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117, HO UNDS DITCH.

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or stamps.
REY
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President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G.
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STANFORD S, SMITH Seoreutry.

The Seizure of the Florida.

The United States Minister at Rio has addressed
the following despatch to the Foreign Minister at
Brazil:—

Rio do Janeiro, Oct. 14.
The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States, has the honour to
acknowledge the receipt of a note of this date, from his
Excellency Senhor Joso Pedro Bias Vieira, councillor to
_ _

his Imperial Majesty the Emperor, Minister and Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, calling his attention to an alleged
violation of the neutral rights of Brazil and en indignity
offered to her sovereignty by the commander of the United
States eorvette Wachusetts, in capturing in the harbour of
Bahia an armed vessel calling herself a vessel of war, by
name the Florida, belonging to certain States of the Federal
Union, which are now, and for three years past hare been,
in rebellion against the Government of the United States;
but which vessel the Government of the United States de-
clares to have no nationality whatever, and insists that she
was, to all intents and purposes. a pirate.
The undersigned has no official information in relation to
the alleged capture and violation of the neutrality and sove-
reignty of Brazil, other than is contained in the note of his
Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs; and, he, there-
fore, assumes the statement made by his excellency to be
accurate in all its details; reserving to himself, however,
the right to correct any errors which may have crept into
that statement in consequence of its being merely an ex
parte report from those in authority at Bahia.
The undersigned, before proceeding to consider the very
grave international question to which his attention has been
called, feels it incumbent upon him, as an act of justice to
his Government and country, to make a few passing remarks
in regard to the claim, that the people in rebellion against
our Government are, in fact, a" belligerent" power, at war
with the Government of the United States, instead of a
band of traitors in rebellion against the Government to
which they owe allegiance, of which they have always con.
stituted a part, and from which, neither for the purposes
of war nor peace, have they ever been separated.
The facts of the case in regard to their claim to bo a
"belligerent" power at war with the United States, are
briefly as follows .
The great rebellion against the Government of the United
States, by a portion of its Southern people, broke out on
the 12th day of April, 1861; and the knowledge of that
rebellion reached England about the Ist of May in the same
year. Six days after Lord John Russell, the English
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, intimated in the
Rouse of Commons that the British Government would
probablyi
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from which England and Brazil have not been exempt--
the Queen of Great Britain by her proclamation recognised
those in rebellion against the Government of Washington
to be a" belligerent" power, and entitled within her ports
to all the privilege of belligerents, and in all respects the
equal of those against whom they were in rebellion. In one
word, England degraded the Government of the United
States to the level of those in open rebellion against its
authority; and elevated our rebels to a position of equality
with a powerful nation, with which it heel, and professed a
desire to maintain, the most amicable relations and the
closest commercial and political intercourse. That act of the
Government of Great Britain was as much a cases bclli as
would have been the recogaitian of the independence and
sovereignty of the so-called Confederate States; and it would
unquestionably have been so treated if France and other
European Powers had not immediately endorsed the gross
injustice of England; to which Brezil at the earliest mee
went possible gava her sanction and approval.
It is not assumed by the undersigned that this action on
the part of Brazil arose from any feeling of hostility to a
neighbouring and always friendly Power, which has ever
recognisedlthe duty of the Governments on the American
continent to stand by each other in defence of an American,
in contradistinction of a European, policy. It was most
probably resorted to, because it was convenient and usual
for Brazil to act in concert with the recognised Powers of
Europe; hut it was, nevertheless, a most hasty and ill-
adviaed proceeding, and grossly and manifestly an act of
injustice to a neighbouring and ever friendly Power. It
is only necessary for your excellency to ask yourself,
what would have been the feelings of Brazil, if in
past years, immediately upon hearing of disturb-
ances and rebellion within the Imperial empire, the Govern-
ment of the United States, without inquiry into the cha-
racter of such rebellion and in ignorance of its cause or jus-
tification if any, had made hot haste to unite with the Eu-
ropean powers in regarding as belligerents the province in
rebellion, and thereby elevating her rebels to an equality
with the Imperial Government, by giving them similar
rights in her ports as belligerents, and making them the
equals in all respects of the government against which they
were in rebellion? Beyond all manner of doubt, to have
done so would have been considered a flagrant outrage per-
petrated by a great naval power against a weaker but
friendly nation, and an admitted cases bali. Brazil would
unquestionably have so considered it; but if not convenient
to go to war with the United States for the perpetration of
such an outrage, she would have contented herself with re-
monstrating against the proceeding as equally unfriendly
and unjust; and then calmly have submitted to the indig-
nity, outrage, and injustice which she could not repel.
And this is perhaps what the Unite i States has been com-
pelled to do. She could not go to war with all the world,
and at the same time put down a gigantic rebellion within
her borders. To have done so would have secured to her
rebels the triumph of their rebellion, and gratified her ene-
mies by a disruption of that great American power, so im-
portant for the development of constitutional and represen-
tative government, and so necessary for the protection of all •
the governments of the continent of America, against Eu-
ropean interference with their inalienable right to govern
themselves.

