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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, SEPT. 10.—We are ordered to appear after to-morrow (Thursday) before the Court of Assize, to answer an accusation of infidelity and cf bad faith, in the account given by us of a Sit ting of this same Court. The more we read the article charged against us ; the more we are convinced that the decision of the Court cannot be against us. We have not reported a single fact which was not exact, which did not occur before our own eyes, and which we could not, if necessary, prove by witnesses the most worthy of belief. How, we ask, can we be charged with infidelity in reporting, when we have stated nothing but what is most strictly true? llow Dan we be accused of bad faith, when we have inserted nothing, the truth of which we are not in a situation most fully to establish ? How can the. Public Minister support a charge of culpa bility upon this point, when we are ourselves ready, if necessary, to bring forward the strong est proof of our innocence ? Being irreproachable under the charge of infi delity, shall we be less so under other imputa ;ions ? We have again examined our article, and we do not find in it a single expression which could give the slightest offence to any one indi vidual. Neither the Jury, nor the Magistrates, nor the Orator of the Public Ministry, can find in our analysis a word, a single word, in which we have departed from that obedience due to their functions ; many will find in it those hon ourable testimonies which are due only to truth. As to the compassion which we have shewn tin common with all those who have the hearts of men in their bosoms) for 'tire young victims who have been capitally condemned, we are far from disavowing such a sentiment ; and we have too high an idea of the equity of the Magistrates called upon to judge us, to fear that they would wish to make this a crime against us. Complain ing of misfortune was never considered to be an insulting of justice, or a forgetfulness of what was equally due to decency and to the law; and s Kings are honoured with the power of extend ing mercy to those whom justice has condemned, we ought well to recollect that those whom jus tice has condemned may still merit, not only pity, but indulgence. We await without inquietude the decision which the Court is about to pronounce ; we have stated the truth ; the Court will be just. It is zutficient to state, that we have.nothing to fear horn its decision.—(Le Constßutionizel.) From our correspondence from Poitiers, it is to be presumed that the decision of.the,Court of Assize will be pronounced in the course.of to morrow (Wednesday.) The ordinary courier from Bayonne, of the 3d -September, brings us the following news on the state of affairs in Spain The passage of couriers between Spain and France has been very frequent on the 2d of September ; modifications are spoken of with respect to reciprocal communications, and it is even said that the Lazaret of Behohia will be removed, upon which .the French troops will abandon the position which they occupy on the line of the Pyrenees. Thus persons may pass :Ana repass without being subject to quarantine. •' Mention is also made of the expected arrival of 24,000 i'f:rtuguese towards the line of the Pyrenees. The armaments continue at Bayonne. Two companies of the 23d are about to leave the town in order to occupy Alarrac ; six batteries of Artillery are establishing at Bayonne, and eight batteries, have received orders to quit Toulouse, and place them selves in that town. A great number of women are occupied In making up 60,000 cartridges, which it is expected will be ready in a few days: " The courier, - Blonde], who left Bayonne, was stopped on the road to Madrid by the Royalist party ; the dispatches of which he was the bearer have been burned. He has received a receipt for them. " All private letters from Madrid announce as a matter al ;host certain, that the Bands of the Faith will shortly be driven tzpotl the frontier. " The fleet which the Minister of Marine has ordered to be fitted out and armed, will cruise on the coast of Catalonia for the dtube purpose of carrying relief to the Constitutional :troops, and of depriving the f a ct i o us o f a ll retrea t b y sea . " ihe severe prDclaimation of D. SANCHEZ SALVADOR, the Political Chief of Pampeluna, which imposes upon the ;tither and mother the responsibility of the service of their sons in the Army of the Faith, until their return, has produced a considerable desertion from the ranks of the factious. The in habitants of the frontier in the neighbourhood of the country occupied still for a few days by the factious, had for a long time hesitated as to the part which it would be most safe to take, but perceiving the arrival of the Constitutional troops in Navarre, some have retired to their habitations, and others have gone to ;ten the Constitutionalists. " The Trappist holds a position at Agoiz, and Queseda at (klieg - aria i • but 2000 Constitutionalists are plac e d a t S an Uueza in their rear ; and 3000 men, commanded by General ZGPINOSA, are marching against them. " Colonel GUMMIEST and LE CARME, the Chaplain of his Party, have been taken prisoners by the party established at idle Franca. Another party of 500 or 600 men, has been dis persed by a single company of the Chasseurs of Seville, under the command of Captain URBAJN. it Among the prisoners of the Faith conducted on the 25th of August, from St. Ander to Corogne, were remarked the Father Guardian of St. FRANCIS, the God-Father of Queseda, four Canons, the Judge de Premiere Instance, the Civil Intendant, &c. &c. " The Chief of the Band Rossieres has died of his wounds at Ayerbe."