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By the Micirsik, just arrived front tlic River
Mine, we received Buenos Ayres Gazates up to
the 10th June. We extract the following Decree,
imposing a duty on the 'Exportation of Grain :

SUFISM AVM.
'DECREE APPROVED Or RY THF: SOVEREIGN

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NATIONAL CONGRF:SS.
The mere isles that she rontrilintion imposed on the Car•
itorstion of Bakers, by She Governments whirls 'trended me,
might in some manure affect the consumers of bread, by
nosing a dlininution in the weight or the quantity, has for
some time occupied my mind, and often excited any sensi-
bility hi favour of the most miserable and necessitous classes
of the State; furciug me, even in moments of leisure from
my regular labours, to metlitale on the means of extinguish.
jug it, without oecasiouilig any injury to the public hinds,
burdened by enormous oldirations. To devise there meant',
I have gives every eonsideratioo in my potter to the subject,
and sought fur information from persons of probity and con-
fidence; anal although I have always found, that the rontri.
bation was founded oo the basis of equity anal justice, not-
withstanding the immense number of representations with
which the bakers distracting the attention of the Somme
Government, and the most excellent tabihlo charged with
its collection, have endeavoured, I. different ways, to neu-
tralise it, reileci!tg it to a mere name, as they are indebted
more than 80,000 dollars, notwillotaisding the different fa.
VOllll and abatements which I have graciously reseeded to
them ; still, however, I have not been able to tranquillize my
heart, from rhe sole fear lest it might, even remately, lac the
e'en of the evil which ought to be remedied. Ileterminine,
therefore, after the most mature reflection, to free felon the
said costribittion the bakers, with the express view that the
(swimmers ()fall classes may, in nu manner, feel any-donjon-
lien in the weight of bread, by which the condition of these..
feting classes may become more hard: therefore, and he.
cause the interests of the State can its no ways be less injured,
I have ordered that the contribution imposed on the bakers
cease from this day, and that it be transferred, till sotnctbing
else can be found to supply its place, to the wheat, flour,
bread, maize, and barley, which shall he exported front this
port, or from any of the Dependencies of the Union, keying
at the Custom-house one dollar fur every renege of wheat,
maize, or barley, six teals for every quintal of flour, aital six fear
the quintal of ',read, regulating the fonega of the former at ft:,
anobas ; anal that 'tribe second, without separating the:rain
from the ear, at 14 amebas, and separated at seven ; sod
that of the third at Gi anobas, weighing the sacks, Jar at the
Custatts-hunse. And in order that the revenues of the State
may not be defrauded of that which is lawfully due by the
bakers for the contribution up to this date, in order that as
Soon as the regulation shall be framed by the Cabal& in the
usual form, and the account be drawn out as to the balance
due by each individual, it shall be paid by three instalments,
iss three cosiseenlive mouths, fee.
Gives in the Castle of Buenos Ayres, theist June, 1815,
JUAN MARTIN DE PUEVRREDON.
ESTEVAN AUGUSTIN GASCON.
(A Copy) GASCON.
There is en account of an engagement between a
P•ttriutic frigate of Chili, commanded by J. A. Tur-
ner, and a Spanish frigate, in which the Spanish fri-
gate was beat off, but effected its escape,