Star.
London, England, 1826-08-24 00:00:00

LANCASTER ASSIZES.

The business en the Civil aide is nearly get through, and has
become cotupstatively trilling. An acdon was brought on the war.
rainy of a borse. The novelty was, the defendant was a tailor, who
had sold a stable keeper an unsound horse, and thus jockied the
jockey. Verdict for the plaintiff 7.51. the price paid for the horse.

oases v. nasetzett. -
This was an attics brow& to recover the value of a horse which
the defendant bad hired front the plaintiff, and which bad been
thriven with such speed and for such a distance, that when he se-
award, be fell down it the stable and-died.
. _

E,idence having been beard,
Mr. Baron HOLLOCK left it to the Jury to determine open the
credit due to the defendant's wi:nesses.

The Jury found a verdietfOrthe auttiff--Dainages,2sl.
lieferey, convicted of highway robbery, is left for execudon.

MONTE VIDEO, Julia 1.

U?KACT OP A PAIVATII LITTIR.

The Province of Monte Video, the cause of contest.
Lion, was, it appears, yielded by treaty to the late King
of-Portugal by the King of Spain, and taken possession
lof accordingly. His son, the present. Sovereign, found
it as much a part of the dominions he was called upon
to govern as any other Province of Brasil, and could
as little allow of any claims the Buenos Ayreans might
think proper to make upon it, as he could have al-
lowed of the dismstnbennent of Bahia, or of Pernaju.

buco. This is the broad and simple fact, whatever
minor details may be interwoven with it.

Whatever South American Powers may have posses.
:ion of Monte Video, it must be their policy to keep it.
It is a fine and fertile tract, with a healthy climate; the
city itself is the strongest fortress in this country, ad-
mirably situated for commerce, and may be considered
as the key of the river Plata. Thus, in a few words,
the justice of the Emperor's claim, and the policy of
rendering it effective, are brought under review.
As to the inhabitants themselves, they would no
doubt prefer being an independent province, forming a
disrint:t and neutral boundary between the two greater
nations ; but if called upon to decide between them, I'
have little hesitation in affirming, that they would de-
dare for the wealthy and powerful Empire of Brazil,
capable of enriching and defending them, in preference
to the weak and impoverished State of Buenos Avec.
In point of fact, the Brazilians have but possession of
the city of Monte Video, and of Colonia, both of which
are besieged; the latter suffers some inconvenience, but
nothing can be more careless and ineffective than the
siege carried on against the former.
As for their operations by sea, they are more interest-
ing. The Buenos Ayreans, besides their privateers,
which have done much mischief on the coast of Brazil,
have a small fleet of light quick sailing vessels, such as
are proper for their river, well armed, manned, and ap.
pointed. Their Commodore, Brown, is a brave and enter-
prising man, and has given the Brazilians some trouble.
Until lately, the blockade has been carried on by a
heavy Brazilian fleet, in a very slovenly manner—
Brown attacking Colenia, running up and down the
river, and doing Just as he pleased. In regard to foreign
vessels, also, the mode of carrying on the blockade was
equally censurable.
To relieve us from this situation, the Nethersole was
first despatched, a small frigate, of 36 guns, commanded
by Captain Norton, a man in high estimation in the
Brazilian Navy, and the same who was so much dis-
tinguished at the taking of Pernambuco. A few days
after his arrival (1 lth of April), he was surprised in the
Roads, by Brown, in his corvette, of 28, with a heavy'
brig of 18. tither a desperate engagement, close in oar
view, the Netheroy beat them off, and pursued them
up the river till aight, when their superior sailing placed
them beyond her reach. In a few days afterwards,
Brown again ventured into the Roads at night, with all
the vessels he could collect, in order to cut out the
Netheroy, not being aware that, in the mean time, the
whole of the blockading squadron had entered onte
Video. He persisted, however, but, unfortunately foe
him, attacked the Imperatris, a 60-gun frigate, in Mho
take for the other. The squadron were soon in pursuit
of him, which they fruitlessly continued for two or three
days ; at first out to sea, and afterwards up the river.
Nothing matetial occurred, but an engagement between
him and the Netheroy, in which both got on shore at
the Ortiz Bank. The Brazilian was deserted by his
own fleet, and surrounded by the enemy's; but from
this hazardous situation he extricated himself with much
skill, and made good his retreat.
Since nen, Admiral Lobo, the Commander of the
Squads on, has been superseded, and Admiral Pinto de
(lade; his arrived in his stead, bringing with him a
considerable reinforcement; but in number the Brazi-
lians have much more than sufficient—it is octal they
want. The Admiral remain. here, witlehis large ships,

