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London, England, 1822-09-28 00:00:00

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sons to return home,
piloted is this affair,
re Oro who were
the Igth of August,
who are to remain

seven in number; and

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received permission
ber. The Minister of Justice will communicate the
result of the proceedings as soon as the guilty are tried-
These Papers contain a narrative of the principal'
points discussed in the Cortes during the fortnight
•
preceding.
In the Sitting of Sept. 2,
.several Deputies brought
forward proposals to be discussed in a future Sitting.
One by Senor Matioel Patricio Correa de Castro, De-
puty from Angola, stated that the Cones had -re-
solved, in their Decree regulating the Election of De-
puties, that the Kingdoms of Angola, which be had
the honour to represent, and that of Benguela, should
%end only one Deputy ; and that he thought it his
duty to state, that by the census df 1819, that part
of the Portuguese Monarchy contained, 202,650 free
inhabitants, and, that if not absolutely correct, he
could however vouch for its general exactness ; now
as the same Decree enacted that there should be a
Deputy for every 30,000 individuals, it was clear
his Province should have six Deputies, and the pro-
per number of Substitutes.- Three Deputies had been
appointed, but two of them had remained at Rio J-
aneiro, where he had left them, so that he had the
whole weight of the interests of the Province on his
hands: he proposed that the Substitute who is at
Lisbon should be called upon to take his place in the
Cortes, and that Angola should have the number of
Deputies, conformable to its population.—Referred
to the Committee of the Constitution.
Ssrr.4.—The Abbe de Medroes read a motion to
the effect that, it appearing that the Prince Royal
was disposed to make treaties of amity and corn•
merce with some foreign Powers, which might be
attended with the most injurious consequences to
Portugal, the Government be called upon imme-
diately to issue a Manifesto, addressed to all nations,
disapproving, and declaring to be null and void, all
acts, treaties, and proceedings of the Government of
Rio de Janeiro, from the 16th of January this year,
as arbitrary, illegal, and unjust—,as originating in an
illegitimate authority beyond the jurisdiction dele-
gated by the Kin when he left Rio.

to the Stang of the sth inst. the President called
on the Committee charged with the drawing up of
the-Decrees, relative to the commercial relations of
Brazil and Portugal, to eipedite their labours; on
which the Reporters stated the reason of the delay,
and that the result of their labours would shortly be
presented to the Assembly.
A project of a Decree was read and approved, for
providing for the debt contracted 24th August, 1820,
and to meet the expenses of the future year, &c.
SEPT.. 6.—A project of an additional law to that
on the Liberty of the Press, was read and discussed.
In the Sitting of the llth, the Committee o;*Comti-
tution have proposed the following Decree :

1. That the Decree of the 3d of June last, convoking an as-
sembly or Constituent Cortes in Brazil, is null.
2. That the Secretaties of Statr at Rio de Janeiro are highly
responsible for the illegality of so despotic a Resolution, and
shall be impeached.'
3. That the Government of Rio de Janeiro, disobeying the
Cones, and constituting itself independent, contrary to the
wishes of the people of Brazil, who are represented in this As-
sembly, is a Government de facto, and not de jure, and that the
voluntary obedience of any authority will be criminal, unless';
when compelled by force.
4. That the delegated authority of the Prince shall iipmedi-
ately cease, and the King appoint a Regency to exercise that
authority, in the manner already sanctioned.
5. That the Prince Royal shall return to Portugal within
the 'pace of four months reckoning from the daywheli the present
Decree shall be notified to him ; and if, contrary to expectation
Pe should not obey, the proceedings fixed by the Constitution
-shall be adopted.
6. That every Commander of the Land and Sea Forces shall
be accounted a traitor who shalt obey the Government of Biel
Janeiro, unless compelled by force.
7. That the Government shall try all the means in its power
to carry all these resolutions into effect.

Ordered to be printed without delay.
Sm. 12 and I3.—A project of law was discussed
(offered by Senor GURREIRO) on the inviolability of the
houses of the Citizens, in ten Articles. The fourth
Article fixing the cases in which public officers may
enter the houses of private citizens r—lst. To take
any criminal condemned to prison.-2. To look fdt
contraband goods.-3. To look for stolen goods.—
*. To look for arms, papers, or other things, which,
from the nature of some crime previously committed,,
it was knoWn might serve to prove it.-6. To enter
into public houses and taverns when open, and pub-
lic houses of illegal games. To which M. FIRREIRA
DE Sous* propose' to add-6. To look for and take
away any woman. who, contrary to the will of her
parents, guardians; or husband, may be improperly
in the house of a stranger.
KVA), Zzu.za was much averse to the second case
of seeking for contraband goods; he had seen in
England that the house of the citizen was a sacred
asylum,. and noliody hid any apprehension that his
peace could be disturbed when he had entered into
his house. In France and other countries (said he)
where I have been, • they speak with much •liberty,
but no one goes-home without fearing that some
gens.cl'arme or sbirro may disturb his repose.
• The several Articles were areal to with <some
slight alteration; the is proposed by M. de 'Sousa
wore siejoetod.