—( Le Contiitutionnel.) PARIS. SEPT. 10.—Menacing writings have again been distributed, addressed to those func tionaries who have fulfilled the duties which their situation as Magistrates imposes on them. The miserable wretches who employ these odious intrigues -are so blinded by revolutionary rage, that they.do not see that they may make the fate of those men more wretched who are lying under the penalties of the law.—( Quotidienne.) Amongst the anonymous letters which several of the Jury and M. de Marchangy daily receive, and which will become the subject of legal inves tigation, there are several which contain extracts of the minutes recorded at a meeting of a Carbo narian Association, which adjudge sentence of death. In one of these epistles, which is ad dressed to the Advocate General, are the follow ing passages : " We are twenty-five citizens who have sworn to take your life. Poniards, air-pistols, every means, shall be employed against you. You cannot escape our hands. Defeat our noble conspiracy if you are able. You will only be taught to know us by receiving the mortal stab. " Frenchmen are at length about to prove that they are weary .4f seven years of despotism. Article Ist. Drain the last drop of the blood of M •. " Article 2d. Murder the execrable Woelfel. " Article 3d. * "."'—(Gazette de Franee,) The Police has discovered the Printing Office where these infamous letters were printed, and several important documents have been seized, which will lead to the discovery of the principles in these infernal proceedings.— (Mid.) FRANKFORT, SEPT. 4.—A Spanish Cabinet CoUrier from Bayonne, who passed through Paris and Strasburgh, was at Carlsruhe on the 29th of August, going in all haste to Vienna with dis patches for the Emperor of Austria. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 6.—His Prussian Majesty is returning to Berlin from his Tcepliz journey. The annual review of the Prussian troops will, it is expected, commence in the beginning of this month, and will close by the 15th ; and towards the end of September the King will, it is said, repair to Vienna, for the purpose of going shortly after to Italy. The Prince Chancellor de liar denberg will also repair to Vienna, after his re turn from Pyrmont. The Emperor of Russia is expected on the 3d of September at Troppau ; and the Emperor and Empress of Austria are expected on the 2d of September at Vienna. It appears that the departure of the two Emperors for Italy will not take place before the middle of September. The opening of the Congress of Verona will not take place before the commencement of October. During the absence of the Emperor of Russia, all civil affairs are confided to M. Le Prince Lapeschin, and the Ministry of War toa General of Infantry, Count Aracktschejew. The Secretary of State, Count Capo d'lstrias, left Petersburgh on the 18th of August for the Baths of Ems and Carlsbad, from which he will go in the autumn to the Congress of Verona. Durin,g the absence of M. the Privy Coun cillor and Secretary of State, Count de Nessel rode, the direction of the Office for Foreign Affairs for Russia is confided to M. Disoff, Privy Councillor and Senator. The Grand Duke Constantine is now Military Governor General of all Russian Poland, and it is reported that the seat of Government will be removed from Warsaw to Dabno, a more central position. COURT OF ASSIZES OF POITIERS.—SEPT. 9. The defence of all the prisoners is terminated. The Procureur- General complained to the Court of having been misrepresented in the Journal conducted by Mr. Catineau. His observations and the denial of the sentiments imputed to him were ordered by the Court to he put on the record. M. Drault, who seems to have excited the indignation of the Court by his spirited conduct, was repremanded like a school-boy by the President, for being ten minutes after the hour appointed for the Court to assemble. Advocates in France seem, like soldiers, to be well drilled by their commanders, who are the Judges.—The Procureur.General then replied. He established the fact of there having been an attempt to overturn the Go. vernment by arming the citizens against its authorities, and of a conspiracy, by more th a n one p erson concer ti ng suc h a pro ject. He ridiculed the idea of the prisoners desiring to main tain the Charter, and therefore regarding their act as not cri minal. All means are not equally proper to attain a just end ; and to take up arms to maintain the Chater, is to take up arms against the Royal authority. Who would live in a society in which every citizen constituting himself the judge of the actions of the Government, may reclaim, with arms in his hands, the redress of what he may regard as violations of the fundamental laws ? Our conspirators have boasted of Quiroga, Riego, and Pepe, and their object was a revolution like that of Naples or Spain. The Procureur. General then went through the parti- 1 cular facts of the whole case, and refuted with powerful rea sonings, the statements advanced in their behalf. He concluded by thanking the Jury for their great attention, and telling them that their justice would prepare a complete and national justice. General Berton then read his reply, which is not given in the French Journals. The re't'ies of the Advocates also were begun, and we may expect to hear of the conclusion of the trial in a day or two. 'EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ZANTE, AUG. 2. " Chourschid , Pacha has really passed the defiles of Ther mopylee without opposition, because they were delivered up to him by Odysseus, who retired to Mount Catavothra with his troops, a manoeuvre which gives reason to suspect that Chief of absolute treason, to which he has not fallen a victim, as the first accounts from the Continent stated. In consequence of this defection the Ottoman Seraskier advanced to Livadia, whence he proceeded without meeting with any resistance to Salona, where he fixed his head-quarters. " 'When Chourschid Paella arrived at Salona, he found there 12 transports which had already arrived from the Adriatic, and put troops on board them which landed on the coast of Vasi lica (formerly Sycion), where, having assembled to the num ber of 10,000, they left th a t pl ace t o advance into Argolis by the defile of Trete, leaving Corinth on the left. So far all went on successfully for the infidels ; but when they arrived at Rito they were suddenly attacked by Colocotroni and Mauro- Michaelis, who defeated them, and forced them to retreat by Nernea in the village of St. George, where, it is affirmed, they are surrounded. • " While these events were passing in the north of the Morea, the Turkish fleet landed at Patras some troops, which advanced to Vostiza (Egina), which they burnt; after which, being harassed and beaten at the defile, of troupia tis aoias irenis, they were obliged to retreat to the point from which they set out. Such are the reverses and successes of the con tending parties in the Peleponnesus. " In the midst of this conflict the Greeks are masters of Athens, of the defiles of the Isthmus, of the Acro-corinth, of Naupli, and of all the fortresses in the Peninsula and the mountains. In this state of things it may be asked, what can the Turks do ?---:mischief, without doubt ; but as for conquer ing the country, that is another matter. " Mauro-Cordato had arrived at Missolungi on the 26th of July. The troops of Odysseus who had abandoned him were disposed about' Parnassus and the mountains of Phocis, so that Chourschid Pacha was greatly impeded in his commu nications. " The English at present hold out a helping hand to the Greeks ; and since the departure of Sir Thomas Maitland, it has been observed that the rigorous measures have ceased with his presence. At Zante, an asylum has been granted to the family of Papa-Diamanto-Poulos, Member of the Senate of Corinth, and to several other persons, who fled from the Con tinent at the approach of the Infidels. Sir Frederick Adam, Governor of Corfu ad iuterim, who is married to a divorced Greek Lady, gives assistance to the unfortunate. Thus there is a change of policy on this side ; but unless God assists the Greeks, it is to be feared that the approaching Congress will have to deliberate only on ruins and tombs." STETTGARD, SEPT. $. [Extract of a private letterfrom Athensof the 30th June, 1022.1 " A regiment has been recently formed of the remains of Ypsilanti's corps, the Italians and the Greeks of Athens. The French military discipline has been introduced into this corps, which is commanded by a Colonel Zarella, formerly in the Neapolitan service. A corps was to have been formed of stu dents and other Europeans at Athens, under the name of the " Sacred Battalion," but when the corps was raised, it was called the Phil.hellenian battalion. It was no sooner completed than a M. Meerheem, a Saxon officer, much esteemed by the European and other officers, declared that they would not serve in this corps, as its formation had been the work of intrigue. The Philhellenians being em barked for Agrava, the officers who had refused to bc incor porated in the battalion offered to serve under a Greek Chief, and they were referred to a Colonel Balaska, who had departed for Zeitum, but whom Odysseus put to death out of jealousy. The Greek Government has not dared to punish this crime, either on account of the numerous partisans which the murderer has among the people, or from fear that he would go over to the Turks. Anopolls, the citadel of Athens, capitulated on the 20th of June. Besides several fine pieces of artillery, the Greeks found a considerable quantity of arms of various descrip tion, and above a million of piastres in money, and other effects. The capture of Napoli di Romania has been celebrated here for some days past." NUREMBERG, SEPT. 2.