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BRAZIL. RIO DirJANEIRO, AUGUST 5. Since the declaration of the independence of Brazil, the subject whether the Executive should or should not ,have an Absolute solo, is the promulgation of the laws bAs been discussed in all the periodical publications, and is a matter upon which much difference has existed. Same time. prior to the late changes in the Ministry, the •Deputy Aranja Lima proposed in the Assembly the project of a law, by which the decrees of the present Assembly iffritild be. executed by the Executive, even although the Emperor refused his sanction. This pro ject was finally discussed, and carried by a considerable majority, on the 29th of last month. The Emperor has declared, that notwithstanding this vote of the Assembly he will sanction and execute such acts only as meet with his approbation. The Assembly, on the other hand, ale determined to put hint to the test, by prepar ing several decrees for his signature; and should he persist in his declaration, it is• kated e t'fie consequences will be serious. For some time past the Emperor has been very assiduous in his attentions to the military, and probably calculating von their assistance; and, animated by the accounts lately received of a counter-revolution having been effected in Portugal, it is conjectured that he will attempt to establish an absolute veto by military force, and thus run the risk cf dissolving the present Assembly. The result of such a proceeding is obvious. Should the Emperor fail in his attempt, there is little doubt but a Republican Government will be established: and should he be successful, a total disunion of the pro •inces, and consequently a system of anarchy and con fusion, will take place. There seems to be an inclination on the part of the Government to unite this country to Portugal ; but to such an arrargement insurmountable obstacles present themselves. The Assembly is decidedly hostile to the measure; the Emperor is proud of his new title, and would not be easily persuaded to descend from the throne. The seat of empire must, of necessity, be in Brazil; and the interests of the two countries are so much in opposition, that the most which could be ex pected would be a favourable commercial treaty. Something of this nature is certainly in agitation, as the Cazique, a very fast sailing brig of war, is ready for sea, and victualled for 60 days. There is little doubt but • she will sail in a few days for Lisbon. It is very probable that in all this month some very important political changes will take place in this country, which will be highly prejudicial to our com merce, and completely blast the hopes we entertained of a Constitution being formed upon a liberal and per manent basis. A MODERN JUDITH. --••-- KONIEH, JULY 14. There has just occurred in this ancient capital of Turkey in Asia, an extraordinary event, by which our situation is very well inslicated. A Turk of this city, who happened to be in the unfortunate Chit), took from the island a Greek woman, whom he enslaved, and then married, after having forced her to embrace Islamism. One night, while the Mussulman was asleep, she seized a cutlass, and, in a moment of delirium, occasioned by horrible recollections, she plunged it into the bosom of her ravisher. At that moment, her vengeance being sa tisfied, and nature having resumed her empire, she fell ' into a swoon, and continued in it for a long time.— Having recovered, and seeing the blood, she again fainted, and remained in that state to an advanced hour of the day. On opening the chamber, the body of the Tut k was observed on one side, and on another a female, whose appearance seemed to indicate that the persons who entered came to arrest her. She was taken before the Pacha, and asked whether she was the person who murdered her husband? " Yes," she replied, " I have killed a monster, who had the barbarity to murder my father, my mother, my husband, and child, in Chio ! who then brought me here, and strove to make me a Turk r The people ran in crowds to assist in her punish ment, but the Pacha, after having heard her story, par doned her and sent her home, to the great astonishment of the .4 ussulmans, who were obliged in this, as in other cases, to recognize the finger of PROVIDENCE. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. Lrrrtz's Letter shall have insertion on Monday. --....-- cr A Topographical, Military, and Scientific Engraved Plan of Cadiz, accompanied with 48 References, taken from this day's Morning Chronicle (in which Jourtial it originated), will appear in To-morrow's Odzerver. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 4. IS2B. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 85i, a , &, for the Account, and 874, for Money, with a good deal of business doing. FOREIGN FUNDS. Little doing in the Foreign Market, except in Colombian and Spanish Bonds. Colombian opened at 55i, and got up to 57 ; Old Spanish llonds 33, 34; New Spanish 27i ; Russian 831 ; French Scrip 21. