Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Yesterday arrived the brig Angelica, Capt. Robinson, from Lisbon. Capt. Robinson left Lisbon the 13th February. In this vessel came Mr. Tazewell; late Secretary, to Mr. Gerry. This gentleman was taken on his passage home in the ship Pacific, bound to Charleston, and carried into Vigo (Spain) from whence he went to Lisbon. The day before he left there, a Spanish mail arrived, bringing accounts that the king of Naples had removed his family to Palermo for safety, and intended returning again to head his army. This, it is supposed, gave rise to a report at Lisbon, that Naples had been taken, and the royal family had fled; but it received very little credit. Another report was, that the king of Naples had left the army to remove his family to Palermo, that, in the interim, a battle had taken place in the neighborhood of Rome, between the French and Neapolitan armies, in which the latter had experienced a partial defeat, and both were intrenched waiting for reinforcements, when the king returned, who immediately ordered his principal engineer to be shot, and disgraced a great number of his principal officers. But our informant adds that the reports at Lisbon were so various and contradictory that very little credit can be attached to any of them, except that of the removal of the Royal Family.

No authentic accounts respecting the operations either in Egypt or Italy, were known in Lisbon, when the Angelica sailed.