The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

BRAZIL,

We-have extracted from the Diana Fluminonse
(a Brazilian Newspaper, published at Rio de
Janeiro) of the 22d of October, the following
letter, addressed by some of the German emi-
grants lately „arrived there, to Monsenhor Mi-
randa, Inspector-General of Foreign Colonists,
which we think deserving of selection, since it
tends to prove the good reception given, and pro-
tection afforded, by the Brazilian Povernment to
persons desirous of settling in that country
SlR,—Having arrived in the most benign of climates, com-
menced:a new era in our political and physical career, and re-
ceived as brethren by all ranks of the great Brazilian na-
tion, we revere as our common Father, the most august and
munificent Emperor Don Pedro 1., and are led to hope that
better things are in-store, not only for us, but likewise for our
children's children.

Your Excellency has been the means, in the hands of P.
vidence, and under the auspices of your august and most grad.
nti*Roperor, and of your generous nation, of accomplishing so
desire lean object: taking, therefore, into oar consideration
the benefits that have been conferred on us, and which have
been 44 ttended with a great expence, we beg leave to express to
your Excellency our most sincere thanks and heartfelt acknow-
ledgments ; and to assure your Excellency that we shall ever
be unremitting in our exertions to render ourselves, if possible,
deserving such great favour and condescension, by leading lives
distinguished by pious and virtuous actions. Whatever we may
be deficient in the manifesting of our gratitude by words and
actions, we will endeavour to supply by our orisons. Our spirit
shall soar to the Throne of Eternal Majesty, and supplicate 'din
to pour his superabounding blessings (OH is Imperial Majesty,
his august Family, and your Excellency, the authors of so
much good.
Having indirectly conveyed our sentiments to your Excel.
lency, we humbly entreat that you will be pleased to lay them
likewise at the foot of our most benevolent Emperor's throne,
as a small homage from our grateful hearts.
Permit the Colonists arrived in the Germania to subscribe
themselves in testimony of their gratitude, Sir, your most faith.
ful and humble servants. (Signed)
John George Ehlers, Pro. Henry Poehis,
tenant Clergyman, Rattling,
Jacob Petzinger, Charles Niethammer,
Daniel Jacob Bochter, Theophilus flergag,
Daniel Bendixer, Francis Henry Elbers,
Henry llergitalm, Frederick 13erghahu,
Liborio Mentz, Oottold Sigmundus.

PERU.

(Extract of a Letter dated Se:oasis, Callo Bay, Aug. 31.)

I seed you a copy of a Gazette, giving an ac-
count of a skirmish that took place on the 6th inst., and since
then there has been another rencounter on the 10th, the parti-
culars, of which are imperfectly known i it is, however, asserted
that Bolivar is in possession of the plains of (luaja, and that
Cantarac is retreating, and part of his army dispersed. The
Spanish squadron you speak of, I suppose, must be the Asia,
04, and Achilles brig, and are waiting for two other vessels.—
Admiral Guise, wbo is now blockading this port, will bid them
defiance with his single frigate.
" Head-Quarters, Reyes, Aug. 7, 1024.

"TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF I'ERC.
" By the order of his Excellency the Liberator, I have the
satisfaction to announce to your Excellency, that yesterday
evening at five o'clock the Spanishormy suffered a severe de-
feat in the plains of Junin, two leagues and a half from this
spot. The cavalry, on which the enensy relied most for com-
pelling Peru to submit to the Spanish domination, was so
beaten that it will not again be able to appear on the field of
battle. I must Inform your Excellency that the enemy came
to meet us with all his forces united, and that the army of the
Liberator began its movements from Conochancha, in order to
bring on a decisive battle. In the mean time the enemy, who
had advanced with hasty steps, wished to retrace his route with
forced marches, in consequence of the notices he received of the
direction taken by our army. his Excellency calculated on
forcing the enemy to a pitched battle during his retreat on the
road which he must take for (ianja, but the precipitation
with which the different divisions marched, the fortunate cir-
cumstance of arriving, and even passing the point where they
were to unite, and some movements which obliged our army to
make a long day's march, and then take up its station in
difficult and uneven ground ; and in this state his Excellency,
observing that the, enemy continued his retreat without any
delay, and considering, on the other hand, that the opportu-
nity of putting an end to campaign at one blow would
be lost, and of deciding the fate of Peru, he resolved to
send forward the cavalry at a trot, which was under the
command of the intrepid Naucochea, and placed in the
same plain that was occupied by the enemy, under the hope,
that when we had approached, some favourable results might
present themselves, of which we would take advantage on our
cavalry overtaking that of the enemy, he might risk a general
action to -save his whole army. The result corresponded to these
expectations. The enemy, from his confidence in his cavalry,
charged ours in position ; the shock of these two bodies was
tremendous, and at length, after different conflicts, in which
both parties had occasionally the advantage, the enemies cavalry,
though superior to ours in number, was thrown into complete
disorder, beaten. and routed. This hastened the march of his
infantry, which had continued its route during the engagement,
making for tluaja, and finding itself many leagues from its
camp when the buainesii was decided. Our cavalry has shewn
an intrepidity which my pen cannot describe, and which alone
is sufficient to make us recognize in them all the character of
heroes. -

" The result of this battle are 235 killed on the field of battle,'
among whom are ten officers and chiefs, more than 800 pri-
soners, many wounded, and a vast number dispersed; we have
taken more than 300 excellent horses, well equipped, and the
field of battle is covered with all sorts of booty.
" We have lost, on our part,7oo killed and wounded; among
the fbrmer are Captain Zulinit, of the horse Grenadiers of Co.
loinbia, and Lieutenant Cortes, of the first regiment of Peruvian
Cavalry ; among the latter, are General Naticochea, with seven
wounds, none of them dangerous; Colonel Carbajai, of the
Horse Grenadiers of Colombia ; Commandant Soberbio, of the
second squadron of the Peruvian, 'regiment ; Serjeent-Major
Felipe Bravo, and Captain Peraza, both of the cavalry of Co-
lombia ; the first and the two last are slightly, the second se-
verely wounded ; among the troops'very few dangerously.
" Yesterday would have terminated
,the war in Peru, if the
eseniy!a infantry had not continued their march without once
halting, and if ours had bcerhable to proceed as was necessary
to overtake the enemy, for all were decided to destroy him.
He has taken warning, and his terror is extreme; so that from
yesterday morning, at day break, he has never stopped ; not
even the night
" Mamma continues his operations, but we have no later
news of him to give your Excelstencv, than what was contained
in my communications from the valley of Gimp.
" I congratulate your Excellency anti all Peru? on yester.
day's success, which being the first of the .campaign, augurs
the happiest results. The soil of. the Incas is wet with the
blood of their oppressors, and of the oppressed inhabitants of
those tine countries, where the precious tree of liberty has been
planted. The conquerors of fourteen 'yews will, only ended.,',lcier to requite their enemy for the horrors he committed when
fortune smiled on-him. Lheg your Excellency .will cause this
notice to be published and circulated among all the people and
authorities of the country.

God pretienre your

M. Otivnmtn, the Contractor-General of the
Army of Spain, was arrested on Christmas Eve,
between one and two o'clock, in a fiacre, in the
Rue de Bac, at the suit of one of his creditors.--
He required to be conducted immediately to the
i
President of the Tribunal of First Instance,
before whom M. Cottinet, his Advocate, con-
tended, that as M. Ouvrard had already suffered
5 years' imps konment, at the- suit of the Mitsister
of the Public Treasure. in 1811, he could not now
be imprisoned for debts which had accrued pro-
vionsiy,. Mr. Drouin, the Coonsel for the creditor,
by whom he was arrested, argued that M. Ouv-
tart' butt not suffered the five years' imprison-
Ment which were 'spoke 04 and even were it SO,
that was for ri.publie debt. M. Moreau, the Pre-
sident, directed that M. Ouvrard should he de-
tained, and he was forthwith conducted in a
Ihackney-coach to St. Pelagic, where he was
. banded, over to the jailor.

