The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A man named Parker, whose
Appearance denoted the extreme of poverty and wretched-
ness, was charged by Mr. Peate, an auctioneer in the city,
,with attempting to extort money from him.
Mr. Peate stated, that Parker had been a bankrupt,
and he had been one of the assignees under the commis-
sion, and for some time he could not stir out of his house,
;but he was annoyed by Parker, who pursued him from
place to place all over the city, and demanded money ; and
after pursuing him on Monday, in the evening, when he
was getting into his chaise, Parker seized the reins,. and
swore he should not go a step further, and he was com-
pelled to give him in custody.
Parker said that Mr. Peate owed him 8,000/. ; that he
had saved 18,000/. by his business, and now was not
worth a shilling.
Mr. Peate denied that he owed Parker a farthing ; the
property had been: divided among the creditors.
The LORD MAYOR ordered Parker to find bail, himself
in 100/. and two sureties in 20/. each, to be of good be-
haviout towards Mr. Peate in future.

GUILDHALL.— G. Baron and IV. Carr, two jour-
neymen shoemakers, were charged before Mr. Alderman
WAITHMAN and Sir PETER. LAURIE, with embezzling
some materials delivered to them to work up.
Mr. Chamberlain, jun. of Milk-street, a wholesale ma-
nufacturer of shoes, appeared as the complainant, and
stated that the prisoners had lodged in a room together._..
On the 18th June he delivered to Baron the materials for
seven pairs of shoes, which he might have finished in two
days. Some materials were given to the other prisoner
about the same time. After keeping the work by them
for several days, they decamped, but on Saturday night he
obtained a clue to their hiding-place, and apprehended
them. He found Baron in a court on Snowhill, lying be_
twee,' the bed and the sacking in a garret.
Two other masters appeared to make similar charges
against Baron, who is only 19 years of age, and there was
a second complaint against Carr, who pleaded guilty in Ale
outset.

• They were sentenced each to two months' hard labour at
the tread-mill, with a caution that if they should hereafter
be convicted of similar misconduct, they would be certainly
well whipped.

Thomas Rowland, another shoemaker, was charged with
stealing a metal watch and seals, and the upper leathers of
three pairs of shoes.
The prisoner lodged with a workman in the same line,
named Alexander Pollock, in White Hart-court, Long-lane,
and one day, while the latter had retired to a lower room
to eat his dinner with his spouse, the prisoner packed up
his kit of tools, the work in hand, and the complainant's
watch, and disappeared.
The prisoner admitted that he stole the leather, hut
denied having carried off the watch.

Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said he had had 36 prisoners
before him on the previous day, and there were decidedly
More drunken shoemakers among them than of any other
vocation.--(A laugh.) There was clearly more fraud,
cheating, and drunkenness in the journeymen of this trade
than in others, and if there were honest men in it, he was
sure they must feel ashamed of their calling.—The pri-
soner was committed.

Fronds Ryan was brought up on a charge of assaulting
a servant girl, while she was breathing a little fresh air at
her master's door about 11 o'clock on Monday night. The
officer stated that the prisoner knocked her dean down,
but she declined coming to the justice-room.
" What are you," said the Alderman.—" A shoemaker,
Sir," replied Ryan.
Another shoemaker! Why we had better go barefoot,
exclaimed the Alderman, than give encouragement to such
-a disorderly set of fellows. : You are the fourth shoemaker
that has been before me within this half hour. If the
young woman is disinclined to prosecute you, I will not
compel her, but I do hope that you will let this be a warn-
ing to you. Your offence would have been treated as a
serious one at the Sessions, and you would have been
sentenced to imprisonment. Consider yourself fortunate
that you have not been compelled to change your trade of
shoemaking for mill-treading.—The prisoner was dis-
charged.
The next prisoner put to the bar was also a shoemaker.
He gave his name John Connell. Re was found stagger-
ing drunk in Long-lane, Smithfield, about half-past ten at
night, by Bushnell, a watchman, who offered to pass him
on to the next watchman, and so on, till he arrived at his
domicile is Saffron-hill. The prisoner, however, scorned

