The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-04 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR.

Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated the 7th of Au-
gust, 1826:-
" An extraordinary occurrence took place here on the
4th instant, which clearly displayed the enmity the Spa-
, 'dards entertain against the South Atm/lean States.

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" A house in the main street, which hid tetrserected
chiefly by Portuguese workmen, was ready to receive the
rafters for the roof, when, as customary on such occasions,
they determined on displaying a British flag on a staff stuck
on the walls, and desirous of availing themselves of the op-
portunity to testify their respect, at the same time, for the
Emperor of Brazils, who has recently conferred sack be-
nefits on their country. they burrowed of a Brazilian
gentleman, residing in this town, a flag of that nation,
and hoisted it alongside the English. This excited the
envy and jealousy of the Spanish Consul, who, conse-
quently, applied M the Fort-Major, and prevailed on him
to order the Brazilian flag to be pulled down, which was
immediately done, in the presence of hundreds of spec-
tators, who did not fail to testify their dissatisfaction at
the indignity thus offered to the flag of a friendly lower;
and would readily have assisted in re-hoisting it by force.
The gentleman to whom the flag belonged remonstrated
with the Fort-Major on the shameful occurrence, and par-
ticularly reminded him of the numerous occasions on which
the flags of other rations had been similarly displayed
under similar circumstances; but without producing any
effect, or obtaining from him the least apology, or satisfac-
tory explanation of his conduct.
• In the mean time, the Spanish Consul paraded the
streets, boasting of his success; but Ito was, in a short
time, obliged to retreat, or he would have been roughly
handled by the populace.
" It is said that the Portuguese Consul (as the Brazilian
has not yet arrived from Rio de Janeiro) has taken the
matter up, and not only addressed himself efilcially to the
Sitanieh Consul and Fort-Major, but imeted a formal pro-
wl ex-•//i: io against the insult offered to the flag of his
Imperial Brazilian Mejesty.
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"The townspeople took the flag on board the Concord,
of Jersey, lying in the road, where it was immediately
hoisted, and has remaint.d 41;sp!ayed ever sine.:."

BIL4ZIL.

(From the Hampshire Tergraph.l
Arrived last night the Thetis transport. Lieutenant H.
Hopkins, Agent, ftom Lima and Rio de Janeiro, whither
she took provisions for the squadron. Sue left Callao on
the 2.1 March, and Rio the 30th June. We learn that
Lord Ponsonby continued in negotiation with the Brazilian
Minister, but the Emperor appears obstinately bent on the
continuance of the war against the Buenos Ayr( ans, though
it is generally believed that the contest cannot but be
detrimental to his interests. The expense, it appears, is
principally borne by the province of Rio de Janeiro and
us immediate vicinity, for the people of Bahia and of the
Northern provinces not only refuse to pay the cost and itn-
posts, but more openly declare against the tyranny that
sends their fellow-subjects and children as conscripts to
' the unprofitable contest, in the comparatively cold country
of the Banda Oriental. The prosecution of this war will
do more to estrange the Northern from the Southern
provinces of the Brazils, than any other measure that
could possibly have been taken. It seems not improbable,
also, that it might cause a misunderstanding with the
Americans, who are extremely dissatisfied at being ex-
cluded from the Rio Plate. Two sloops of war (as the
Americans call them), the Cyrene and Boston, left Rio
Janeiro for Monte Video on the 27th of June; and it was
distinctly understood that they would not allow the Bra-
zilian squadron, on any pretence. to interrupt the transit
of the American ships to and from Buenos Ayres; in
other words; they intended to raise the blockade as far as
it respected American vessels. This small squadron was
itnmetliattly to be reinforced by the Baltimore, a sloop
of war of similar class to the Boston. These two ves-
sels are of 720 tons Written, flush decked, and arc in-
tended to carry— twenty-four long 24 pouttaers, but at
present they base only 32-pounder carronades, and have
a complement of 240 men. The English squadron
at Rio Janeiro consisted of the AVellesley. SO (Sir George
Byte), the Thetis and Doris frigates. The French squa-
dron was the Marie Therese, of 60 guns, Admiral Rosa-
mel ; La Seine, 41 (bound on a cruise in the Pacific), and
the Provencelle schooner. The French have. also in the