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Arrived the brig Heart of Oak, of Car.
sohooner Rlbecca, of &Pam Castaiu
Whidley, of Exeter—all wind-boand,
'mach Bristol Packet, of Penzance, Captain
from Bristol, with a cargo of sundries for
, sloop Atatante, of Arundahi, Captain
Man in ballast, Wind to Yrortriy;
(ves, Mans
&WWI. With coals tram4 port; schooner Liberty, of Pentane*, Captain
Janus Alamo**, with coals froM Wales fir the Minim ; snuck
Ilisabesh, of Portsmouth, Captain Gatonum., from Portsmouth
for Scilly. Also arrived, the brig Quest, of Scarborough, Cap.
Ws Paw; sloop Whitby, of Whitby, Captain LaCAill lhop
Commerce, of Plymouth, Captain Efialf ; schooner Sisters, or
Poway, Captain Hoary:: • and schooner Friends GoodwW, of
month, Capt. Pratr2wind.boond,§oing to the Nonlaward.
Sailed the French brig Pitugette) of ormantier. Capt. Curs.
may, in ballast, for Normal:tier 1. Trench sloop le Nestor'.sr
• Cherbourg, Captain Lassos, in ballast; for Bury ; French sloop
les Deux Antis, of Room, Captain Li24•11:11. for Rooen, with a
cargo of bar iron; and brig Lively, of Yarmouth, C.ipt. Jam,
Gowan, from Gallipoli, with a cargo of oil for Petersburgh.
Saes. 26.—Arrived the schooner Enteiptize, of Witham,
Captain Moan; having sailed from St. Ives on the 244 inst.
bound to Wales.

FaLawny% Sm. 26.—Wibd N.—Arrived the Duke of Rent
packet, from Lisboa, iu eleven days. Sailed the Nancy, **cry,
for Stettin.—The smack Atinfavhich was taken into Corwiek
Pier after being run foul of, as reported yesterday, was, after
some difficulty, got out from thence by the crew of the Active
it:lnane cutter, and towed into this part last nighi.
PLYMOUTH, Seer. 26.*Wind N. by E.—Arrived the William
and Mary, Warrtray from Charente; Shannon, •PaeLgs, from
Memel; and Henrietta Isabella, BALI; from Trieste. Sailed
the Mediterranean DAR; for London; Neptune, CLARK, 'for
Hamburgh ; and Valerea, Kresstzu, for London.
Poarsmanyn, Sm. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Robert Ed-
wards, Siillllol/113114 for New York.
Deal., Sart.. 27.—Wind N.E.—The Vibelia, Iloocsoe, for
Jamaica, lost an anchor and part of a cable last evening in the
Gulls, and put back again to the Downs,where she remains with
several of the homeward bound. Came down from the ltiver
last evening and sailed, the. Hope. Heart, for Sierra Leone;
also, to-day, the John, IC mu, for Jamaica; and Sir Charles Price,
Dtincas, for the South Seas.
Hatt., Seer. 26.—Arrived the Thomas, with three fish, and
Mary Frances with two, from Davis' Straits; left the Ellison-on
the 31st Augu.t, off Disco. The Cato. on the 28th August, was
in about lat. 70. N. but none of the ships have got any fish since
June. The North Briton and Elizabeth, from Gieeuland, have
also arrived.

Haawien, Serr. 47.—Tuesday, the Comet steam-vessel ar-
rived at this port, having in tow the hulk of his Majesty's ship
Dune, formerly in the Dutch service, which is dtsciaetl to be
converted into a Breakwater, to supply the place of the one
late), broken up.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 2.5.—A letter has been received
from Mr. BAcKnousE(written by direction of Mr.
CANNING), addressed to the Cliairman of the Brazil
Association of this port, stating that, by advices just
received from Mr. CHAMBERLAIN, at Rio JAniern,
Sir THoMAs HARDY had given directions for his
Majesty's ship BLOSSONI, Captain BOUCUER, to pro-
ceed to Bahia, in crder to afford protection, it neces-
sary, to the British merchants established there, and
to their property and shipping ; and that the above-
named vessel was to proceed from Rio Janeiro on
the 17th of July.

