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k I . INSURRECTION IN COLOMBIA. NSW Yogic, MAT 28. Captain Hitchcock, who arrived yesterday io the ship Charles- Sew, from Curacao, having departed thence on the 11. h ult. gives as the following statement, confirmatory of the repot! respecting the revolution in Colombia : " A few days previous to leaving Curacao, the gorernment 'utmost? of that island arrived from ',geniis, with letters Win the Dutch Consul there, informing that a revolution. under General Pan, had commenced at Valencia ; that several of the principal inhabitants of that city hid been killed ; that Pacz had collected .an army of between 2,000 and 3,000 men, and was on his way to Comae, to reduce that city to his meaaurea—his object heMg to unarms that part of the Republic, constituting the independency of Venezuela, from the other two, and n•ake it a District Govern ment. Great consternation prevailed at Laguira and Porto Ca. hello. Versals having provisions on board were prohibited depart- Pig, and the ports were to be open for six months. The Dutch Com* requested the Government of Curacao to send vessels of war to each place, to protect him, and likewise the merchants and such property as might be submitted to their charge. Accordingly, two dais after the receipt of the letters, two sloops of war were des patched, one to loguira, the other to Porto Cabello. MAY 29 I n the s chooner Mary 'robin, arrived yeatmday, in IS days from St. Thornaa's, came passenger Capt. li. Brookes, of the Bri tish, army, on his way to England wadi despatches from Sir R. Porter, British Consul at Caracas, and Mr. Cockburn. English AI i niater to Colombia, who was on board the frigate Galatea, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, at haguira. We learn that a revolution had broken out at Valencia, on the 29th tilt., theeaset nature and object of which was ra.t known ; but it was reported that the troops and cabildos of that city and Puerto Cabello had proclaimed General Paez their Chief and President of Venezuela. This officer, to whom the troops and people are sail to be much attached, had for some time previously been recalled to Santa Fe de Bogota, and General Eacalona appointed his sue. cessor ; but he still retained his command of the troops, and was, with his staff, in Valencia when the revolt took place. Some lives were said to have been lest in that city. General Marino was marching to Caracas at the head of a body of troops, aid was ex pected to enter on the sth, the day Captain Brookea left that city. It was not the intention of the authorities to offer any resistance, but they were preparing to receive them. The merchants had ad vanced 5,000 dollars on Valez on the custom-house at Laguira, to supply the uoops. which it was feared would only be the forerunner to larger deo ands. An embargo was laid on all vessels at La gulf's on the 4th inst., but in the evening of that day his Bri tannic Majesty's frigate Galatea touched Caere, on her way to Car thagena, with the Minister to Colombia on board ; and at night the embargo was taken off'. Some alarm existed among the merchants. It was supposed the frigate would remain until cot:lid/rice was re stored, and the object of the revolt definitively made known, which was generally supposed to be the formation of the department of Venezuela into a federal stale. Captain Brooke* will depiirt hence for Englard in the packet of the lit proximo. JUNZ I. The intelligence which we published nn Monday. of ;levoiiiiion in Venezuela, has been fully confirmed by an ar, ival from Curacao, as will be seen in another part of this day's paper. As an attempt has been mule by the National Gazette to discredit the *tumuli !drums' s , published, we hare taken some pains to ascertain the facts of the case from Captain Brookes of the British Army, as far as they had transpired when he left litguira, which was on the sth of Mar. --7 1 . 1;is gentleman was informed that there was a meeting of the Authorities at Caracas, on the 4th ult. which was generally believed had reference to the anticipated entry of the Revolutionary corps into that place, under General Marino. which it was supposed would take place on the following day. The payment of the money for the pay of the troops by the merchants, was subsequent to the meeting, and was considered a measure of prudence. to prevent discontent among the military, and danger to their property. It was the general opinion furlong the well informed, both at Caracas and Laguira, that the Revolutionists had no fixed obj e ct in view, but were chiefly actuand by a restless and insubordinate spirit. The British Consul at Caracas had sent intelligence of the revo lution to the Commanding Offiter of the British naval forces on the Leeward Islands, with a request that he would send down a sufficient torte to protect the Ltiglisa merchants and their pro perty. It was hoped that no serious results would ensue, but the Consul consith rid it his duty to take this Ntep, as serious con sequences were always to be dreaded more or less from a military movement, for the purpose of changing the nature of a government. The force of Valencia was not, we are assured, so great as stated ty Captain Hitchcock. • In further confirmation of this unpleasant news, we learn from Captain Brookes. that be conversed. at eft. Thomas. with the Cap tain of a sloop which had just arrived there from Puerto Cabello, which he lett on the Ist of 21 of May. Ile intimrest him of the movement of the troops and cabildcar of that place in favour of General Paez. Ile also stated that General Marino entered that city on the Ist from Valencia, and was to act out on the following sky for Caracas. We wait with anxiety furzher intelligence from this quarter. The account of a rebellion in Colombia, which we published yes terday morning, is so brief and so general, that it is impossible to form any precise idea of its nature or extent. Indeed Captain Brookes states, that the intentions of the iusurgent* wete not well understood at Caracas, when lie sailed. The only conjecture we can make on the subject is, that it has been excited by Gen. Paex, who has exercised great power in that part of the country, and often in such a manner as to give great dissatisfaction to the Wants. Two or three years since, his