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Rosenerantr. The funeral of that lamented statesman
took place yesterday. Princes Christian and Ferdinand
Denmark, Prince William of Hesse, and Prince
Wilnam Charles Louis of Hesse Philipsthal,were among
the numerous followers, as well as the whole diple-
matic corps.

This morning-we received Dutch Papers to the 21st.
and Brussels Journals to the 20th. The following are
extracts :

FRANKFORT, JANUARY 12.
Every Authority which believes itself unpopular en-
deavours to conceal its intentions and its actions as long.
as possible. The German Diet, on the motion of M. de
Manch, its President, has given very strict orders to all
the Censors in the German Confederation to refuse in•
sertion in the German Papers to any article whatsoever
relative to the Diet, which has not previously appeired
in the French or German Journal of Frankfort. Ai 1
natural consequence of this aversion to publicity, the,
Diet has forbidden the printing of any memorials or pe-
titions which shall be addressed to itiontil they have
been first subjected to the Censorship.
The most absurd and unfounded reports have been
spread from Hamburgh, relative to a pretended con=
:Piracy in Sweden. The last letters from Stockholm
speak only of the perfect tranquillity which reigns in
the kingdom. The only foundation for the whole re-
port, seems to have been an anonymous letter from one
peasant to another, which some Journals have men-
tioned, bat it was not of a nature to excite any disturb-
ance, nor has there been any. It is said now, that the
Swedish Ministers at foreign Courts; have received in-
structions from their Government to contradict these
false reports.

HAGUE, JANUARY LSO►
Baroa Nagell, who has been allowed to retire in the
most honourable manner' from the department oi,
Foreign Affairs, will retain the title of Minister of State.
and take part, as the chief Plenipotentiary, in the Dego-
ciations with the Papal Nuncio. His Excellency is like-
wise placed at the head of a Committee for the prd-
motion of the Fine Arts.

By the arrival of the CREOLE frigate we have some
further particulars relating to the recent events in Bra-
zil, though they are far fromexplaining the actual views
of the EMPEROR; and we should not be surprised to learn
that, entertaining some suspicions of the attachment of
his MAJESTY to the Constitution, A party had attempted
to convert Brazil into a Republic. It appears that on the
evening of the 10th November, the city of Rio was thrown
into a state of general alarm and confusion, by the arrival
at the barracks of an order from the EMPEROR, for the im-
mediate march of the troops to his Quinta, or Palace.
—The reason circulated on the following morning for
this movement of the troops was, that the t StrEttOß
had discovered that his old Prime Minister, Joss BOW
EACIO DI ANDRADE, had been tampering with the sol-
diery, and endeavouring to bring some of them over to
his party—an explanation which was considered pro-
, bable, as the party was possessed of great influence. On
the Ilth, the Cortes, alarmed at the EMPEROR'S order,
sent a message to him to learn why the troops remained
under arms; but no satisfhctory answer was returned,
and the members in consequence remained all night in
the Assembly-house. When the morning of the 12th
broke, anxiety was depicted in the countenance of every
one; crowds were collected in the streets to learn the
result, but all business was suspended, and -the shops
remained closed. About noon, however, a body of
troops marched into the city, and surrounded the,
house in which the Deputies were deliberating, point-
ing directly towards the building several field-pieces
which they brought with them.

A number of Officers then entered, dissolved the
Cortes in the name tithe EMPEROR, and made prisoners
of the following members : ANTONIO, CARLOS MAW
TINS, FRANCISCO (brother to BONIFACIO DI ANDRADE),
MONTEZUMA, and LALCHA. They were matched across
the Palace square, put into a boat, and conveyed to the
Ilha desCobras. Shortly afterwards the EMPEROR made
his appearance, and paraded through the principal
streets. It would appear, however, that his proceedings,
up to this period at least, were not unpopular with the '
inhabitants. He was everywhere received with ap-
plause, and in the evening a general illumination took •,
place. Joss BONIFACIO, the Member suspected of
tampering with the soldiery, had left the house pre-
vious to the arrival of the troops, but he was arrested
in the course of the evening. In the private -circles,
where men could venture to express their sentiments,
the conduct of the EMPEROR was severely censured by
the English residents and the more respectable Brazi-
lians, as they feared it would be productive of disturb-
ancei in the provinces. On the 14th, an embargo
was laid on the shipping in the harbour of Rio, which
continued till the 21st, when the Laconia transport, on
board of which the six arrested Deputies and their fami-
lies had been placed, sailed with sealed orders not to be
opened till her arrival in a certain latitude. As this
vessel had been supplied with provisions for five months,
her destination, which was given out to be Havre de
Grace, was generally supposed to be some far more
distant port ; and some of the conjectures name that of
Goa, in the East Indies.