" ANDREW PANTON, Elder.
" THOMAS CARSWELL, Deacon."
This letter was directed to Mrs. Stewart, corset-maker,
No. 9, Hanover-street, Long-acre.
" And you attend .:1 of course," said Sir Richard to Mrs.
Stewart, as soon as he had recovered his gravity.
Mrs. Stewart—Oh, indeed I did; it was a comfortable
sight.
Sir RICHARD.--Well, never mind the sight, but let us
proceed to the .assault ; which Mrs. Stewart accordingly
did, and furnished the following brief history of her life
She and her husband were from Glasgow, where they had
been married more than 30 years before, and of which
place they were natives. Shortly after they had become
man and wife, a strong desire of emigrating seized them,
and the consequence was that they came to London, where,
as things were going on rather gaily, they have, from that
hour to the present, continued, without ever having lost
sight, even for once in a way, of St. Paul's lofty pinnacle.
No union could have possibly been more fraught with hap-
piness than theirs had been, until very lately, when, all pn a
Fadden; 1141,:•Stewart's conduct underwent a total and most
lantentable alteration. Instead of that kindness and tender
affection with which he 'was wont to treat her, his beha-
viour became savage and violent. Their domestic tran-
quillity was at an end, and with it their prosperity had also
terminated she being at that advanced period of life
obliged to get her own living. On the previous Sunday they
were gnialy seated at their little supper, when Mr. Stewart
abruptly jumped from his. seat, and withint receiving the
slightest provocation, snatched a bone from the dish, and
flung it at her head, which it severely cut a little above the
right temple. Certainly the poor old woman bore upon
her proof of ill treatment.
" And to what do you attribute this change?" asked the
Magistrate.
Mrs. Stewart could only ascribe it to insanity : there
was no other cause that she could divine.

Sir Ric lIARD—WeII, Mr. Stewart, what have you to
say to all this?—" Nothing, your worship," said Mr.
Stewart ; " I have no consciousness of what my wife had
stated ; it may be all true, but I don't recollect it. I had
a severe cut on my head some time back, and I at times
scarcely know what I am doing."
Sir RICHARD.--I' RD. hope you are not given to drink?—
Mr. Stewart—No, Sir Richard, except a little porter now
and then.

Sir RlCHARP.—Confound that little, it sometimes leads
to great mischief. Had you any reason to expect this
charge?--" None, Sir Richard, none; I did'nt expect it
until taken by your officers, at a time that 1 was as quiet
as a lamb."

Sir RICHARD.—But about the bone ?—Mr. Stewart.
Oil, I know nothing of that; oh, that was perfectly acci.
dental, it was a very small bone.

Sir RlcuAan.—Then you do know something about
it ?—" No, Sir Richard," said Mr. Stewart, " no, I
assure you ; I might perhaps have taken a bone, but not
with an intention of doing mischief."
No matter about your intention," observed Sir
thcIHARDa trouble you to send for bail."
Y
In-
grant and Walter Phesse were charged with stealing a
q IIARIEBONE- OFFlCE.—Yesterday James In-
ieavrhyo leibs one.
managing
clerk to Mr.
quantity of very large old ledgers, and other account books
of importances belonging to William Leake, Esq., M.P., of
Leake, stated.that the prisoners had been servants to Mr.
Leake; NoA.lr .
20,
oDhenv ownsl
am -stßreeertr,y Mo
that they both had access to the room in which
the books were kept, and that Phesse slept in it. When
;the loss of the books was discovered, inquiry was made, and
'several of them were found in the possession of respectable
cheesemongers, one of whom would identify one of the
prisoners.
Air. John Sealby, of No. 1, William-street, Marylebone-
'lane, bought a book produced (weighing upwards of 361 b.)
about the middle of May, of the prisoner Ingram. He
brought it to his shop, tied up
.in a cloth ; he said it had
been given out to him by his master to light the fires with ;
but thinking it was too good for that purpose, he sold it for
4d. a pound to the witness as waste paper ; a fortnight
after be brought a second book, and afterwards a third book
of similar dimensions, which were bought at the same price.
• Air. GRIFFITH (to the witness)—Did you ask him who
was his toaster. Witness—No, Sir.
11r. GRirkiTn—A most obvious question, which ought
to have been asked.
• Witness—He told me their own butterman, in High-
ibtreet, would give 4d. a pound for it.
GRIFFITH—Why did he not take it to him ? If
'afraid to take it to him, you might have concluded that he
,gdishonestly;
Ot it
!son in trade, as you appear. should buy books in this way,
; without inquiry.
Witness—lt is a regular thing with etheesemongers.
Mr. GaiFFlTH_whicli, if persever,lt in, will bring
them into difficulties.
To the prisoner Ingram—You hear what the person
sweais, have you any thing to say to it ? Ingram—No, Sir.
Buckridge, the officer, was then examii,,d. He appre-
' hended Ingram on Monday night in Manchester-mews
north, and brought him to Mr. Leake's house, where he
was identified as the seller of the book by Mr. Sealby ; he
then took him to the watch-house, where he said, " It is
hard for me to to punished, when the other (meaning
Phesse) is as guilty as myself. I sold the books, and the
other took part of the money.
• Buckridge farther stated, that he went down yesterday
morning to where Phesse said he lodged, at No. 25, Cum-
berland-street, neat the Admiral Keppel public-house, in
the Fulham-road, for the purpose of taking him into custody.
He found his father there, who had not seen him for a
Month, and in the nteantime Phesse called at the house of
his late master, in bevonshire-street, and was detained.
• Mr. GRIFFITH committed Ingrain for trial, and liberated
• Phesse for want ofevidence.