• OT TUT JANISSARITS.
In consequence of this decision, notice was given to
the Janissaries that every individual who should oppose
the execution of this measure, unanimously adopted,
whether by acting or speaking against it, should be
punished with all the rigour of the laws. The eniolraents
were began—arms and uniforms were distributed, and
order was given last week to begin the new exer-
cise. All these preparations were at the expense of the
Treasury; but, without regard for the commands of re-
ligion or the orders of the law, the Janissaries mulinied
during the night of Thursday last, attacked the Palace
of their Aga, and even the Sublime Porte, the palacoof
the Grand Vizier, and several others : and after having
plundered these residences, they cut in pieces with a
knife a holy book (the Koran) wherever they found it,
and committed a thousand excesses, crying, is We will
not have any exercise."
The Janissaries therefore having respected neither the
divine law, nor its organ, nor the Sublime Porte, not
the Ulemas: having dared with sacrilegious bands to
turn against the most exalted powers the arms which
had been delivered to them by the law of the Prophet,
and having thereby shewn that they have neither faith
nor religion, have become the object of general execra-
tion. Immediately 'the respectable Muftis, retired or
in office, the noble Kadiliskeis (supreme Judos in
Europe and Asia), the august Grand Vizier, the learned
Ukases, whose number may the ALMIGHTY increase to
the day of the resurrection, the officers on duty, and all
the other Mussulmans, hastened to the Imperial Palace,
brought thither the standard of the Pi ophet, to which
salutation and prayer may be addressed, and then went
to the mosque of. Sultan Achiner. Thence they sent
criers into all parts of the city to invite all good Mu-
sulmano to come and place themselves under the stan.
dard of Mahomet. Though the number of the faithful
who immediately and with seal obeyed this summons
was immense, the seditious persisted in their detestable
design, and occupied the place of assembly, which was
become the theatre of their iniquities, the only object
of which was to effect the total ruin of the Ottoman
Empire, to snake the State fall into the talons of the
enemies of the faith, and to tread all good Massa•
mans under foot.

Under such circumstances the law commands blood
to be shed without mercy. An armed force was therefore
sent against them, their barracks were burnt, and the ona-
nipotent GOD punished them for their crime, by bendihg
their heads under the sword of the law. As it was posi-
tively known that seditious and ill-disposed individuals
and other corporations had secretly excited and sup-
ported the revolt of the Janissaries, preparations were
made to make them undergo the same fate. All these
events have produced a conviction, that the institution
of the Janissaries, the original principles of which were
bravery and obedience, had in process of time assumed
a very different character, and was now founded on
perverseness and insubordination, so that the title of
Janissary, the name Yoldaset (comrade), and the badges
of this corps, had become the shield of all those worth.
less individuals who wished to domineer over honest men.
It has happened that among those who have been ar-
rested and executed on this occasion, wretches have been
discovered who had marked on one arm the sign of the
75th Orta and the Cross of the Christians, a certain
proof that men of all sects had enlisted among them,
and that there were always wretches among them wbo
under the Mussulman habit concealed the character of
spies. It has been observed that whenever proposals
have been made to them to purge their corps by the
expulsion of this vermin, they have always made the
greatest resistance, and that it has never been possible to
recal them to the object of their primitive institution, so
that the men of honour among the Agas and other
Commanders of their corps could no longer controul
them. As it has been thus, as it were, pointed out with
Abe anger, that their amelioration was impossible, and
that there were absolutely no means of making them
useful, we have this day, by the unanimous advice of
the respectable Muftis of the noble Kadiliskiers, of the
august Viziers, of the learned Ulemas, and a:l honest
men, heartily devoted to the government and to religion,
assembled for the public good under the Sacred Stan-
dard in the Mosque of Sultan Achmet, changed the
name of the Corporation of the Janissaries and given
another form to their ancient statutes.
(To be continued.)

We understand that a large quantity of diamonds has
been received by his MAJIISTIeII ship BRITON, fiolll
Rio de Janeiro, as well as several large consignments
of Brazil wood from Pernambuco, arid 3.5,0001. in bills
of exchange from Bahia, on account of the interest and
sinking fund of the Brazilian Loan.
Letters were yesterday received from Peru, by a
vessel which arrived at Falmouth, after an extraordinary
quick passage from Lima. She sailed from that capital
on the 23d of May, with a cargo of cotton au booed,
and has arrived at Falmouth to wait her final destina•
Lion, which probably will be some purl on the Continent
of Europe. At her departure from Callao nothing
particular had occurred in polities. Ge..eral Bolivar
was still in Peru, arranging for the people a moderate
and free system of Government. Trade had not then
recovered the injury which the war had inflicted en
the Reps Mice