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ITAMIURGII, Sept. 26.—0 n London, 37.01. 37.3;. PITI:II.SIUIU3N, Sept. IC.—On London, 9.31.64 ; Psis, 101. Aaisratu)Ast, Sept. 30.—0 n London, 41. to 40. 11 ; 2 N. 40. 9. to 40. 8. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Coils. 83: 3 /s 'A 1 k 4 per Cents. New 10'2% 7 / 8 E t ch. Bills (1.:1,0(X)) 395. 41s.— Small 40s. 425. Consols for Acct. 83% 1/2. This forenoon we received the French Papers of Thurs day. They contain no later details of the operations against Cadiz than those previously given ; but the Moniteur gives a long dispatch from General Gut LLZ !NOT, respecting the capture of Fort St.Petri,which does not differ essentially firm the repot t of Baron des RoTouns. Another dispatch from General It OTTEN LOURG to the Minister of War, dated Perpignan, the 27th ult. announces officially, the surrender of Figucras. In a preceding page we have given a report of the Spanish Ministers on the state of Spain, to which we alluded on Thursday. FRON TIIC MONLTLUR. PARIS, OCTOBER 2, 18:3. " ARMY OF TIE EASTERN PYRENNEES. " My LORD—I have the honour to inform your Ex. cellency that I have this moment learnt that Figueras has capitulated. The garrison are prisoners of war. It is on the 29th, that the troops of Baton Damas will take possession of it, " The necessary pieparations for the siege of Urgel 'are carrying on with activity. Batteries *are already erected against the place at three diffeient points. " I am, Bcc. Baron BOTTENBOURG. " The Lieut.-General commanding the Division of the Eastern Pyrennees." FROM THE JOURNAL DEA DEBATE. " The garrison of Figueras consisted of three thou sand men. " Llobera has issued from Tarragona with two thou sand men, and is advancing to Lerida. " General Trotneliri and Baron d'Erolles are pursuing him with a force sufficient to beat him. Milans has re sun►ed the command of Tarragona." A letter from I'ampeluna, dated September 18, says " the Governor had obtained permission for two covered caravans to leave the town ; these caravans were des tined to conceal the French refugees who served in Pam peluna. They were, however, • too numerous to go off under this concealment. They were consequently com pelled to give them Spanish uniform, and enrol them in the ranks of the surrendered garrison. Our soldiers recognized them, and dragged them out of the enemy's ranks, and delivered them into the bands of the French military authorities. Bayonne Papers to the 26th ult.have reached us. They represent the alarming fever which had broken out at Passages as nearly subdued. No new cases had appeared, and the old were getting better. The accounts from Pampeluna state, that that City begins already to feel the effects of the re-action which has taken place; the chief of the Citizens, attached to the Constitutional sys tem, are arrested; and this measure, it seems, has been adopted chiefly towards the rich ; who, it is reported, will be called upon to pay a large contribution, though the capitulation says nothing of it. Besides the women, who have been brought away prisoners, a good number it is said, have been arrested, for having encouraged the garrison to make a vigorous defence. The most important intelligence in these Papers, how ever, is that which announces that a vessel was then lying in the Bayonne river, ready to sail with four mil lions of francs on board, for the wants of the French army in Spain. It seems certain that a division of 6,000 men of the fifth corps is going to be detached to reinforce the 4th corps; it is said that it will be commanded by General Pecheex. The hatred of the Royalists to the Constitutionalists continues frequently to manifest itself in acts of violence: thus the Constitutionalists of Irun attempting to return to their homes narrowly escaped being massacred amidst cries of " Death to the blacks" (los Negros); and it was with difficulty that the French garrison of the place saved their lives. It is also stated in a private letter from Paris, that intelligence had been received by the Government, that on the 22d ult. the French squadron blockading Cadiz was forced by the weather to run out to sea, so that, for the present, operations must be suspended. Hamburgh Papers to the 27th ult. with Brussels and Dutch Papers to the 2d inst. reached us this morning. The following are extracts: STOCKHOLM, SEPTEMBER 19. On the 12th the Diet deliberated in pkno on the Finances of the kingdom. The Journal Argus contains the Memorial of the Committee of Justice against the Secretary Quiding, in which he is accused of having violated in the Council of State several Articles of the Constitution. Her Majesty the Queen had the misfortune last week to slip as she was stepping out of her carriage, and to dislocate her arm. She has however recovered, and took an airing on the 16th. ST. PETERSBURGH, SEPTEMBER 12. Their Majesties the Empresses came on the 9th from their summer residences, to celebrate on the 10th the Saint's day of the Emperor, and of the Grand Duchess Alexandra. An Ukase of the Ist of June, prohibits all Christians from enter ing into the service of the Jews. . _ His Majesty the Emperor arrived at Mologa, in the Government of Jaroslaw, on the 31st of August. We learn that not only Sarepla, but the Government town Neschri Novogorod was destroyed by fire during the great annual fair, but the magnificent new Bazar was saved. The Department of Foreign Trade is going to be organized in el new manner; the business will be acce lerated, and placed under a Supreme Board, at the head of which, it is said, Count Lambert will be placed. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 26. It is affirmed that the King has just formed a Coun cil of Ministers to examine the projects of law, decrees, &c. before they are laid before his Majesty and the Council of State. This measure cannot fail to intro duce more uniformity and celerity into the administra tion of public business. SZPTENISEIt 29.—A letter from Scala Nuov.a, of the 27th of July, in the Oriental Spectator, announces, that Cassan Pacha, commanding the Egyptian flotilla, sent by Mehemet Ali to land troops in Candia, was carried off by the plague soon after his arrival. The last accounts from Constantinople say that the Turkish Government is greatly Alarmed at the success of the brave Greeks. The Duke of San Lorenzo left this city yesterday to make a short tour through the Northern Provinces of the Kingdom. The ill health of the Duchess would clot permit her to accompany him. AUGSBURG, SEPTEMBER 90. Letters from Schafhausen say, that a very active i Fortespondence has lately taken place between the Go. vernment of the presiding Canton and thbse of the other Cantons, relative to certain secret Associations, which agents of the great Power affirm to exist in the Swiss territory, It is said that the answers of the Cantonal Governments have not been very satisfactory, because they have considered the questions put to them as hav ing been in some measure induced by foreign influence NUREMBUBG, SEPTEMBER 22. We have received the important news that the Ha noverian Government, in consequence of instructions from London, will not send a Commissioner to form part of the Central Committee of Mayence. This reso lution is calculated to excite much attention in the Ger man Diet, and denotes that Hanover will continue to be at the head of the kind of opposition which has been remarked in that Assembly. The last arrivals from South America bring intelli gence of considerable importance. In Colombia the struggle is nearly over, and in Peru the Royalists will scarcely be able to resist the vigorous and combined ef forts of the Republicans. But while the independence of these States is thus wrested by the swords, negotia• tions have been carried on for peaceably seem iiig the s ame object for Buenos Ayres; and we this day present a preliminary Convention of Peace, concluded between the Commissioners of the King of SPAIN and the Govern ment of Buenos Ayres, dated the begining of July. By this Convention war is to cease for 18 months, till the final treaty be signed. The Government of Buenos Ayres has given authority for ratifying this Convention, to which the other South American States are to be admitted. This Convention has of course been entered into by the Constitutional Government of Spain ; and should that Government fall, we should not be in the least sur prised to, find it revoked or disannulled by the new Go verumegt. Not that this can ultimately prevent the in pendence of South America. The feeling in South America on the subject of the invasion of Spain by France has been manifested by a law, or a law project, authorizing the Government of Buenos Ayres to assist the Constitutional Government of Old Spain with the same sum of money to resist the French invasion, as the two Legislative bodies of France had then voted, in order to carry it into execution. In another part of our Paper we have given some in teresting intelligence from Brazil. The following are documents relating to Buenos Ayres, to which we have referred : PRELIMINARY CONVENTION AGREED UPON BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF BUENOS AYRES AND THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS CATHOLIC bf AJESTY. The Government of Buenos Ayres having recognised, and caused to be recognised, in virtue of credentials presented and legalised in competent form, Sencres Don Antonio Luis Pereyra and Don Luis de la Robla, as Commissioners from the Government of his Catholic Majesty, and it beingproposed to the said Senores, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the said State of Buenos Ares, to agree to a Convention preliminary to the de finitive Treaty of Peace and Amity, which is to be con cluded between the Government of his Catholic Ma jesty and the Government of the United Provinces, upon the bases established in the Law of the 19th June of the present year; and they, after considering and re ciprocally discussing whatever they held to be calcu lated to conduce to the better adjustment of the rela tions of the said States, have, in the exercise of the cha racter with which they are invested, and of the powers conferred on them, agreed to the said Preliminary Con vention in the terms expressed in the following Articles I Article 1. After slily days, reckoning from the ratification of the present Convention, by the Governments to which it applies, ali hostilities, by sea and by land, shall cease between the said Govern ments and the Spanish nation. 