Some of the books stolen were previously found in the
Possession of Mr. Hurst, a cheesernonger, in High-street,
Marylebone; and the prisoners underwent an examination
on Friday, when Mr. Hurst thought Ingram was the
person who sold them, but could not swear to him. It is
a singular circumstance (stated as a fact) that butter has
been sent into Mr. Leake's house by Mr. Hurst, wrapped
up in pager torn from his own books.

When I last had the honour of addressing
you a letter, giving, in the best manner I was
able, a description of our isolated abode, I was
afraid, and have been frequently so since, that its
length would frighten you, and its contents ill
compensate for the trouble of drudging through
it ; in short, I began to think I had been vain
in imagining any thing I could produce would
in any way prove worthy of your attention ; your
kindness has, however, encouraged me to lay
before you some further particulars, which my
short sojourn on the Island would not then allcm
me to go into.- I shall therefore now endeavour
to convey as correct an idea as I can of its capabi-
lities, advantages, disadvantages, present produce,
and what may be reasonably calculated upon, to-
gether with our manners, customs, and sports,
&c., and as I may occasionally indulge in some
little flights of the pen, I pray you pardon them.
• After I had been about six weeks on the
Island, and had recovered from the dysentery, I
found the only way to make myself happy was
by making myself useful ; to forget, as well as I
could, pursuits and pleasures, the recollection of
which only engendered pain, and brought on me
that weariness of the mind which springs from
hour counting, and an eternal thirst after novelty ;
I therefore plunged into the general routine of
the old hands, and pursuits such as would make
a cockney stare ; I followed with all the avidity
of a youth turned loose into scenes of joy and
sport, and really I am very happy ; my game, in-
stead of being as before pheasants, partridges,
hares, &c. are now goats, guinea fowls, bulls,
cats, and rats ; my dogs, instead of the high
bred ones of English sportsmen, are such a
group of mongrels as utterly to defy description,
bull-dogs, bull-terriers, rough-haired terriers,
spaniels, and an anomalous breed betwixt all, fen
they are very promiscuous in their loves.
Goat-hunting is, as I observed to you before,
when we cannot turn turtle, part of the duty of
the Island, and it is attended to on Wednesday
and Saturdays, the two holidays ; the fatigue is
excessive, we start at day--break, and when wind-
ing through the defiles of the hills resemble a set
of ruffians going out to rob ; we get down on the
plains, and with spy-glasses endeavour to dis-
cover where the goats are ; when this is done,
arrangements are made to get with the dogs be-
tween them and their fastnesses, for these once
attained we are utterly foiled ; sometimes we send
parties different ways, the men get as near as
they can, and lay the dogs on from slips, shout-
ing with all their might to frighten the animals.
There is a noted high rock, with three successive
shelves, each 70 or 80 feet high, called Scylla
rock, hither they generally run when hard pushed,
and keep off' their, retreats ; the grand art is to
push them so closely with the dogs that they will
rock, as we term it, that is, jump upon placeF
from whence they cannot get away easily, not
can the dogs follow them, we then get to the
scene of action as soon as we can, and pick then,
off with ball. Then comes the- carrying home,
such ground as we walk, or rather scramble over,
