The New Hampshire Gazette

MADRID (Capital of Spain) June 15.

The KING has sent to the sovereign tribunals his Declaration of WAR against PORTUGAL which runs thus:

"Either my representations, founded in justice and utility, nor the fraternal persuasives with which I accompanied them, have been able to alter the King of Portugal's blind affection for the English. His ministers engaged by long habit, continue obstinate in their partiality, to the great prejudice of his subjects; & I have met with nothing but refusal, and been insulted by his injurious preference of the friendship of England to that of Spain and France. I have even received a personal affront by the arresting my ambassador Don Joseph Terrero, at Estremoz, who was detained there in violation of his character, after he had been suffered to depart from Lisbon, and had arrived on the frontier, in virtue of passports from that court; but notwithstanding such insults were powerful motives for me to keep no longer any measures with the King of Portugal, nevertheless, adhering to my first resolution of not making an offensive war against the Portuguese, unless forced to it, I deferred giving orders to my General to treat them with the rigours of war: but having read the edict of the King of Portugal of the 18th of last Month, in which misrepresenting the upright intentions of the most Christian King and myself, he imputes to us a preconcerted design of invading his Dominions, and orders all his vessels to treat us as enemies, and to break off all correspondence with us, both by sea and land: and forbids the use of all productions coming from our territories, confiscating the goods of the French and Spaniards, and likewise ordered them to leave Portugal in a fortnight, which term, however strait, has been further abridged, and many of my subjects have been expelled, plundered, and ill treated, before the expiration of it. And the Marquis de Sarria, having found, that the Portuguese, ungrateful to his goodness and moderation, and the exactness with which they have been paid for every thing they have furnished for my troops, have proceeded so far as to excite the people and soldiery against my army; so that it would be dishonourable to carry my forbearance any farther. For these causes I have resolved, that from this day my troops shall treat Portugal as an enemy's country, that the property of the Portuguese shall be confiscated throughout my dominion, that all the Portuguese shall leave Spain in a fortnight; and that all commerce with them shall be prohibited for the future."