Star.
London, England, 1825-01-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The arrangement proposed by our Correspondent at Manchester
is respectfully declined.
The Fifth Part of the Twelfth Letter of VINDEI, on West India
Slavery, is intended fur insertion in the STAR of Friday.

We stated in the STAR of yeAerday, that the new
Brazilian Loan was on the point of behig contilticted
for. The original sum proposed to be raised by that Go-

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vernment in this jountry was 3,000,0001. sterling, of
which 1,000L000(. only has been contracted for, the
term, then offered being considered by the Commis-
sioners far below those which the credit and re-
sources of the country justified them in expecting.
The remaining two millions have now been contracted
for. This loan has attracted public attention, not only
On account of its being so small a sum, but because
Brazil has no public debt, and its independence seems
fully established.
The new Biazilian loan is expected to bear a high
premium, and we understand the list is already
filled. The applications for shares at-the Office of Mr.
ROTHSCHILD, this morning, are immense, and sufficient,
we unddrstand, to fill a list cf four times the amount
of the Loan.
A few days after it w publicly known that the
BritistOovernment had determined to recognize the
independence of the South American States of Mexico,
Colombia, and Bueiros Ayres, some Of our contempo-
raries stated that France had determined on a similar
recognition. Feeling confident that the assertion was
at least premature, we did not notice it ; and from the
manner in which the subject is noticed in the Paris

Journals last received, it is evident that the measure
has given uneasiness, to some of the French politicians
at least, whatever may be the intention or the Cabinet
of France.

The Quotidienne states, that 46 the representatives of

the Holy Alliance, at Paris, assembled on Sunday, and
that a note had been sent to the Cabinet of St..laMes's."
The Journal des Debals makes this act en the part of
our Government, a new ground for attacking M. de
VILLELE. The Minister is toll, that Mr. Secretary
CANNING plays better than him ; that M. de VILLELR
" foresaw that he adopted no system, and took no part
in affairs abroad."

The next passage is the more remarkable, and is en-
titled to notice on account of the erroneous assertion it
contains. " When," says this Journalist, "we were
triumphantinSpain,when our credit was strengthened by
the rejection of the Law of the Reines, he took good care
not to grasp a question in which you might so powerfully
intervene; but when he saw how little you had profitted
by the success of our army in Spain and by the gloiy
of the Dauphin ; when he saw you recommence pour
disastrous financial operations, he knew that the mo-
ment to act had art ived."

Now, we clearly proved, in an article on this Sub-
ject in the STA It of the 4th inst. the intentions of the
British Government on the subject of the South Ame-
rican States were known to all Europe nearly three
yews agn—that the-Navigation Act, passed in the third
year ut his present 14rAJESTT) was a de facto acknow-
ledgment of these Colonies, and gave to them the
rights of. independent States.
In DeceMber, 1822, we made known that we intended
to send Consuls to those States, and that in all the diplo-
matic correspondence that preceded the invasion of
Spain, the views of the British Government were clearly
and openly declared.
In the very last dispatch written by Mr Secretary
CANNING to Sir C. STUART, previous to the invasion
of Spain, there is the following passage: " With respect
to the provinces in America which have thrown off their
allegiance to th'e Crown of Spain, time and the course
of events appear to have substantially decided their se-
paration from the mother country ; although the formal
recognition of those Provinces as independent States by
his Majesty may be hastened or retarded by various
external circumstances, as well as by the more or less
satisfactory progress in each State towards a regular
and settled form of Governments. Spain has been long
apprised of his Majesty's opinions upon this subject."

Thus it will be seen that the British Minister did not
speak of our recognition of the South American States
as a doubtful event, but as one already determined
upon, though the time when might be delayed or has-
tened by various circumstances ; and the Editor of the
Journal des Debals may rest assured, that it was deli-
cacy to Spain that hat, in a great degree, retarded the
recognition of those colonies, whose separation from
her, time and the course of events had substantially de-
cided long ago.
What a clamour would have been raised by the French
Journalists, had we formally recognized the Smith
American states, when France invaded Spain,we should
then have been accused of taking advantage of her
weakness. We did not do this, and yet the French
ultra politicians are dissatisfied. It is, however, perhaps
the best compliment to the policy of the British Go-
ment that they are so.
All that we contend for is, that the whole conduct of
our Cabinet, in the affair of the South American States,
has been generous to Spain, honourable to our Govern-
meat, and open to all the world.

Spanish Papers to the Ist inst. reached us this fore-
noon. The following are extracts:— •
MADRID, DECEMBER so.

The Gazette of this date contains an official article
to the effect that, on the representation of Don Pedro
Moreno Altuzaro, Master of the English frigate Lord
Londock (Lyndock), soliciting payment for the passage
of some Spanish Officers who have emigrated from South
America, the King has decided, by the advice of the
Supreme Council of War, that all persons belonging to
the army or navy, and the widows or others mentioned
in the Royal Order of 26th May, 1818, and the Captains
and Masters of merchantmen, to whom the Royal Trea-
sury owes the passage from America to the Peninsula,
or from the pont of the parts of America in a state of
insurrection, to either ports of the same countries which
obey the Spanish Government of his Majesty, shall be
paid the amount out of the Treasury, though they per-
formed these voyages during the existence of the Con-
stitution now abolished. All persons who shall hence.
forth present themselves as emigrants, shall prove by
documents that they were compelled to leave the ports
they occupied, otherwise the soldier shall suffer the
penalty to which he is liable by the law, and the Cap-
tain of the vessel shall not be indemnified for the pas-
sage of the person whom he had improperly brought
with him.
The Commander of the French squadron at Cadiz,
has informed the Government of that City, by a letter
of 13th December, that his Majesty's frigate the Ama-
zon, under his command, having received orders to go
to Mahon, to convey several Spanish ships, which had
performed quarantine there, eight of those- ships had
sailed from that port, of which one went to Alicant, one
with recruits to Carthage* two from the Havannah
to Malaga, and four to Cadiz. The value of the con-
voy exceeds three millions.
Their Majesties and the Royal Family, with their
illustrious guests, Prince Maximilian and Princess
Ameiia, of Saxony, went on the 27th to visit the
Royal Museum of Natural History, in the street Alcala,
where they were received by Don Francis Zea Bermu-
dez, Chief Secretary of State, who is at the head of
that royal establishment. The Professors of Mineralogy
and Zoology drew the attention of the august visitors
ti the most remarkable among the innumerable curio-
sities in the Museum. They particularly admired a
specimen of gold, and another of piatina, much larger

than any other in Europe; a vast collection of exquisite
marbles, from the several provinces of Spain; and,
above all, the enormous skeleton of the megaterium, the
only known specimen inithe world.
THE KING.

WINDSOR, JAN. U.-tliS MAJESTY, although in the
enjoyment of good health, has not taken his regular ex-
ercise for the last.two days back.
Yesterday afterooon, Count MUNSTER arrived at the
Royal Lodge, and had an audience of his MaJesTY,
when his MAJESTY was pleased to invite his Excel-
lency to dinner, and pass the night. This forenoon,
his Excellency left the Royal Lodge, for his residence
in town.

The melancholy news of the death of Lord MOUNT-
CHARLES, eldest son of the Marquis of Convricuata,
arrived at the Royal Lodge on Saturday afternoon.
Sunday forenoon, the Marquis left the Royal Lodge, to
meet and condole with the Marchioness and family, at
his house in liamilon-place. Lord lkiouvr-Cit A 'tuts
had been in a declining state for the last three years
back, when, by the advice of his Physicians, he went to
Nice last autumn, where he lately died.