it is impossible to convey the least idea of,
masses of uneven hills of broken and rot-
ten cinders, or burnt stone, breaking at
every step ; the labour of going from the
water's edge to the mountain stones, even
without a goat, in the burning sun, is really
heart-breaking till one is used to it ; to be toil•
ing up hill after hill, when you can scarcely tell,
when one step is made, how the unfortunate
legs are to make the next ; to see before you
three or four miles of those hills, twice as steep
as Highgate hill, consisting either of loose, small
ashes, or huge and mis-shapen masses of burnt
stones. I am now accustomed to it, and run
over rocks as quickly as smooth ground, and
down rugged hills with my gun, which a green-
horn would at first sight pronounce to be im-
practicable. We generally get back at ten of
eleven o'clock, our success is various, six or seven
goats are considered good sport ; once we got them
up the peak and surrounded them, about 200,
they could not stir, they got upon the point of
One of the ridges over the weather springs, we
sent to the mountain-house and got out all
hands; when our arrangements were complete.
I advanced with two men, having all double
barrelled guns, I fired and killed ten, the one
whose horns will be sent home as a curiosity tc
the Board was one ; that day seventeen goats fell.
I chased them up the mountain and drove part
of the flock pell-mell down the house garden,
where a sick corporal was hobbling along taking
air, he had more prudence than Don Quixotte
and Sancho, for he got out of the way of the
herd of wild cattle, or they would have over-
turned him. There is a valley called Cricket
Valley, about two miles from the mountain
house, this is a capital place to catch the goats
in, for its sides are, with two slight exceptions,
perpendicular rocks, 180 feet high in some
places, with only two inlets. I go to the top of
the peak and watch the goats in, for the pasture
is very good, we then set off and run the two
miles as hard as we can pelt,:put the dogs quietly
in, surprise and rock the unsuspecting crawleyst
(as Colonel L. calls them), they rock, and then
commences the slaughter. There is another
place called Black Valley, I would call it Dismay
Valley, for its appearance is horrible, we catch
the goats there sometimes. I went out a felt
weeks ago with only two men, and being success-
ful, was obliged to carry a goat of SO lbs. from
this valley to the house, full three miles all up
hills, almost perpendicular ; it was getting dark,
I was three hours doing it, I had come along
the road on the side of the mountain, about two
and three feet wide, with this goat and my gun
in the dark, feeling the side which is rough
cinders, to keep me from slipping over places 300
and 400 feet. The last day of the hunting for
the season was the greatest ever known on the
Island ; Mr. Baines, an officer lately joined, and
myself, rocked the goats, about 300, on Scylla
Rock, and shot 24. When I come in, I in-
stantly change every thing, which requires
wringing, flannels, trowsers, shirts and all ; being
entirely arrayed afresh, I enjoy my breakfast and
then my siesta, of about two hours in the Cool
temperature of the mountain, viz. 70. When at
the mountain, I keep a sharp lo:dougteftortsobitphse,
and the moment they indicate that they intend
stopping, I take the donkey
square in forty minutes, eight miles ; we run the
donkeys down the ridge, which is terribly steep,
in six minutes and a half, at least, I can do it,
but one inm
t be accustomed to it, for one