arbitrate 'mantles were truth complained of, particularly by the merchants, as he was con sidered a man o f an over b ear i ng disposition, and lord of military power. In one case he rescued a man from civil custllly by f orce , and he appears to have been watched will anxiety by the Govern ment. If his ambition is actually so restless and unpvincipled as some have imagined, it certainly is safer fur the country ttat lie now casts off his disguise, than that he should choose an opts rtunity when inertial dissensions might endanger her indepi niter cc. We have. liuwever, no apprehension that the effects cf ouch a s:ep as has been taken can prove very important. The people carmen th:il ground of iscontent with the Government, and the influence of the merchants must be strongly in favour of peace. The fri..nilly tiisposition of the French has also added great security to the Gv e rnment, The army have been threatened with a retluciion, which, it is very likely, n:ay have furnished vatted for their di.smisfaction ; and II we mistake rot, the General's orders to presrot Liiiivelf at Bogota, 'wore for an inquiry into his late conduct. NEIV COVMERCIAL CODE OF COLOMBIA. The Natioral Journal furnishta Lhe muss of duties payable in the putts of Colombia, with the rules of the etas:um-house, ice. firma which we make an abstract. Goods not subject to specific duty will pay duties on the prime cost, or estimated value in Colombil, wilt 30 per cent. superadded. The gods hereafter specitkil are subject to the duties respec. afExlsl to them, it imported iu national vessels direct from Europe or the Unitid StVCS. Iron, in bars, pilot, spikot, and other unwrought shapes, two dollars per quintal; mantifacturett iroi, sic dollers per ditty cop per,. in pigs, tour dollars per ditto; sheet copper, tour anti a lillf dol lars per ditto ; Champagne and Mitdeira wines, three dollars per down ; Aladeies, in barrel or other vessel, 18 riots per snobs ; 'red Wine, lire rink per domm ; ditto, in barrels or oilier vessels, ' tun risk per nrroba ; generous wines, 12 rick per dozen ; ditto, i a barrels or ether vessel', ten vials per arraba ; dry wine., ten riais per dozen ; ditto, in barrel or r vessel, eight rials per snobs ; seam and its compounds three risk per arrol.a ; brandy or spirits, tistilied from the grape,2o risk per doien ditto, ditto, in barrel or 6 1 1:ei vettsel, two dollars per arroba ; %Mega., eight risk per ; ditto in barrel, Mx rials per arroba; gin and floilands four vials - per dos.; ditto, in barrels or other vessels, 2 dollars per atroba; .17ettors in bottles, 3 dollars per dozen; eider, 6 riots per dozen; .delto. in beard or otter vessel, 8 kids per are ; beer, in books, lit rills per cloven ; ditto in barrel or other vessel, 8 risk per arroba ; ' kalk,boef.3 doFars per quintal; salt pork. Stloilars th.l do.; smoked 'lleef„ 12 rills per ditto; smoked pork, 20 'rk ;nit ditto ; hams, 40 risk per Mitt); all classes of salt tish 12 rills per barrel ; flour id barrels of 8 armbis) 3 dollars per bane! ; flour (in barrels of mrrobas), 3 dollais'per barrel; aea biscuit, 3 dollars per quintal ; tallow (in the lump) 2 dollars per ditto; manufactured tallow, ' 3 dollars per ditto ; aniseed, 6 dollars per ditto; ; salt, 1 dollar per - dote; gunpowder of all classes, 8 dollars per ditto; ranee, 4 vials per bottle. If the importation of the goods asmve detaile ! is trade it, national euels direct from the Colonies, an additio.tal duty of 6 per cent. • r‘payable on th.: respective articles. gibe importation of the said ;toads be made in foreign vessels proceeding front Europe to the United States, an additioral duty 'u4.74petcent. is payable, and if from the Culoalas, of 13 percent. as 41e respective articles. . . _ . After the let of September next, invoices for goods which are to pity ad valorem duties, _ tutme be presented on arrival (excepting saipwrecked guods), or they, Will be valued by apenaiarra. The invoices must be accompanied with the owner's aMdavit of the • value of the goods, or that of the consignor or agent, certified by Inc rossul or agent of a nation on the most, friendly terms, or, in their absence, by three merehanth Th.. master must present immediately a signed manifest of all • the 1 ackeges, on board, with an oath. ttwder penalty of from 200 to 1,000 dollars. In case of suspicion that the goods are under viaticl, the Adriumstreot of the Customs shall value them accord ing en the prices cprrert in the place whence they wefe sent ; and . if they exceed by 20 per cept the value expressed in the invoice, 50 . per tem.. shah be added, and the duties ldel on the amount without snaking them subject. however, to the regul•ir 20 per cent. At least ..see package nut of is to be examined. Goods nut expressed in the invaice will be confiscated. The owner may appeal from the decision of the appraiser, to the opinion of two merchants in conjunction with two appraisers; awl afterwards to the Governor of the pr; vines. Counterfeiting • atteotatiops is subject to a heavy penalty. Goods must be secured Isswe resident sureties, and the duties be paid in instalments of tine and six mon.hs ; real in ease of non•psyment, the parties will riliject to costa and one per cent. per month. BRAZIL. CONSTITUTION FOR THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL Drawn up in the Council of State on the basis proposed by his Imperial Majrny Don Pedro I. Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of the Emperor of BraziL TITLE I. Of the Etn?ire of Brazil, its Territory, its Government, its Dynawy, and its Rilig'on. Art. I. The Empire of Brazil is the political association of all Brazilian citizens. They form a free and independent nation, which do -4 not admit any bond of union or federation with any other which would be contrary to its independence. 2. Its territory is divided into such provinces as exirt at present, which Anil he subdivided as the goo.! of the State may require. 3. Its Govenunent is monarchical, hereditary, constitutional, and representative. 4. The reigning dynasty is that of Don Pedro I. the present Emperor and Perpetual Dacnder of Brazil. 