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'I Tzeivrec. AIN. i 1114111CTVr iilo/1 ADMIRAL,BAION, DATED it, •. u . , EA ijAWR 34BANQUILLA, JULY 8. 4.1 I have e Satisfa tion of stating, that we have driven , the Spaniards to the walls of Carthagena, 4fter having taken the whole Spanish Beet in the River Magdalena, amounting to about 27 gun-boats, *nest of them with 12-pounders and long 24-pounders; Viso all the warlike stores, an immense park of brass artillery, howitzers, mortars, and battering train com plete. The Army of Antioquia has joined us, also 2500 men of the Army of the North, in the Province of Santa Martha : 2000 more men of this army are on their way down, with the President Bolivar at their head, and 1000 more regulars are to arrive from Antioquia this week; so that we shall. have ef fective troops of the line 4000 strong, besides 5000 Militia. This Province rose to arms, at our entering it, to a man. The Army of the North, under the command of General Urdaneta, operates on Santa Martha, Rio de la Hache, and M aracaibo. " Our force in the Magdalena is at present 42 ves sels of war,, and our communication with the whole of the interior open : immense sums of gold are ex pected down, as the country is much in want of goods. " The port of Savanilla has been declared an open port to trade, and a custom-house establishment. It is a fine harbour, well protected by a strong battery, and a town is to be built immediately; -it commu nicates by a channel with the Magdalena. (Signed) 66 BRION. " P.S. The head-quarters of the main army is at Turbaco." EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED AUX CAYES, JULY 26. "News just now received from Jamaica.—Tv. 4 o cargoes of cotton-wool are already received at Kingston, from Savanilla. The interior of New Gre nada is perfectly quiet, and in favour Of Bolivar; only Carthagena and Santa Martha hold out, but are blockaded. Every family that has not provisions for six months has been sent out of both places. The Archbishop of Carthagena and the Viceroy have fled, and are at present in Jamaica. It is said that the atter is a diminutive withered old man, with a head not above five inches in diameter, and that his exte rior appearance makes a singular impression on peo ple who recollect the enormities which he has com mitted. He lives at Kingston, in the house of a Jew, and, besides jewels, has saved half a million of dol lars. Brion is blamed for having suffered that pain' to escape." - REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. PRIVATE LETTERS. “ LISBON, AUGUST 30. " The French and Spanish Papers will have ap pi ized you of all that has tecently taken place at Oporto. The enclosed Proclamation of the Govern. ment—(See ST.III 9fyesterdny )—is probably the only important document which may not have reached you. It is all vapour. In a few days the Constitu tion will, I have no &WA, be formally and peaceably proclaimed in Lisbon. " On the nth, at four in the morning, the troops quartered in Oporto rose, proclaimed a Constitution, and appointed an Assembly, composed of the princi• p.d nobility, clergy, and heads of the army, with borne men of great weight amongst the people. They' all swore to maintain the constitutional system ; and the people agreeing thereto, the./ constituted a Pre sident and Vice-President of the Supreme Govern ment of the kingdom. All this was done without ele least disturbance, and not a drop of blood was shed either there or at any other place where the Constitution has been proclaimed. "The first news we heard of it was on the 28th, and you may- well suppose it caused :1 great sensa tion amongst a people already too Fire for an insur re,:tion accompanied with the least possible hope of bettering their condition. They talk of it here at present without the least reserve ; and though they decline taking any steps for the present, they confi dently look forward to the success of the northern troops. By this day's post we have advice, that all the towns in the Provinces of Beira Tras-es-pontes, and Mielo, have agreed and sworn to the Constitu tion without the least disturbance; and I trust it will be carried on in the same pacific manner in all the other Provinces. The Government have done, and still are doing, all in their power to check as much as possible the revolt of the Cities in Estramadura, Alentejo, and the Algarves ; but the spirit of liberty is too powerful for thern to expect that they can pre vent the whole of Portugal from following the steps of their countrymen in the north. _ _ • Yesterday afternoon they published a Proclama tion, calling on the Portuguese to be faithful to their and by no means to assist the rebellion ; pro n.ising several things for the good of this City, am." referring to the dispatches which a vessel from Rio had brought the day before. The Providencias, as they were