We have,,or had, on the -Island a wild bull,
three wild cows, and -three young bulls, these are
a great annoyance, especially the-bull, for he has
lost his seraglio of cows for several months, and
at last found our tame herd ; he gored the bulls
and did much mischief; we went to drive him
off, but had only the small dogs, and two game
ones out of twenty; at first Taurus spewed fight,
and was near demolishing your humble servant
and the serjeant ; I was obliged to jump down
a place twelve feet, and he came close and looked
down on me ; if he had come closer God knows
what would have become of me ; at last we
drove him off heavy loaded gun was fired
within three yards of his nose, he shook his
head and took no notice of it. The Colonel
determined to exterminate these animals, or tame
them if possible.; the first expedition was about
three weeks ago, against the cows and young
bulls ; the. Colonel -and myself, with 22 men and
18 dogs, took the field at 5 a.m. Our plan was
to run them down with the small dogs, watching
in runs and defiles with the game ones ; the
manner in which they ran was tremendous; the
ground apparently impassable ; the striplings
were soon caught, but the enraged mothers
turned to protect their captured offspring, full of
fury and foam ; there is no way but to rush in
the moment a dog fastens on their nose ; we
caught one easily,, the others got away, and the
Colonel sent me with three men and four dogs to
search for them, and whilst we were staring for
them at a distance, came right on them ; I ran
across to a defile where they must pass, laid be-
hind the rocks, and when they had gone by
rushed out with the dogs and pinned one,
luckily the rest hearing our shouts came up, or
we should have, had a rough time of it ; there
remained onl,y one now, which we prepared to
follow after breathing the dogs, she was the most
furious. We knew,-where she was, and sur-
rounded her ; upon the dogs being set on, she
ran right to the spot where I was, and within
three yards of me three' dogs fastened on her
nose e
nang
tdh one
was
legs,st
man
n aatnhdogrohtelaidold head, but
herour hinderuost
unable to turn her; ten men then came up, and
over she went, and by some means or other an
unfortunate African got himself accommodated
betwixt the legs of the enraged animal, from
which position lie was fished out by a marine,
whom he overturned in his retreat as a reward
for his trouble ; in this last bout, as I was hold-
ing one of the hinder legs, I got a kick on my
left thumb which nearly dislocated it, and I can
scarcely use it now; had it been my right I
should not, to this time, have been able to use
a pen. We have only now the bull to catch, which
we are too busy-to attend to now ; I contem-
plate a few bloody noses, for he is a noble
and of enormous strength. I was, three days be-
fore the transport arrived, quietly riding on my
donkey with the small dogs, catting, and on
turning a corner in a sandy run, in deep thought,
came right on him ; I sprang off my Arabian
and got upon the climpers, but the bull was
rather startled and ran off to my infinite sati‘,
faction.

You must now, I am sure, be tired of my
sporting accounts, a few lines respecting the
turning of the Baal of Civic Gastronc;my, turtle ;
they begin to make their appearai:ice in the bays
in November, but do not come on shore to de-
posit their eggs till the WWr end of December ;
we consider a fresh carkgirt turtle on Christmas-
day, a treat ; they come on shore at first in the
most retired and unfrequented bays ; men are
dispatched from the mountain at five or six
o'clock each evening, and remain all, night en-
sconced, watching for the turtle ; they first allow
them to lay, and when they have done covering
the eggs with sand, the men instantly turn them
on their back, taking the advantage of their being
on a declivity to do so with greater ease. They are
very powerful with their flappers or fore fins, and
beginners generally " knap," as the fancy would
term it, some severe blows ; the old hands know
better how to manage ; in the morning boats go
round and bring the captives to the pond, they
furnish us with soup,beef-steaks, and veal cutlets,
and I would answer for your being deceived, were
either introduced, and you were not informed
they were cut from the turtle.

