expulsion—­whereby this country would no longer have to fear being again betrayed by the same men.’  Yet, while the partizans of the French are thus guarded, not a word is said to protect the loyal Portugueze, whose fidelity to their country and their prince must have rendered them obnoxious to the French army; and who in Lisbon and the environs, were left at its mercy from the day when the Convention was signed, till the departure of the French.  Couple also with this the first additional article, by which it is agreed, ’that the individuals in the civil employment of the army,’ (including all the agitators, spies, informers, all the jackals of the ravenous lion,) ’made prisoners either by the British troops or the Portugueze in any part of Portugal, will be restored (as is customary) without exchange.’  That is, no stipulations being made for reciprocal conditions!  In fact, through the whole course of this strange interference of a military power with the administration of civil justice in the country of an Ally, there is only one article (the 15th) which bears the least shew of attention to Portugueze interests.  By this it is stipulated, ’That, from the date of the ratification of the Convention, all arrears of contributions, requisitions, or claims whatever of the French Government against subjects of Portugal, or any other individuals residing in this country, founded on the occupation of Portugal by the French troops in the month of December 1807, which may not have been paid up, are cancelled:  and all sequestrations, laid upon their property moveable or immoveable, are removed; and the free disposal of the same is restored to the proper owners.’  Which amounts to this.  The French are called upon formally to relinquish, in favour of the Portugueze, that to which they never had any right; to abandon false claims, which they either had a power to enforce, or they had not:  if they departed immediately and had not power, the article was nugatory; if they remained a day longer and had power, there was no security that they would abide by it.  Accordingly, loud complaints were made that, after the date of the Convention, all kinds of ravages were committed by the French upon Lisbon and its neighbourhood:  and what did it matter whether these were upon the plea of old debts and requisitions; or new debts were created more greedily than ever—­from the consciousness that the time for collecting them was so short?  This article, then, the only one which is even in shew favourable to the Portugueze, is, in substance, nothing:  inasmuch as, in what it is silent upon, (viz. that the People of Lisbon and its neighbourhood shall not be vexed and oppressed by the French, during their stay, with new claims and robberies,) it is grossly cruel or negligent; and, in that for which it actually stipulates, wholly delusive.  It is in fact insulting; for the very admission of a formal renunciation of these claims does to a certain degree acknowledge their justice.