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the most perfect security is stipulated for the subjects or
citizens of either State, who may choose, for commercial
purposes, to reside in the other. The shipping of each is
to be admitted into the ports of the otberon the saute terms
as the national vessels. The United Provinces of La Plata
pled:e themselves to co-operate with his MAJLIITY in ac
coeplishing the entire abolitioh of the ;rave 'Trade.
Great Britain is the first Power that has concluded any
Treaty with this Federation. The United States of North
America were negociating one, but the untimely death of
Mr. CXIAS RoDN EY. their Ambassador, prevented it from
being finished. There have been some disturbances in
Chili, excited by the fanatical party, who are offended at
the harsh treatment the clergy have lately sustained there;
but at Buenos Ayres, and in the surrounding Provinces,
the utmost tranquillity prevails. The Spanish General
ROM L, it is stated, had refused to surrender Callao, and
Bo ri VAR had consequently determined to outlaw him. It
was expected, however, that his own troops would deliver
him up to the besieging army. Three of the Spanish gun-
boats had joined the Colombian squadron that was block-
ading the port. The conduct of RODIL seems wholly
inexplicable, as the Asia and the rest of the Spanish ves-
sels had left the Pacific, to bring back the Vic Lac( and
the other Royalist Generals to Europe. OLA ILTA also
has submitted, and the soil of South America has no
longer one foe in arms treading its surface. The armistice
with OLANsr,t can only lead to his unconditional sue-
-gender.

" The following are the details contained in the Anent Extroor.
dinar!' of the 2thh February. It sets forth that a courier from
Salta had arrived en the preceding day, bringirg the news of an
armistice concluded between General burre and General Olaneta.
The Editor of the Argos says, in the absence of the ratification.
which it is hoped will soon arrive, though the armistice itself had
not been received at Salta, from a quarter which entirely preluded
doubt nn the subject, yet all the letters, from parties of the greatest
respectability, announced the fact. and believed it to be certain.
The terms of the armistice are thus given. It is stated, that
General Olaneta being then unable to recognise the independence
of the new States. or the Treaties previously concluded, agrees to a
cessation of hostilities for four months.--the armies during that
period to occupy their present positions—the one to the North, the
other to the South of the Desaguadero. The arrangements to be
observed by both parties are pointed out in detail. The duration of
the armistice was to count from the day on which it should be
ratified by General Sucre. In case of hostilities being renewed,
eight days notice to be given to either party. This document is
dated January 12, 1825, signed by Jose Alendirabal e'lmas, An-
tonio de Virelde. To this is added—Head-quarters. Pas. Jan.
13, 1325: Ratified in all its pans. Pedro Antonio de Olaneta."

The Brussels Papers of Wednesday were received last
night. IVe have extracted a few paragraphs, which we

subjoin :

Letters from Breslau say, that the demand for linen for expor-
tation has greatly increased in consequence of the reduction of the
duties in England. Orders have been received fur .:iO,OOO cwt. of
sine, which has considerably enhanced the prices. The expo,-
Iption of timber from Dantric for England continues to increase,
I and gives employment to a great number of people in that city.
The Greek Journal, the Friend of the Law, states, that the
Captains of tire European vessels, which it names, riz.-2 3lal-
- 2 Austrian, and I Spanish, which funning put of the Egyp-
tian expedition, had serest to convey troops, horses, and ammu-
nition. and were taken by the Greeks after the anion off Candle,
the 30th November, had been condemned by the maritime tribunal
of Greece, and released by order of the Greek Government.
The same paper says that the Egyptian troops commit many
cruelties in the lale of Candi&

The great Continental Sovereigns of Europe are looking
with alarm on that bold and masterly line of policy which
the English Government has adopted towards the Spanish
Colonies. They cannot but consider Mr. CANNING as
having confirmed and sanctioned, in the face of Europe,
those principles which it has been the great aim of their
ho'y league to extinguish. hey had reckoned on the
total disappearance of that spirit of patriotism, and of those
enlightened political opinions, which had began to make
head against legitimacy. The demand for Charters and
Constitutions they have long looked "upon as among the
many sad symptoms of insubordination which distinguish
the nineteenth century; they.regard every step towards
popular freedom as just so much encroachment on Royal
prerogative; anti to have independence introduced into
Spanish America under the auspices of Great Brit,sin, is an
event £3 hostile to all their pretensions, and so at war with
all their views, that it is to he expected they would meet
in Congress to confer on the best means of self-defence,
and to agree on the best measures of counteraction.
These great Potentates do not now seek, as in former
times, to adjust the balance grpower, cm the basic of their
relative rank, and their actual relations in regard to each
other. There is now no care amongst them to guard
against the preponderancy of this or that Sovereign, anti
to secure their common safety by a treaty of union protec-
tive of their separate independence. It would be hardly
intelligible in these times to talk of preserving the balance
of Germany by poising the two great houses tf AUSTRIA
and BRANDENDUI:C II ; matters have taken quite a dif-
ferent turn ; an entirely new character is given to the con-
federacy of crowned heads. The truth is, that all union
for the balance of power is superseded by another and a
very different species of political union. The Allied
Powers seem to consider their subjects as their natural
enemies ; it appears to have become with them a maxim,
that between then:seine: .and the people_ there is not, nor
can be, any community of interest or of feeling. To put
down this chimerical hostility, is the aim of every measure
of their government; the whole of their conflict against
popular freedom, and all that leads to it, springs from this
illusion. In the whole round of erroneous opinions, not
one could be found more preposterous or more fatal. It
leads, in its consequences, to a stniggle, that in the end
will bury the confederate Monarchs under the dust of their
, thrones.

A period more unseasonable than the present, for con-
spiring against the commonwealth of nations, could not
possibly be chosen. Pretensions which, thirty years ago,
might have extorted reverence from the multitude, would
now provoke their mockery : tbis does not arise from any
contempt, on their part, of public law or of public autho-
rity, but from a better untlestanding of the maxims which
should govern ►he cne, and of the restraints which should
regulate the other. It will not be suffered at this time of
day that the Tater e ALI lANCE should outrage all the
principles of public freedom, under the pretext of preserving
" social order ;"—that era of deception has paned away,
never to return.
It has long required the greatest skill and the most la-
borious exertions on the part of the Continental Steersmen,
to be continually tacking so as to keep to windward, and
not to be carried away by the adverse currents. We sit►-
cerely wish to see them moored in a safe anchorage, and
not, as they are likely to do, persevere in their imprudent
course till they rouse the energies of despair, and beget a
resistance with which they will in vain attempt to com-
bat. In France, De Vies Esc and his adherents, suc-
cessful as, for the moment, they may be, may depend upon
it they are feeding a stream of discontent, that, if things
do not take another turn, will eventually sweep them all
before it.
Great Britain may justly claim the glory of having
sounded the note of preparation for those great political im-
provements which are now going on in the Luropean sys-
tem. Mr. CANNING is a Statesman, fitted, by the force of his
talents and the firmness of his purpose, to infuse an energ?