—The correspondent, of this city, published an article, dated from the Lower Elbe, which says— " Letters from the North assure us, that the Authorities, in Russia and Poland are extremely vigilant to prevent any occur rence in the Emperor's dominions which might excite any sus picion of the strict neutrality of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg in the minds of the other members of the Holy Alliance. As an illustration of this, they state that soon after a el-decant French officer, who had been for some time at Warsaw, and whose intention of going to Greece had become known, had left Warsaw orders were sent to Wilna to step him, and he was ac cordingly brought back under military escort, and thence sent to the Prussian frontiers. Notwithstanding all this, the zeal in the cause of civilization and humanity is not cooled. Thus Dr. Dieffenbach, a physician at Konigsberg, has been induced to leave his situation, to dedicate his talents to the friends of freedom in Greece. But as a knowledge of the lan guage is absolutely necessary to be any use in his profession, Dr. D. went to Paris, as physician to a Russian Princess, where he studied modern Greek for nine months, and having first paid a visit to his relations in the south of Germany, has embarked at Diarseilles for Greece. Dr. D, has promised, that when he arrives in Greece he will transmit a faithful account of the state of affairs there. " A son of M. Rosenstiel, Counsellor of State and Director of the Royal porcelain manufactory, has likewise gone to Greece with his father's consent. He had studied pharmacy, and his apprenticeship was nearly at an end. He has already written that he had arrived sate, and was very well received." • FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, Auo. 16.—Fugitives from Jassy bring the following particulars of the dreadful scene of the 10th of August. " 300 Janissaries who had secretly re ceived the cruel order suddenly returned, and set the city on fire in 40 places at ones. In a few hours all was in flames; nine churches and seven Monasteries are burnt, and it is sup posed several thousand houses. In the midst of the conflagra tion the Janissaries dragged the Boyars and 'Magistrates out of their houses, the ourning of which they witnessed, and com pelled them in the sight of this misery to sign a paper declaring their conviction that this hellish fire was caused by accident."— The new Caimacan is said to have been hurried of in the con fusion to Silistria. The fugitives say an evacuation is not to he thought of now, and if it takes place it will be with fire and sword.—(Allgemeine Zeitung , Sept. 3.) WARSAW, Auo. 27.—H iSMajesty the Emperor of Russia, our Sovereign, arrived here yesterday in perfect health, about four o'clock, accompanied by His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, who had gone to meet him. His Majesty alighted at the summer palace of Cuzienki. In his :Majesty's suite are Prince Wolkinski, and Colonels Von Man surow and Von Solinlza, Aides-du-camp to his Majesty, and Baron IVyllie, the Eniperor's physician. His Majesty was re ceived with the acclamations of the inhabitants, and the city was illuminated in the evening. Count Matuszewei, Councillor of State, and General Count Branchi had arrived from St. Petersburg. AMSTERDAM', SEPT. 10.—We have received Curaqoa Gazettes to the 27th of July. The seige of Porto Cabello con tinued, and the city, though vigorously attacked by land and sea, defended itself with great obstinacy. The Spanish squa dron continued to convoy the vessels that came to Curagoa for provisionS. The Spanish General Morales had arrived with his troops from , Coro and taken ,the.command of Porto Cabello.— An expedition of 2000 men had marched from Maracaibo in the middle of July after Morales. BR ITSSE Ls,-SE PT. o.—His Grace •the Duke .of Wellington is expected every moment in this city, whence he will imme diately proceed to Vienna. A letter from Madrid, of the '26th in the evening, says, that on the same day there.hai been at the Palace a consultation o f the principal physicians, the result of which gave but litt hopes of saving the young and interesting Queen of Spain. The Princess of Saxony is the third wife of Ferdinand VII. ; the first was a Princess of Naples ; the second a Princess of Portu gal ; and the third is she who now shares a throne enveloped in storms and danger. Every preparation is making at Vienna to receive the Empe ror Alexander. Marshal Count Hardeyk has set out for the frontiers, in order to regulate the ceremonial to be observed when his Majesty passes the frontiers. The Austrian funds continue to be favourable ; on the 30th August the prices were—Metalliques, 82 3-16; Bank Shares, 671 ;•—(Brussels Papers, Sept. 10.) ST. PETE lISBURGH, Auo. 21.—A ship of the line, of 80 guns, was launched yesterday from the Admiralty Wharf. Notwithstanding the intense heat, there was was a vast con course of spectators. It received the Swedish name Oemhaten (Tenderness), from a Sivedish vessel captured in a war with Sweden. The closing of the Fleemasons' Lodges excites extraordinary sensation here, and is the subject of general conversation. BERLIN, Auo, 31.—The'State Gazette says that the Kings of Naples and Sardinia are also expected to be present at the Congress at Verona', where preparations are making for the re ception of a great concourse of strangers. PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL. [From the Diarie do Governo of the 27th ultimo.] THE GENERAL, EXTRAORDINARY, AND CONSTITUENT CORTES OF TILE PORTUGUESE NATION TO TILE PEOPLE OF BRAZIL. To found and consolidate the monarchy in both hemispheres, is the constant object of the Cortes, and the ardent desire of all good Portuguese. To render more close, by in dissoluble ties, the union of two nations of brothers, though se parated by a vast space, is the difficult problem, the solution of which can only be obtained by means of an intimate conviction and a frank declaration of what is fitting for all. Let us, then, no longer waste in,vain disputes and mutual recriminations that time which may he So valuably employed in maintaining the integrity of our extensive empire, the grandeur and solidity of which depends upon a - well-adjusted and permanent union. Brazilians !