Letters have been received from San Blas dated on
the 10th of May, which state that his Majesty's ship
CoNwAY was to sail with specie for England on the
Ist of June, and that the Marquis of Hastings w:ts
to sail about the same time for Bengal. The Asia,
HOLDRNI from Cadiz, would sail for China on the

12th May, and the Wellington and Rebecca on the
20th, for Manilla. The Indepenoencia, Chilian
gate, was at Loveto about the 20th of April, where
the English part of the crew of the Araucano brig,
of 18 guns, had mutinied, landed the Officers aild
Chi Hans, arid put to sea. The Devon;of Liverpool.
sailed on the 10th April for Panama acid Lima.

FROM THE JAMAICA Roo AL GAZETTE OF AUGUST 3.

The following affidavit details a most horrid and
diabolical act of piracy and murder. The circum-
stance has been laid belore the Admiral, at which he
expressed great abhorrence: he stated, that the first
brig of war he could get hold of should be stationed
in the quarter where the piracy was committed ; and
that he was in hopes that some of our cruizers would
capture one of those scoundrels, to enable him to
make an example:
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" JAMAICA, Personally appeared before me, one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, Hugh Hamilton, marivero.vho,
being duly sworn, maketh oath and saith, he sailed as Mate on
board the sloop Blessing, William Smith, Master ; and had
made three voyages from the port of Oracabessa, in this is
to St. Jago de Cuba; and that in the return of the fourth voyage
of the said sloop, about the beginning of the present month (het
the deponent cannot name the day), were fallen in with by a hung
black schooner, with black mouldings (then), the name of Era ‘.-
nuel marked on her stern, and commanded by a white man, with
a mixed crew of colour and countries, among whom were Eng-
lish or Americans; that after bringing the sloop to, the privateer
or pirate's boat came alongside, and took out the Captain and
his son, with all the crew, and carried them on board of the
schooner, leaving the sloop in the possession of his people;
that he demanded of the Captain bis money or his life.--
The Captain persisted that he had none, but proffered him the
cargo, which consisted of 100 barrels of flour and .50 tierces of
cornmeal (marked' diamond); that on the following
day, not producing any money, a plank was ran out in the star-
board side of the schooner, upon which he made Captain Smith
walk, and that, as be approached to the end, they tilted it,whem
he dropped into the sea, and there, while in the effort of swim-
ming, the Captain called for his musket and fired at bins there-
with,when be sunk and was seen no more. The rest of tl e crew
were ironed below,with the exception of his son, a boy of about
14 years of age, who witnessed the fate of his father. While in
the agony of tears and crying, the Captain took the butt-end of
the musket and knocked the boy on the head, thereafter took
him by the foot, and hove him overboard ; that on the day fol-
lowing this sad event, having previously taken out all the rigging,
sails, &c. of the sloop, he set her on fire and burnt her ; and on
the same day gave the crew, consisting of three others, and he,
this deponent (having stripped us of everything but what we
had on our backs),-the jolly-boat, with a bucket of water, and
one bisoldt each person, without a compass,which we asked for,
• but were refused by his saying "he would sooner give Hell!
to be off, or he would sink them." Thus we parted, and In the
afternoon of the same day were picked up by the schooner Mary
Ann, belonging to Black River, and were landed at Port Morant
on the 18th of July, 1848. (Signed)
" HUGH HAMILTON."

" Taken and sworn before me, in the presence of George
Mackay, Esq. at Roselle Estate, in St. Thomas's in the East,
this soda day of July, 1 ses. (Signed) " RIFERGUSSON.
Mr.x.—Tbe Captain of the pirate is a tall robust man,
swarthy complexion, Roman nose, long visage, but cannot speak
to any other particular marks."
About the middle of last month a suspicious-look-
ing schooner, very probably the one alluded to above,
was seen hovering off the east end ; and very shortly
after she had disappeared, a vessel of war, supposed
to be the Tirol:, hove in sight ; and the BUSTARD
could not have been far off at the time. It is to be re-
gretted that she was not fallen in with by either of
them, that some of these freebooters of the ocean might
have kenn brought to public justice, to atone for such
daring crimes, and be the means, in some measure, of
deterring others from continuing in them.
A whale of the bottle-nosed tribe, measuring up-
wards of 22 foot, was captured at Southerness, ou
Thurskiay .

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who, itsappe4ted;wfve set, i 1134 NAVAL
r. To the Litter are added Usti•pmeataß, 'L...4
allowed to return preeioissly to Miss, Captain Dams; a
six in number;• second, of trees* Caul" d'th°°°`r
prisoners (prams prol!latcpPlm7l-1- galiVaLuani regadat liaoulaadaans,; "Iladfron
n 4 third, of those who have now i this port; N
urt tsielewTirets
to return home, twelve in 1111 M• krir betree, at fit.
of Justice will communicate the Wave Alf this post; sal