2. In consequence, the G.neral of the forces of his Catholic Ma jesty at present in Peru, will continue in the positions which he shall occupy at the time of the Convention being notified to him saving the particular stipulations which, for reciprocal convenience, the adjacent Governments may propose or accept, for the purpose of improving their respective lines of occupation during the suspen sion of hostilities. 3. The relations of commerce, with the sole exception of articles contraband of war, shall, during the period of the said suspension, be fully re-establisbed between the provinces of the Spanish Mo narchy, those occupied by the armies of his Catholic Majesty in Peru, and the States which ratify this Convention. 4. In consequence, the flags of the respective States shall he re ciprocally respected and admitted into each other's ports. 5. The relations of maritime commerce between the Spanish na tion and the States which may ratify this Convention, shall be re gulated by a special Convention, the framing of which shall be en tered upon in pursuance of the present Convention. 6. Neither the Authorities administering the provinces of Peru in the name of his Catholic Majesty, nor the adjacent States, shall impose on the trade of each other higher duties than those which may exist at the period of the conclusion of the present Convention. 7. The suspension of hostilities shall subsist for 111 months. S. Within the said period the Government of the State of nuenos Ayres will negociate, through the medium of a Plenipotentiary of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, and conformably to the law of the 19th of June, the conclusion of a definitive treaty of peace and amity between his Catholic Majesty and the States of the American Continent to which the said law refers. 9. In case of the renewal of hostilities, such renewal shall not take place, nor shall the relations of commerce be interrupted, until four months after the intimation of hostilities. le. The law etisting in the Spanish Mon.,r,:hy, as well as in the State of Buenos Ayres, respecting the inviolability of property, even though it may be an enemy's property, shall have full force, in the case of the operation of the preceding Article, within the territories of the Governments which may ratify this Conv;:ation, and re ciprocally. 11. As soon as the Government of Buenos Ayres shall be autho rised by the House of Representatives to ratify this Convention, it will negociate the accession thereto of the Governments of Chile, Pero, and the other united provinces of the Rio de la Plata ; and the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty will, at the same time, take every means for giving to this accession, on the part of the authorities of his Catholic Majesty, the most prompt and corn plete effect. 12. For the due effort and validity of this Convention, the items. nary copies shall be signed and 'sealed on the part of the c oati; sioners of his Catholic Majesty with their seal, and on the p ltit the Government of Buenos Ayres by the seal of theDepatto tent, Foreign Affairs. Buenos Ayres, July 4. (Signed) ANTONIO LUIS PEREN LUIS DE LA ROBtA, Commissioners of his Catholic %i t , BERNARDIN RIVADAN4' Minister for Foreign Affairs, LAW PROJECT.—Stucts The Government is authorized to ratify the pre nary Convention concluded on the 4411 of the pr month between the Government of the State of Do rm Ayres and the Commissioners of his Catholic Mrie zi resident there; . and also to negociate the accesske their s of the States and Governments mentioned in article ii the said Convention. (Signed) LAW PROJECT.—Stwam AI././cm RIVADAVIA. The war which the King, Louis XVIII. is preparia : to make on the Spanish nation being directly and pig cipally opposed to the principle recognized in article]. of the law of thelOth of May, 1822, in case that agg re , sion should be realized, the Government is authorizei to nevciate—after the conclusioirof the definitive treaty of peace and amity with his Catholic Majesty o n t i r basis of the law of the 12th June, to which treaty tl t Convention of the 4:h of July current i. preliminary.... that there shall be voted, by the American States recog. sized independent, in virtue of the said definitive treaty, for maintaining the independence of Spain under the representative system, the same sum of 20 millions a that which in the month of March last was supplied fet destroying it by the Chambers of Paris. Buenos Ayres, July 4. R IVA DA VI A. .111 E THEA PRES. DRURY