—Vourbrethren of Europe do not contradict, nor did the Cortes ever deny, the neural right which you possess to constitute yourselves independent. and to choose the condi. tions of the Government which best suits you. This the Cortes virtually recognized when they proposed to you the funda mental law as the basis for your declaring whether you would, under those conditions, make with us one society and one em pire. If your representatives could not, in consequence of the distance, co-operate in this law, you have since irr fact adopted it, you have sworn to it, and the voices of all the political as semblies in Brazil caused the vaults of the halls to resound with the greatest applause and the greatest enthusiasm. It was then notorious to the whole world, that far from adopting an unconditional submission, you have recognized and sworn to the basis of the Constitution of the Portuguese monarchy, and that under the political system, and the conditions of the Go vernment then established, you proclaimed your union with Portugal in the most solemn and spontaneous manner. The essential principles of this our original political charter cannot be altered in the Constitution, but they may be more developed and further explained. They consist, generally speaking, in the division of political power—one single cham ber of representatives with the power of legislating ; one as sembly annually; one inviolable King, with responsible Mi nisters ; the liberty of the press ; the right of petitioning ; these are the first securities of the political and civil liberty of the people of Portugal and the people of Brazil. That liberty, Brazilians, is the same for you as for your brethren of Europe, since it has for all the same value and the same efficacy ; the Constitution does not concede to the one what it denies to the other : those who tell you to the contrary, only . seek to satisfy their ambitious passions by alienating your minds in order to compromise your security and draw dowp upon you all the horror of anarchy and civil war. They are wicked men, who eulogize every kind of power solely for the purpose of ascending to the pinnacle of authority and wealth, without regarding the mischief and desolation they may occasion. Cease, then, to yield to the illusion which, perhaps, still misleads some upright minds ! Brazilians !—When the Cortes displayed \ to you the standard of liberty, and invited you to unite with then-, -it was not, cer tainly, for the purpose of holding you in the servile state of a colonial dependency. When they offered you the same consti tution, the same liberty, and the same guarantees, it was not, certainly, for the purpose of making you slaves. It would indeed be a strange manner of colonizing and enslaving a peo ple to recognize the rights of which they had been deprived, and the privileges which they had never fully enjoyed. As if civil and religious liberty were an abstract speculation, and be yond the reach of common capacity, a faction of disorganizers have wished to persuade you that the existence of the Provin cial Juntas, which are of popular election, and which you your selves have created, was inconsistent with that liberty. Let, then, those tribunals, the inutility and burden of which are no torious, be abolished : let the heir to the Crown, since all poli tical reasons call him to the foot of the throne, and since you yourselves have manifested a wish not to obey him, be removed from America. This faction of ambitious men and enemies of the public tranquility have set up the most futile pretexts in the South : they allege, first, that the Cortes has no power to legislate for Brazil; they further allege that there is injus tice in the legation ; and they finally declare formal disobedi ence and manifest revolt ; when the legislative autho r ity of th e Cortes was rooted in the basis, and the will of the people who adopted, swore to, and recognized that authority ; when the justice of the legislation was confirmed both by the nature of things and by the will of the same people, anteriorly and suffi ciently declared; when, in fine, partial resistance became the very crime of rebellion, which is always punishable in every well-organized society. The Cortes being aware that this revolt was merely the work of a few individuals who had subscribed a document, decreed the trial of those rebels ; the Cortes respect the general will of all Brazil, and know that the general opinion of the people is the, vehicle and the organ of all wiselegisl a at o i v o e n rn ; m b e u n t t t , h u e n y it a i l n s g o , know that the general opinion of all Brazil is to adopt, under the same conditions, the same system of itself by perpetual bonds with Portugal; and they further know that these disorganizing attempts at partial resistance, are mere ly ramifications of the south. To prevent the extension of these and other restless and liberticidal passions, hostile to the gene ral opinion of the people of Brazil, the Cortes have determined that the governmenment should be authorized to send troops to that continent—a new pretext for the factions, but no less futile than the former. This measure, in the terms in which the Cortn have adopted it (which of