pleased to call the regulations contained in these dispatches, were nothing more than what every person knew before. They were increasing the duties on foreign wines, oil, and several other articles not the produce of the country, imported into the Brazils, and decreasing the duties on those of this kingdom. The effect this had on the people yon may won guess, when, after reading the Pro clamation attentively, without any emotion, . the greater part of the placards were this morning tern down or besmeared with mud. " Amongst other reports, I cannot help noticing a few, which you must take as such ; and should there be no truth in them, you must excuse me, as they are all collected from different quarters. S ome say that this northern army, after having settled every thing to their desire, are now on their march to this City, composed of ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand men. They intend joining their countrymen, and esta blishing the Constitution on a firm basis. Some say the Government here intend to resist them, and have paid the troops to this day, with two months in ad vance, and have sent two regiments of the line to dispute with the rebels. Time will shew this. This, however, I believe is true—that Government sent orders for the regiment stationed at St. Übe's to come immediately to Lisbon ; but they refused, and I know no means whereby they can oblige them. •' Lisbon is at this moment as quiet as ever ; there is not the least appearance of disturbance ; and • al;hough commerce is at a stand, and nobody takes wiy Wive sccias (for everything is Osorbed by care; for the present, Ond hope for the future), it is still , evident to every one that she people wish a change,: whiCh, as•they sari Cannot be for the worse. " The Creole frigate, which arrived here last week, to take the Count Palmella to Rio Janeiro, is de tained here, and various are the reports as to her fu- tare destination. Some say that the Treasury and Mint are packing up, to be gone on the least dis turbance taking place: but the most likely thing is, that she only waits for some dispatches which the Regency are getting ready, relative to this disagree able business. " From what I can understand, it appears that the Revolution broke out rather sooner than was ex pected :.seme say that it was to have taken place on the Ist of September, while others say on the 15th, the anniversary of die delivery of Portugal from the French ; but the most probable account that 1 have heard is, that the plan was discovered by the present Government, and:that consequently the leaders had no other alternative but to begrairnmediately. • " The northern army are on their way to reach Thomar this evening, which is twenty-two leagues hence ; consequently on Saturday we may hear some-' thing on the truth of . which I can rely. If anything of consequence takes places, I shall address you through France, as there is no other packet in this river. Pray do not be uneasy on my accbunt. The, English Officers in the army at Opono were desired not to interfere, either pro or con. as the Portuguesfi were desirous of having all the honour to themselves ' P , LISBON. AUG IN* 31. " At last a revolt of the troops has taken place at, Oporto—Ahree - regiments of the line, and two of militia.' The English Officers were arrested, but, soon liberated, after being thanked for their past ser vices, saying that, as this affair was .between them selves and tl-.e Government, they required their aid and assistance no longer. The Constituted Autho riiies, with the Bishop, Merchants, &c. haze taken the oaths required of them. Last Saturday wai the day of the explosion. All was quiet at Oporto.- 1 The advanced guard was yesterday at Leila, about' sixty miles from Lisbon. Nothing has been done here by the Regency but the issuing of a procla mation. The Oporto proclama.ion_ was a spirited composition. The Regency one was torn down the other night, and the Oporto one substituted in its. place. Yesterday the police were very busy in , de facing it. No letters were allowed to conic from the post-office yesterday, consequently we are all in the dark. The Creole, they say, is to take Palmella ; before this business he had declined gong in her.