , ; 4, • i i •• 66 Rio Janeiro, the i ! " r .-.. JAMAICA. Juwa t prrived on the Bth of 'Wool assents of the I in tint of about fifty re drill; near thirty robe and before any *top cot and Adjutant Ellis. 6 11, fifteen were found guilt litre ordered to be sho , C • ' . 011 BADI . t 1 ‘ 11145111T200 BA . V,• M 4 V • ; twelve o'clock, in th e t i r ' 1 11. Ore was heard i n n il d ts Mr. Francis Lyon, i n ti lance ef all human axe the street, the grelter i reaching the corner hi Messrs. John Christie s x ..1 1( street. rwhed into (hog •:. , o t , otimed. Here it was th '1 '' s from* sudden shift o f w i' t• i ..t house of Mess rs . Ly on ,0 1 IVlessrs. John Wat son at ' ' l '!i occupied in the lower 1 $ White's range of h u ildi ; t •• • • and Alr, James 31 Hier, •„ l which, with the whol • I '44 Printing-Off re. utensil )' • every building w don ho; . 1 , I .. . , .1: itirlirs• 4 1 . 8 130Ut and Sipt . i fell a prey to thia.devno r pod other swots-were IN to hove been . jt theides r Street, nue of the best. i with goods of late lawn " 4 c - ..... 0 ..... 50wim „ ‘ „ 4406, • -....-4, sv,let .; - • qr w..., • 4 .„ .4‘...........--, , . . t. • . t -:----igki "4 IN...,1.1•• • •' . ••• 14, ..~ .__ •T """"c""' • 4•-• f 1 REGISTER. • AUGUST 14, PR0V1NC1AL3. —"...1.611116 Eat, Arc. $.-1 am awry to inform roe an augur occurrence took place last evening at Landsdowa, near tbireity It has been long a custom, on the Sunday preeeding LarsJai; Fair, for the young people to assembl e on t h e Down, and nam e themselves with the usual sportiand pastimes of what they term Lansdowo Revels; but the preient High Constable for th e H un. tired of Bath Forum, Mr. Duncan Campbell, was hilt; dell r• mined to suppress, if possible, all iumoltunus and pugilistic pro. reeding& Unhappily, something 'occurred that occasion e d hi s interference, and meeting with reslstanee, heat last had recourse to a pistol, and shot a man of the name of Strong in the abdo men. The poor feltow died shortly afterwards. Mr. Camp. bell witb difficulty escaped the vengeance of the mob, and sm. rendered himself up to Mr. Justice White, who committed him to prison. Mr. Campbell is a man of family and femme, ;,nd has been particularly active in his office. A Coroners Jury sat on the body, and has returned a Verdict of Justifiable ila nsiride. ANTIgTTES.—The workmen emplriy e d i n l eve lli ng the ground on the North side of the Neth erga t el Dundee, w h ole t h e houses have been lately pulled down, have found two Kohl sir s s of very curious and antique app ear a nce , th e h an dl e of a mord, a piece of an old coat, partly e in b r oid er ed w i t h l ace, and an immense number of human hones, supp os ed t o b e part of th e re mains of the unfortunate sufferers who fell when the town wus taken and sacked by General Monk, during the notectorohip of Oliver Cromwell. As the game season is now approaching, we think it our d uty to give the following extract from the Game Act, re-pecting grouse, black game, and bustard :—' 4 No perine shall, upon any pretence whatsoever, wilfully take, kill, or destroy. tail), sell, buy, or have in his possession, or use, any heath fowl, cionruonl v called black game, between December the lath and Augurt the 20th ; nor any grouse, commonly called red game, between the 106 of December and the l'ith of August ; nor any bustard be .tween March the Ist and September the Ist, in every sear, mo pain of forfeiting for the first tiffence,any sum not exceeilinA 210. nor less than 10/. and for the second, and es ery subsequeet ot. fence, not exceeding 301. nor less than 20 1 . halt to the intolmoor and half to the poor.-13th t;eo. 111. c. 25.—(Wood'eock- awl snipes, taken with nets or springer, are not game : if killed taken otherwise; they'ars One: the same distinction is made between rabbits destroyed in warrens or upon lands in the orrn patinn of the person killing or directing them to be killed, and rabbits killed in other situations : the former are act game; the; latter are.] • r,' • VOME CIRCUIT. •. . , I‘fAiDsToNE, itgsT, AUGUST 0. . . SEDUCTION.---11ANTILLD V. MASSEY. This was an action to recov e r a Compenstion in damages (of the seduction 'of the Plantiff's daughter. The Plaintiff was a shipmaster at Ireversham ' In this county, and the Defendant a Captain in the:West-Yoh Militia. ' Mr. Serjeattt Shepherd addressed the Jury on hekalf of the Plaintiff, and having made minty observations on the nature and eotusequeures of the Defendant's offence, observed, that it Wilt much tiggrkyated ist the eireemstanre orbit: tiring k married man at the time it-took place. 'The Plaintiff be represented A ere+. tipeetableempk4sst of eircumstaaces not equal to the Defendant, who wits a n of fortuae„ and a Cupttiin in the Militia. He was lino the house.? the Plaintiff : 4 .l'n lodger, mid thee litAelliet Myself of the ticteirestich hie siaintiOn enabled him to have to the eisfollostate girt, be had suet-cede - I in persuad ing bee toe bandon the best ornament of woman, and to yield t his loikillielout • Ile the event she prnvbd with ch id, and the fa ther ItOW lank compensation, not averely for the ex pence he had beeepvi to, but also for the distress of wind and a" zi et Y he had sneered owoceasion of the inisCeaduct M a child ahn had becnsedueedfrogn the paths of virtue. by the artifices of tbe De fendant. : t. • • • •'Ellsabeth Bennetd stated, that she lived at home with her fa ther at Perktshans, iw he witcnishinesastee, the Defendant wns an Officer in the West-York Militia. He tame toliodge at their house. Her father was spgreat deal front home, and her mother had the management of the house. • Stiettly•after the Defendant remota the house, be began to ht particlilar in his attentions t or her, and . ultimately succeeded in sedueitrg tier about six 'seek./ after he was In the house ;, tic consequence Rai, that she liccatue -C • vie" 4 lll4r* • • • . r •••• ' •