6. The Catholic Apostolic human religion shall continue to be the religion of the empire. All other religions 'limit be permitted in so far as reganls domestic or private worship in houses appropriated to that purpose, but without any external appearance of ■ church. TITLE li. Of the Brazilian Citizens. f. The following are con.idered an citizens of Brazil :-1. Those who hare been barn in Brazil, whether free or manumitted, al. though the rather may have been a foreigner, provithal he does not reside in Brazil in the service of his nation. 2. The children of Brazilian parents, and the illegitimate children of a Brazilian mo. ther born in a foreign country. hut resident in the empire. 3. The children of a Brazilian father resident in a foreign country, in the service of the Emperor, though they may not hare come to reside in Brazil. 4. All persons horn in Portugal and in its Eoloniiis, who being rraa:.:nt in Brazil at the time of t - fie Proclamation of In dependence iii their provinces, shall adhere thereto either expresdy or tacitly. by continuing to re.idc there. 5. Naturalized 10. igners, whatever their religion may be. The law shall determine the conditions iif this natter ditati m. 7. The tights of a Brazilian citizen are lost—l. By causing him self to bc, naturalized in a isorrign country; 2. By accepting. •ithout the perinksion of the Emperor, p• nsions, or decora tions from any Foreign tiovernalea ; 3. By a sentence el ba nishment. 8. The rights of a citizen are suspended in two ways—l. fly physical and moral incapacity ; 2. Ely a sentence of imprisonment and degradation, hot only so long as it shall continue in force. TITLE I I I. Of the l'owers of the Nationid Representation. H. The division and harmony or political authority is the con. Pervative principle of rite rights of the el:inns, and the best means of rendering effective the guarantees presented by the Cmistitution. 10. The political authorities recognizzd by the Constitution of the Empire of Brazil are four in number—the Legislative Power ; the 31odetating Power; the Executive Power; and the Judicial Power. II: The Representatives of the Brazilian nation are, the Empe. roc and the General Assembly. 1.. All these. Aneers in t/t Empire of ErtrAl are Delegation: 'front the nation. TITLE TV. Of the Legislative Power. Chap. I. Of the Branches of the Legislative Power and of its Duties. 13. The legislativz power is delegated to a ameral Assembly, with the sanction of the Emperor. 14. The General Assembly is composed of two Chambers ; the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Senators or the Senate. 15. The deities of the General Assembly are to administer an oath to the Emperor, to the Imperial Prince, to the Regent or to the Regency. 2. To elect the Regency or the Regent. and to fix the limus of his authority. 3. To recognize the Imperial Prince as suretssor to the throne, in the ti-sr session after leis birth. 4. To appoint a Tutor to the Emperor when a minor, in case his father should not have appointed one by his will. 5. To resolve such douhts as may arise concerning his succession to the throne. 6. To institute, on the dernt‘e of the Emperor, or in case of a vacancy of the throne, an inquiry zee:seer:ling the administration which has terminated, and to reform the abuses which have been introduced into it. 7. To choose a new d)nasty in case of the extinction of the reigning elynatcy. 8. To make laws. to interpret them, to suspend them, and to revoke them 9. Tn superintend the observance of the Constitution and the general good of the na tion. De. To determine annua•ly the public expenses. and to fix the quotas of the direct t a xes. 11. To determine annually, according to the Reports from Goverment. tile amount of the land and sea tierces. both ordinary and extraordinary. 12. To permit or prohibit the entrance of foreign sea or laid forces into the interior of the empire, or only into its ports. 13. To authorize the Government :o contract loans. 14. To eats bli•h sailatele treats for the payment of the public debt. 15. To regulate the administration of the national property, and to ;Lace its alienation. 11;. To create or to suppress public employments, and to tix regulations for them. 17. 'lo determine the weight, value, inscription, die, and denomination of coins, as well as their title. weight, and measure. 111. Each of the Chambers shall bear the title of August and Most AVoreley fl tpresentatives of the Nation. 17. Each I,...gi‘lature shall last four years, and each annual Ses sion rear months. in. The loirev;al S!tting at the opening; shall take place every year on the 2d May. 19. The sit ing It the cloe shall also be an imperial sitting, and theNe two aittinga shall take place in a general assembly, in which the two Chamber. shall be united. O. The ceremonial which shall be observed by them, and by the Emperor hinisdr, .hall he laid down in the Ginn of an in:ernal regulation (rulc of Parliament). 21. Phe nomination' of the Preedents, Vice-Presidents, and Se cretaries of the two Chambers, the verifies:ion of the rowers of their members, the oaths to be taken, and the internal police, shall be laid down in the form of a regulalinn. 22. In the union of the two Chambers, the President of the Senate shall direct the proceedings, but the Deputies and the Senators al ll take their places indi+eriminattiv. 23. No sitting can olio pince in either of the two Chambers, without the presence of one or more than half it, members. 24. The sittings of the two Chambers shall be public, unless the gnod of the public should renittr.• them to he secret. 25. Questions shall be decidi.il by the absolute majority of Mem bers present :. . . . . _ 2ti. r The Members of each Chamber shall not be regisnnsible for the opit ions which they may pro!'ess in the exercise of their func tions. 27. No Senator or Deputy can be arrested during his deputation by any authority except by an order from his Chamber, except in the case of a flogront crime, which would subject him to capital punishment. 28. If any Senator or Deputy is put on his trial, the Judge shall suspend proceedings, and shall send his Report to the Chamber to which the accused may belong. The Chamber shall decide if the trial is to proceed, and whether or not the Member is to be sus pended from the exercise of his 'Unction.. 29. The Senators and Deputies may be appointeu to offices in the Ministry or in the Councl of State. with this difference, that Senators may still continue to sit in the Seiistie. while the Deputies leave their seats vacant. A new election is their to be made, in which the former Member may be re-elected, and may thus act in both capacities. 