Martim de Freitas 64, Capt. Don Manoel Menezes. FRIGATES. Minerva 44, Capt. Rodrigo Lobo. Golfinho 36, Capt. Luiz d'Acunha. Urania 32, Capt. Tancos, Conde de Viana. Cherua Princesa S.S. 20, Commanded by a lieutenant. BRIGS. Voador 22, Lieut. Fs. Maximilian. Vingança 20, Capt. Nicolas Kytten. Gaivota 22. SCHOONER. Curiosa 12, _Hoisted French colours and deserted._ Of these vessels, the _Martin Freitas_ is now the _Pedro Primero_. The _Principe Real_ is the receiving ship at Rio. The _Rainha de Portugal_ is at Lisbon, as well as the Conde Henrique. The _Medusa_ is the sheer hulk at Rio. The three other line-of-battle ships either broke up or about to be so. Of the frigates, the Minerva was taken by the French in India. The Golfinho is broken up, and the _Urania_ was wrecked on the Cape de Verde Islands. The Voador is now a corvette. The Vingança is broke up, and the Gaivoto is now the Liberal. _List of the Ships that remained at Lisbon._ Guns. S. Sebastao 64, _Unserviceable without thorough repair._ Maria Prima 74, _Ordered for floating battery--not fitted._ Vasco de Gama 74,[21] _Under repair, nearly ready._ Princesa de Beira 64, _Ordered for floating battery._ FRIGATES. Fenix 48, _In need of thorough repair_ (broke up at Bahia). Aamazona 44, _Do. Do._ (Do. at Lisbon). Perola 44, _Do. Do._ (Do. at Lisbon). Trítaõ 40, _Past repair._ Veney 30, _Past repair._ ] [Note 21: Hulk at Rio.] Such are the public accounts transmitted by foreigners to their court of one of the most singular transactions that has occurred in the history of kingdoms and of courts. Yet such was the state of Europe at that time, so momentous the struggle between the principals in the mighty warfare that was going on, that the ancient house of Braganza left the seat of its ancestors, to seek shelter and security beyond the Atlantic, almost without notice and with less ceremony than had formerly attended an excursion to its country palaces. The French Government had waited to invade Portugal till that unhappy country had exhausted its treasury, in the payment of the enormous sums demanded as the price of its neutrality. French influence had removed the Portuguese troops from the mountain passes, where they might have opposed the entrance of French armies, and the Prince Regent only declared his adherence to the continental system, and arrested the English on the simultaneous entrance of three Imperial and Spanish armies.