position of the island, cer-
tainly geographicalytothew
who study the matter attentively,
in my humble opinion, renders its possesfion
most important to England ; situate at almost an
equal distance between the great continents, and
exactly in the track of our homeward-bound India
trade, it appears to be the very place in which one
would plant an island for all purposes, if such
did not already exist. If we contemplate on one
side a nest of embryo states, growing into con-
sequence, and who may at no distant perioa,
though now friendly, be inimical to the interests
of Great Britain, having it in their power to send
armed ships, who can in seven or eight days get
of possession by
poshiotsivvevaalduvaalinle,
into the heart of our commerce, and help them-
however, one Consideration
purposes .
of distressing our
advan-
tage aeoglese
;saa ;n1
certaini any
negatively,
pi a ottiihvnei tsl
syau,pvpitpephewleayr, owtfht ehre
ise
possibility case,a our ships
sure
any power for the-
paramount to all others, I mean the
mercantile interests, deserves its share of consi-
cleration ; there is'
sufficient supplyof
which is
water, not only
the island, but the shipping. It is
very certain at present that no more water is
realized than is sufficient for the consumption of
our inhabitants; but it is lik - . .
ovise just as certain
that great quantities run to wgste for want of
proper means to collect and store it. It is in—
stantly asked what would be the supply if there
for certainty
those
oonf a
were facilities for securing the whole ? This can
scarcely be satisfactorily resolved at present, but
my private opinion is that a squadron could not
rely on a certain supply equal to their wants
.-.
indeed the quantity which the springs produc a
depends on the quantity of rain which falls, for
they are not, strictly speaking, springs, but per..

eulatiOns ; now we are sometimes many weeks
without rain on the Island, which is the case now,
and we are using part of the stock on hand,
which is a proof of the correctness of what I
have above stated. When tanks are built, and
pipes laid down, no doubt great quantities of
water will be secured, not only through the springs
but caught direct as it falls. Some of my com-
rades are very sanguine on this head, and
appear assured that ample supplies will accrue.
I really have not experience enough to be enabled
to form any speculation on the subject, and
would much rather rely on their judgment. Now,
supposing the worst, namely, that all that can be
done will fall short of establishing the wished for
supply, bow is the deficiency to be remedied ?
To answer this, it is necessary to take a more
extended view of the object to be accomplished,
and the means of doing so. That it will always
be necessary to have a British naval force in these
seas, I am fully convinced; whether it be war
or peace ; the late missions into Africa and the
anxious wishes of the great leading chiefs to form
commercial relations with us, through those great
highways of nations, rivers, open a most ex-
tended and advantageous field for legitimate
speculation ; no coast presents greater induce-
ments to British spirit and commercial energy,
than this long despised one, with its trampled on
And suffering inhabitants.
(To be concluded to-morrow.)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Etoile, dated Monday, July 2.)
" PARIS, JULY I.—The citadel of Athens was
.accupied by the Turks on the 2d of June.
" The garrison had their lives spared. Colonel
Fabvier and the other Philhellenes obtained permis-
sion to go wherever they pleased.
" The few Greeks who remained in the Pirteus
with General Church have either dispersed or with-
drawn.
" The Bavarian officers, except Colonel Heidegger,
have Quitted the service of the Greeks.
" Ibrahim Pacha was at Patras, where he had re-
ceived a reinforcement of cavalry.4fr
" The Lausanne Gazette announces that troubles
have broken out in Appenzell : the inhabitants of I
the Rhodes interior, who have long been in an
agitated state, committed on the 18th of June
various acts of violence. The exhortations of the
magistrates were disregarded; some of them, it is
said, experienced personal ill-treatment, and have re-
signed their offices. The Government being wholly
unable to make itself respected, has required the as-
sistance of the federal authority.
• "We learn at the same time, that the Council ofi
State of Zurich, as directing Canton, had an extra-
ordinary meeting on the morning of the
.22d of
June, on the arrival of the despatches, and appointed
Landamman Sydler, of Zug, to re-establish pub-
lic order at Appenzell.
" Private letters from St. Peters-burgh say, that
She departure of Count Capo d'lstria was to be
fixed in the first fortnight of this month. It is said
that his Excellency will proceed first to Odessa,
then to Greece. So many reports have been spread
respecting the journey of this statesman, and his
future destination, that we must watt for facts before
lire can believe any thing. It is said that the fleet
at Cronstadt will sail in July. As the object of the
expedition is riot unknown to the crews, the men
who compose them are said, by an eye-witness, to
be animated by extraordinary enthusiasm.
" IMPORTANT NOTICE.
"As the Gazette de France was to cease from
the Ist of July, and to be joined with the Etoile,
the proprietors of the Etoile have unanimoue.iy re-
solved to adopt 'the title of Gazette de France, a.
title which is as old as the reign of Louis XIII.—
Our subscribers will therefore receive henceforth the
Gazette de France. We have no need to tell our
readers all the advantage which the Etoile offers
above all the other public journals. To these incon-
testable advantages will be added all those which
the Gazette de,France possessed, though the num-
ber of the subscribers to the Etoile is prodigiously
increased by those of the Gazette and the Journal
de Paris, which yesterday already charged the Ga-
%elle to supply its customers : yet the Gazette de
France appearing in the evening, will be despatched
by the post at the same time as the Etoile. All our
measures are taken. By duplicate composition, end
))y a second mechanical press, we shall be able to
serve at that hour 20,000 subscribers:'
- The news of the surrender of the Acropolis has
beta brought by an English courier, despatched by Sir F.
Adam. He has travelled with extraordinary speed, having
left Corfu an the 20th of June, he passed through Paris on
the 2Stb..—ArPte of the Etoile.