30. They nuts also act in both capacities, if they held the office of 31inisier or Counsellor of Suite at the time of their election. 31. 3lembers may belong to both Chambers at on..e. 32. The exercise of every other empleyment except that of Mi nister or Counsellor of State, ceases entirely as long as the functions of a Deputy eir S enator cont i nue. . _ 33. In the interval of the &salons, the Emperor cannot employ a Senator or a Deputy out of the empire. and they shin not exer cise their employment when that would prevent them from asaem. tiling at the time °, the convocation of the General Assembly, whe ther ordinary ur extraordinary. We have received the following translation from an intelligent cnrrespontlent who has for many years resided in Pernambuco—it is a curious documcnt PROCLAMATION, " Inhabitants of the The period which I fixed for my retina to Court has arrived. I depart on the 21st, as I have already said, and regret that I cannot remain longer among•t yeu. The demonstrations of joy, gratitude, and fidelity, with which you have &lighted me, will be testimonials by which I shall always remember the inhabisants of this province. I hope, also, you will always remember nte, in whom you possess a So. tereign who faces, and who • will continue to face, every danger for the salvation of his subjects, and who endeavour.' to make himself known to them in every possible mannar,ln order that they may never more be deluded and carried to the precipice of de struction, by those who call themselves lovers of the country and of liberty, but who, being solely engaged in advancing their private interests, regardless ed the public good, wish to bind you m the chain of despotism. I. ire of the country and of the people have always beet the target at which I have directed my shots, and thus lishlans, I h ire executed, liter illy, the constitution. I have ful filled my Imperial orders, and your own felicity will be the result of what I command. (Signed) " THE EMPEROR. " Bahia, 19th March, 1826." WAR WITH BUENOS AYRES. Captain Read, who left Ensernala March 6, states that he was hoarded next dry, ow the Chico Bank, front the Brazilian squa dron, consisting of about thirty or thirty-five sail (with an addition to their former force of a frigate, &c.) bound up, from 3lowte Video. Admiral Brown, with his squadron of one ship, two brigs and gunboats ' cannonading she town and batteries of (Monis on the 6th, and had been for two dap before. Two of his Captains (Besndey and Mason), it MA% said, had been broken for misconduct in the first action with the enemy. [From the Buenos Ayres Papers to March 3.1 Inthipost of Paiagones several valuable Brazilian priz_•s had been carried, in which 400 negroes had been found, whose lot, instead of being the unhappy victims of Brazilian sugar plsntaiious, will become that of free cultivators of the land of Patagonia. The Emperor of Brazil is the only ruler in the New World that protects the detestable traffic of human beings! The town of Ps tagones has organised two companies of t..s inhabitants, to garrison its port. The appointment of Lord Ponmnby, ar Minkter Plenipoten tiary from Great Britain to Cie Oorernment of 4)211.14ted Pro. ‘_ _. THE BRITISH PRESS. vines of Rio de la Plata, ♦a announced in the lifeasatere r a high honour to the country, being the tint individual of his rank ever destined to the States of South America. Simon Bolivar has appointed the Grand Marshal of Ayacucho to act in his stead is the Republic of Bolivia during his stay in th►t of Peru t and in case of aickness, absence, or death, the General Of Division, Don Andres Santa Cruz. is to take his place. The. Liberator expected to be back in Chuquisaea,the capital of Bolivia, the 21oth of May, at the opening of the General Assembly. BnEttos Altana. MARCH 3. Yesterday a boat, sent to Colo• nla by the Commandancy of Marine, returned. It met the national fleet MT that port, where it remained, after having battered its intrenehments, and totally destroyed the battery of Santa Rita, si tuated at the mouth of the port. The loss of die enemy in the eon tinual etacks which it has sustained since Sunday, as seen on the batteries and was, is said to be very considerable; the brig /loyal Pedro, which was in the port. was obliged to run on shore, and her crew escaped in a long boat. On our part no other loss is announced except that of the brave and worthy commandant of the brig Bal carce, the Scrjcan•.Diajor Don Bartolo Crruti. and a few wounded. This officer, after having acquired a comfortable fortune, enough to pass his lite in an independent manner, disregarded its comforts, and hastened to the call of his country, which demanded new ser vices. lie has found his grave, but he has descended into it, leav ing behind hint memorable recollections and examples. Our brig lielgrano ran aground in one of her manceuvrcs in stantly a Brazilian schooner approached her and bade her surren der, promising, in such case, to send the eiew to Buenos Ayres; but her Commander, Resale*, ordered the flag to be nailed up, and answered the summons with a discharge of musketry on the sleek of the schooner; she did not repeat her insane propOsal, and thought proper to retire. The whole crew and armament of the brig were saved. Gen. Lasalle:la had arrived. with a thousand men, and combined his attacks with Commodore ffrown. These superior officers have great reliance on the success of the enterprise ; and, according to all appenrunces, the first intelligence we shall publish will be, we hope, satisfactory and decisive. o Run-boats, two launches, and the schooner Rio, sailed yes terday from this port, destined to Colonic. RECOGNITION OF SOUTH AMERICAN STATES BY FRANCE. A letter from Carthagcna. dated April 13th„ states that a French frigate has arrived at that port from Brest, bringing Commissioners from France for the Panama Congress. An extract published in the ifereawile Advertiser, says it is reported that they are also authorized to negotiate a treaty with Ciilombia, and that it is believed that Spain if much more favourably disposed towards South Ame rica than heretofore. VERA CRUZ, APRIL 