Star.
London, England, 1828-12-10 00:00:00

•• RIO OR JANEIRO, Aut. 29.

" Ti f. positively known that the prier so mites desired is at
length concluded ; the terms, which are s: id to ht advantageous to
both nations, were signed by the respective Ministers, who will
shortly proceed on hoard the British packet to Buenos Ayres. It
is affirmed that Don Pablo Barbosa is commissioned to carry the
official notice to London. the British Minister having offered for
the purpose a swift sailing English frigate, which will sail in the
course of a week."

' The following letter tut been received horn the Agent
to the North and South American Coffee House. d.ted

" BUENOS AYRES, Sirmaan 17.

" The packet Stiallow arrived here on the 14th inst. bringing us
news that the preliminaries of peace were signed at Rio Janeiro,
the particulars of which you will get long ere this reaches you. The
terms are very advantageous for this country, and has created uni-
versal joy here--speculators excepted. A variety of circumstances

have led to this happy result—the determination (so it is said) of
the British government to bawl' up the blockade, combine d with
the state of affairs in Portugal, Brazil, /Lc. Nothing now is want.
ing to make this country great and prosperous but a strong Gown.
ment. They have resources, and are, generally speaking, an excel.
lent people : a little conceited, perhaps, hut that is better than the
other extreme. It is generally allowed that we owe this glorious
peace to the exertions of General Bressin and Lord Ponsonby. The
good understanding which has always existed between ha Lordship
and the present Government of the Republic has facilitated this
measure. Durrego, the Governor of this province, is becoming
very popular : be is a man of nerve, decision, and talento—Exchange
upon England, 23d. per dollar; doubloons, 36."

The following letter, received in town this morning
by one tithe most respectable mercantile houses in the
City, contains mote in p..rrant inlormation on the su'•-
ject of the peace between 13,irall and Buenos Apes
than is to be found in any ot the roregoins details:

PRI VAT!? I.l:TrEtt.

RIO JANRIIto, OCT. 13, 112$.

" By the Elirabeth packer, heater hereof, we have received se-
counts from Buenos Ayres of the arrival there of ►he Deputies with
the preliminary Treaty of Peace, which b:.l baen referred for co .
amnion to the Congress at Santa Pe, and there is little doubt but
what it will be ratified, as Dorrego, the President thereof, deolares
he will do so on the part of Bl,eool Ayres, should the Congress at
Santa Fe refine to give it their sanction.
"The following are said to be the heads of the Convention—.

" That the indeprndericy of the Banda Oriental shall be acknew.
!edged and guaranteed by the two contracting Powers—That a Go-
vernment shun be appointed, without any interference sai the pan
of the army, but the titkeris left to exercise their right of election
with perfect freedom—That the fortified towns of Monte Video
and Colonic shall be evacuated by the Brazilian troops live months
after the excLange of the raadeuions in Nlonte Video, and that forty-
eight hours after the said exchange, the blockade shall be raDe.!...
That Plenipotentiaries shaft be minted on either side, to tie:odera
a definitive Treaty ut Peace ; and that, in the event of any ut:fore-
seen obstacle to its conclusion, hostilities shall nevertheless cease
for five years.
" We are anxiously looking out for the arrival of the Swallow
packet, or Heron sloop of war, with further particulars.

" We have to notice an important aitewation lik.ly soon to take
place in our commercial relations, as the laws for reducing the
Ssidiacao, or transit duty, to 2 per cent. and for eqaaliting the Ins-
port duties, have passed both Moues of lirpreb.:ntatives. and will, lt
is said, receive the Imperial unction. Ali nations, tlierefore, from
the lit January, 132 k, will be placed on the same footing, paying
only 15 per cent. duties.
" Mr. Calmat) his agaio been appointed Minister of Finance, and
resumed the duties of that Ll!partment on the 26th September.•' I
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Captain Scott, of the Elisabeth packet, writes from Falmouth,
that as he was coming out from Rio hr met au American sloop of war
going in from &ILAN Ayres, from whence he sailed Ovtobar
who told him that the ratification of the Treaty had copse do*n
from Santa Fe.

We have received the Algemcine Zeitung to the 4th
inst. It contains further par ticulars of the raising I f
the siege of Silistria. The retrograde of the Instr.
rialists is still attributed to the sewed' y of the weather,
and the difficulty of obtaining supplies, and not to the
result of the Turkish mil tai y operations. But it is ad-
mitted that the flight of the besiegers was so precipitate,
that the heavy ariillery c.old not be carried away, and
were in consequence thrown into the bogs in the vicinity
of Silistria ;and articles which stele difficult of transport
were destrojed..._____