— Three frigates are preparing, supposed to carry off the Regency at a moment's warning. It is supposed the Spaniards are at the bottom of this business, and that Portugal will become a province of that coun try. All is quiet at present here; no movement of troops, and no dependence on any one. " The Regency is allowed till to-day to accept the new Constitution. The King-is 19 be respected. They I have paid the troops hey. " Excuse haste. The packet is expected to sail every moment for England. " I'.S. .The Regency .are certainly going to the Rio. The tlig . ates are to take them, and the Count Palmelia goes in the Creole packet. e OPORTO, AUGUST 25. " Everything having been privately arranged en the 23J instant between the civil and military autho rities, ye)terday, at half-past four A. Br. the Cast!war the mouth of the Douro announced, by a royal sa• lute, the day destined to give liberty to Portugal. « At day-break, the troops of the line and militia assembled under arms, and the - Officers proceeded to form a Military Council, which published two Pro.' clamations. At half-past eight they marched to the . Prada Nova, and posted themselves in front of the Public Hall. The Governors, Bishop, and other At:dimities having arrived, the Proclamations were ead in their presence, and it was universally agreed on to establish a Provisional Government, with rowor to call the Cortes, for these to form a Constitution; this agreement was sworn to by all. It is as follows: • I swear by the Holy Gospel obedience to tke Provisional Assembly for the Supreme Government of the Kingdom, now established, and which, in the name of his Majesty, Dun John the Sixth, is to govern till the institution of the Cones, which it is to convoke for forming the Portuguese Constitution. • I swear obedience to these Cories, and to the Cunstitution they may form, t•.:ait.tait:ing the Roman Catholic Religion, and the dynasty of the Alost Serene House of Braganza. Signed by the following Members of the Provisional Go vcrnm•nt, for the City of Oporto and the rest of the Kingdom: • President—Antonio de Silva Pinto. Vice-President—Cambreiras, Colonel of Artillery. ' Secretaries—Don Jose Ferreira Borges. Don Jose de Silva Carvalho. Don Gomez de Castro. • Member for the Clergy—The Dean of the Cathedral. • Member for the Magistracy—Manuel F. Thomas. • Members for the Nobility—Cerries, Pedro Leite. • Nlembt r for the University—Friar Francisco St. Luis. • Miniber for Commerce—F. Jose de Barros Lima. 6 Members for the Province of Minho— Joao de Cunha Souto Mayon. .Joze,Maria Zavier de Azivedo. • Members fur the Proviuce of Tras lot • Montls- . Joze Joaquim de Moira. Joze Manuel Ribeiro Ferreira e Castro. • Members for the Province of Beira— Jute de Mello Castro e Abreu. R. Ribeiro d'Abrantes Castello Branco.' " This was peblished to the People and the troops, who welcomed the intelligencg with loud and re peated shouts of Long live King John the Sixth !'— Long live the Coates and Constitution!' " In the evening, the Authorities attended the Na tional Theatre, and were greeted with the same ac clamations. Everything was conducted in the greatest harmony and good order. Not a drop of blood spilt, nor even a dissenting voice. All appear content, and everything is going on as before. The Govern ment paper, which had risen to 27 per cent. discount, is now current at 25, and bids fair to go lower, as as our cause cannot but prosper. • " The foreign Officers in the Portuguese service were all placed under temporaty arrest, but treated i with the greatest politeness, and paid up to the day. General Blunt is at Polite de Lima, and two Officers' have been sent to intimate his arrest to him. The oaths of fidelity to the Cortes are pouring in from all the towns and villages in these three provinces." EXTRACT OF ANOTHER PRIVATE LETTER, DATED LISBON, AUGUST 30. " By the important translated documents you will perceive that the standard of Liberty has been raised, and the Cortes and Constitution proclaimed, in the three northern provinces of Portugal. " The first intelligence of this event reached us on the 28th. Yesterday our present Goternment isstod, a - Proclamation, calling the insurrection 4 . the horrid crime of rebellion against legitimate powei and au -1 thority,' desiring the people and troops to remain firm to their Government, and promising to do now all in their power to ameliorate the condition of the nation. But this Proclamation has been treated with very little respect, though it was posted in almost every corner. This morning the greater part of them were found torn or smeared with dirt, not even ex-, cepting the places where sentinels are always posted. " To-day advices from Oporto up to theCtb were received : everything remained quiet there, and they are preparing to act on the defensive, if necessary. • " It is rumoured that Alcoirve and Alentejo are ready to proclaim, if they have not already pro claimed, the Constitution ; but we have no confirma tion of this. 44 There can be no doubt that we are on the eve of an important change. GOD grant that it may hap pen without any disorders being committed. Even in Leira, the Constitution has been pro claimed. " Pardon the want of signattire to the present; every precaution is necessary while the present order of things continues." THE EVENING STA It. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1820. TIIF. FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS-THIS DAY AT ONE O . CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced shut S per Cent. Cons. 67 3 / 3 1 / 2 V 4 31 per Cent. 76%-4 per Cent, shut 5 per Cent. 103 1 4 3 103—Long Annuities shut India Stock 214 Exchequer Bills, par. 2s. pre. Omnium I 7 8 dis. Cons. fur Acct. 67% Y 8 5/s The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night; and those of Saturday this morning. Neither of them contain any information whatever respecting the state of affairs in Portugal. Thursday two individuals, wearing orders, were ar rested in the garden of the Tuilleries, just previously to the time when her Royal Highness the Duchess of BERRI entered the Pavilion of the terrace from the river-side. Several French Officers, who had escaped from. Cambray on the discovery of the recent conspiracy, have been apprehended at Mons, and delivered up to the French Government. The latest accounts from Madrid state, that the representation of General lttEoo had produced the E.:Erected effect.. All is terminated amicably, and the Army of Andalusia is not to be dissolved. Genet:4l MILANI Dm. Boson, the comrade and colleague of General LACY, has returned to Spain. He fled from the death with which he was threat ened, and has ever since been wandtihig about the Colonies. He made his entry into Barcelona amidst public acclamations. All the gairison was under arms to receive him. The Minister of Marine has applied to the Cones to authorise the Government to build two frigates, six corvettes, six brigantines, and six galliots, which he represents as indispensably necessary for the pro tection of commerce. The application has been re ferred to the Committee of Finance. SICILIAN - INSURRECTION. From Palermo there" are advices to the 16th of August. M. Toitroeict, one of the Deputation to Naples, had returned on the 9th ; arid immediately after the Junta assembled. The Prince of VILLA FRANCA, President, opened the Sitting by a speech, in which he conjured the Members to recollect that on their deliberations on the dispatches received from Naples might depend the safety or the ruin of the country; he proposed, therefore, to his colleagues, that they should, at that time, merely hear the pro positions from the Government of Naples read, and take till next day to consider of them. The dispatches were accordingly read, and the Assembly broke up. On the 10th there appeared a Notice from the Junta, of which the following was the substance : " The dispatches brought by M. Turtorici do not appear to us to lead necessarily to an absolute rupture with Naples. The Neapolitan Government appears disposed to opeu Negotiations with l'alerzno, and even to grant us flattering privileges and prerogatives. ILr Neapolitan Government would not oppose itself to the independence of Sicily, were it not that this mea sure is contrary to the Treaty of Vienna, and may give birth to differences with foreign Powers. The Junta bas replied so the Neapolitan Government with proper firmness and dignity. In the meantime every one ought to remain at his post." The Official Journal of the Junta published, next day, the.Answei• of ,the Junta to the Neapolitan Go vernment. It is very long and circumstantial. It retraces tbe history of Sicily, as an independent con stitutional kingdom; the solemn promises made by the Kings of Naples to respect that independence; and the circumstances which led, by the common consent of. the King and ancient Parliament, to the. establishment of a new Constitution, which was to ensure to Sicily, a Representation, composed of two Chambers, under the guarantee of England, but which Constitution was, in 1816, suppressed in an illegal manner. In, short, this Answer, or Manifesto, endeavours to demonstrate that the Palermitans, and other Sicilians of their party, are acting in virtue of their legitimate rights, and conformably to Con stitutions which have never been validly abolished. It appeals to the friendly sentiments which the Prince Vicar• General has expressed for the Sicilians, and those which the people of Sicily have in return testi fied towards him during bis residence %mg tims, and concludes with a hope that he will not yield to Counsels which, by exciting a civil war, will disho nour the 1 1 / 4 Teapolitan Revolution. Two hundred communes are said to have united themselves with Palermo. The towns of Messina and Trapani still stand out French 5 per Cents. Friday, 74.1 r. 30c. New York Papers, to the 16th of August, arrived this morning. FROM TIME NATIONAL INtELLIGENCRIL AMERICA AND FRANCE.