18. On Sunday, the Mit inst.. arrived in this port the French frigate La Nymph, having on board a bearer of despatches for the govern ment f Mexico. It i. said that the recognition 4.f the independ ence of Mesh° by France is the object of the mission. APRIL 26. The French frigate Nymph is still lying here. having brought out Cumnthtsionere sit!' powers to treat and acknowledge the in dependence ul ;he Mexican Government. J.431.41CA. Jamaica Papers to the 4th instant have been received. The armed schooner Speedwell went into Port Royal on the 29th of April, and took in with her the alive brig Alcide, which she de tainer' on the 21st. in lat. 19 311, N. lung. 79. The Alcide had on board 337 slaves; she is under French colours, and is reported to be f Cope Lopes. and bound to Martinique, but it is strongly suspected that tier destination was Cuba. The ship Hall, Clarke, arrived at Montego Bay on the 21st of April last from Liver. pool, was fallen in with near Madeira, by a piratical vessel, which fired several rounds of grape shot into her, when, finding the Hall to be unarmed, she came up and boarded. 'Fne pirates plun dered the sub of part of her cargo ' consisting of plantation stores, beef, pork, &r. and carried off the whole of Captain elarkest clothes. Situ was a large top-sail schooner, painted black, and her crew appeared to be a medley from various countries. FRENCH COLONIES. NEW REGULATIONS OF .MATINIQUE.—The Martinique Gazette, of April Ili, contains a royal ordinance of the French Go. vernment, of Feb. 11, regulating the trade of the Islands of Gus tlaloupe and Martinique with foreign countries. This ordinance takes effect the Ist of July next. Its provisions are such as will materially affect the trade between the United States and those islands. and amounts to nearly a prohibition of articles exported from this country. The tariff provides that live stock from Mreign countries t-ball pay a duty of ten per rent. rid valnreni : salt beef 15 francs per lOU killograms, (about 2."i0 lbs.) corn 2 franca per bee. tnlitre; cod and other salt fish, 7 francs per lOU kilog ; salt 5 francs per ditto ; tobacco 7 per cent. act valorem ; shingles, boards, staves, tar. pitch, turpentine. &c. 4 per cer.t. at: valorem. Extract from a letter received in the etty of Charleston, dated Ma. riagalante, April 16:—" 1 have to inform you that this island, by an ordinance of his Majesty the King of France, will be shut against foreign vessels after the Ist of July next. Therefore. ahotild any of your friends wish to touch here, before that time, with lumber and provisions, they would be likely to tin well ; sifter which date, the duties in those ports in this vicinity that we may be allowed to enter will be double what they row ore." Air EnrcA N An arrival at in 15 day; from IlAvannah, states that" fire barg:s, (four of them open boats,) hail been commissioned by the Collector of llavaivrtah as privateers, to cruise against tne South Americans; but accounts had been received that theywere com. mining piratical depredations on the coast of Cubs upon all vessels they fell in with. Remonstrances were made at flacannah against the commissioning of those brats, as notorious pirates were known to be concerned in them." Extract of a Leiter, dated Vera Cruz. April 26, 1816 : ",A Mexicati frigate, two brigs of war, and several schooners are now tiling here, and the appearance of a Spanish fleet is daily limited for by the inhabitants. Several suspicious vessels hare been cruizing off the coast. The place is becoming very siekly—from 80 to 100 persons die daily, aral many foreigners have already fallen victims to the fever. General Packwood, the English Consul for Vera Cruz, arrived here in the sloop of war Tweed. Captain H ume. The United States frigate Constellation is daily expected." COMPLAINTS OF BRITISH AGGRESSION. It cannot be forgotten that several American fishing vessels were illegally captured two yearn since by British crutzers which ren dered it necessary to wand an acme vessel to ptotect t hat branch of our CIPNIMCMC. This year they are again unprotected, and depre dations have already been committed by the Dotterel. of tinted memory, as will be seen by the fallowing extract from the Eastp)rt Sentinel, of the 20th ult.:— t• The schoorn Hammond. Tother!ey, of Portsmouth. New Hampshire. with about 129 quintAls of fish on board, was captured fart Monday on Sa• dy Cove fishing-ground., which is about two 'caplet; from the shore, by a I'OM belonging to the above brig. Two other re-.selr, the Mary and Favourite, of Portsmouth, were in company at the time, but made 'Lett escape; ■s did also the schooner Lark, Caption Hilliard, of the sante place, now in this port, from whom we obtained the above information. Captain H. states that several shots a err fired at him, find came very near ktliti ing one or two of his men. Ile supposes that several other vessels were taken at the time, as a number were at anchor on another part of the ground. It is hoped that an armed vessel will soon be sent in our Bay, and another to the Labrador coast, for the protection of the hardy and meritorious fishermen." PRICSB OF BRITISH STOCKS YESTERDAY. Rank Stock 199 1 [Long Ann. I$ 11.16 8 per Cent. Red. 771 ♦} i India Bowls 19 pm 1 per Cent. Cone. Er. Bins HOW. 7 8 pea Ditto Aect. 78a 79 78 1 5 1 Ditto SM. 7 8 pin •} per Cent. 841 Ditto Smell 8 9 pm 11/ per Cent. Red. 841 1 Lottery Tickets 24/. 7e. PRICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Bondi Brazilian Bond. 33 Buenos Ayres Bonds 67 Colombian Bonds Ditto Bonds (1324) 34 . 1 Danish Bonds (1326) 64 3 STOCKS YESTERDA Y. Creek Bomb (181 ) .5 14, blexlchn Bond* 42 I ',Motion& ;1825, :Al i Ruuiao Bunch f 182.,) 79 8i Spanish Bluth 8 71 Ditto Booth; (1823; 42 COURSE OF EEO( Amsterdam C.F. 12 9 Ditto at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 10 Antwerp . l2 10 11 iminugh 2} U. 37 II Alton& 2.; U. 37 Paris. 3 days' sight.. .... . . 25 70 Ditto 2 I:. 25 95 133rdeaux R.:riin . . ..... .... • .. Frankfmi on Maine is. M . 136} Peter4burgh, rhie 3U. 91 Vieuna, effective 6 2 11. 10 29 Trie.te . .. do lO 28 Madrid Cadiz Minot, Barcelona Ott Swills ......... ........ Clbsalltu 4 3 ANGE YFSTERDAY. Leghorn Genoa Venter. Naples Palermo .... Lisbon .. per u‘.114 port Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia 44 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 11 days' right Cork •lILLION, era os. 4 a. d. Portugal Oold, In rain 0 0 U Foreign Gold, In bars. 3 17 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver. 1• bars. standard 0 4 II PRICICS or SIMI , tES YESTEEID AY. cgs. Share. Paid. ClllO 86 321 414 100 18 14 pm ..... 100 IN/ 26 dls 100 10 8 dla 190 8 2dl. 400 80 16 dls ....... 40 20 8 dis Angie-Mexican ..... General alining .;lasoilation Tlalpuxahua ...... ....... United Mexican Welch Iron and Coal ........... ............. Z 174 die wampum:a Guardian • 100 10 5; pin :Al 2 1 die Pallubum ■tN &&&&&& DIM. Australian ..... ......... •• ICO 6 6pm LIVERPOOL, Just: 29.—Our Cotton Market has been dull and heavy doting the week, and prices down again flout i to i; about 5 to 6,000 bags sold. The litittiSh iirefigi. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. The Public are most respectfully informed that this Theatre will Open TIIIS EVENING, when will be performed the Grand Opera of TARHAItE, TUE TARTAR CHIEF. Terrine, Mr. Saplo ; Ater, Mr. H. Phillip'; Artenio, Mr. J. 0. Atkins; Altamore, Mr. Per►ins ; Calple. Mr. Thorne. Astasia, Miss Hamilton ; Nlttetto, Mite Eaton ; Elumir, Miss Coward. After which the Comic Opera of FREE AND EASY. Sir John Freemen, Mr, Wrench; Mr. Courtly, Mr. Bartley ; Ralph, Mr. Keeley ; Michael, Mr. W. Chapman. Mrs. Courtly, Miss Coward; Eugenia, Miss Carr; Gertrude, Miss Kelly. The Barnett PRESS commenced publishing yesterday morn. ing at a quarter pad fire o'clock. LONDON, SATURD 11', JULY 1, 1826. The Etoile of Thursday and other French papers of the preceding day have arrived. The following are ex tracts:— [From the Eloile . dated June 29.1 CONSTANTINOPLE, MAT 26. On the 19th May, Mr. S. Canning sent his Dragoman to the Reis Effendi, to desire a categorical answer to his preceding pro posals in favour of the Creeks. which had hitherto been put of with the verbal declaration of the Reis Effendi, " that the Porte would never treat with rebels." This time the Minister answered the Dragoman, that he would lay the demand of the English Am bassador beturc the Divan and Council of State. The letters from the Archipelago say, that the neighbouring islands have promised Hydra to defend with all their might that bulwark of Greece. But the chiefs appear to be much divided on the question of the continuation of the war. A considerable part of the National Assembly at Epidaurus n•solvcd to give to Mr. S. Canning, full powers, in clue form, to offer to the Sultan tI a sub mission of Greece upon certain conditions, but those conditions are of such a nature. that it is impossible to hope, under the present circumstances, they will be accepted by the Porte. Demetrius Ypsifinti has issued a protest against this step, which has pro- duced great effect. Meantime the war continues. FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, JUNE 10. Letters worthy of credit, dated Bucharest, June 3. announce. that the Porte, after ordering the evacuation of the Principalities by the Beshlis, and just when the llospodar was beginning to act nish more liberty, lii.a drawn upon him for the sum of 300,1100 piastres, by means of his son, who is actually a hostage at Constan titiopte. The liospodar at first protested against the payment ; it is said, however, that he has since paid part of the sum, probably tint of fear for the fate of his son. It is generally believed that this measure is an expedient invent. il by the Divan to render the evacu ation of the Principalities in sonic degree illusory, and to continue the exactions, by which alone the Porte ran meet the extraordinary expenses which the present exigencies require. The Princess Jablonowska has just raised a monument to the memory of the Emperor Alexander, by founding an hospital under his name in the town of Lisianska. It will be built at her expense, and remain under her direction. Two chapels will be built in the hospital, to celebrate divine service en Sundays and holidays ac cordtng to the rites of the Greek Church, for the repose of the soul of Alexander 1. The Emperor has approved the plan of the PrinceisaJahlnnowska by a rescript signed by his own hand. Lenionley, Member of the French Academy, died yesterday evening. after a few days' illness, which had no appearance of so melancholy a result. Al r. Lemoriley was burn at Lyons about 1760. - [Front the Quotidienne.l Pants. JUNE n. The supplementary investigation in the aflitir of Omani is pro ceeding with great activity, and every day the Chancellor and the Members whom he has associated with him. the accused and the witnesses, and there is every reason to believe that the commis sion will soon lay before the Peers the result of its labours. During this time the Chamber of Pars minims its labours as a branch of the Legislature; a general discontent has unanifestril itself in the Ikreditary Chamber, on the situation in which it is placed every year to vote without the possibility of examination on the most important law of the State, viz. the Budget. It is in conceivable that the aristocratic power should be deprived of the control of the law which sanctions the land-tax ; and if there were not in that Chamber a profound respect for the Royal proposition, it would reject a project which each of the Members cannot con scientiously examine. The Du'ke Iltitotte will on Thursday make his report on the Budget. The 31inisters would have desired greater celerity. but it is said that the Nable Reporter said that it it was impossible for the Chamber to discus the Budget, it was at least titling that the Member appetioted to examine it should have time to form an opi nion before he presented it to the Chamber. Aitrr the Budget. the Peers will again inert 114 a Council ofitia. lice, to decide on the result of the Commission on the Obits of Ouvtaril. It is thought that the Court will decide this year, un there should not be a sufficient number of 31embers to vote. It is said this evening that passports are refused to Peers, in or der to keep thorn at Paris. Fnr.scif s ns.—PArt ts, Jere 28.—Five per Cents. opened at 251. lac., closed at 9111. 2a c..; Three per Gent•. 651. 95e. t. Batik Stock 2.015 f. ; Neapolitan Ropes, 721. 90e. ; Spanish Loam, ; Exchange on London—One .11011.6, 2i*:f. 61k.; Three Aloilths, 251. 