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it is in different circutnctances, and is threatened be
peculiar and greater dangers than the rest of the Em-
pire ; abhorring fedemtion because they have neither
means nor motives to solicit or to support it, con-
sidering themselves as an integral part of the Empire,
from urgent necessity and notorious and evident utility,
at the same time returning thanks for the portrait of his
Majesty; the Secretary of Sate for the affairs of the
Empire, is commanded by his Imperial Majesty, to sig-
nify to the most honoured Chapter how much he is

flattered by the many proofs which it gis es of confidence
in his person—irrefragable proofs, which bear witness
to the whole world, how well governed they have hi.
therto been. At the same time, his Majesty orders them
to be answered, on the point of religion, that the want of
tolerance h very contrary to the Constitution,and also to
the Roman Catholic religion itself, because GOD has left
man at liberty to believe or not, saving or condemning
himself by his faith Gr his disbelief; and as for the
usage's and customs, his Majesty declares th,t thole
which were establis'sed by law are decreed by the Cm-
stitution ; that only the Assembly can change them,
with his Majesty's sae c• ion; and os for those hich are
not established by law, his Imperial Nl.j •sty will do
wh.t he finds necessary, not only because this is one of
the attributes of the Government, but because the letter
of the Chapter shews how much they desire blindly to
obey his M•jestv, who cannot refrain final no it)ing
farther to the Chapter, that all the howince, having'
desired the oath to be taken to the Constitution, and hav-
ing in fact taken it, hisM imp can never deviate from ir,
as he has himself sworn to it ; and that even were this
not the case, his Imperial Majesty would not accept
such an offer, because his sentiments are constitutional ;
and it is only with a Constitution that he desires to
govern. With respect to the obracles which the Chap-
ter sees in this form of Government, his Majesty ob-
serves, that by Tit. 8, Art. 179, Sec. 35. the Govern-
ment is authorised to suspend all formalities, and this
is proved, not only dejure by the Constitution, but has
not unhappily been proved de facto in the provinces ofl
Pernambuco and Ceura; and lastly, with respect to the.'
concluding part t f the letter, in which the Chapter. states
that it was satisfied with his Majesty's portrait, his Ma-
jesty desires they may be informed, that he never ex-
pected otherwi,e, and that they may, on their part,
expect from his Majesty all the benefits and favours
which his Majesty can confer within the limits fixed by
the Constitution, to those of his subjects who distinguish
thems:lves in an hon,oarable and faithful manner.
ESTEVAO ILIBEIRO RESEXDE.
The Palace at Ili° de Janeiro, 7th January, 1825.
The 9th of January being the anniversary of the day
on which Ili, Majesty declared his intention for remain-
ing in 11. azil, was observed with great splendour; as
also the 22J, being the birth-Jay of the Empie-s.

This forenoon we received United States Papers to
the 18th ult. and have in another column inserted from
them an account of the inauguration off' the new Paz-
sums?, with the sensible and tempera•e speech he
made on the occasiov.. Mr. CLAY and Mr. BA 1.1101111
have entered upon the discharge of the duties of the
Department of State and the Department of War, to
which they have been respectively called by the Fag-
SIDENT, with the advice and consent of the Senate of
the United States.

One of these Papers announces the arrival at the Ha•
vannah, on the 16th of February, of upwards of 2,000
Spanish troops.

The dead bodies stated to have been washed ashore
at Curacoa, are now believed to have been the crew of
an American ship, which had fallen into the bands of
the pirates.

Captain HOPKINS. of tl,e brig Dolphin, spoke by the
Comet, arrived at the port of New York, states, that two
r•r three days before he left Havannah, a black man
bad arrived, and reported that he belonged to a brig that
was taken off the Double Headed Shot Keys by a pira-
tical boat, full of armed men, who murdered all on
board except himself.

A letter from Carthagena, dated the 10th February,
states, that a British frigate was off that port from
England, having on board a million and a half of dol-
lan for the Colombian Government.

Captain HALL, of the ship Armata, who had arrived
from Cuba, state, that the port of Trinidad, in that
island, was bllckaded by a Colombian squadron when
be sailed, and no lighters were allowed to pus from the
port to the River.
The following is the account in these Papers of the
arrival of a Spanish fleet at the Havannah, the truth of
which we are inclined to doubt:
FROM THZ NORFOLK PAPER, MARCH 8.

SPANISH FLUX AND TROOPS.—In the ship news
furnished by the Eliza schooner, arrived at Charleston
on Saturday, the 27th ult. in five days, from Havannah,
we find the arrival at that port on the 16th February, of
the following ships of ear, with 2014 troops. This
really seems to forebode something like hostile move-
ments on the putt of Spain :
The Spanish frigate Casilda, from Ferrol, passengers,
the Lady and family of General UVIA, three officers
and 124 men of the Union Grenadiers ; frigate Arethusa,
with 140 men ; frigate Concep ion, with .540 men ;
frigateCantabria,with 423 men; frigate Boca:.o,with 414
men; frigateCinoherminos, with 321; cot vette Diamante,
with fifty-two men, and the. Spanish brig Guadeloupe;
this vessel ssiled from Cadiz for this Port, and was
taken on the Ist of January by the Colombian cruiser
Bolivar, off Cape Antonio. and retaken on the 14th, by
the Sp a&sh frigate Arethuss."

In another e4lemn we shave given, from the French
Papers, a document of considerable importance. it is
g•Petiliuss kens s sty of the principal Commercial and

Banking Honses is Paris to the Km, praying
%mart to follow the example of the British Gl-
rernment, -End send Consuls to the new States of
South America, and form Treaties with them.—
The Mak, in noticing this Petition, labours to prove
that the commercial interests of France are protected in
the New World, and that neither the United States nor
the British Government has gained any advantages by
recognising the new Republics. English and American
merchants, however, know better.

The attempt to get---...P.up a public dinner in London, in
honour of Mr. LAWLESS, one of the half-recognised
members of the Ii ish Catholic Deputation, completely
failed, as might have been anticipated. The din-
ner was fixed for yesterday, at the City of London
Tavern, and instead of the four hundred persons
expected to attend, there was only twenty-six, in-
cluding seven Gertlemen connected 'with the press,
who attended professionally. Mr. HENRY HUNT was
in the chair, Mr. Comm not attending, lest he should
he considered " to be of a party among the Catholics."
Mr. HUNT frequently addressed the meeting, as did
Mr. LAWLESS and a D-. Git.cttarst. The latter Gen.
tleman's address was guise a curiosity, and if correctly
repotted in the •illorning Herald, proves, that to the
accidental circumstance of his being a Scoichman
instead of an Irishman, he owed the opportimity
nuking a speech at all in the present day. " If," said
the Doctor, " I had been in Ireland, I would have been one of the
1( nights of the carter, or of St. Pattick, and would hive been
tacked up. If Cakdonia'sleuld be treated as Ireland was treated,and
I did not become a rebel,l should deserve to be damned"—(('beets)
On the conclusion of this speech, Mr. LA WLESI tendered his hand
to Dr. GILCHRIST. This and the cheers sufficienly mark the cha-
racter of the meeting. Mr llm.xr. in the course of one of his speeches,
I reminded the company that he made blacking, and boasted of pay-
ing two shillings a week more for " the handwriting on the wall"
, of " Hunts Matchless," than the boy had who wrote " No Po-
pery," in characters equally legible.