—The most interesting feature to us of the late news from Europe ,is the . excitement produced in France by the passage of an Act imposing new tonnage duties on French vessel!. From the friendly feeling of this country towards France, that Act was passed reluctantly, atld wia be cheerfully suspended, according to the provisions k contains, authorising that course when the Govern ment of France shall think tit to reciprocate with us the liberty of our commercial regulations. The Measure seems to have produced there a great sen sation, but what else could they have looked for? Our Minister to that country, had been long enough expecting them to listen to reason, and long enotk h put off by evasive answers. The subjoined extract of a letter from them to the Secretary of state, com municated to Congress at the last Session, shcwsthe ground on which our law was pressed. France will not disdain to be as wise as England, and by a re laxation of her system, avail herself of the opilortu nity now offered to her : EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. CALLA ris TO IRK sECRIIT ARY OF STATE, DATRD PARIS, JAN. g.M: " I have now the honour to enclose the cf , py of Mr. PASQUIER'S long-promised Answer on the sub. ject of our commercial relations, which was not row ceived till after I had closed my last dispatch to yor. I am confirmed in the opinion that nothing ►►ill be done here uutil we shall have done justice to ourselves by our own measures. The Ministry is, I think, well disposed ; but they will not act in opposition to tie remonstrances of the shipping interest a►nd of the Chambers of Commerce, which have been consulter'. That of Paris is adverse to our proposal: indeed, Mr. PAscautot informed me,*.that that of Bourdeaux alone has given an opinion favourable to them." Late accounts from Havannah state, that a Buenos Ayres ship of 54 guns and 500 men, commanded by Commodore Jewell, had appeared off that port, ith, no doubt, hostile intentions, that the Governor bad ordered two ships, of 24 guns each, to be fittel out, in order to bring her in, and that a hot press bad taken place. Yesterday, the Duke of YORK vi,ited the Princess AUGUSTA, at her apartments in the late Queen's Palace. The Duke of CLARENCE dined with the Pri..lcess AUGUSTA yesterday. Tie Duke of SUSSEX has left Kensington Palcce, for Tunbridge Wells. The Marchioness of Sum leaves the Claren,ion Hotel, Bond -street, this day, for her seat in helm'. The Marquis of WORCESTER is so far rece-cmi from tie effects of his late accident, that his Lord ship is now able to take carriage airings.. Sunday, the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM; accompa nied by a select party of his distinguished friends embarked on board of his Lordship's yacht at Black wall, and proceeded down the River, and round the coast to the Isle of Wight. Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR transacted bu3i ness at the Secretary of State's Office for the Home Department. Yesterday forenoon, Lord CssmErizscrt arrived at the Foreign-office, from his seat, North Cray. His. Lordship continued to transact business until four o'clock, when his Lordship returned to North Cray. Yesterday, the Earl of HARROWBY, Earl BA THURST, Lord SIDMOUTH, and a select party of dis tinguished personages dined with the Earl and Coun tess of LIVERPOOL, at their seat, Combe-wood. Yesterday, Viscount and Viscountess GitAxvlLLe entertained a select party with a dinner, at their house in Bruton -street, Berkeley-square. This day they intend leaving town, for their seat in Sufro lk. Viscount and Viscountess GRANVILLR, Lord and Lady EBRINCTON, Lady G. F ANS , r. EDWARD MONTAGUE, and a select party dined with the Earl and Countess of HARROWEY, on Sunday, a their house in Grosvenor-square. A letter was received in town yesterday, by the lion. FREDERICK l'oxsoicny, from Captain SPENCER himself, in which he states his surprise that a rumour of his death should have been afloat at Buenos Ayres ; no such event as a quarrel or duel having taken place between him and his First Lieutenant. The Dowager Marchioness of THOMOND died at Baylis, near Windsor, in her 70th year. Her Lady ship was the niece of the late celebrated Sir Josnua REYNOLDS. Wednesday came 2n the election of the Verderer of his MAJESTY'S Forest of Wychwood, in the room of the late Lord CHARLES SPENCER, when JAmEs 114AUEIHTON LANOSTON , Esq. being n om i na t e d by ' Mr. PENYSTON, and seconded by Mr. FAKE, wa4: elected without opposition. At the late meeting of the Carnarvonshire Agricul tural Society, held at Carnarvon, three premiums cf. ten guineas each were given for the improving cf rough land for turnips, and for improving the brezd of horses. The Rev. G RIFFITH vwx.N received a premium of ten guineas, for building the greatest length of stone wall, five feet under the lock stone, and not less than 200 roods iu length, and finished within the last year ; premiums were also adjudged for improving the breed of mountain rams, and to industrious and careful cottagers. Report states, that Sir R. PEEI ' : Bart. has signified his intention of decli n i ng any further opposition to the return of Lord CHARLES TOWNSHEKD, ou any future occasion s as a Member tOr fhe Boronsh of Tamworth.