Beyond all peradventure, the object of Great Britain, in
recognising as belligerents those in rebellion against the Go-
vernment of the United States, was, if we take her leading
press and the speeches of many of her statesmen in and out
of Parliament as exponents of he: purpose—to accomplish
by indirect means what she did not deem it prudent to at-
tempt by a more manly course. She had just as much
right to declare our Government destroyed and the Union
broken up by a recognition of the sovereignty and indepen-
dence of our rebels, within two weeks after hearing of the
rebellion, as she had to give them by proclamation the
rights of belligerents. But she wanted the manhocd to do
this in the fate of Europe, and the just indignation which
she would thereby have brought upon herself ; and she,
therefore, in the exercise of her discretion, resorted to a
measure which she well knew was a cases MU, but which
sho foresaw we were not in a position to treat as such ; and
the consequence of which she had a right to suppose, as did
our rebels, would eventually be a disruption of the great
American Republic.
Britain is the first naval and commercial power of th e
world ; and the other nations of Europe, followed by Brazil
on this continent, very naturally, ware led into the adop-
tion of her proclamation, without perceiving its tendency to
throw the better part of our commerce into the hands of our
only commercial rival, without any intention to do the
United States injustice, and without intending thereby to
give aid and succour to our rebels, and protract, and if
possible render triumphant, their rebellion. And yet
such has been the effect of the unjust policy inaugurated by
Great Britain, and thoughtlessly adopted by all the powers
friendly to the United States in Europe, and by her stead-
fast friend, Brazil, on the American continent. But for that
most unjust proceeding, the rebellion in the United States
would have terminated by a single campaign. had other
nations practised towards us a very small portion only of
the comity and forbearance which we have always extended
towards others, and exhibited that respect for the inter-
national right of Government to deal with rebellion and
civil war as to them seems expedient, for a reasonable time
at least, without interference from abroad, our rebellion
would have been put down more than two years ago, with-
out a tithe of the sacrifice demanded of us; and there would
then have been no occasion for the undersigned to express
his deep regret at the untoward event which has called forth
your excellency's note and demanded this response,
The Government of the United States, through the un-
dersigned, has protested against the right of Brazil to con-
stitute her rebels "belligerents," and to concede to them at

the time she did •' belligerent" rights and privileges. She
has made similar protests to every government which was
sedaced into following the example of England, in ignorance
of its tendency. But she has at the same time said to
Brazil and other friendly powers—" although bumbled and
humiliated by your proceeding, I do not accuse you of in-
tentional wrong; and your act, grievous and unjust as it
is. I am compelled to recognise; and I indulge the hope that
the day will shortly arrive when we can look back upon the
past without one solitary remembrance of wrong to over-
shadew the future." And to Brazil in particular she has
instructed the undersigned to pledge most earnestly her
confidence and friendship, as imperatively demanded by the
similarity of their respective constitutions, by the general
sentiments ~f their iespective people, and by their political
duties to each other and to their neighbours arising from
their being the two principal governments ot; the continent
of America.
Entertaining these sentiments and feelings towards
Brazil, it will ibe a source of unfeigned grief and of very
sincere regret to the Government of the United States, to
learn that a commander in her navy, without instructions
or authority of any kind, should have taken upon himself
the responsibility of capturing one of the piratical cruisers
of our rebels while lying in the harbour of Bahia; and the
undersigned feels authorised to assure your excellency that
every reparation which honour and justice demand will be
most frankly tendered—more frankly and more promptly

