The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-12 00:00:00

THE REVOLUTION AT PARA.

Boston papers to the 13th ult. have bean received. The
following is an extract :—" Latest from Para :—Advices
from Para, per William Penn, Captain Appleton, are up to
the 14th of September. Some days after the ship-of-War
and merchant vessels had retreated to the Bay of St. An-
tonio, permission was granted by the Brazilian Commodore
to his Majesty's sloop-of-war Racehorse, Sir James Everard
Home, Commander, to proceed to the city, taking under
convoy the English and American merchant vessels, with a
view of recovering the property left behind. After two
days they were allowed by the Indians to land, and succeeded
in saving some valuable goods ; heavy articles they were not
allowed to take, particularly provisions ; and such was the
danger that they could not protract the time to save further,
and, on their leaving, were honoured with a parting salute,
the guns loaded with balls. Thus, through the interposi-
tion and protection afforded by Sir James Everard Home,
of his Majesty's sloop Racehorse, have the owners of the
American vessels been placed under new obligations, and
Captain Appleton speaks of the services in the strongest
terms of gratitude and respect. The city was most tho-
roughly sacked ; the whites were still pursued and killed
wherever found ; the streets were still encumbered with the
murdered bodies, and the most horrid and barbarous assas-
sinations continued in all quarters. The William Penn
came out. under convoy of the Racehorse. in company with
the merchant vessels in the river, excepting two, the
George and Caroline, which were chartered by the legal
Government to carry the distressed fugitives up to Ca-
maty, to prevent a want of food among themselves. The
Indians were in possession of the river, and also the salines,
the pilot station, and would seize any vessel they could take
that bad powder or anything they wanted.7—Salemßegiater.
The letters received from Para (Brazil), dated the 10th
of September, give very gloomy accounts of the state of
things there. The insurgents had firmly established them-
selves in the city, which had been entirely abandoned by
the British, and indeed by all foreigners who were fortunate
enough to make their escape. The English bad quite given
up the idea of landing again, and were to sail the next morn-
ing for Maranham, to await, the result of the blockade which
had been established at Para by sonic vessels from Rio de
Janeiro. The loss and inconvenience arising out of this af-
fair to the merchants engaged in trade with Para require to
be properly understood both by the public and by the
Government. They lose hot only a large amount of
property, but suffer much more considerably from being
compelled to abandon establishments which they had formed
at great expense, and set on foot trading connexions with
them all over the world, for which the geographical position
of Para offered great advantages. They are deprived not
only of their money and stock, but the very plant, as it were,
of their trade. Application has been made, we understand,
at the Foreign Office, for that assistance in this emergency
which the British merchant has seldom looked to the Go-
vernment for in vain ; but Lord Palmerston declines inter-
fering except under cover of a memorial to be drawn up by
the merchants trading with Para, and by him submitted
with some appropriate observations to the Brazilian Govern-
ment, through its Minister here. No doubt this is, as far
AS it goes, a very proper course to be taken, but it is does
not go far enough. The prospects of the merchants mav,
while that memorial is under consideration, be irretrievably
lost, and to be of any service something of a more decided
nature is evidently required. The immediate ordering of
an additional ship of war or two to Para froth the nearest
station would he much more efficacious. The Government
at Rio, which has no communication with Para by land,
seems too weak in naval force to effect the reconquest of
the place without great loss of time ; but the appearance
of such a reinforcement, though it did not take any hostile
part, would give confidence to the Brazilians and discourage..
ment to the rebels. The example may spread to othe
places if this rebellion is not put down, and the British mcr
chants find themselves as unsafe in Maranham, where they
have taken refuge, as they were in Para.—Morning Paper
The following was yesterday posted at Lloyd's
" His Majesty's sloop Racehorse, Bay of St. Antonio,
near Para, Sept. 7, 1835.
" beg to inform you that the city of Para having,
after a defence of ten days, fallen into the hands of the
Indians, his Majesty's sloop under my command, assisted
by the merchant schooner Para packet, and two other
English merchant vessels, have been constantly employed
from the morning of the 30th of August till noon on the
Gth of September, in embarking the property left in the
stores of the British merchants ; and I feel it it right to
express to you in the strongest possible manner the inde-
fatigable exertions and very praiseworthy conduct of James
Davie and the crew of the Para packet, under his com-
mand, during the whole of that period. By their zeal and
hard labour more property has been saved to their em-
ployers than there was any reason to expect could bo
accomplished.
(Signed)

" J. EVERARD HOME."

BRUSSELS, Nov. 11.—The Lectures in the Ca-
tholic University at Louraine will commence on the Ist of
December.--Brussels Papers.

An attempt at suicide of an entirely novel nature,
and one which, we imagine, will have few imitators, was
made a few days since in the Bois de Boulogne. The
keepers, in makinr, their rounds, discovered a man. who
appeared to be asleep. When addressed by them he ob-
stinately refused to reply to any of the questions which were
put. The only intimation he made was that of indicating
the quarter of the Invalides in which he resided ; but when
brought before the Commissary of Police, he consented to
unburden himself before him, and declared to the magis,
trate, that, disgusted with life and domestic broils, he had
left his home with the intention of committing suicide ; but
that his courage having failed him at the moment when he
was about to execute his project, he had repaired to the
Bois de Boulogne, where he had passed two days and nights •
on the grass, without eating or drinking, in the hope that
cold and hunger would effect what his own hand hadlefirod
to perform. The unfortunate man who made this ackmov,- •
ledgment was a poor workman, aged about 50 yesill .his
liras were perfectly paralysed with the effects'of,itho Gold,.
which he had endured for forty-eight hours, and ,4i4,spßcelt...
was almost entirely gone. The Commissary, of _Police.
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directed that he should be taken to the hospital.

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