Rio de la Plats, watching the interests of their flag, the
Alacritie.and Cygne, of 20 guns each. The lt.inger, 28,
Captain Lord Henry Thynne, was the only British ship in
the river. It was reported that the Brazilian frigate Ne-
'hero)+, commanded by Captain Norton, had been driven
on shore in all action with the Buenos Ayrean squadron,
and that two brigs had been captured, one of which, the
Caboelo. was commanded by Captain Grenfell, nephew of
Pascfe Grenfell, Esq. and who was killed in the action.
The Brazilian Government bad appointed a M. Pas-
minim to be Consul at Liverpool, who was to come to Eng-
land in the next packet.
The PortuguPse, or rather the Brazilians, affect to have
great consciousness of maritime rights, and, singularly
enough, they have manifested it most in the slave avid
question, in which infamous traffic they are in reality the
greatest traders of any nation. An imperial vessel, called
the Emprehentlator, has taken into Rio de Janeiro an
English and a French vessel, for a breach of the slave
trade laws. The English vessel is a prize to the Redwing
sloop of war, Captain Clavering, which she had. captured,
with slaves on board, in the river \Fria!), on the coast
of Africa, on board of which she put her Second Lieutenant
and some men, and, as a matter of course, took her papers
on board the Redwing. The Imperial Brazilian vessel
falling in with her, made a prise of her, on the plea
of want of papers, and is actually carrying on a prosecu-
don against all on board as pirates ! The matter has been
taken up by Lord Ponsonby. The French vessel is a
schooner taken at Porto Cabinda, without papers, but the
master states he was bound from Noma to Alartinique; he
certainly has to account for being so far out of his road.

REAL. Bswevot.Exca.—lt is a fact worthy of record,
that within the last few weeks some benevolent individual;
who loves charity for its own sake, has secretly transmitted
to Messrs. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co., bankers, of Man-
chester, no less than 5001. in bank-notes, for the relief of
the suffering poor of Manchester. The first remittance
was 1501., the second 1501., and the last, which was on
Wednesay, was 2001. So careful has this benign indivi-
dual been to conceal the hand which dealt out such noble
charity, that the letters which enclosed the money were
put into different post-offices, and an attempt was evidently
made to disguise the hand-writing, so as to make the dona-
tions appear to come from different persons. Would that
many would imitate this species of deception !
A Scotsman, who left this country nearly nine years
ago, and has since been the leading partner of one of the
most respectable mercantile houses in Lisbon, during the
last few weeks has been travelling this country for the pur-
pose of purchasing goods. Speaking of trade, he was
asked if he thought the trade of this country was done.—
He said, " No ; but your merchants and manufacturers
have (hue themselves, and the artisan must suffer for their
folly. They have not competed with foreigners, but with
themselves; and every one has tried to undersell another.
Hence I have seen, in the time I was here, our masters
from time to time take a quarter off the breadth, put a
coarser grist in the same reed, with inferior wefts, and
a little off the dyer, bleacher, and starcher, and a full
set off the weaver; and what is worse, they all are
in part fancy colours, that will not stand a dip in the
tub ;—a shower, nr a blink of the sun, will make them east,
and appear like filthy rags. Hence, foreigners will not look
at British goals of any description. As a proof of this,
I can tell you this time I have bought 6,0001. worth of Bri-
Cali prints and other goods. I have often bought double;
but I am sure they arc holding colours, and I have paid
high:T for them than I could have got them fancy, though
not so high as French ones. When the goods strive in
Lisbon I will pelt a French stamp on them, with a label,
French Prints,' or they will not sell. From the present
low rates at which even the hest fast colours can be pro-
duced, there is no occasion for the manufacturers to use
fancy colours, except as an avowed article of manufacture.
IVere this method adopted and Liner, el to, the foreign
merchant could safely calculate on the article being exactly
what he purchased it for, and would not require to disguise
&hilt goods under a French statnp."—A'dinburyls Paper.