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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS•-FROM TilE MORNING PAPERS,

,September 7.

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[MORN/NG POST. j
Letters from various parts of the,Mediterra-
mean
.have been, received to, a late. date. The
accounts from Smyrna represent that place as
assuming a greater degree of trAnquillity "than it
hacF lately enjoyed ; and state, that 'the inhabi-

tans who had fled from the town on the appear-
ance of danger were returning, to
.their homei.
It is said, that the Ottoman Porte has dispatched
a mission of importance to-the Schalk of Western
Persia ; and it is added, that negOciatiOns have
sbeetk cornintnted between the Court of St. Peter-

buigh and 'the Persian Monarch. The letters
Iran Cadiz mention, 'that the Government had
lent-orders to Havaimah, to dispatch all the dis.
pos&ble troops to the neighbourhood of .Vera
Cruz, to assist the 'exertions of the Royalists.
They -also state that Bolivar and La Torre
had had ad. engagement, in Which the lat-
ter' cldiMed the victory. The advices pre
liobsly 'received; of the Hereditary Prince.
-of Portugal, Regent of Brazil, bating been
deposed; are confirmed, with the addition'
anit a Provisional Government had been esta-
bliihed at 'Rio Janeiro. His Royal Highness
was shortly expected to arrive at Lisbon. nil
Most Faithful Majesty" had accepted the resig-
nation of Count Darbacena, Minister for Foreign
' Affairs, and Mr. S. Pintio Ferieira was appointed-
to -succeed him. The Count had; by his conduct,
liich was thought to'be opposed to the Consti-
tutional System, Canted several discussions in the
Cortes, and in consequence-tendered his resigna-
tion.- The Spanigh Charge d!Affaire's had made
' a deinand of satisfaction from the Cortes, in con-
sequence Of certain expressions which 'had beep"
used respecting him in a debate. The Cortei„.
heweVer; declared the Spanish Minister's con-
- diict to be ill timed and irregular, but wished it
• to'be understood, that it was by no means intend-
ed: to disturb the good unde-rstanding subsisting
belwe'en Spain and Portugal. - • -

• LpIE
We inserted three dity 'ago_ a series of .letters.
from Valparaisordescribing the circumstances
:water which ceftain BritiSh merChantrfien had
been seized and detained by Lord Cochrane
arid the Chilian squadron. In arguing yesterday
on the AioVe subject, we felt rather' disposed,
to take fot granted that the justice of the case
'was with Lord Cochrane; to far as. 'concerned
the ships and Cargoes in queStion.- We noW pre-
set-lit a letter from his•Lbrdship, which' sanctions
and cori-oborates' our own view of the- mat-
ter. lie asserts distinctly, that the neutral ves-
sels which daily drop into his handS are laden
with the goods of almost every European country
but Great 'Britain and,' stranie to say," writes
his' Lordship; 44 it is 'chiefly, British . merchants
•"'who-Cloaithis property, to the destrUctiOn of
the manufactures and honest commerce of
"-their' countrynien." His Lordship then alludeS
apparently to the two ships lately seized, which
he states to be worth half a Million..Of dollars,-
-
hav4 sailed from Cadiz, and but touched at
'Gibraltar, *hence they carried out false papers,
aslf they had been loading
.there. - This brings
'the case within the- pale of fi•attil, the lawful
Flitiishment of which, .no honest Englishman will
be found :to 'murmur at or resent: 'We' have
hitherto ciinfined our obserVations to the ships
and cargoei made Prize Of. by Lord Cochrane:
but there is another part of the subject, at pre-
sent more-doubtful, and .of
.a- more serious nature-
mean the forcible caption and detention of
the English seamen: found Oh-board. the ships.
do
-'We not yet see what defence can be made
fOr-theSe acts of coercion practised upon our
countrymen but as Sir I'. Hardy has interested
himielf warmly on the. subject, the proper redress
Will, no doubt, be prodticed by his interference.