IN DI A,

ASIATIC SOCIETY.

(From the Bombay Courier Supplement.)
On Wednesday, the 4th of August, a Meeting of the Mem-
hers of the Asiatic Society was held at the Society's apart-
ments,. in Chowringhee, ILLURINGTOII, lsq. Presi-
dent, in the Chair. .

Mr. B. 11. Hodgson, Assistant to the Resident at Kattuan-
doo, presented, to he deposited in the Museum, through the
medium of Mr. W.-B. Bayley, -Vice-President, a great num-
ber of valuable and exceedingly curious articles from note,
viz.—Potes, or religious tracts; juntrax, idols of brass and
clay, pictures of a religious kind, called Thungiths ; pictures
of civil architecture, articles of wearing apparel, persona! orna-
ments of the religious kind, ditto, not religious, implements of
art, household and domestic utensils, presses and moulds,
models of temples, musical Instruments, natural productions.
The manuscripts, &c. appear to be well calculated to throw
considerable light on the religious creed of the Bihoteans.

From Mr.• Hodgson's communication we learn that the N'e-
paid mission which lately returned from China, brought with
it, among other things, a very fine Chinese mule, which has
been since sent down to Calcutta, together with two yaks, a
wild and domestic dog of Whote, a shawl-goat, a four-horned
sheep of B'hote, and one of the common kind. The wild dog
is said to he the first of its kind procured, and was brought
from Moastang, a place near the base of the snowy range, and
about 12 munzils north-west from Katmandoo.
UNICORN.
Among the curiosities so liberally sent by Mr. Hodgson is a
large spiral horn, Raid to belong to the Unicorn, and with it
drawings of animals, made by a. B'hotean peasant. The draw-
ings are stated to convey the true image of a living animal of
the deer kind, out of the centre of whose forehead grows a horn
of the description transmitted. The animal is described as
gregarious, graminivorous, anti its flesh good to cat. Its name
is Chiroo ; its Colbur bright bay, and its dwelling place the
plains of ll'hote, beyond the Himalayah, and especially the
woody tract of country situated a few days north-west of Di-
gurche, known to the natives by the name of Changdung..—
The testimony of the poor B'hoteans, whom trade and religion
bring down annually to Nepaul, appears to be uniform respecting
the existence of this animal ; but they hesitate about procuring,
it, though urged by a promise of a liberal reward. They de-
clare that the Chiroo ix too large and fierce to be taken alive, or
to fall under their simple weapons ; but they sometimes find
the horns, naturally shed by the living, or remaining after the
decay of the dead animal. These horns they dedicate to their
divinities, and the one obtained by Mr. Hodgson was brought
to Katmandoo to be suspended in the interior of the Temple of
liumb'huod Nat'h.

THI ARMY.

DISTRIBUTION OP DIV MAJESTY'S FORCES TIIROUISHOUT

THE EMPIRE.

