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LONDON,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1823.

SUN-OFFICE. Two o'CLocx.

CAPTURE OF MARANHAM BY LORD COCHRANE,

\Ye have just been favoured with the follow-
iqg
extract of a letter received from Rio de
J •
aneiro, dated 17th October, 1823, and brought
to Falmouth by the Chichester packet. It con-
t4ills the very important intelligence of the cap.
tare of Maranham by the Brazilian Squadron
ender Lord COGIMANE. The gallantry of Lord
CocnhANE, and his eminent services to the Bra.
zilian Government, have justly entitled him to
'the distinction of AlAnouEss, which we are
tappy to see has been conferred on him by his
Brazilian Majesty :

" Rio DE JAWEIno, OcT. 17, 1023.
" On the ht instant, arrived at this place a fast sailing

schooner with important dispatches to his Imperial Majesty's

Government, dated Maranham, 12t11 to 14th August, feonnis

Excellency Lord COCIIRANE, First Admiral of his Imperia:

MajeAty's Naval Service, &c. &c. giving the detailed ac

counts of the capture of that city and its port, in which

fete found one brig and one schooner of war, and six,

teen merchant vessels, besides a considerable amount of

-11cttuguepe property in the Treasury and in the Custom-house.
or this important service to the Empire, His IMPERIAL

MAJEsTy the EMPEROR was pleased to confer on his

Uri on the 12th instant, being Ms Birth-day, and
hi'" the Anniversary of the Independence of Brasil, the
title of Marquis de MARANHAO (Marquis of 1114utAwliAst),
and en the same occasion was pleased to appoint Lady

COCHRANE a Donna de Paco to the Empress. On the

receipt of this glorious news salutes were ordered to be tired

for nine successive days."

in a preceding column we have given extracts
from the illoniteur of Wednesday, and other
Journals received since our last. A
Vienna article reiterates the assertion that at
the ,meeting
of the two Emperors at Czer-
nowitz, the object of their conferences was
limited to the affairs of Turkey. It adds,
however, that " the Emperors, on this occa-
sion, declare that they are wholly satisfied
with the result of the political system which
ihcy have adopted, and by which they have main-
Wiled and consolidated the peace of Europe 1"
This is not the first occasion, within a few months
last past, on which the Members of the Holy
Alliance, and even the Ultras of France itself,
;have boasted of having maintained the peace of
turope, and that too, after having just conclud-
eti an unjust and aggressive war, undertaken at
tl'ieir joint suggestion against the Spanish nation,
4nd whilst another war, which has already
raged for three years in the East of Europe, is
"ill ravaging some of the finest countries in the
'valid with unabated violence! The declaration
dolt their Imperial Majesties are satisfied with
results of their political system seems to us
o be as premature, as their boast of having
Preserved the peace of Europe, is unfounded
"d ridiculous ! The results of their system
aril still in the womb of futurity; and it
requires no extraordinary sagacity to foresee
the probable occurrence of events which will
frustrate all the anticipations of the Holy Al-
liance, and even dissolve the hollow and pre-
41rious bond by which the conflicting in-
t rests of its Members are at present apparently
assifu•
Limed. But whatever the result of the
4:h141 political system of the' great Continental
powers may be hereafter, they must at least

