Star.
London, England, 1809-06-30 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

Letters from the Brazils state that the new Govern-
ment of Rio Janeiro is far from being popular. False
hopes are indulged of an intercourse w►th the Spanish
Settlements in the neighbourhood, which has been
opposed for centuries, both by the letter and spirit of
their laws. All goods, excepting brandy, wine, vi-
negar, ber, and oil, pay a duty of 24 per cent. ad
valorem. The excllange was at from 73 to 75. Sugar
at 1400 reels per arrcbe, coffee 2240, tobacco 2700,
tallow 2700, and the article of rice 3810 per quintal,
a quintal is equal to 129 4-10ths lb English weight.
—The following is an extract from one of these
letters :

" Rio Janiero, .^i-il 8,

" Rice is very dear, notwithstanding the fresh crop coming
to market fast—the increase of population and new-raised troops
consume a vast quantity more than heretofore, and the planters
had net reckoned upon such a great consumption ; hut now, ac-
cording to their custom, they will cultivate it in abundance, and
generally when any article is particularly low they rcglect it en-
tirely At Santos, a small port about 100 'canoes to the South-
ward, rice is in greater abundance than here. 'robot-co is seldom
or never exported from hence, except to Africa and Pernambuco.
Batria supplied the mother country, the qua:etity grown there
being considtrable, and the quality generally good. Here it is
very bad, except what comes from the neighbourhood of Ma-
pendi, In the district of Minas Gomts, from whence some good
cotton is brought in serous, and sells for nearly as much as Per-
nambuco; that produced here is very bad.
" The population of this city is not known even by the Go-
vernmer t, but since the arrival of the Court it is very much
increased ; not, perhaps, from this circumstance altogether,
but from the natural effect of a certain degree of spirit anti
emulation, that tie inhabitants of this part of the .world have
caught since the t:rrival of su many huroptams, and tempted by
the clteare;; and the variety of goods brought by the English
for sale, • of the country has increastd, and the pur-
chasers from the i:Jerior are more rumerous, and make larger
investmeats than formerly. 'l%s cities of the interior where
most goods are a lit from hence are, St. Paul, Santos, Santa Ca-
tarina, Sat Seba.t.art, San kalvador de Campos, Ciudad de Ma-
nana, thtayaz43, Rio Grande, and Porto Alegre."

The PRINCZ OF WALES left town yesterday for
Brighton.
On 'Wednesday the Earl of CHATHAM received the
visits of a number of General Officers, at his house
in Hill-street. His Lordship gave- orders to his
Aides-d::-Cimp to be in perfect readiness at =hour's
notice tor foreign service.
Last night, about half past eleven o'clock, a fire
broke out at a carpenter's shop in Mercer-street, Long
Acre, uhich entirely consumed the same.
Ann Paton was, a few days since, committed to
Aberdeen gaol, for attempting to poison her mistress,
by mixing some noxious ingredient in her broth. For-
tunately, the nauseous taste disgusted her intended
victim, and prevented her taking a sufficient quantity
to prove fatal.
Wednesday as a boat with four women was coming
from King's stairs, kotherhithe, to Wapping New.
stairs, it ran foul of the hawser of a ship, which upset
lit, by which all the women were unfortunaully
drowned!
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