you, Brazilians, are not convinced of this ?) is efficacious for supp ress i ng part i a l dan gers, hut is evidently inadequate to the making of conquests or maintaining tyranny. This consideration is sufficient to take from the measure every appearance of hostility; but the Cortes, considering the degree to which the prejudices between Euro peans and natives have arrived in Brazil, and how much is to be apprehended from the excesses of a popular frenzy, which the troops of the country might be incapable of restraining-,have felt that it was necessary to protect the real and personal pro petty of citizens. How could they, indifferent to such a mass of interests and opinions ? Nothing else influenced the Cortes in their determination. Brazilians ! The Cortes and the Government, whose autho rity you have recognized and sworn to obey, never in their con duct departed either from the principles of universal justice, or the maxims of the act of Government, in any of the laws or orders which they have addressed to you. Do not, then, deli ver yourselves up to the caprices of a party who wish to per suade you of the contrary, for their only design is to disunite and to ruin you. Reflect within yourselves ; counsider the situation in which you are placed. and the degree in the politi cal scale to which the constitution has elevated you. Ponder attentively on what these violaters of solemn oaths tell you, and you will find that some want the extreme of liberty by pro claiming a democratic independence; and others want the ex treme of servitude by opening a path to absolute power and aristocratic privileges. The Cortes, on the contrary, offer you the constitutional Monarchy as a middle term between these two dangerous extremes, and as the plank of your political sal vation. They extend a helping hand to you, and save you from the laborious and hazardous work of establishing a Go vernment entirely new. Your representatives co-operate ac tively and wisely in introducing into the constitution such ad ditions as may be suitable with the unity of power and - of the empire, and which may have for their direct object the general utility of the people. You will , never be without the most ab solute independence in the exercise of the judicial authority, for to have tribunals inconveniently situated is a denial of jus tice. Neither will you be without an authority delegated fiom the King, which, in the distribution of offices and rewards, will place more within your reach the intervention of the Royal power.... ' Brazilians ! The act of adopting or rejecting a system of go vernment is a compromise. Let us then weigh inconveniences. We must give and take; we surrender some rights for the bet ter enjoyment of others. Thus, as we sacrifice natural liberty to enjoy with more security the advantages of civil society, so ought we to sacrifice a part of our civil advantages to the supe rior utility of the union of a great empire. If tie seas are agi tated and months pass away, and 1,500 leagues of ocean inter. pose space and time between . the law aalits execution, the sphere of human invention is not so circumscribed but that the wisdom of institutions may unite what nature has separated ; and if there still should remain some inconveniencies, they would be well compensated by avoiding the horrors and anarchy, and the vexations of absolute power. All this was well calculated by you in your choice and in your oath. Now then, Brazilians ! do not break promises so solemn and so just. Exercise your political power by sending wise repre sentatives to the Cortes of the nation. The inconvenience will not be great, if you compare it with the importance of the union. Enjoy, then, the privileges of liberty ; the protection of government secures to you every social advantage. The Cortes never pretended to maintain the union of Portu gal with Brazil by means of arms. Force is a feeble instru ment for restraining in a subordinate and profitable connexion, a people, active, numerous, increasing, and fond .of their li berty. Our union, Brazillians, depends solely on the affec tions and on the interest which reciprocal advantages produce; on common names, parentage, friendships, equal laws, and equal protection. The title deeds of your rights is the consti tution. Soon will it be transmitted to you with the latest ad ditions ; that will suffice to render it impossible to persuade you to adopt the insane opinion that those who would give you that constitution wish to place you in a state of colonization and slavery. And, if a declaration of so much singleness and sincerity be not capable of removing all causes of discord, and of re-establishing the original and unsuspe c ti ng con fid ence , t h e Cortes . , lamenting your blindnes and your delusion, will a t least have the satisfaction of securing to themselves a tranquil conscience, by declaring their principles, and manifesting their intentions. AGOSTINHO JOSE FREIRE, President. FRANCISCO XAVIER SOARES DE ANDRADE, Deputy Sec. JOAM BAPTISTA FELQUEIRAS, Deputy Sec. Palace of the Cortes, August 17. PRICE 0 4ritis DAY AT STOCKS NE 0-CLOCK. shut Bank Stock 3 per Cent. lied. Shut 81 shut 1001 i 92 shut 543 3 eep e rr r e C crcc e een n ne t t ntist C :ti o lON :s le . w 7d Bank Long Ann. Imp. 3 per Cents. India Stock India Bonds 47s. 495. South Sea Stock Old Annuities ... Ex. Bills 3 9 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Oct. 16. PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, SErr.l4. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Five per Cents. 92 75. ex div. {Six per Cents. 82. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 81i. Ditto New 87g. Neapolitan Five per Cent. Bonds, ni. Austrian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 81. Spanish f Five per Cent. Bonds, 6814. New Ditto, 648. Prussian f Five per Cent. Bonds, 91. I Ditto New, 88i. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 89. Old Bonds, 00. Colombian {Six per Cent. Bonds, WI. Ditto Scrip, ssi. - French Russian AMERICAN FUNDS. LONDON. Sept. 13. £22 69. 70 95i 97 sellers. 93i 931 95i 99i 95 Divd. from July, 1322. Exchange 10 pr. NEW YORK. Aug. 14,1822. 102, 75i 103 1031 103 104 105 Bank Shares 3 per cents 6 per cents. 1820 1821 - 6 per cents. 181 4 1813 1814 1815 7 per cents 106 i 104 i Divd. from July, 1822. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Morning, 0 minutes after 2. 1 Evening, 21 TO-MORROW. ) minutes after 2. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUSI ALIDEAT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1822. We have authority to assert positively that Mr. CANNING is appointed to succeed the late Lord LONDONDERRY at the Foreign Office. Mr. CANNING attended yesterday at the India House, for the purpose, as it was understood, of tendering his resignation of the appointment of Governor General of India. We received this morning: the Paris Papers of Wednesday. They do not contain any news of importance, and the most interesting articles will be found under the head of " Foreign Intel- ligence." Brussels and liamburgh Papers have also ar rived, the principal contents of which are given under the same head. Letters of a very recent date from the latter town again mention the report which we before announced, that the Swedish Government had recognised the inde pendence of the Republic of Columbia. FRENCII FUNDS.-SEPT. 11. Five per Cents. for the Opening on the 22d Sept. Opened at Closed at 92 t. 35 c. Bank Stock 1652 f. 50 c. Exchange on London—One Month 25 f. 45 c• Three Months 25 f. 35 c. Lisbon Papers have arrived to tl►e Ist instant, from which we have made the subjoined sum mary extracts. The private letters mention, that numbers of passengers continued to arrive from Chili Rio de Janeiro, and that the sailing of the eq c v e dition for Bahia had been delayed in consequell ts of the contractors for provisions and trausP r o , not having c om pli e d w i t h t h e i r respec tive e the gagements.—P r i va t e l e t ters ment i on that Portugues e ex p e diti on to B a hi a was to l e ave the Tagus on the following Tuesday, the 3d ins° 9 Vf° consisting of Don Juan VI. of 74 guns' a t op corvettes, four transports, having on board men. The discussions on the subject of the suppression o f the Convents and useless religious Societies, for the purpose of propriating their property, had nearly closed, most of the iirv• des of the Project having been approved in the House. The KING had ordered two letters he had received ft . ° , son, the PRINCE R oNete , to b e l a id b e f ore the C orte s. In the first, dated Rio Janeiro, 13th June, the PRINCE ft g°24 acknowledges the r ece ip t o f two o f t h e K ENO ' S l etter s, and I s, plains the circumstances which obliged hint to adopt th e In :: sures which had been carried into effect in the Brazils, °7:e ,e,l iso* ting that the se p ara ti on o f t h at ki ng d om is near being re--- owing to the odium the whole of the people entertain wlta f t i c the Cortes of Po r t uga l, to w h om t h e PRINCE gives theAuer of factious, &c. addi ng th a t un d er suc h c i rcumstances , en" -is. membering that his M AJEST Y had told him at Rio, this • case of a separatio n , it was b etter f or hi m, the Purercr, t 0 rc o main there at th e h ea d o f th e ki ng d om, t h an that i t s hould to the lot of an adventurer, he had adhered to what the in bY bitants of Brazil wished, the greatest part of the Po' n ' :Dcei having already acknowledged him as their Perpetual nc , e ° and he knoWs that they wish to proclaim his MA-lEO' E. ' peror of the Unit e d Ki ng d om, an d hi m King of, Dr' However that he would not consent to this without the e °seli of his MAJESTY. He then goes on to shew that the ° P i n . Lion of Brazil is necessary, and he requests that Peon' over may be granted for the I n f an t D. M rauEe, to go o ver . 00 — join him, in order, one d a y or ot h er, to b e marr i e d to hls g atil beautiful daughter, Mania DA GLORIA; and he recoma t t to his MAJESTY, as a f a th er , not to d epr i ve t hi s hi s son of the means of making his fo r t une , by re f us i ng perm i ss ion for 110 to go over to Braiils. In the second letter, dated 22d June, he asserts that / 3 S dier-General Mape:lnA continued his h orr id policy, by ing the tyrant over Bahia ; in consequence of which h_,,e e ie Prince) had determin e d u p on go i ng to t h at p l ace, in w'(lir compel him to abandon it, e ith er b y f orce, f am ine, °r tress. [The Cones have published an Address to the Bt . + ) People, which will be fo un d i n anot h er co l umn o f the ° l "l,ert The elections for the next Cortes, to assemble in Noveg o r. go on well. The names of the Deputies for Lisbon an ,`", l- 4 0 to have been p u bli s h e d, an d among them we notice ti" -- ( 10 Augustin J. Fri ere , n ow P res id ent of the