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London, England, 1826-01-18 00:00:00

COLOMBIA.

The Editor of the Buttimore Gozette has received a
letter from his correspondent at Cattliagena, under date
of the 13th ult. which announces the arrival there of
Mr. Anderson, American Minister to the Republic of
Colombia, and Senor Gual, Minister Plenipotentiary
from that Republic to the Congress at Panama. Their
meeting is said to Lave been very agreeable to both, par-
ticulatly under the exiating circumstances, when matters
of moment to all the Americans were under considera-
tion. They were both partaking of the hospitality of the
principal inhabitants of Panama. Senor Gual would leave
about the 18th for Panama, and Mr. Anderson about the
same time for Baracao, there to embark in the steam-boat,
' which had succeeded in ascending the River, after en-
countering many difficulties, and returned again.
The corvettes Boyne:4 and Protector had arrived at Car-
thagena from EnAland. A ship of the line sailed two
days before the Protector, and others were on their way.
Three battalions of infantry and two squadrons of
cavalry, of the Colombian army, had arrived at Panama
from Peru, and more were soon to follow.

LADEPENDANCE OF BRAZIL.

LISBON, J.ax. I.

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN
His Excellency the Minister Secretary of State for Foreign
Afiiiilll having addressed to the Ambassador of his Britannic Ma.
jesty at this Court, on the 13th November hut, the Note of which
a copy is annexed (a similar note being addressed to the Ambassa-
dors of the other Powers to his Majesty the limperor and King our
Sovereign), has just received from the said Ambass,,dor the answer
which we aubjoin.
[The rote of the Minister announces the recognition of the inde.
pendence of Braz.l, under Don Pedro, and the a.sumpticn of the
title of Emperor of Brezil, King cf Portugal and Algarves, by his
Majesty the King of Portugal.]

ANSWER OF THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR.
LISBON, I/Lc. 211,, 1825.
The undersigned. Ambassador Extraordinary and 31mister
Ple-
nipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, having communicated to his
Government the note of his Excellency the Conde de Ptitto Santo,
dated 15th Noveinbtr last, has received order', from the King, his
Master, to present to his Most Faithful 31ajesty the congratubt-
, dons of his Majesty on the happy issue of the negotiations at Rio
de Janeiro, anti to assure his Imperial and Royal Majesty of the
' unalterable and continued esteem of his Majesty for the person of
his Imperial and Royal Majesty, and of the lively interest which
his Majesty feels in the fortune and prosperity, as well of the king-
dom of Portugal as of the empire transferred by hit Imperial anti
Royal lilajesty to his son the Emperor Don Pedro.
The undersigned embraces this opportunity to rifler to his Excel-
lency the Conde de Porto Santo the assurance of his most distin-
guished consideration.
(Signed) WILLIA M A'COURT.
Lisbon Gazette of Jan. 61

Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, dated 21st Oct.
—" IVe have grand news from the Banda Oriental. The
Patriots have beaten the Brazilians in a pitched battle,
most shamefully. General Lear had hard work to make
his way into Monte Video. They were equal on both sides,
say 2,000 cavalry each. The Brazilians charged with car-
bines, and fired ; but before they could draw sabres the
Patriots were on them, and routed them completely, killing
about 400, and as many prisoners, with a trifling Toss."
According to intelligence from different parts of Russia
the public opinionis strongly pronounced in favour of the
Greeks. At the celebration of the last fete of St. Alexan-
, der Newsky, it is said, that at the moment when the Ar-
chimandrite, a prelate upwards of an hundred years old,
I was going to pronounce the benediction, he fixed his eyes
upon the Emperor Alexander, who was present, and hit-
, ing up his hand towards the cross, exclaimed in a tone of
reproach—" It is trodden under foot by infidels, and finds
nc avengers.- These words seemed deeply to affect Alex-
, ander ; they produced an astonishing effixt upon the au-
ditory, and were repeated throughout the empire. It was
a few daps after this that the Empercr set out on his jour-
ney.—eitiligziani's Messenger.
Couetst so.— l'he brig Colon, Captain Ford, arrived at
this port in 9S days from Coquimbo. Captain Ford states
that, a few days before his departure, a large quantity of
silver ore was found, about 14 leagues from Coquimbo, on
on the surface of the earth, by a muleteer, who made
known his gem fortune at Coquimbo, and had been
offered thirty thousand dollars for what be had discovered.
This discovery led others to the spot, and when the Co!cn
sailed, information had been received of the discovery of
four or five rich mines (traced from the silver found on the
surface), which promised to be almost inexhaustible. One
of the mines was dicovered by Mr. Daniel W. Frost, an
American merchapt, residing at Coquimbo; and it was
supposed he would obtain a 14ratit, to work it. as the ether
discoverers had done. People were flocking from Co-
quimbo in search of silver, so that it was difficult to get
any business done.—Bostoot Coal ice.
The Baltimore Gazette states that a steamboat, named
the Felicia, commanded by Capt. Mitrovitch, has begun to
ply between the ports of Lima, Guayaquil, and Pamona.
The Quebec Gazette of the Ist of D..cember mentions,
as rather a remarkable fact, that the river was perfectly
open, and that there was not a single piece of floating ice
to be seen.

Letters from Demerara, dated Nov. 23, mention that the
rains hail commenced some dam which would he a great
relief to the country. The Colony was perfectly tranquil
A land surveyor of the 'tante of Aschlund, at Copen-
hagen, has announced some important discoveries in the
science of astronomy. According to his theory, the moon and
the other planets have their own Mrs.
S.n.Axar: EMI! HIT lON.--I.llVre is a very interesting
exhibition open at No. 4, Roe do Cros Chenct (Paris).
It consists of a living Esquimaux woman ; the body of her
husband, preserved in a most perfect state, after a process
peculiar to those people ; a fine dog front the same country.
and a large collection of ,their hunting and fishing imple-
ments. clothes, canoes, &c. The female Esquimaux iA near
3 feet high, of a well-proportioned form, with a countenance
by no means repulsive or wanting in expression. She has
fine long black hair, and is clothed in the bi:Arre costume
of her country, made of seal skin, aml sewed together and
embroidered with the sinews of the rein-deer, dyed of
various colours. She performs her national danc;' ma-
nages a canoe, and, harnessing her dog to a sledge, drives
sound the room several times with considerable rapid:ty.—
Ttyi.i raper.