49e.—Stock Exchange. IVe have received American Papers to the 21 June, from which we have given several extracts of considerable importance in other parts of our paper. The Westmorland contest increases in interest as it proceeds. By our report this day, it will be seen that the Assessor has decided against the admission of (according to the Patois of Appleby) the mushroom voters, upon the ground that they are annuitants, and therefore ought to have been registered for six months previously. This has given Mr. Bieoun ['Ares party great spirits, and they now speak confidently of that gentleman's success. However that may be, this circumstance will undoubtedly tend to prolong the contest. This election has not pro ceeded without those ebullitions of popular feeling that are so common at this period; but 1.11",! LOIVTIIf rt, al though su'jectcd frequently to the indignation of the people, firmly resisted the introduction of the military; which, under the circumstances, we consider creditable to his Lordship's judgment and temper. Our readers will perceive that we arc enabled, for the first time, to insert extracts from the London Gazette in our Saturday morning's impression, in consequence of the alteration that has taken place in the time of its publica tion, occasioned by the anxiety of the Government to ren der every facility to the transactions of commerce, which will be materially benefited by the new arrangement. It gives us great satisfaction, also, to announce that, in ad dition to the advantage that the readers of this Journal, in common with those of every other Morning Paper, will experience, by the change in the publication of the Ga zelle, those who peruse our columns will hays an impor tant and exclusive advantage, that we have been enablt-d, by the application of considerable industry, to procure for them. We allude to the announcement of the Meetings of Creditors. We publish to-day a list of the London and Country Meetings, two (lays previous to their taking place ; so that commercial readers interested in a bankruptcy suit may have the opportunity of sending instructions, by post, to their Country Agents. We give, in addition to what has hitherto been announced as the Meetings of Creditors, not only a London, but also a Country List, and this in a compact form, in which the eye of the Creditor will immediately meet the name of the Bankrupt, in an alphabetical arrangement. We shall like wise, give from the official source, those announcements, so important to men in trade, which have hitherto been omitted—Meetings for the Choice of Assignees, with their Adjournments—Adjourned Last Examinations —Meetings for the Proof of Debts, with adjourn ments—Meetings for Special Affleirs, with a specifi cation of the intent, either for Composition, Chancery Suits, or Purchase and Sale of the Estate or Effects. The Dividends will be inserted in a manner new to the Com mercial world, by Joint, Separate, Final, first or second, or adjourned, and the ordinary list of first, second, and third Examinations. Meetings at the Chambers of Soli citors, and Dividends payable there, will be given with those announced to take place it the Court of the Com missioners of Bankrupts', in Baaingball-►treet. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The gloom, which has prevailel for some days past, appeared to increase this morning. Consols for Account opened at 71;,!, the price at which they closed la't night, and receded to 74 i—eier maely buyers and sellers. The business was exceedingly limited ; indeed, had there ben any extensive aisles, the prices would hate declined more unlovely, as the least unfavourable rept rt was meg •4 Mile:dints a momentous affair, likely to affect the holders of SN. Utile was doing in Exchequer Bills ; some sales were effect.; 4 low u 6r. prem. ; they, how2ver, recovered to 7s. Si. But p., Bills are Dow seen in the market, and those ate at short date:,, 4 good. Motley Stock is still heavy. This being settling day in the Foreign market, there was., I relief to the gloom that prevailed in the English market, as , decline in the South American Securities during the Account t i been 10 per Cent. Before the market closed, however, an arty from Jamaica brought, most opportunely, a communication or subject or the Colombian Dividends, doe in July. It was recti-, by Alvan. B. A. Goltischinid: and Co., the Contractors for the,,,; Colombian Loan. It is stbitessed to S. Leidersdorf, Esq. I , Agent of those Gentlemen, by his Excellency J. M. Del Catfili: . 31iitister of Finance, and is a reply to his representations of 4. necessity of the Govertimem's remitting the funds four most; before the dividends became due, in compliance with the terms their contract. " BOGOTA. MITE 8, " SECRETARIAT OF STATE FOR TUE DEPARTMENT yr FINANCE. "Government having never been unmindful of its duty to ta t all the means in ha poser to fulfil the engagements taken with .1, house of B. A. Goldtchmitit and Co. of London, whose firm ye 4 represent, one of its cures has been to rend the fund« tor the pi., ment of the interest of the Loan of 4,750,0001. four months boo, the date stipulated. as it engaged. For this porpotee it has cos t . municitted its instructions to the Minister of the Republic. reaiell t , in London ; a nd I can assire you that, trutring he will mini!, with them, it does not doubt that the interest sill be punetu if/ paid, as well for the first period, which is about to become due. e l in future. Thus, then, even the delay hos been foreseen, white, might have taken place in the payment of the Bills drawn, and fe, this purpose negotiated itt Pent. " on . the oth - er hand, this subject has deserved the consideraU 4 of the Legislative Body, whose dispositions, united with the in. e . rest which the Government taken in their execution, will strengtb 4 the credit of the Repuh:ic ; and you tnay he assured that, the Li , . difficulties overcome, the payment of the interest will be regulate( in future, in a fixed and permanent (banner, without experience : the least hesitation or delay. This the Government has chars ( , me to say to you, in reply to your letter of the . 