The departure of the democratic members was fol.
fowed by a Proclamation from the Minister of Police,.
affixed in all the public streets, offering a reward of 400
milreas (about £100) to any person who would enable
him to prosecute to conviction the authors of certain
placards reflecting on the recent conduct of the Go-
vernment ; offering, at the same time, to'conceal the
names of the informers, and to observe strict secrecy
in the prosecution. This Proclamation hid struck more
alarm into the inhabitants than any other act of the Est-
in a country where for a small bribe persons


could be found ready to sweet anything, no one felt
himself secure against a secret prosecution. Qn the day
after this Proclamation the only public journal which
-remained in opposition to the Government, gave petite.
that the pUblication eotdd- no longer be continued...a:-
It was not till the 25th that the troops arrived from
the cantonments at St. Chrispvao, in which they had
been placed by the EMPEROR'S order. Amidst all the
events above related, nothing had occurred which could
denote to what the future views of the Estrzaoa tended;
and the only circumstance which could warrant the,
suspicion of a secret design to effect a reunion with
Portugal, was his having received 'from the King of
FRANCE the Grand Crosses of the Holy Ghost and of
St. Michael, addressed to him as gi Prince Regent of
PORTUGAL," and these decorations, though he had not
ventured to exhibit them in public, he was understood
to have accepted.
Intelligence was received at Rio on the 22d of No-
vember, of the taking of Monte Video by the Brazi-
lian troops.
With the letters by the Cieole, a copy of the financial
expose. of GANA, the Minister for that department before
the recent change, has been received, and we understand
that all his views on that subject have been adopted by
his successor. _

By an arrival at Baltimore, in fifteen days, from Lal
Guayra, files of the Caraccas Colontbiano and Iris, to
the 26th of November, had been receiver!. The Co-
lombian Congress of 1824 was summoned to meet on
the 24.1 of January. A Decree of the last year's Con-
gress, dated the 4th of August, declared that the port
of the province of Rio Hacha should be exempt fiom
the payment of all duties on provisions that might
be introduced from abroad, and necessary for its con-
sumption, for the period of ten years. This law was
enacted in consequence of the distressed state of the
province of Rio Hacha, owing to the occupation cf
Maracaibo by the late contending armies of Spain and
the Republic. These accounts state, that by an official
Decree of the Colombian Congress, dated sth of Au-
gust, the claim of Mr. MACKINTOSH, of London, for
10,000 suits of clothing furnished to the Republic on
the faith of a contract entered into with Don Luis
LOPEZ MENDEZ: was rejected. What authenticity there
may be in this statement, we of course have no means
to determine.

The old rumour of FERDINAND VII. applying to his'
brother Sovereigns to reconquer his late Colonies in South
America for him, was circulated in the City this morn-
ing, with some variation certainly. France is no longer

mentioned as the Power invited to undertake the chival-
rous duty; but the 'King of SPAIN is said to have ap-
pealed to the Sovereigns of Great Britain, Austria,
Russia, and Prussia. Oh fur the meeting of Parlia-
ment, if it was only to silence the gossips of the Stock
Exchange.

Since the South Sea Bubble, the British Pithlic never

perhaps manifested more gullibility in money matters
than at present, which is not a little fed by the ready
publicity the Daily Journals give to the scheme of
any. adventurer who may wish to draw a few thou•
sands from the pocket of John Bull, in the shape of
a loan. One of the last projects of this sort, was a pre-
tendecl,Gresk loan, which, suspecting to be unautho-
rized, we did not notice. The following letter, posted on
the Foreign Stock Ettchange, yesterday afternoon,
proves our conjectures were right:
'• r, JETIEUIRS-SQUARE.

`" Sts—l beg leave to announce to yoii, for the information of
tit* Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, that the person calling him-
self his Excellency the General Count de Wintz, Knight of the Or-
der of Stanislaii;, &c. has no authority from the Greek Government

for raising any Loan for that Account. The powers for that pur-
pose are •ested in a Gentlentan now on his way to this country.
." I have the honour, Ike. " JOHN. BOWRING.
`• lion. Secretary to the Greek Committee.
" To R. W. Wade, Req. Secretary to the
Committee, Stock Exchange."