The utility of this abstract is evident to every class of the
public, havin reference to the Army. Several attempts that
have been made for some time past have proved Incorrect ;it is
therefore equally obvious that the reader must have been mis-
led. In order to remedy till* defect., the following has been
compared with all the different authorities at head-quarters :-
ENGLAND AND THE ITEANDS.- Cavairv. -Ist Life
Guards, Hyde-park Barracks ; 2d Life Guards, Windsor ;
Royal Horse Guards, Regent's-park Barracks; Ist Dragoon
Guards, Newcastle; 2tl Ditto, Norwich; 24 Light Dragoons,
Manchester ; 34 Ditto, Coventry ; 6th Ditto, York ; 7th,
Hounslow ; Bth, Dorchester; 11th, Maidstone; 12th, Brighton;
14th, Exeter; and 17th, at Canterbury.
inillntr,,--Ist Foot Guards, Ist battalion, Westminster;
2d Ditto, Portman-street ; 3 Ditto, Windsor ; 24 Coldstream,
Ist battalion, Knightsbridge Barracks; 24 Ditto, Mews, Char-
ing-cross ; 3d Regiment, 24 battalion, Tower, London ; 24
Regiment of Foot, Chatham; 7th, Manchester; oth, Plymouth ;
17th, Hull; 24th, Plymouth; lst, Gosport t 53d, Ply-mouth;
57th, Chatham ; 99th, Portsmouth ; 3d Royal Veteran Batta-
lion, Jersey, Guernsey, and Sheerness; Ist Veteran Company,
Chatham • 2d, Joie of Min ; Royal Waggon Train, Croydon ;
Royal Stalf*Corps, Hythe.
SCOTLAND.-Cavalry.--601 Dragoon Guards, Glasgow;
and Ist Light Dragoons, Piershill.
bffantry•-72d Regiment of Foot, Edinburgh.
Inn LAND..-Cavoirv.-3d Dragoon Guards, Cahir ; 4th,
Dublin • sth, Dundalk ; 7th, Newbritlge ; 9th Lancers, Dub-
lin ; 10th'
Ilussars, ; 15th, Cork.
gimeantry.-3d Feot Guards Ist battalion, Dublin ; Ist Re-
nt of' Foot, Ist battalion, 'Castlebar ; 10th, Fermoy ; 11th,
Cork; 15th, Cock; 19th, Limerick;, 224, Dublin; 25th,
Ennis 28th, Tralee; 29th, Kinsale ; 34th, Enniskillen; 39th,
Battey:int ; 424, Buttevant ; 511th, Waterford ; 61st, Lime.
rick; G2d, Templemore ; ad, Naas; 65th, Birr; 66th,
Boyle ; 73d, Athlone; 75th, Fermoy ; 70th, Dublin ; 79th,
Kilkenny; 84th, Clonmel ; litith, Newry; 00th, ;
Rifle Brigade; Ist battalion, Belfast ; 24 battalion, Dublin ;
Ist Royal Veteran Battalion, Galway; 24, Londonderry.
MEDITEIIItANEAN..-Iffitrt -12th Regiment of Foot,
Gibraltar • 111th, Corfu ; L3d, Gibraltar ; 20th, Corfu ; 324,
Corfu ; Corfu; 43d, Gibraltar; .51st, Cephalonia; 64th,
Gibraltar; 80th, Malta; 35th, Malta; 90th, Zante; 94th,
Gibraltar ; 95th, Malta.
NEtv SOUTH WALES.--34 Regiment of Foot, and 40th
Regiment..
EAsT Itroirs.-Caralry.-4th Light Dragoons, Bombay ;
13th Lancers, Madras; and 16th Lancers, Bengal.
infiintry.-Ist Regiment of Foot, 24 battalion, Madras;
13th, Bengal ; 14th, Bengal ; 16th, Ceylon ; 20th, Madras ;
30th, Madras ; 38th Bengal ; 41st, Madras ; 44th, Bengal ;
45th, Ceylon; 46th, 'Madras; 47th, Boinbay ; 48th, Madras;
54th, Madras ; 56th, Mauritius ; 59th, Bengal ; 67th Bombay ;
69th, Madras; 82d, Mauritius ; 834, Ceylon ; 87th, Bengal ;
89th, Madras.
CEYLON Conrs.-Ceylon.
WEST INnixii.-ItOntry.-Ith Regiment of Foot, Do-
minica and Antigua; sth, Dominica;
9th, Grenatla; 21st, St.
Vincent ; 27th, emeram; 334, Jamaica 35th, ien • Barbadaea ;
D
50th, Jamaica; 00th Regiment, 26 battalion, itarttdoes; 77th,
Jamaica; 91st, Jamaica; 93t1, Barbadoes ; Ist West India Re-
giment, liarbadoes; 24 ditto, part in the West Indies; 3d,
Trinidad.
A 3:ERICA.-Infintry.-37th Regiment of Foot, Canada;
524, New Brunswick; 60th, Quebec; 70th, Montreal; 71st,
; 74th, Halifax; 76th, Canada; 01st, Halifax; 96th,
Halifax l • Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies, New-
tbundlatid.
Av. stip A.-./Vantry.-69) Regiment of Foot, Cape of Good
Hoppe; 49th Cape of Good Hope; 55th, Cape of Good Hope;
2d NVest India Regiment, part in Sierra Leone; Royal Afri-
can Colonial Corps, Cape Coast Castle; Cape Corps, Cape of
Good llope.