27th of last month_ GNI preserve you, " J. 31. DEL CaorriLi.o." " To 31r. Sigistnund Leitlersdnrf." This iotelligence produced an immediate rise in the Colombia) Securities of 2{ per cent., sand operated very favourably on &au) American Securities generally. At the close of the market we heard of one failure only, and dr of no great an punt. This day has passed off in a way mtr. better than could have been anticipated, when it is considered 1,. great has been the decline in Foreign Stocks. BRITISH PPESS OFFICE, light o'ClocI: We stop the Press to announce the following importa. intelligence from Westmorland,e received by express:— WESMORELAND. REPORTED RESIGNATION OF MR. BROUGHAM. It is stated that notwithstanding the decisicri of the as‘errn against the " mushroom votes," many were polled during Thurt. day, the legality of which was questioned by Mr. Brougham.—ln consequence of that day's proceedings it is reported that Mr. Brougham declined continuing the contest, and announced his in. tention of petitioning Parliament agairst the election. This result. so unexpected after what occurred on Wednesday, isrendered more than probable by the state of the roll on its close on Thursday evening, when Mr. Brougham was left 304 ! below Col. Lowther. Tile numbers were as follow : Lord Lowther Colonel Lowther Mr. Brougham 163 R 1566 1262 STATE OF POLLS, RECEIVED EV ExrnEss THIS UORNING. NORTH UM BERL% ND. THURSDAY.—The ale tion was persevered in with great spit.: to-day, and the friends of Mr. Bell and Mr. Beaumont appear:, be confident of the ultimate success of tt:eir candidate. Liddell a secure and ilowick is distanced.; The following is the state of tl: clOsa of this day's pull : Thursday's Poll. Gross Poll. Thursday's Poll. Grog, P. Liddell - 80 1188.1 I Besumont Bell . 72 1277 Lord Elowiele 20 9:11 SU.SSEX. 11:1This election will ti ally close at three o'clock to-day. Yesterday (the fourteenth day) the close of the poll is es follows: Burrell Curteis - 2046 Sir G. Webster - - 1184 About half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning de King left the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, in his tra velling-carriage and four, with outriders, and proceeded to Mr. Greenwood's villa, at Old Brompton, where his Mr jesty areived about half-past one o'clock, cn a visit to Royal Brother, the Duke of York. The King partook of a thjeune with lois Royal Ilighorss, together with tae Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia. AWL: three o'clock his Nlajerty left Brompton. The Duke of York took his usual airing on Thursday afternoon. His Royal Highness was better yesterday, atJ. was visited by Sir [l. Halford and Sir J. Macgregor. Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday, frcra Salt-hill. The Chancellor of the Excheqtter also arrived in tows from a visit to tit,. King, at Windsor. Ou Thursday the L:nd Mayor, attended by the Swc-1 and Mace-bearer. and his Chaplain, held Courts of IV servancy of the River Thames for the counties of Ewen and Kent. The City barge conveyed his Lordship, ti:e Sheriff's, &c. from Black wall to Greenwich, when, after holding a Court. his Lordship gas* an excellent dinner, it the Crown and Sceptre, In a numerous party of Alderma nnil other Gentlemen, amonc , whom were the Lieutenar.• Governor of Greenwich Hospital, the High Sheriff e: Kent, Aldermen Ansley, Sir C. Flower, Sir C. Hunter, Birch, Mtgrnay, Brown, Lucas, Sheriff's Crowder and Kelly, the Town Clerk, Sergeant Arahin, the City SJ:.• citcr, &c. &e. The evening being particularly serene ate the tide favourable, some of the-party returned to town the City barge. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs follow:1 shortly after, in their respective cat riages. The weath r was delightful, and every arrangement of the day seem,l to give unmixed satisfaction. t)espatelles were received yesterday morning from Vice. Admiral Sir Laurence Halsted, Commander-in-Chief his Majesty's ships on the Jamaica station. The squadren generally had been healthy, but the Isis, bearing the Vic - Admiral's flag, had suffered considerably from sickne;:. We are sorry to learn that Dr. Archibald Lang, Surgeon the Royal Naval Hospital at Jamaica, died on the iftit April, in consequence of having accidentally pricked fore-finger, while assistinz, at an operation on a dead boil: at the Military Hospital, on the 13th of that month. Pr. Lang was universally respected, and was in his 43th year. LIVERPOOL, TIIL.R4DAY EVENING. — Report states slut there is an Insurrection in Colombia, and that a Mes senger was landed at Ccrk, with despatches. We alluded a few days ago to a question which hay been agitated by a Morning Paper, whether, in the event of the demise of the Crown, previously to the New Parlia ment having " met and sat," the last dissolved Parliame:: would not re-assemble, and the present Elections becotre absolutely null and void. The assertion was made by the Morning Paper alluded to, on the authority of Mr. Re'- sell's Hook ; and we observed, that if the law now stood u laid down in the passage quoted of that work, it ought to be altered as soon as possible. Upon inquiry, we find that the Act of 6th Anne, referred to by Mr. Ilatsell, was re pealed by the 37th Geo. 111., cap. 127 ; anl that it was enacted by the same SL Lute, that in case of the d em i se of the Crown, subsequent to the dissolution or expiration of Parliament, and before the day appointed for assembling a New Parliament, then the last Parliament shall imme: diately convene and sit, and be a Parliament for air months, unless sooner prorogued or dissolved ; or unless in case of the demise of the Crown again taking place, when it shall continue for six months from the last mentioned demise; hut that in case of the demise of the Crown on or after the day appointed by the Writs of Summons for as se nblirg the New Parliament, such New Parliament shit immcdii.tely convene and sit and be a Parliament for six months, unless sooner dissolved. The case, therefore, could not occur which was put by the Paper before al luded to, and the law stands, as it ought to do, according w reason and caromou sense.—San. ... -4rI N -7'- ' -r*.' :t4—% " :1----3 Jf .- . - , -.'"---, Z. ---------' - . ~ - 7. -. -4 P ple A N ' t 4 4. . : - Vs ..'. '; • -- -.... 2 .,;-A A t : • _ t .....'"- .....Z.: , ) --- .1.4-4------. ....._74c...-. y--, ~.,,,-., . x z:,:..".----...,.-_,:-.------7:----,:, 7 ....._.1v,,:...., ......._.-..- ..... . k. r dilwomei