than if the same
.act had been committed by an American
cruiser in the waters of the most powerful maritime nations
of the world. But in so doing, the Government of the
United States will undoubtedly make the amende honorable
under protest. She will tell Brazil that she denies in tote
the right of any nation or nations, immediately upon the
breaking out of a rebellion in the dominions of a
friendly power—without inquiry or investigation of
any kind, and without knowledge of, or even
pretending to know the merits of tho quarrel—
to declare such rebels a belligerent power, and by proclama-
tion make them in the ports of tho world the equals of the
nation against which they are in rebellion. She will insist
that until their nationality is recognised they cannot invest
their armed vessels with the nationality necessary "to set
forth a vessel of war," and she will insist that all such vessels
aro no more and no less than pirates.
She will proclaim, as heretofore, that a vessel built in an
English port by English artisans, and with English funds,
armed and equipped by Englishmen, with Englishmen to
man, sail, and fight her, and sailing from an English port
under English colours, with the avowed purpose of preying
upon and destroying the commerce of a friendly power
which happens to be her naval and commercial rival, and
which does so prey upon and destroy the commerce of the
friendly power under the ridiculous plea that she is a vessel
of war belonging to the rebels—without ever having visited
a rebel port—is nothing more or less than a pirate, which
the nation whose commerce she molests has a right accord-
ing to every principle of equity and justice which obtains
among civilised and Christian communities, to pursue and
destroy in every port and every harbour of the world.
But she will at the same time say to Brazil, that the
powers of the world having, unintentionally no doubt, been
combined against her,and her international rights being de-
nied her through that combination, she has been compelled
for the time being to submit to what she cannot resist, as has
heretofore been the case with every nation (including Bra-
zil) of whose injustice she complains. Submitting therefore,
as she does, simply because she is compelled so to do, and
recognising the right of these pirates to protection in the
ports of England and France, simply because she cannot
resist it, the Government of the United States will not
withhold from Brazil one iota of the reparation whi h,
under similar circumstances, in her present embarrassed po-
sition, she would be compelled to make to England. While
she submits to the great injustice done her, she most scru-
pulously observes the strictest neutrality to al' ; and as she
is compelled to recognise towards European Powers the new
doctrine, which in the twinkling of an eye and by the dash
of a pen converts a rebel of yesterday into the belligerent of
to-day, with all the rights and immunities, and entitled to
all the honours and privileges of the power against which
he is in rebellion —so will she most cheerfully recognise
(under protest) that new doctrine towards Brazil, and hasten
to make her every reparation for the alleged breach of neu- '
trality which has occurred in the waters of the empire.
Neither the Government of the United States nor the under-
signed are directly or indirectly responsible for that event
as ono dependent upon their volition. It was neither or-
dered nor authorised by the Government of the United
States or the undersigned; and it will be to his Government
as it is to the uudersigul4l-a source of very sincere regret
that, if such an event must of necessity have occurred, it did
not take place in the waters of the Power which, fifteen
days after bearing of the rebellion in the United Slates, joy-
fully and hopefully proclaimed our rebels a " belligerent"
power—an act which her press and l eople and our rebellious
States looked upon certain to bring on eur country all and
more than all the evils act u ifly inflicted, by adding to them
the dissolution of the American Union.

In replying to the nute of your excellency, and assuming
as facts statements in regard to which the undarsigncd
knows nothing, ho frankly, and very sincerely, for himself
and in behalf of his Government, under the circumstances
herein stated, repudiates most emphatically the capture of
the pirate Florida in the waters of Brazil ; and he desires
to reiterate, as the burtben of all his despatches and
instructions from Wabhington, his determination to draw
nearer and closer together in bonds of reciprocal friendship
the two le tding nations upon the American continent. Such
being, as he is assured, the wishes and intentions of both
Brazil and the United States, the undersigned entertains no
apprehensions that those purposes and intentions can be
thwarted by the commander of one of our vessels of war, or
by the hasty acts of an excited populace, based uron what
they considered a national indignity.
In the full conviction that the Government of the United
States will promptly do all that becomes its own dignity and
the dignity and honour of Brazil, the undersigned begs leave
to renew to your excellency, with apologies for this hastily
written note, the expression of his most distinguished con-
sideration. J. WATSON WEBB.
P.S.—This despatch will be placed in the bands of the
courier from the Foreign-office, instructed to wait for it, at
7 20 p.m.
To his Excellency Sr. Joao Pedro Dias Vieira, Councillor
to his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor, Minister and Secre-
tary of
_State for Foreign Affairs, &c.

Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments

in the Civil Service.

(From the Civil Service Gazette.)
THE AnikunALT v.---Mr F. Brown has been appointed a
temporary clerk at Somerset House—Mr P. A. Stephenson
has been appointed a temporary dockyard clerk—Mr Samuel
Churchward, foreman and accountant in the Civil Engi-
neer's department, Keyham, has been appointed clerk of
works at Devonport dockyard, vice Hooper, resigned,
PRISONS DEPARTMENT—The office of surgeon-superin.
tendent of Portsmouth Convict Prison has become vacant
by the death of Dr John William Bowler.
THE POST-OFFICE—Mr Cook, second clerk at Canterbury,
has been appointed to be first clerk at Dover—Mr Grime)
first clerk at Hull, has been appointed to be postmaster of
Doncaster—Mr Jones has been promoted from the second
to the first class of sorting clerks at Manchester—Mr Law
has been promoted from the first class of sorting clerks to
the second class of clerks at Manchester—Mr Davis has
been promoted from the third to the second &ass or clerks,
Shrewsbury.