„,:ttLERICAN PAPERS.
uz.—By the brig Brown, Capt.
FROM VERA Ck,
Skinner, in 29 days ir:om Vera Cruz, we learn that
the brig of war Guerre):')., and a fleet, with troops,
was soon to sail for Texas. The Spanish brig La
Joven Maria, from Spain to Oavannah, taken by
Commodore Porter's squadron, ergo said to be
-very valuable. The convoy had safely arrived from
Mexico with 2,000,000 dollars. The affairs of Du-
rango were entirely settled to the satisfaction of the
Mexican Government. It was expected in Mexico,
that the new tariff Would soon pass. All was quiet
in Mexico.
” MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.--A file of
Vera Cruz papers to the sth of May, for which we
are indebted to Captain Skinner, who has arrived
from that port. They contain the news of a victory
gained in Central America, by the Government
troops over the rebels from St. Salvador. The
battle was fought on the 22d of April, near Guate-
mala, and lasted two hours. The rebels lost their
cannon, above 200 muskets, 73 prisoners, 50 killed,
&c. The President commanded in person, and
riarebed on towards St. Salvador.
(From the Norfolk Beacon.)
‘‘ MEXfCO3 APRIL 14.—Letters from Chiapa, un-
der date of the 28th of March, present us with
the following melancholy and distressing account of
the state of anarchy which reigns throughout our
sister republic of Guate.Tala.
The following is a brief translation of an extract
from one of those letters; it dated the 15th of
larch
The misfortunes of Guatemala still continue
unabated. Our city is hourly threatened by a Sal-
vadorean corps of 2,000 rebels, headed by the fo-
reigner Roul, who, with a view of attacking the
capital, has taken up a position at Coginicullapa,
(distant eight or ten leagues from Guatemala),
-whence he demands the restoration of the former
aomi b
authorities. The President,
cc pan
Gene-
ral Cascaras, and a body of 600 men,ed with nine
pieces of artillery, marched hence this morning.
We are in momentary expectation of the arrival of
Don Thomas Sanches, with a division of 1,000 sol-
di.,:rq, now on their return from Chinquimule, whither
the oiovements of the enemy had at first directed
the coarse : 300 infantry are likewise looked for
under thr: command of Quesaltenango.
" The merchants, mechanics, and even the
students have tiOwn to arms in defence of the city.
Could the situatien: and fate of Guatemala prove
more afflicting and ardfui ? Can the generous
t::
Mexican nation behold.witL indifference the shed-
ding the blood of their brethreo The principal
commanders of the hostile forces are Frenchmen,
lately arrived from Europe. What can Ls the ob-
ject of these vile foreigners? Pietzon, who com-
mitted so many atrocities in Quesaltenango, en-
tered this state in his flight thence, aud, according
to report, solicited yesterday a passport to rette'n to
Guatemala.'
" SOUTH AMERICA.—From the St. Thomas's
;;Itc.; of the 12th of May, received at Norfolk, we
learn that advices from Maracaybo had been received
there, that Carthagena, Santa Martha, Bogota, and
ihe.eastern part of Venezuela, had declared for a