acknowledge that as yet it has not produced
its final consequences, and that on the con-
trary all that its framers have yet effected can
only be considered as stages in the progress of
that great and hazardous experiment which they
have had the hardihood to institute, and which
will require almost superhuman wisdom and
energy to bring it to a tranquil and successful
issue. 'They cannot but be aware that many
parts of Europe are in a feverish and explosive
state. Even in Spain, so lately crushed by their
arms, the elements for a new convulsion are ac-
knowledged still to abound. If a formidable
reaction should take place in that country, there
can be little doubt that it would extend to Por-
tugal ; and who is there that will say that the
spirit of liberty and of vengeance might not
even cross the Pyrenees, and rekindle in France
Itself the slumbering embers of disaffection,
and that restless and reckless thirst for military
enterprise to which even the pacific measures of
the Holy Alliance cannot be remarkably accept-I
able. Italy and Germany are far from being in
that condition of quiescent subjection which
would warrant their Rulers in boasting of the
results of their political system ; and, if the
Holy Alliance think it worth while to take into
their estimation the feelings of the people of
England, distrusting, as they do, the principles,
and professions, and objects of their Imperial
and Royal confederacy, and abhorring, as they
do, with one heart and soul, the practices to which
they have already resorted as affecting Naples,
Piedmont, Spain, Portugal, and Wurtemburgh,
they will see abundant reasons for redoubling
their vigilance against the firtlier results of the
happy results upon which they are so forward to
congratulate themselves, and even, if they► were
wise, to abandon altogether their general and
philanthropic system of governing Europe by
Congresses, and all its blessed and consolidating
fruits, and to betake themselves each in good
earnest to the superintendance and improvement
of his particular State.

From the following extract of a private letter,
we are glad. to see that the Creeks are making a
powerful, and, we trust, decisive effort against
Patras:—

ZANTE, Nov. Ib.—(Private Letter.)—Seven thousard
Greeks have again landed on the plain of Patras, and it is
possible that the black band will not be able to succour the
Turks, for it seems that this fortress will be vigorously at-
tacked. A French officer, called N'illasse, as well as Lieut.-
Colonel Vraillard, are to direct this enterprise, and they have
already notified that they will fire on all vessels attempting to
convey provisions, or to carry. on any communication with the
Turks I

Crrr, Twelve o'Clock.—Consols opened this
morning at 80 to 80, and got up to sti!,7 at
which price they remain steady up to this hour,
with little doing. Ido not hear, as yet, of any
Expresses from Paris with Thursday's prices. It
is reporttql that one of the Express Boats was
lost on Thursday night, with all on board ; but
as yet we cannot state it as a fact. I under-
stand that M. N. ROTHSCHILD, Esq. is expected
in London in the course of next week, from
Paris. Hitherto nothing is known in regard to
any Loans being contracted for in the above
Capital, either by Mr. ltontscumo or any of the
other parties who repaired to the above Capital.

FOREIGN MARKET.--Spanish Bonds opened
at .271-1-4-n. Scarce any thing doing, except. in
this Stock.

Yeiterdny the Gentlemen appointed to be
Consuls et South America transacted business at
the Foreign Office, and received their final in-
structions from Mr. PLANTA, the Under Secre-
tarp of State, in the absence of. Mr. Secretary
CANNING, who is confined to his house with an
attack of the gout. The Gentlemen were to
leave town for Portsmouth last. night, and to sail
this day on board his Majesty's ship the Cambridge,
with all possible speed. Orders, were sent from
London on Wednesday night for the Cambridge
to be in perfect readiness for sailing this day,
that no delay might happen to the ship sailing as
soon as the Consuls ware on board, and every
thing of importance relative to their special
missions.

On Thursday morning, Mr. Kamm, the extra
Messenger, arrived at the Foreign-011ice, Down-
ing-street, with dispatches from Sir WlLta.tm
A'CoURT, in Spain.
Yesterday the Duke of CLARENCI returned to
Bushy Park from his Royal Highness's visit to
the Marquis of WINCHESTER, at his seat, Amport
House, near Andover, Hampshire.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE had a
numerous party to dinner yesterday at their
Mansion in Bushy Park.
MINA, since his arrival in England, has ad-
dressed a letter to Mr. CANNING, characterized
by great ele%ation of sentiment, in which he al-
ludes in a most affecting manner to the fate of
his unfortunate country. The Right Honourable
Secretary is so pleased with this epistle, that he
has shewn it in most of the diplomatic circles,
and especially to Count Lizym—(.orning
Chronicle.)
The Spanish Committee have addressed a letter
to MINA, with a tender of five hundred pounds,
for his own immediate use,or in any way this ex-
emplary and most chivalrous patriot may suggest.
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