CUSTOMS—Mr John Kennedy has been promoted from
the 6th to the sth class of clerks
London Docks—Mr Robert
N. Mackenzie has been promoted from the 3d to the 2d class
of out-door officers, Sunderland—Mr Robert Edgar has been
promoted from the sth to the 3d class of out-door officers,
Sunderland—Mr William Minniece has been promoted from
the 2d to the Ist class of out-door officers, Belfast—Mr
Arthur M‘liee has been promoted from the 3d to the 2d
class of out-door officers, Belfast; Mr John Leary has been
promoted from the 4th to the 3d class of out-door officers,
Belfast—and Mr Henry Barrett has been promoted from
the sth to the 4th class of oat-deer officers, Belfast.
INLAND REVENUE—ExCise Branch—Mr Thomas Miller,
examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Thurso district
Glasgow,7th division, Glas-
gow coWlleilclitaioni Wn,hhaisakbiellenoffiacpeprOinted officer of Derby, 2d
division, Nottingham collection--Mr William M'Donald,
officer, Monasterevan ride, Carlow collection, has been ap-
pointed officer of Glasgow, 7th division, Glasgow collection
—Mr O'Flanagan, officer, Athlone, Ist ride, Athlone col-
lection, has been appointed officer of Monasterevan ride,
Carlow collection—Mr J. M‘Grath, officer, Epworth ride,
Sheffield collection, has been appointed officer of Athlone,
Ist ride, Athlone collection—Mr J. Palliser, officer, Birken-
head, let division, Chester collection, has been appointed
officer of Birkenhead, 2d division, Chester collecion—Mr
J. Noyes, officer, 6th division, Liverpool collection, has
been appointed officer of Birkenhead, 2d division, Chester
collection—Air officer, Cork, 2d division, Cork
collection,
has W
been
W. Curran,
appointed of Liverpool, 6th division,
Liverpool collection—Mr P. Perlin, officer, Waterford ride,
Waterford collection, has bon appointed officer of Cork,
2d division. Cork ColleCtiOa.
EAST INDIES.—Me T. H. Thornton, judge of the Small
Cause Court, Delhi, has been appointed secretary to the
Government, Punjeub—CaPti C. A. M'Mahon, judge of the
Small Cause Court, Umritsur, has been appointed to officiate
as deputy commissioner of Delhi—Mr R. W. Thomas,
assistant commissioner at Rohtuck has been appointed to
officiate as judge of the Small Cause Court at Umritsur—
Mr F. R, Scarlett, judge of the Small Cause Court, has
been transferred from Peshawur to Simla—Lieut. Glover,
R.E. deputy superintendent general, irrigation, N.W.P.,
has been appointed to officiate as superintendent general,
vice Col. A. D. Turnbull, R. E., deceased—Dr R. Moir,
superintendent of the Central Prison at Benares, has been
appointed superintendent of tile Central Prison at Agra.

The enormous failure of Santo and Co., of Rio
Janeiro, lies up to the present had bat a very in-
significant effect on cur market. When it was first
known here great fears were entertlincd about the
Maria Bank, but the largo remittance of gold which
the bank in Rio made to the River hate caused
this popular bank to enjoy greater confidence than
heretofore. Still, the effect of Santo's failure has
tended greatly to tighten money, and merchants
look with anxiety to see what effect it will have in
England.

Unfortunately at this moment, owing to the
Brazilian forces having invaded Banda Oriental,
and the Government of Paraguay having openly
declared that it would regard such invasion a decla-
ration of war, many are of opinion that President
Mitre will be dragged into the struggle; but there
is good reason to suppose that no complication will
induce President Mitre to enter into a war which
can only result in both misery and expense to the
Argentine Republic.

The Government of Buenos Ayres is introducing
many useful reforms, and is assiduous in its efforts
to foment industry and protect life and property.
Its Treasury boasts of a surplus; and the public
money, instead of being squandered, is applied
towards the building of new churches, schools, the
survey of lands, the extension of railways, &c.
Trade in the city is getting brisk, as dealers from
the country and provinces are coming in.
There is good prospect of a splendid wool crop ;
the quality is very superior, and the quantity is
expected to be in excess of that of last year some
20 per cent.

The Provincial Bank has drawn £35,000 on Eng.
land by this packet. The Standard says :—" We
understand it has opened a credit on F. Huth and
Co., of London, for £200,000, and we suppose per
next packet it will draw for the balance. The rate
of exchange has gone up, owing to the Provincial
Bank drawing, and good bills were offered at 497,
to 491. The total amount drawn up to the present
we estimate at £140,000 sterling.
The new wool crop is expected in the market in
about 15 days,

THE OUTWARD INDIA; CHINA, AND

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 20.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delhi, Captain Rogers, sailed hence to-day, at
2 p.m., with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediter.
ranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India (except Bom-
bay), China, Mauritius, Australia, and New
Zealand,