federal form of government. Colonel J. S. Lopez,
who was implicated in the late disturbances at Cu-
mana, has been banished for ten years. The arrival
at Bogota of Generals Laras, Sanders, and others,
who were sent prisoners by a division of the Colom-
bian army, is confirmed.
(From the New Orleans Advertiser of May 10.)
" By the schooner Hound, Captain Tucker, from
Tampico, we have been favoured with the following
extract of a letter, and a copy of the remonstrance
of Mr. Robertson, our Consul at Tampico, sent to
the commander of the Bolivar, to which Captain
Tucker informs us he returned a very insolent answer.
" We are informed by passengers, direct from the
city of Mexico, that the insurrection had been en-
tirely suppressed, and that the principal leader, Joa-
quim Arenas, was under sentence of death. The
Mexican Congress was in session.
" Extract of a letter dated Tampico, April 25 :
Yesterday arrived off this port the Colombian pri-
vateer sloop Bolivar, having in company, as her
prize, the American schooner Antoinette, Captain
Bateman, from Mobile, bound to this port. The
.captain of the privateer has sent in a note to the
consignee, Mr. J. Harmony, of New York, giving
him 36 hours to ransom the vessel. Captain► Bate-
man states that he has been cruelly treated, and was
threatened several times to be hung. Mr. Robert-
son, the American Consul, has addressed a letter to
!aim ; and it is to be hoped that our Government
will again put a stop to such unlawful acts of the
Colombian cruisers.'

" COLO_►IBIA.—As we are daily in expectation of
news from the Congress of Colombia, which was on
the eve of commencing their session at our last dates
from Bogota, our anxiety continues to learn the re-
sult of their deliberations on the subjects of the
highest interest to the country. A private letter
from Laguayra, published in the newspapers, ex-
presses an opinion that they will not accept of Boli-
var's resignation of the presidency. As we know
nothing of the authority on which the opinion is
founded, we do not allow it any weight; but, judg-
ing from the great dissatisfaction which we know
prevails in some part of the republic against the
Bolivian Constitution, we should form a very dif-
ferent expectation.
" A gentleman in this city informs us, that he
learns by a letter, that orders have been given to
prevent General Laras from going to the capital. It
will be recollected that we published, two or three
weeks since, an account of the counter-revolution at
Lima, in which this officer, who commanded the
Colombian troops there, was sent off for Bogota.
As he was a favourite of Bolivar's, it can hardly be
supposed that the Vice-President would authorise
such a step if he had imagined the Congress would
keep the Liberator invested with the chief power.
Bolivar was on his way to Bogota ; but at the
last dates the oppressions practised on the mer-
chants in the ports were still causes of loud com-
plaint.

" THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL—From
the following article, extracted from the National
Journal, there is every reason to believe that the
promptitude of our Government has brought the
Brazilian representative now in Washington into a
proper temper and condition. This is right and
proper. It will command the approbation of the
country. The citizens of this country have suffered
much from the injustice and tyranny of the Brazilian
authorities. It may not have required any great
armament to bring them to their proper bearings ;
but the weakness of Brazil was no reason that the ,
United States should submit tamely to their insults
and injustice. It is now generally conceived that
the empire of Brazil is a sort of an Algerine colony
in this hemisphere. We must treat her, therefore, as
we have already treated that power. About seven
or eight years ago, when the American Consul was
poniarded at Tripoli, Joseph Caramelli, the Pacha,
heeded not his remonstrances for redress. Commo-
dore Stewart, however, as good luck would have it,
sailed into the harbour of Tripoli one day, and on
baiog mauls accpsaitttecV- witivtfu muter. delpanded
instant satisfaction, on the pain of having their town
bombarded. This did the business. The Pacha
bustled quickly—vologized,and bastinadoed the bravo
who had committed the outrage on the American
Consul. The United States squadron at Rio Janeiro
should have similar powers to those given to the
commanders on the Algerine station. The Republic
must teach these crowned heads that neither her
Hag nor her representative is to be insulted with
impunity.
" The National Journal of Thursday says,—
' There have been lately frequent conferences be-
tween Mr. Clay and Mr. Rebello, the Charge
l'Affaires of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil,
and several official notes have passed, in relation to
a late unpleasant incident at Rio de Janeiro. We
are told that such satisfactory assurances have been
made as will preserve the friendly relations between
the two countries.'