IRELAND.

LoNDUNDEURY ANNIVERSARY OP TIIE stiurrlNG

OF THE OATES.

Saturday seinnight being the' annual return of
this memorable day, it was observed at Londonderry with the
usual demonstrations of joy. At the dawn of day, the appren-
dee boys, according to ancient custom, ushered in the morning
by 'several rounds from the ancient 18. pounder, presented to the
city by the Worshipild Company of Fishmongers, which the
night before had resumed the very useful station it occupied on
the city walls. at the siege of Derry, 136 years ago. The sound
bv
leyr yd
et
theig i
nweads
tilt
psetraikshe,
oarneclownqhueenr tihnetiirefegnalcleanotf
recalled the recollection of the inhabitants to that momentous
fill ierrei to'adt hwehr se nnoe
the Protestant religion. The favourite motto'of the ancient de-
fenders of Derry, " No Surrender," was placed on each of the
gates, amidst the thunder of the old eighteen-pounder, during
which the belts of the Cathedral added their joyful peal. At
twelve-o'clock the apprentice boys and Londonderry Yeomanry
assembled on the htall-wall, and proceeded to the gates of the
city, where they fired, and afterwards gave. three rounds in King
William's-square; these were followed by three cheers, - m
which they were.heartily joinedrby the surrounding multitude,'
in honour of the day. fa the square were.twO effigies, sue Pee-
ed- from gibbets, one representing, the treacherous Governor
Lundy whetted from the garrison ivittin bundle of faggots on
his back; and the' other, desigtottlig he- cruel and merciless
R°lens Who, with relentless fury, conimanded all the Protes-
tants of the surrounding cOuntrY.,lnen, w, mum, and .children,
to be driven under the walls, in order to rerce the garrison, by
their sufferings, to surrender. to his rebel artily.. Nearly
associated apprentice boys spent the 'evening together at..
.le.
Alextunier's, oUtside Bishop's-gate.; LIP wards of sixty re 11.
junior apprentices met at the r „etneion.s'.Tavern, arergtrica
posite the Courthouse, where were exhted some
our
c,., _ _
transparenciesthere was a Inige assemblg of x
(,34enk
i 'clock
at the City-Arms Rotel, in Ship-q9ay-street. bout
blown
re up
the
traitor Lundy 'And_ the sanguinary-Rosen we
the
amidst the shouts of multitude., ... . _
#t which Sir
A public dinner was given et the King A Anne .
iii 'suported ' b
George Hel, the hleniber, presiided. "He if _
Alderman'' Dysart, Mr. Sheriff Crillespie, and-trio Chamberlain
9f the City. . may ' Nt.issiser of the House
4t The King's health, and long a• t and
of Brunswick all the Protestant Throne orn Demi d
et . i n an
Ireland," was drank with tbur, times four, .h 13 outs Ag and
Ireland," The usual loyal toasts having Well gives; with the ac-
cuitmaed-honours, .
h i
" The occasion of nurtneetitig this day —t .t. i ternar yof the
Apprentice boys of Derry who him' the grates lit 100," fellow.