LANE. The First Part of Henry the Fourth was performed last night, for the purpose of introducing in the part of King Henry, a Mr. ARCHER. Measuring his talent ani success by the standard he has given us in choosing this character for his debut, we should pronounce thew superior to his pretensions. Mr. Et.usroN played the Prince, and acquitted himself with dre spirit and dig. crimination throughout. The same may be said of Mr. WAL LA CleS Hotspur. Mt. DOWTON'S Falstaff was the life of the play. We can scarcely imagine that the greet scene of the " men in buckram" was ever played wilt more admirable richness. The other parts were respect. ably supported, and the play went off altogether wits great spirit. COVENT-GARDEN. The Comedy of Errors was the play of yesterday even. ing. DwellsEr was the Anlipholis of Ephesus, and JONES the Antipholis of Syracuse. Both acquitted them. selves in a most satisfactory manner. The representa. fives of the Dromios, BLANCHARD and FARRSN, made the most of the whimsical situations into which they are thrown. Both were eminently happy, and the plaudits of the audience were equitably divided between them. Luciana was most ably sustained by Miss TREE. Adrian introduced to these boards Miss fiAMIdERSLEY, last fres 0 , the Theatre Royal, Liverobol, but previously a fs. 1 vourite at one of the minor Houses in the Metropolis. s. She has a good stage person, rather full sized, akin agreeable countenance. Some of her tones are very rich and melodious, and she boasts considerable science. .; In the duet with Miss TREE in the fourth act, and is her 1 solo in the fifth, she displayed great power, and both I were loudly encored. She is likely to prove a valuable I addition to the vocal corps. Katharine and Prim/tie ' was the after-piece, in which Miss CHESTER and Mr. C. KEMBLE, as the Shrew and the Tamer of the Shrew, kept the House in a roar of laughter. • WINDSOR, OCT. 3. this morning, the day being fine, .; his MAJESTY, attended by the Marquis of CoNvNonan, Sir CHARLES LONG, and others of his suite, took an air sing in little phztons, up the Long Walk, towards the Lodge, several of his MAJESTY'S attendants riding on horseback. The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at the Castle last night, on a visit to his MAJESTY. His Grace left Windsor this day. Sir ROBERT WILSON and Captain Ensirtraz arrived at Cadiz on the sth of September. The name of the English Gentleman who was taken viith limo is BURIAL. He was formerly an Officer in the 95d Fusileers. Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE left London last week for the Mores, to co-operate with Loth Brat* and ohm distinguished Volunteers in the Greek cause, to aid that brave pee. pie in their noble struggle to emancipate themselves front Tarkisk thraldom. The Earls of CORE and Ceolardau. have arrived is Dublin. Monday, the Earl of CHESTER WIELD, now in.his 10th year, accompanied by his tutor, arrived at Bingham, Notts, is which town he has very considerable property. The Duchess of KENT, accompanied by the Prion of LIIMINGLN, left her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensingtea, yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, to pay a yin to the Duke aa . Duchess of CLaatsca, at Bushey. The Right Honourable FREDERICK LAMB, youngest son of Lord Ilsr.souarrs, Ambassador at Frankfort, arrived,* town last night at twelve o'clock, from the Continent. The Oa' WILLIAM LAMB and Lady CA ROLM being apprized of the event,m• rived this morning at Melbourne-House, from Bracket Hall. Lend SIDHOUTH, by his marriage with the Honour. able Mrs. Towel's VW, obtains an addition to his income, adiooll. ing to £l4OO a-year. His Lordship has been also presented by kis father-in-law, Lord Szowzmovith a handsome seat in lkrkshirts , The Representative Irish Peers lot the existing Tao4 o cies will be Lords C r and Goer. EISTCODYODO.—The Eisteddvodd, or Congress of the WO Bards, took place last week at Carmarthen, and we undersllll that it was most brilliantly attended. Lord limavoa, who is de President of the Cambrian Society of Dyved, was ip the Olifi and by his side sat the Bishop of ST. Dam's, the Patroo OW Society. Tip! successful candidate for the poems on " St. Dal College," and " on the recent victories gained by the Grease , * the Turks," was the Rev. DaNiel. Evans, M.A. Fellow of ,Wll College ; and the successful candidate fur the verses compost* • "Sir GRUFFYDO AS NISOLAS," one et the ancestors of Lord DPP von, was the Rev. Joint Jonas, M.A. of Christ Chnrch s Amount of Duty paid by the London Fire Oik e .i. , for the Lady-day Quarter, 1823; • Sun - 45'2,977 17 6 - Phcenix- 19,309 7 3 County - - 12,432 17 5 [.loyal Exchange - 11,728 le 6 . Jrnperial . . 9,3C 6 16 11 Globe ' . - 5,485 4 7 • Albion , . 4,566 14 1J Eagle - - 4,385 19 5 I WiliSh . - 3,647 10 9 Hope . , 4,450 311 .. Westminster .. 3,597 511 • Atlas . . 4,74) S 1 Hand in Hand • 3,754 9 3 • I Union i s • 3,840 18 1 London - - :1,101 14 10 Guardian 1. , 5,713 1l I li.;acou . • 409 1 T • .1 i