Cortes ; Pernits' Carrno ; Xavier 3lonteiro ; Margio c hi ; S uarez Franco i tio ; vasso ; Betancourt ; C as t e ll o B ranco ; Macedo Cal!:boa• Aleixo Falcao ; Borges Carn e i ro . Th e a b ove are for L',.. l ' tc a; The following are for Oporto :—Messrs. Rodrigues 13 411' Jose Ferreira Borges ; Pinto Magallanes ; Guerreiro; hot ; gueiras ; Father Francisco San Luis, Bishop of Coh l3 f o Jose Pereira de Mene ses , & c . tier , - A Decree has been p u bli s h e d t o pro hibi t t h e importr' stet foreign brandies into th e i s l an d s o f M a d e i ra an d Porto Si' and regulating the duties to be paid on national brandies' peg In the Sitting of the Cortes, on the 23:1 ult. there was and animated debate on the affairs of Monte Video. The cise points under discussion were 1. Whether an Army of Occupation should evacuate , le or in part, Monte Video ? I, lilt' 1)1 2. Whether th e A c t o f U n i on o f J u l y 31 , 1821, se- 0 pot' recognised as valid and legal, and if it was proper for the le tuguese nation to ace e pt thi s un i on on t h e 21 con ditions posed in that Act, a nd acce pt e d b y B aron d e L eg man& ° pro 2d of August of that year ? neverr i 4 With respect to the fir s t, it was d ec id e d th a t the ment should remove from Monte Video the division of ;; oo ps Volunteers and the Staff of the Army, disposing of those bli 4 as might be most advantageous and honourable for theriber service. No decision was adopted upon the secon d, the consideration of it being adjourned. d te le ; Dr. Moe RA spoke at great length o n thi s su bj e ct, an d g 1 ing to documents, lie stated, that the garr i son co nsisted 0 , Oh men, 3763 horses, and the exp ences 73 contos o f reis sterling), per month. the g e f o le f ll t o h u e i e n x g pe o d ffi iti c o i n al h eya b n ee a n tio d n ela sai T lin h Government, by superior orders :—" It is made knos7oo., every thing . relating to the expedition, in the departmen t o ath, vernment, is ready, as well the ships of war as the tut ° troops, &c. and that the reason which has hitherto 0 11 :, - t he the saiing of the squadron has been the non-compliance curo"op• part of the contractors, notwithstanding the urgo r t r a , veit t/ o y f ed th h e ad reason been g T: 2 1 0 0 strances of the minister publicly posted up in the arse!! wit bia that part of the engag menus they took upon themselves , .oo? the time, and as stpulated in their contract. This ci re ont stance, notwithstanding all th e a cti v ity di s pl a y e d, wi ll , l : e ek! the squadron from sailing till the be g i nn i ng of next Aug. 28. We have received lialifaK Papers this to ° rP4 ing to the 20th August. [From the Halifax Journal, 19th August] His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor we under s ''" — ffi oth embark to-morrow on board the G overnmen t brig C he— An ei; Lieut. Stewart, which vessel will immedi a t e ly sail for Sir Quebec settlers arrived this season, 8837. PROVINCIAL SECRETARY OFFICE, Mali 4 ' Otig Whereas his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor 0 4, ois day received by the Francis Er ec ti ng p ac k e t f r om Eng land' following Acts passed by the Imperial Parliament " An Act to regulate the trade between his 111sies t Y l °it be sessions in America and the West Indie s , a nd other P a world. " An Act to regulate the trade between his Alajessl i6 ' sions in America and the West Indies, and other P ,, , 0 l or. America and the West Indies, whi c h said , Acts are s° pie operation immediately. All persons concerned, therefore/ desired to take notice and govern themselves accordingll' " By his Excellency's command, " WILLIAM Although we are •• the n7uch i cri i ticising the language of contemporary Journal P i rstilac ' tPasuie .h e ole :f. bt oairetiyc effortsi nofg principless a u c pho h aafsv s a eoa s rgi dne a ev r ria e :r, i p tath r bo o el f yt e jh s boe s el e : d din l e y ßfde e inur n clel g oc eu;ielf,ad we wtienhsci Sunday nnn a dn i ao n oy t t a u.rre l n ofir :I l i r i ll to : 0e no not some inquiry, the Editor of that paper observes/ answerable for the truth of news copied from Pr ° ' . : lo ; papers, to which our correspondent from Huddersfield 811°,-;„,4 but we hate Dissenters of all classes, and are very much inow to believe in the veracity of the dying man's speech." c i t y We do not feel ourselves called upon to ascertain the ve la, or mendacity of this dying speech, but we deem it our g from a conviction of the pernicious tendency of such 6fi n ce i r i to reflections as that which we have quoted from the Jalis oar a few remarks upon the very injudicious and 811:dtlitfroto avowal of hatred to dissenters, which has, we tru st, 610' rd the pen of its Editor. It is not fair to seize up on a hotY " .° OO 4 as expressive of the deliberate sentiments of all p erf°ll' iof we would therefore give to John Bull the same latitude planation, which, in a like case, we should claim for (*P el t to Conscious that we are inferior to none, in sincere attachlOP, the institutions of our country, whether civil or re d the perhaps we are, from personal feelings, and from th e 13 01 of our connections, quite as much interested in the ste t tile of the Constitution in Church and State, as the Editpr: John Bull can claim to be. We cannot, therefore, 'e i pected of regarding Dissent, and more especially ;es re e with any sentiment allied to complacency. But we till i